I had my six month check up with my Republican doctor today. It's always a fun event because number one I'm healthy and number two he's not a right wing idiot. He was the first person to tell me that Trump was a narcissist and he claims today that is long as Trump keeps claiming to have won in 2020 we have a good chance of not losing any seats in Congress in 2022.

He does like to complain about the squad and tell me that without them we would have a lot better chance in controlling Congress. He also told me he's delighted that a couple of Republican politicians are actually distancing themselves from Trump which gives him hope for his party. Meanwhile I reminded him that our Senator Lankford sent out a Facebook post today reminding people that Oklahomans will not be bullied into vaccination and mask mandates. My doctor is a pulmonary specialist who has spent most of the last year taking care of ICU patients on a ventilator so that definitely made him duck his head. My greatest win though was when I reminded him that there were three or four members of the democratic squad while almost all of the rest of the politicians were less radical. I then compared that to the three or four Republican politicians who were distancing themselves from Trump while the vast majority of them are still walking the radical party line that Trump didn't lose and covid vaccinations and mask mandates should not interfere with personal freedom. When I reiterated that comparison at least twice he said you have a point there. I feel he'll still vote for the Repuglicans. But he is fun to banter with.

His attending nurse got as big a kick out of it as I did. I am sure he enjoys our conversations. He told me I could come back in 6 months instead of four unless I just really wanted to come back in four months.