I’d like to remind everyone that Scott Adams believes if you want something hard enough the universe will warp itself around that desire to fulfill it. If this had even a shred of truth to it I would have willed this man out of existence by now.
“Trump is saying things that are moronic. That’s not because he’s a moron, he’s only pretending to be a moron. That way other world leaders will think he’s a moron who is too stupid to be reasoned with, so they’ll cave to the demands of the person they think is a complete drooling numbskull. In summary, Trump is publicly pretending to be a moron, but really it’s a genius strategy.” This is like the exact opposite of occams razor. I literally don’t understand how a grown adult writes all of that without immediately realizing how stupid it is and deleting it before posting on the Internet.
This is the same idiot that said Republicans would be hunted if Biden won in 2020
Surprise! Every time someone meets some consequences for their actions (Sydney Powell, Rudy Guliani, etc.) he says he was right.
says wildly dangerous and stupid things
“The joke’s on you. I was only pretending to be dangerous and stupid, so that I can scare everyone with my dangerous stupidity. Now, make me the most powerful person on Earth.”
There are those that do believe the whole “5d chess” thing, but that is not what I got out the post. I read: “Trump is the idiot that would wear a bomb vest to a negotiation and set it off if he doesn’t get his way, because he thinks it would only hurt his opponents and not himself. It’s a difficult position to be in to negotiate with someone that stupid (and that’s a good thing???)”
That’s not because he’s a moron, he’s only pretending to be a moron.
My interpretation was that the post is saying he actually appears to be a moron (and is capable of persuading the public to support him anyway) but sometimes it is advantageous to be a moron. That would be true, in the sense that a moron (or, more generally, an irrational person) can make credible threats that a rational person could not make.
To Scott Adams, I would say that the danger of giving a moron power is that he is likely to end up actually doing something stupid as opposed to just getting concessions from people afraid that otherwise he might do something stupid.
There is some precedent for the general line of thought See Nixon’s Madman Theory The key, though, is the Madman Theory is that the president is having an emotional reaction (but is otherwise rational) and will escalate a military conflict, thus, in theory, encouraging the other party to back down and seek peace. The line the Madman is crossing is escalation, a violation of norms, but ultimately something that will harm the other party and not the madman’s country.
Scott Adams is proposing a Dumbass Theory, where the president is so much of a moron he will impose policy mutually destructive to both countries, likely moreso to the Dumbass’s own country. Unlike the Madman, there are plenty of ways to deal with a Dumbass apart from caving to his demands. After all, he is a Dumbass, and can be manipulated by a more clever counter party (we all know the ease of manipulating Trump). The easiest of which is to let the Dumbass carry through with his threat and wait for him to back down once the pain felt better his own citizens becomes too much to bear politically. (See Brexit, though the UK ultimately didn’t back down on kneecapping their economy, but it did set the stage for the return of Labour). More to the point though, the Madman is in a position of strength, the Dumbass is a position of ignorance and weakness. The idea that any leader would purposely try to publicly be seen as a fool, and to keep the act up for months or years, just to obtain some hypothetical bargaining leverage is absurd.
This is just Scott Adams, who understands Trump’s policy objective is stupid as fuck, making up an excuse to justify supporting him. But the simple fact is Trump is an actual moron - he knows tarrifs are a hammer that can be used strategically and obtain effective outcomes, so why not use them all the time for everything? It’s the same logic as his proposal to nuke hurricanes. He knows he has a hammer, so everything is a nail, no matter how much his aids try to convince him to stop wildly swinging around the hammer and smashing everything. The fact that Scott Adams had to construct this wild theory from whole cloth just shows how out of touch he is, willing to expend energy and time and his public credibility (whatever is left) just so he can stay in his safe Trump is God and will solve all my problems bubble.
I literally don’t understand how a grown adult writes all of that without immediately realizing how stupid it is and deleting it before posting in the Internet.
This statement is the only thing holding his cognitive dissonance-fractured psyche together.
Yeah, I’m not reading that much Scott Adams word vomit.
Just read the bit at the end.
I did, but Adams is still a mentally ill Trumper.
Oh, it’s that Dilbert fucker isn’t it?
Probably, yeah, but he made those comics too.
Went from a pretty mid cartoon to whatever it is he’s doing here.
Wow, even Scott Adams says Trump is full of shit.
Well, he’s saying Trump is better because he’s full of shit.
Sounds like coping to me.
So, there’s a couple problems with tariffs.
First, they violate trade agreements that we’re signatories to. That means that we get sanctions, and those sanctions cost us money.
Second, tariffs get passed to the end user. Yes, yes, in the very long run, high tariffs make it more profitable to build a manufacturing base domestically. In the long run. And assuming that the next administration doesn’t sweep the tariffs away. In the short run, it’s higher prices for consumers, because the increased cost gets passed along. In the long run, well, high tariffs are a shaky foundation to build a domestic business on, so it’s unlikely that anyone is going to want to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in domestic manufacturing when it can all be made unprofitable and you can lose your investments, all with a stroke of a pen.
Yeah, we need a domestic manufacturing base rather than importing everything. Tariffs by themselves aren’t going to do that.
I don’t know who you are, but you make a lot more sense on this topic than Scott Adams does. Admittedly, using him as a comparison on pretty much anything is setting that bar really low. But hey, you cleared it.
There’s a good Behind the Bastards series in this douche nozzle.
LMAO!!!
I’ve observed this effect. Stupid people will dig their heels in and draw lines unreasonably and therefore are better at negotiating.
All the tariff will do is increase the cost of goods to the end consumer. It won’t help anyone other than the federal government.
when did difficult negotiations become synonymous with beneficial?
the more attention parties have to put into a negotiation the less beneficial it will be in either direction. lawyers will suck up anything worth fighting for.
It’s kind of like a link to breitbart. I’ll allow it this once, but.
