Time Person of the Year 2015

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

It's that Time of year again, and who do you think should hold the title? A 2016 candidate? A businessman? an entertainer? Pope Francis? American Pharaoh the horse? Kim Davis?

There's a ton of Candiates, but vote here for your pick of over 60 nominations!

http://time.com/4108617/person-of-the-year-poll-2015/

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Literally all of those people suck. I think Putin should win, but the liberal internationalist milquetoast moderates who make up Time will probably pick some undeserving hack like Malala or Adele or Obama.

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Bernie Sanders, apparently.

http://time.com/4124110/bernie-sanders-leads-times-person-of-the-year-poll/

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Bernie Sanders, apparently.

http://time.com/4124110/bernie-sanders-leads-times-person-of-the-year-poll/

Ugh, I knew that was coming. A joint issue with Bernie and The Donald on the cover *might* make sense.

I think the award should go to Al-Baghdadi, myself.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Russ Powers of Oklahoma

[7,052,770]

Literally all of those people suck. I think Putin should win, but the liberal internationalist milquetoast moderates who make up Time will probably pick some undeserving hack like Malala or Adele or Obama.

Wait, did you just say Malala's a hack?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

It's clearly Baghdadi, but the magazibe normally shines away from picking controversial figures for fear of 'endorsing'. Either him or Trump. If people really want an inspirational pick they should go with Suu Kyi.

[Crumpets]

Sanders will win the vote and either not get picked, or get picked alongside someone else. Cue the Sandernistas holding Time Magazine "Bernings" in Times Square.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Time Magazine still exists?  Learn something new every day, I suppose.

[Maxwell]

I voted for Trump (normal)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

It's clearly Baghdadi, but the magazibe normally shines away from picking controversial figures for fear of 'endorsing'. Either him or Trump. If people really want an inspirational pick they should go with Suu Kyi.

Seriously, Baghdadi is the only person on this list who has made a major impact (certainly a negative one) on this world.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Literally all of those people suck. I think Putin should win, but the liberal internationalist milquetoast moderates who make up Time will probably pick some undeserving hack like Malala or Adele or Obama.

Wait, did you just say Malala's a hack?

Yeah. She's a fraud.

[Green Line]

If bernie wins this and not Trump TIME will expose themselves as total hacks. Like him or not the Donald has been far more consequential than uncle Bernie

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

If bernie wins this and not Trump TIME will expose themselves as total hacks. Like him or not the Donald has been far more consequential than uncle Bernie

Time is the magazine of upper middle class white male limousine liberals. The only three people who literally have shaped the news this year are Trump, Al-Baghdadi, and Putin.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

If bernie wins this and not Trump TIME will expose themselves as total hacks. Like him or not the Donald has been far more consequential than uncle Bernie

The Donald is going to be the next president, so it won't be him.

[angus]

There's a ton of Candiates

hmmm.  I'm suspicious.  That's only about four average Americans. 

Anyway, I sort of like his holiness for this one.  Or maybe Bashar Al Asad.  Or maybe Vlad the Impaler.  Probably the pope, though.  He's pretty fly (for a white guy.)

[Phony Moderate]

Perhaps they will do one of their cop-outs and give to a group of people or a thing.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

It's clearly Baghdadi, but the magazibe normally shines away from picking controversial figures for fear of 'endorsing'. Either him or Trump. If people really want an inspirational pick they should go with Suu Kyi.

Seriously, Baghdadi is the only person on this list who has made a major impact (certainly a negative one) on this world.

Except his main impact was last year, not this year. There is no obvious choice for this year, but it's about time for Time to name another entrepreneur who is supposedly remaking the world with a disruptive business model. So of the 59 choices they gave, I think Travis Kalanick, Uber's CEO, is the most likely one for them to pick, but even so his chances are at best 1 in 5.

[Lyin' Steve]

It will be either the LGBT community, so they can talk about Oberfeld and Caitlyn Jenner, or Black Lives Matter.  TIME is basically just Buzzfeed in magazine form at this point, left-wing feel-good pseudointellectualism and pop trash with the occasional well-researched article from some poor journalist who needs his moment.  ISIS and the Iran deal were the two important things that happened this year.  They might also pick Trump for fundamentally changing American politics.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Literally all of those people suck. I think Putin should win, but the liberal internationalist milquetoast moderates who make up Time will probably pick some undeserving hack like Malala or Adele or Obama.

Wait, did you just say Malala's a hack?

Yeah. She's a fraud.

?! Elaborate.

[tpfkaw]

Donald Trump would sell the most magazines.

[Mr. Morden]

If they don't want to go with Baghdadi, Assad, or Putin for fear of being too "edgy", and if they also don't want to pick a current presidential candidate, then I actually wouldn't mind if the dark horse option they went with was Anthony Kennedy.  SCOTUS is pretty important on the American political scene and had some big cases this year.  And of course, Kennedy is at the center of nearly every contentious SCOTUS decision.

But they'll probably do a complete cop out, and go with something like "the refugees".

[Phony Moderate]

2006 was probably the lowest ebb for this award.

I didn't think that Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook were all that big until a year or two after. MySpace was at its peak though I suppose.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Donald Trump would sell the most magazines.

Possibly, but then they'd run the risk of having the same person two years in a row if he wins the presidency.

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