Dilbert Dude Makes Endorsement for President
And the identity of the person he is endorsing just might surprise you!
No, silly clickbait phrases aside, it really might surprise you. But I’ll save you a click. He’s endorsing Hillary. (Or is he? See below.) But the best part is why: for his own personal safety.
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. . . . 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.
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.
So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety. 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.
As I have often said, I have no psychic powers and I don’t know which candidate would be the best president. But I do know which outcome is most likely to get me killed by my fellow citizens. So for safety reason, I’m on team Clinton.
My prediction remains that Trump will win in a landslide based on his superior persuasion skills. But don’t blame me for anything President Trump does in office because I endorse Clinton.
The rest of you are on your own. Good luck.
Adams, who as you can see claims he is “being 100% serious,” is either being 100% serious or he’s not. It’s hard not to see all this as sarcasm, of course — and as an indication that Adams is really endorsing Trump. After all, he bears all the hallmarks of a Trump supporter: sycophancy in describing Trump’s supposedly amazing persuasive skills, crazed paranoia, and an urge to say bizarre things to get attention. (I know, I know, and I’m feeding into it by writing this post.)
That’s how his commenters are taking his post: haha, Adams is really endorsing Trump, and people will be too stupid to realize this, because of the persuasion and the thing.
Anyway, I was reassured to see Adams’s post this morning because for a while there I was worried that maybe this whole Trump thing was driving people a little crazy.
No, whatever else make people inclined otherwise to vote for the Republican tremble in fear. No mention of the KKK for instance. This is targeted.
Sammy Finkelman (eb1481) — 6/6/2016 @ 7:58 amHis commentary is that left wing Hillary supporters are capable of throwing eggs at a woman’s face, and sucker-punching an innocent man whose only “crime” was attending a Trump rally.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:06 amHe’s being totally sarcastic.
He supports Trump, but he’s saying that he’s supporting Hillary so that he doesn’t get beat up.
Greater mancrush hath no man than Scott Adams for Tiny Donnie.
nk (dbc370) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:19 amThe Demoness Dowager can’t help but choke on her own bullsh*t…
http://theamericanmirror.com/video-hillarys-coughing-fit-returns/
Colonel Haiku (bba461) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:32 amwhere are my post go
i coulda sworn i did a comment
happyfeet (831175) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:36 amIt was assassinated, happyfeet. People thought it was too dangerous to be allowed to exist.
nk (dbc370) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:39 amI wouldn’t put it past Adams to actually believe that people would actually consider him worth killing, even if he does not actually mean that he endorses Hillary actually.
nk (dbc370) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:42 ami hate that so much but i understand there are concerns
happyfeet (831175) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:52 amMany Hillary supporters are violent and capable of murder. That’s why they’re in prison right now, because they proved they were capable of murder.
Many Trump supporters are violent and capable of murder. That’s why some Hillary people are in prison right now, because some Trump supporters hired them to murder.
John Hitchcock (a9b2a3) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:53 amEnough already. Goodbye.
Skeptical Voter (1d5c8b) — 6/6/2016 @ 9:04 amThat’s not quite accurate, nk. You’re not taking into consideration the mighty bromance you and Kevin M. got goin’ on.
(this is a sarcastic joke I am not intending to offend, just steal a chuckle or two).
Rev. Hoagie© (734193) — 6/6/2016 @ 9:06 amThere have been actual some lives matter and other saw’s who have pledged to assanitae trump, you want examples,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 9:08 amWhen people announce they’re fed up and leaving a site they don’t own, they’re waiting around for people to beg and plead them to stay. They think they’re important. They’re wrong.
John Hitchcock (a9b2a3) — 6/6/2016 @ 9:09 amWho new a cartoonist would facilitate insanity in some folks.
Onward to teh fainting couches!
Colonel Haiku (bba461) — 6/6/2016 @ 9:09 amIt scares me that I’ve been reading Patterico long enough to understand that sentence. Oy vey!
Rev. Hoagie© (734193) — 6/6/2016 @ 9:09 amWhat insanity would that be? We’re making fun of the vegetarian self-hypnotist. I am, anyway.
nk (dbc370) — 6/6/2016 @ 9:31 amin a similar vein, it’s not too late for Patterico to comment on the judge elections here in Lost Angels tomorrow…
like he used to do before this page became “All Trump, all the time.”
redc1c4 (699d9e) — 6/6/2016 @ 9:56 amScott Adams has read his Machiavelli.
JP (bd5dd9) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:03 amLike it or don’t, Trump is news.
I am personally capable of maintaining a polite disagreement on political matters and to wait for this all to blow over.
I can wish for a mythical combination of Trump’s ability to drag the Overton Window and attack the press along with Cruz’s constitutionalism and legal ability and throw in a little zombie Reagan for spice but that’s not what I have on offer.
Our enemies have shown us who they fear.
Ingot (e5bf64) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:04 amOur enemies have shown us who they fear.
yes yes the socialists are scared of Mr. Trump cause of he’s precocious and he knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
happyfeet (831175) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:10 amTrump is definitely newsworthy. Bad news.
DRJ (15874d) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:11 amMr. Trump is the most newsworthy one he has the savoir faire and the mischievous grin
happyfeet (831175) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:14 amyes yes the socialists are scared of Mr. Trump cause of he’s precocious and he knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
Are you talking about Marla, Melania or somebody else?
nk (dbc370) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:20 amhere is an example of what the opponent of Mr. Trump wanna do on failmerica
she’s disgusting and this is why Mr. Trump has the best newsworthy
happyfeet (831175) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:22 amAdams seems to be using some of the persuasion techniques he talks about.
RickT (9604a3) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:45 amThere is the deniable assertion/aspersion.
You don’t say, “I think that…”, you say, “Some people think…”.
This plants the suggestion.
There is the labeling: “Crooked Hillary, Lying Ted, President Hitler”.
Scott Adams is probably being very sly. Maybe he’s even playing the persuasion game.
Rhetorical ju-jitsu. Mister Kabuki.
Trump has always loved playing to crowds.
He doesn’t have to be a genius to learn how to play people.
He could probably pick it up by osmosis -and still be very good at it.
There may be some elements of truth in what Scott Adams is saying.
Scott Adams (Dilbert Dude) has not been reticent about his view on Trump – he thinks Trump is not at bad as he appears, that Trump is (despite appearances) qualified to be president, and that Trump is preferable to Hillary.
max (41ee8e) — 6/6/2016 @ 1:45 pmOne thing’s for sure: Scott Adams is getting 4000+ comment threads about Trump-related issues.
luagha (e5bf64) — 6/6/2016 @ 2:30 pmI wouldn’t put it past Adams to actually believe that people would actually consider him worth killing
Adams is in Northern California, I think, where NOBODY will put a Trump bumper sticker on their car or lawn sign on their lot. Because about 10% of the population seems to think it’s OK to take direct action against the “Nazi scum” who support Trump.
The CEO of Intel was going to host a fundraiser for Trump at his house, and then suddenly he wasn’t. It may be impossible for Trump to campaign in California the way the press has been treating him as Saddam’s crazy brother.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 6/6/2016 @ 2:37 pmI mean, I don’t like Trump, but some of the people here are just crazed about him.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 6/6/2016 @ 2:38 pmHell, I’m in NorCal and the scumbags started trying to scratch off the Romney 2012 sticker off the rear window of my new car within a day of application. It’s a good thing for me that I didn’t catch ’em in the act, I would’ gone medieval on their ass.
Colonel Haiku (40880a) — 6/6/2016 @ 2:41 pm‘ve
Colonel Haiku (40880a) — 6/6/2016 @ 2:41 pmAs I’ve mentioned, I used to work with Adams, he’s a good fellow.
Colonel Haiku (40880a) — 6/6/2016 @ 2:43 pmTwin adamantite epees. The blades are undamageable and fast. They do less damage than a broadsword but a swashbuckler with dual wield and second attack both mastered will get a fifth strike in each round.
John Hitchcock (a9b2a3) — 6/6/2016 @ 2:48 pmI truly believe that we would see the same paid protestors, the same violence, with only slightly differing wording on their signs, were the presumptive nominee Cruz instead of Trump.
SPQR (a3a747) — 6/6/2016 @ 3:15 pmThere is a slim possibility, remote as it may be — flex that willing suspension of disbelief! — that the rapscallion comic Scott might conceivably have been facetious. It’s even imaginable that his real position is “a plague on both your houses.”
Well, maybe casual day has gone too far. I am 100% convinced that no comic would ever be so disrespectful to the institution of voting.
Dafydd (d4fbf5) — 6/6/2016 @ 3:33 pmWhat a crybaby.
Sheesh. Also, the clown nose on clown nose off thing these guys use is really a way to cover up lousy arguments.
Haiku says he’s a good guy. Fine. He’s a good guy who is crying too much. The American people are entitled to criticize presidential candidates. Even if they are democrats. Even if they are mexican. Even if they are republican. Trump’s history is long and dark and extreme. Yes, the kind of criticism that makes Dubya look bad is going to make Trump look horrifying. That’s just how it is.
If Adams doesn’t think Trump can survive this criticism, then why on earth didn’t Adams support someone who could? Well, I have some suspicions about that.
But at the end of the day the guy is being a crybaby.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 6/6/2016 @ 3:49 pmNo doubt. This is just how politics works now. Trump is merely a reflection of the problem. He doesn’t even grasp what’s going on.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 6/6/2016 @ 3:50 pmmissing the point, besides those who have recently threatened trump, one who is in jail, he’s referring to those who stick their necks out in inhospitable climes,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 3:51 pm34… that is an excellent point, SPQR. I think you’re on to something there.
Colonel Haiku (40880a) — 6/6/2016 @ 3:55 pmI guess Dustin isn’t a reader of the Dilbert strip. I don’t think Adams is crying about anything. It’s his way of being funny… it’s his schtik.
Colonel Haiku (40880a) — 6/6/2016 @ 3:58 pmYou do not have to watch the Clintons’ entire career to know there is danger there. Scott Adams is right exercising caution.
Jim (a9b7c7) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:06 pmmost of the nevertrumpers are rich-ass white people
they don’t care if hillary gestapos the economy on the poor white trash that National Review wants to do genocide on anyway
they find it all terribly amusing to see Hillary elected
think of it now
the country could have had four more years of a slimeball harvardtrash half-term senator with yet another chunky unattractive harvardtrash spoose in tow
but no – America rejected four more years of this glorious hope and change (how can they be so blind)
so you can have your hillary and suck on it
she’s your plum lolly! (ersatz)
happyfeet (831175) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:12 pmwell in madison, if memory serves, the son of a democratic state rep, slashed the tires of the gop, this may end up like the posses in jamaica, that represented the seaga and manley forces,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:16 pmI’m beginning to think that Trump may not be in this for the long haul. A lot of what he does and does not focus on leaves one wondering if that is indeed the case. I watched Gingrich’s defense of Trump on FNS yesterday and there is something there. I had previously discounted that contention, but not so sure now.
Colonel Haiku (40880a) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:41 pmwhen attacked he fights back, romney didn’t even defend his own wife, from the harpy hilary rosen, such us the civility that the top men prize.
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:43 pmTed Cruz, Chris Christie resist rush of Republican backlash to Trump’s racially charged attacks on judge
oh dear
happyfeet (831175) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:45 pmHaiku,
I read Dilbert a few years ago but it’s repetitive. I realize that Adams is a clown-nose on vs off type of comic who will say he is serious and then when his argument meets some scrutiny says he was just kidding.
In this case, Adams said he was serious. And then cried about extreme rhetoric and, at least to my eye, actually said he was scared of it. If he’s joking, what is the joke exactly? That Hillary’s attack on Trump is not a big deal? Doesn’t seem like that’s what he meant.
So yeah, I think Adams is crying that Trump faces extreme criticism and Adams is scared.
Adams did not complain when Trump said Carson was like a child molester or that Cruz’s father may have helped murder JFK. Adams didn’t care when Trump complained that a Mexican is a judge.
And remember, all the nazies, KKK members, stormfront psychos, and Christoph all really really like Trump. Perhaps Trump should return their donations and do a better job disavowing them than he did when the Grand Wizard of the KKK, David Duke, endorsed Trump.
But hey, you defend whatever you like so the guy who said Hillary would make a great president beats Hillary.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:46 pmand that’s really besides the point,
the fact that the albuquerque and san jose government,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:49 pmYou trump fans often care about what color someone’s skin is, huh.
I blame you guys for that. Sure, there are plenty of Trump supporters who simply came around to Trump after it seemed too late for any viable conservative, but you guys, the ones who ignored every sign and argument Trump was totally unelectable and still ensured he would block any viable Republican from facing Hillary… y’all indeed are forcing Hillary on the rest of the country.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:51 pmIt’s as if Trump is jumping into Corbets Couloir with 216’s. He is not making a turn. Crash and Burn comes quick. Could be a yard sale.
mg (31009b) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:56 pmthe democrats have taught some us very well how to screech “racist” in proper pitch and timbre
“screech screech,” say the immaculately proper-thinking nevertrumpers
Ted Cruz, Chris Christie resist rush of Republican backlash to Trump’s racially charged attacks on judge
oh dear
happyfeet (831175) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:56 pmI read Dilbert a few years ago but it’s repetitive. I realize that Adams is a clown-nose on vs off type of comic who will say he is serious and then when his argument meets some scrutiny says he was just kidding.
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Wrong. I think there are very few minutes each and every day he isn’t kidding. My $.02…
Colonel Haiku (40880a) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:00 pmI think you guys are missing the point. Scott is not being joking, nor is he crying. What he is doing is calling as much public attention as he can to the unconscionable violence being perpetrated against Trump supporters in places like San Jose, from brownshirts like the wild-eyed, frothing, literally criminal anti-Trump punks like La Raza and BLM. Trump is Hitler allegedly, but somehow The Wicked Witch of the West is the one with the real, actual brownshirts. It’s a propaganda move from Adams, a free paid political advertisement, in the great Swiftian manner. I hope the San Jose footage is seen over and over and over again, in ad after ad, right up til election day. Keep waving those Mexican flags, baby. As Marc Bolan once put it, “Don’t you know you’re a cool motivator.”
it came from the nightosphere (cacaf3) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:02 pmhearts me some sade
happyfeet (831175) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:05 pmit’s the classic elbonian satire,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:06 pmOK. And why did he say “here I am being 100% serious”?
And what is his joke?
Dustin (2a8be7) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:31 pmI’d explain it to you, Dustin, but you still wouldn’t get it. You have to first understand what comedy is. I’m not saying this as an insult. You are just one of those serious fellows who don’t find much to be funny.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:36 pmLOL. No insult taken but I think that’s just how I come across on this blog because we’re always talking about topics that I find pretty serious.
Still, I think you’re biased to defend someone you know, who apparently is having a hard time defending the guy the nazis and the klan like.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:49 pmhave you read dilbert, it’s the animated version of office space?
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:54 pmThe Nazis are long gone; they were finished off long ago, and what persists now is just basically little more than cosplay and imbecilic spewing. The Klan are a complete rump of what they once were; as the old joke goes, if you go to a klan meeting, what you’ll see is five guys in a basement — one is a muttonheaded rube, two are ADL informers and the other two are undercover FBI. Who cares who or what they like?
OTOH, who supports Hillary? Peole who want to invade our country, flood it with foreigners who despise us, and Americans who want to aid and abet them, and who also despise Americans.
Which fan base do you really find more disturbing?
it came from the nightosphere (cacaf3) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:55 pmI know… let’s hire Mexicans to build teh Wall!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:56 pm“I read Dilbert a few years ago but it’s repetitive.”
That right there is hilarious!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:58 pmKinda like working in a “cube farm”…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:59 pmit came from the nightosphere (cacaf3) is Christoph, BTW. cacaf3, lol.
nk (dbc370) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:09 pmUm, how is Adams’ meaning not completely obvious to all? What is there to discuss about it? He says exactly what he means: that being an open Trump supporter can be dangerous in some places. Which is clearly true. It’s almost enough to make a person consider supporting Trump, in the same way that some of the antics of extreme anti-smoking fanatics are almost enough to make a person consider taking up smoking. In both cases you know it’s poisonous, and that the odiousness of its opponents doesn’t make it any less poisonous, but you feel such an urge to stick it to them anyway.
Milhouse (87c499) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:13 pm64 highlarious!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:14 pmI guess they call this paralepsis,
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/redstate-editors-continue-mock-trump-supporters-bloodied-beaten-san-jose/
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 8:18 pmJim Hoft has no credibility, and I have no interest in reading anything he writes, on any subject.
Milhouse (87c499) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:09 pm“most of the nevertrumpers are rich-ass white people”
You found me out, happyfeet.
SPQR (a3a747) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:14 pmgambling on red queen, is like that larry miller act, you put away the sour milk, then you expect it will be fresh later,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:16 pmthinking it can’t happen here, because our resources, that would be wrong,
https://joelhirst.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/venezuelas-discovery-of-hunger/
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:39 pmIt does happen here. The only meals some kids get are the school breakfasts and lunches because their egg donor (the sperm donor is long gone) trades the EBT for drugs.
nk (dbc370) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:56 pm“because for a while there I was worried that maybe this whole Trump thing was driving people a little crazy.”
When in doubt go with your first instinct.
Roy Lofquist (6e7240) — 6/6/2016 @ 11:33 pmI actually think I have one of the dilbert books if I haven’t turned it over to the used book store yet. I remember the dog was deadpanning a lot and the manager made the same lame mistake in over a third of the comics. Adams had some kind of essay on the power of positive thinking, but it was a serious metaphysical argument about how if you think about positive outcomes you are actually somehow magically changing your own future because imagining stuff makes it more likely to happen. It was extremely stupid. And not very funny.
Not exactly on par with Office Space or anything else Mike Judge did.
Except apparently he didn’t mean it. This is somehow a joke, even though he said he was not joking. Of course expressing deranged opinions, such as ‘Trump would be a good leader’ is bound to upset a lot of people.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 6/7/2016 @ 6:59 amFrom the dipstick’s blog:
Which is bullshit since he said he didn’t even know who David Duke is. So he heard the name David Duke, and lied about not knowing who is he is. And the Dilbert Dipstick says: yeah, maybe!
Every avowed Trumper is a cultist.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 6/7/2016 @ 6:37 pm