Originally published at: May The Most Radiant Rodent Win: It’s Time To Vote For The 2024 Golden Duke Awards
It’s a triggering year to ask you to cast ballots again, just about a month out from the bad day. But we promise no election result will be disappointing this time around — because every single bad actor on this list is deserving of whatever they win. TPM has a long history of celebrating those…
It’s fucking rodents all the way down. Fucking scumbags all the way down. Fucking amoral power lovers all the fucking way down.
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All of the above.The enjoyment I usually get out of the Golden Dukes is missing for me this year. It’s not the lack of sleeze. It’s that the sleeze at the highest level has pulled it off. In a normal year, Menendez would run away with a win and we could enjoy the arc of the moral universe in him being caught. This is not a normal year.
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Catchy layout.
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I missed the window for nominations! I would have added MTG particularly for using her office (taxpayer funded) to publicly abuse a private citizen and dishonor his father, the President, and our nation by showing nekkid pictures of him on the floor of our capitol, TV, and internationally viewed social media. That smarmy little lowlife should have been expelled for her disgusting behavior as well as abuse of public office!
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Where the heck is Boebert? She and MTG both keep up a raucous, bizarre wingnuttery that should have an honored place in this contest.
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I voted for Roberts and the corrupt SCOTUS (we should try to regularly use the word “corrupt” in front of SCOTUS) because without them, Trump was likely have been tried on federal charges and convicted. Maybe even not reelected.
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At first I thought one or two of the other
Meritorious might at least come close to Giuliani. Then I realized that they’re all struggling to make it to Triple A, and he’s in Cooperstown. He’s just in another galaxy.
Like many ultra-God Squadders, does Walters have a few or a few dozen, shall we say, proclivities? Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
And the Princess. What a long strange trip it’s been. Might as well have arrived at Alito’s door. Plenty of other freak flags have.
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Agree! When Donald Trump is the scandal, yet wins the Presidency, I can’t laugh about it. The real scandal is that the majority of American voters have lost their capacity for rational thought. And it’s only getting worse, with no solutions in sight.
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I would like to see a Dishonorable Mention for the mayor of New Orleans, who is doing her utmost to carry on a proud Louisiana tradition of corruption. Bribery! Misuse of municipal property for her assignations with her “security detail”! And of course lots and lots of expensive travel, including trips abroad. She’s currently in Beverly Hills for an antisemitism conference.
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I am unable to call up the voting thing on my computer. Any suggestions?
How did we miss Bobo giving her date a handy at the Beetlejuice show in the carnality section???
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Same here. When most of the candidates seem to be getting dessert instead of their just desserts, it doesn’t feel remotely the same. It’s like the Darwins have suddenly become the Nobels.
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I decided to base my votes on the degree of harm that a particular slimeball could do in a particular position. Difficult to quantify, I know, but some can do more harm to more people than others.
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If this last election has not put the final nails in the coffin of civil society, let alone our democracy, there must be life after death.
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Same here. Reality has overtaken the premise of the Golden Dukes for the most part. I mean the Duke himself wouldn’t even qualify as an entrant these days.
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I read the nominees and nominations to my wife. When I read the nominees for Cabinet posts to her, she looked at me and said, “Why a folding chair?”
I explained, “Linda McMahon is one of the execs/owners of WWE. You know, pro wrasslin’” She immediately broke out in uncontrollable laughter.
That, all by itself, has made my Prime AF subscription worth every penny.
She also wants a folding metal chair with WWE stenciled on it for Christmas. She plans to set it outside her office door.
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So easy this year as we cannot be wrong no matter the choice. Win-win I say. Thanks for the fun!!