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Time’s Person of the Year Is Who Everyone Thought It Would Be
Time magazine made the most obvious choice for 2019’s Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg. The 16-year-old media creation spent the year yelling at grown-ups and convincing youth around the world that they’re all going to die.
By Thunberg’s own account, her mass school strikes, angry speeches, and yachting hither and yon across the Atlantic on billionaires’ yachts has “achieved nothing.”
What do you think of Time’s choice? Is there someone else you would have selected as 2019’s Person of the Year?
Published in General
Jon,
Proof positive that with enough Soros money you can take a mentally ill 15-year-old girl and make her into a left-wing icon.
Of course, it isn’t hard to imagine where Greta’s mental illness comes from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2GMUYMNTi4
With a goofy egomaniacal mother like Melana Ernman, it’s amazing that Greta can make her semi-coherent statements at all. Ernman is an opera singer and has performed in a pornographic film.
Regards,
Jim
So holding your breath until your face turns blue doesn’t work, eh?
Never trust anyone under 30.
I think her the perfect choice for this “time” though not for the reasons the magazine chose her.
Time magazine is still a thing?
There’s two-thirds of a month left. They could have waited to see if Boris Johnson pulled in a big election win, etc.
Who were the other alternatives?
A faceless leader in Hong Kong and a Uyghur — or does Time have way too many business relationships with the brutal Commies?
I remember they had a cover for “The Two George (H. W.) Bushes”. They could have done that with two-face Justin Trudeau — one in black face and… Mr. & Mrs. Kellyanne Conway might make a good pair too.
Sigh. What coulda been…
Runner Up
“The Power of Youth”
The person of the year is Trump, no debate.
Youth has historically had such great wisdom…
But the older she gets, the more she will be the living embodiment of the silliness of Chicken Little Environmentalism. The fact that she will not be dead from climate collapse in 10-12 years and that the left will grudgingly have moved on to some other fetish movement by then will make it harder to forget that predictions about deadlines were made.
Only once a year, but owner and Democrat donor Mark Benioff (net worth estimated at $6.7 billion) the founder/CEO of Salesforce, is definitely a force conservatives must reckon with for a long time.
Solution: more conservative billionaires, please.
“The Power of Youth”? What kind of claptrap is that?
The selections have become increasingly silly over the years.
They did give the nod to the President in 2016. Then — who remembers 2017? “The Silence Breakers,” meaning the MeToo nonsense. Who remembers 2018? “The Guardians,” meaning not our military or police, but certain journalists.
The President has so dominated matters that it’s hard to pick anyone else, but it’s also rather silly to suggest that he should be the Man of the Year for every year since 2016. I wouldn’t pick him for 2019, but if he wins reelection, he should get the nod again in 2020 — as did President Obama in both 2008 and 2012, and rightfully so, I think.
Perhaps the fallback nomination should be ABBA, because whenever I consider Time’s choices, I wonder should I laugh or cry. This is particularly true of their runners up, which you can view here, if you want to either laugh or cry.
You know, my recollection of ABBA’s Should I Laugh Or Cry fits the annoying Ms. Thunberg in an uncanny way. Uncanny even among Swedes.
Here’s a quick re-write of the lyrics (changes in italics, except “she” substituted for “he” throughout without italics):
She’s not even up to Stormy Daniels’ standards. Just sayin’ . . .