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If you want to watch the persuasion game-within-the-game, follow me on Twitter @ScottAdamsSays. Here’s the situation so you know what to look for.
0 CommentsThe Bully Party
Posted October 25th, 2016 @ 9:14am in #Trump #Clinton
I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms.
If you have a Trump sign in your lawn, they will steal it.
If you have a Trump bumper sticker, they will deface your car.
if you speak of Trump at work you could get fired.
On social media, almost every message I get from a Clinton supporter is a bullying type of message. They insult. They try to shame. They label. And obviously they threaten my livelihood.
We know from Project Veritas that Clinton supporters tried to incite violence at Trump rallies. The media downplays it.
We also know Clinton’s side hired paid trolls to bully online. You don’t hear much about that.
Yesterday, by no coincidence, Huffington Post, Salon, and Daily Kos all published similar-sounding hit pieces on me, presumably to lower my influence. (That reason, plus jealousy, are the only reasons writers write about other writers.)
0 CommentsHow to Legally Vote More Than Once
Posted October 23rd, 2016 @ 8:04pm in #Trump #Clinton
If you find it annoying that you only have one legal vote, here’s how you can get a few more. It’s called persuasion.
You can multiply the power of your opinion by convincing people on the other side to stay home on election day. Every vote you suppress on the other side is like an extra vote for you. And there’s no limit to how many you can have!
Persuasion doesn’t work every time. But you might enjoy experimenting to see how many times it works for you. For this exercise, I will assume you are a Trump supporter trying to suppress the votes of Clinton supporters. Here’s how you can do it.
0 CommentsTwitter and Periscope Shadowban Update
Posted October 23rd, 2016 @ 11:02am in #Trump #Clinton
I was just on Periscope, the streaming app owned by Twitter. The running count for number of live followers on my session dropped from over a thousand to zero for no obvious reason, even though plenty of people were still on and interacting with me. At a count of over a thousand viewers I would have been close to the #1 stream on the app at that moment.
0 CommentsHow to Insult Me on Twitter
Posted October 21st, 2016 @ 11:02am
I’ve noticed that a lot of people are struggling to come up with creative ways to insult me on Twitter. As a public service, I will organize the common approaches in this post so people can insult me by number.
1. Act like you think I draw Garfield or another comic you think is not funny.
2. Proclaim that I am the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert. (Assume a million people haven’t already told me the same thing.)
0 CommentsThe Crook Versus the Monster
Posted October 21st, 2016 @ 10:25am in #Trump #Clinton
Thanks to timely assists from Wikileaks, Trump has successfully framed Hillary clinton as a crooked politician. Meanwhile, Clinton has successfully framed Trump as a dangerous monster. If the mainstream polls are accurate, voters prefer the crook to the monster. That makes sense because a crook might steal your wallet but the monster could kill you. As of today, Clinton has the superior persuasion strategy. Crook beats monster.
0 CommentsI Score the Third Debate
Posted October 20th, 2016 @ 8:00am in #Trump #Clinton
I watched the third and most boring presidential debate last night. Here are my thoughts.
Clinton’s goal was to stay vertical for ninety minutes and sound more well-informed than Trump while framing him as an unstable monster. She accomplished all of that and won the debate, in my opinion.
But it wasn’t a big win.
0 CommentsI Wake You Up for the Presidential Debate
Posted October 19th, 2016 @ 9:04am in #Trump #Clinton
Here’s a little thought experiment for you:
If a friend said he could see a pink elephant in the room, standing right in front of you, but you don’t see it, which one of you is hallucinating?
Answer: The one who sees the pink elephant is hallucinating.
Let’s try another one.
0 CommentsIs Twitter Shadowbanning me?
Posted October 18th, 2016 @ 10:29am in #Twitter #Trump #Clinton
According to many of my Twitter followers, Twitter is “shadowbanning” me. If true, that means someone at Twitter has decided to suppress my free speech on the site, presumably because I have said good things about Trump’s talents for persuasion. My tweets do not align with Twitter’s political preferences as I understand them.
0 CommentsLie Detection and Scandals
Posted October 17th, 2016 @ 9:46am
When Clinton’s surrogates respond to questions about Wikileaks by saying the Russians are behind it, that’s an acknowledgment of guilt. Guilty people almost always question the source of the information first. Innocent people start with a clear denial, or sometimes confusion as to why the question is being asked.
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