Those of us living in Folsom, CA watched in awe when Jake Browning played quarterback for the Folsom High School Bulldogs. They won the California State Championship and during his career he threw for over 91 touchdowns. It was remarkable.

Jake then went on to Washington and became the sole reason I rooted for the Washington, Huskies. He was extremely effective. He is not huge, but he is 6-2 and weighs 209 pounds, so he is not small either. But no NFL team thought him worthy of being drafted. He played on the practice squad for two years with Minnesota and then played on the practice squad at Cincinnati for two years. It looked like he would never get a chance. Finally, this year, he became the backup for Joe Burrows. When Joe Burrows was hurt, Jake finally got a chance to start in the NFL. His first game was not that great, but in watching that game and the start of the recent game with Jacksonville, it was obvious that the coach called a very conservative and predictable game with predictable results. Then, suddenly, he apparently decided to give Jake a chance. The result was a stunning performance only equaled six times in the last 20 years, by people like Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Peyton Manning. It was not just good; it rocked the sports world.

Brock Purdy was the final pick of the 2022 NFL draft. He finally got a chance to start because both Trey Lance and Jimmie Garoppolo were injured. Since then, he has set the NFL world on fire, and many consider him to be the one of the very best quarterbacks playing today. Brock Purdy isn’t huge either, but he is 6’1” and weighs 202 pounds, so he isn’t small either.

This is just another classic example of the “experts” getting it very, very wrong. None of the experts predicted this. Both men were only given a chance because of injuries to people considered to be far superior. But when given their chance, both proved the experts wrong.

Today we live in a time where the unelected and often ill-informed celebrities in the media try to lecture us regarding their unsurpassed wisdom and perception. The result is that often the best performers are ignored and replaced by people far less capable and in some cases blatantly incompetent. There is no better example of that then Joe Biden. He is President of the United States because of a conspiracy by the Democratic Party and the MSM. Even if you swallow the nonsense about there being no voting irregularities during the 2020 election, the real conspiracy was to absolutely ignore the red flag warnings about Joe Biden while foaming at the mouth even the hint of a problem with Donald Trump. This included not only ignoring the hard-core evidence on the hard drive stupidly left with a repair shop by Hunter Biden, but literally claiming this was part of Russia misinformation, which is and was absurd.  If the MSM had just reported honestly regarding the Hunter Biden laptop, Joe Biden would have lost in a landslide.

The same was true regarding COVID 19. The so-called experts got almost everything wrong. For example, Trump was slammed for putting together a strategy to develop a vaccine. This was considered extremely dangerous, until Biden was selected, then the vaccine became a gift from God and a plan was developed to force everyone to take it, without regard to actual risk from COVID 19 and even less regard to the risk from the vaccine. Now I willingly got the vaccine, because of my age. However, if I had been 30, not so much.  Trump was pushed into implementing a national shutdown. One should note that the reason for this shutdown was to “delay” the spread of COVID until the medical community could gear up. But when the delay worked, that was ignored and instead the experts insisted on shutting down our schools and we couldn’t even go to Costco without being confronted by the mask nazis. The results were disastrous for the economy, for our educational system and most importantly, for Donald Trump. When Biden was “selected” his mission was to reverse every Trump policy in the shortest period of time without even attempting to find out if some of them were working. Most of them were working. If Joe Biden had done nothing except eat ice cream in his basement and refuse to return phone calls, he might now be considered one of our best Presidents.

Now the same experts who were wrong about Biden, wrong about Purdy, and wrong about Browning are now trying to choose our next set of leaders. They absolutely hate Ron DeSantis which should instantly be grounds for elevating his status. They love Nikki Haley, which should give us all pause. They hate Donald Trump with a passion that would be stunning, if it were focused on something that would possibly help someone, somewhere.

But the good news is that those who are consistently wrong are consistently wrong and no matter how loud they scream or how much airtime they get on TV, they are still wrong. Eventually life intervenes and it becomes embarrassingly obvious. I still like to watch football, but absolutely cannot stand the “pre-game” shows. Like the one that had three of the five experts predicting Iowa would beat Michigan. Even Urban Meyer, former head coach at Ohio State who despises the entire state of Michigan was not that stupid. (I did not watch this, but enjoyed the picture of them showing who they picked to win.)

I don’t know who the nominee for President in either party will be and neither do you. The people most likely to be wrong about this are those who are always wrong. But sometimes God intervenes and those who were never even considered a possible option suddenly emerge from the mist with stunning results. Purdy and Browning are two examples of that, but this is not limited to quarterbacks in the NFL. Mike Johnson might be another example of that. Republicans just may have picked a Speaker of the House driven more by moral courage than political correctness. It would be wise not to underestimate him.

If you doubt this, check out the picture of the private jet, frozen to a runway in Germany, because of the snowstorm caused by climate change (global warming) making someone late getting to Dubai in time to hear John Kerry fart while lecturing the rest of us regarding excess gas emissions. And who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor? Purdy good. Browning good. Those too stupid to recognize the obvious, not so much.

TDM