With Christmas done and dusted, and Santa having thoroughly checked that list twice, The Gurgler offers up some advice on who is naughty or nice with our previously released 2019 Person of the Year, and this batch of December 2019 Jerk of the Month nominations.
Along with a fresh lump of coal, these select few receive the last monthly nomination for being just that little bit (or a lot) more of a jerk than the ordinary person in the street this month.
This is also the last monthly Jerk award before the ultimate Jerk of 2019 is decided. All monthly winners plus other high performers for the year will be up for the gong.
But before the year is out, the small matter of December Jerk of the Month needs to be sorted.
December 2019 Jerk of the Month – Vote Now
Vote below for one or as many of the Jerk nominations as you like.
Vote early, vote often.
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Voting closes December 31, 11:30pm.
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December 2019 Jerk of the Month – Nomination Form Guide
Donald Trump
Why nominated for the Jerk?
Another month, another nomination for the POOTUS.
December saw President Trump staring down the barrel of Impeachment, which he took with his customary style and grace.
Rather than listing all the deeds which sees him leading of the December 2019 Jerk of the Month nominations, someone kindly does the fact checking for everyone. Needless to say it is a long list of incorrect facts.
What isn’t in dispute is his nomination for Jerk of the Month.
Jerk Rating: 10/10
Scott Morrison
Why nominated for the Jerk?
Fair to say the shine or sheen has come off the Australian Prime Minister of late, the Hawaiian holiday certainly drummed up enough debate on his worth to the Australian people.
We’ll leave the debate of his holiday for the social keyboard warriors, but he certainly came across as quite the arrogant jerk in December. And his family holiday situation wouldn’t have been so bad if his office weren’t spending the first few days denying he was there.
Perhaps it is the true colours finally showing through after six months of back patting and attending sporting events in the six months after his surprise election win.
Jerk Rating: 5/10
Bushfires
Why nominated for the Jerk?
For bringing misery to large parts of Australia.
That’s after politicians have spent the last few months working out who to blame for them.
Jerk Rating: 10/10
Kevin Pietersen
Why nominated for the Jerk?
The former English cricketer has said on a few occasions that Brisbane is a shithole.
And he repeated the dose on his most recent visit in December.
People are entitled to their opinion about any place in the world, as are we are entitled to nominate any former sportsman with Jerk history for another Jerk of the Month nomination.
Jerk Rating: 10/10
Westfields Parramatta
Why nominated for the Jerk?
For their human crushing, Christmas shopping giveaway stunt which ended in people in hospital.
You can imagine the ideas shower/think-tank/whiteboard session that came up with that.
The saddest part was the footage of Santa being felled in the crush.
Jerk Rating: 2/10
Italian Sports Newspaper
Why nominated for the Jerk?
There have been several racist incidents in Italian Football in the past few seasons, and the arrival of two high profile players from the Premier League (Chris Smalling and Romelu Lukaku) has incited a little more.
So one Italian sporting newspaper decided that a Friday night game featuring the teams of these high profile recruits needed a big picture of the two players and a headline of “Black Friday”.
With that up their sleeve, they responded to the negative feedback by doubling down and justifying their picture and overall stance on racism in Italian Football. Guaranteeing a nomination for Jerk of the Month.
Jerk Rating: 10/10
Serie A – Italian Football Bosses
Why nominated for the Jerk?
Further to the above, the people that run the Italian Football decided to try and quell the recent racism by getting an artist to do something involving monkeys.
Maybe it is simply a poor idea, badly executed. Or they are just jerks. We’ll let you decide.
Jerk Rating: 10/10
2019 JERK OF THE YEAR COMING SOON
Once the 2019 December Jerk of the Month is decided, the 2019 Jerk of the Year voting will follow.
All the monthly winners, plus the next best five non monthly winners (by total votes) will all be in the major end of season voting.
So stay tuned for more in January.
2019 JERK OF THE MONTH HALL OF FAME
Here’s this months winner so far.
All go into the end of season Jerk of the Year draw.
November 2019 – Israel Folau
October 2019 – NRL & Reality TV Producers
September 2019 – Idiots who light Bushfires
August 2019 – Alan Jones
July 2019 – Bernard Tomic
June 2019 – Israel Folau
May 2019 – Nick Kyrgios
April 2019 – Fraser Anning & Foxtel
March 2019 – Fraser Anning & Christchurch Shooter
February 2019 – MKR & Tara McWilliams
January 2019 – Tennis Jerks, Fox Cricket, Channel Seven
