# Who is the most universally agreed upon scumbag on Planet Earth Right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406 "2012-12-18T06:57:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/41 "2012-12-18T19:23:02Z")
Donald Trump if you live in Scotland. Yeah, we really need you to build us a world class golf course. :rolls eyes: ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/42 "2012-12-18T19:23:04Z")
My understanding is that George W. Bush has a large number of supporters in Africa because of the large amount of aid money he sent there during his administration to combat AIDS and other diseases. Factor in that they weren’t entangled in any wars because of him and I think he has enough people there who like him to take him out of the running. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/43 "2012-12-18T19:55:23Z")
Sarah Palin ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/44 "2012-12-18T20:06:18Z")
> [@simple\_homer](#): > > “Universally” does include the entire world, not just the USA. > [@gracer](#): > > In the US. Outside the US he is universally abhorred. Let’s say half the population in the US think George W. Bush is ok, that leaves 6850000000 people in the world who probably think he is the world’s biggest scumbag. “Universally” also INCLUDES the US though. While he may not have as many “followers” as, say, the Kims, he does still have plenty of people who at the very worst think he’s okay, or at least not the devil within the US. I think the most universally agreed upon scumbag is going to have to be someone who isn’t in a position of power, and that pretty much anybody who isn’t part of their (small) group that knows about them hates them. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/45 "2012-12-18T21:52:40Z")
> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > The most hated scumbag on Earth right now is the person who authorized the removal of the **“turn off safe search”** feature on Google. That’s still there under Advanced Options isn’t it? My vote would be for the person/team who decided not to take my searches literally and decide to interpret what words I really want. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/46 "2012-12-18T23:51:10Z")
Rachel from Cardholder Services. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/47 "2012-12-19T00:14:50Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Joe Scarborough? Lefties hate him for his years of smug, interrupting apologia for right-wing scumbags while righties now can despise him for his knee-jerk conversion to anti-gun legislation in the aftermath of the CT shooting. Too local. No-one’s ever heard of this guy outside the USA. (I mean. _I_ have, but that’s only because I read the Dope.) > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > > [@IceQube](#): > > > > Rush. > > Unless you mean the Canadian band, he has far to many fans to be ‘universally’ despised, much as he deserves it. Odd. I would have said that about Rush Limbaugh. > [@cmkeller](#): > > Rachel from Cardholder Services. Arrgghhh. But her handlers probably don’t target people outside the NANP. As for top world scumbag? I’m not sure. The people who make a case for Bush the Younger are persuasive, except that I never had the impression he was strong-willed enough to be world-class. He always seemed to me to be _reacting_ to things. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/48 "2012-12-19T00:24:05Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > That’s still there under Advanced Options isn’t it? No; there’s just “show most relevant results”, which is what used to be call “moderate safe search”; you can’t just turn it off. You have to play guessing games with your search terms to get past the filter, and you’ll never know what is being left out because the new search algorithm thinks it’s “inappropriate”. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/49 "2012-12-19T08:20:14Z")
We may be the exception, but here in Israel Bush is seen less as a villain and more as a sort of amicable buffoon. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/50 "2012-12-19T14:52:39Z")
Coulter Does she even believe the venom she spouts? ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/51 "2012-12-19T14:55:45Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Rachel from Cardholder Services. Winner. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/52 "2012-12-19T15:17:22Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > It probably should be the Kim Jong du Jour, but they are so damn pathetic and comical it’s just hard to revile(and give them credit) them for the misery they cause.They are the Bugs Bunny version of a tyrant. The suffering and deprivation that the millions of residents of North Korea continue to undergo on account of the Kims is unfortunately all too real, and not of the Bugs Bunny variety in any way. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/53 "2012-12-19T17:28:31Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > The suffering and deprivation that the millions of residents of North Korea continue to undergo on account of the Kims is unfortunately all too real, and not of the Bugs Bunny variety in any way. As long as “the Kim Jong du jour” has not rushed in to close the concentration camps and beg the UN for full aid for his people, I think he deserves the title above all others. The fact that he doesn’t rate the title in the minds of most Americans is a sad statement on the failings of our media. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/54 "2012-12-19T17:48:54Z")
> [@notquitekarpov](#): > > Donald Trump if you live in Scotland. > > Yeah, we really need you to build us a world class golf course. :rolls eyes: I thought it was just the north-east where that was an issue, your average Glasweigan would think about Trump during the year about as much as they would think about, well, Fred Phelps (who I agree with Alessan is only known to people who have heard of 4chan\* outside of the US). Is that not the case? Is it a national issue? \*I am not saying 4chan users by any means. I am just using it as a proxy for awareness of internet culture ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/55 "2012-12-19T17:51:30Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > The suffering and deprivation that the millions of residents of North Korea continue to undergo on account of the Kims is unfortunately all too real, and not of the Bugs Bunny variety in any way. > [@TruCelt](#): > > As long as “the Kim Jong du jour” has not rushed in to close the concentration camps and beg the UN for full aid for his people, I think he deserves the title above all others. > > The fact that he doesn’t rate the title in the minds of most Americans is a sad statement on the failings of our media. Actually I think Kim is a reformer and reforming about as quickly as he can do, given the circumstances, without ending up dead himself (which is fair enough). If anything the typical American media portrayal of North Korea is a caricature. You know more than half the people in PyongYang have a 3g mobile phone? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/56 "2012-12-20T01:43:38Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > Actually I think Kim is a reformer and reforming about as quickly as he can do, given the circumstances, without ending up dead himself (which is fair enough). If anything the typical American media portrayal of North Korea is a caricature. You know more than half the people in PyongYang have a 3g mobile phone? I hope he is, but do we have any real evidence this Kim is doing anything but hold a nice job while the “old boys” continue to run the country the same way as always? Of those “more than half” 3G phone owners in Pyongyang, how many can access a fully available internet. Or have even heard of, let’s say, Facebook? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/57 "2012-12-20T03:28:42Z")
> [@Cowboy8467](#): > > My understanding is that George W. Bush has a large number of supporters in Africa because of the large amount of aid money he sent there during his administration to combat AIDS and other diseases. Factor in that they weren’t entangled in any wars because of him and I think he has enough people there who like him to take him out of the running. This, also the Kurdish people love President Bush for obvious reasons. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/58 "2012-12-20T03:51:20Z")
> [@kferr](#): > > Barney the dinosaur? I think Barney and Fred Phelps are tied for #1. And come to think of it, has anyone seen the two of them together? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/59 "2012-12-20T04:26:47Z")
Pedro Alonso Lopez. The monster of the Andes may have killed as many as 300 people. He may not claim the top serial killer spot but the thing is, this scumbag is at large, having been released in 1998. There is a warrant for his arrest on a new murder (what is wrong with those people?) since 2002. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406/60 "2012-12-20T07:29:42Z")
I’m still quite steamed about corporate person BP. Hey, I know! Let’s risk (and then follow through on) poisoning whole regions of the Earth just because we can’t be bothered to watch what we’re doing in our soulless quest for maximum profits! There can only be one (1) value, and that value is maximizing profits, _no matter what_. We’re worth billions and billions of dollars, and also utterly unprofessional at our core business! What a brilliant, shining role model! I don’t know if they can claim the top spot though, competing against the other heavyweight scumbags mentioned in this thread. However, nothing reminds me that justice is merely a word more than the continued existence of BP. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-universally-agreed-upon-scumbag-on-planet-earth-right-now/644406.md?page=4)