2018 Losers of the year:

Honorable mention:

Hillary Clinton – Yeah, I know. She did nothing to deserve this in 2018. But her loss and refusal to accept defeat still just continues to spill over.

Harvey Weinstein – While the allegations came out in 2017, the arrest(s) came in 2018. This has been a tough stretch for many Hollywood icons accused of sexual harassment (or just plain rape). But good old Harvey is the poster child of the whole deal. 

Wall Street – The DJIA lost 1657 points for the year, after being up at one time by over 2100 points. But let’s be clear. Wall Street is not Main Street, and right now Wall Street is not exactly “stable”. In spite of the FED and most everyone else predicting another year of growth, Wall Street looks like they are jumping up and down on a DJIA trampoline. That being said, for most investors none of this matters. Zero sum averaging and other ways to use market volatility to an advantage means that many people are still coming out ahead (or otherwise are not affected).   

Goofy Elizabeth Warren  – So there you go. She's 1/1024th American Indian.

Runners up:

Weekly Standard – So the once mighty conservative (or should I say neoconservative) magazine is no more. This is almost entirely due to the choice to become both an “anti-Trump” and “conservative” magazine at the same time. Sort of a difficult thing to pull off. Oddly, most conservatives are not that attracted to constant, over the top, mind numbing, TDS induced, attacks on the President. 

Christine Ford – Make no mistake. This was a binary win/lose proposition for Christine Ford and Brett Kavanaugh. There was always going to be a winner and a loser, and it was always going to be determined by whether Ford’s allegations prevented the confirmation of Kavanaugh. So it really doesn’t matter if some people felt Ford displayed courage, or if she was admired for coming forward… ultimately her allegations were found to be not credible by a great deal of people, and no doubt set back the #metoo movement. 

Paul Manafort and Michael Cohenn – Both men will do some substantial time in jail, primarily for their association with Donald Trump. Make no mistake, they did commit crimes. But these were not crimes that were otherwise going to be investigated (much less prosecuted) had it not been for them getting caught up in the Robert Mueller Special Counsel probe. 

2018 loser of the year!

Michael Avenatti (the creepy porn lawyer)  – You look up the word “loser” today in the dictionary and this guy’s picture just might be posted there. 

 

From the Stormy Daniels lawsuit losses, to representing the most stunningly ridiculous Kavanaugh attacker, to pretending to be a bona-fide Presidential candidate while acting like a complete jerk, Avenatti has put on a “how to lose all credibility” seminar in 2018.