For those who believe 2025 was a horrible year, you're not alone. Conservative George Will penned a Friday column noting the only thing good about 2025 is that it's almost over.
As 2025 is slowly limping away, Will recalled the bizarre stories that perfectly encapsulated the year of magnificent contradictions and idiocy.
Will's ode to Cracker Barrel and Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)" exemplified a larger list of idiocy.
His list began with the reports of TSA refusing to allow a transgender woman to patdown other women. Others included a report from the Oklahoma State Board of Education mandating that teachers instruct students about "discrepancies" in the 2020 election.
An email from the NEA (National Education Association), the largest K-12 teachers' union, included a link to an article claiming that Hitler was “pushed into the genocide option.” It said that European Jews refused leave their homes.
Amid protests against President Donald Trump for behaving like a king, Trump posted a video of himself dressed as a king and dumping excrement on Americans. His list of 2025 nonsense continued with Trump's decision to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Encapsulated in his chicken-fried nostalgia, Will continues his list, naming the pardon of former Rep. George Santos (D-N.Y.), who exchanged a tight cell for a ring-light and outrage. Will cited Trump's explanation that Santos "had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN."
"So there," Will summed up.
He closed, citing the revelations by paleontologists in New Mexico, who uncovered evidence that "before a six-mile-wide space rock smacked Earth 66 million years ago, dinosaurs were flourishing. Post-rock, all was desolation, but out of this came, eventually, human beings."
Will questioned, "Was this progress? Not on the evidence of 2025."
