September brings a new season, for one half of the world it is into a glorious spring, and another half the leaves are about to fall from the trees, and the final half it is another rancid serving of jerks with a “fresh” batch of Jerk of the Month September 2022 Nominations.

September is just like any other month in 2022, in fact like any month of any year. 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 which is why they, and you are here.

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 September 2022 “winner” awaits your vote below.

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VOTE NOW – Jerk of the Month September 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 September 2022 Nominations

ROYAL REPORTING

Queen Elizabeth’s death was very sad, but there was nothing sadder than sh!tload of Royal Reporting. Not the actual royals themselves, but the myriad of articles on what Harry and Meghan did or didn’t do, what clothing Harry was allowed to war, and who’s talking to who. The worst was a conspiracy theory about a candle as per the picture above. 

Lord knows how bad it will get when Harry releases a book about similar bs.

Hopefully King Charles can hold on for a few decades.

FOUNTAIN PENS AND THINGS ON DESKS

There’s nothing more annoying, and therefore jerk-worthy than a rogue pen, or something that gets in the way.

Sure most of us work from home these days, but when we do have to go into the office how annoying is it when things are in the way or a pen doesn’t work.

What a jerk one can be.

MAGPIES

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Some people love Magpies as Australian treasures, some don’t. We don’t. 

Especially at this time of year when they become swooping jerks.

LA NINA / HURRICANE IAN

After a summer of flooding rain and misery in Australia, a triple La Nine is scheduled to return this summer.

Joy. At least Scomo isn’t in charge of helping people this time. People outside winnable seats might actually get help if their area floods this time.

And on the other side of the world in weather jerk news, Hurricane Ian joins the list.

INTERNATIONAL BREAKS IN FOOTBALL

We love the Football World Cup and am looking forward to the next installment in November. But the International breaks in the middle of the season can kiss our arse.

Not only are our favourite leagues stopped for a few weeks, but all reporting and decent podcasts centre around either how many World Cups the England team are going to win, or when the England manager should be sacked.

It’s tedious and unnecessary. 

NRL MATCH OFFICIALS AND BUNKER

The NRL Officials have been pretty ordinary in 2022 wit ha range of truly terrible decisions. Even as recently as last weekend where an obvious forward pass was let go. The worst this season was the Cowboys-Tigers game where the official in charge of making the mistakes was dropped, and reinstated and will control this weekend’s Grand Final. Talk about setting a low bar.

But bad decisions come and go, and NRL officials can sort of be forgiven and forgotten, but thanks to the overuse of The Bunker, they have ruined the buzz of a post try cheer. Like VAR has done in football.

If a try is not 100% obvious, and even when it is, and even when it has been awarded a try and it has been a full minute later, the dreaded call comes from The Bunker and referee does his big screen arm movement to ruin all the fun.

Cue the microscopic analysis of a try that will always lead to killing someone’s joys and mild to high outrage on social media.

MANKAD

There’s no bigger jerk act in sport than the mankad. A recent event in women’s cricket brought the mankad back into the spotlight.

So the act, and anyone who does it is a jerk, hence this month’s nomination.

FIA

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For leaving the Safety Car out to finish the race in the Italian Grand Prix.

So, good enough to bend the rules for Netflix in Abu Dhabi, but not for the Italian GP in 2022.

Note: we are neither Lewis or Max fans, but will call bullshit when we see it.

DONALD TRUMP

For continued variety of many things, but using a “thinking” defence for declassifying Top Secret documents is  jerk worthy, and something to keep in mind for ourselves in the future.

PUTIN

For ramping up the Ukraine war.

PAULINE HANSON

For continued embarrassment of the state of Queensland. She insists she speaks for the people, she forgets that it is only for 5% of the people. At best.

2022 JERK OF THE YEAR MONTHLY “WINNERS”

July/August 2022 – Donald Trump, Pauline Hanson, Scomo, Office Politics
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