The last couple of days of Dilbert has been going in a strange direction and today’s strip shows what’s up. Adams is going to show how appointing a special counsel to investigate Russian connections is a kangaroo court.
I don’t know how to link to a strip that isn’t dynamic and changes day to day. It’s the 6/21/17 strip I’m discussing.
Adams pretends to be Dilbert, secretly thinks he’s Dogbert, and doesn’t seem to realize he’s becoming the pointy-haired boss.
Who knew in the 90s that one day Dilbert would become a poor man’s Mallard Fillmore?
Meh. I still find the strip funny. Wagner was a SOB, but I like his music.
I question the use of the present progressive in that last bit.
Adams has long been off his rocker evidenced by his advocacy for “Creative Visualization” as some kind of supernatural reality-altering exercise. He’s kind of the key example of someone who becomes inordinately successful at doing one thing and then believing that gives him expertise in every area of knowledge in which he has interest. And to be quite honest, I didn’t realize that people still read the Dilbert comic which a couple of decades ago become more repetitive and pointless a than Garfield and Andy Capp combined.
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Adams has been in the bag for Trump since the get go; I honestly believe Adams was paid by the Trump campaign, and likely still is.
I think this link will always go to the strip of 21 June 2017.
Wow! I knew Adams was losing it, but I didn’t know he was this far gone. That cartoon not only has no basis in reality, but it’s so dully uncreative that it would still be totally unfunny even if it did. Dilbert is being investigated for collusion, but he “did nothing wrong”. Ha ha! The previous few are no better. Several days’ strips are devoted to the following hilarious theme: the PHB believes Dilbert’s project is in chaos, but only because he listens to rumors (ha ha! I wonder what that could refer to?).
I hope that unfunny drivel like this convinces newspapers to cancel their Dilbert syndication.
I had a quick look at Adams’ blog, and it’s obvious that he’s in the tank for Trump and it’s also obvious that he’s taken leave of his senses. His latest blog post questions how and why Russia could have hacked the election, and then contradicts itself by proposing the following ridiculous hypothesis: maybe they hacked the election because (in his own words) “they believed a Hillary Clinton presidency would be a disaster to the world, including Russia”.
I wonder if he’s just trying to popularize himself by being intentionally outrageous, in the style of many successful right-wing pundits.
Adams fancies himself a master of persuasion; he’s been writing pro-Trump columns for two years now while purporting to not be a Trump supporter. This is part of what he would characterize as a very clever PR scheme for Trump; it’s not intentional outrage, it’s “four dimensional chess,” his attempt to hypnotize people. (He would use that literal term; he calls himself a “trained hypnotist.”) And, hey, it probably did bag Trump some votes.
Unlikely. Far more likely that the Trump campaign just told him that they were going to pay him.
If so, there’s hope that he’ll come back to his senses when he gets stiffed.
“This cartoon was drawn badly. Very, very badly. Sad.”
There was another thread on one of the boards about Scott Adams. He convinced himself that Trump is a genius Master Persuader (his term) and not a buffoon and everything else is stemming from that. This strip was dumb even outside the politics. I could forgive a joke simplifying or even misrepresenting a situation if it were funny but this wasn’t funny and completely misrepresents the real situation.
He pointed out that Trump would change the attention of listeners from the question at hand by, for example, ridiculing the appearance of a questioner or subject.
Yes, but his real downfall is that he believes himself to be a Master Persuader. And you know, and Master Persuader gets you to believe certain things or take certain actions. And this is not by telling you the truth, it is by manipulating you.
So Adams feels very comfortable saying things that aren’t true, because that’s what successful people do. Like, “I’m not a Trump supporter, I just see what Trump is doing”. He’s also got a heaping helping of “If you keep saying something that you don’t believe is true, soon you’ll start to believe it to be true, and then it becomes true.”
Obviously, Trump’s bullshit works on some people. It apparently worked on Scott Adams.
The bad part is when these people believe they’re above average. They figure if Trump’s fooling them, then he must be a super-genius.
The reality is that Trump isn’t a super-genius and most people aren’t fooled by him. His supporters are the people who fall below the line.
Sounds like Dilbert has become a scalloped hair boss.