Nominations Are Open For 2025 Year-End Awards
It's that time of year again! Time to review the past 12 months and hand out awards to those who have earned them.
It's been an eventful year, of course, so many of these categories will have multiple possible winners. Listed below are the categories for the first installment, which will run this Friday. We'll open the nominations up for the second part next week.
And, as always, feel free to interpret the categories however you wish. A lot of these categories could be for a positive thing or a negative thing, depending on how you see it. I've got a lot of work to do this week to review everything from the whole year, so I need all the help I can get. So think back over the whole course of 2025 and let me know who or what you think deserves an award for the following categories:
Biggest Winner of 2025
Biggest Loser of 2025
Best Politician
Worst Politician
Most Defining Political Moment
Turncoat Of The Year
Most Boring
Most Charismatic
Bummest Rap
Fairest Rap
Best Comeback
Most Original Thinker
Most Stagnant Thinker
Best Photo Op
Worst Photo Op
Enough Already!
Worst Lie
Capitalist Of The Year
Honorable Mention
Person Of The Year
Nominations for all of these awards are officially now open! So let's see what you folks can come up with for the best and the worst of 2025....
-- Chris Weigant
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Biggest Winner of 2025
tie between Bibi Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin
Biggest Loser of 2025
the US consumer
Best Politician
As much as I hate to admit it, Zohran Mamdani. It scares me how slick he is. He even got Donald Trump to defend him to the media.
Worst Politician
Pete Hegseth. I don't think there's been a less competent department secretary in my lifetime.
Most Defining Political Moment
Pardons for the January 6, 2021 terrorists
Turncoat Of The Year
JD Vance by a country mile. I don't think he's met a person, principle, policy, country or belief that he didn't betray at least once.
Most Boring
Chuck Schumer. the less said the better.
Most Charismatic
AOC, for lack of a better candidate.
Bummest Rap
Kilmar Abrego. i mean, he was deported by mistake, refused return when the courts demanded it (and even after the SCOTUS weighed in), lied about for months by the heads of two countries, tortured in CECOT prison, arrested upon return, just barely evaded re-deportation to Liberia of all places, and now is on trial in Tennessee for "trafficking" the guys he was driving to a construction job three years ago. I don't know of anyone non-fictional who EVER had a more bum rap than him.
Fairest Rap
ICE, CBP and the rest of the masked secret police who regularly kidnap and rendition whomever they damn well please, alien and citizen alike.
Best Comeback
in the "comeback" as "response" category, and she's still an absolute loon, but i'm going with Margie 3-names on this one. defiant, near-immediate resignation may not have been what Donald was going for when he turned on her.
Most Original Thinker
Vanessa "nezza" Hernandez, for singing El Pendon Estrellado (the official FDR commissioned translation of the star spangled banner) at a Dodgers game, even after being told not to.
Most Stagnant Thinker
Robert Lighthizer, Stephen Miran, Peter Navarro & Howard Lutnick - the architects of Trump's tariff policy. "Herbert Hoover called..."
Best Photo Op
Heard and McDonald Islands penguins who will be subject to new tariffs.
Worst Photo Op
Trump and Vance berating Zelenskiy for his combat gear
Enough Already!
The 8 democratic and independent lawmakers who spelunked on healthcare premiums. Spare us the excuses.
Worst Lie
Executive Order (EO) 14160 denying citizenship to babies born in the USA based on their parents' immigration status.
Capitalist Of The Year
Melakon Musk, for axing all the government departments that might potentially regulate any of his businesses.
Honorable Mention
Bernie Sanders, Chris Van Hollen & Glenn Ivey, the No Kings protests, the Israel-Palestine ceasefire, everyone fighting for Ukraine, citizens protecting their immigrant neighbors from ICE, district and appellate judges limiting the worst of the worst policies, universities and law firms who have refused to capitulate, and journalists with integrity (looking at you, CW).
Person Of The Year
Donald Trump (no matter how awful, there's no denying he's the guy this year has been about)