Yesterday we looked at the winners of 2022.  Now it's time for the sinners of 2022.

This ignominious list includes attention-seekers, pretenders, hypocrites, frauds, and so many more.  

This list is in no particular order of importance.

Democrats

Due to Biden's misgovernance, the U.S. has suffered high inflation, an uncontrolled influx of illegal aliens, and the mass smuggling of illicit drugs.  The Democrats then passed a bill called the Inflation Reduction Act, which had nothing to do with inflation, but amounted to a high-spending version of the Green New Deal.  When they found time for it, they focused on Ukraine.

The Democrats used compromised government agencies to target political opponents.  Every rule that was once considered sacrosanct was and is being violated.  They are attempting to turn the U.S. into a one-party socialist dictatorship. 

The Democrats from Nancy to AOC may feign empathy, but their sole focus is, was, and always be power and enrichment.

Meghan and Harry

This self-serving and attention-seeking duo has infected the public discourse of 2022 with its presence.  The two are a perfect instance of those who want to eat their cake and have it, too.  Let them eat cake?  No, let us eat cake.

In 2020, they relinquished their role and duties in the British royal family.  Then they traveled to the U.S., where they used their titles to enter into lucrative deals for documentaries and podcasts and books where their primary focus was attacking the royal family.

They have managed a nauseating combination of victimhood and self-righteousness as they make one apocryphal claim after another.

If that wasn't enough, they are hypocrites.  They claim to despise fame and royalty but used their royal titles and fame for personal enrichment.  They claim to be climate activists but always travel via private jet.

Their latest narcissist display in a Netflix series has sickened even their most ardent supporters.

This duo makes the Kardashians look classy.

Liz Cheney

The soon-to-be former congresswoman dedicated her final tenure in the House solely to engaging in a personal vendetta against President Trump.  She claimed that her opposition to Trump was principled — i.e., that she is conservative and only concerned about the fate of the nation. 

Yet her voting record revealed that she sided with most of the far-left items on the Democrat agenda.  So much for that claim.

She claims to be a proponent of democracy, yet she was the de facto leader of the Stalinist January 6 committee, hand-picked by House speaker Nancy Pelosi and exclusively populated with only the most angry of Trump-haters.  The Committee didn't even allow Trump's lawyers to question witnesses.  She lost in a landslide during her Wyoming primary, disgusting voters across the board in America's reddest state.  In her concession speech, she attacked voters who rejected her and compared herself to Lincoln. 

Will Smith

It is an old rule that you respond to words with words.  When Chris Rock made a joke about Smith's wife at the 2022 Oscars, Smith, who disapproved, should have given him a thumbs down and moved on.

Instead, Smith rushed up the stage to strike Rock in the face and continued to hurl expletives at Rock when he returned to his seat.

Shamefully, all the Hollywood stars in attendance remained quiet and even tried to comfort Smith.  Smith remained at the event when he should have been dragged out by security guards.  He won the best actor award, and during the acceptance speech, he claimed victimhood and did not apologize to Rock.  He has been banned from the ceremony for a decade, but his Oscar remains with him.

Mitch McConnell

The man is responsible for the GOP Senate's underwhelming midterm performance, which cost them a winnable majority.  

McConnell didn't financially support many MAGA candidates and even withdrew money at key junctures.  He badmouthed MAGA candidates prior to the elections, which is the equivalent of calling for their defeat. 

His primary concern is the well-being of Ukraine and not of the country whose citizens pay his salary.  McConnell reportedly told Joe Biden that he wanted to blunt President Trump's influence in the party. 

Volodymyr Zelensky

D.C. has committed $111 billion of taxpayers' money to defend Ukraine, supposedly as a democracy, but with no transparency and no accountability about where the money is going. 

In response, Zelensky has outlawed Ukraine's political opposition.  He has seized control of the media by shutting down adversarial news outlets.  Zelensky even sanctioned personnel within the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.  The excuse for his actions were that they were pro-Kremlin.

In doing so, he sounded just like a D.C. Democrat, which probably explains why he was slobbered over during his Washington visit.  During his speech, Zelensky appeared petulant and almost ungrateful to the U.S., to the point of implying that the U.S. was obliged to fund the war. 

The media are claiming that Zelensky is the modern Winston Churchill, but his proclivity for totalitarianism makes him sound more like a modern Mussolini.

The News Media

The claim that the U.S. mainstream media have a Democrat bias is erroneous in that it presupposes that the media and the Democrats are separate entities and the Democrats are somehow influencing the media.

The fact is that the news media function as a propaganda wing of the Democrats and hence must be regarded as a department within the Democrat party organization.  Their organizations may have different names, but they report to the Democrat party leadership.

Twenty twenty-two was not different.  There was perfect synchronicity between their utterances and narratives.

Social Media Giant Twitter

Twitter should have been a forum that reflected public opinion.  But Elon Musk's Twitter Files series has revealed collusion between the former Twitter regime and U.S. government agencies to distort and manipulate the public discourse.  They suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 presidential elections.  A poll revealed that 16% of Biden voters said they would have voted differently had they known of Hunter's laptop.  The former Twitter regime also suppressed voices that challenged the COVID-19 vaccine.

Government Agencies

On paper, these are faithful executors of the law that should be guarding democracy.  Instead, they have become lapdogs of the Democrats who attack when ordered.  Their sole focus is waging war on the opponents of the Democrats to ensure that the U.S. turns into a one-party state.

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)

In the summer of 2022, SBF was called a prodigy who founded one of the world's principal cryptocurrency exchanges.  He was lauded by financial experts.  He was also a major Democratic donor, which kept the watchdogs away.  He was also celebrated as a philanthropist whose worth was an estimated $16 billion.

By early November, the house of cards came tumbling down.  SBF was revealed to be a fraud who enriched himself at the cost of his investors.  As his arrest loomed, he holed up in the Bahamas.

By mid-December, SBF was arrested in the Bahamas and charged with wire fraud, securities fraud, and money-laundering, among other things.  He has since been extradited to the U.S. and released from jail on a $250-million bond.  The Securities and Exchange Commission has also separately charged Bankman-Fried, and his buddies Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, with defrauding FTX investors.

Justin Trudeau

At one point, during the pre-Zelensky and post-Obama eras, Trudeau was the poster boy for liberalism.  He spouted inanities, he relentlessly virtue-signaled, and he feigned empathy for minorities.

But COVID-19 exposed him as a tyrant who not only imposed vaccine mandates, but also used the might of his government to punish truckers from the U.S. and Canada who were protesting against the mandates of an inadequately tested vaccine.  

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