Scott Adams

Scott Adams has a self-reported IQ of 185, and don't you forget it.185. Reportedly. by Scott Adams (12:44 PM · Sep 7, 2022) Twitter (archived from 21 Sep 2022 23:59:09 UTC). He is an American trained hypnotist"Hypnosis", Dilbert Blog 7.7.07. and cartoonist known for Dilbert, a long-running satirical comic strip about a white-collar office worker in America. His blog, which is currently a fascinating study of a man going insane,Gettys, Travis, "'Dilbert' cartoonist Scott Adams thinks he'll be assassinated if he doesn't endorse Clinton", Raw Story (6/6/16 at 11:43 ET). attracted major media attention during the 2016 election. Long before that, he advanced some crank positions, including questioning evolution and the validity of the fossil record. He has appeared on InfoWars, further cementing his genius IQ.Scott Adams: Kanye West And Dennis Rodman Remind Us How Freedom Of Speech Empowers Everybody (April 27, 2018) InfoWars (archived from December 10, 2019).
Adams has a Bachelor of Economics from Hartwick College and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Berkeley.Scott Adams, MBA 86 Berkeley Haas School of Business (archived from October 19, 2017).About Scott Adams Says. Before his Dilbert career, he worked in telecommunications as a damager manager; Scott has embarked on a new life as a social engineer. He currently lives in a house shaped like Dilbert and has a matrix of microwaves for making large quantities of burritos and popcorn at once while writing about how neocon interventionism is just a persuasive tactic.Cavna, Michael, "Donald Trump will win in a landslide: The mind behind 'Dilbert' explains why.", Washington Post 3.21.16.Destroying the Syrian Air Force is a 360-degree persuasion play. Regime change would be another matter. by Scott Adams (7:21 PM - 6 Apr 2017) Twitter (archived from May 24, 2019).
Adams' social media insanity finally caught up to him in February 2023 when, in a YouTube video, he described all Blacks as a "hate group". This led to many large newspapers as well as Dilbert's distributor dropping the comic."Rapid demise of ‘Dilbert’ is no surprise to those watching" by Associated Press, posted at Politico.com, 2023 February 27 To those who have followed Adams' decline into madness since at least the mid 2000s, however, this thoroughly racist statement, while awful, was not much of a shock or a surprise given his past history.
==Pro-worker?==
Dilbert became popular in the 1990s because he was able to capture the disenchantment of office cubicle workers with their jobs and their corporate employers. However, as Norman Soloman pointed out in his 1997 book, The Trouble with Dilbert, Scott Adams was always a tool for those corporate employers, as he turned away their resentment from the entities that caused their predicament — corporations and their fat-cat managers — towards the scapegoat, that is, middle management. Soloman also pointed out that he was actually rather popular with the very corporations he "criticized", to the point he earned big bucks from their sponsorships of various merchandise, and unpopular with the very organizations that actually defend workers (that is, labor unions), at the same time as actually defending some of the things that caused said predicament, like corporate downsizing.
==Views on science and history==
===Adams knows The Secret===
In his 1997 book The Dilbert Future, Adams professed his belief in the bit of woo known as the law of attraction (a concept popularized by the 2006 book The Secret), claiming that he has achieved multiple life goals through the power of positive thinking alone:
===Borderline Holocaust denialism===
In a 2006 blog postarchived copy (which has since been deleted), Adams flirted with Holocaust denialism, questioning whether estimates of the number of people killed during the Holocaust are reliable:
If he actually wanted to know where the figures come from, he could have used his genius IQ looked on Wikipedia or used his Internet skills to Google itDocumenting numbers of victims, US Holocaust Memorial Museum or even asked an expert as he once recommended, but posting in a blog is an odd way to find an authoritative source for any fact and smacks of JAQing off.
===Struggling to understand evolution===
In March 2007, Adams posted a piece on his blog seemingly questioning evolution, in which he stated that the fossil record doesn't pass his baloney detector:
His explanation for why he deems fossils "bullshit" seems to be the product of an extremely garbled understanding of paleontology and evolutionary biology:
===Advocating Pascal's Wager===
In his post about fossils, Adams stated that he does not believe in "Intelligent Design or creationism or invisible friends of any sort." However, in a 2007 blog post, he appeared to express the view that atheism (defined here solely as claiming there's no God) is essentially a form of dogmatism, and he used a version of Pascal's Wager to defend belief in an invisible friend God:
Amusingly, Adams blurs percent certainty with percent probability; these are different. In addition, probability cannot be calculated for events with zero historical data or evidence backing the event up. Adams' purported chance of ending up in Hell, 0.00000000001%, is entirely arbitrary and could have easily been 0.00000000002% or even a Schlafly Statistic. His larger point that a fraction of infinity is still infinity is true but come on! Applying pseudo-risk management to religious decisions? Of course, most atheists are not claiming they know God doesn't exist, especially not with perfect certainty, apparently an unknown fact to Adams (though easy to find out), so he attacks a strawman from the beginning.
==="Science kicked me in the balls!"===
In a 2015 blog post, Adams blamed science for the tendency of the media to misrepresent science, accusing science of "being silent when bad science morphed into popular misconceptions."Scott Adams, "Science's Biggest Fail", Scott Adams Blog He went on to offer the following muddled understanding of the scientific process:
Steven Novella called that blog entry "a rant against science, arguing that the public is justified in not trusting the findings of science because science has been wrong before." Novella responded: "He makes two major errors in his analysis. The first is to confuse mainstream media reporting of science with the science itself. The second is to have an incorrect image of how science progresses over time." Although Novella acknowledges, "There is a legitimate criticism to be made in terms of scientific institutions putting more resources and value into communicating science to the public," Novella criticizes Adams for "contributing to the very problem about which he is complaining."
===Global warming===
Though Adams says he doesn't reject the consensus, he makes up "reasoning" for why science isn't convincing the "skeptics".Adams, S. (March 8, 2017). How to Convince Skeptics that Climate Change is a Problem. Scott Adams' blog. Retrieved March 23, 2017. As with other points, he is more JAQing off rather than offering valid suggestions to convince the deniers. He calls the climate scientists "alarmists" and gives poor "reasoning" for why the "skeptics" aren't convinced, mainly because things look "fishy". He demonstrates a poor, simplistic understanding of climate change; for instance, he tried comparing prediction models for global warming to financial models and concluded that since financial models cannot predict the future, neither can models made from very predictable long-term phenomena. He also asks for accurate economic models to show how it affects states of affairs, something well out of economic expertise. And then, he says economic models are worthless.
He thinks that since several models point in one direction, scientists are manipulating data. On the other hand, according to science, many models predicting the same outcome make it more robust at prediction. The suggestion he makes, which is "using the same models and assumptions" — plural, still! — means he clearly contradicts himself. To have a sheen of credibility, he should have gone with: "model and assumptions".
He also saw an article (without specifying it or referencing it) that said humans are responsible for more than 100% of warming because otherwise, Earth would be cooling. He thought this was silly and, therefore, climate science is dubious. Since the beaches he saw look "normal", and he saw Google results that "debunk" the rise in sea levels, climate science is fishy and can't be trusted. He doesn't like it when the climate change "alarmists" resort to a version of Pascal's Wager because "[t]he world is full of risks that might happen. We don't treat all of them as real." He makes arguments that are typical of denialist talking points, including "Earth went through natural cycles before" and "why is there a decrease in Arctic ice and an increase in Antarctic ice" (with no regard to nuance, such as ice specified), stating that there are record cold AND record heat times or periods, with disregard for the big picture.
If these are questions the climate change deniers want to pose to climate scientists, it only shows how ignorant they are, not that they want results that don't resemble a financial scam.
==Views on women and sexuality==
===Women's work, brains, and opinions===
In March 2011, Adams posted a piece on his blog in which he appeared to use some standard MRA talking points, stating that wage disparity between men and women is the result of men "get[ting] better results" than women because "on average, men negotiate pay differently and approach risk differently than women," and also apparently attributing the lower number of women in high managerial positions to an unwillingness to sacrifice "family time" in exchange for career advancement.Archived copy of the Adams' piece on the Internet Archive. However, he seemingly advised MRAs that it is pointless trying to fight "the widespread suppression of men's rights," on the apparent grounds that women are simple-minded and we're supposed to be nice to simple-minded people:
In response to the backlash he received, Adams deleted the post from his blog, apparently forgetting that it's impossible to make something disappear once it hits the Internet.Laura Hudson, "'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Compares Women Asking for Equal Pay to Children Demanding Candy", Comics Alliance He left a comment on the blog Feministe, stating that objectors to the post were failing to understand it because their "reading comprehension" was compromised by "emotion", unlike regular readers of his blog, who he claimed have "an unusually high reading comprehension level" and "are pretty far along the bell curve toward rational thought, and relatively immune to emotional distortion."Comment signed as "Scott Adams" to David Futrelle's post Scott Adams to Men’s Rights Activists: Don't bother arguing with women; they’re like children. on Feministe
In the introduction to Your New Job Title is "Accomplice", a compilation of Dilbert comic strips released in 2013, Adams claimed to have suffered "reverse discrimination" in the 1990s, alleging that his bosses at the time told him he was "unqualified for any sort of promotion because [he] had boring DNA and a scrotum."Zeno, "Scott Adams changes his tune?", Halfway There blog This contradicts an interview he gave in Inc. magazine in 1996, in which he stated he "told all of [his] bosses [he] would resign if they ever felt [his] costs exceeded [his] benefits," and then voluntarily complied when he was eventually asked to resign due to "budget constraints".George Gendron, "Dilbert Fired! Starts New Biz", Inc.
Adams published a piece on his blog in March 2012 seemingly defending Rush Limbaugh's calling Sandra Fluke a "slut" for her advocacy of mandatory inclusion of contraception in employer insurance plans.Scott Adams, "The Limbaugh Fluke", Scott Adams Blog In the piece, he stated, "My interpretation of events is that Limbaugh saw Fluke as a capable adult, and a public figure, tough enough to handle some harsh language." In 2015, he revisited the subject of women's opinions, writing that men talking over women in meetings is inevitable, as women are more likely to be interrupted because they are "more verbal than men," and "anyone who talks too long without adding enough value" is fair game.Scott Adams, "Global Gender War", Scott Adams Blog
===Male sexuality and consent===
In June 2011, Adams posted a piece on his blog that "society is organized in such a way that the natural instincts of men are shameful and criminal while the natural instincts of women are mostly legal and acceptable," with men's "natural instincts" apparently representing a desire to "act like unrestrained horny animals."Scott Adams, "Pegs and Holes", Scott Adams Blog
In November 2015, Adams published a similar piece on his site, lamenting how sex was not a guaranteed reward for being nice to women and that "access to sex" requires consent:
Adams further argued in the piece that males have such an uncontrollable need for sex that being denied it inevitably leads them to suicide and violence:
He also contended that the United States is a "female-dominated country" and a "matriarchy," in contrast to "DAESH-held territory" in the indisputably male-dominated Islamic Middle East, where he claimed, "top-ranked men have multiple wives and the low-ranked men either have no access to women, or they have sex with captured slaves." He suggested that the way to stop DAESH is to tell potential recruits that, while "killing infidels" will net them "virgins in heaven," killing the leaders "holding the leash on [their] balls" will grant them instant access to actual human women.
===Hillary kicked men in the balls===
In June 2016, Adams posted a piece on the 2016 U.S. presidential race on his blog, writing that the "biggest unreported story" of the election cycle was the "humiliation of the American male". As evidence of this rampant misandry, he cited a dishwasher detergent ad featuring the stereotypical bumbling, housework-inept husband, who just so happened to be wearing a V-neck sweater. According to Adams, V-neck sweaters are "the uniform of a man who is owned by a woman," and he has thrown out about twenty-five such sweaters given to him as gifts by women trying to turn him into a beta cuck. Apparently, Adams saw the scourge of cleaning product ads and V-neck sweaters as portending the "largest male turnout of any presidential election in American history," and thus the election of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.Scott Adams, "The Humiliation of the American Male in 2016", Scott Adams Blog
Adams followed this up in July 2016 with a piece arguing that the Democratic National Convention represented a "celebration that [men's] role in society is permanently diminished." As he explained, the convention, featuring the first female presidential candidate for a major party, was held in an "impressive venue that was, in all likelihood, designed and built mostly by men," and that "men [got] to watch it all at home, in homes designed and built mostly by men, thanks to the technology that was designed and built mostly by men."Scott Adams, "Selling Past the Close", Scott Adams Blog
This affront to men was so severe that Adams suggested, quite seriously, that watching the DNC had tanked men's testosterone and made them miserable:
Nonetheless, Adams made a point of stating that he was endorsing Clinton "for [his] personal safety," as he was convinced "[his] safety [was] at risk if I [was] seen as supportive of Trump."Scott Adams, "My Endorsement for President of the United States," Scott Adams Blog On the other hand, Trump supporters did not represent a threat in Adams' estimation since they apparently "don't have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as [himself]." Adams predicted (correctly) that Trump would win. He stated that he didn't plan on voting, as his "views don't align with either candidate," and he wanted to "protect [his] objectivity."
It was all a lie, though. Following Trump's election, Adams showed he had a raging hard-on for Trump.Today I had the honor of meeting your favorite president. I already feel sorry for whoever runs against him in 2020. @POTUS @realDonaldTrump by Scott Adams (3:41 PM - 2 Aug 2018) Twitter (archived from August 7, 2018).
==Racism==
In a June 28, 2020 tweet, Adams made the following comment in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement: 
To which Brianna Wu replied: <I>"Maybe that’s more on you than them for creating such an overwhelmingly white cast of characters."</I>
However, in a 2006 interview, he explained the show's cancellation this way: 
Adams later engaged in a Twitter argument with comic book artist Bill Sienkiewicz, during which Sienkiewicz suggested they have a drawing challenge for charity. <I>Birds of Prey</I> writer Gail Simone suggested the challenge benefits Black Lives Matter. In a now-deleted Tweet, Adams stated, <I>"I wouldn't give to a violent, racist group like BLM, but more importantly not the least in interacting with you."</I>
Sienkiewicz later posted on Facebook: 
In late February 2023, an ill-advised Rasmussen poll that asked, without any context, on agreement with the phrase "It’s ok to be white".Bay Area cartoonist who created Dilbert goes on racist rant, draws condemnation by Jordan Parker (Feb. 24, 2023; Updated: Feb. 25, 2023 9:08 a.m.) The San Francisco Chronicle. 72% of all respondents agreed with the statement compared with 26% of Black respondents. Respondents had not been informed that the phrase is considered hate speech and was devised by 4chan.It's Okay To Be White Anti-Defamation League. One could conclude that White people are less likely to recognize coded hate speech because they are less often the target of it than Black people, but Adams instead went on a racist rant against Black people on his YouTube channel:
In the same YouTube rant, Adams cherry picked examples of the black brute stereotype by declaring that he was "really sick of seeing video after video of Black Americans beating up non-Black citizens," insisting that "every damn day" he sees a clip of "some Black person beating the shit out of some white person.""Fully Unhinged ‘Dilbert’ Guy Tells White People to ‘Get the Fuck Away’ From Black People" by Justin Baragona, Daily Beast, 2023 February 23 Adams is presenting a severely distorted view of crime, because studies dating back to the 1980s have consistently shown that most victims of violent crime are attacked by perpetrators of the same race. Also, it is fallacious to assume that the frequency of an event in popular online videos mirrors the frequency of said event in the real, offline world.
Although a few papers had dropped the Dilbert cartoon in the 2020s (due to, as one editor put it, the tone of the strip changing from "being hilarious to being hurtful and mean"), generally speaking, until this point, Adams' increasing toxic online behavior had not affected Dilbert syndication significantly. However, calling all Black people a hate group was the final straw for many newspapers. Multiple newspapers responded to Adams' racist rant by immediately pulling Dilbert; in addition, Dilbert's syndicator announced that they would no longer work with Adams."Dilbert’ Comic Strip Cut By Publications Over Creator’s ‘Racist Rant’—Here’s What We Know" by Ty Roush, Forbes, 2023 February 25"‘Dilbert’ dropped by The Post, other papers, after cartoonist’s racist rant" by Thomas Floyd and Michael Cavna, Washington Post,2023 February 25"Dilbert distributor severs ties to creator over race remarks" by David A. Lieb, AP News, 2023 February 27
Predictably, Adams followed up this video with a typical strange deflective rant, where he attempted to redefine racism as any interaction between races whatsoever, and in particular ranted about corporate employment equality efforts as "racist" for some reason."‘Dilbert’ Author Invokes Mike Pence to Explain Racist Rant" by Kelly Weill, Daily Beast, 2023 February 25"Episode 2029 Scott Adams: I'm Trending On Twitter. Was It Something I Said?" by Scott Adams, Real Coffee with Scott Adams, YouTube, 2022 February 24 
In early March 2023, Adams further dug himself in the hole he made with an interview with . In the interview, Adams dismissed the very possibility that any Black person could have been offended by what he said — this despite widespread criticism of Adams' remarks from many, including multiple Black cartoonists."Cartoonists criticize ‘Dilbert’ creator over racist remarks" by Mark Kennedy, AP News, 2023 March 6"Scott Adams Claims ‘Black America Is Actually Completely Fine’ with His Racist Comments" by Michael Luciano, MediaIte, 2023 March 6 Adams also used his super genius IQ to complain about "anti-white" bias via a string of semi-nonsensical Republican propaganda bullet points. ("Social media shows an anti-Whiteness bias. Businesses do, ESG, CRT, DEI, all these corporate and government things.") Adams also weakly and implausibly tried to excuse his racism by claiming that he was "intentionally courting controversy"."'Dilbert' Creator Digs Deeper Hole With Wild New Claim About 'Black America'" by Josephine Harvey, Huffington Post, 2023 March 7
==Online sockpuppetry==
In 2011, Adams admitted that he had used a sockpuppet account called "plannedchaos" to defend himself in a MetaFilter discussion criticizing a piece he wrote for the Wall Street Journal.Mary Elizabeth Williams, "Dilbert creator's ever-worsening P.R. crisis", Salon As "plannedchaos," Adams wrote, "he [Adams] has a certified genius I.Q., and that's hard to hide," and asked detractors, "Is it Adams' enormous success at self-promotion that makes you jealous and angry?" On his blog, Adams defended this act of self-aggrandizement, stating, "Conflict of interest is like a prison that locks in both the truth and the lies. One workaround for that problem is to change the messenger. That's where an alias comes in handy. When you remove the appearance of conflict of interest, it allows others to listen to the evidence without judging."Scott Adams, "Planned Chaos", Scott Adams Blog It must not have occurred to him that engaging in sockpuppetry is, almost by definition, adding a real conflict of interest to the discussion.
==Views on SJWs==
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==Advocating child on child murder==
In a May 2022 tweet, he suggested a "thought experiment" where it would be legal for children to murder other children that pissed them off.
"If we made it legal for kids to kill their bullies, a lot of problems would go away. We'd create new problems, sure. But how could those new problems be worse? This is a thought experiment, not a recommendation."If we made it legal for kids to kill their bullies, a lot of problems would go away. We'd create new problems, sure. But how could those new problems be worse? This is a thought experiment, not a recommendation. by Scott Adams (11:57 AM · May 26, 2022) Twitter (archived from August 19, 2022).
However, the idea that this is a "thought experiment" falls apart when one observes that Adams is relying exclusively on argument by assertion and then couching it in barely tenable plausible deniability.
==Profiting from tragedy==
Just 3 hours after the 2019 Gilroy Garlic festival mass shooting, Adams attempted to profit off of it by trying to sign up witnesses for a cryptocurrency-based app that he co-founded called Whenhub.If you were a witness to the #GilroyGarlicFestivalshooting please sign on to Interface by WhenHub (free app) and you can set your price to take calls. Use keyword Gilroy. by Scott Adams (8:21 PM · Jul 28, 2019) Twitter (archived from July 29, 2019).Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Uses Gilroy Mass Shooting to Promote His App by Tom McKay (July 29, 2019) Gizmodo.
==Predictions from a stable genius==
It goes without saying that a stable genius with a very high IQ, who believes that his thoughts can magically influence the universe, also loves to predict things. After all, as a trained hypnotist (a factoid that Adams will frequently mention on social media and in promotions), Adams is, naturally, the only person on Earth who is qualified to comment on all knowledge known to man. Everyone else is, of course, just brainwashed sheeple."Donald Trump is a master of hypnotism. How he used the power on America—and then himself" by Ralph Benko, Fortune, 2020 September 27"The only people qualified to have a rational opinion on the case at this point are trained hypnotists such as me. Everyone else is as brainwashed (via priming) as you are, including those you mentioned.", @ScottAdamsSays, Twitter, 2021 April 8, archived on 2021 April 8
On March 12, 2020, Adams predicted that before November 3, 2020, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump would contract COVID-19, and one of them would die from it. This prediction failed miserably: Only Trump contracted COVID-19 during this period, and he quickly recovered after a hospitalization."The Worst Predictions of 2020" by Zack Stanton, Politico, 2020 December 29
In June 2020, Adams announced to his readers, "If Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within the year." He added that "Republicans will be hunted".If Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within the year. by Scott Adams (5:49 AM - 1 Jul 2020) Twitter (archived from July 26, 2020). He also tried to connect Joe Biden's name to the Number of the Beast:
Now that's totally not a shoehorn!
He then stated that the "iden" in Biden means identity, so under this totally-not-contrived logic, Biden's real name is "666 Identity". This is on top of other bullshit shoehorning:
Yes, because burning California is clearly on Biden's agenda.
This one is not even wrong.
The only question is whether Adams even believes this batshit insane conspiracy or if he is trying to rile up evangelical voters to get them to support Trump. Given his history and the use of some obfuscatory language like "if Satan existed", the latter is likely, which is still scary as it means he knows what he's doing when spreading the nonsense.
Also, in June 2020, perhaps motivated by his previous correct prediction of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Adams attempted to predict who would win the presidential election that year. Adams put "Trump’s odds of winning the election at 100%". He also predicted that "if Trump wins, there will be a second coup attempt". Adams then complained about the "brainwashing (literally) of the political left", who (according to Adams) have been "programmed" by "propaganda outlets" pushing "fake news".@ScottAdamsSays Twitter thread, 2020 June 19
Of course, Joe Biden won the 2020 election in November. Naturally, since Adams, at this point, was thoroughly hypnotized by Trump, Adams' reaction was to completely believe in Trump's election fraud bullshit (even evoking Godwin's Law when coming up with some bizarre election fraud conspiracy theories on Twitter.)"To believe Biden will be sworn in as president in January, one must believe at least one unlikely thing:"..., @ScottAdamsSays, Twitter, 2020 November 8, archived on 2021 Apr 8
On January 6, 2021, Adams' coup prediction ironically turned out to be half-correct when a ragtag group of Donald Trump supporters attempted a coup to stop Biden's Electoral College win from being certified. The riot's genesis was rhetoric by Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and others at a political rally a few hours prior."Could Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani face charges of inciting mob violence in Capitol riots?" by Nathan Bomey, USA Today, 2021 January 7 Adams, however, used his super genius IQ and hypnosis skills to deduce that blaming these people would be an entirely incorrect conclusion, sheeple. Instead, Adams concluded that the blame fell square on... the media. Adams even parroted Donald Trump's authoritarian rhetoric"Trump called the news media an ‘enemy of the American People.’ Here’s a history of the term." by Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 2017 February 18 by calling the media the "enemy of the people"."Would protestors have stormed the Capitol building if we had a functional press that informed the public and considered all points of view? I doubt it. Trump isn't helping, but the press is pinning their flaws on him, and successfully. They are the enemy of the people.", @ScottAdamsSays, Twitter, 2021 January 7, archived on 2021 April 8
==Post-cancellation==
After being yanked from newspapers due to racism, Adams moved his operations to a subscription service on While Adams continued to create a "spicier" version of Dilbert "reborn" on that site, Adams' focus shifted towards "political content". His Locals subscription included several livestreams with "lots of politics" as well as a comic called Robots Reading News, with a little bit of alleged self-help media content as well.Frequently Asked Questions, Dilbert.com, archived on 2024 May 04 His Twitter feed also increasingly focused on angry MAGA politics.Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays), Twitter feed, archived on 28 May 2024 Examples include a tweet demanding that Republicans free the QAnon Shaman;"Republicans need to shut down Congress until the Q-anon Shaman is released without charges or pardoned by Biden. We've seen enough. A line has been crossed. Close the government", Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays), Twitter, 2024 March 10, archived on 2024 May 28 a tweet in which Adams whataboutism-ed Vladimir Putin's involvement in death by complaining about the "Jan6ers" who were "still incarcerated" and how "Biden" supposedly was "trying to jail Trump";"It was clever for Putin to kill his critic in prison while the Jan6ers are still incarcerated and Biden is trying to jail Trump.America will have to sit this one out. We have no moral authority. We also have no leader that we can identify. Is it Jill?", Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays), Twitter, 2024 February 16, archived on 2024 May 28 and many rants blaming Democrats (and many other wingnut boogeymen) for essentially every ill on the planet."Democrats have given us... The ADL to destroy free speech. Teachers Unions to destroy education. No bail, fewer police to destroy retail and cities. Climate alarm to destroy our energy sector. Activists to destroy our domestic nuclear energy future. Bad judges (J6 outcomes) to destroy the credibility of our judicial system. Fake News to destroy patriotism and replace it with division. Pandemic mandates to destroy our mental health and the future of our children. Ukraine War to destroy whatever is left of us. You have to respect the thoroughness of it all.", Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays), Twitter, 2023 September 6, archived on 2024 May 28 From time to time, Adams' tweets also demonstrated an inability to detect whether or not a retweet he was posting was actually fake news."Hawaii is ten minutes from turning Republican.", Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays), Twitter, 2023 August 22, archived on 2024 May 28
Adams' racism and incredibly blatant misogyny also continued. In one Twitter post, Adams "whitesplained" to Black American men that the way to "increase (their) odds of success" was to "copy Republicans", as (according to Adams for some reason) apparently only Republicans "have developed a mindset and a set of traditions that have always worked, no matter who uses the methods".
Adams made several posts disparaging DEI, even though he had zero clue on what DEI actually is. For Adams, "DEI" was a snarl word that he used to denigrate women and minorities. For instance, in one tweet, he blamed "the DEI debacle" on "batshit crazy white women who don't know how anything works outside the female experience". He then proceeded to call liberal women "mentally ill"."Scott Adams’ Reality", Daily Cartoonist, D. D. Degg, 2024 March 30 In a January 2024 tweet, in relation to the Adams bizarrely blamed "everything wrong with" the United States on a "dysfunctional mating system (marriage)" which, according to Adams, was all the fault of "women (becoming) batshit crazy, staring to defend DEI and open borders and anything else that increases the odds of women being around additional sperm.""Dilbert cartoonist says "everything wrong with the country" is due to "batshit crazy" women's desire for "additional sperm"" by Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing, 2024 January 26"The Guy Who Created Dilbert Sure Does Have A Lot Of Opinions About Sperm" by Mike Redmond, Uproxx, 2024 January 26
Like many hypnotized by MAGA, Adams continued to believe Donald Trump's Big Lie and maintained that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was rigged. In March 2024, when Adams falsely suggested that US "election systems are not fully auditable and lots of stuff goes 'missing' the day after the election", the Republican Stephen Richer PWNED Adams' genius IQ by explaining that US elections actually were fully auditable, and gave some information on the actual process officials use for auditing elections."Trump-loving Dilbert creator schooled by Republican official on election security" by Brad Reed, Raw Story, 2024 March 4
==Adams' rebuttal of his RationalWiki page==
When directed to his Rationalwiki page on Twitter, Adams handwaved away his well-documented asshattery, claiming it was all taken out of context.
==See also==
*Ben Garrison
*Larry Pickering
*Mallard Fillmore
*Billy the Heretic, "Dilbert for White Nationalists"
==External links==
*His YouTube
*His blog
*Dilbert's website
*His Twitter
==Notes==
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