If TPM readers considered Kim Davis’ appearance at the State of the Union a shock at the start of the year, they were certainly knocked off their chairs by every other stunner story that surrogates, electors, lawmakers and the President-elect himself dished out this year.
Through 2016, and the bombastic election that consumed it, here are the top 10 most-read TPM stories of the year:
10. PHOTOS: KIM DAVIS ARRIVES FOR THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
By Sara Jerde
“Kim Davis, the defiant Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, arrived Tuesday night for President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address decked out in red, white and blue.” Read More…
9. COURT STRIKES DOWN SCOTT WALKER’S RIGHT-TO-WORK LAW AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
“Wisconsin’s right-to-work law, championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker as he was mounting his run for president, was struck down Friday as violating the state constitution.” Read More…
8. CNN PANEL LAUGHS WHEN TRUMP BACKER SAYS NO EVIDENCE TO CALL HIM RACIST (VIDEO)
By Allegra Kirkland
“A CNN panel failed to maintain composure on Friday when Donald Trump supporter Gina Loudon insisted there was no evidence to back up claims that the Republican nominee has engaged in racist and misogynistic behavior.” Read More…
7. GIULIANI CLAIMS THERE WERE NO TERROR ATTACKS ON US SOIL BEFORE OBAMA (VIDEO)
By Katherine Krueger
“Speaking in Youngstown, Ohio ahead of Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, who was the mayor of New York City on 9/11, declared that Islamic extremists hadn’t carried out any terror attacks on American soil before Barack Obama’s presidency.” Read More…
6. NEW MEDIA GURU CLAY SHIRKY DROPS ‘STOP TRUMP’ TWEETSTORM ON WHITE LIBERALS
By Esme Cribb
“New media writer Clay Shirky took to Twitter Friday afternoon to dismiss white liberals’ response to Donald Trump as ineffective and self-indulgent – and to rally them to defeat Trump.” Read More…
5. KEY GOP SENATORS EMERGE FROM MEETING: NO HEARING FOR OBAMA SCOTUS NOM
By Lauren Fox and Tierney Sneed
“Key Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee emerged from a closed door meeting in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office Tuesday united in their determination not to consider any nominee to replace Antonin Scalia until the next president takes office.” Read More…
4. OBAMA MOCKS TRUMP FOR GETTING HIS TWITTER CONFISCATED BY CAMPAIGN
By Esme Cribb
“Seizing on a report published by the New York Times earlier Sunday, President Barack Obama joked that Donald Trump’s campaign ‘had so little confidence in his self-control’ that they took away his access to Twitter.” Read More…
3. TEXAS ELECTOR RESIGNS: TRUMP IS NOT QUALIFIED AND I CANNOT VOTE FOR HIM
By Caitlyn MacNeal
“A member of the Electoral College representing Texas, Art Sisneros, wrote on Saturday that he will resign as an elector because he refuses to cast a vote for Donald Trump.” Read More…
2. PAUL RYAN ON STOPPING A PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MUSLIM BAN: WE’LL SUE HIM!
By Tierney Sneed
“House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has made clear he doesn’t agree with a proposal put forward by Donald Trump — whom Ryan has endorsed — to ban Muslim immigration into the United States, but in an interview with the Huffington Post Thursday, Ryan floated taking a President Trump to court if he tried to implement such a ban or some of his other controversial proposals unilaterally.” Read More…
1. THE REVIEWS ARE IN: CONSERVATIVES SAY THE DNC WAS ‘DISASTER’ FOR THE GOP
By Katherine Krueger
“Something strange happened on the last night of the Democratic National Convention.
After the GOP nominee lambasted the Democrats on Twitter for displaying what he viewed as too few American flags, there was a sea of waving flags as far as the eye could see when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to accept a major party’s nomination on Thursday.” Read More…
The past has already happened (at least once) and the memory does not improve with age. I’m looking forward to next year’s snark battles with the unpresident and the unlegislative unbranch.
The top story is the white working class trailer trash whose 100,000 votes in Pa., Michigan, and Wisconsin gave Trump the White House. Their world is about to implode. Good.
The next top story is the non-voters, 3rd party nihilists, and Bernie suckers who also enabled Trump. Their world will also implode. Good.
All these morons deserve the fruits of their passion.
I don’t.
Sorry, but I’m not looking forward to 2017, and I certainly don’t want to re-do the year now ending.
AJ Delgado is pregnant with Jason Miller’s baby. He got canned. Not sure if she is still employed w/ Pepe’s camp - after all, she knew the man she was screwing is married.
But I guess this is the start of Pepe draining his swamp.
Didn’t think I could get more depressed than the week after the election but these end of year reviews everywhere are starting to make me want to cry all over again. Worst Christmas ever.
New Year’s resolutions - I will do everything in my power to fight against the Republican hegemony.
I will never say the words President Trump.
I will do everything I can to maintain and increase my support of independent news organizations like Pro Publica and TPM.
I will put not just my voice but my old body in the fray when protests are happening anywhere near me.