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Time's Shortlist for 'Person of the Year': the Laughable Picks and Who They'll Go For
Red State ^ | 12/06/2022 | Nick Arama

Posted on 12/06/2022 7:46:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Time Magazine has announced the names of the people on their shortlist for this year’s Time “Person of the Year.”

They name people for good and sometimes bad reasons, but the idea is supposed to be the significance of what that person has done.

But when you peruse the shortlist that The Hill has, for some of the people, you have to wonder about what Time was thinking.

.@TIME releases its 2022 Person of the Year shortlist


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— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) December 5, 2022

I’ll start with the ridiculous — “we need to fill out the list” — inclusions.

If you don’t know what the person has done to even be considered for the list, that person probably hasn’t had a lot of effects yet. McKenzie Scott is on the list because she’s donated some of the billions that she got from her divorce from Jeff Bezos to various organizations. That doesn’t seem like much of a criterion or they were desperate to fill out the list.

Then there was the one that made me laugh out loud — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. What has she done apart from lying about inflation and the recession? They’ve got to be kidding with that one. In describing why she might be on the list, The Hill says, “Yellen worked this year to reassure Americans about the economy amid high inflation and soaring gas prices.” Reassure? Is that the new word for trying to deceive the American public?

Now, I’ll have to admit my personal favorite for most ridiculous that also made me laugh out loud has to be Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), soon-to-be the ex-representative from Wyoming. This is the obligatory nod to the Jan. 6 Committee. But what has the Committee achieved, even from their Democratic perspective? It’s been largely ignored by America. Plus, adding her to the list when her constituents rejected her in a landslide (by almost 40 points) and she’s about to become irrelevant because of it, makes it an especially bad pick. Choosing someone who imploded their career over their Trump hatred seems a poor choice. But it’s all getting in an anti-Trump bit here and they try to suggest future significance in that she might run for president. Who would vote for her?

Time also named “Gun Safety Advocates” who don’t seem to have done anything more this year than last year. The same with Xi Jinping. If you’re going to name anything about the situation in China, I’d name the protesters, who are the real difference there, and who are doing what they can to stand up to Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policies.

Time also named the protesters in Iran. That’s a good pick as they continue to hang in there to change the country. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is another good pick since he dominated a lot of the news during the year with stances that he took on Disney and immigration.

The last three who I would think would be the top three are Elon Musk, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Musk dominated the latter part of the year with his effort to buy Twitter and the freakout by the folks on the left. He’s already upset their apple cart, dropping the Twitter files for greater transparency and championing free speech – a huge change. While he certainly has dominated the news, particularly in the past month, he won last year, so I would think that’s less likely that they’d name him two years in a row. And now he’s on the liberal “bad” list, so that also makes it less likely.

The remaining two are the U.S. Supreme Court and Volodymyr Zelensky. Now, SCOTUS particularly with the decision to overturn Roe has certainly had significant influence, now and into the future. That’s a monumental decision. But Time wouldn’t choose them because that might look like they approve of that decision and they can’t have that. They will choose Zelensky because they want to give the nod to Ukraine.



TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: personoftheyear; time
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1 posted on 12/06/2022 7:46:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

yeah, Z is baked in.


2 posted on 12/06/2022 7:49:14 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative )
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To: SeekAndFind

Fetterman?


3 posted on 12/06/2022 7:49:50 PM PST by null and void (The FBI, et al. have been quite busy digging themselves into a very deep hole. It's time we fill it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Alec Baldwin didn’t make the list again. Rigged!


4 posted on 12/06/2022 7:50:08 PM PST by BipolarBob (The party never stops until someone calls the cops.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

RE: yeah, Z is baked in.

You can’t have the Z without the P.


5 posted on 12/06/2022 7:51:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I think it should be Katie Hobbs, who showed that rallies and debates are passe, and one can win without them.


6 posted on 12/06/2022 7:52:49 PM PST by nwrep
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To: SeekAndFind

Of those, Zelensky had the greatest impact when you look at all the economic fallout that has spread from this war.


7 posted on 12/06/2022 7:54:06 PM PST by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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RE: Of those, Zelensky had the greatest impact when you look at all the economic fallout that has spread from this war.

Why not Putin?


8 posted on 12/06/2022 7:57:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
For 60 years now I’ve been rooting for Floyd the Barber to be chosen as Time’s ‘Person of the Year’. Could 2022 finally be the year?


9 posted on 12/06/2022 8:00:15 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

“For 60 years now I’ve been rooting for Floyd the Barber to be chosen as Time’s ‘Person of the Year’. Could 2022 finally be the year?”

He is dead.


10 posted on 12/06/2022 8:01:58 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: Leaning Right

RE: Could 2022 finally be the year?

I don’t see his name on the shortlist.


11 posted on 12/06/2022 8:02:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: TexasGator

> He is dead. <

Nope. I saw Floyd on TV just the other day. He was cutting Andy’s hair and talking about Goober.

(And yes, I live in the past. I am quite happy there.)


12 posted on 12/06/2022 8:05:07 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No Jussie Smolette?
Maybe that’s too 2021.

How about Sam (Trans-Klepto-Biden) Brinton?

Or Will (The Slap!) Smith

Or Paul Pelosi’s Pounding Party!

Lizzo and her duct tape swim suit.


13 posted on 12/06/2022 8:07:24 PM PST by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

Liz or Z...


14 posted on 12/06/2022 8:13:27 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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RE: Liz or Z...

I choose Z and P


15 posted on 12/06/2022 8:14:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
> I don’t see his name on the shortlist. <

Do not underestimate the write-in vote for Floyd. I’m told that Otis is in charge of that. And when Otis is sober, he’s a force to be reckoned with.

(Okay, I’m done.)

16 posted on 12/06/2022 8:15:47 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s Z but I guess Elon Could buy Time with his pocket change and make himself man of the year every year


17 posted on 12/06/2022 8:24:48 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: SeekAndFind

What the hell are “gun safety advocates”? Aren’t they also Student Loan Deadbeats?


18 posted on 12/06/2022 8:30:00 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: Leaning Right

Living in Mayberry or Mayfield would have been great.


19 posted on 12/06/2022 8:31:01 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: lee martell

Brinton. The historic first, wildly popular, Federal purse stealer. The whole world is still laughing at that RATS’ ass.


20 posted on 12/06/2022 8:33:07 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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