>>WELL, WE GET TO ANNOUNCE THE JERK OF THE YEAR NOW, THAT'S
WHAT WE DO EVERY YEAR AT THE END OF THE YEAR, AND BOY, THERE'S A
LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS CATEGORY AND A LOT TO CHOOSE FROM, WE HAD
TO BOIL IT DOWN TO FIVE PEOPLE AS WE USUALLY DO.
THE FOUR
RUNNER UPS AND THE WINNER.
ALL THE RUNNER UPS WERE WORTHY, THEY
EASILY COULD HAVE BEEN JERK OF THE YEAR, STARTING WITH ROY
MOORE.
DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHY HE WAS A CANDIDATE FOR JERK OF
THE YEAR?
OKAY, FINE.
THE ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT ON
A 16-YEAR-OLD, GETTING A 14-YEAR-OLD NEARLY NAKED AND
HAVING HER APPARENTLY TOUCHED HIS GENITALS BACK IN THE DAY,
ALL THIS CAME UP, HE WOULDN'T WITHDRAW, HE KEPT GOING, HE'S
STILL GOING, ALL THE REPUBLICANS IN ALABAMA HAVE SAID HE HAS LOST
AND THEY'VE CERTIFIED THE ELECTION AND HE THINKS IT'S A
MUSLIM/MARXIST TAKEOVER OF ALABAMA.
I MEAN, THE GUY IS A
LUNATIC.
BUT EVEN IF IT WASN'T FOR THE ALLEGATIONS OF HIM BEING
A CHILD PREDATOR, YOU STILL HAD HIM SAYING THAT GEORGE SOROS WAS
GOING TO HELL BECAUSE HE'S NOT IN THE RIGHT FAITH, AND
APPARENTLY HE HAD SOME SORT OF POLITICAL/SEXUAL CONSPIRACY --
THE GUY IS A FULL-BLOWN LUNATIC.
DOESN'T BELIEVE IN THE 13TH,
14TH, AND 15TH AMENDMENTS THAT SET THE SLAVES FREE, COULDN'T
GET WORSE, BUT NONETHELESS HE WAS BEATEN BY ANOTHER GUY WHO
EVENTUALLY WON THE JERK OF THE YEAR, LET'S KEEP GOING.
THE NEXT
RUNNER-UP IS EQUALLY WORTHY OF THE TITLE, HARVEY WEINSTEIN,
THOUGHT LONG AND HARD ABOUT MAKING HIM THE JERK OF THE YEAR,
IT'S LED TO THE ME TOO MOVEMENT THAT HAS LIBERATED A LOT OF
PEOPLE, NOT EXCLUSIVELY BECAUSE OF THAT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY SOME
OF THE WORST ALLEGATIONS OF ANY OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN SEXUAL
HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT CASES RANGING ALL THE WAY TO LITERALLY
BARGING INTO A WOMEN'S APARTMENTS, HOTEL ROOMS, AND
HOUSES AND JUST RAPING THEM.
DOZENS OF WOMEN HAVE COME
FORWARD, IT'S STILL UNCLEAR TO ME WHY HE HASN'T BEEN ARRESTED
FOR ANY OF THOSE CRIMES, BUT EVERY PIECE OF THOSE ALLEGATIONS
WAS MORE MONSTROUS THAN THE NEXT.
EASILY COULD HAVE WON IN
ANY YEAR.
ANOTHER JERK OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE IS STEVE BANNON,
THAT'S NOT ONLY BEING CHIEF STRATEGIST DONALD TRUMP, RUNNING
BREITBART NOW, THAT'S POLICY DIFFERENCES IN THAT'S OKAY, BUT
MAINLY FOR BEING LEADER OF THE ALT-RIGHT, THE ALT-RIGHT THAT
BROUGHT US AMONG OTHER THINGS THIS YEAR THAT RALLY IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE WHICH TURNED OUT SO DISASTROUS, THAT SPREAD
HATRED AND FEAR THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AND PUSHED THE
PRESIDENT TO GO MORE IN THAT HARD RIGHT WING HATEFUL
DIRECTION, INCLUDING SAYING THAT THERE ARE VERY FINE PEOPLE ON
BOTH SIDES AFTER CHARLOTTESVILLE AT THE ENCOURAGEMENT APPARENTLY
OF THE ALT-RIGHT.
DONALD TRUMP SAID THAT.
SO STEVE BANNON BEING
ESSENTIALLY THE HEAD OF THE ALT-RIGHT
IS A GOOD CANDIDATE
FOR JERK OF THE YEAR.
ALSO ON THE LIST IS VLADIMIR PUTIN FOR
MESSING WITH DEMOCRACY ALL OVER THE WORLD.
NOT ONLY ARE THERE
CREDIBLE ALLEGATIONS OF MESSING WITH THE U.S. ELECTIONS, DONALD
TRUMP ONLY SEEMS TO LISTEN TO PUTIN, MAYBE HE CAN WIN NEXT
YEAR FOR JERK OF THE YEAR, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IN TERMS OF HIS
IMMEDIATE EFFECT IS THE RUINING OF RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY.
LET'S PUT
IT THIS WAY, POLITICAL OPPONENTS HAVE MAGICALLY WOUND UP DEAD, OR
VERY CLEARLY PUT IN PRISON WHERE THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN
RIGHTS SAYS THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS IN PRISON, YOU PUT THEM
IN PRISON BECAUSE YOU DARE TO OPPOSE YOU POLITICALLY.
REPORTERS MAGICALLY WIND UP DEAD, DIPLOMATS WHO MIGHT KNOW
ABOUT U.S. ELECTIONS OR OTHER THINGS, ALL DEAD.
SO VLADIMIR
PUTIN, MAKE NO MISTAKE, IS THE DICTATOR OF RUSSIA, AND HE
OPPRESSES HIS OWN PEOPLE.
BUT THEY WERE ALL EDGED OUT BY THE
WINNER, AMONG THE VERY FEW THINGS HE IS ACTUALLY WON, IT IS
DONALD TRUMP.
HE'S THE MICHAEL JORDAN OF JERKS, THERE'S AN
ARGUMENT TO BE MADE FOR HIM WINNING ON MOST EVERY YEAR,
CERTAINLY WHEN HE'S BEEN INVOLVED IN POLITICS, BUT I
DON'T WANT TO HAVE ALL THE ATTENTION AROUND ROY MOORE AND
HARVEY WEINSTEIN, ETC., RE-JUSTIFIED, HAVE US LOSE TRACK
OF THE THINGS DONALD TRUMP HAS DONE.
PREYING ON WOMEN, CHECK,
TRUMP HAS ALREADY DONE THAT.
DRUMMING UP RACIAL HATRED THAT
ROY MOORE DID, CHECK, TRUMP HAS THAT AS WELL.
DOWN THE LIST,
WORKING WITH PUTIN, CHECK, WORKING WITH STEVE BANNON,
CHECK, CHECK, CHECK.
HE IS THE SUM OF ALL JERKS.
ALL GO THROUGH
A QUICK LIST BUT YOU CAN HAVE DOZENS OF THINGS ON THIS LIST,
HE SAID THE RICH WOULDN'T GET ANY OF THE TAX CUTS, 83% OF THE
TAX CUTS WENT TO THE TOP 1%, HE WAS LYING ALL ALONG, AND THEN
LAUGHED ABOUT IT AFTERWARDS AT MAR-A-LAGO, DECLARED TO HIS RICH
FRIENDS, YOU ALL JUST GOT RICHER.
A SCAM ARTIST OF THE
UTMOST DEGREE.
HE REINSTITUTED THE SWAMP IN WASHINGTON, FILLED
HIS CABINET WITH CRONIES, CORRUPT OLD FRIENDS OF HIS,
GOLDMAN SACHS APPOINTEES, THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY, ALL THE
THINGS HE SAID HE WOULDN'T DO, HE DID EXACTLY ALL OF IT.
AND A
HEALTHCARE BILL SO MONSTROUS THAT IT WAS GOING TO CAUSE 33
MILLION AMERICANS TO LOSE THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE.
AS IT STANDS
IN THE TAX-CUT THEY SQUEEZED IN KILLING OFF THE MANDATE, WHICH
MIGHT PUT 13 MILLION AMERICANS WITH NO HEALTH CARE INSURANCE
ANYWAY, AND HE BRAGS ABOUT IT.
THEN YOU HAVE THE MUSLIM BAN,
ATTACKS ONLINE AGAINST EVERYONE, INCLUDING CONSTANTLY ACCUSING
WOMEN OF BLEEDING FROM DIFFERENT BODY PARTS, THIS YEAR HE DID IT
TO MIKA BRZEZINSKI ABOUT HIS SO-CALLED FACELIFT, IT GOES ON,
LOOK AT HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT TO SEE THE PEOPLE HE HAS BULLIED,
HE'S THE DEFINITION OF A JERK.
THEN YOU'VE GOT CALLING PUERTO
RICANS BASICALLY LAZY AFTER THEY WERE HIT WITH A HURRICANE,
INSTEAD OF TRYING TO SUPPORT THEM, SAYING THEY AREN'T WORKING
HARD TO HELP THEMSELVES.
THEN ON TOP OF THAT YOU'VE GOT THE
DEFENSE OF THE NEO-NAZIS AND ALT-RIGHT AT THE CHARLOTTESVILLE
RALLY WHERE HE SAID THERE WERE QUOTE SOME VERY FINE PEOPLE ON
BOTH SIDES.
I DON'T KNOW A LOT OF VERY FINE NEO-NAZIS BUT
APPARENTLY DONALD TRUMP DOES.
THAT IS ONE OF THE MANY THINGS
HE DID, MAYBE HUNDREDS OF THINGS HE DID, THAT AMPLY MAKES HIM
JERK OF THE YEAR, AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST WE'VE EVER HAD.