With my sudden day off I am devoting my time to memorizing The Destruction of Semmacherib and compiling a list of the most annoying & alarming Americans of 2018. (I am not letting the day go to waste! Carpe Diem!)
So far (in no order) I got
Rosanne Barr
Steve Bannon
Roger Goodell
Rush Limbaugh (Who I may remove because he is is a “was,” not an “is.”)
Sean Hannity
Jerry Falwell Junior
James Dobson
Newt Gingrich
Alex Jones
“Ivanka” Trump
Mike Pence
Donald Trump
I am way behind on annoying TV people, since I never watch TV and entertainers, as I live outside the US.
No real rules, mostly I am looking for people who are both annoying and so culturally “loud” that one cannot ignore them.
Yes, sadly. When I read the newspaper I read three of them, to get different perspectives. All of them seem to get their “tabloid” section from the same sources, though: pre-surgery Kim was in all three of them today. And that’s the Spanish press, I don’t even want to know how many tabloid covers was she on in the US within the last couple of days.
As an American who has been outside the US longer than many people have been alive, I’m blissfully unaware of how annoying most of your list is. I think I’ve heard sound clips from maybe four of the people on your list.
Unfortunately, it leaves me as the most annoying and alarming American most of my friends and acquaintances know.
He’s not that vocal anymore since even Fox News shut him down, but I find Sebastian Gorka to be absolutely terrifying. Here’s a Full Frontal piece on him. Here’s a piece from Rolling Stone.
Paul Manafort needs an entry. Still, I am short of many cultural figures since I am unaware of them. Also, I need a couple of Catholic Bishops and whatnot, although they seem to have mostly spent the last few years laying very low.
It really depends on who is being annoyed. First, someone can’t annoy me if I never find out about them. Second, the person who annoys that guy over there, might not annoy me.
Donald Trump is without a shadow of a doubt the American who annoys the most people worldwide right now. However, there is also a large group of people who are particularly pleased about the fact that he annoys someone else, and because of that, they would say that he doesn’t annoy them at all. And so on.
Well, the Daily Beast used to run a list like this. (So did Esquire.) Both seem to have stopped. I was sort of thinking along the lines of an annual award.