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2017 was the year Congresswoman Maxine Waters was elected president of All in With Chris Hayes.

From the moment she declared that the director of the FBI had "no legitimacy"025 Archivesthen death dropped in front of a gaggle of shellshocked reporters, 79-year-old Auntie Maxine has had our blood loyalty. Every floor she walked on in 2017, whether it was in the Capitol or at the MTV Movie Awards, became her stage and ultimately, a property in her empire.

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More so than any other "deplorable" president with a Ziploc bag of fleas for a brain, Maxine Waters was the de facto leader of the free world/MSNBC in 2017.

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Congresswoman Waters gave us so many viral gifts in 2017. Here are just a few of them.

1. The time she accused James Comey of having no credibility and then just walked on out

2. When she revealed that she was "never going to go" to Trump's Inauguration because, "I don't honor him, I don't respect him and I don't want to be involved with him."

3. The time she was asked what she would do once she was done impeaching Trump, and she replied: "Impeach Pence."

4. When she delivered MTV's first ever "Best Fight Against the System" award, did a plié, and got a standing ovation.

5. When she tweeted that it was time for our "racist throwback" Attorney General to go back "to the plantation"

Sessions doesn't remember what he said, when he said it, & where he was when he said it. Don't blame him. Time to go back to the plantation.

— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) November 3, 2017

6. Her "Bye, Felicia" moment

Tillerson's plans are backfiring. Russia sanctions still in place, State is in shambles, & he discovered his boss is a moron. Bye Felicia!

— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) October 6, 2017

7. When she busted out this stunner of jean jacket, rose pants ensemble at the Tax March

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8. When she started railing against Trump and told a room full of supporters, "We've got to stop his ass"

9. The moment she just said it:

Maxine Waters on Trump: "I think he's the most deplorable person I've ever met in my life" https://t.co/25utCvqtAh pic.twitter.com/pLADTiE9l1

— The Hill (@thehill) August 4, 2017

10. And the tweet that did it too:

Trump asked what Blacks had to lose. It was apparently healthcare, housing, college admission, & freedom after Sessions locks everyone up

— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) August 2, 2017

11. That day Bill O'Reilly tried to humiliate Auntie Maxine and just ... lol, sorry bro. She can't be intimidated.

12. When she "reclaimed her time" from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin

13. So the internet did too

14. And the Women's March made "Reclaiming my time" the theme of a whole convention

Credit: rachel woolf/The Washington Post/Getty Images

15. When Congresswoman Maxine Waters finally passed on her torch to the generation that needs it the most.

These kids dressed up as Maxine Waters for Halloween to #ReclaimTheirCandyhttps://t.co/BbSP1haf5c pic.twitter.com/8jI1fHSw6W

— Mashable (@mashable) October 31, 2017

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