The Bully Party (Scott Adams endorses Trump)

Scott Adams' Blog ^ | 10/25/2016 | Scott Adams

[Uncle Miltie]

I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms.

If you have a Trump sign in your lawn, they will steal it.

If you have a Trump bumper sticker, they will deface your car.

If you speak of Trump at work you could get fired.

On social media, almost every message I get from a Clinton supporter is a bullying type of message. They insult. They try to shame. They label. And obviously they threaten my livelihood.

We know from Project Veritas that Clinton supporters tried to incite violence at Trump rallies. The media downplays it.

We also know Clinton’s side hired paid trolls to bully online. You don’t hear much about that.

Yesterday, by no coincidence, Huffington Post, Salon, and Daily Kos all published similar-sounding hit pieces on me, presumably to lower my influence. (That reason, plus jealousy, are the only reasons writers write about other writers.)

Joe Biden said he wanted to take Trump behind the bleachers and beat him up. No one on Clinton’s side disavowed that call to violence because, I assume, they consider it justified hyperbole. 

Team Clinton has succeeded in perpetuating one of the greatest evils I have seen in my lifetime. Her side has branded Trump supporters (40%+ of voters) as Nazis, sexists, homophobes, racists, and a few other fighting words. Their argument is built on confirmation bias and persuasion. But facts don’t matter because facts never matter in politics. What matters is that Clinton’s framing of Trump provides moral cover for any bullying behavior online or in person. No one can be a bad person for opposing Hitler, right?

Some Trump supporters online have suggested that people who intend to vote for Trump should wear their Trump hats on election day. That is a dangerous idea, and I strongly discourage it. There would be riots in the streets because we already know the bullies would attack. But on election day, inviting those attacks is an extra-dangerous idea. Violence is bad on any day, but on election day, Republicans are far more likely to unholster in an effort to protect their voting rights.

Things will get wet fast.

Yes, yes, I realize Trump supporters say bad things about Clinton supporters too. I don’t defend the bad apples on either side. I’ll just point out that Trump’s message is about uniting all Americans under one flag.

The Clinton message is that some Americans are good people and the other 40% are some form of deplorables, deserving of shame, vandalism, punishing taxation, and violence. She has literally turned Americans on each other. It is hard for me to imagine a worse thing for a presidential candidate to do.

I’ll say that again. 

As far as I can tell, the worst thing a presidential candidate can do is turn Americans against each other. Clinton is doing that, intentionally.

Intentionally.

As I often say, I don’t know who has the best policies. I don’t know the best way to fight ISIS and I don’t know how to fix healthcare or trade deals. I don’t know which tax policies are best to lift the economy. I don’t know the best way to handle any of that stuff. (And neither do you.) But I do have a bad reaction to bullies. And I’ve reached my limit.

I hope you have too. Therefore…

I endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States because I oppose bullying in all its forms. 

I don’t defend Trump’s personal life. Neither Trump nor Clinton are role models for our children. Let’s call that a tie, at worst.

The bullies are welcome to drown in their own bile while those of us who want a better world do what we’ve been doing for hundreds of years: Work to make it better while others complain about how we’re doing it.

Today I put Trump’s odds of winning in a landslide back to 98%. Remember, I told you a few weeks ago that Trump couldn’t win unless “something changed.” 

Something just changed.

[Uncle Miltie]

Adams' blog is brilliant. The link is to his general blog, the first article of which is quoted here. The ones below this article are also highly engaging.

Adams cuts through the daily noise and goes after how people really make decisions: subconsciously, psychologically, erroneously, emotionally, etc. The Democrats have been playing this game for years, which is why we lose. Trump is finally playing the Master Persuader game, and is coming up pretty close, considering his (ahem) other difficulties.

Enjoy!

[gaijin]

He’s a really smart guy has a lot of insight, really funny, but I notice that he has gone back and forth several times.

It really does take away from his message.

She is something of a weathervane.

[jonno]

Great!

(And uhhh...what changed?)

[jonno]

Never mind - I read the 2nd-to-last sentence wrong...

[Uncle Miltie]

I suspect this process of Scott’s is his own way of leading you to the correct decision. It is strategic weathervaning, showing you how reasonable he is and that you should join him in his wisdom. Which he planned long ago.

[KavMan]

So what changed for Scott to say TRUMP LANDSLIDE?

[Ticonderoga34]

He’s a really smart guy has a lot of insight, really funny, but I notice that he has gone back and forth several times.

I think he has tried to be evenhanded but the Hillary bullies finally made him lose his temper.

All I can say to Mr. Adams is that conservatives have to put up with this crap for years. Welcome to the party pal.

[ConservativeMind]

He was only for Hillary because he feared for his life in California.

He actually gave that as his reason.

[Mad Dawgg]

"He’s a really smart guy has a lot of insight, really funny, but I notice that he has gone back and forth several times."

I think you missed the sarcastic sub-text of his Hillary endorsement. He basically said he did so so he would not end up in Fort Macy Park dead of natural causes (A.K.A. multiple self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the back of his head)

[Kommodor]

Perhaps something about a birthday video.

[Drew68]

Hope he saved his Dilbert money. His days as a published cartoonist are probably over.

[HiTech RedNeck]

also prognosticating that a candidate is poised to win, doesn’t mean he WANTS that candidate to win

[piytar]

“Comments disabled.” Did he get hacked?

[Uncle Miltie]

IIRC, he had such vicious responses to earlier blog posts that he disabled them.

[dangerdoc]

I suspect his site is currently being attacked, I have been unable to open his page today.

[justlurking]

“Comments disabled.” Did he get hacked?

No, he was getting so many offensive comments posted to his blog by Clinton toadies, that he disabled them.

[piytar]

OK, thanks.

[justiceseeker93]

There is a big difference between bullying in the private sector by non-government people, and bullying by people in public office or seeking public office or working for those seeking public office.

One is called bullying. The other is political repression, which is the hallmark of tyranny. The latter is what today's Democratic Party is all about. If you need any further evidence, just look at the Wikileaks and Project Veritas revelations of the past few weeks.

[Norseman]

Go to his blog (which is a great read most days) and read his latest piece. In it he says that his reframing of the Hillary campaign as a bunch of bullies is deadly because Dem voters perceive themselves as the anti-bullies of the world.

When they are brought to realize that Hillary is encouraging her supporters to bully Trump voters, as she is, they will be disgusted with themselves for falling for it, and just stay home.

He puts it much better than I did here, so give him a read. It’s the latest post on his blog and follows up on the one on bullying he posted yesterday. I really hope Trump learns of it and incorporates that message in some of his speeches and press comments because I think Adams is really onto something here.

[Bobalu]

Yup, You can easily read between the lines and see that Scott is all-in for Trump.

He says crap like "I don't know which candidate's policies would work out better" ---> This is to distance himself enough so that the low-IQ types will think he is outside the fray and thus more believable.

He has said that he considers Trump to be the most persuasive person he has ever seen...this is high praise from a master persuader like Adams.

He thinks Robert Cialdini is advising the Clinton campaign on persuasion tactics. He considers this man a foremost expert in the art of persuasion.

Cialdini

Adams is a pretty smart fellow IMO.