Scott Adams: In his own words
This post is just for fun, as part of my Master Wizard series. The first half is inspired by a tweet from one of my Twitter followers. Master Wizard: A human that is extraordinarily skilled in the methods of persuasion. I think historians would agree that Abraham Lincoln was one of the great…
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Read MoreA month ago the media was saying Trump was ahead in polls because he is an outsider. All the evidence pointed that way. For example, more than half of Republicans say they support an outsider in Trump, Carson, and Fiorina. And Bernie Sanders seems sort of outsiderish too. The big problem…
Read MoreHave you ever randomly turned on your television and discovered that the topic was you? I have, several times. It’s a freaky experience. The whole world becomes tiny for an instant – so small that it all fits in your living room – then it slowly expands to where it…
Read MoreIf you watched the second debate, you saw Carly Fiorina’s great retort about Trump’s insulting “look at that face” comment. Fiorina said, “I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said.” It was brilliantly open-ended (wizard-style!). The viewer filled in the blanks with whatever is…
Read MoreOver at Quartz, someone who doesn’t know things explains to us why both Fiorina and Trump are failures at business. The explanation goes like this: Trump had four separate bankruptcies on four individual properties. Fiorina’s was CEO of both HP and Lucent, and things went poorly at both places. Sounds bad, right?…
Read MoreIf I told you that throughout American history some candidates for president “looked up” and another group “looked down,” would you be able to make a list of people in each group without a definition of those terms? Obviously President Kennedy looked up, literally to the moon, and all it represented….
Read MoreThe media is reporting that Carly Fiorina won the debate last night. I agree with that assessment, assuming we are viewing a two-dimensional chess board. But according to the Master Wizard Hypothesis, all that really matters to voters in the end is images, words, and emotion. Reason doesn’t enter into…
Read MoreToday I will explain why Trump insults people. As usual, I will use the Master Wizard filter. That doesn’t mean this explanation is right. But compare it to the alternatives and see if the hypothesis fits the facts better. I remind you this is for fun, not insight. If you…
Read MoreRepublicans have narrowed down their strategy options for destroying Trump. They started by creating a list of all the possible strategies that anyone could imagine. Then they eliminated all of options that were certain to work. In the next phase they eliminated all of the options that might work. What was left is…
Read MoreSmart people tell me that Bernie Sanders is the Democratic Party’s best hope for beating Donald Trump. Some say Sanders has sensible ideas based on models that have worked elsewhere. He reminds us of the angry yet lovable uncle we now realize has been right all along. We wish we…
Read MoreThe Daily Beast called me this morning to talk about my Trump Master Wizard Hypothesis. This article is the result. Was it a good idea for me to mention Jesus? Give me some PR advice.
Read MoreThis morning I was catching up on some drawing while watching a rebroadcast of the VMAs (Video Music Awards). I was vaguely aware that Kanye West had given some sort of overlong, rambling speech and this was a chance to score it for you on the Master Wizard linguistic scale….
Read MoreToday I will create cognitive dissonance in about 25% of my readers, assuming past patterns hold. Please do not read further if you don’t like those odds. — While the title of today’s post sounds like nonsense, that question is one of the biggest debates in the country now because…
Read MoreDisclaimer: For new readers, this is part of my series on Trump’s skills as a persuader. I am analyzing events through the filter of my Master Wizard Hypothesis. The Master Wizard Hypothesis says that Trump is playing three-dimensional chess with a two-dimensional world and he will win the presidency in a…
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