In case you have a real life, you may not have heard Dilbert creator Scott Adams has promised to kill Donald Trump if he becomes too Hitler-ish.
Adams has been an enthusiastic Trump supporter — except when he lies about supporting Hillary to keep his neighbors from lynching him — and for the last few months he’s been blogging routinely how Trump is engaging in brilliant tactics and has a winning strategy. But lately…
After news broke of Trump’s sexual indiscretions, however, Adams had to dial back his Republican cheerleading, which he claimed was ruining his reputation. He instead pivoted to unapologetic meninism, a rabid anti-feminist philosophy.
“Everything that goes wrong with the country from this point forward is women’s fault,” Adams wrote shortly after a tape leaked of Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women. “Men had a good run. We invented almost everything, and that’s cool. But we also started all of the wars and committed most of the crimes. It’s a mixed record to be sure. Now it’s time for something different, apparently.”
I confess I’ve decided to keep my distance from Adams after getting sucked in by some of his superficially rational posts. At this point, I figure he does not need my page clicks as badly as he needs an intervention.
That being said, Jason Yungbluth, an artist/cartoonist at What Is Deep Fried? has been engaging in a foray into the circumstances behind Adams’ mindset. (Warning: Yungbluth has a baroque set of cartoon storylines running there which are often NSFW in a Swiftian way at best and at worst, well...)
Yungbluth has lately posted to his blog “Confessions of a Paid Hillary Operative” which is a delightful excursion into the Clinton Paranoia Fantasy World — or is it? It explains much, or maybe it doesn’t?
If you are reading this, I am most likely dead, or alive. My body is probably lying across the rails of a train track, my head crushed by the southbound Acela Express to disguise the blunt force trauma delivered by a DNC wet-ops specialist, or just as likely I am completely unharmed and sitting in my living room eating Sriracha flavored vegetable crisps while watching Black Mirror.
This is the unpredictable life of a Paid Hillary Operative.
Recently Scott Adams—cartoonist, entrepreneur, genius—twigged to the fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign has been running a blackshadow operation against him in collusion with Twitter, Salon, HuffPo—all the usual Clinton media cutouts—and meant to discredit him in the eyes of his followers. His crime: openly declaring his support for Donald Trump.
Now that Adams has unveiled this conspiracy to the world, many consider him to be a madman, or else some sort of transparent attention seeker looking to capitalize on an unexpected blip in in his public profile. But Scott is neither of these. He is, in fact, the most dangerous man in America, and I should know. I was paid $25,000 in Bitcoins to write a blog post defaming him, and to then post links to that blog on every Internet forum and comments section I could think of.
Things had been running smoothly, targeting Trump. The call for a switch to Adams took Yungbluth by surprise as he began to grasp the scope of the effort.
“Doesn’t matter. This is only Phase One, the tap on the shoulder. When he turns his head, Phase Two hits him square in the jaw.”
“’Phase Two’? That could only mean… Salon and The Huffington Post and Daily Kos all reporting at once that Scott Adams sounds like some sort of asshole!”
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If you haven’t gotten enough CT in your diet lately, Yungbluth delivers. Read at your own risk.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. The closing days of this election have brought us into unknown territory; all bets are off.