Rethinking the Choice for “Person of the Year”
Nice though it was to see that Time Magazine made climate activist Greta Thunberg “Person of the Year,” in terms of raw effectiveness, neither she, nor anyone else on this planet, can come anywhere close to Vladimir Putin. Knowing that military aggression is not an option, he wisely turned to thinking this thing through, and, without firing a shot, he has brought his enemy to the point where:
• One of its two parties is aggressively lying about very clear factual matters, so as to defend a president that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies confirm that he (Putin) put into place.
• That same party has an extremely high and growing opinion of him and Russia.
• One-third of its enemy’s citizens hate another one-third.
• Its education system is in freefall, flushing its future as a world power into the toilet, whether next year or a decade or so from now.
• It’s become the laughingstock of the world.
• Virtually all new wealth is going to the top 0.1%, meaning that its government, according to numerous studies, is completely indifferent to the will of voters, thus rendering its claim to democracy meaningless.
• Its manufacturing sector is collapsing.
• The morale of its military has taken a huge hit, based on the sheer horror of recent events.
• Its militant support of fossil fuels has made it despised in the world community.
• It stands unmotivated to deal with the fact that 22 of its war veterans commit suicide each day.
It’s hard not to be impressed. If morality weren’t a component of the score, anyone who’s paying any attention whatsoever would select Putin as the unopposed pick for person of the year; it would be hard to think of a contender.
Craig,
Of all your paranoid fantastic rants since 2016, this latest has to be the most bizarre!
Do you really believe Joe Six Pack in Trailorville Texas, or his cousin Hog Hollow Kentucky is eagerly awaiting the next Twitter message from Russia?
Do you really believe that all those voters who cheered for Trump to be elected were influenced by some Russian influence?
Have you so lost touch with reality you can’t see that the US election was won or lost purely on American issues? Is the truth so painful to accept that you must continue lying to yourself and making ridiculous claims?
But you have suddenly fallen very silent about the decision handed down by Justice Barry Ostrager in Manhattan Supreme Court
The Judge ruled in favor of Exxon Mobil Corp in a lawsuit brought by the State of New York accusing Exxon of hiding from investors the true cost of addressing climate change.
Justic Ostrager criticized the State Attorney-General for failing to produce any credible evidence investors were misled. In his ruling he warned he would be awarding damages to Exxon in an amount intended to prevent this sort of political misuse of the civil courts.
The case, filed in October 2018, was the first of several climate change lawsuits against major oil companies to go to trial, another 16 have been dismissed at pre-trial hearings.
Don’t worry, if all of you gathered around the cracker barrel chant hard enough, maybe it won’t have happened!