Dilbert down the drain

A few months ago, the comic strip Dilbert was dropped from publication by 77 American newspapers. This news came as a shock, because who knew there even were still 77 newspapers left in the US? Anyway, news has further come through that a bunch more newspapers have dropped the strip, leading us to the inevitable if baffling conclusion that there must actually be more than 77 newspapers in the US, and a bunch of them were still printing Dilbert for some reason. The 21st century is confusing, isn’t it?

Also sprach USA Today:

Interesting use of the word “recent”, implying that USA Today didn’t have a comparable problem with discriminatory statements Scott Adams has made before this latest outburst he had about black people. There seems to be some debate about exactly how and when Adams (who once described himself in 2017 as “left of Bernie Sanders”, according to his Wiki entry) turned into a complete shithead, but the fact that he has been one at least since the Trump candidacy is clear.

Wiki points us to this old blog entry where he claims he was getting death threats for daring to say nice things about Trump while living in California, so he publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton to shut people up while nonetheless claiming in said blog post that the latter was driving the country to all-out race war. And then he overcame his terror of these alleged death threats by endorsing Trump again a few months later and descending into abject stupidity and saying shit like a Clinton victory would mean there would never be another male president. Just like Jodie Whittaker ensured Peter Capaldi would be the last male Doctor…

…Oh. Well, what about this prediction?

Well, unless the Lamestream Media is doing a really good job of hiding things, most of America survived 2021 and police funding went up. And Scott evidently mistook a movie plot about the elites hunting working class people as actually being a blueprint for what liberals want to do to conservatives in reality.

I took the above screenshot myself, incidentally, on this 25th day of February 2023 CE; not only is Scott Adams wrong about shit like this, he’s happy to leave evidence of his wrongness up for future generations to behold… and then to be wrong about it again:

If at first you don’t succeed, eh. Worked so well for Harold Camping and William Miller, didn’t it? Of course, there’s a good chance lots of people will be dead by the end of this year, too—living people do have a tendency to stop living at some point after all—but I suspect few if any of those deaths will be directly attributable to Sleepy Joe…