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.)
Actually we tried to literally mix ponies with everything. Natural selection then followed.
http://i.imgur.com/sU6Us8r.jpg
@kokoda
Can you show me an example of someone acting like we were concerned about someone being more equal than someone else?
Wait, is kokoda the one from the other day who was going on about Animal Farm.
Looks like someone looked it up on wikiquotes!
@Scildfreja:
I share your nerdery! Mars, baby, Mars!
Speaking of hillbillies…
http://67.media.tumblr.com/1b020685e5ee6c4d197602f033f05134/tumblr_oadoxkKkYF1rey5qco1_500.jpg
http://67.media.tumblr.com/988eb878bb9c74e2eb91f4885d43acd1/tumblr_oadoxkKkYF1rey5qco2_500.jpg
I admire his enthusiasm even if his methods are questionable.
Isn’t it great that the FBI reopened the Hillary Email case. Is there really a chance for justice in the good ole USA. What do youse think?
BTW – I do have and wear a Tee ‘Hillary for Prison’.
I believe in equality for all, which includes justice for all.
I think that after thirty years of incessant attempts to get Hillary Clinton convicted of SOMETHING, ANYTHING, this seems like a very thin new development to hang your hopes on. But don’t let that discourage you. The eight years of Mrs. Clinton’s presidency will undoubtedly provide you with a near-infinite cornucopia of new charges to trade around on social media, and you can probably get some new shirts.
Good luck.
@ kokoda
Here’s one thing I think. The Dow Jones has tanked over 100 points on the news. Let’s both think about that. So even though this is probably just a storm in a teacup that will soon fizzle, the fact that there’s just the tiniest chance this could help Trump has got the market panicking.
The most business minded people in the US have freaked out because there’s just the remotest possibility Trump could become president.
What does that say about his perceived competence at running the country?
http://www.bobcesca.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/hillary_temples2c.gif
Oh, @kokoda, honey. Is this your first time voting?
There’s less than two weeks left until the election. The FBI won’t be able to complete an investigation within that period of time. She’s going to be the president. On the slim chance that they find her guilty, it’ll be after she’s elected. That’d mean that you’d have President Kaine.
I’m so sorry, sweetie. Your bog pumpkin just isn’t going to be president. Chances are good he’s going to be an increasingly pathetic touring right-wing hate show, a carnival barker.
@ scildfreja
I like that. It’s both witty and seasonal.
Alan Robertson – you be hilarious
Scildfreja – 1st time voting……I really appreciate the Intelligence and Wisdom accumulated by ‘some’ people; you are an example.
FYI, I have voted since 1964; I have voted for Dem’s and Rep’s; I have been an Independent for many decades and am an Atheist.
I will give all a piece of my wisdom accumulated over the years and having had to Suffer the mental impairment of Registered Dem’s and Rep’s.
My Wisdom = Change your political affiliation to Independent and over 5 years time you will have become a critical thinking human instead of remaining a member of the herd of sheep.
Atheism doesn’t give you bonus points, Scildfreja is Canadian, and you’re an ableist shit. Get em outta here!
Oh here we go. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!
Troll elsewhere Kokoda.
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@idiot
I’ll start caring about OMG TEH BENGHAZEMAILS when you start caring about Trump’s child rape charges. So, never.
Those are actual charges in an actual lawsuit, by the way, not “Some dumbass from the FBI fucked up.”
@kokoda
Don’t change the subject now. You entered the the thread with this,
…and I reasonably asked you for an example of the bold part. Now you changed the subject to justice. Those are different things. Have the courage t back your shit up.
I’m an independent. I’ve never been affiliated with a party and don’t ever plan to. I dislike partisan politics and think they need to go away. I voted for Clinton.
Scott, Scott, Scott. Your “I know you are, but what am I?” riposte is as persuasive as it was when Trump used it at the debates.
No puppet! No puppet! YOU’RE the puppet!”
@ kokoda
I feel bad about doubting you but I just find that a bit hard to believe. That would you’d be pushing 70 or so and, whilst everyone is different, you don’t sound like someone that age. You sound a lot younger.
Apologies if I’m wrong, and at least you haven’t done the grizzled Vietnam vet thing yet.
Kokoda, so you’re 70?
You’re Trump, aren’t you?
CONSPIRACY!!!11!!!eleventy!!!!!
@kokoda, aging might turn grape to wine, but it can also turn wine to vinegar. Wisdom is about lived experience, not about flipping pages on the calendar.
Axecalibur is right, I’m Canadian (hello from your neighbours!). I’ve scarcely voted for the same party two times in a row, and have never voted for the same party both federally and provincially. I’ve voted for the Conservatives, for the Liberals, for the NDP and for the Greens (Wild Rose and Refooooorm can go to hell though). By your measure, I’m one heck of a critical thinker. Thank you!
That said, nothing you mentioned refutes my point – there’s no way an FBI investigation is going to conclude positively within 12 days. And, to add to it – this may feel like new news, but it’s not. “Hillary’s Emails” have been shouted from the Ozarks and the Rockies for months now. Why do you think this would cause a significant shift in polls now?
There’s nothing in these emails – every “fact” about them that’s come out so far have been entirely debunked, and the FBI director is being accused of interfering with the election, so thin is the evidence on the ground.
Put down the partisanship, sweetie. Look at it mathematically. It’s gonna be President Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And if you care about corruption as much as you say you do? You’ll put the pressure on her and the rest of the political system to keep her promises and to end the flow of corporate money into Washington. I’m not even American, and I support Wolf-PAC and Democracy Now, because I care about you guys. I want you guys to have your democracy back – not by putting a toaster-strudel fascist into office, but by actually restoring the republic you cherish.
I also have been a independent for about 15 years. I have not gone D, and I converted from R (I was what my parents were).
Maybe he’s a 329-year-old engineer, Alan! He sounds a lot like the last one that was on the blog.