Dilbert creator Scott Adamas says Trump will win by a landslide

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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. And that is part of why Adams believes Donald Trump will win the presidency. In a landslide.

Adams, in other words, believes that Trump himself has turned the campaign game around. On the stump, the real-estate mogul is not running on the knowledge of his numbers or the dissection of the data. He is running on our emotions, Adams says, and sly appeals to our own human irrationality. Since last August, in fact, when many were calling Trump’s entry a clown candidacy, the “Dilbert” cartoonist was already declaring The Donald a master in the powers of persuasion who would undoubtedly rise in the polls. And last week, Adams began blogging about how Trump can rhetorically dismantle Clinton’s candidacy next.

Adams, mind you, is not endorsing Trump or supporting his politics. (“I don’t think my political views align with anybody,” he tells The Post’s Comic Riffs, “not even another human being.”) And he is not saying that Trump would be the best president. What the Bay Area-based cartoonist recognizes, he says, is the careful art behind Trump’s rhetorical techniques. And The Donald, he says, is playing his competitors like a fiddle — before beating them like a drum.

Most simply put: Adams believes Trump will win because he’s “a master persuader.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ndslide-the-mind-behind-dilbert-explains-why/
 
Caveat Emptor.

Look Trump has certainly out maneuvered the GOP establishment but so has Ted Cruz. Trump is a master persuader but he's not that good and the cracks in his political skills are already showing. I'm going with the book makers and givin Trump 3:1 odds against his winning. A whole lot of people out there know when they're getting a sales pitch.
 
If Adams is such a shitty chess player that he can't win a game when given a huge advantage, why should I value his opinion about anything related to game theory?
 
sedan said:
If Adams is such a shitty chess player that he can't win a game when given a huge advantage, why should I value his opinion about anything related to game theory?
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Why don't you read the whole article?

The Manhattan mogul is so deft at the powers of persuasion, Adams believes, that the candidate could have run as a Democrat and, by picking different hot-button issues, still won this presidency. In other words: Trump is such a master linguistic strategist that he could have turned the political chessboard around and still embarrassed the field.

Adams does not claim to be a trained political analyst. His stated credentials in this arena, says Adams — who holds an MBA from UC Berkeley — largely involve being a certified hypnotist and, as a writer and business author, an eternal student in the techniques of persuasive rhetoric. (His self-help memoir is titled “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life.”)

“The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational,” Adams tells Comic Riffs. “Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do. … For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it’s probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.”
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Legion Troll said:
I thought the Dilbert illustrator was named Scott Adams, not Scott Adamas.
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Who gets their political savvy from a cartoonist?
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Dilbert isn't really saying anything new, except for the chess analogy lol. And more than a few of us picked up on Trump pretty early on when all the so-called experts were calling for him to implode.

Trump can be very persuasive and he's easily the most charismatic candidate on either side. And he's quite capable of going all the way. But a couple of things need to happen. One is, quit being his own worst enemy and stay the hell off of Twitter. It's actually been a couple of weeks since he's instigated a bone headed personal controversy with Cruz. He needs to keep that up.

Second, he needs to persuade black voters. The bad news for democrats is they'll have to work extra hard to portray Trump as an anti-black bigot, since he's such a known quantity and he's from NYC and no doubt has many black friends and associates from his business and personal life.

I can see no reason why he couldn't talk to blacks just as effectively as he has the dreaded white working class voters lol. They know as well as anyone he's half-democrat, anyway. Not a leftist democrat but more of a Clinton era democrat such as were common before the democrat party went off the deep end.

Not saying he will, but if Trump can cut into the black bloc, Hillary will be in trouble. And that's not even getting into what Trump will do with her.

Assuming he's the nominee, it's far from over on that end.
 
Milagro said:
I think that he shouldn't be underestimated, nothing would surprise me about this election.
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I don't underestimate him but Trump, like Cruz political strength is with Southern and rural white poorly educated males. He lacks the numbers in the three largest population centers, the North East, Pacific Coast and Great Lakes. Though not as intensely disliked in most of the Nation outside the South as Cruz and with a broader coalition than Cruz he's still alienated far to many groups to build a winning coalition which says volumes about the GOP as Clinton and Sanders would normally be weak candidates.

It's a bizarre situation we're in. Angry white working class males would rather piss their economic well being away than admit social equality with working class minority groups with which they have far more in common. Instead they believed that a group of elite plutocrats shared their interest and now they are pissed off cause they finally discovered what most thinking people already know. The GOP plutocrats could give two shits for their base. They just want their votes.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I don't underestimate him but Trump, like Cruz political strength is with Southern and rural white poorly educated males. He lacks the numbers in the three largest population centers, the North East, Pacific Coast and Great Lakes. Though not as intensely disliked in most of the Nation outside the South as Cruz and with a broader coalition than Cruz he's still alienated far to many groups to build a winning coalition which says volumes about the GOP as Clinton and Sanders would normally be weak candidates.

It's a bizarre situation we're in. Angry white working class males would rather piss their economic well being away than admit social equality with working class minority groups with which they have far more in common. Instead they believed that a group of elite plutocrats shared their interest and now they are pissed off cause they finally discovered what most thinking people already know. The GOP plutocrats could give two shits for their base. They just want their votes.
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seems to me they are voting their self interest. The democrat hillary wants to give their jobs away with TPP and illegal immigration. The republican Trump wants to stop that.

In fact I predict Blacks will see this too and Trump will make majore headway with them.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
Second, he needs to persuade black voters. The bad news for democrats is they'll have to work extra hard to portray Trump as an anti-black bigot, since he's such a known quantity and he's from NYC and no doubt has many black friends and associates from his business and personal life.
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Mott the Hoople said:
I don't underestimate him but Trump, like Cruz political strength is with Southern and rural white poorly educated males. He lacks the numbers in the three largest population centers, the North East, Pacific Coast and Great Lakes. Though not as intensely disliked in most of the Nation outside the South as Cruz and with a broader coalition than Cruz he's still alienated far to many groups to build a winning coalition which says volumes about the GOP as Clinton and Sanders would normally be weak candidates.

It's a bizarre situation we're in. Angry white working class males would rather piss their economic well being away than admit social equality with working class minority groups with which they have far more in common. Instead they believed that a group of elite plutocrats shared their interest and now they are pissed off cause they finally discovered what most thinking people already know. The GOP plutocrats could give two shits for their base. They just want their votes.
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Who gives a crap for their base? There's an insurrection against the establishment on both sides for a reason.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I don't underestimate him but Trump, like Cruz political strength is with Southern and rural white poorly educated males. He lacks the numbers in the three largest population centers, the North East, Pacific Coast and Great Lakes. Though not as intensely disliked in most of the Nation outside the South as Cruz and with a broader coalition than Cruz he's still alienated far to many groups to build a winning coalition which says volumes about the GOP as Clinton and Sanders would normally be weak candidates.

It's a bizarre situation we're in. Angry white working class males would rather piss their economic well being away than admit social equality with working class minority groups with which they have far more in common. Instead they believed that a group of elite plutocrats shared their interest and now they are pissed off cause they finally discovered what most thinking people already know. The GOP plutocrats could give two shits for their base. They just want their votes.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/cruz_favorableunfavorable-3887.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorableunfavorable-5493.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/clinton_favorableunfavorable-1131.html
 
tsuke said:
seems to me they are voting their self interest. The democrat hillary wants to give their jobs away with TPP and illegal immigration. The republican Trump wants to stop that.

In fact I predict Blacks will see this too and Trump will make majore headway with them.
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And you believe for a moment Trump would actually do that I have some prime ocean front property in Nebraska for sale that you might be interested in. No really!

Look, Clinton represents the current status quo. There is no mistaking that but come on, do you not know a sales pitch when you see one? Trump is doing, in brazen language, what the GOP has been doing to working class white males for the last 30 years in more polite language. Telling them what they want to hear. That they are great! That they are better than anyone not like them. Then if he gets elected (a big if) he'll spout a bunch of rhetoric and he won't do shit for them.

To me it's just stupid. OK...you're white. So What? Get your creamy white ass over it and try working with people who have a common economic interest as you. It sure as hell isn't the plutocracy who have consistently implemented policies over the last 30 years to enrich them selves at the working classes expense. As long as working class white males hold onto this delusion of social superiority the plutocracy will gladly fuck them in the ass...and trust me...they won't even be considerate enough to give a reach around.
 
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