Time has 4 options and one contains what I had considered the top 2 options back before the shortlist was announced: "Frontline Health Care Workers and Dr. Anthony Fauci."
If both are 1 option, clearly, that's going to be it.
The other item on the shortlist that is plausible is "Movement for Racial Justice" ("In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, protesters took to the streets, demanding action to fight racial injustice at the hands of police and any entity that embodies systemic discrimination").
The other 2 options on the shortlist are Biden and Trump — not lumped together but separate. No. Way.
UPDATE: How perfectly annoying! Time did not pick one of the 4 options on the list it suckered me into blogging about. It picked Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. This was the option as presented yesterday:
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The Dominion people should be outraged.
BLM and Antifa are going to show their displeasure as well.
2020: The Democrat Thug.
2021: The Republican Thug.
The Lonely should be TIME's person of the year.
It should go to BLM/Antifa Democrat Brownshirts or vote counters in the contested states. If they are the same people, either will suffice.
The right answer is Elon Musk, but if it's COVID related, it should be the vaccine development teams.
The person of the year should be the Billionaire Class. Its members have made a killing off the pandemic and for them, life couldn’t be better. Plus with everyone obsessing about the election, they are subjected to even less token scrutiny than usual.
Who cares?
I don't know, there is a tiny chance they would give it to Trump.
He's "safe" for them to like now. We'll soon move to the stage where he is compared to the next up and coming Republicans, and we'll be told that compared to them, he's William Pitt, Gladstone, Disraeli, and Metternich put together.
Well, they won't put it that way, because they don't know any history before Taylor Swift's first number one album. But they would want to put it that way, if they could.
The Fake News.
Eleanor said...
Who cares?
Beat me to it.
Is Time still in business? Each issue is only about 16 pages. Full of Democrat lies.
It's really become who is the tallest midget contest
"In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, protesters took to the streets, demanding action to fight racial injustice at the hands of police and any entity that embodies systemic discrimination"
At the same time the concept of "systemic discrimination" was introduced to the masses this summer, all dissent was declared verboten. The concept was introduced and declared above criticism simultaneously.
Not that it's a big deal. Just requires dismantling every area of government and culture.
Forget the election or COVID, THIS development will have the most far-reaching effect of anything that comes out of 2020.
wasn't Time sold for a dollar?
Li Wenliang
The looters and rioters. They own the Country now. Nothing is done to stop their terror, but don't you DARE open up your small business. THAT deserves arrest and shame!!!
J. Farmer said...
Li Wenliang
If Biden is installed his contribution will be delayed a a bit.
But China wont be able to stamp out his memory.
> Biden and Trump — not lumped together but separate.
President Trump is objectively the "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives." You'd be hard pressed to find a newspaper article written on *any* subject (e.g., food, book reviews, etc.) that didn't reference Trump, directly or indirectly. IIRC, there was a even study that showed the NYT averaged one reference to Trump every 250 words(!).
But, of course, the same has been true for the last five years, so I'd doubt they'll select him now.
It should be the late George Floyd.
He was a convicted felon who - after allegedly committing a minor crime - died of a drug overdose. The drug overdose, however, was captured on video and appeared to be a homicide. That, in turn, caused riots all across the United States causing millions - if not billions - of dollars in property damage and more deaths. It also supercharged BLM, Inc. into a major political force with lots of money.
In a historic and unprecedented election, Joe Biden was named the 46th President of the United States. He broke former President Barack Obama’s record for the most votes ever cast for a presidential candidate.
Shouldn't that word be "counted"?
thanks for that J Farmer it reminded me of this guy Zhang Yongzhen
The developers of Tozinarmeran and mRNA-1273 and the others.
I am Time's Person Of The Year 2006. I don't care about the follow-up winners.
The person who had the most effect on me and my life is me.
I have been my Person of the Year for about 60 years.
What I have chosen to do has determined the course of my life, since I was a young person.
How many Persons of the Year can any of you name of the last 10?
In what way could any of the candidates for 2020 PotY have had more influence on your life than your own actions?
More mindless twaddle from people who have a far too high opinion of themselves.
I love the "annual nonsense" tag!
TIME... more Democrat Party Glossy.
found in waiting rooms everywhere.
I hope they choose the non-existent Antifa Goon Arsonist.
Fauci or Floyd.
Each would illustrate how in 2020 progs exploited panic at the expense of the economy and basic liberties.
It should be the late George Floyd.
Good pick, too. His death sparked worldwide protests, not just in the US.
Dave Begley said...
It should be the late George Floyd.
He was a convicted felon who - after allegedly committing a minor crime - died of a drug overdose. The drug overdose, however, was captured on video and appeared to be a homicide. That, in turn, caused riots all across the United States causing millions - if not billions - of dollars in property damage and more deaths. It also supercharged BLM, Inc. into a major political force with lots of money.
This is as wrong as saying Joe Biden is the leader of the democrat party.
The riots were going to happen.
Floyd was just the excuse.
J. Farmer said...
It should be the late George Floyd.
Good pick, too. His death sparked worldwide protests, not just in the US.
You know those had almost nothing to do with George Floyd.
Xi Jinping for his work destabilizing the free world through biological warfare, espionage, and theft; for his innovative use of technology in creating techno-terror 24/7 surveillance of his subjects; his conquest of Hong Kong and omnidirectional military expansion and threats against all his neighbors, especially Taiwan and India; his ability to avoid global criticism by the Catholic Church, Muslim nations, and free nations as a result of his unspeakable genocidal imprisonment, sterilization, and forced labor of as many as three million members of a religious minority; and the potential threat his Communist regime poses to world in years to come.
[Biden] broke former President Barack Obama’s record for the most votes ever cast for a presidential candidate.
Fact Check: False/Deceptive. Incumbents are candidates, and so are runners-up. Tallies reflect votes that were counted, not "cast."
Joe Biden 2020 Democratic ≥81,283,664
Donald Trump 2020 Republican ≥74,222,365
Barack Obama 2008 Democratic 69,498,516
Barack Obama 2012 Democratic 65,915,795
Hillary Clinton 2016 Democratic 65,853,514
Donald Trump 2016 Republican 62,984,828
George W. Bush 2004 Republican 62,040,610
Mitt Romney 2012 Republican 60,933,504
John McCain 2008 Republican 59,948,323
John Kerry 2004 Democratic 59,028,444
Ronald Reagan 1984 Republican 54,455,472
You know those had almost nothing to do with George Floyd.
Sure. WWI had very little to do with Gavrilo Princip. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t significant in providing a pretext.
Farmer,
Li Wenliang is a great choice.
Li Wenliang is a great choice.
Thanks. He could be subsumed by “frontline healthcare workers,” but I hate when it’s a nebulous group.
I'm with Roy and Eleanor--although the topic is an opportunity, thanks to J. Farmer, to keep the "real world" spotlight on the CCP and its fellow travelers here in the US.
Unknown said...
Xi Jinping for his work destabilizing the free world through biological warfare, espionage, and theft; for his innovative use of technology in creating techno-terror 24/7 surveillance of his subjects; his conquest of Hong Kong and omnidirectional military expansion and threats against all his neighbors, especially Taiwan and India; his ability to avoid global criticism by the Catholic Church, Muslim nations, and free nations as a result of his unspeakable genocidal imprisonment, sterilization, and forced labor of as many as three million members of a religious minority; and the potential threat his Communist regime poses to world in years to come.
I actually agree with this.
"The tragic killing of George Floyd" didn't happen.
A runner up
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/chanukah-underground-daniel-greenfield/
but I hate when it’s a nebulous group.
Isn't the nebulousness of groups a major problem for communitarians?
Ugh. Insufferable.
Does Time follow a democratic or autocratic process to make the selection?
Person of the year: Covid-19
They've already established that person of the year does not have to be a person, and does not have to have been good.
"Bill said...
wasn't Time sold for a dollar?"
Newsweek.
I would nominate that Dominion Software guy who said he had fixed it so Trump would lose.
Coomer is his name.
I wonder if Biden will offer him a job?
Pfizer.
The only one there who actually deserves to be there is Trump, but obviously he won't win. Front-line health care workers is such a boring, unimaginative category, so of course they'll win.
How abut front line grocery store workers and delivery people? They're even more important than front line health care workers and they get much less pay and much less protection. But they also aren't beloved of our liberal elites, so screw them.
Biden -- for being the first zombie to become President. A guy who couldn't complete a coherent sentence throughout the election campaign and had to rest up for days after every event is now forming a cabinet and preparing to lead the nation. It's really a medical miracle.
Fauci or Floyd would be like Mrs. O'Leary's cow as Bovine of the Year.
Looks like I'll have to wait another year for the PotY award.
Unknown remarks on Xi's "omnidirectional military expansion and threats against ALL his neighbors" (emphasis mine).
Please tell us how Xi is threatening Russia, North Korea, and Vietnam. And then explain why those countries and all the others can't handle the threat themselves if they feel so menaced.
The RCC and Muslim countries, of course, are corrupt and anti-West/USA to their very cores, and have too much to lose by making any noise about religious persecution.
Narr
Religious persecution is in their DNA
Publications such as Time and USA Today are a shadow of their former selves. If it wasn't for Baby Boomer, knee jerk nostalgia over a past authority that no longer commands relevancy, their "thing-of-the-year" pronouncements would get the "Ozymandias" treatment.
I nominate Hunter Biden's cock.
And not just his cock alone, but his cock in between the oiled feet of an underage Chinese prostitute.
Now that's a cover!
We are all waiting with bated breathe!
Oh lord Glossy Magazine... of the Google-Dem... please inform us where are misty eyes and deep felt heart-feels should muster a collective veneration.
My hope for 2020 Person of the Year: "Fuck Everything No One Wins Everyone is a Loser."
"I nominate Hunter Biden's cock"
The best one is the video of HB smoking crack and then shaving his scrote! He made a video of this. This is the "smartest man" our president-elect knows (I guess including Barack Obama).
Like father like son.
but just you wait - Joe never talked to his some about business while JOe was VP.
Never mind how insulting that is.
I think TIME person of the year should be THE COLLECTIVE LEFTWING LIE MACHINE.
It's not a group - it's an idea.
"The best one is the video of HB smoking crack and then shaving his scrote!"
Thank God I missed that one : )
But yeah, the best and brightest...
All negative information about any Democrat is RUSSIAN disinformation!
Hunter's international pay-to-play money grubbing, on-film dirty cock, crack pipe sex orgy - ALL RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION.
D.D. Driver said...
My hope for 2020 Person of the Year: "Fuck Everything No One Wins Everyone is a Loser."
The process has been abrogated the moment democrats kicked out republican poll observers.
The rest is just for the crying.
How about the 14 year old who O.D.ed on fentanyl out of depression?
China. They released a worldwide Pandemic, and won the American Presidency in the process!!
I agree with Unknown: Xi Jinping
No one captures my imagination like Patrick Mahomes. So, him.
Narr--
Ok, not North Korea.
Vietnam and China have a long history of animosity. China invaded Vietnam in the 1970s! That war lasted 11 years. And, yes, China has made claims on Vietnamese territory in the S. China Sea. They are not friends.
And surely China thirsts for all of Russia's Siberian resources.
Except for North Korea, China has no friends. A huge weakness for the Beijing bullies.
'Annual Nonsense' is a most apt tag. Thank you.
What about that little boy who was shot dead by a young black man ... because the media pimped so much anger and rage blaming all white people for the acts of a few?
Cannon Hinnant.
would it be fun to print snide anti-democrat-google stickers and slap them across all TIME magazine covers.
Wish I had the time.
"Thing of the Year"
That would have to be Hunter Biden's.
Oh! The places it's been!
Except they aren't covering that.
The winner will be either A) First Responders B) Fauci or C) Coronavirus.
Best, noble, decent choice A). Fawning, bootlicking choice B). "Edgy," nihilistic choice C).
It won't be Trump. Giving it to Biden would really be an act of chutzpah. An elbow in the eye of decency and all that is holy.
korea has had almost as turbulent relations with china, as with japan,
meanwhile there is a breakthrough with morocco recognizing israel,
Hunter Biden. Now they will be covering him to usher good ole Joe out. He wont know what hit him.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/israel-and-morocco-to-establish-full-diplomatic-relations-another-trump-diplomatic-victory/
Thanks, Unknown, you've proven my point.
China and VN don't like each other (BION I knew about their little dustup), and of course the Siberian wealth is very desirable. If Putin is bothered, all the better, though in truth demographics and trade will see that shift sooner or later.
We should be careful, and a good start would be removing all US troops from Central Asia and other land commitments, especially in the shitholier regions elsewhere.
Narr
A guy can dream
Will Biden and his cabal of swamp creatures return the world to strife, poverty and war?
While the tech oligarchs get richer? stay tuned. Media will report the opposite.
I hear about Time magazine once a year, when their marketing department gets Time magazine mentioned in things I read about, for person of the year. Thank goodness they don't do person of the month, or we'd hear about this outdated, always badly-done magazine 12 times a year.
If you want to suffer, go online and read a Time magazine from one, ten, twenty years ago. They were bad then, and they are worse now.
Mikee--
Go back and read Time from the 1960s. It is an incredibly dense publication...I used to have an issue with Treasury Secretary Fowler on the cover. Talk about a serious reading experience. No fluff there.
Things started to fall apart in the 1980s when they had to boost circulation at the checkout counters and in doctor's offices with cover stories on ice cream and celebrity cover profiles.
TIME's person of the year... nebulous toxic amalgam of...
Leftist Hypocrisy
&
Leftist hypocrisy part 2
&
Leftist hypocrisy part 3
that last one
Mikee--
Go back and read Time from the 1960s. It is an incredibly dense publication...I used to have an issue with Treasury Secretary Fowler on the cover. Talk about a serious reading experience. No fluff there.
Yes, and it had a style that was immediately recognizable. I read it for years, just like I read Scientific American for years. I'm not sure why Times died, probably TV news or the internet. SA committed suicide over global warming.
"SA committed suicide over global warming."
National Geographic was in the process of doing that when I decided to not renew my subscription. Don't know how it turned out.
I hear about Time magazine once a year...
At least US News & World Report had the grace to quit putting out a magazine, and has some (arguable) news value when you hear about their best schools every year.
"Movement for Racial Justice"
i don't understand? WHAT movement? Do they mean the Rioting? Or the Looting? Or the Shooting?
SO Confusing
Oh! they mean the demand, that people should be allowed to OD on Fentanyl in peace?
Or, that black folk should be given SPECIAL RIGHT, to OD Fentanyl in peace?
So, I'm supposed to care what 10 SJW's at TIME think? So what!
Who reads TIME anymore? you might as well just google the news. Its the same thing.
In the mid-60's I remember going to a friends house and having her father show his massive collection of Time magazines. It seemed really cool at the time, but I cannot imagine that today.
We talked about world affairs (3 teenagers and two parents) and drank coffee. We were hopeful about the world and thought that the media presented it fairly accurately.
I'ts gotta be George Floyd.
-Changed professional sports. NBA cancelled games, NFL put stickers and slogans on their helmets/end zone painted with social Justice messages.
-Sold more plywood to businesses sine hurricane Andrew.
-Stop the corona virus dead in it's tracks on the streets.
-Defund the Police became a national agenda, on the minds and lips of most Americans, as opposed to a few hippy communes in the back woods of Oregon.
@Fernandinande:
Isn't the nebulousness of groups a major problem for communitarians?
No.
Obama. Because.
Time Magazine lost its purpose. Who needs a weekly newsmagazine?
It is now owned by the man who owns Salesforce. It's now like The Atlantic but with cool pictures.
Xi Jinping for his work destabilizing the free world through biological warfare,...
This is bullshit. Not that it makes any difference. I don’t expect really to penetrate the Trumpist cocoon. Its members are too united by their whining victimhood to let truth intrude on their pity party.
This is bullshit. Not that it makes any difference. I don’t expect really to penetrate the Trumpist cocoon. Its members are too united by their whining victimhood to let truth intrude on their pity party.
The Hillary communitarian speaks.
J. Farmer said...
This is bullshit. Not that it makes any difference. I don’t expect really to penetrate the Trumpist cocoon. Its members are too united by their whining victimhood to let truth intrude on their pity party.
This is interesting.
The Wuhan virus was pretty clearly developed in a Chinese lab. Nobody seriously denies this.
I suppose China has stopped blaming bats and pangolins to blaming India so there is that.
The Wuhan virus was pretty clearly developed in a Chinese lab. Nobody seriously denies this.
The commies really dropped the ball by not giving the American media "evidence" Putin was behind it.
"This is bullshit. Not that it makes any difference. I don’t expect really to penetrate the Trumpist cocoon. Its members are too united by their whining victimhood to let truth intrude on their pity party."
Up until now Farmer was doing a pretty good imitation of a smart guy and I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Not anymore.
Anyone who says 'Trumpist' is a cult member, not a free-thinking individual.
Ken B said...
Pfizer.
Second.
@Achilles:
The Wuhan virus was pretty clearly developed in a Chinese lab. Nobody seriously denies this.
Interesting, indeed. So what's your criteria for determine who has seriously denied it versus unseriously denying it? Who are some of the serious virologists who claim it was developed in a Chinese lab, and can you point me to any of their work?
@Michael:
The Hillary communitarian speaks.
You can't possibly be this lame. First, I'm happy to have taught you a new word. Second, I have made this argument over and over. Socially conservative and fiscally liberal. Go left on welfare and warfare and go right on traditionalism and community. You can't combine social conservatism with economic libertarianism. The latter makes the former impossible. That's why the "moral majority" has been losing for 40 years. Communitarianism is skeptical of bigness. Big government, big business , big labor. Now, there are plenty of critiques to be made of the communitarian worldview, but calling it Clintonism isn't one of them.
@Joe Smith:
Anyone who says 'Trumpist' is a cult member, not a free-thinking individual.
Any freethinking individual can see that there are Trumpists. Just as there are Never Trumpers, there are Ever Trumpers. They are both political partisans driven by class resentments. The Never Trumpers by their loathing of deplorables, and the Ever Trumpers by their loathing of the elite cultural left (Hollywood, media, social justice activists). They are two sides of the same coin and consequently are only ever about half-right.
J. Farmer said...
Interesting, indeed. So what's your criteria for determine who has seriously denied it versus unseriously denying it? Who are some of the serious virologists who claim it was developed in a Chinese lab, and can you point me to any of their work?
I haven't seen any scientists make any claims except the ones being thrown in jail or persecuted by the Chinese government.
And the people who have alternately claimed that it came from bats, pangolins, the US, or from India.
If it was actually able to infect bats or pangolins I would believe that it originated there. But a virus that came from bats that is unable to infect bats seems pretty unlikely.
@unknown
>Except for North Korea, China has no friends.
Beijing has many "friends" in universities, on Wall Street, in Congress, in the WHO, etc., etc. And soon, in the White House, too.
Congratulations Biden and Harris, persons of the year.
LOL first zombie president and caregiver.
Biden and Harris being awarded TIME person of the year is like honoring the race car for winning a NASCAR race, rather than the driver.
I picked the election fraudsters as the award winner, and I was not wrong.
Wow, 2 sleazy politicians...so historic.
My hope is that President Trump somehow pulls off a re-election victory.
Won't that be the laugh of a lifetime.
communitarianism = socialism lite.
when you're issued your child, do not let the larger community raise that child. You'll understand what I mean when the kid graduates from college.
Looking at the list of past 'winners' it is nice to note the Slow Joe and Kamala-Toe (who can probably fake an accent enough to get a job in a Delaware 7-11) join other shit-bags such as Hitler, Stalin, Thurnberg, FDR and Deng Xiaoping.
Who knew Time was still in circulation. Well aside from a focal point for the MSM round-pound that is.
I gave TIME the heave-ho yearssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ago.
Joe Biden and the woman who woke Joe Biden. Do you see how picking Kamala Harris too combines Joe Biden and the racial justice movement in a way that is not dissimilar to combining Dr. Fauci with the frontline healthcare workers?
they didn't sucker you--evidently you thought it had "interestingness." it didn't then and still doesn't
"The woman who woke Joe Biden"!!
That's one for the ages.
Narr
Wake up, Mr. President, it's cookie time!
Does Time throw a party where they can mingle with past winners like Giuliani and Trump?
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