# What's with these oddball political comments by Dilbert artist Scott Adams? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104 "2016-09-16T18:39:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CultOfReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e7dd6/32.png) [@CultOfReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CultOfReason)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/61 "2016-10-21T19:27:13Z")
In his latest blog post, “The Crook versus the Monster” Adams claims Clinton out-persuaded the master (Trump) in convincing people what a monster he is, and how that is worse than being a crook. He then goes on to exonerate Trump as not being a monster, but easily finds Clinton guilty of being a crook. It appears all of his arguments only apply in one direction, but not the other. The cognitive dissonance is strong in Adams. Yet, showing a complete lack of introspection and self realization, he continually accuses his detractors of being the ones suffering from cognitive dissonance or being paid Hillary shills. Rather than studying hypnosis and persuasion, perhaps Adams would have been better served studying psychology and learning about projection. The scariest part about his latest post is that he justifies killing a leader who exhibits the qualities attached to Trump. In his own words… “…I’m confident you would join me in the resistance movement and help kill any leader that exhibited genuine animosity toward people because of their genitalia, sexual preference, or skin pigmentation.” Someone should notify Adams that these qualities, while abhorrent, are not worthy of capital punishment via mob justice. And finally, there is one statement Adams makes that pretty much sums it all up for me: “Democrats generally use guns to commit crimes. Republican use guns for sport and for self-defense.” Adams fails to see the bigotry and racism and misogyny in Trump, because he suffers from it himself. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/62 "2016-10-21T20:27:39Z")
> [@CultOfReason](#): > > It appears all of his arguments only apply in one direction, but not the other. That’s because he’s already reached a conclusion, and is attempting to rationalize his way into it. It’s a behavior that’s common in people that I like to refer to as ‘damp androids.’ ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/63 "2016-10-21T21:23:13Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > I should get out of this topic. Dilbert still remains my favorite continuing strip and I don’t want to read it from its creator’s MRA, racist, fascist point of view. It makes me sad because I really like Dilbert, I even have the DVDs of the cartoon, but Scott Adams has such a punchable face its hard to look at I hear you. It’s like Orson Scott Card all over again. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/64 "2016-10-21T21:36:36Z")
Uggh. That one just makes clear his own cognitive dissonance. He says he doesn’t support Trump but all the Hillary problems that her supporters don’t care about are crimes or cheating, all the Trump problems his supporters don’t care about are just on the sleazy side. Sure, he just accidentally forgot all the Trump problems that could, in fact, be crimes. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/65 "2016-10-21T22:16:11Z")
After the “judge is biased because he’s Mexican” stuff, Adams posted that it’s not racist to call someone “Mexican”. I [tweeted to Adams](https://twitter.com/scottadamssays/status/748610990162341888) that it’s not called racist because he was called “Mexican”, but rather because Trump said that the judge couldn’t due his job because of his ethnicity. I had a bit of a back-and-forth (all cordial and nothing insulting) with Adams and some of his fans (and Trump fans), and after an hour or so Adams blocked me. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/66 "2016-10-22T00:09:36Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Uggh. That one just makes clear his own cognitive dissonance. He says he doesn’t support Trump but all the Hillary problems that her supporters don’t care about are crimes or cheating, all the Trump problems his supporters don’t care about are just on the sleazy side. Sure, he just accidentally forgot all the Trump problems that could, in fact, be crimes. He’s all over the place about Trump. For instance > [@Scott Adam's blog](#): > > As a public service (and I mean that literally) I have been trying to unhypnotize the country on this matter for the past year. I don’t do this because I prefer Trump’s policies or because I know who would do the best job as president. I do it because our system doesn’t work if you think there is a pink elephant in the room and there is not. That isn’t real choice. That is an illusion of choice. > > Trump represents what is likely to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring real change to a government that is bloated and self-serving. Reasonable people can disagree on policies and priorities. But Trump is the bigger agent for change, if that’s what you think the country needs. I want voters to see that choice for what it is. Now, as far as I recall, his first posts on the subject were supposedly in wild admiration over Trump’s ability to be a “master persuader” and how he was a shoo-in for president because of that ability. You’ll notice that, apparently, he was doing the opposite of that for the last year, trying to “unhypnotize” the country. A few posts later he writes > [@Scott Adam's blog](#): > > That said, I also don’t know which candidate has the best policies. I wouldn’t risk my life for any of their tax plans or ISIS-fighting strategies. which, in my eyes, contradicts his assertion that “Trump is the bigger agent for change”. All in all what disturbs me the most is his tendency to hide his Republican/Trumpian bent behind a veneer of “objective” observer. It’s slimy. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/67 "2016-10-23T01:53:53Z")
Diggit Camera: > [@](#): > > which, in my eyes, contradicts his assertion that “Trump is the bigger agent for change”. He says Trump is a bigger agent for change, but is not certain it would be a beneficial change. ---
**Author:** ![WilyQuixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@WilyQuixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WilyQuixote)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/68 "2016-10-23T07:04:34Z")
My takeaway from this thread - and Scott Adams’ own verbatim words - is that he is a prime example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/69 "2016-10-26T14:24:30Z")
[Scott Adams tweets](http://www.mediaite.com/election-2016/creator-of-dilbert-claims-isis-will-be-for-hillary-if-no-terror-attacks-before-election-day/): “If there are no sponsored terror attacks before Election Day, it means ISIS prefers Clinton. They have the means. Think about it. #Trump” ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/70 "2016-10-26T14:45:49Z")
He’s lost his marbles. ---
**Author:** ![Crybaby\_Boobie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crybaby_boobie/32/545_2.png) [@Crybaby\_Boobie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crybaby_Boobie)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/71 "2016-10-26T14:57:38Z")
Yeah, I’m ready to add Scott Adams to the “Those we lost…” memorials we get at the end of the year/Oscars/etc. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/72 "2016-10-26T15:01:49Z")
I just read Scott’s latest blog post, in which he now endorses Trump and says: > [@](#): > > 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. Um? Is the ‘something’ that changed the mere fact that Scott endorsed him??? If so, surely Trump has company in that NPD club. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/73 "2016-10-26T15:29:51Z")
> [@](#): > > A real David Xanatos doesn’t keep pressing the buttons that won him the primary, because he realizes that he’s in a different sort of contest in the general election. I’m just so happy to see a David Xanatos shout-out. > [@](#): > > 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. Sounds bonkers to me. I must have missed the big news. Oh well, they’ll release to us non-Illuminati members soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/74 "2016-10-26T15:40:53Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > I just read Scott’s latest blog post, in which he now endorses Trump and says: > > Um? Is the ‘something’ that changed the mere fact that Scott endorsed him??? If so, surely Trump has company in that NPD club. Maybe the something is that ISIS is sponsoring a terrorist attack by Scott Adams. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/75 "2016-10-26T15:57:27Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Um? Is the ‘something’ that changed the mere fact that Scott endorsed him??? If so, surely Trump has company in that NPD club. Maybe I’m missing something, but it looks like he’s saying that left-leaning types are now bullying him for what he’s said – but, see, they “are philosophically opposed to bullies. Once they realize they have been persuaded by Clinton’s campaign to _become the thing they hate,_ the spell will be broken. And they won’t show up to vote.” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/76 "2016-10-26T16:50:47Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Um? Is the ‘something’ that changed the mere fact that Scott endorsed him??? If so, surely Trump has company in that NPD club. Nope, it’s that Hillary is mean and a bully, and Trump unifies all Americans and is a bully to none of them. That will change everything. He is absolutely serious, by the way. Adams claims Trump has not been mean at all to women, Mexicans, Muslims, or anyone else. This will change everything and Trump will win in a landslide. Also, ISIS isn’t carrying out attacks because they’re trying to get Clinton elected, and anyone who agrees with him is paid by the Clinton campaign to bully him. Again, I’m completely serious. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/77 "2016-10-26T17:41:39Z")
> [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](#): > > I’ve asked for this thread before, but could we just move it to the pit so that I can actually respond? _Please!_ What cant you say here that you can say in the PIT?😕 You can call Scott Adams a fucking moron here in Cafe society . He’s not a poster. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/78 "2016-10-26T17:50:51Z")
You know, it’s crazy how Adams puts out these theories that facts don’t matter, all that matters is how the voters _feel_. And then he tries to argue that when voters feel a certain way about Trump–that they loathe him–that they’re irrational and shouldn’t feel that way. Trump persuaded a lot of people to vote for him, based on how Trump made them feel. Yes, that certainly happened. And then Trump persuaded a lot of other people to not vote for him, based on how Trump made them feel. And that’s certainly happening too. Arguing with people about their gut feelings about Trump, isn’t that a waste of time for a master persuader? Shouldn’t Trump be out there creating an irrational subjective feeling that persuades people to vote for him despite the fact that he’s a racist bullying narcissist? Waaaaaa, Hillary tricked people into feeling that Trump is an asshole! That’s unfair! ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/79 "2016-10-26T18:16:37Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > I just read Scott’s latest blog post, in which he now endorses Trump and says: > > Um? Is the ‘something’ that changed the mere fact that Scott endorsed him??? If so, surely Trump has company in that NPD club. Via twitter: Ella Soes: Just read your posts from yesterday & today. ������. Tho what’s the something that changed to make prob landslide 98%? ScottAdamsSay: Stay tuned. > :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104/80 "2016-10-26T18:29:54Z")
Hey, Scott: how do you keep an idiot in suspense? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-these-oddball-political-comments-by-dilbert-artist-scott-adams/766104.md?page=5)