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Outrage Dilution (BRILLIANT Analysis by Dilbert Creator Scott Adams)
Scott Adams' Blog ^ | January 26, 2017 | Scott Adams

Posted on 01/26/2017 9:21:01 AM PST by PJ-Comix

I’m having a fun time watching President Trump flood the news cycle with so many stories and outrages that no one can keep up. Here’s how the math of persuasion works in this situation:

1 outrage out of 3 headlines in a week: Bad Persuasion

25 outrages out of 25 headlines in a week: Excellent Persuasion

At the moment there are so many outrages, executive orders, protests, and controversies that none of them can get enough oxygen in our brains. I can’t obsess about problem X because the rest of the alphabet is coming at me at the same time.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.dilbert.com ...


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KEYWORDS: dilbert; donaldtrump; excellentpersuasion; scottadams
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To: PJ-Comix
A reminder of what Obama's fist week was like:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/01/obamas_first_week_the_good_the.html

21 posted on 01/26/2017 9:53:20 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Gulf War One

Military guys recognize exactly what’s happening. The President is inside his opponents decision cycle. Well inside. He’s overwhelming them in fact.


That’s right.

And President Trump is also doing Cloward-Piven on their minds. Lol!!


22 posted on 01/26/2017 9:56:07 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: texas booster

If I recall Obama first major speech after becoming president was in Cairo Egypt.


23 posted on 01/26/2017 9:57:03 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: Gulf War One

Exactly.

Shock and Awe.


24 posted on 01/26/2017 10:02:38 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: PJ-Comix

This is Alinsky stuff. Overwhelm the system.

Trump: “Saul Alinksy, you magnificent bastard, I READ YOUR BOOK!”


25 posted on 01/26/2017 10:04:58 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: Sequoyah101

Great minds yadda yadda yadda


26 posted on 01/26/2017 10:05:31 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: mware

Who or what was this Obama of which you speak ?


27 posted on 01/26/2017 10:05:47 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Gulf War One
The President is inside his opponents decision cycle. Well inside.

Spot on, that infamous OODA Loop. This is what happens when your opponent is two turns ahead of you. It isn't pretty.

There is another cycle President Trump (God, I love typing that) is inside, and that is the news cycle. It becomes very difficult for ad-hoc cabals such as Journ-O-List to coordinate a response when they're two stories behind the media cycle. If they seem confused and outraged at the moment, it's at that very unfamiliar feeling of no longer having the initiative.

It's a little exhausting for the rest of us as well, but it sure is fun, this "winning" thing. We should have tried it years ago.

28 posted on 01/26/2017 10:07:07 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: PJ-Comix

Outrage dilution pretty soon turns into outrage fatigue.

Just wait till these special snowflakes get outraged about us not caring about their outrage.


29 posted on 01/26/2017 10:07:34 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: PJ-Comix

Scandal fatigue worked for Bill Clinton. It’s a perfectly reasonable thing to expect outrage fatigue to work in President Trump’s favor. Precedent and all that.


30 posted on 01/26/2017 10:08:00 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Gulf War One

I believe it’s been termed “Shock And Awe” in the past.


31 posted on 01/26/2017 10:09:01 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: PJ-Comix

Soon, President Trump will have them so convoluted they won’t know whether to poop or go blind...


32 posted on 01/26/2017 10:13:09 AM PST by snuffy smiff (Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle...)
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To: GOPJ

Just a conservative on cloud nine.......(sigh of happiness).


33 posted on 01/26/2017 10:14:56 AM PST by Liz
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To: PJ-Comix

No huddle offense......

for FOUR YEARS!

MFRGA!

Make Free Republic Great Again!

Oh wait...it was already great. Sorry. strike that


34 posted on 01/26/2017 10:20:57 AM PST by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: PJ-Comix

No huddle offense......

for FOUR YEARS!

MFRGA!

Make Free Republic Great Again!

Oh wait...it was already great. Sorry. strike that


35 posted on 01/26/2017 10:20:57 AM PST by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: Cementjungle

Thanks for finding and posting that. It’s always valuable to put things in proper context.


36 posted on 01/26/2017 10:22:22 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Lurker; Gulf War One

OODA - exactly on the mark. The enemedia is stuck on the first two letters and can’t move because they have to continually hit reset.


37 posted on 01/26/2017 10:22:57 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Excellent. I saw a poster on Facebook the other day, with a woman on one side holding up a sign that said ‘My Body, My Choice’. On the other side was Uncle Sam holding a sign that read ‘Your Choice, Your Responsibility.’

Simple & to the point.


38 posted on 01/26/2017 10:23:01 AM PST by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Lurker

That’s what I was trying to remember what it was called.

They can’t keep up...the OODA Loop.

Thanks.


39 posted on 01/26/2017 10:24:29 AM PST by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: xkaydet65
But his actions were aimed at keeping the GOP Congress from focusing so he did not put as many balls in the air as Trump.

Do remember that in January 2009, the democrats were in charge of Congress; Pelosi in the House, and Reid in the Senate.

40 posted on 01/26/2017 10:40:32 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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