Dare I say Matt Gaetz? Toppling a Speaker for the first time in history is a big deal, no matter what side of the fence you’re on.
Is it, though?
As I understand it, what’s happened before in history is that a guy would step aside before a vote came in to, uh, topple him; it seems kinda trivial that this guy said aw, I’ll wait for the vote.
Throw in the Kaiser-Permanente workers while we’re at it
The shine seems to have faded from McCarthy, especially in light of the problems finding a replacement. I think “the American Union Worker” is now at the top of the list.
If we’re still willing to give the award to a bad guy, the head of Hamas has a decent claim to have been the most influential person whose impact is new to 2023, not ongoing from earlier times.
I’m confident enough that barring a major scandal or huge world event soon, that Taylor Swift will win Person of the Year for 2023.
For what? Being cute?
Making heaps of money. Isn’t this what you Muricans admire the most? 
They are not planning a Moon landing until 2025.
I mean, she dipped her chicken in ketchup and seemingly ranch and the Empire State Building changed its lighting colors as a result of it.
To be replaced, somewhat quickly, by Benjamin Netanyahu. The “most newsworthy” event of the year pretty much has to be the latest Israel-Palestine war. The only strike against him is, how afraid is Time’s owners of a backlash?
Bump…I still think it will be Israel/Hamas-related, but I have a feeling it’s going to end up being Avigail Idan (the four-year-old Israeli-American hostage released), possibly with a few other hostages as part of a “group award.”
Still have whoever is elected President as the favorite for 2024, and the first woman and first black person on the moon (assuming (a) the mission is successful and (b) the Chinese don’t get there first) for 2025.
I guess I will have to retract this as I did see that Time has put out a special Taylor issue already.
The Hamas fighter.
Fighter? Did you mean terrorist?
Man, Antony Blinken deserves some love. That guy is working his ass off in this mess.
Yeah.
I find it hard to justify naming someone for the current second-biggest war in the world. If it’s even the second.
I think it’s probably going to be AI. AI has made huge strides in the past year, and it’s been behind several of the other news-makers (for instance, the Hollywood strikes were mostly about AI).
Meh. AI is a tech bubble being propped up by speculation. Picking it would make about as much sense as picking NFTs in 2021 or the Metaverse in 2019.
While I agree that AI is currently overhyped, it’s still already made more waves than NFTs or the Metaverse ever did. And neither of those other things was really new: NFTs were just cryptocurrency with all of the useful parts stripped out, and the Metaverse was just an established online company trying to branch out and integrate all of their apps together.