Based on some other comments in this thread I think it was originally intended to be satirical but is evolving away from that. Which makes it a bit tricky. "As

Based on some other comments in this thread I think it was originally intended to be satirical but is evolving away from that. Which makes it a bit tricky. "As per my prediction, this outcome does not come as a surprise." Sounds dickish to this American as well. I think there’s no polite way to say “I told you so.” Maybe something along the lines of “yeah, well, that’s about what we expected, but it was a nice try” could work? It still isn’t great but at least it puts you together on the losing team.