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Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:56 pm
by tut
Trump.

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:56 pm
by tut
Second place?

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:57 pm
by tut
Clinton.

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 3:07 pm
by rawsco
America is broken.

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 3:52 pm
by Scuffers
rawsco wrote:America is broken.
Based on what?

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 5:53 pm
by tonyg
Scuffers wrote:
rawsco wrote:America is broken.
Based on what?
How long have you got?

Amongst many, their strange belief that it's their right to kill each other with guns as frequently as possible and not make them illegal?

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 6:39 pm
by rawsco
Scuffers wrote:
rawsco wrote:America is broken.
Based on what?
Large scale political disengagement of the electorate through misinformation, bias press, and ignorance resulting in political figures with extreme views obtaining a disproportionately large percentage of the vote and subsequently getting air time. Similar problem here. Just an opinion of course.

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 8:27 pm
by Scuffers
rawsco wrote:
Scuffers wrote:
rawsco wrote:America is broken.
Based on what?
Large scale political disengagement of the electorate through misinformation, bias press, and ignorance resulting in political figures with extreme views obtaining a disproportionately large percentage of the vote and subsequently getting air time. Similar problem here. Just an opinion of course.
so, you are ignoring the last 8 years of total failure of Obama to achieve a single one of the things he campaigned for and support a criminal who appears to be immune from any kind of prosecution?

Or that Mr Trump has already achieved what Obama said was impossible before even getting into office?

May I suggest you might want to adjust the blinkers?

(for the record, I am not so much a Trump fan as totally anti our current breed of career politician who either have never had a real job or are lawyers)

Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 8:31 pm
by campbell
I'm coming around to Trump.

I'll give him til summer 2017. Then we'll see, eh b

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:00 pm
by rawsco
I never mentioned Obama but he's been blocked by congress on a lot of his ideas because of, see above, so he's had a challenging presidency. But my comment still stands and Obama may have benefited from it (maybe not) in the same way Trump did, and in the same way extreme parties did here, net result air time to convince the illinformed without rebuttal.

Anyways... Lotus

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:18 pm
by Lazydonkey
Sorry what had trump achieved? Other than complaining about comedy shows on twitter?

Edit : ah don't bother. I see you've made the same claim in the other thread and been unable to back it up.

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Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:20 pm
by Scuffers
campbell wrote:I'm coming around to Trump.

I'll give him til summer 2017. Then we'll see, eh b
At the end of the days that's all any of us can do I just hope to be pleasantly surprised

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:41 pm
by kenny
Person of the Year (called Man of the Year until 1999[1]) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year"
Just in case this turns into the predictable anti-democracy whingefest.

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 11:33 pm
by j2 lot
It makes sense when you have the 'for better or worse' quote :thumbsup
Thanks, Kenny

Re: Time Mag Person of The Year?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 11:45 pm
by woody
kenny wrote:
Person of the Year (called Man of the Year until 1999[1]) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year"
Just in case this turns into the predictable anti-democracy whingefest.

Surely the winner having fewer votes than the runner up ( and no I don't think HC is a saint or a good presidential candidate) is anti-democratic?

Anyway, FWIW with the criteria they give, it absolutely has to be Trump.