Another month (or two) has passed, and another bunch of unpleasant, arrogant, insufferable people and things get their chance to be “rewarded” with our Jerk of the Month July-August 2022 Nominations.

Maybe we are jerks for not bothering with two separate months, or maybe the jerks are so tedious we could only bring ourselves to do it once.

July and August aren’t any different to a lot of other months we guess, there’s the usual array of awful people or people being awful. Some are new, some are old favourites. All are or have been jerks recently.

Determining the month’s biggest jerk is ultimately up to you, the reader of this website. So read the form guide, and vote now. Feel free to vote early and vote often. For as many of the candidates whose cut of jib you dislike.

The Jerk of the Month July-August 2022 “winner” awaits your vote below.

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VOTE NOW – Jerk of the Month July-August 2022

There’s only one way to determine the biggest jerk this month – your vote.

Vote for one, vote for two, feel free to vote for as many of these jerks as you like or all of them. They’ve asked for it.

FORM GUIDE – Jerk of the Month July 2022 Nominations

DONALD TRUMP

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You could nominate the former US President every month simply for breathing, or breathing life into a new campaign for the White House, but that’s lazy.

So this month he is nominated in case the alleged accusations of burying his ex-wife near the first hole of his golf course for tax purposes is true.

Few would put it past him.

Although, his 9/11 denial work after the LIV Golf Jerk show came to town was also a decent reason to find himself here again.

Then stirring up his people questioning law enforcement after the FBI tried to take back top secret documents from his golf course (another thing buried in his course?).

Perhaps the biggest reason for a jerk of the month nomination is hinting he will run again for President, which means more months in this article.

GREG NORMAN AND LIV GOLF

We’ve been big fans of Greg for a long time, he does and will always feature in our website’s content. 

But his work with the Saudi Arabian backed new Gold League LIV has shown Greg’s worse side, and he’s become quite the jerk. Or some will argue, he always was.

Some call him the Gregfather of Modern Golf because of his LIV work.

We preferred it when he was better known for his choice of outfits. A lack of outfit.

PAULINE HANSON

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Queensland is a great state known for many things – a great rugby league team, giant fruit and sadly nutbag politicians. While some of them are a little amusing, one in particular certainly isn’t.

Pauline Hanson says she speaks for Queenslanders – which with a quick glance at recent Senate results is around 7%. Although it must be said that people in favour of legalising Cannabis was 5%. So we’re pretty sure some of her work from July and August is not speaking for many Queenslander at all.

Like talk of cow shit in the street in Bali in regards to Foot and Mouth disease.

Or the walking out of the first day parliament over the Welcome to Country. We’d almost believe her if she didn’t have a fund raising page ready to go within a day.

SCOTT MORRISON

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For a man who spent a large chunk of his reign of jerk as Prime Minister avoiding responsibility for anything and shifting blame constantly, it was a big surprise to see him sign himself to the club of five different ministers positions secretly.

Of course he did, because he’s a jerk.

You know it is bad when Andrew Bolt calls for your resignation….

BARNABY JOYCE

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Talking of former leaders, how about Barnaby Joyce. In general and for his $250K offfice that was barely used.

ONE NATION SENATOR

For the record it is Ralph Babet, but given it was the only win for Clive Palmer at the 2022 Election despite reportedly spending over $100M we didn’t think we had to bother.

He probably won’t be around for long, as his moan not long after being elected that his $200K salary is much less than he could earn from his normal day job.

Jerk.

Enough of politicians now. Surely there’s some jerks from elsewhere…..

NICK KYRGIOS

We admit we loved Nick Kyrgios’ run to the final of Wimbledon, and were genuinely disappointed when he didn’t win. 

But we and most have to admit, he was quite the jerk throughout the tournament. Even if a lot of it was kind of funny.

FORMER OLYMPIC CYCLIST IN ROAD RAGE

Cyclists are polarisers and footage of this former Olympic cyclist doesn’t help.

Not all cyclists are bad, not even this one is bad all the time. But this is a particularly bad act of jerk that deserves a nomination.

NRL BUNKER

For ruining rugby league from time to time, but recent months has seen some truly ordinary efforts.

Like this.

OFFICE POLITICS

Sadly, most of us have to work for a living, and sadly whilst some work very hard, others work very hard on making life as miserable as possible for those people.

There’s usually a trend for office politics – those who play politics in an office on a positive curve is usually in line with a downward trend for competence and usefulness.

PATRICK REED

Patrick Reed is one of golf’s great villain’s, and his defection to the LIV series backed by Saudis was a no-brainer.

But he was a particular jerk for this period after wearing LIV merch while playing at St Andrews.

2022 JERK OF THE YEAR MONTHLY “WINNERS”

June 2022 – Nick Kyrgios, NRL, Nelson Piquet
May 2022 – Various
Apr 2022 – Various
Mar 2022 – Vladimir Putin / Scomo
Feb 2022 – Vladimir Putin
Jan 2022 – Anti Vaxxers

JERK OF THE YEAR “HONOUR BOARD”

2021 – Scott Morrison 

2020 – Donald Trump

2019 – Israel Folau

2018 – David Warner and Donald Trump

2017 – Jarryd Hayne, Donald Trump, Bernard Tomic

2016 – Channel 9 Cricket Commentary