The winners and losers of 2024
The bigliest winners and suckiest losers of the year!
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With Christmas in the rearview mirror, the end of the year is fast approaching, and it was a doozy. It’s hard to argue that 2024 was anything other than eventful, turbulent, and even outright crazy, setting the stage perfectly for the next season of the Donald Trump Presidency show.
Before we buckle up for 2025 and all of its twists and turns, let’s take one last look at 2024 and, as our incoming president would say, its bigliest winners and suckiest losers.
Winners
Donald Trump
We must begin, of course, with the obvious winner of 2024: Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, President-elect Donald Trump. Whether you love or loathe him, one thing is incontrovertible: the soon-to-be president doesn’t know how to quit. Despite everything that was thrown at him — including fake news, unprecedented lawfare, and multiple assassination attempts — he kept going. He joined Grover Cleveland, also a New Yorker, as the only president to win a second nonconsecutive term in the White House. Trump must deliver as president, of course, but for now, it’s enough to say that Trump is unquestionably the person of the year (if not the decade).
Elon Musk
The battle between first and second place for 2024’s winners may soon bleed into the second Trump administration itself, with whispers already swirling that Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the most influential and consequential entrepreneurial and technological mind of our generation, is calling the shots in the White House. Time will tell whether these rumors are accurate, especially given that Trump is the least likely man on the planet to share the spotlight, but let’s ignore the gossip column for a moment and focus on Musk alone. Not only has Musk redefined multiple industries, including electric vehicles, internet access, and space travel, but his decision to purchase Twitter and rebrand it as free speech platform X was pivotal, as was Musk’s open endorsement of Trump. Did this decide the election? Perhaps, but one thing is for sure: Because of Musk, Big Tech couldn’t rig the election this time around.
Israel
Third place goes to the state of Israel, not only because it has successfully neutered its enemies on multiple fronts, including eradicating the leadership of multiple terrorist groups like it was playing a game of jihadi whack-a-mole, but also because it did so while having one hand tied behind its back by the feckless Biden administration. While ancient Israel gave us the Judeo-Christian foundation of the Western World, modern Israel now stands as a shining beacon of what our civilization should stand for: freedom, equality, and a relentless refusal to be defeated by evil.
Losers
Barack Obama’s legacy
One of the most joyful chapters of 2024 was the collapse of former President Barack Obama’s entire legacy. After leading the American Left as a pseudo-messianic figure for almost two decades, Obama is finding his reign is finally over. Motivated by his trademark style of absolute arrogance, his attempt to puppet the next generation of the Democratic Party by replacing his “brother” President Joe Biden with a cackling hyena backfired spectacularly: The nation rejected Vice President Kamala Harris as vociferously as when she crashed out of the 2020 primary race without winning a single vote. Obama will be remembered for many things, but the most delicious? Being 2024’s biggest loser.
Wokeness
With wokeness becoming one of the central pillars of the election, it became obvious that the vast majority of Americans are, to put it simply, sane. They don’t believe boys should be able to compete in girls’ sports or get naked in girls’ locker rooms. They don’t believe that obese activists with obvious mental illnesses should be defining our health policy. They don’t believe that white people are inherently racist. Wokeness won in 2020, and organizations such as Black Lives Matter called the shots. In 2024, they’re essentially nowhere to be seen, and because of Republican messaging combined with a high level of left-wing craziness, wokeness lost in 2024. Good riddance.
The Media
Finally, we must remember another loser from 2024: the legacy media. Much like Obama, their reign is over. Not only did new media dominate this election — such as Joe Rogan’s podcast, which Harris avoided like it was evidence that would free an innocent man from jail — but the gaslighting campaign of legacy media has been broken. Thanks to Musk’s X, legacy media lies that once were carried with a scream are now a mere whisper, debunked in real-time before they are able to take hold. Combine that with Trump’s successful campaign against media malfeasance, with the funniest result being ABC News host and Clinton hack George Stephanopoulos having to donate $15 million to Trump’s Presidential Library, Resort and Casino, and the legacy media is finally on notice.
2024 was a wild one. Bring on 2025!
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