By virtually all measures, Donald Trump’s presidency is a disaster, lurching from self-inflicted crisis to self-inflicted disaster.
His inauguration day crowds were dwarfed by massive protests the next day. He’s delivered on none of his signature promises. Investigators are snooping around his administration and his businesses, and talk of impeachment is in the air. The White House is in perpetual chaos, with demoralized staffers leaking embarrassing details to the press almost hourly — when they’re not literally hiding in the bushes to escape questions from the press. Every day brings new evidence that Trump has no idea what he’s doing.
Today, after more than a week of relentless bad news, his historically terrible popularity rating has fallen close to its all time low. Even his wife refuses to hold hands with him.
But to Dilbert-cartoonist-turned-dillweed-pundit Scott Adams, everything bad is good for Trump, whom he sees as playing a masterful game of 4th-dimensional chess that most of us are too dumb to understand. Whenever Trump pulls some new boner, Adams is there to tell us, like Pee Wee Herman after his famous bike fail, that Trump “meant to do that.”
It’s been a while since we last checked in on Spinnin’ Scott, so I thought I’d grace you all with some of the highlights of his Trump-related Twittering over the last month or so.
In late April, Adams suggested that Trump’s opponents were running out of steam, or at least air:
I tell you how the air is coming out of the anti-Trump balloon: https://t.co/8L4Y4Vg8Jl #POTUS #Trump pic.twitter.com/vL0IwrBtTT
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 18, 2017
He informed us that the world was coming to see all of politics through a Trumpian lens:
Watch in awe as the entire world starts to see things through a "deal-making" frame. We're already seeing it. https://t.co/yUyORCfTMF
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 29, 2017
He groused a little about the French election with a Tweet one can only assume was deliberately designed to break irony meters around the globe:
France had a chance to elect a Trump-like candidate, but instead chose a rich, white businessman with no government experience. #Macron
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 8, 2017
He declared that the widespread belief that Trump has no fucking idea what he’s doing is actually … good for Trump, a step in the right direction, perception-wise.
Trump's brand migration from Hitler to incompetent is complete. After a few more wins, look for, "Effective, but I don't like it." https://t.co/kqhJxqjcBG
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 10, 2017
Clearly Adams doesn’t realize that Trump’s “brand migration” hasn’t actually gone “from Hitler to incompetent” but from “Hitler to incompetent Hitler.”
He’s also apparently unaware that in a democracy, a politician’s popularity actually counts for quite a lot, given that our leaders are chosen through literal popularity contests known as “elections.”
Anti-Trumpers are clinging to the "low approval" criticism of Trump, unaware that it measures their cognition, not his performance. #POTUS
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 12, 2017
He repeatedly tried to hypnotize Americans into forgetting the name “Comey” entirely.
Comey who? I already forgot that ancient controversy. https://t.co/nAfHSEwpom
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 16, 2017
Comey got his forever-name today. In a month, all you will remember of this leak is #NutJob.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 19, 2017
Then he tried to convince us that Trump’s short attention span is a good thing because his advisors are so terrible:
How can we voters tell the difference between a POTUS with a "short attention span" and advisors who aren't worth a long listen?
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 20, 2017
I can’t say I dispute Adams’ contention that Trump’s advisors suck, but, dude, WHO PICKED THESE ADVISORS? (Hint: His name rhymes with Bonald Glump.)
Currently, Adams is trying to push his rather unique take on Trump’s cringeworthy world tour:
I'd hate to be a White House leaker watching President Trump power-up overseas. He's coming back stronger. Your shit is done. #POTUS
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 22, 2017
Apparently one ‘”powers up” abroad as a president by:
- Curtsying to Saudi royalty
- Forgetting that Israel is in the Middle East
- Grasping a giant glowing orb from the Home Shopping Network’s Illuminati Collection
But, hey, maybe the real story of the world tour is how much everyone LOVES Ivanka!
While you were distracted by President Trump, this might be the start of the most important story in the world: @IvankaTrump https://t.co/chUkTJjgEV
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 22, 2017
Keep spinning, Scott! Just keep spinning.
@Fran
http://pa1.narvii.com/6297/30fab9277176e2b2971c7ba9337595274ddbf6f3_hq.gif
Oh, you ain’t got to. We understand ourselves just fine ?
@Oogly
Next time… on Dragon. Ball. Zeee
@Dreamer:
God bless his pointy little head. I mean HAIR.
@Oogly-senpai
Well, that made sense, although I had to think about it for a while. Thanks.
I like how everyone died. Sign me the fuck up for that shit. I’m all over these animes in which everyone dies.
[lovingly polishes her End of Evangelion Box Set]
Ever tried Attack on Titan? I certainly haven’t, mostly because of the reputation of everyone dying. As I think I read the quote somewhere…
“…a hypothetical committee headed by Joss Whedon, Stefan Moffet, and George R.R. Martin would tell [Attack on Titan’s] writers to calm the fuck down.”
(Also, that Taiga gif made my day. Thanks!)
@Ray
Way ahead of you, friendo.
I actually got mad at AoT for not being dark enough. I don’t know if you’ve been following it up to now but it has become a political court drama soap opera.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind you!
Eta:
Also, I am surprised this hypothetical committee you mentioned doesn’t have Yoshiyuki “Kill ’em All” Tomino on the list.
He practically invented the “Everybody Dies” anime. Man was a genius.
I wish people would let me film movies in which everyone dies – after fighting absolutely heroic battles against overwhelming odds, during which you were convinced that everyone was definitely going to make it, and you got acquainted with their families, their lovers, their friends…And then everyone dies.
I feel like that would do everyone a great deal more use than Superhero Movie #69.
@Francesca Torpedo, Femoid Special Forces Major
Attack on Titan? More like Attack on The Current Political System of Oppression.
@Oogly
Ha!
That was pretty good, I like it.
I also like the parts where the author of AoT is like, “But seriously you guise have you considered giving Fascism a try? This is a stunning new idea that absolutely nobody ever has tried before!”
Akame ga Kill. Not everyone dies, but enough people die randomly enough that I quickly lost the ability to give a shit about anyone dying…
Konjiki no Gash. Nobody technically ‘dies’, but about half of named characters leave this world at some point and holy fuck my feels (please, Wan Lei don’t gooo! ?)
@Axe
I actually heard about and watched a few episodes of Akame Ga Kill!, but I was afraid it wasn’t actually going to be good. It was just so ridiculous and hit all my fetish buttons in all the right ways, so I assumed that it was going to be some low-quality silly stuff.
It really has everything I like and look for in an anime, but that in and of itself made me nervous at first.
What is wrong with me? When did I become a jaded Anime watcher? Holy shit, what am I doing with my life.
ETA:
But, yes, on your recommendation, I’ll give it a shot and lose myself to the fetishistic pleasure.
@Fran
The opposite of a recommendation, but different strokes. Speaking of which, if you haven’t gotten to Esdeath yet, I’m sure you’ll get a kick outta her 🙂
@Axe
Oh shit, I know her, alright. Her and her amazingly perfect self.
She was one of the reasons I got scared of that show. Like I said, everything was just too fucking perfect.
Welp, looks like you just gave me something to do.
@Fran
Further mocking of Adams, from the climate science angle.
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/23/new-video-despite-dilbert-its-data-not-models/
Climate science denial, misogyny, and racism of course all go hand in hand. Because the true ideology is “left wing bad”.
@Antome (or is it Ingmar?)
Pick a name, and stick with it. Making it obvious that you’re sockpuppetting is a pretty clear violation of the rules of troll club, dude.
Hahahahaha wow, the fucking ego on these guys.
I became an otaku late in life (in my mid-40s; I just completed my 54th solar orbit).
I got my fill of action-adventure stories from U. S. comics and wanted something else. My tastes in manga and anime run toward cute slice-of-life titles: Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star, K-On!, YuruYuri, Non Non Biyori, that sort of thing. 🙂
Good stuff. I have the physical copies of the manga.
I didn’t like this, just like how I didn’t like Haruhi that much.
I like this show a lot. It reminded me of AzuDaioh somewhat.
You should check out Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, I’ve heard people say it’s a nice slice of life.
I would suggest Daily Life with Monster Girls, but that show is kinda ridiculous.
Scott Adams also took a sharp turn toward misogyny and related crackpot prejudices after a divorce. Funny how often that happens.
@Shaenon
Huh. I hadn’t noticed any increase in his misogyny or crackpottery, but then his baseline is high enough Idon’t pay close attention to him.
It seems we’re still “irritated” with the US over the leaks of our intel regarding the Manchester attack. So we’ve decided to stop sharing it.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/25/uk-police-stop-passing-information-to-us-over-leaks-of-key-evidence
Hi again. Sorry, lol, also for failing to introduce myself, but I wanted to share a thought at the moment, about the incredible inconsistency of Trump politics if any of us had some doubt. Trolling is quite far from me and I find it quite laughable especially sockpuppeting and would never change nick without making it clear I’m the same person :). I just wanted to contribute and I was just undecided with which nick to take, that’s why I deleted the other message, or at least I thought so. You can delete the double if you prefer.
Flip flopping not only on Syria but on not warmongering in general and worse off the colossal deal with the very people who armed fundamentalist and pushed salafism and bigotry across the western muslim world, which if I remember, in past was on its way to secularization.
Have a nice day and nice to meet you all after long lurking. 🙂
@ Ingmar
The example you gave there is one of the parts of Trump and his supporters’ hypocrisy that I find the most infuriating.
Flipflopping on a lot of political issues (and social ones too) indirectly affects people’s lives, but one could potentially understand the cognitive dissonance.
When it comes to literally changing, after one is elected, one’s entire approach to war, they are literally putting lives in danger through their attitude to means that everyone can be in no doubt at all will cause not just death, but mass death.
It also shows more than other flip-flops that they are willing to play with the memory and thought of violent death.
Welcome!
Noted, minister of the economy and deputy secretary general are not government experience.
@Nparker
Thanks. What you say is quite on point, let’s also remember that he got elected also by basically saying Clinton created the Isis and that she was the psychotic warmonger, for helping rebels which turned out to be radical islamists, not all but they hijacked the protest, like in Egypt, also part of them possibly coming from the Lybic chaos. Even I agreed very partially and cautiously, with part of that, not ad hominems and he was and still is clearly more psychotic. Even though I don’t agree with her about the Ucraine and Syria, but Trump pretended to be different and took those votes because of that.
On Iran he flopped multiple times on the very campaign too.
https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2016/Iran
“The deeply flawed nuclear deal Hillary Clinton secretly spearheaded with Iran looks worse and worse by the day. It’s now clear President Obama gave away the store to secure a weak agreement that is full of loopholes, never ultimately blocks Iran from nuclear weapons, emboldens our enemies and funds terrorism.”
Time before, in July
“Phares said, “No, he’s not going to get rid of an agreement that has the institutional signature of the United States. He is a man of institutions. But he’s going to look back on it the institutional way. He’s said, so far that he doesn’t like this deal and that it was poorly negotiated. Once elected, he’s going to renegotiate it after talking through it with his advisers. One of the clear possibilities is he will send it back to Congress. The reaction of the Iranian leadership will be the next phase. So he is not going to implement it as is, he is going to revise it after negotiating one on one with Iran or with a series of allies.”
and many others U turn.
On Ukraine, his main divergence with Clinton, he kept it more consistent, for now
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/mar/28/fact-checking-donald-trumps-tweets-about-hillary-c/
But for Saudi, it’s the full U turn.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/05/21/saudi-visit-trump-offers-contradictions-from-campaign/97WV3AGPKAAy44sEn35PeI/story.html
Pretending they are the reasonable part of Islam after a campaign which scape goated and criminalized most of the resident muslims as guilty by association with terrorism and against western values ^_^. I understand diplomacy, but diplomacy is not dowright flattering them, criminalizing Iran, which even actually helped fighting Isis, veiled threatening them of war, while and selling billions worth of arms to real jihadist government. Almost a part of truth in that discussion, though, in that a part of the far right which voted for him has a very similar conception of women.
He passed from accusing Clinton of helping rebels destabilize Syria, to accusing Obama (which followed a more moderate politic than her, imho) of being too weak with Assad!
On the other thread I might point out the contraddictions of Incels supporting Trump, but also terrorists if they target the “stacies” as they call them. But at the same time calling people cucks if they mourn the muslim “incel bomber” which drown at the sea, then who’s the callous one with no compassion for males “incels” the feminists or maybe themselves?
@Ingmar
Comments policy. Thanks