You know, we’ve been compiling this list for the better part of a decade now, and I can tell you that I have never encountered a more voluminous group of ineffectual bozos than the batch America offered to the world in 2017. This country is DYING, and yet there are tens of millions of us—me included!—who apparently are powerless to do much of anything about it. Few of us stand a chance against the country’s monstrous, destructive intractability. Hence, all our dread has manifested into real hatred, pain, and horror. I have aged 20 years this year alone.

And that glaring impotence extends all the way into the executive branch, to the inner circle of our blubbering boob of a president, all of whom claim to have his ear when the only thing President Trump listens to is the sound of his own dentures sloshing around in his burgerhole while Fox & Friends plays in the background. You could pinpoint Trump’s inauguration day as the beginning of mankind’s downward trajectory and no historian would quibble with you.

Normally, indulging in a year-end list is a pleasant holiday diversion. “Oh yeah, I remember that album! Good album!” But we live in a time when looking back is now so immensely painful that such listicles feel like historical sadism. But, dear reader, I live to serve the greater good. And so I must pinch my nose and dig through the archives to bring you this roll call of enablers, buffoons, and losers who not only contributed nothing to society in 2017, but actively helped ruin America by doing so.

All the Bad Men

In addition to shining a light on their monstrous behavior, 2017 also served to expose how many of these serial harassers were men who did consistently average, forgettable work. Like, Kevin Spacey and Louis CK were genuine talents. But Matt Lauer? Get the fuck outta here. Matt Lauer was television mayonnaise. It is a damning indictment of our culture that someone that bland and eminently worthless was able to command $25 million a year and occupy his own fiefdom within NBC.

And Harvey Weinstein? Holy shit, how many terrible movies has Harvey Weinstein foisted upon the general public? Apart from the occasional Tarantino movie, Harvey buried more good movies than he ever released, and spent the bulk of his career pushing horrible awards bait that vanished from the cultural radar the second the Oscar telecast ended. The greater world of film isn’t gonna suffer without the dude who financed Chocolat. Keep going down the list and you’ll find even more disposable losers like Leon Wieseltier, Mark Halperin, and that one That ’70s Show guy who was somehow less remarkable than Ashton Kutcher. The collective talents of these men aren’t close to the collective talents they suppressed, and I’m glad they’re going away.