Dilbert cartoonist says Clinton supporters will kill him if he doesn't endorse Hillary

[davidn3600]

Cartoonist Scott Adams is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president because he fears he’ll be murdered by the Democratic frontrunner’s supporters if he doesn’t.

It’s a convoluted theory, and appears to be based on Adams’ abiding interest in hypnosis, persuasion and other forms of mind control.

“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,” Adams wrote on his personal blog.

Adams, who last week said he realized Donald Trump was no “crazy clown” but was actually a master of persuasion, said Clinton’s new line of attack would personally, specifically and certainly imperil him in a racist eruption against white people.

“The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States,” Adams said. “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.”

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“So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety,” Adams said. “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.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/dilbert-cartoonist-scott-adams-thinks-hell-be-assassinated-if-he-doesnt-endorse-clinton/

[spanone]

1. a real loony tooner

[MattP]

2. Caught this guy on Maher rubbed me the wrong way

[geek tragedy]

3. he's a real rightwing misogynist asshole, so not surprising he'd say that nt

[oberliner]

4. I think he was doing satire

At least it seems that way.

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Me too ...

he is a cartoonist after all and I LOVE Dilbert. I can't believe that so many here seem to take what he is saying seriously.

Full disclosure: I am a Hillary supporter but have absolutely no plans whatsoever to murder ANYONE who does not endorse her.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Adams is a libertarian, Romney endorser and he has spent time claiming that Trump got cheated

in Iowa. The work he's doing in this campaign is that of 'negative shill' for Trump. He criticizes Trump while telling audiences Trump can't be stopped. It's a barker's technique.

[oberliner]

15. He can't possibly literally think that Hillary supporters will kill him

He may been doing satire in the service of libertarians.

[gratuitous]

16. "and here I'm being 100% serious"

That kind of threw me, I'll admit. Adams seems to be a bit of a drama mama.

[Journeyman]

5. Quite a remarkable opinion of himself . . .

[KamaAina]

6. Why on Earth is Alex Jones impersonating Scott Adams?

[MFM008]

7. Hahahahaha

[dembotoz]

9. was just at my states dem convention..there was talk about unity but underneath....

it seems more shut up
you lost
now get in line
rather iron fist like

when i left i told my son that i may have just attended my last state convention

while there is a bunch of exaggeration in mr adams statement.....i do see how he came to that conclusion

[jwirr]

17. I saw the same thing at my state convention. One attempt

to boo got us a lecture. But what I thought was most funny was that the speakers after the one that got booed were very careful what they said. They more or less got the message.

[Person 2713]

11. Yep Dems are violent authoritarians . This RW libertarian misogynist from way back is creepy and

a jerk

F Dilbert and his cartoon creator

[rock]

12. Hyperbole

The new Rhetoric.

[paulkienitz]

13. Adams' "Trump Persuasion Series" managed to persuade me that Dilbert isn't funny anymore

At first it seemed to be what he advertised it was: an analysis of successful sales techniques. But over time he's stretched that into ludicrous positive claims about Trump, such as that he is empathic.

He also has made some assertions about Trump's brilliance which were disproven later. For instance, he said it was brilliant of Trump to offer to debate Bernie, but not Hillary, before the conventions. He reasoned that this gives Trump multiple ways to win, no matter how either Bernie or Hillary responds, but only a single way to lose (they actually debate and Bernie clobbers him). But Adams was quickly disproven when Trump demonstrated another way to lose: by chickening out once his bluff was called.

Trump's transparently thin-skinned response to being called thin-skinned also fails to fit Adams' claims about how good Trump is at this self-salesmanship game.

Adams is certainly not just some kind of ideological parrot: this is clearly a guy who considers things on a fairly deep level and is capable of original thoughts and insights. For instance, his "six dimensions of humor" are worth knowing about for anyone trying to create comedic material. But on Trump he has lost all perspective and has come detached from reality. He's seeing virtues which clearly are not there, just like my weirdo progressive friend who thinks Trump is the peace candidate.

Adams' persuasion theory probably goes pretty far in explaining how Trump won the nomination. But it has one big hole in it: half of the population sees through Trump's childish boasts instantly and will never be persuaded by him.

If there was any doubt about this detachment from reality, this thing about Hillary supporters threatening his life settles the question. That is, if he's not just running some kind of mind-game on his readers, and fibbing when he says he's serious. If that's the case, then his future value as a commentator is hosed anyway, as we will never know whether he's offering real thoughts or fake ones.

And in response to this trumpery, I took a closer look at recent runs of Dilbert, asking myself whether it really was funny enough to be worth continuing to read, and it kind of isn't anymore, even though jobwise I'm a perfect audience for it.

[GeorgeGist]

18. +1

[Nye Bevan]

14. Sounds nuts, but why take a chance? Just endorse her.

Then he won't have to worry about being gunned down by Barbara Boxer in a drive-by.