Last week on “The ReidOut,” Joy proclaimed former Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman as the winner of 2023’s “Who Won the Year?”
Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, refused to give in as Team Trump demanded that they falsely confess to election fraud in 2020, despite the vile threats and intimidation tactics used against them. And this year, they’ve reaped the benefits — thanks to a federal defamation verdict that found Rudy Giuliani liable for nearly $150 million in damages.
But Freeman wasn’t the only one who made hay in 2023. A number of other people — for better and worse — had successful years, as well. So, without further ado, here are your “Who Won the Year?” honorable mentions.
Megan Thee Stallion
When someone who shoots you is sentenced to prison — as rapper Tory Lanez was in August — that’s a victory in my book. And rapper Megan Thee Stallion stood to gain more than peace of mind after Lanez received a 10-year sentence for the 2020 shooting. Her accusations against Lanez had become fodder for misogynistic conspiracy theorists — until a recording of a phone call he made shortly after the shooting emerged late last year and seemed to remove all doubt about his guilt.
For more on Meg’s year, check out my chat with hip-hop-loving academic Nikki Lane, who has a doctorate in anthropology.
Taylor Swift
It’s hard to argue anyone had a better year than Taylor Swift, who was seemingly ubiquitous in public discourse. She was named Time magazine’s person of the year, she concluded a world tour and turned it into a hit concert film, she garnered substantial TV time after she began dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and she enraged right-wingers all the while. All in all, an undeniably successful year.
Aggrieved men
Unfortunately, aggrieved men managed to spread their misogynistic messaging far and wide this year, a phenomenon that coincided with some men’s outspoken support for hypermasculine authoritarian figures…
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