Saturday, December 22, 2018

"Nothing But Good News From The Eastern Front These Days!"

It's the Day's Day of Days!  Because Tony Tribe.

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This is what happens when Muir writes about current events without understanding them as they happen.

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  1. JLGDecember 22, 2018 at 6:03 PM

    He did it again. He keeps doing this. He puts definitive statements into his characters' mouths about things that have not happened yet, and in some cases are not likely TO ever happen. I remember he did it about WMDs being found in Iraq way back when in his pre-madness days.
    The urbandictionary.com entry for "jumping the gun" should have his photo up top.

    Incidentally I was skimming through a few strips from late 2008 the other day, and....just wow. It's really striking. He was not yet insane at that time. Wrong and wrongheaded, yes, but not insane. I don't know what happened to him.

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    1. John BallDecember 22, 2018 at 7:21 PM

      In 2008, he could still tell himself that it was all a blip and the Democrats were assuredly going to lose the upcoming presidential campaign. And as you note, he hadn't transferred completely to the Nutterverse's interweb.

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  2. JLGDecember 23, 2018 at 3:37 AM

    I don't know if it's because there was already an underlying layer of genuine dementia that made it have such stark results, but the fact is that he made the decision to start listening, and listening ONLY, to those voices that told him every second of every day to BE PANICKING ALL THE TIME ABOUT EVERYTHING BECAUSE YAAARRRRGGHHH!!!!!
    I think that Muir and his readers, far more so than your average beer-drinking Fox-watching retiree, are the ultimate case study of the dangerous effect that decades of exposure to panic-media can have on a person's mind.

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    1. John BallDecember 23, 2018 at 10:30 AM

      True, but there's a self-selection element at work here. Even when Muir was completely other there he had a tendency to conspiracy theories and crazy arguments.

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