***Biggest Assholes Alive Draft Thread***

There are many varieties of asshole. Some, like some of those chosen before this absolute trash human, are direct or indirect murderers. While not directly involved in killing people, my next selection is without question an extraordinarily enormous asshole. His assholery might seem similar to your garden-variety jerkoff at the golf course, but that’s like saying Shakespeare was just another guy who wrote plays. This gasbag directly shaped and influenced millions upon millions of jackasses for decades - in fact, they celebrate themselves as simple repeaters of his spew. The effect he’s had on society should not be understated. Rather than tell you about the views he’s been spreading on the airwaves like noxious flatulence since the early 1970’s, let’s let him explain himself in his own words:

“Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”

“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”

“The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”

“They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”

[To an African American female caller]: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”

“I think it’s time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs.”

“Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”

“Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.”

“Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.”

“I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose, and feminism has led women astray. I love women. I don’t know where all this got started. I love the women’s movement, especially when walking behind it.”

“When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it’s an invitation.”

On Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified before Congress about the importance of health insurance covering birth control: “What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex — what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute.”

“He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act. … This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.”

“Obama’s America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. I mean, you put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety. But in Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering “Yay! Right on, right on, right on, right on.”

“Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos, what’s to complain about?”

This is the kind of guy who advocates for punishment of drug addicts rather than treatment while being a drug addict himself. Actually, not just that kind of guy, he’s exactly that guy, because that’s what he did.

How important can a radio host be? Well, many credited him with the GOP taking back the house in 1994 after he campaigned vigorously on-air for months. There is no doubt that he’s been at the leading edge of the “movement” (think bowel) that culminated in the election of Florida Man.

Also, he’s STILL claiming that COVID-19 isn’t a big deal, and just yesterday said that the CDC and NIH are deep-state actors. People believe this shit, and repeat it.

So while on the one hand he’s a lightweight in some ways compared to some on this list, I don’t think anyone can debate that this asshole in big indeed. In case you haven’t already figured it out, my next pick is

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@NotBruceZ is on the clock

Thought you’d slip that one by us, eh?

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Rush is an elite early round pick.

Had Rush on my mind for my next pick. Such a fucking asshole.

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Yeah Rush vs. Hannity is close. Feel like rush deserves a lot of bonus points for being the original and putting out a playbook and proving the model for taking right wing propaganda into mainstream media, but Hannity has maybe surpassed him in pure assholery perfecting that shameless smug douche act

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LFS hopefully probably just slipping in under the deadline for living asshole with Rush.

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ICWYDT

Railing about the lung cancer hoax and then getting smacked with lung cancer is Alanis Morissette level irony

Rush was next on my list after Koch. Epitomizes the term “garbage human”.

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While not dispositive, I’d note that many of these fine lads are on wife #3+.

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I have my next pick ready and am starting the write-up so please don’t snipe me NBZ :smiley:

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Thought he was dead.

My desktop just died, so you will have to sit on it a couple of hours.

No worries. Can you PM me your pick so I know whether I need to scrap what I’ve got?

Being the biggest asshole doesn’t just mean being the worst person. Being an asshole means having a certain level of arrogance on top of being a bad person.

This man once went into a meeting with Bill Clinton with disdain for protocol and an intentional avoidance of preparation, leading Clinton to come away with the reaction: “Who the fuck does he think he is? Who’s the fucking superpower here?”

Maybe that arrogance was earned, since he had the power to once again ignore protocol in maneuvering to give a joint address to Congress. Nothing emboldens an asshole like seeing his assholishness rewarded.

He has been accused of quid pro quo. He has cried that it is a witch hunt and an attempted coup when he has been accused of accepting bribes and trading favorable regulations for positive media coverage. He haughtily claims to speak for all Jews, acting with messianic zeal, as if only he truly understands and can fight existential threats, justifying his attempts to cling to power while spectators wail about the death of democracy.

There are worse people out there, but this man seems to prefer confrontation with his enemies in a manner that only an asshole can. The only world leaders who seem to be able to stand him are other assholes, like Trump and Putin. He might even be right some of the time, but he’s still a huge asshole in how he goes about it.

Bibi? I grade him more like F-F. Or should it be F-U?

I choose Benjamin Netanyahu.

Your turn, @hokie

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In the paraphrased words of Bruce Wayne, you either die the hero or live long enough to become a fucking asshole. In the case of my next pick, the world would be a better place today if they had just died the hero.

I will be adding some much-needed diversity to this draft by taking the first brown person, first woman, and first second Nobel Peace Prize winner (wait, what?). Team Hokie selects Aung San Suu Kyi, the current State Counsellor (aka prime minister) of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

Suu Kyi’s early life and political involvement make her later heel turn all the more perplexing, so I’ll cover things briefly. She was born in 1945 and had a diverse upbringing, earning multiple advanced degrees from Western schools and living in New York and London before returning to Burma in 1988 to lead the pro-democracy movement.

A military junta, which had seized power in 1988, called a general election in 1990. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) received 59% of the votes, which would have put her in position to be Prime Minister. Instead, the results were nullified and the military refused to hand over power, placing her under house arrest. She championed non-violence as protest and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her efforts.

She spent 15 years of a 21-year period under house arrest and survived multiple attacks / assassination attempts. She received the Congressional Gold Medal from President Bush in 2008 while imprisoned. Her house arrest was lifted in 2010 when the country’s military made an arrangement with the opposition, resulting in the first election in over two decades in 2015. In this election, Suu Kyi’s party won power and she became State Counsellor, equivalent to a Prime Minister–remember, this is through an arrangement with the military.

Her ascendency from hero to pure fucking asshole did not take very long once she had acquired power. Since 2016 she has silently ignored (or, more accurately, encouraged) one of the worst ongoing humanitarian crises in the world: the Rohingya Genocide.

The total Rohingyan Muslim population of Myanmar is was over 1 million people, primarily in Rakhine State, where they’ve been present since potentially as far back as the 15th century. Despite this, they’ve been denied citizenship from predominantly-Buddhist Myanmar and have suffered human rights violations for decades. This violence has escalated since 2016 with support of the Burmese military, and the implicit support of our asshole Suu Kyi.

In 2018, a study estimated that more than 24,000 Rohingya had been killed in the preceding 12 months alone. Many died while being burned alive in their homes as entire villages were razed. Additionally, the study estimated that over 100,000 Rohingya had been beaten, 36,000 thrown into fires, and 18,000 women and girls raped at the hands of the military and the local militias.

Did our champion of peace and democracy do anything? No. To cover this up, Suu Kyi’s government has destroyed evidence, such as flattening burnt villages and mass graves, and has cracked down on the media. In 2017, two Reuters journalists were jailed by the police and were held for almost 18 months despite international outcry. Suu Kyi herself has largely ignored the genocide and humanitarian crisis her government has created, using positively Trumpian logic along the way:

  • she stated tensions were due to a “climate of fear” because global Muslim power is perceived as “very great”
  • she falsely claims that violence is happening on both sides
  • she asked the US Ambassador not to use the word Rohingya because they “are not recognized as among the 135 official ethnic groups” of Myanmar

Groups around the world have revoked awards previously bestowed on Suu Kyi, though as of this writing she still holds her Nobel Peace Prize.

Current team:

  • Steve Bannon, destroying democracy and installing alt-right regimes worldwide
  • Aung San Suu Kyi, overseer of ethnic cleansing, genocide, a crackdown on journalism, and an all-around humanitarian crisis
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Great write up

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Kissinger, tho

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Holy shit you’re right, that’s embarrassing for me the Nobel Prize committee.

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