Posted on 06/06/2016 1:03:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Dilbert creator Scott Adams has at last announced his presidential endorsement:
I’ve decided to come off the sidelines and endorse a candidate for President of the United States.
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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.
That is good persuasion if you can pull it off because fear is a strong motivator. It is also a sharp pivot from Clinton’s prior approach of talking about her mastery of policy details, her experience, and her gender. Trump took her so-called “woman card” and turned it into a liability. So Clinton wisely pivoted. Her new scare tactics are solid-gold persuasion. I wouldn’t be surprised if you see Clinton’s numbers versus Trump improve in June, at least temporarily, until Trump finds a counter-move.
The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States. 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. (I’m called an “apologist” on Twitter, or sometimes just Joseph Goebbels)....
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I’m reading it as Scott’s tongue-in-cheek. Apparently, others differ...
Sarcasm.
It just looks so much like an episode in Dilbert.
Read Adams’ article, The Risks of a Trump Presidency. I won’t say he’s for Trump but he’s not for Hillary and he knows the thugs can’t read between the lines.
Pretty cool that the guy who writes Dilbert knows the truth about Hillary and isn’t afraid to say so.
That's not necessarily anti-business. In my view, It's more a critique of how badly businesses are often run, or the silly things people do to get ahead in business or save their jobs.
However, I could be wrong in this assessment of Scott Adams' attitude toward business. I was never an avid reader of Dilbert.
The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. Adams correctly portrays Hitlery and her minions. He is making a tongue in cheek reference to avoiding voting for Trump as he ,correctly, fears for his life if he supports Trump.
BTW he targets, MANAGEMENT, as stupid, which most are. Full disclosure worked for very large (fortune 100), to small companies. It is a rare gem of a really good manager who does not get booted because he does not kiss enough ass.
IMO huge companies have such momentum that it takes years for the idiots in management to really wreck a company. But they manage to do it none the less.
Wow! I read Dilbert differently. I have always seen it as a poke at the mid-management, pc-toting toadies with their psychotic, obfuscating terms and groupthink, not at the “businessmen” and thinking, accomplishing employees who actually make the business prosper.
So they think.
But yes, that's what they think.
That is my reading as well. He’s endorsing Trump.
In the early years, Dilbert was a sharp comic that went for the jugular on mismanagement. Then, in the late nineties, Adams changed. The jokes became unfocused, almost benign.
Maybe he had mined a particular vein of material, but it had the effect of backing away and being kinder, gentler. He’s a wussy now compared to the old days.
Trump should signal that it’s morally justified to strip Hillary and her fellow looney-bin females of their power by putting a certain Constitutional Amendment in the shredder.
She ought to be careful for what she wishes for.
They might turn on her.
One can only hope.
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