Dianny’s Ten Most Tiresome People of 2024

The annual tradition continues…

Greetings all. My heartfelt compliments of the season!

Contrary to all indications, I did not drop dead after the presidential election. I went to the doctor in November and was urged in no uncertain terms to rest and take it easy, or else I might drop dead.

FYI: It is never good for your doctor to refer to your blood pressure as “scary high.” Admittedly, it scared the stuffing out of me too.

I spent the last 6 weeks lying low — taking new medications, making dietary changes, monitoring my blood pressure daily, and resting. The good news is that my BP is no longer “scary high.” I am also losing weight, and that’s without exercise. I imagine I’ll be Lara Croft once my GP gives me the green light to exercise again.

The heart, like any other organ, is susceptible to inflammation, which may be why 50% of those with Lupus develop coronary problems. That doesn’t make it any less frightening, but there you go.

Anyroad.

2024 is packing its bags and putting on its coat, so it is time to unveil my picks for this year’s ten most tiresome people.

These are the folks who wore out their welcome in 2024 — the ones who, when I saw them crop up in the news or on social media, prompted an exasperated, “Oh, just go away!”

Let’s get to it.

10. Nancy Mace

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined Congress in 2019, she led a tutorial for House Democrats on making the most of their social media accounts. I’m sure if Nancy Mace had been in the House in 2019, she would have attended that tutorial in a heartbeat. As it is, I suspect she may have borrowed Ted Lieu’s notes from the class.

Like AOC, Mace doesn’t want to be a lawmaker; she wants to be a Twitter influencer and Instagram model.

I dislike showboating politicians, I truly do. And Nancy is a showboater of the first order. Worse still, she is a suck-up who is desperately trying to win the favor of MAGA supporters on Twitter by exploiting her only asset: her boobs.

Remember this?

The A is for Attention.

Nancy nearly lost it all in 2022 because she committed the cardinal sin of criticizing Trump after the January 6 riot. Trump, never one to let such criticisms pass, endorsed Nancy’s 2022 primary challenger.

Everything Nancy has done since dodging that bullet is geared toward sucking up to Trump and his army of defenders on Twitter.

After winning reelection in 2024, Congresswoman Tits-and-Ass sought to gain favor among the Twitter Right by exploiting Republican opposition to men in women’s spaces despite previously voicing support for the “transgender” agenda.

Her ploy worked — mostly because so many MAGA people on Twitter drool like Pavlov’s dogs whenever someone sings from their hymnal, especially if the singer in question has a nice set of knockers.

If Nancy wants that kind of attention, she should resign from Congress and start an OnlyFans account. If she did, her constituents might get a representative in Congress who cares more about them than getting retweets from the likes of @TrumpFan8675309.

9. Twinks for Harris

The Democrat Party and affiliated PACs spent millions paying social media “Influencers” to promote the party’s talking points and gush over Joe Biden like he was the Second Coming of David Cassidy. When the old codger bowed out and was replaced by the laughable Kamala Harris, the same group of “influencers” turned on a dime and gushed over Kamala with the same sycophantic zeal.

The “influencers” included a group of boy band rejects who couldn’t summon enough testosterone to grow facial hair even if they pooled their resources.

Throughout the election, these noodle-armed, rosacea-afflicted boys traveled across the swing states promoting “straight white dudes for Harris.”

It's funny how the straight white dudes they prattled on about were always conveniently out of frame.

Sure, MAGA influencers can be embarrassing, but nobody on Twitter plumbed the depths of cringe like these guys.

And where are these “real men” of which you speak? Are they in the room with you right now?

Now, I wouldn’t include the Twinks for Harris in this year’s list if they were just random idiots making fools of themselves on Twitter. But they got paid by the Democrats — which, when you get down to brass tacks, pretty much made them the DNC’s rent boys.

Their followers include some prominent people in the corporate news media, Hollywood, and Washington. The White House even invited them to a Christmas party with the president, where they fawned over Hunter Biden like he was a half-naked Brad Pitt slathered in baby oil.

Sorry to burst your bubble boys, but unless you’re a hooker from the former Soviet bloc, Hunter’s not interested.

It amazes me that someone on Team Harris took one look at these testosterone-challenged rent boys and said, “Them! They’re the ones who can win over straight white men!”

It will never stop being funny.

8. Kari Lake

This weekend, Kari Lake announced that she will not run for office again because of the “corrupt machine” that is hellbent on keeping her out.

On Planet Earth, we call that “the voters of Arizona.”

Kari Lake is a Democrat who attached herself to the Trump Train like a barnacle, knowing that Trump supporters will buy anything if you dress it up in a MAGA hat.

This woman was all façade.

I am suspicious of overly ingratiating people who regurgitate buzzwords and phrases for attention, so Kari’s so-called charms were always lost on me.

When Arizona Republicans chose Lake in the Senate primary in 2024, I knew the Democrat candidate would win. Kari Lake is electoral poison. Why do you think the former head of the Arizona GOP tried to convince her not to run in 2024? He knew she was poison. And how did Kari return the favor? She secretly recorded their conversation and used it to force him out.

Kari is a cautionary tale for Republican voters on what happens when you prioritize showboating over substance and judge a candidate solely on their feigned devotion to Donald Trump.

Let Kari run for president of the Donald Trump fan club and leave public office for those who care more about the people they serve than getting invites to Mar-a-Lago.

7. Jill Biden

Farewell, Jill. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way back to Delaware!

I have never been so delighted to see the back of a first lady. Not even Michelle Obama’s departure thrilled me as much as Jill’s imminent exit from the White House.

The Lady Macbeth of Rehoboth Beach forced her decrepit husband to run for president, all the while knowing he wasn’t up to the job, just so she could add “First Lady” to her growing list of “credentials.”

National Review writer Jeff Blehar pointed out before Christmas:

A reminder: Jill Biden demanded the Marine Corps band write and play a special "Fanfare for the First Lady" for her public appearances. It was retired once conservative media noticed and began mocking it.

Understand that the people making real decisions here are stupid and vain.

I laughed myself silly when Jill scored the July cover of Vogue just days after her husband crapped the sheets in the CNN debate. Talk about bad timing.

As I wrote at the time:

There was a growing sense after Thursday’s debate debacle that Jill Biden must be a ruthless, power-hungry fishwife guilty of elder abuse to force her cognitively-impaired husband to run for president.

Following up that debate with a fawning profile featuring a soft-focused airbrushed photo of Jill looking like Eva Peron in a pantsuit was a tremendously bad idea, not to mention all kinds of hilarious.

Jill might be angry at Kamala Harris and the rest of the Democrat Party for forcing her husband to drop out, but she deserved the humiliation. Her willingness to cover up her husband’s cognitive decline so the Marine band could regale her with “Fanfare for the First Lady” damaged our economy, crippled America’s standing in the world, and allowed an invasion at our southern border.

When the Bidens leave Washington on January 20, I never want to hear from either of them ever again.

6. Tucker Carlson

What happened to this guy?

Tucker Carlson used to be fairly entertaining.

Not anymore.

Twitter’s “Mute” button was made for people like Tucker Carlson. His slobbering praise of Russia and his penchant for interviewing antisemitic cranks who blame the world’s troubles on the Joos were reason enough for me to mute the guy.

As I said in my column, “The New Walter Duranty:”

Instead of aiming for journalistic integrity and truth-telling, Tucker opted for engagement farming by feeding the tinfoil-hatted masses a steady diet of conspiracies while playing footsie with Jew-hating cranks and rabid anti-Semites.

Tucker transforming into a Useful Idiot for Vladimir Putin is the least surprising next step in his slide to irrelevance.

Unlike Stalin’s Useful Idiot Walter Duranty, they won’t be showering Tucker with Pulitzer Prizes for his videos praising the wonders of a Moscow grocery store most Muscovites can’t afford to shop in or the lavish subway stations built for just this kind of Useful Idiot.

Then again, Tucker’s aim isn’t the Pulitzer. His aim is monetization.

Taylor Lorenz, Jennifer Rubin, Jake Tapper — social media has exposed many media personalities as unhinged lunatics and unprincipled cranks. Why should Tucker Carlson be immune?

Like every other “Garbage Takes for Cash” Twitter “influencer,” Tucker isn’t a truth-teller; he’s a money-grubber. And right now, pro-Russian propaganda and Jewish conspiracy theories are money-makers.

Again, from my column:

I don’t think Tucker Carlson is a Russia True Believer. He just knows on what side his bread is buttered.

If Tucker wants to monetize his burgeoning Twitter-based media empire to the fullest, he’s got to give the people what they want. And right now, the Terminally Online Right is simply mad for Vlad.

Ukraine is their enemy because all the politicians they despise support funding Ukraine’s war with Russia. Since the Terminally Online Right does not do nuance, their hatred for Ukraine inevitably means siding with Russia.

Tucker must therefore also side with Russia if he wants the Terminally Online Right to watch — and more importantly, share — his videos.

I know. It’s crazy. But them’s the rules.

Tucker Carlson, like Kari Lake and Nancy Mace, embraces the adage, “There’s a sucker born every minute, and Online MAGA is like shooting suckers in a barrel.” I despise that kind of exploitative garbage. At the same time, I sure wish the terminally online MAGA folks would wise the hell up and stop falling for it.

5. Liz Cheney

Wouldn’t it be great if Liz Cheney chose 2025 to finally fade into obscurity, never to be seen or heard from again?

Hey, a girl can dream.

We all know Liz will never go gently into that good night.

In 2022, I compared Liz to Alex Forrest, Glenn Close’s obsessive, bunny-boiling character from “Fatal Attraction.”

More than two years have gone by, and still, pet rabbits aren’t safe around Liz.

I think the very worst thing the Trump Justice Department could do is investigate and prosecute Cheney for her alleged witness tampering during the January 6 select committee investigation. There is nothing Liz wants more than to cast herself in the role of Victim of Vindictive Trump. She’s been champing at the bit for nearly four years to play the martyr. Why hand it to her on a silver platter?

No. The way to deal with Liz is to ignore her. She does not like being ignored.

Liz was so desperate for attention that she beclowned herself during the final weeks of the election by campaigning with Kamala. If she wasn’t such a despicable creature, I might have felt sorry for her.

People toss the term Trump Derangement Syndrome around like confetti. Hell, I’ve even been accused of it, and I voted for the guy in 2016, 2020, and 2024. But the term was tailor-made for the likes of Liz Cheney.

If you oppose Trump because of your conservative principles but choose to jettison every conservative principle you ever held just to oppose him, you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

In 2024, Liz willingly accepted the role of Kamala’s Useful Idiot, debasing herself while embracing and promoting the most radical Left presidential candidate in the country’s history — all because she wanted to destroy Donald Trump.

Liz hasn’t destroyed Trump. Instead, she let her obsessive hatred for the guy destroy her. That’s high-octane Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Despite her complete humiliation, Liz won’t go away, especially now that Trump is once again heading for the White House. Her bitterness and resentment will only make her more tiresome with each passing day.

4. Candace Owens

The worst thing Elon Musk did to Twitter after he bought it was to incentivize the absolute worst accounts by offering ad revenue sharing for high-engagement users.

Once these manipulative engagement farmers discovered that there was money in them there garbage takes, they couldn’t help themselves. Twitter “influencers” like the Krassenstein brothers, Laura Loomer, Tim Pool, and JoJo from Jerze transformed their accounts into Garbage Takes for Cash.

But Candace Owens took it one step further — diving headfirst into antisemitic conspiracy theories, blood libels, and completely ignorant but confidently delivered historical illiteracies.

Why did Candace decide to become the 21st-century Father Coughlin? Who knows? Whatever the reason, she embraced it with gusto.

Whenever a screen capture of one of Candace’s tweets lands on my Twitter feed (I have her muted, so that’s the only way she’ll turn up), I think of something the Dowager Countess of Grantham said about her daughter Rosamund: “She’s never so righteous as when she’s in the wrong.”

Sanctimony is a hard sell when you don’t know what in the hell you’re talking about. It is also a hard sell when the only reason you peddle the garbage you do is so you can monetize it.

Candace isn’t a thinker; she’s a clout-chaser. She lacks the courage of her convictions because she has neither convictions nor courage, which is why she falls back on playing the victim whenever she gets any pushback.

Candace and the rest of the incentivized “influencers” are like the adolescent boys who go to a movie theater and sit in the very front row so they can shout curse words in the dark, throw things at the screen, and generally annoy the rest of the audience. Then, when the usher escorts them out, they complain about how they paid for admission and that it wasn’t fair that they were being ejected.

Candace will say anything if it gives her the attention she craves, even if that means flirting with Neo-Nazi wannabes and frothing-at-the-mouth racists. And the fact that she does it while claiming to be a Christian is reprehensible.

3. Kamala Harris

Despite all of her efforts, Kamala remains in the same position in this year’s Ten Most Tiresome list that she held last year.

Tough luck, Kam. Then again, futility pretty much sums up Kamala’s 2024, doesn’t it? This is the woman whose campaign raised more than a billion dollars and still ended up in debt.

I nearly bumped Kam up to Number Two, but her dreadful presidential campaign provided so much entertainment that “tiresome” wasn’t always an adjective to describe her.

Remember the post-election/Thanksgiving drunk video? How could I move her up on the list when she’s given us so many laughs?

The last half of Kamala’s year was like one never-ending pratfall — a slow-motion pie in the face. The faux accents, the portable podium, the overly-rehearsed stump speeches (with accompanying hand gestures) — Kamala’s campaign was an amateurish hot mess.

No wonder the Cowardly Candidate hid from the press.

Team Kamala emerged from the rubble of her humiliating defeat to declare that we hadn’t seen the last of their girl. According to CNN, Kamala’s advisors said she is considering either running for California governor in 2026 or staging a glorious comeback in 2028.

What could go wrong?

Admittedly, Kamala could be a shoo-in for governor. California Democrats would vote for a used Kleenex if it had a (D) after its name. But another run for the White House? If the 2020 Democrat primary is any indication, Kamala may find that competing for the nomination may not be as easy as having it handed to you by default.

I choose the option that provides us with the most laughs. So hold your powder in 2026, Kam, and wait until 2028.

In the meantime, go away.

2. Elon Musk

Elon Musk has moved up six spaces since last year’s Ten Most Tiresome People.

Sorry, Elon. There are no ad-revenue sharing incentives for becoming even more tiresome over the last 12 months.

Ah, well. It’s a good thing he isn’t desperate for cash.

After Elon purchased Twitter in late 2022, I decided to follow his account just for the hell of it. I unfollowed him less than a month later. If Elon is a deep thinker or a political genius, he goes to great lengths to hide it on Twitter.

Now and then, I switch my Twitter home page feed from the “Followers” tab to the “For You” tab. Fifty percent of the tweets in the “For You” feed were Musk’s. It got so tiresome that I finally muted his account just to rid the “For You” feed of his posts. But even that didn’t fix the problem. The “For You” tab is still loaded with tweets about Musk from other people. The next step is deploying the handy “Muted Words” option and adding “Elon,” “Elon Musk,” and “Musk.”

I’m not the type of person who gushes over someone just because he supports some of the same things I do. That’s why I found the fangirling over Elon Musk so absurd, why I never fell for Vivek Ramaswamy’s shtick, and why I rolled my eyes when Trump embraced RFK Jr. I’m not so insecure about my beliefs that I need validation from every quarter, no matter how tenuous or insincere. This is also why, when these fairweather friends stab conservatives in the back, I remain unscathed. I never invested in their song and dance in the first place.

This past week, Elon pissed off the Online Right by declaring that any Republican who opposes the H1-B visa program should be driven from the party. Good job, MAGA guys. You invested Elon with power and influence, and now he screwed you over.

Online MAGA will do it again, you know. They can’t help themselves. They may think of themselves as “influencers,” but they are incapable of stepping up and taking the lead. They always look for someone else to do their fighting for them. And every time they find someone, he inevitably disappoints them, and they respond by calling for blood.

It’s exhausting.

1. Tim Walz

A big congratulations to Governor Spaz Hands of Minnesota for landing at the top of the most tiresome heap!

After Trump/Vance beat Harris/Walz like a redheaded stepchild, old Timmy was disgusted that Americans chose the normal Midwestern guy over the flappy-armed douchebag prancing onstage like a drag queen who left his costume at home.

Walz expended so much energy trying to convince voters that JD Vance was “weird,” only to effortlessly out-weird the guy at every turn.

It tickles me that Kamala chose Walz specifically to appeal to working-class men. It’s even more amazing that Walz thought himself qualified.

Remember his manly pheasant hunt campaign stunt?

When your presidential campaign is run by feminized Obama bros and radical feminists, this is your idea of a man’s man.

I had a tough time watching clips of Walz on the campaign trail. His sanctimonious speeches and passive-aggressive self-righteousness were exhausting. After a while, even the hilarious clips of him prancercising across the stage got to be too much.

I thought Hillary’s choice of Tim Kaine was dreadful until Kamala Harris chose Walz. Kamala allegedly boasted that she trusted her gut when, after being sleep-deprived, she chose Governor Flappy Hands. I hope that’s true. It’s funnier if it’s true.

Slapping a flannel shirt on Walz or calling him “coach” was never going to work. At the end of the day, voters had to believe that Tim Walz was up to the job. The one debate between him and Vance was enough to prove that he wasn’t. Vance came off as a regular guy with his finger on the pulse of the country while dopey Tim stood there looking like a deer in the headlights.

He never recovered, and neither did Kamala.

Now that he lost in 2024, Tim would be wise to slink back to Minnesota and never show his face on the national stage again. But we won’t be that lucky. For a guy like Tim Walz, once you’ve pranced across a stage in front of a crowd of cheering liberals, you never want to go back.

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Whelp. There you have it, this year’s ten most tiresome people.

Some “behind the scenes” bonus disc trivia: the four people who landed on the cutting room floor were Joe Biden, Jennifer Rubin, Laura Loomer, and Karine Jean-Pierre. Ultimately, Joe’s journey in 2024 was such a rollercoaster that I couldn’t possibly consider him “tiresome.” Rubin and Loomer are lunatics, and since this was not Dianny’s Ten Most Insane People list, I gave them the heave-ho as well. As for Karine, I think I said all I needed about that muppet in last year’s list.

Anyroad.

I want to wish you all Merry Christmas (a little late, I know) and Happy Hanukkah.

May your New Year be filled with joy, health, and peace.

As for me, my New Year’s resolution is a simple one: to never have a blood pressure of 194/120 ever again.

In the words of my late mother: Frohes neues Jahr!