Deluded Scott Adams claims Trump supporters are lying to pollsters for most epic practical joke ever

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

Found that thanks to Dave Weigel's great response:

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

1. Great reply

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

2. For sure!

[Rice4VP]

3. Sure, that's possible. BUT, the 12 hour

lines in Georgia and record turnouts all over the country aren’t made up. Trump lied about a virus that killed 218,000 people and 30M are unemployed and on the verge of eviction. You don’t stand on line in the middle of a pandemic for 2-12 hours to vote for more of that.

Plus, record numbers of Democrats have already voted by mail

[DeeDeeNY]

4. That's the guy that writes the Dilbert comic strip?

[dalton99a]

7. Yep. He's a huge Trump fan

[DeeDeeNY]

13. Probably makes sense that he's delusional

I read he doesn’t believe in global warming.

[haele]

22. He started out as a Cubical Warrior.

Like most guys of a certain age and skin color, he was always privileged enough to never have to really depend on labor laws to actually protect him from workplace harassment and the typically poor pop-management style that was prevelent in the 80's and 90's. Workplace safety and EEO regulations never impacted him personally other than as an irritation.

So he was always free to be a selfish, clever asshole at work so long as he did his job. He was "that guy", the one whose jokes you always laugh at but you never wanted to ask for workplace or personal advice.

Haele

[Yavin4]

27. And that same guy is crying about H1B visas taking his job.

Never once giving a shit about his fellow workers, but now wants all kinds of govt protection for his sorry, average ass.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Lock him up.

Dilbert is a hoax, etc. etc. etc.

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

38. Ha hahahahaha :-)

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

6. What happened ...

to him? At least Scott Adams appeared to have a sense of humor back when I used to look at Dilbert.

[JHB]

32. Once the strip got successful enough and he had plenty of money, his hair grew pointy...

...and when it does that, the roots burrow deep, displacing grey matter.

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

37. Good answer :-) n/t

[Nevilledog]

8. And you beat me on this one.....lol

I'm starting to think we share the same brain

[highplainsdem]

16. I think we share similar ways of searching for interesting tweets.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029996055#post9



I'm looking forward to the day when Trump's gone and out of the news long enough that search engines don't assume that the most likely search I'm starting to request with the letter T will be

trump twitter

which it almost invariably is now. Quick check to see what idiocy he's posted since I last checked, then searching Twitter for the top tweets about Trump and Biden, and then, if there's time, searches for other names and keywords.

[Nevilledog]

17. I only look on my Twitter feed. I've perfected laziness.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

41. When you search for say, Biden, tweets, does it return them

With the highest like or retweet count?

[highplainsdem]

44. I'm honestly not sure how Twitter decides which are the top tweets on any search subject.

Sometimes they're very recent tweets, a couple minutes old, without a lot of likes and retweets yet.

I just find them worth skimming, not just for the commentary but for links to news or other tweets.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

45. tried it - you get your followers first. I searched "Biden" and that's what I got.

[highplainsdem]

46. I don't have any Twitter followers. I had a Twitter account once but rarely used it and haven't

used it at all for years, never log in.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

47. You know some of us are afflicted with needing to know the latest news instantly. why I love

twitter. Plus you get to hand-select like-minded people you interact with and see their postings.
Much more left leaning and irreverent than most forums.

[Jirel]

9. Someone commit this guy.

He has seriously lost his mind.

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

15. I guess that's the answer...

to how he ended up going down the wrong path. He used to be able to pull off funny, now he seems to be the joke. I write this however, without having paid attention to him or his work for about ten years now.

[Jirel]

30. I've looked a couple times in 10 years.

There’s literally nothing new. I think he started going down the path of mental and cartooning incompetence when he got so successful he quit his day job, where most of his material came from. He had to ask his fans to send him workplace horror stories so he could have some material.

[Vogon_Glory]

10. Let him enjoy his "surprise" while he can

I suspect that a tidal wave of fired-up, fed-up voters will hand him a jolly surprise when the ballots are counted.

And we will have the last laugh.

[texasfiddler]

11. I don't find Dilbert cartoons enlightening or funny

Before I became biased (knowing that Adams was a right winger) I would read the cartoons at work (Engineering Department) and get the intent of the cartoon but I always found them boring. The people who loved Dilbert were typically engineers who lived their lives for the company and didn't have much of a family life or any life outside of work for that matter. I am more of a Far Side guy.

[tonedevil]

18. There was a lot for techs...

it may or not be funny to you that Dilbert got his pointy haired boss to try to chase down an escaped Token Ring with an Ethernet, but I'm still laughing 25 or so years later. That said, the comic hasn't been funny for 15 years and Adams has shown himself to be an elitist, authoritarian, jerk.

[captain queeg]

12. I guess now he channels the pointy hair boss

He lost his edge years ago when he got rich and quit working. Many, many years ago he was funny.

[beachbumbob]

14. I sure want them to belive this. lol

makes the 20 million margin all the sweeter

[Takket]

19. that isn't realistic

I'm sure some people do that but there is broad consensus across polling from many different firms and pollsters understand and account for the fact that some people will lie in their margins of error. In short... they are smarter than drumpf voters.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. That's Where I'm At, Too

It would require a gigantic, coordinated plan to get a specific number of poll respondents to lie across all pollsters, with absolutely no evidence trail, in the age of social media. And, nobody drops a dime on the effort.
Millions keeping a secret absolutely? Don't see how that works.

[shrike3]

36. The Trump supporters I know aren't smart enough to do that.

[ego_nation]

20. Were the 2018 mid-term results a troll job too?

And did they pass up the inauguration just to troll the women’s March?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. More ominous view- setting up the steal. Polls were wrong see?

[Turin_C3PO]

26. This Trump crew

isn’t competent enough to steal an election, especially considering the margin that Biden is likely to win by. I predict it will be called for Biden either election night or the next day.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. Trump and his lawyers are. He's dealing with low-infos who think

he's the Messiah. He knows he just has to say the word. Like when he told his followers to vote by mail and in person. Some will do that. They may be uncovered without party affiliation data and trump will claim it was rampant.

Gonna be the most interesting cluster f we've ever witnessed.

[yuiyoshida]

24. The tweet is gone

he must have deleted it.

[shrike3]

33. No, it's still there

I found it. A line-up of people insisting that's what they've done and they can't wait for the epic meltdown on election night.

[llmart]

25. Hey, Scott...

your buddy didn't "win" by coming from behind the first time. He cheated his way to a "victory" with the help of Putin.

P.S. I never once thought you were funny when you started your cartoon schtick. You still aren't.

[niyad]

28. rwnj's don't HAVE a sense of humour, nor do they possess the smarts to create such a complicated,

co-ordinated, plan

[Ms. Toad]

29. his disillusionment didn't last long . . .

[Maeve]

31. What is it with conservatives and a lack of a real sense of humor?

Besides the fact that they tend to punch down....

[Lucinda]

34. KNR

[shrike3]

35. Actually, even if they were lying to pollsters, it wouldn't matter

Trump's polling numbers have been stuck at 42 percent forever. That's a clear minority.

Have Trump supporters been lying to pollsters for four years? A coordinated effort, all this time, to make him look like the least popular president of this era. Just so they can come out as true supporters on election day and -- voila, Trump has been hugely popular all this time?

The Trump supporters I know aren't smart enough to do that.

[Boogiemack]

39. But did he keep in mind the millions of anti-Trumpers telling the truth?

[JHB]

42. He's gone full Elbownian. Never go full Elbownian.

[shrike3]

43. They also trained a fly to land on pence's head to distract the libs.

I stole that, wasn't mine.