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brooklynite

(96,882 posts) Mon Dec 5, 2022, 04:51 PM Dec 2022

Liz Cheney, Ron DeSantis, Elon Musk among finalists for Time Person of the Year

Time magazine announced Monday it was narrowing down its 2022 Person of the Year candidates in an attempt to create buzz around the 95-year-old award, with finalists including anti-Trump Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, R., and Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

Among the other contenders for the world’s "most influential" person, according to Time, are Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukraine President Volodymr Zelenskyy.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/liz-cheney-ron-desantis-elon-musk-among-finalists-for-time-person-of-the-year?intcmp=tw_fnc

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Liz Cheney, Ron DeSantis, Elon Musk among finalists for Time Person of the Year (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2022 OP

Hope I'm wrong. But I predict they will pick a man Walleye Dec 2022 #1

My 1st Choice - Zelensky Pachamama Dec 2022 #2

Yes, on both accounts. Prairie_Seagull Dec 2022 #5

Hard to imagine that it will be other than Zelenskyy. Just A Box Of Rain Dec 2022 #3

Trump's phone battery must be dead. chriscan64 Dec 2022 #4

Zelensky by a mile lame54 Dec 2022 #6

Zelensky ... Glory to Ukraine! 🌻nt Raine Dec 2022 #7

President Biden should be on that list mcar Dec 2022 #8

+1 TheRealNorth Dec 2022 #9

Walleye

(45,415 posts)

1. Hope I'm wrong. But I predict they will pick a man

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 04:54 PM

Dec 2022

I do think Zelenskyy actually fits

Pachamama

(17,565 posts)

2. My 1st Choice - Zelensky

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 04:55 PM

Dec 2022

Last choice - Musk

Prairie_Seagull

(4,806 posts)

5. Yes, on both accounts.

Reply to Pachamama (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 05:15 PM

Dec 2022

Just A Box Of Rain

(5,104 posts)

3. Hard to imagine that it will be other than Zelenskyy.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 04:57 PM

Dec 2022

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)

4. Trump's phone battery must be dead.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 04:58 PM

Dec 2022

There should have been a "what about me?" and/or "DeSantis is nothing without me" post by now. It will be another Christmas where his gift to himself is a fake cover he has to pay for. Melania will get another fake Vogue cover if there is a price break on two fake covers.

lame54

(40,085 posts)

6. Zelensky by a mile

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 05:42 PM

Dec 2022

Raine

(31,237 posts)

7. Zelensky ... Glory to Ukraine! 🌻nt

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 05:42 PM

Dec 2022

mcar

(46,354 posts)

8. President Biden should be on that list

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 05:42 PM

Dec 2022

TheRealNorth

(9,647 posts)

9. +1

Reply to mcar (Reply #8)

Mon Dec 5, 2022, 06:02 PM

Dec 2022

But Zelensky should win it.

Putting Musk and and Deathsatan on the list.... they might as well put Putin too.

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