Watch out, Hillary Clinton! Dilbert creator and self-described master persuader Scott Adams has discovered the Twitter hashtag that will spell your doom!
#Hillbullies.
See, it’s “Hill” for “Hillary Clinton,” and “bullies” for “bullies,” and it sounds like “hillbillies” which is HILARIOUS, so therefore LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR TRUMP.
Let’s back up a second here, in case you don’t fully grasp Mr. Adams’ PERSUASION MASTERY.
You see, Adams has been trying for some days now to reverse the perception that Trump and his followers are bullies — you know, just because Trump has repeatedly called for protesters at his rallies to be beaten up, and his followers have gone ahead and done that, you know, that sort of thing.
But as Adams sees it, it’s Hillary’s supporters who are the REAL bullies, because some of them have called him “silly” on Twitter.
No, really. This is his response to someone literally calling him “silly.”
This is the social shaming (bullying) we see everywhere now from Team Clinton. https://t.co/YHrc7WRn0n
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 25, 2016
And here he is taking on someone who jokingly referred to him as the creator of the Garfield comic strip.
Notice that the bullying is about the messenger, not the message. As per usual. https://t.co/Tq4iWTFCN2
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 25, 2016
And here he is responding to someone who called him a “douche.”
We also learned that Clinton bullies like you attack the messenger, not the message. https://t.co/RHKrtcCPvR
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 25, 2016
But there was something, well, lacking about his replies, persuasion-wise. “Clinton bullies” doesn’t have much of a ring to it. Even when it’s rendered as the hashtag #ClintonBullies.
Now Adams has turned his MasterPersuasion up to 11 with a devastating new hashtag. I am speaking, of course, of #Hillbullies.
BAM.
Adams wasn’t the first to use the hashtag to go after Ms. Clinton; assorted tweeters have been using it sporadically for some time. But none of them had Adams’ reach, or his enthusiasm for the hashtag, which he’s pulled out again and again since his earthshattering discovery of it.
Watch the #Hillbullies pretend I want a terror attack so they have an excuse to bully. https://t.co/uIiqU1TH72
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 27, 2016
#Hillbullies literally hallucinating. https://t.co/Ztbr0hxcjG
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 27, 2016
I tell you how I induced cognitive dissonance in the #Hillbullies. https://t.co/i1l0LRglcH #Trump #Clinton
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 27, 2016
I know that #Hillbullies always attack the messenger, not the message. https://t.co/JpLhkqFi2k
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 27, 2016
#Hillbullies could cause WW3 https://t.co/lht0ajv5Lh
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 27, 2016
#Hillbullies have not yet noticed that their leader turned them into the thing they hate most. Her hypnosis is strong. #Trump
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 27, 2016
#Hillbullies don't need arguments. https://t.co/7ivZPCxR3e
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 27, 2016
Apparently it has not occurred to Mr. Adams that calling someone a “Hillbully” isn’t technically an argument either.
But no matter. Adams’ fans think he’s a GENIUS.
https://twitter.com/jacksongott/status/791778322900398080
@ScottAdamsSays I now see how fast a little persuasion can take fire. fascinating. #hillbullies this is a whole new world for me. ty scott
— Mr Spat (@JoeSpadaford) October 27, 2016
https://twitter.com/paulvnickerson/status/791784086939598848
Naturally, people have started making the memes.
#HillBullies Bully…it's what they do. pic.twitter.com/53XRBFNLGJ
— Soyocracy (@Westsea77) October 27, 2016
I don’t know about you, but all this persuasion is making me dizzy.
(Note: I realize that I used the “fanbullies” in the headline of my last post. In my defense, I only used it twice. I hadn’t seen Adams’ tweets before using it, which must mean that I am as much of a MasterPersuader as he is for attaching “bullies” to another word.)
I will add that the problem with making “Hillbullies” catch on is that it is very easily misread as “Hullbillies,” i.e., uncouth people from Hull.
And from there one can easily proceed to “Hullabillies,” i.e., devoted fans of the old television show “Hullabaloo.” (I do not know that they call themselves that, but why not?)
Or so it seems to me. Then again, Scott Adams is a Master Persuader, so any phrase he picks MUST be guaranteed to lodge itself in your mind and change your beliefs.
(Though there is an embarrassment (in all meanings) of riches from which to choose, I think the single silliest aspect of Adams’s comments on the election is his unshakable belief that “Master Persuader” is an impressive, even awe-inspiring term. As the kids might say, living in a bubble much?)
re: “hillbilly,” Appalachia, and so forth
I live in proximity to Appalachia, but don’t recall going into the area much at any point in my life. I am, however, well aware of the notion.
Ooh, good one, Ron. Stings.
Edit: You should call us “cucks” next. Really hit us where we live.
I….I just want to grab Scott Adams by his collar and shake him in a cartoonish manner while screaming “WORDS HAVE MEANINGS!” to him. But maybe that’s just my cognitive dissonance making me hallucinate again.
@ Spaniard in the Works
Wait, whaaaaa???
Scott actually thinks that ISIS would prefer a Clinton presidency? And that the lack of an “October surprise”, successful, headline-grabbing terrorist attack proves that?
He actually thinks that ISIS, this cult of death, is afraid of cities they control being carbet-bombed by a fanatical U.S. President and Congress spewing anti-Muslim rhetoric? Not in their most fevered dreams could they have hoped for such a future…
Oh, but he’s not rooting for an attack, oh no, of course not — that’s a hallucination. He’s just pointing out that it would greatly increase the chance of his favored candidate, Donald Trump, getting elected — wink, wink.
That doesn’t say anything good about Trump. In the real world, electing a President because you are afraid is a very bad thing to do.
Similar to the thoughts in his blog that Spaniard in the Works analyzed, Scott shared this insight on his Twitter account: “If there are no sponsored terror attacks before Election Day, it means ISIS prefers Clinton. They have the means. Think about it.”
It’s true! ISIS must attack America to prove that America is safe from ISIS! Trump guarantees mass murder, which means he’s better able to protect us from mass murder! Think about it, sheeple!
Or, as Jim Sterling put it, “If there are no attacks from living skeletons before the election, it means The Dustward Bonemancers support Hillary, Think about it.”
But fear not a “Hitler-ish” Trump, my fellow Americans! For Adams has promised to kill Trump if he acts at all like a fascist!
slowbeef had a counter proposal: “Elect Clinton and if she turns out to be Idi Amin? Well my friend, I will give you the heartiest mea culpa you ever seen.”
But perhaps we don’t need to fear violence from Alpha Men Who Definitely Don’t Wear V-necks (Mom!). It’s quite possible they’ll be too busy beating themselves with cudgels in an effort to “harden” their bodies.
@ Oogly;
I think it’s always been that way….
@ Dalillama
“How the Irish Became White” has some interesting input on that!
It’s actually not clear who an Islamist terrorist attack at this stage would favour. The “obvious” answer is that it would favour Trump, but Clinton actually scores slightly higher on trust to deal with terrorism and national security. Whatever, I’m sure Daesh would love to launch a large-scale attack in the USA any time, and especially now. If they don’t, it’s because they can’t. I’m just as sure that much of the right, including Scott Adams, would be delighted, because they think it would favour Trump, and they don’t give a shit about the potential victims, unless it’s them or possibly a family member or friend.
So much so that, as someone noted (I don’t recall who, but I’m not claiming originality), he goes around Masterpersuading in public.
This reminds me of “#FTBullies”.
Awful people sure like to deflect.
‘I engineered the offending tweet’
As an actual degreed and licensed engineer I am offended by this remark.
@guest bad news. He’s a former actual engineer too.
The Salem Hypothesis seems to be overwhelmingly proven to me. Us engineering folk like to think we’re smart. We then think smart=right. Then things go off the rails.
Hey, did y’all know that Ron Hyatt is Ron Jeremy’s real name?
Buttercup Q. Skullpants, can I use your following quote about the Bundy clan being acquitted elsewhere?
I like how you capture the bad precedent this court decision sets.
Words do have meanings: “You see, Adams has been trying for some days now to reverse the perception that Trump and his followers are bullies — you know, just because Trump has repeatedly called for protesters at his rallies to be beaten up, and his followers have gone ahead and done that, you know, that sort of thing.”
Opinions (above quote) are one thing but FACTS are another. Suggest all watch Project Veritas vids:
http://noisyroom.net/blog/2016/10/17/left-incites-violence-at-trump-rallies-dnc-and-clinton-campaign-complicit/
http://noisyroom.net/blog/2016/10/18/rigging-the-election-mass-voter-fraud/
Gout be damned, I needed several stiff drinks after hearing about the Malheur Malcontents being acquitted of all charges.
@Tabby Lavalamp
It’s good to know I was not the only one who saw that. The sensitivity to criticism and push people into all sorts of things.
It’s an especially intriguing choice, given the amount of crap I’m seeing trying to persuade me that as a coastal American I am a super-privileged soignee sophisticate who HATES hillbillies and is prejudiced against them.
Also, the fact that there was a certain amount of sneering about people from Arkansas when Bill and Hillary first came to Washington.
I am descended from Scots-Irish Virginians. The painful history of that American subgroup is well-known to me. If my great-great-grandfather hadn’t decided to head West until he ran out of continent, my entire life would have been very different.
Scott Adams is apparently trying to establish the Dunning-Krugerbund. He’ll have plenty of company. I also look forward to his flustered, spasmodic attempts to stuff all this wild-eyed buffoonery down the memory hole immediately after the election. He’s going to make Karl Rove look like a model of quiet dignity.
It’s sort of a combination of propaganda and an attempt at psychological manipulation. The psychological manipulation is very clunky and obvious, and not improved by the fact that they point it out to you brightly as they go along–“Lookit! I induced cognitive dissonance in you!”
I can’t even give Mr. Adams credit for inventing this behavior; I’ve been on the receiving end of similar approaches from men trying to pick me up, men trying to make me change my political opinions (they run around on the left as well, BTW), and men trying to make me buy stuff over the phone. But there is something cute about the fact that he thinks he’s a master manipulator.
Also, “Persuasion” always makes me think of the Austen novel.
@ Nick G
Good catch. The line should be:
It’s not clear that terrorism would help Trump, because people aren’t buying his apocalyptic “I’m the only one who can save you” / “the world is unraveling” / “if Clinton is elected, ISIS will over-run the U.S.” nonsense. It is clear that Scott Adams thinks it would.
@ kokoda
So, the guy who sucker-punched a handcuffed protester as he was being led out of the arena, and then was quoted saying, “The next time, we might have to kill ‘im!” — was he a DNC operative???
Matthew Heimbach, the white nationalist, joining in with the crowd violently pushing a non-violent black woman back-and-forth in the aisle at a Trump rally like a pinball — also a DNC operative???
Trump telling his supporters that he would pay their legal bills if they rough up protesters — is Trump a DNC operative???
Trump telling his supporters that in the “good old days” protesters would be “taken out on a stretcher, folks” — again, is Trump a DNC operative???
James O’Keefe is a lying hack, and a convicted criminal. Every single time unedited footage of his videos has leaked, they have shown the exact opposite of what his edited footage shows. Why should he be trusted now? You know the saying:
Fool me one, shame on you. Fool me six times, shame on…a fooled man can’t get fooled again.
This place is Hillarioused!
Kokoda’s Gravatar is apt.
I wouldn’t trust James O’Keefe if he told me water was wet and the sky was blue.
Also, he tried to roofie a woman.
No surprise he likes Trump.
[RiNS the deplorable]
Potential empty insult detected. Humor has a role in social conflict.
“FACT” — I do not think that word means what you think it means.
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/brian-dickerson/2016/08/03/dickerson-voter-impersonator/87993508/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/james-okeefe-scott-foval-new-47-percent-story-false
http://www.snopes.com/2016/10/18/project-veritas-election-videos/
@ Falconer
You mean like in this case: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself
That one gave me a chuckle.