My Endorsement for President of the United States (Scott Adams- Dilbert)

Blog.Dilbert.com ^ | 5 Jun, 2016 | Scott Adams

[MtnClimber]

I’ve decided to come off the sidelines and endorse a candidate for President of the United States.

I’ll start by reminding readers that my politics don’t align with any of the candidates. My interest in the race has been limited to Trump’s extraordinary persuasion skills. But lately Hillary Clinton has moved into the persuasion game – and away from boring facts and policies – with great success. Let’s talk about that.

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).

If Clinton successfully pairs Trump with Hitler in your mind – as she is doing – and loses anyway, about a quarter of the country will think it is morally justified to assassinate their own leader. I too would feel that way if an actual Hitler came to power in this country. I would join the resistance and try to take out the Hitler-like leader. You should do the same. No one wants an actual President Hitler.

[antceecee]

Truly these images authenticated or not have nothing to do with supporting Trump. Instead all who support Donald Trump should be mindful of how this same propaganda will be used against his candidacy. The opposition will use same and more to defeat Trump. ...and no I am not a Moron... Sad that FR community cannot have a discussion without ad hominem attacks re: intelligence, sobriety or any other perceived failure. More to come I am sure... Divide and conquer... Dems get it.

[antceecee]

Sorry for you FRiend.

[cynwoody]

Truly these images authenticated

The image is well-authenticated. It depicts a Jewish woman being stoned by Ukrainian Nazi utes in the Lvov progrom of 1941.

[poconopundit]

Let’s see how many in the Mainstream Media take the bait.

<>p>He’s banking on widespread publicity of this satire in order to have its effect.

[trebb]

Love it! He has helped Trump define Hillary and hers a little bit more succinctly...

[Purdue77]

I think that some people use the same logic to convert to Islam. Scott Adams piece may be sarcasm, but some will take the path of least resistance if they see their life threatened.

So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton convert to Islam for President, for my personal safety. Trump supporters Christians don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans Muslims such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd. But Clinton supporters Muslims have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as Christian supportive of Trump. So I’m taking the safe way out and converting to Islam endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.

[Dustoff45]

This guy is a total idiot.

Well this is Scott Adams speaking, but I heard the words coming from both Dilbert and Wally.

Total Satire

[wastoute]

Let us see. If the libtards are dumb enough to try insurrection when they are totally out of power the result could be very favorable.

[leprechaun9]

Fear not Scott! You are not Joseph Goebbels, he lives in the White House as the spokesman for the Democraps. Notice how the Congressional Democraps have not tried to stop the Socialist initiatives that he often speaks of and works to implement.

[Dr. Sivana]

Well this is Scott Adams speaking, but I heard the words coming from both Dilbert and Wally.

That's funny. I got a Dogbert vibe. He is also presenting Hillary/her supporters as Alice with Fist of Death and bad hair.

[arthurus]

No. It is semi-satire. If it were serious and he had made made the decision to support Mrs. Bill he would have defended it on policy or in ideological terms. Instead he is defending his "choice" in words that would still get him killed if the Kremlin White House were to start killing political enemies.

[Katya]

Excellent... Adams can now continue to predict and analyze Trump without appearing to be some sort of shill. He has previously said he doesn’t support either party... so this is naturally a bit of satire, but it makes an insidious point regarding Hillary.

[sdpatriot]

>>>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). <<<<

sounds like Scott has already had death threats. This was his best so far IMO, satire laced with some scary stuff.....

[pilipo]

I agree. Kind of like a double negative, this is double satire.

[TexasRepublic]

“No one wants an actual President Hitler.”

Or a Stalin. Are you listening, Bernie?