What the hell was it about the year 2008? I’ve seen so many Joe-Must-Go diaries or comments from people who had joined up in that year. Was it something in the drinking water? Was it a daisy-chain email blast that told you if you passed on the email to twenty friends you would get magically gifts of persuasion? A birthing anomaly some years prior? A sixteen-year cicadas-style outbreak of naysayers? A weird statistical anomaly involving the number 2008, some Mayan calendar stuff and Coco Puff addictions?
Shortly after the Go-Away-Joe diaries and comments came out I started looking at their member profiles. After a while I noticed that extraordinary number had joined in 2008. I also noticed that most of those members rarely had much to say in diaries and comments until our nation was in the throes of a democratic crisis.
Sure, we’re facing what I believe is the worst catastrophe our nation has seen, but Trump’s bid for the presidency in 2016 and 2020 were things that would scare the hell out of you. Especially 2020, when we already knew that the Trump presidency we had already experienced was something we never wanted to repeat. I mean, crap, if that hadn’t prompted you to dial up the pixels and proclaim some dire shit, I don’t what would have.
I dunno, maybe Russian Bot Infrastructure Week fell in 2008 and it’s all cool. But, that’s just a crazy conspiracy-type theory, so it couldn’t be that. Of course, I also didn’t have the Supreme Court forever settling the Tories v. Colonial Patriots case with their red-coat decision on my bingo card, so there’s that.