“The end of the calendar year brings Christmas music to airwaves, shoppers to malls, families to therapy, and Time Magazine’s Man of the Year (now “Person of the Year”). This year’s shortlist just went live, and it includes Taylor Swift, Xi Jinping, and Barbie. But whatever the editorial board of Time says, there’s no doubt that if the Person of the Year was a fair contest, it would be awarded to one man and one man alone: Elon Musk.”
The campaign to deplatform him came when he announced he was no longer a Democrat. I worry for his safety.
Laura writes for NewsWeak now? SWEET!
Nice piece, Laura. Go you! Elon certainly is the Man of the Year.
In a sane world, of course he would be. The insanity of this world the last 7 years is pressing against my sanity. I should have a legitimate premise, but I dislike the victimhood game.
My guess is they will choose Xiden, you know, for defending democracy and stopping wars all over the world.
L – Elon Musk is clearly the ‘Man of the Year’ (or person), as everyone who follows those
people who make the news know. By failing to acknowledge the obvious, those who
claim to report the news are sitting backwards in the saddle of the media horse, they
rode in on. They are quaint and pale shadows of a bygone era.
Paying attention to TIME is not time well spent.
Nobody cares who they proclaim person of the year and haven’t for years. They are like the Oscars, irrelevant.
“Nobody cares who they proclaim person of the year and haven’t for years. ”
Did they start honoring terrorists, like the Nobel Prize Committee has?
Yasser Arafat long ago, if memory serves. Also Hitler, If I’m not mistaken.
Very nice LRC !! Sadly … the media will make Elon “Person of the Year” … AFTER … they’ve destroyed him. When he’s fully bankrupt, jailed, and broken … then he’ll be celebrated. Celebrated as a cautionary tale for any other business leader that should grow a conscience …
they waited till kissinger was dead at 100. now he can do no right
Good article!
We need more Elons in the world and a lot less Gates and F*ckerbergs.
I imagine Mr/wannabe Ms bud light will be a contender.
Some skepticism in the comments:
// This article is supposed to be satirical, right? I laughed out loud when she said Musk has a deep concern for truth. //
There are many idiots in the world, dizzy.
I don’t pretend to know Elon’s morals or goals, but I do know that he is the one who personally ripped the lid off the censorship-industrial complex of WashingtonDC, Twittler, Farcebook and Gooble. (Yes, I misspelled those. See if you can guess why.)
So, does Great Elon have a deep concern for the truth? Dunno. Don’t care, if I’m completely honest. But he has done more for free speech and ripping the sheets off world-wide corruption than anybody else since 2020? Yes.
So you are also viewing him through Rosen coloured glasses.
//We can actually quantify how bad Twitter has become. TrustLab, a European research organization, collected a huge trove of content posted to the social platforms in Spain, Poland, and Slovakia in August. [link at source]
TrustLab found that nearly half of all keyword searches on Twitter returned some form of mis/dis-information. For the next-worst platform, Facebook, it was less than a third. The rate of discoverability of this bad content on Twitter was more than twice as high as on Tiktok.
Mis/dis-information on Twitter earned a rate of engagement nearly twice as high as regular content: Worse than every other platform by orders of magnitude. On Tiktok, mis/dis-information earned just a fraction of the rate of engagement for regular content. //
https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/drain-elon-musks-swamp
Trustlab? Really? Guess how it works
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I’d say Tucker and O’Keefe would be contenders also.
In any event, making the cover of Time has all the cachet of an Order of Canada.
Lots of hate over there in the Newsweek comments, Laura. Those keyboard warriors sure aren’t pleased with you applauding the achievements of a much better human being than they’ll ever be.
Ah, yes, the same crew who had Wallis Simpson as “woman of the year” in 1936; Adolf Hitler as “man of the year” in 1938, and Josef Stalin as “man of the year” in 1939 and 1942. Winston Churchill made the list only once, in 1940. Queen Elizabeth II was named “woman of the year” in 1952 but not – despite her long and illustrious reign – ever again.
I agree entirely. It should be remembered that Time’s person of the year has included some truly horrific individuals. These have included:
-Pierre Laval, former minister in Vichy France under Marshal Philippe Petain and Nazi collaborator,
-Wallis Simpson, former Duchess of Windsor and notorious Nazi and wife of the one time King of Britain Edward VIII,
-the dictator of China Chiang Kai-shek and his appalling wife Soong Mei-ling,
-Adolf Hitler,
-Joseph Stalin (twice),
-Mohammed Mossadegh,
-Nikita Khruschev,
-William Westmorland, the blundering idiot who lost the Vietnam war,
-Yuri Andropov and
-Ruhollah Khomeini.
Monsters every single one of them. You are entirely right to smack Time magazine upside the head. It has paid a century of homage to a collection of tyrants and mass murderers.
General Chiang was very brutal and corrupt, but he did leave the people of Taiwan a gift: The opportunity to become a democracy.
The same cannot be said for Chairman Mao and his successors.