The Passage of Time…Magazine

and the irrelevance of our media.

The New York Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine… how careful, how safe, how cowardly they have become. A new word had to be invented just to describe these spineless “news” outlets — sanewashing. Essentially a euphemism for the word propaganda.

There was Sulzberger’s lame and embarrassing defense of his NYT’s in a sickening op-ed. The WaPo’s cowardly capitulation to Trump, refusing to endorse the person they had chosen to endorse, so their boss can make more billions. Not satisfied with that, yesterday Jeff Bezos put a big, fat cherry on top of Trump’s big, stinky ass and bent to kiss it, when he gave Donny one million dollars so he can have an extra special time at his inaugural. That is how a newspaper and a billionaire get access and government contracts these days. And now Time magazine places the disgusting, orange, land slug on their disgraceful cover as Person of the Year.

In no universe can the cover of a magazine with the words “Person of the Year” be seen as anything but an accolade. An elevation to a lofty status. A unique and great honor. What must their rationale have been to lift a convicted felon, a rapist, a cheat, a traitor, a thief, a liar, adulterer, a dictatorial wanna-be, and maybe a will-be, to great heights I can’t imagine.

But it must have gone something like this:

Boss Hog
OK, boys, who do we have here? Hopefully, someone special. Someone kind, good, and decent who has made our lives and lives across the world better.

Steve Lickspittle
Well, here’s the list, boss.
There is Kate Middleton, a pretty royal, who is nice and had cancer, though lots of people are pretty and have cancer. Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico, and she’s Jewish, that’s pretty special. Oh, oh, oh, how about Yulia Navalnaya, the brave Russian economist and wife of the dissident hero, Alexei Navalny, who Putin had killed? Or Jerome Powell, a little on the dull side but he got inflation under control. But we all think that Kamala Harris should be on the cover, she ran a campaign to try and save American democracy and to become the first woman president. She’s Black too. That was a historic trifecta and a campaign which could have changed the destiny of America for the better.

Boss Hog
No, who else?

Steve Lickspittle
Well, I guess “Person of the Year” could be a really “Awful Person of the Year.” There are the usual choices, Benjamin Netanyahu, a criminal asshole grasping onto power. Elon Musk, a super-asshole. Everyone hates that whiny bitch. Mark Zuckerberg, not sure why he’s on the list… oh, this one isn’t serious, but Donald Trump.

Boss Hog
Hmmmm… Trump? An incontinent, cognitively challenged, half-sandwich of a man? Yes, a criminal, rapist, con man, who tried to violently overthrow a legitimate election. Now we’re talking! That’s good stuff. That sells magazines. Put him on the cover, retouch the ever-living-shit outta his photo, and maybe we all don’t go to jail. Yes, yes, let’s go with him and do a really nice write up. He is a narcissistic felon that loves his ass to be kissed. So, let’s kiss that revolting, reeking ass as deeply as we can! Remember to mention that he looks like Elvis. This is almost as good as when we ran Adolf Hitler on the cover in 1939. Yes boys, excellent choice, start the presses it may save our irrelevant asses.

The cover that should have been:

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