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 at the number that I had written about him, 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 from, and interest in, 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 seemed relatively likeable at first, but became so cringe-ily, casually offensive and so readily dislikeable.   It's funny how my posts of around 2016, when he was giving ridiculous assessments of Trump vs Clinton, speculate 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 (and, basically, full of himself) 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... 

*  His carry on about how he was a trained hypnotist and this gave his incredible powers of understanding of politics and people and virtually everything was one of his most wanky repeat themes. 

Update:   some conservative, religious types on Twitter are saying that they don't care for his death bed "acceptance of Christ"; and whatever the theological argument about whether such a mantra can be effective, the fact that he was doing it performatively is, at the very least, somewhat cringe-worthy.    

But it did remind me of my "salvation polypill" post, which, if he was smart, he should have read and then taken all options for potential salvation!