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Dilbert says "Trump 2016"
« on: June 27, 2016, 03:46:50 pm »
Dilbet says "Trump 2016"

SCOTT ADAMS remembers just how the game turned. He was young and improving at chess, but the masterful kid across the board would outmaneuver Adams till the game seemed a runaway. Now, this kid didn’t want to just beat Adams; he wanted to embarrass him. “So after he’d picked away three-fourths of my pieces and I was discouraged,” Adams recounts, “he would offer to turn the board around and play with my pieces.” And then effectively “win” again.

 On those occasions, Scott Adams, the creator of “Dilbert,” got insight into the type of personality that loves not only the challenge of game strategy, but also the thrill of overwhelming the competition. It is the sport of meticulously plotted domination.

Read the rest here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-will-win-in-a-landslide-the-mind-behind-dilbert-explains-why/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_3_na
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2016, 03:51:01 pm »

The author is Scott Adams, writer of "Dilbert," with an MBA and a hypnotist. He explains what Trump does, why it works.

I offer this here for folks with big open minds, even people that hate Trump's guts.

So in the spirit of "The Art of War," know thy enemy.
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2016, 03:55:53 pm »
Scott Adams of Dilbert on Trump's Genius 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uERs7AyaQmA
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2016, 04:10:24 pm »
Trump will be lucky to get 33% of the vote.

I don't want him to win anyway.
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2016, 04:20:29 pm »
If you listen to this 30 minute video, you will learn more than exchanging the same insults and "arguments," that you have exchanged every day here, recently.

Scott Adams is NOT saying he supports Trump. He IS saying Trump is a Master Persuader, and it works.
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2016, 04:24:06 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on June 27, 2016, 04:20:29 pm
Scott Adams is NOT saying he supports Trump. He IS saying Trump is a Master Persuader, and it works.

He is a clown
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2016, 05:03:15 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on June 27, 2016, 04:20:29 pm
If you listen to this 30 minute video, you will learn more than exchanging the same insults and "arguments," that you have exchanged every day here, recently.

Scott Adams is NOT saying he supports Trump. He IS saying Trump is a Master Persuader, and it works.
He lies, and the ignorant masses let him get away with it because they refuse to use the one thing that makes us human: reason.
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2016, 05:16:32 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on June 27, 2016, 03:55:53 pm
Scott Adams of Dilbert on Trump's Genius 

Trump's genius - there's an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2016, 05:32:29 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on June 27, 2016, 04:20:29 pm
If you listen to this 30 minute video, you will learn more than exchanging the same insults and "arguments," that you have exchanged every day here, recently.

Scott Adams is NOT saying he supports Trump. He IS saying Trump is a Master Persuader, and it works.

A month or two ago, Scott posted on his blog that he was supporting Trump (not really).  He hadn't fleshed this out yet, and I find it a fascinating read.  Before, what he said was he was supporting Trump because he was afraid the Sanders people were going to set fire to his car.
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Re: Dilbert says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2016, 06:24:02 pm »
Great.  Now I'm supposed to take political advice from Dilbert.  Is Dogbert too busy?
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2016, 06:53:13 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on June 27, 2016, 04:20:29 pm
If you listen to this 30 minute video, you will learn more than exchanging the same insults and "arguments," that you have exchanged every day here, recently.

Scott Adams is NOT saying he supports Trump. He IS saying Trump is a Master Persuader, and it works.

The story about the chess game is revealing about Trump's personality.  He doesn't want to just win, he does want to ruin and humiliate all his enemies.  It's gonna take time because he has so many.
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2016, 07:03:06 pm »
Quote from: Emjay on June 27, 2016, 06:53:13 pm
The story about the chess game is revealing about Trump's personality.  He doesn't want to just win, he does want to ruin and humiliate all his enemies.  It's gonna take time because he has so many.

That's his charm, right there.  After years of being ridiculed and mocked by Obama and Company, there are a lot of us ready to collect some payback.  There are quite a few Democrats I'd like to see ruined and humiliated.  I want to hear the lamentations of their women. 
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2016, 01:05:59 am »
Quote from: truth_seeker on June 27, 2016, 04:20:29 pm
If you listen to this 30 minute video, you will learn more than exchanging the same insults and "arguments," that you have exchanged every day here, recently.

Scott Adams is NOT saying he supports Trump. He IS saying Trump is a Master Persuader, and it works.
Trump could have probably won without resorting to the name calling and slander.  In fifty years of following prez campaigns, I've never heard a candidate from either side slander and smear opponents from his own party like Trump did. It was totally irrational....but that's his nature. Now tell me turning off millions of potential supporters  with his gutter tactics was smart.
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Re: Dilbert says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2016, 01:33:47 am »
1. Trump knows people are basically irrational.
2. Knowing that people are irrational, Trump aims to appeal on an emotional level.
3. By running on emotion, facts don’t matter.
4. If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be “wrong.”
5. With fewer facts in play, it’s easier to bend reality.
6. To bend reality, Trump is a master of identity politics — and identity is the strongest persuader.
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“If you understand persuasion, Trump is pitch-perfect most of the time. He ignores unnecessary rational thought and objective data and incessantly hammers on what matters (emotions).”

If you swap "people" for "Trump supporters" I could agree with Adams.  I didn't think there were that many irrational voters in the GOP, but I was wrong.  Trump is still going to lose by a land slide in Nov.
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2016, 03:25:15 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on June 27, 2016, 07:03:06 pm
That's his charm, right there.  After years of being ridiculed and mocked by Obama and Company, there are a lot of us ready to collect some payback.  There are quite a few Democrats I'd like to see ruined and humiliated.  I want to hear the lamentations of their women.

No offense, but that cat thing makes me insane.
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Re: Dilbert says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2016, 03:27:46 am »
Quote from: Once-Ler on June 28, 2016, 01:33:47 am
4. If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be “wrong.”


You can be wrong, it just doesn't matter (to yourself or your supporters) if you're wrong.  Here's where integrity comes in to play.  For some people anyway.
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Re: Dilbert says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2016, 03:59:58 am »
He's an interesting guy to listen to.  One thing that struck me that he said, and I don't know why, he said Trump hasn't painted himself into any corners.  I disagree with that.  I think Trump has painted himself into plenty of corners, he just doesn't mind walking through the paint to get to another area of the room.
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2016, 04:14:50 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on June 27, 2016, 07:03:06 pm
That's his charm, right there.  After years of being ridiculed and mocked by Obama and Company, there are a lot of us ready to collect some payback.  There are quite a few Democrats I'd like to see ruined and humiliated.

And herein lies the problem.  We are in this mess because our desire for revenge outweighed our desire for righteousness.
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #18 on: June 28, 2016, 04:19:32 am »
Quote from: goatprairie on June 28, 2016, 01:05:59 am
In fifty years of following prez campaigns, I've never heard a candidate from either side slander and smear opponents from his own party like Trump did.

Technically, Trump isn't a Republican, so he is acting exactly like a Democrat would act.  Which also explains why he isn't slandering and smearing other Democrats.  I can't recall him ever saying anything negative about Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden, etc.
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Re: Dilbet says "Trump 2016"
« Reply #19 on: June 28, 2016, 04:39:34 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on June 28, 2016, 04:14:50 am
And herein lies the problem.  We are in this mess because our desire for revenge outweighed our desire for righteousness.

Exactly right.
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