Nucleic Acids posted:

Dilbert as a character has changed from being a very bright, more or less decent person who has trouble understanding some social niceties into an rear end in a top hat who lays down sick-burns on strangers.

This sees to have accelerated the wealthier Scottbert has gotten.

Nucleic Acids posted:

Dilbert as a character has changed from being a very bright, more or less decent person who has trouble understanding some social niceties into an rear end in a top hat who lays down sick-burns on strangers.

This sees to have accelerated the wealthier Scottbert has gotten.

Jurgan posted:

I remember one of the Dilbert books where Adams proposed his own model for a company called "OA5," which stood for "Out at Five," meaning everyone left at 5:00 and no one was ever pressured into working late. Now he's shaming people who take vacations. I guess if you don't want to take a vacation, that's your business, except that then you get held up as an example to browbeat others into working harder.

Also, remember when Dilbert was a dopey guy who was hopeless with women? A few weeks ago, there was a strip where he takes a woman out to a fancy restaurant, and when she says she can't eat anything because of her diet he insults her for wasting his time and money. The MRA rot has infested his comics. http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-09-11

CommieGIR posted:

He turned into PHB the more money he attained. He's forgotten how to be a humble engineer.

boner confessor posted:

gold/silver metal hoarding isn't a scam, it's just a dumb thing to spend your money on. unless you get a certificate for the metal that you can redeem in person at some warehouse, that is 100% a scam

Twelve by Pies posted:

Also lol at his claim that he doesn't prefer Trump's policies and then goes on to say how Trump is so great as he has been for the past year or so.

VitalSigns posted:

Idiots send you money, you buy enough gold to pay out to the few who go through the hassle of redeeming their certificates and you live off the rest.

MokBa posted:

The Dilbert cartoon was really good at least.

Oh god I hope it never comes back.

PhazonLink posted:

Isn't that just fractional reserve banking?

nine-gear crow posted:

That's because Scott Adams' involvement in it was marginal at best. It was good in spite of him.

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RUSH: Here's an exclusive story that's running on Reuters today. The headline: "White House Plans Community-Based Prevention of Violent Ideologies." Really? What are violent ideologies and who gets to determine that? Who gets to define what is a violent ideology? We know what this is. Here are the details.

"A new White House plan aims to convene teachers and mental health professionals to intervene and help prevent Americans from turning to violent ideologies, work that is currently mostly done by law enforcement, a draft of the policy seen by Reuters shows.

"The 18-page plan, to be announced on Wednesday, marks the first time in five years that the Obama administration has updated its policy for preventing the spread of violent groups." What they're talking about here is conservatism, folks. "Authorities blamed radical and violent ideologies as the motives for attacks in the last year in Charleston, South Carolina; San Bernardino, California; Orlando, Florida; New York and New Jersey."

Now, you might think, "Wait a minute, Rush, some of that, San Bernardino, that's Islamic extremism." Yeah, but Obama's not worried about that. "Orlando, that's the guy that blew up the gay bar, again, another Islamic --" No, no. Obama doesn't care about that.

"A self-styled white supremacist is accused of shooting dead nine black people inside a historic African-American church in Charleston and the other shootings and bombs were inspired by Islamist militants. Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress have questioned Department of Homeland Security officials over the delay in updating the department's approach to countering recruitment strategies by Islamic State, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria, and other groups.

"Under the new guidelines, 'local intervention teams' made up of mental health professionals, faith-based groups, educators and community leaders will assess the needs of individuals who may be showing signs of converting to a violent ideology."

I don't think there is any doubt when you talk about this kid that blew up or shot people in the church, they're gonna associate that with conservatism. We know that the Department of Homeland Security in Obama's first term released internal documents warning of the dangers posed by violent right-wing groups. So you say, "Well, yeah, but Obama's leaving." It doesn't matter. The left runs everything in Washington no matter who the president is, and this work will continue.

I think that there's no question that an ongoing effort to stamp out or intimidate anybody who happens to lean in any direction to the right is going to be undertaken, and I just wanted to mention this here at the top while everybody's attention is focused.

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RUSH: Here's Troy in Houston. Great to have you, sir. Hi.

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. Appreciate your taking my call.

RUSH: Yes, sir.

CALLER: Having always said that you would tell your audience when you felt like it was time to panic or when you felt like we had lost the country, and seeing stories like one on TheHill.com today that posits the theory that Hillary could run away with in excess of 400 electoral votes, my question for you is, should something like that come to pass and should Hillary be able to pull off a victory with new landslide margins, might that be the catalyst for you to feel like we've reached that tipping point. And if not, how would you see this country recovering from such a possibility?

RUSH: Well, first place, let me repeat something that I have always said. There's always going to be an America. There are people now trying to transform America -- Obama, the Democrats -- into a country that it wasn't founded to be, but there's always gonna be an America, and there are always gonna be conservatives. You know, if this ends up being a Hillary landslide, I am not going to believe that the landslide means that the nation has officially decided it wants no more of capitalism and wants to adopt socialism and communism, 'cause I don't think that's what this election is about.

For whatever reason conservatism isn't on the ballot here. Conservatism is not being rejected. Conservatism, on the other hand, can't find a way to unify, either. Conservatism couldn't find a way to win the primaries. But, on the other hand, conservatism, if there's a Hillary landslide or even a Hillary win -- I know you asked specifically about a landslide. Conservatism is not going to be what's been defeated here, in my mind. I'm not going to stop doing what I do if that happens.

The effort to educate the American people will never end. The effort to persuade the American people will never end. The techniques, the procedures, the strategies will have to change, and I think we'll have to do a better job of informing people -- or not informing them -- a better job of having people understand that the things they think in their lives are going wrong are for specific reasons that they have voted for.

It's stunning. Troy, it is stunning even now. Barack Obama with a 55% approval rating, are you kidding? That doesn't tell me that 55% love what Obama's doing. It tells me that a lot of people do not link Obama to what they know is going wrong. Everybody -- well, not everybody. That's a bit of an exaggeration. Majorities of people admit the country's headed in the wrong direction. They admit that the job market is bad. They admit things are not right. They admit student loans are way too high, college education is not what it is.

The problem is they're not associating that with the culprits. The culprits are the Democrat Party, and for whatever reason, the people of this country are blaming Bush, blaming Republicans, blaming Wall Street, blaming the banks, blaming whatever, going all the way back still to the financial disaster of 2008. Now, it's gonna be problematic if they win, landslide or not, they're gonna get Supreme Court appointments. But as long as you have kids and grandkids, and as long as you have this fervent desire that they have the same opportunities you had, you can't cave.

By the way, back in those days, when I told you that I would tell you it's time to panic, panic did not equal giving up. Panic did not equal quitting. It might have meant moving to New Zealand for a couple years, but it didn't mean conceding. And I don't intend to concede. I still am not convinced that a Hillary Clinton landslide win -- Democrats don't campaign on what they actually do.

Obama didn't tell anybody that the way things are is what he intended to do. He didn't promise that health care was gonna become scarce and insurance premiums were going to skyrocket and that jobs were going to be scarce and that average income would remain flat. He promised you the sea levels were going to -- and he promised you the end of climate change, he promised all this rosy stuff. And it hasn't happened. And he doesn't get blamed for it. He's not associated with it. There are a lot of reasons for that, and one of them -- and there are many -- but one of the reasons is that the Republican Party at some point in the last 10 to 15 years ceased being an opposition party.

So there are a lot of explanations for this that do not include the American people actively, consciously, happily choosing Big Government socialism. There are a lot of people that do. I mean, there's 94 million Americans not working, but they're all eating, you know how the phrase goes there. Panic in the sense that it's time to get serious, yeah. But not in the sense that it means quit, never that.

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RUSH: Hey, folks, look, I know a lot of you are ready to throw in the towel if this ends up in a Hillary landslide, a Hillary win. I know you're probably ready to throw in the towel and forget this stuff. You're gonna think it's pointless, at this so many years and can't seem to triumph. Look, I can't win here no matter what I say because it's all gonna be categorized as a equivocating or excuse.

For example, when I say I don't look at this as a defeat of conservatism 'cause conservatism wasn't on the ballot, well, you could say, "Well, yeah, Rush, 'cause conservatism isn't even powerful enough to win a Republican primary!" And you might have a point with that, but at the same time conservatism not prevailing in the Republican primary may not be because conservatism is flawed, it may be for a whole host of other reasons. I'm not in any kind of a state of denial here. I don't think this campaign was about conservatism, unless you want to redefine conservatism to be strains of nationalism and populism, which I don't do. Don't think that's the case.

All I'm telling you is the whole idea "I'll tell you when to panic," I never meant that to mean give up and join me as I leave the country for parts unknown. That's never what I meant. And I've also said -- I know this is gonna sound cheesy, but if you check the archives of this program you'll find it's true, I have always said that there is good in everything that happens, personally, as far as nations are concerned. Do you realize the Republican Party is in an abject mess? Do you realize there are Republicans, actual Republicans who are eagerly awaiting November 9th so they can celebrate this loss? Yeah, so they can celebrate it, so that they can gloat that they were right, that Trump was a disaster and that you need to trust us again, your Republican Party and establishment. And that's not gonna happen.

So there's things being blown up here before our very eyes that are gonna have to be reassembled. Regardless of who you want to blame, don't you find it frustrating as all get-out that whatever you call us, Republicans, conservatives, Libertarians, whatever you call us, that we can't unify around the simple concept of defeating Democrats? No matter who.

If we had nominated Cruz, we wouldn't have been unified. If we'd nominated Rubio, we wouldn't have been unified. If somehow Romney had snuck back in there, we wouldn't be unified, guaran-drat-tee you. Take your pick. If Jeb had won the nomination we are looking at four to six million conservatives sitting home again, I'm telling you. There's no recipe in that last primary where everybody ends up unified around the concept of defeating Hillary Clinton, and that is a huge problem. And more on that, of course, as the days and weeks unfold.

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RUSH: Okay. So our last caller said, "Rush, yeah, Trump won, but I don't think he ever had majority support of the Republican Party. It was divided. That vote was divided many ways. After he won the Republican nomination, he wasn't able to put together a coalition. He wasn't able to unite the Republican Party, much less anybody else, so his support isn't that broad."

Well, maybe so, but I'm gonna remind you some things here, folks, that I'm sure you have forgotten. Let me first ask you a question. Do you think Trump has less support from the base than Mitt Romney had in 2012? I don't know the answer. I'm just asking you what you think as you ponder these things. Remember we were told that anywhere from two to four million Republicans did not vote in 2012 because they were dissatisfied with Romney as the nominee. Theoretically that was because Romney was not conservative, didn't fight back, whatever the reasons were.

And those numbers are disputed, by the way, Republican establishment figures, "Oh, no, no, no, no, it's not two million people, it's not four million people that didn't show up and it's not because he wasn't conservative." They've got their answers to it, but the fact is a significant number of Republicans who did vote in '08 did not vote in 2012. That's number one. So is Trump's support even less than what Romney had.

Number two. Trump, in the Republican primaries, got more votes in the Republican primary than Mitt Romney ever did, and Romney was not running against nearly as many opponents as Trump was. There aren't that many open primaries in the Republican primary season, meaning he couldn't have gotten significantly more votes from Democrats than Romney got because there aren't that many open primaries for that to happen.

Remember all of the new voter registration numbers we were hearing. That Republicans were registering in droves during the primaries and that Trump got more votes -- do you remember this? -- Trump got more votes in the Republican primary than anybody ever has. What happened to them? What in the world happened to them? If that's all true, where did they go, where are they going? Are we to believe that they weren't all legitimate, that it was another sting operation run by the Democrats? It was a bunch of Democrats registering and voting Trump just to fool everybody. Who knows. I mean, people will conjure up all kinds of theories to explain things that they can't.

We're living in the moment, of course, and so it takes an effort to go back and remember what things were like during the primaries. During the primaries Trump didn't have any serious opposition, and that frustrated a lot of people. Remember, the traditional ways of winning the Republican nomination, none of 'em worked. Jeb Bush had $115 million, got six delegates. Jeb Bush had the full support of every powerful entity in the Republican establishment. He got six delegates.

Trump did not have an organization. Trump did not have state offices. You remember all those things being said, Trump, he's not ready for this, he's not got a ground game. And yet he ends up getting more votes in the Republican primary than any Republican ever has with a large field. And that was because more people turned out to vote in the Republican primaries than had in a long time, and voter registration was skyrocketing at the same time.

According to Real Clear Politics, Trump received about 13.3 million votes during the primary. That's 1.8 million votes more than the previous record held by George W. Bush. And yet it is believed -- and this is not to castigate the prior caller. I'm sure a lot of people probably agree with him. Even though Trump gets this record number of votes, he somehow doesn't have the support of the Republican base.

Well, then who are those voters? Where'd they come from? If they're not the Republican base -- and I will admit to you, I even reminded people back then, a lot of Trump's support was not quasi-so-called conservative. There are many Americans fed up with the Democrat Party, fed up with the establishment, who are not specifically ideologically ordained conservatives or movement conservatives. They may live their lives that way, but they don't call themselves that, and they don't think in those terms. They think of themselves as Republicans or outsiders or people fed up with the system or however you want to describe it.

And remember this, too. During the Republican primaries there were endless polls that said Trump was declining. There were polls during the various stages of the primary maintaining the premise that Trump was losing support. And then there would be a primary election and Trump would win in a blowout. And people said, "But the polls said --" I'm not trying to construct a scenario for the polls being wrong. Don't misunderstand me. I'm just trying to remind people of some history.

What I'm experiencing here is during that period of time during the primaries Trump is causing brand-new Republican registration and Republican turnout unseen, unprecedented, record numbers. And now we are to believe that many of those people have finally seen the light and have realized the error in their ways and are now ready once again to vote for the continuation of things that they said they opposed so much that they supported Trump.

And we are to believe -- and many people do -- that the reason so many people are abandoning Trump is because they are embarrassed over the tape from Access Hollywood, and they are embarrassed over the way Trump went after Miss Universe, and they are embarrassed over the way Trump talks about women, and they're embarrassed this, embarrassed that, and so all the reasons that Trump was generating record registration, record support, record Republican turnout during the primaries, is all gone or is vanishing.

Traditional politics is surfacing once again, and the American voters are voting and making decisions and answering poll questions as they always have. And they are universally now, in what appears to be landslide numbers, maturing and they're growing and they're realizing the error of their ways in supporting Trump way back when and they're now prepared to sign on with Mrs. Clinton, sign on with the establishment because they have come to grips with the fantasy that they were living.

It's much the same way they try to change minds on climate change. They're out there promoting the issue, and they are humiliating people that don't buy it and don't believe it, but they're always offering a chance for absolution. If you finally admit that you have contributed to this problem, there is salvation for you. You have been doing things to destroy the planet. You have been doing things to destroy the climate, but you can make amends.

Same thing here. You have been on the verge of destroying the American financial system. You're on the verge of destroying the American political system with your support for this maniac Trump. But, people are realizing that Trump is exactly what the media says he is, and people are now siding with and agreeing with the media in droves and abandoning Trump. That's what they're asking us to believe is happening. Who knows!

The reason why I'm asking questions about it is 'cause Trump is not of the system and has never been judged as part of the system from the get-go. And that is the primary reason why Trump has been supported and it's the primary reason why all of these so-called character defects, which were known during the primaries, didn't cause anybody to abandon Trump.

But now that Hillary Clinton is there and there's somewhere really worthwhile going if you abandon Trump, I mean, if you abandon Trump for Ted Cruz, who would do that? If you abandon Trump for Marco Rubio, who would do that? But if you prepared to abandon Trump for Hillary Clinton, well, then you are coming to your senses. And the American people are finally seeing things they should be, exactly the way the media wants you to.

Endless polls during the GOP primaries said Trump was declining. And every time there was an election shortly thereafter he would win mostly and win big, leaving people scratching their heads, coming up with explanations. Remember all of the expert analysts, the campaign consultants, the political commentators and pundits and all of their wild-guess explanations as to why Trump was surviving, why he was thriving. It didn't make any sense to them.

Now all of a sudden Trump bombing out and people abandoning Trump in droves, why, now that makes sense. Everything's as it should be and that's the narrative. And that's what you're up against each and every day. I know for a fact, with intelligence guided by experience, that lots of people fall for it every four years.

fishmech posted:

He also bitched about having his bad ideas for it shut down constantly. Frankly he should have the way of the Garfield guy. hired the show's writers to do his comics, and just coasted since then.

Good Citizen posted:

The breitbart fact check of the debate is hilarious

Good Citizen posted:

The breitbart fact check of the debate is hilarious

ManlyGrunting posted:

https://twitter.com/dril/status/134787490526658561

xergm posted:

Like "Garfield minus Garfield", someone should do a "Dilbert minus Scott Adams".

Goatman Sacks posted:

ACTUALLY MOST GUN DEATHS ARE SUICIDES


How is this a rebuttal? Yes, that's true, and it's why suicide rates are what they are in the US, because guns make it a poo poo load easier - since that's the only thing they're designed to do!

Flaggy posted:

SimonCat posted:

Because candidates always being up gun control in the context of mass shootings.

Flaggy posted:

Goatman Sacks posted:

The context of the debate was accidental toddler deaths.

BarbarianElephant posted:

Locked gun cabinets would solve this problem as well as the problem of opportunistic thieves. But somehow this technology is too much of an imposition on the rights of Americans to leave a deadly weapon on the bedside table.

BarbarianElephant posted:

Locked gun cabinets would solve this problem as well as the problem of opportunistic thieves. But somehow this technology is too much of an imposition on the rights of Americans to leave a deadly weapon on the bedside table.

Goatman Sacks posted:

The context of the debate was accidental toddler deaths.

SimonCat posted:

So when will she advocate banning private swimming pools?

SimonCat posted:

So when will she advocate banning private swimming pools?

Forgall posted:

Elephant Ambush posted:

If I'm already pointing a gun at this stupid gently caress that's more than enough time to pull the trigger at least three times with good aim.

bobjr posted:

Remember these are the people who think they could theoretically be surrounded by bad guys with guns and do some insane poo poo like drop to the floor and kill them all with their assault rifle of choice.

Forgall posted:

Crowsbeak posted:

I may be a 2nd amendment supporter but anyone who was caught unarmed in their own house by some robber is going to do what the robber says and if they try anything get their brains blown out.

bobjr posted:

Remember these are the people who think they could theoretically be surrounded by bad guys with guns and do some insane poo poo like drop to the floor and kill them all with their assault rifle of choice.

Instant Sunrise posted:

a bad guy with a gun starts shooting people in a mall at random.

a good guy with a gun pulls out his pistol and starts shooting at the bad guy with a gun.

a second good guy with a gun sees the first good guy with a gun and the bad guy with a gun and assumes that they're accomplices and starts shooting at both of them

a third good guy with a gun sees the other three people and so on and so forth

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Best Dilbert ever written.