This is when we do horse trading here to try to pick
who the jerk of the year is between the four of us.
Normally we do this behind the scenes, but this year we're being transparent and
doing it ahead of.
There are no accounting firms, there's nothing official,
there's no Doppler 4,000 to calculate the votes.
Dominion has not rigged this vote, you will see it with your own eyes.
So, last time I tried to break Schuster in in the beginning, and
since you had Kanye on your list I figured I might start with you again.
So, David, maybe you want to reconsider.
>> [LAUGH] >> [COUGH] I do think you put it well in
terms of Kanye bringing back anti Semitism and legitimizing it for a lot of people,
and that's really, it's horrific.
But [COUGH] for the reasons I said before, I think both Kanye and Elon,
they were elevated because of Donald Trump.
So in my view, but I will say that Elon,
I think did one of the biggest jerk things of the year, other than start a war.
I think it was Elon Musk who promised the United Nations, look,
I'll give you 10 bill dollars to solve world hunger, tell me how you would do it.
And they spent months coming up with this detailed, blueprinted plan and
they sent it to Elon, and he never responded.
He didn't even respond, even say thank you, what a jerk, that was such a jerk
move, and for that for that reason alone, I think this guy probably deserves it.
However, in the spirit of going big, which is where I was going with Donald Trump,
credit to Ana, because I do think, look, Vladimir Putin's started an actual war.
He has literally cost hundreds of billions of dollars, whether it's supply chain,
whether it's energy,
whether it's tens of thousands of people have been killed in Ukraine.
Whether it's the 100,000 Russian troops that have been
killed in this meat grinder.
Vladimir Putin's, to me it's, you go big when you're talking about a jerk, and
I think Ana's got it exactly right.
>> I would like to point out that Ana has already won one of these.
>> [LAUGH] Sorry, I made good arguments, it's the power of persuasion.
She had the jerk of the year, and so, I would like to not be fair where it's best
idea wins, coz this is not, I don't know what it is.
Something, something- >> We're making sausage guys.
>> [LAUGH] >> [INAUDIBLE] sausage.
Okay, grudges happen, backroom wheeling and
dealing, except it's happening right in front of you.
Obama promised this, that you would get to see it, well, we're finally delivering it.
So, Brad, having taken your grudges into account and settling scores,
are you thinking of changing your vote?
You wanna think about who else that you might side with here?
>> So listen, when I was involved in the Rotten Tomato Show,
we had to make a lot of lists all the time.
And if you really wanna know how the sausage is made,
you have to look at what your final list, people, when they're making the list,
they do make a lot of decisions like, okay, you gotta have things people know
and then somewhere you gotta have something that's a little obscure.
So here if you're doing your top five,
number three is probably something that not as many people have heard of,
and the real movie fans are gonna be, yes, they are movie fans too.
In this situation, I would kind of wanna round it out with someone that is,
we've already got someone no one knew before the beginning of the year.
And we got a very small but universal feeling experience as our Turk of
the year, someone we don't know what we would do in that situation.
They rose to the occasion in a small room, with one person doing
a horrible thing to that one room and that, it's universal in that way,
that we could kind of look at how that experience must have been.
It is very compelling to wanna put Vladimir Putin as your jerk,
because that is the big thing that happened geopolitically this year.
I would say Trump this year, if I were to look at that,
not having myself involved in that.
I'd say, Trump is kind of,
the whole theme of this year in the election was the Trump is over party.
So I'd probably take him down.
Kanye West more than Elon Musk even has that recency bias to it.
So that lifts up Putin in your overall calculus,
you're recency bias of this kind of just happening within the last month and
a half makes it feel bigger, and he's literally missing right now.
The other thing about the Kanye is there are claims of mental illness there that I
don't think are too unsubstantiated to factor in here.
So I'm not sure I wanna make my jerk of the year someone who is a person
suffering from mental illness, even though he,
I forget what show I was watching, I think it was Watch List Today.
Ravana kind of did a really good analysis of, if you're seeking help, that's one
thing, you lose points if you're not seeking help, even if you're struggling
with a mental illness and committing these kind of crimes against humanity.
So that's one thing.
So it comes down to Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin for me.
I'm really biased toward my own selection, but I do think that juxtaposing the small
thing to the biggest thing geopolitically this year,
I would kind of throw my vote behind Vladimir Putin.
And that kinda actually makes me the Turk of the year,
coz I've taken my own opinions out of it.
So I think I should get more credit, maybe some kind of honorary reward, for
doing that.
>> I think you should take one moment though,
to acknowledge what a lot of people have been saying for the last couple of days.
And that is, look, if Elon Musk or Kanye or Vladimir Putin owns Southwest Airlines,
they would win this jerk of the year, hands down.
>> [LAUGH] >> The number
of people who got inconvenience or their holidays ruined because Southwest Airlines
a couple of years ago spent $6 billion on stock buybacks instead
of building up the infrastructure of their scheduling system.
Which would have stopped the problems they had this week because of the storm,
what corporate jerks they are.
But anyway, that's a whole other issue.
But I just wanna say I recognize, for everybody who had their Christmas ruined,
I hear you.
>> Yeah, Southwest, they had an outdated scheduling system, and that's why
they were hurt by storms, because storms were invented five years ago.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay, that's right.
And so, look guys, time for rulings.
Okay, number one, I rule out Southwest as recency bias, extreme recency bias.
>> [LAUGH] >> It has been eliminated.
Number two, Brett's pleading to be considered some sort of
honorable mention for Turk of the year is soundly rejected.
>> Wait, wait, wait, you don't get to be the arbiter of that,
I'm totally okay with debating that, because I'm very happy to give him
the honorable mention if his vote means that I win both categories.
>> As long as I'm getting something.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay, [INAUDIBLE] participation trophy.
>> Yeah, what are you, a confederate general?
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay, so Casper,
I like your wheeling and dealing, you get points for that,
but your request to give Brett that honor is also denied.
Your request to debate that, also denied.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay, so now we get to the question,
by the way, one more thing, Brett Erlich using the mental illness card,
I'm showing a yellow card on that.
>> No, it's a fair point, and I like the nuance in what he said.
I hear you, it is an intelligent point, it is a compassionate point,
nonetheless, yellow card, and here's the- >> As one of,
apparently the Jews are in the bottom of the screen I don't understand what that is
with the way this show is set up, but it's a little weird, it's a little weird.
>> [LAUGH] >> There's first time for everything.
[LAUGH] >> You know what I mean?
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay, so
listen, the reason, look, but hold on, hold on.
The reason why I'm giving the yellow card is because,
look, that point is unfortunately too easy to make,
did Hitler not have mental health issues?
He was clearly not mentally well, I mean, look at the speechs,
look at the actions, etc.
So unfortunately a lot of jerks of the year could throw up their hands and go,
okay, mental health.
Does Trump not have mental health issues- >> No, but Cenk,
he's diagnosed with bipolar disorder,
which he is specifically refusing to get treatment for.
And it makes you think paranoid things, and
he has convinced himself that he doesn't actually have bipolar disorder,
that it was a Jewish conspiracy to take his creativity away or whatever.
Stupid, stupid, he's clearly mentally ill.
I'm not excusing what he said, I think it's a nuanced argument.
I think Brett hit the right point there, where it's, no, you don't get a pass, but
do you really wanna name jerk of the year a guy who clearly has
a mental health issue?
I think that's a fair point to make.
>> Yeah, yeah. Okay,
now watch this shocking end to this dramatic situation.
I've decided at the end, Ana wins again, God damn it!
It's not fair.
The whole country is ripped apart by this, and
it's a controversy, we don't know why we let Ana win twice.
>> [CROSSTALK] [LAUGH] >> I love the celebration.
>> [LAUGH]
>> A mass murderer invaded a country,
causing chaos and destruction.
The winner is Vladimir Putin, come on down