Today Time Magazine announced that Taylor Swift had been named Time's 'Person of the Year', and all of us who are not 16-year-old girls collectively rolled our eyes. Glenn and Stu were certainly in the "eye-rolling camp" and were racking their brains thinking up better alternatives. But little did they know, that Taylor Swift was the GOOD option.
Everyone knows about Time's Person of the Year, but what you might NOT know about is Time's Person of the Year SHORTLIST, which is exactly what it says it is. The shortlist is a list of the top candidates for Person of the Year that Time publishes a few days before they announce who is number one, and this year's shortlist was a doozy. After you read the list below you might have a higher opinion of Ms. Swift.
Hollywood strikers
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If the new season of your favorite show was cancelled or delayed this year, you have these guys to thank for that.
Xi Jinping
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Nothing says Person of the Year material like genocidal, tyrannical dictator, er, "democratically elected leader."
Sam Altman
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The CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. His might be the name you curse with your dying breath after the robot apocalypse starts.
Trump Prosecutors
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These guys only narrowly beat out the townspeople of Salem, Massachusetts. Everyone loves a good Witch Hunt!
Barbie
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A plastic doll. The standards are high this year, huh?
Vladimir Putin
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Another dictator? Are we detecting a theme?
King Charles III
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As an American, the idea of an English monarch being named Person of the Year feels so wrong.
Jerome Powell
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The Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Do we need to say more?