Scott Adams meets his maker

I did a search on the side bar for my past posts on Scott Adams, who died today, and was surprised that I had written more posts about him than I had realised.  Especially from around the time of his alt.right (as we used to call it) conversion.

I had earlier posts in which I noted enjoyment and interest from some of his blog entries (the links to which are now dead - unlike this blog which will last until the heat death of the universe - provided enough readers contribute to the Opinion Dominion Foundation, which will be devoted to that task, as well as creating a robotic reincarnation of me that will continue tapping away on a keyboard.)   

But man, it's hard to think of another minor celebrity who became so cringeily, casually offensive and so readily dislikeable.   It's funny how my posts of around 2016, when he was giving assessments of Trump vs Clinton, speculate more than once that perhaps it was all a giant troll:  that he was going to claim it was his outstanding powers of persuasion that conned everyone into thinking he had gone all ga-ga for Trump.  Of course not, he would say.  Ha ha....ha.

But no, it was not to be.  And he just went on to become of more and more ludicrous opinion as time went on.    Remember this?: 

“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams made a fearful prediction about the 2020 presidential election on Twitter on Wednesday, telling his Republican followers that if Joe Biden is elected to the White House, “there’s a good chance you will be dead within the year.”

“Republicans will be hunted,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet, later adding, “Police will stand down.” 

Or his views with which you can imagine permanent race-baiter Elon Musk nodding quietly to:

Over the past week, the hugely successful cartoonist Scott Adams experienced a swift downfall over inflammatory remarks on his YouTube show. The artist referred to Black Americans as a “hate group” and suggested that white Americans should “get the hell away from Black people” and avoid helping them. In response, his “Dilbert” comic was canceled by nearly every newspaper that carried it, including Newsday. Adams was then dropped by his syndicate and his book publisher. 

But of course, his sucking up big time to Trump made him a hero to MAGA, who are outraged now that normal people are remembering what a jerk Adams became.  

Gee, just what 'til Trump leaves this mortal coil...