 Well folks, it is now time to crown the biggest scumbag of 2021. This is the award that my viewers care about the most and for good reason. In American politics, there is never a shortage of scumbags in 2021 was absolutely no different. So here's how it works. I make four nominations, I then put it up to a vote and then my viewers ultimately decide who is the channel's official scumbag of the year. Without further ado, here are my nominations. The first is Man Chinima. Now I was thinking, should I nominate Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema separately? But ultimately I decided that that would really be unfair to my viewers because I would be forcing them to split their votes between two individuals who are very likely going to win this award. At least they're going to be solid contenders. So I decided to combine them since they're both potential scumbags of the year for obvious reasons and those reasons are pretty similar. They're both blocking the Democratic Party's agenda and even as moat toast and centrist as the Democratic Party is, Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema wouldn't even go along with that. Now I do understand that, yes, Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema are the Democratic Party's rotating villain and I'm sure that Joe Biden loves nothing more than using these two ghouls as an excuse as to why he couldn't accomplish his agenda. But still, they are actively doing harm to the country in spite of whether or not their harm is convenient to other corporate Democrats in spite of the fact that other corporate Democrats are hiding behind them. On top of that, they have a blatant disregard for their constituents. You can't actually make meetings with them. Even if you are a constituent, they only will speak to their corporate donors. They're blatantly corrupt. These two individuals are just, they are everything that is wrong with American politics. So of course it was an easy nomination. Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema collectively known as Manchinema, they're up for a nomination. Now the second nomination is the Cuomo Brothers. Now when it comes to the Cuomo Brothers, you know, these two individuals represent everything wrong with both American media and American politics. You have a corrupt corporate Democrat who covered up the nursing home scandal, then got away with sexual harassment for a very long time. And then you have his brother Chris Cuomo using his power as a CNN insider to do the bidding for his brother. It's just gross. And again, they represent everything wrong with both media and politics. So I thought that they were a great nomination. Another nomination, Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist and we've known this for a very long time. But in 2021, he took things considerably further. Not only is he spreading misinformation with regard to COVID-19 vaccines, but he is actually saying the quiet part loud now. He's actually talking about the great replacement conspiracy theory using full blown white supremacist talking points on national television. I mean, he was a lot more subtle and covert in the way that he sold white supremacy to his Fox News audience. But this year, he went full mask off and saying that Tucker Carlson went mask off. It doesn't really have any meaning because he's always kind of gone mask off. But if there was any question about him before, he kind of took away that plausible deniability. He essentially came out as a white nationalist without saying it. I mean, there's the moment where he almost said that segregation was the best thing. It was a mistake, but we all know what he was doing there. And the damage that he causes actually normalizes white, normalizing white supremacy. That isn't just something that's, that's harmful. It does long term damage to the country. On top of that, his lies about the 2020 election after originally not necessarily playing into it as hard as other right wing pundits. I mean, Tucker Carlson, if he's not a scumbag and if he's not worthy of this nomination, nobody is. So of course, I had to nominate him. Now, the next nomination is a bit difficult because it's a lot of people. It's a group of world leaders who are collectively denying the world access to vaccines. No one individual in particular, I mean, but we can, we can look at a couple of countries that stand out. Angela Merkel in German, in Germany, other countries like Switzerland, they are refusing to support the trips waiver, the vaccine waiver that would allow other countries who are developing countries to manufacture their own generic versions of the COVID-19 because of these individuals. They are prolonging the pandemic. And in the meantime, putting lives at risk. And that is just so morally reprehensible that I don't even know that they are worthy of this category. It almost feels like we should create a different award just for these scumbags like genociders or killers of the year or something like that. But of course, I was too lazy to create an entirely different category. So I put them in here. So world leaders blocking blocking the vaccine waivers at the WTO. I mean, I feel like this is pretty self-explanatory. They're prolonging the pandemic and killing people. Fuck these people. They are indeed scumbags. It's just a matter of who is the biggest scumbag. Now, before we get to that, I do have some honorable mentions. Greg Abbott, who banned abortion in Texas, Ron DeSantis, a.k.a. Ron DeSantis, who's becoming more authoritarian by the day. Brian Kemp, who passed Jim Crow 2.0. Donald Trump for continuing to kill our democracy with his big lie. Christopher Rufo for elevating critical race theory to the mainstream, which is a bullshit right wing boogeyman that is for some reason really effective. Joe Biden for breaking so many campaign promises, not cancelling student debt, not being humane when it comes to immigration, lying about $2,000 checks. I mean, the list goes on. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert for obvious reasons. Lewis DeJoy for ruining the postal service. Dave Chappelle for helping to normalize and for their mainstream transphobia. Joe Rogan for going crazy. Matt Gaetz for continuing the big lie. Ted Cruz for being Ted Cruz. And really, if we're talking about honorable mentions, I can go on for a very long time, but we'll stop it right there. That's the honorable mention list. Now, before I get to the results and we crown our scumbag of twenty twenty one, let's look at the history of this award. So back in twenty fifteen, Donald Trump won this title. He was scumbag of the year with Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the runner up in twenty sixteen. Hillary Clinton was scumbag of the year for losing to Donald Trump. Corporate media was the runner up for assisting her with that in twenty seventeen. And the jeep pie was our scumbag of the year for repealing that neutrality. Donald Trump was the runner up in twenty eighteen. Donald Trump was the scumbag of twenty eighteen. By then he was president for a while, so he was able to actually do a lot of damage. Paul Ryan was the runner up that year in twenty nineteen. Mitch McConnell was the scumbag of the year. Trump was the runner up. And that was the same result in twenty twenty with Mitch McConnell as scumbag and Trump as the runner up. But this year we have a brand new scumbag. So without further ado, let's get to the results. So on Twitter with one thousand two hundred thirty nine votes, Manchinima is by far and away the biggest scumbag with fifty six point two percent of the vote. Tucker Carlson came in second place. The Cuomo brothers came in third place and world leaders blocking the trips waiver came in fourth place now on Patreon with forty two total votes. Once again, Manchinima was by far and away the biggest scumbag with the world leaders blocking the trips waiver coming in second place. Tucker Carlson coming in third place and the Cuomo brothers coming in last place. Now on YouTube where we had the largest share of votes with nine point six thousand Manchinima once again was the winner of scumbag with fifty nine percent of the vote. We have world leaders blocking the trips waiver with twenty one percent. Tucker Carlson in third place. The Cuomo brothers in last place. So overall, of course, it's obvious that across three different platforms, my audience overwhelmingly agrees that Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sonoma, collectively known as Manchinima, are the biggest scumbags in American politics of twenty twenty one with world leaders blocking the vaccine waivers coming in a distant second place. Now let's see what the audience had to say about this. Corey Archibald on Twitter says Cuomo brothers are attempting choice. But without question, the most destructive duo is Manchinima. They are directly responsible for the suffering of millions and the acceleration of the climate crisis. Jordan on Twitter adds, I'm going to say trust fun, Tucker, with his destructive white supremacist commentary. Mike Murdock on Patreon writes Manchinima easy thanks to them stonewalling so many bills that can help people, workers, unions and voters. They may have doomed the possible last chance for the US to turn around from the cliff the Republicans are pulling us to. I would also add Joe Biden and the Democrats if I wanted to for putting their tail between their legs and not even pushing back against Manchinima, with only a handful of them brave enough to push back against those two. Rick and Steve on Patreon add it's so hard to choose. I agree. Ryan De La Fosse on YouTube says, while they are all bad in their own way, only one of those is causing mass death and has most likely contributed to more covid variants. Such a great point. Fan girl on YouTube says, Mike, we're going to need an all of the above for this slot. Yeah, medieval werewolf says, I'm going to have to go with the patent sitters if Manchinima wasn't a better love story than Twilight. There would always be another excuse for Dems to not deliver. Very solid point. Two real productions on YouTube says, I changed my answer three times because all of them make me sick to my ass. So there you have it. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are our scumbags of 2021. It's the first time we've had a different scumbag in quite some time. You know, it's nice to change it up a little bit. This is our first Democrats that we've had for quite some time. And it's our first duo to ever win this award ever actually. But I mean, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, they really are a package deal. They're two different sides of the same coin. So it really is warranted that they both win this title. I'm sure that they both love it and they both relish in it. But you know, regardless, they get this title only won by the worst of the worst in American politics. So congratulations. I don't know if I should say that, but they won and they deserve it. So yeah, fuck Joe Manchin and fuck Kyrsten Sinema.