Scott Adams. Wikipedia Commons.
I’m, uh, short on words here. I’m sure Mr. Adams feels he is relevant, and other people must feel that way too, but relevant to political discourse? I was unaware that he mattered when it came to politics. Except as a voter, of course. I don’t know if this clever, assholism, or possibly a mental issue of some sort.
…“This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear,” Adams wrote on his personal blog.
Adams, who last week said he realized Donald Trump was no “crazy clown” but was actually a master of persuasion, said Clinton’s new line of attack would personally, specifically and certainly imperil him in a racist eruption against white people.
“The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States,” Adams said. “And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms.”
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“So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety,” Adams said. “Trump supporters don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd. But Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump. So I’m taking the safe way out and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.”
Via Raw Story.
Umm, Adams has been a conductor on the Trump Train since shortly after the orange one e first declared. I don’t know where the article got the “last week” business. Did you know that Trump’s powers of persuasion are so godlike that he will be able to defuse all international crises simply with the power of his word associations? His approval ratings are also going to keep going up and up, and he will win in one of the biggest landslides in history. So has Adams said. Just about every other blog post has been some form of Trump puffery or other.
I used to read Dilbert regularly and even bought some of his books, but never again. Indeed, one of my main reasons for hoping and working towards a Democratic landslide this year is so I can see what sort of half-apology Adams makes after his hero gets creamed.
Brucegee1962:
I don’t follow Adams in any way, I don’t even read Dilbert, so this would be me, clueless under my rock as usual.
“And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario…”
What a sad little man.
Chigau:
Yes. It really is sad, if he actually believes that.
Wow, what an ego.
Big ego, disregard for facts, enormously exaggerated sense of his own importance. Adams is like mini Trump.
Adams made a prediction a little under a year ago, a prediction that at the time seemed literally ridiculous. His prediction has, so far, come true, and he’s working that success for every cent it’s worth. When he made it, he was “that cartoon guy”. He’s seemingly managed to parlay that up into actual pundit status, popping up in several places as a talking head. This is just another move on his part to raise his profile. And given that we’re talking it about it -- it worked. It’s professional-level trolling.
I didn’t realize that Dilbert was autobiography.
Sonofrojblake:
Huh. I’m only dimly aware of Adams, because of Dilbert.
And apparently he thinks none of these ‘assassins’ are going to read his blog and find out that he’s just a pretend Hillary supporter. I mean it’s not like he just announced that to the world. *sheesh*
Marie the Bookwyrm @ 10:
Exactly. This is why I found this whole thing to be so confusing. I think I have to go with Sonofrojblake @ 7 here, on the conclusion it’s trolling.
They report that he said it last week, because in an interview last week he referred to the prediction he made last August, so technically it’s true. It just disingenuously tries to conceal the fact he’s been saying it for so long, since long before anyone took Trump remotely seriously.
Even worse, Adams predicted that the media would behave in precisely this way, minimising his predictions to the point of outright lying about when they happened, and made that prediction last December. http://blog.dilbert.com/post/134465690536/my-prediction-about-my-predictions-trump