Scott Adams became famous by using his comic strip Dilbert to satirize life as a cubicle-drone. He crafted the characters as hopeless, tie-wearing corporate types who have long since given up fighting the inefficient bureaucracy in which they operate. It makes people feel better — it’s an office they can relate to, sure, but they can also laugh at how exaggeratedly stupid it is there.
Adams appears to be offering the same catharsis to people who try to use analogies.
It’s time for President Obama to be “fired,” he wrote yesterday, because of his crackdown on marijuana offenders who are obeying state law in California but defying federal law. He (of course) compares the situation to a corporate office: What if there was a CEO whom you liked, who was doing a good job, but who you found out had murdered a guy and gotten away with it. Should that guy be fired?
It’s not crazy to say “yeah, fire the stabby guy even if he’s good at things,” which is exactly what Adams is saying about the presidential race — Obama is ruining people’s lives over weed, and he should be fired.
Which is dumb.
So while I don’t agree with Romney’s positions on most topics, I’m endorsing him for president starting today. I think we need to set a minimum standard for presidential behavior, and jailing American citizens for political gain simply has to be a firing offense no matter how awesome you might be in other ways.
In an imaginary corporation, the murdery CEO gets fired (yay, pseudo-justice!), and will be replaced with someone else qualified to run the company, who has the potential to do just as well without murdering people (yay, corporation!). In the presidential race, though, that’s not the case: You fire that CEO for getting away with murder, and he’ll get replaced with a guy who is actually advertising himself as a guy who loves murder.
If you’re anti-murder, it makes sense to fire the CEO, because his replacement will likely be anti-murder. But firing quiet drug-warrior Obama will only replace him with righteous drug-warrior Romney. From a New Hampshire campaign event:
“The entryway into our drug culture for our young people is marijuana,” Romney said. “Marijuana is the starter drug. And the idea of medical marijuana is designed to help get marijuana out into the public marketplace and ultimately lead to the legalization of marijuana overall. And in my view, that’s the wrong way to go… If you elect me president, you’re not going to see legalized marijuana. I’m going to fight it tooth and nail.”
FIRE THE MURDERER! Replace him with the person fighting tooth-and-nail for murder!
It’s the problem with rejecting the “lesser of two evils” voting method: As soon as you get mad, you end up voting for evil.
Adams, though, knows Romney loves murder. He just doesn’t much care:
Romney is likely to continue the same drug policies as the Obama administration. But he’s enough of a chameleon and a pragmatist that one can’t be sure. And I’m fairly certain he’d want a second term. He might find it “economical” to use federal resources in other ways than attacking California voters.
Translation: Romney likes murder, is not afraid to tell folks he likes murder, but maybe he won’t murder anyone, if we’re lucky. Fire the murderer. [Scott Adams via Mediaite]
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Time to outsource Dilbert to China.
Dilbert was a wastoid?
Him and his cow-orkers, yes.
I dunno about Dilbert himself, but his creator has apparently dipped a little too much of the logic-impairing snuff.
I hadn't noticed before but the signs are all there:
Notice the shape of his tie.
WEEDLORD BONERHITLER, ANYONE?
That dude must really like his herb.
Yea, but Imma just leave this here: Romney polices California beach for marijuana smokers
He can afford to buy a lot of it, too.
I've been saying you'd have to be high to endorse Mittens, but Jesus…
With the logic he employed in that little piece, there is absolutely no other explanation. I mean, he's so high that this pothead is endorsing Romney, after all.
I believe Scott Adams may have been high when he wrote that press release
I must give credit to this guy for creating Wally, who has inspired my work ethic these last 20 years.
I am Wally. Wally is my idol and hero. I take his strategic advice on how to be irreplaceable while doing nothing very very seriously. I am now 10 years in and firmly completely ensconced and its a sweet gig!
Today, we are all Elbonians.
I am the opposite. I am thoroughly pissed at Scott Adams for making it necessary to change my whole work routine because he had to go and shine a spotlight on Wally.
If you get baked and listen to Dark Side of the Moon while reading Dilbert, you will vote for Romney.
this is confusing.
He's voting for Romney because Mary Worth had that abortion decades ago??
She'd make an awesome DHS secretary, the way she listens in on things. All she needs is an endless fleet of drones.
Wait, was that in the binder??
Comics Curmudgeon libel!
Shut-up and draw!
"I'm voting against the anti-drug guy and in favor of the anti-drug guy. Because there are no other options; particularly not the anti-drug war green party lady, the anti-drug war justice party guy, and especially not the anti-drug war libertarian candidate guy."
Yes vote out the former choomer, for the cult zealot weirdo who will NEVER IN A BUH-JILLION YEARS free the weed. That is some super awesome logic. Methinks Mr. Adams is really thinking about taxes.
What's the difference between filthy rich and horribly filthy rich? A vote for Romney
Would it be surprising to find out that Adams is an AGW denier as well?
But all that CO2 would be great for growing herb, no?
Not exactly, but Adams is so cynical that he posted on his personal blog that the theory of evolution was just a theory, in the Young Earth Creationists sense of "theory".
He is a supporter of Intelligent Design. He's kind of an idiot, which is terribly disappointing. Just like Kelsey Grammer and John Voight are disappointing. The guy makes Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance and then he ends up a FOX News wastebasket? What's up with that?
How can a guy smart enough to write Dilbert argue that Mitt Romney will relax laws against marijuana out of concern for the opinions of California voters? Because California will be a swing state in 2016? No need to pander to potheads in 2012, but it will all be different in 2016!
Dumbass.
You'd have to be high to vote for Mitt Romney.
He's absurdly wealthy, Scott Adams, and maybe just a bit disingenuous in his self-rationalization.
Nah, I think you'd have to NOT be high to vote for Romney.
All snark aside, we're going to legalize weed in Colorado in a few weeks, I am interested to see what the Nobama admin is going to do about that. Yes on amendment 64, bitches!
this is one of the state ballots I'll be watching closely. I'm really interested to see what happens… you know, for science.
Keep an eye on WA, too, where it's quite likely to pass.
As a non-consumer of weed, my interest lies mostly in the intricate dance this will set up between my state and the Feds.
It's about time mainstream America was dragged into this debate about how egregiously absurd (and unfairly enforced) our drugs laws are.
My main interest in Washington is for my brother-in-law with a terminal illness. He can get his medical marijuana in Arizona (where he lives during the winter), but can't procure it in Washington where he lives during the summer). Arizona more tolerant than Washington? Say it ain't so!
What's going to happen is that your amendment will be struck down as unconstitutional under Federal pre-emption and the Supremacy Clause the first time the US attorney feels like going to court. Which will happen, I'm guessing, about 5 seconds after the law goes into effect when someone tries to open a retail store.
This isn't a close call as a matter of law. Especially in light of Gonzalez v. Raich, which affirmed that even growers for personal use can be regulated by the Feds. While the conservatives on the Court tried to beat back the Commerce Clause on the issue of the mandate in the ACA mainly for political reasons, they have no problem taking an expansive view of Federal power when it comes to drugs and other "police powers". So by all means, vote for it (if there's enough movement, eventually the law will change)- just don't get your hopes up that this particular amendment will survive.
Oh wow man, duuude! No one told us the courts would be involved. Bummmer!
You're harshing our mellow.
See what happened after the Broncos traded off ol' Timmy Tebow…the state went to pot…
And thus the world's most notable MENSA member admits that he cheated on his admission test.
Nah, there are a ton of them that are this fucking clueless.
Swing states my ass. It's now down to a few undecided dopers.
Yeah, but who will get the all important Ziggy endorsement?
Ziggy opposes NObama's draconian pro-pants policies.
And what about Hagar the Horrible?
Good question–one of the Brownes is always tipping a few back and the other is, uh, the one that works harder? I can't remember who does what strip. Not sure where they'd land on this one.
Dude, all that logic shit is harshing my buzz.
"And the idea of medical marijuana is designed to help get marijuana into the public marketplace" — Romney
Eh, Mittens: you Mormons familiar with the term "stigmatized", at all? Ever?
I don't know why you would take anything Scott Adams says literally. You can't snark a snark.
"See, because Romney might really build a strong and lasting contract with Mexico, through the Mormons who still live down there, as a job creator, which would bring down Marijuana costs, rather than letting entrepreneurs build it here"….umm, Dilbert, put down the pipe….
Adams has updates on his blog, saying that news sites are taking his "Obama is a murderer because weed" comments out of context. Amazing something like that could happen, no?
Fire the murderer and hire the serial killer.
This.
Efficiency of scale, duh.
I'm still the best dad ever, of coffee cups, or whatever this stupid fuck tm'd.
Scott Adams should watch the video of Mittens disrespecting the cancer guy in a wheelchair, trying to talk to him about Medical Weed. If that's his only stance, he's going to be sadly surprised when he finds that Mittens will not only jail them, he'll kick them in the face while they're dying of cancer.
And cut their hair.
Good Grief!
He thinks legalizing weed is one of the eleventy-hundred things a President Romney would do on Day One? Uh, good luck with that.
Thank you-I was wondering how Mittens, even with his Super Mormon Work Ethic, was going to do everything he says he's gonna do 'on day one'.
*regards photo*
My, but Tagg's well-practiced homicidal stare seems nearly complete in its perfection.
Aspergery computer dweeb is libertarian, has no human compassion, surprise about this is where?
Bingo.
Yeah, but aspergery computer dweebs are supposed to make up for their compassion deficit with a surplus of cold inhuman logic. This fails massively on that level, too.
yep.
Adams knows they're both Kang and Kodos on drug policy, but he'd rather we vote for Kang because Kodos hasn't been ethical about it? Shit, now I know who the pointy-haired boss really is.
Huh. I had no idea Adams was the kind of asshole who would say a thing like this, then run around bitching that his words were taken out of context like he's doing. I sort of respect him not at all, anymore.
Just another troll.
Truly. He even admits he's posting some things just to generate heat. I think this might be one of them
Between his ridiculous, self-congratulatory sockpuppetry and this little bon mot:
I haven't had a shred of respect for him in quite some time.
The guy really is a useless tool.
Oh, god. He can kiss the blackest part of my ass.
W.T.F.
My god, that's…that's…what a useless shitheel.
That's it. I am throwing out my dilbert of the day calendar. Sure, it's dated 1996, but it will come back around someday.
That sounds exactly like the kind of logic Dilbert's boss would use.
Reminds of how the New Left (of course I don't mean me. I totally was not in the SDS) attacked Democrats and Hubert Humphrey and gave Nixon and his convention a pass. And helped that bastard Republithug defeat HHH. So, Pres. Evil managed to beat one of the most humane people who ever served in the congress.
You're welcome, kids.
"DustyBowlBlues 4p · 9 minutes ago"
DBB — your pee?!
I KNOW! What happened?!!!
Now I must be trippin', man!!??…
Well, to be fair, there was a wee little bit of dope involved in the SDS, too, if I remember correc…..squirrel!!!!….
For the record, President Obama did not technically kill anyone to get elected. That was just a hypothetical example. But he is putting an American citizen in jail for 10 years to life for operating medical marijuana dispensaries in California where it is legal under state law.
Um, Scott? Obama didn't put away Aaron Sandusky for 10+ years (that would be the DEA's doing, if you'd been paying attention). Why don't you go ahead and trot out the old canard "It's Obama's fault that gas prices keep going up," because it's the same type of tired logic that's been widely discredited.
Oh, and your blog is fully of pussyhurt, also, too.
Sounds like this Scott Adams guy got his hands on some decent bud before he logic-ed this whole thing out.
Decent? Shit was laced with stupid.
Is that like a special name? The SarahPalin half-grown strain of Blueberry Kush? Sounds about right.
I for one need to be stupid sometimes. When I am stupid I stop second-guessing myself and go with what I feel, and thats been working. Smart can be a terrible thing to be if your problem is that you have a habit of using your smart against yourself, to tear your own self down. Because you let yourself get herded into a situation just trying to do what everyone expects and not wanting to disappoint, but you hate that situation and hate yourself for letting yourself wind up there. Then you start attacking yourself with your own smart, sometimes.
It gets better though if you just say "fuck it, fuck it all, I deserve to be happy."
But the woman Mitt murdered was French, so it doesn't count.
Typical fucking firebagger… "Whaaa! Obama didn't pull us out of EVERY armed conflict we are involved in on day One, and hasn't reinstated our civil rights lost under Shrub, so I'm going to vote for the guy who will involve us in dozens more wars and install an NSA-branded webcam in every room in my house!"
Fuck Dilbert.
I'm still mad about the civil rights not being reinstated, but even I – a smelly hippie – can tell the difference between "very bad" and "much worse".
'I hate Romney but I love my weed, that Romney also hates…vote Romney.'
Is that what I just read?
No what you read is this…"I like blah people but not when they are in charge so I have to find a way to vote for the other guy. And this is the best thing I could come up with."
Makes sense now???
I laugh my ass off at Dilbert, but the smug superiority of it all is very typical of the socially semi-retarded bright math and computer dweebs who tend to read Ayn Rand and who are never ever even nearly as fucking smart as they think they are. That SNL character, the rude dirisive IT guy played by Jimmy Fallon, that nails it completely. "Did you reboot? (Sneer) Move!(Sneer)."
Ever notice there aren't any black characters in Dilbert? Just sayin'.
ASOK LIBEL!
(OK, he's Indian, but still…)
Not only is he not black, he is the lowest employee in the bunch. An intern/slave no?
Well, yea, but he is in there. Just sayin'
Ever notice Dilbert never got picked up to be an animated series that ran for 23 years? I have.
I think there was one that was on for about 23 days. Kathy Griffin was the voice of the lady with the triangle hair, if I recall correctly.
To my shame, I have it on VHS
No dinosaurs anymore, either.
They do feature a lot of Elbonians, though.
Wait. So Adams wants to fire the guy who's enforcing the law in favor of the guy who's never even smoked a bone?????
In a time like this, what can I do but link an old (4 years = 70 historical internet periods ago) classic?
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07312008
Obama is jailing a pothead for political gain , huh? Yeah, that tactic will really solidify his base in the swing states. Adams saw right through this.
Scott Adams has the same grasp of politics as he does of science, I see.
Scott Adams IS the pointy haired boss???
Seems like Scott's been indulging himself of the weed a little too much lately.
When I smoked weed, I smoked through all kinds of presidential administrations and it never made any difference who was in the White House. In fact, if I was high and someone even mentioned the presidency, he or she would get a punch in the face and a giggle fit.
Look at me! I'm being contrarian!
More likely is that Scott Adams, having become very wealthy, is just trying to get wealthier and consequently recommends voting for the guy who stands for more wealth for the already wealthy over any other considerations.
Bingo.
OK Wonkette — I know it is getting close to Halloween and all, but what is with all of the evil-eyed devils that you have been posting pictures of lately? Josh Romeny, Christian Bale as American Psycho, and the little derp that threw away voter registration…
Who's next?
Dick Cheney?
The "shot-in-the-face" theme is getting a lot of mileage today, where shot-self-in-the-foot left off..
In other news, Mark Trail flips Lost Forest to a developer, turns Andy over to a taxidermist and takes his relationship with Rusty to a new and different level.
Wait until Mittens walks down his street sniffing the air for the scent of weed in order to personally harass every pothead.
Yea, wasn't he the guy who did that in Venice, California?
BTW… Know who else liked to smoke a little weed before opining on the issues of our day?
George Carlin? Bill Maher?
The Dude?
(Raising and waving hand) Me! Me!
Duuude, what?
From Wiki:
Which is weird because he announced he was running for President last year.
Mr. Abdill, does the photo approximate what remained of you and Fruhlinger after duking it out which of you would cover this cartoon-related carnage?
Apparently Josh gets Fridays off or some such Socializtic bullshit.
Paraphrased via FFFB:
Weed can get you through times of no Obama better than Obama can get you through times of no weed.
Thumbs up on behalf of all The Oldz
Keep on truckin!
OT, but here's an idea editrix: post a collection of the creepiest Mittens pics you can find on the interwebz and have a caption contest.
I'd like to see the photoshop contests come back, too~
Blingee, also, as well.
I gave up long ago looking for Rmoney voters to make logical sense. They don't have any sense, cannot accept facts and are just mad cause they think the black guy in the White House is handing out welfare checks to other black people. Regardless of readily available information, they plow merrily ahead seeking to turn the country in a third world banana republic and have been working for it since the 1932 election of Roosevelt. The only reason voters saw republicans for what they were then is they screwed them all over in a noticeable way. Now they screw them over but they have Fox News to tell the public it is the black guys fault. Good thing it's Friday cause I need a drink, dirty martini here please.
Oh and Rmoney and his kids should smoke some weed, they really need to mellow out.
I wave my paw at him and say "Bah!"
Scott Adams has always been a Repuke-style corporate sellout. The workers in the trenches/cubicles are all buffoons and the CEO's & executives are not touched. He even sells "Dilbert" to shill for defense contractors in the form of instructional videos etc.
I think we need to nip this Dilbert thing in the bud.
The logic behind this endorsement is so bad that I'm never going to read his shitty comics again, ever. How can this guy make fun of pinhead office logic and then use the same pinhead logic to endorse a candidate? God almighty, we get what we deserve.
Let's face it: potheads are by far the most annoying of all one-issue voters. They're basically the reason Ron Paul even has a following.
might be why Ron Paul’s run for the GOP nomination went up in smoke.
Loved his "Rule number one, don't panic". Oh, wait, oops.
He might find it “economical” to use federal resources in other ways than attacking California voters.
Erm, attacking California voters is exactly how Republican presidents get second terms. The entire GOP platform is "Real America versus the rest of you guys."
Ack!
Cathy Libel.
Bill the Cat for President!
…sorry, but that photo crystallizes what Mitt's son looked like during the last debate!!!
ABG!!!!!!! Where have you been?
…drinking heavily and trying not to have my job outsourced to China!!!!
Scott Adams draws cartoons for a living. 'Nuff said.
Ack!
I resemble that comment!
Check it out, here's a guy who made a lot of money and now thinks he's an expert on everything. Hmmmmm, who does that sound like?
At least he's not talking about moving his company to Texas, like most of the rest of the CA 'tards do.
Meh. I think Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise are assholes, but I still like their movies.
Translation: Adams made $$$$$ off of Dilbert, and now his money and Romney's money are sitting on neighboring chaise lounges on a Cayman Island beach.
I've got a piece of advice for Scotty….you fucking think a Romney Administration wouldn't throw every weed smoker in jail in a half-second, shit Mitt prolly owns half the private prison companies in the world. Also – Mormon! Duh!
So basically, dipshit sez vote for the Pointy head boss.
Interesting. The highest rated quote on the Scott Adams blog asks if Romney could gain support by claiming state's rights. What I wonder is how much support he would get if he did the same for every issue including the social and religious ones.
Yes, lives are being ruined over federal drug policy under Obama. As they were under Clinton, Bush I and II, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon…
Sigh. I get if you live in California that Romney could be considered a protest vote, but this is stupid. Plus, Scott? We had a chance to legalize it in 2010 and the ballot proposition failed, and it would not have withstood a challenge under federal law anyway…wait, why am I trying to talk logic with a libertarian?
The sad thing is, that;s not the stupidest "logic" I've ever heard.
Also, does anyone ever call cigarettes the starter or gateway drug?
Yeah, but it only leads to more cigarettes.
No wonder his cartoon characters are such self-defeating dweebs.
I stopped reading Dilbert when he did that gross one where Dilbert gave the pointy-haired boss a blowjob.
(i.e. today)
Fire the Midnight Toker and replace him with a Mexican 'Officer Stedanko ' Robot, yeah right.
Further proof even so-called "smart" people brain's can EASILY be manipulated using "negative frames"…
This moron is actually not anywhere near the first person I have seen use the argument that "Romney is so two-faced that he might literally take any position because we do not know where he stands on pretty much anything so we should vote for him!"
Lots of kinds of smarts out there- and many of them are not smart about everything or logical.
What if there was a guy who drew a really good cartoon that was funny enough to make you laugh when your read it but was a complete idiot politically–and then he endorsed a candidate for President?
Continue to laugh at the cartoons and ignore the endorsement.
Vote Potney! Or maybe Cali goes on voter strike if we can't have our cannananities back.
DON'T CALL IT CALI!
You're comparing taking away your weed to murder. Really?
Really??
Really???
Now I understand why Dilbert isn't funny.
Truly, this is why America will never have nice things. The logic, she is treacherous.
Dilbert is a Dilbert, Obama is keeping his powder dry, and will use the funds which are now cowed to the prison industrial complex, DEA and wasted militarized local police, to build roads, and upgrade the grid.
He's got nothing to lose once he's on term two, just wait and see.
Isn't tha the plot of the Boadway musical "Dilbert and Sullivan"?
Hey, I'm a MENSAn too, and believe me, it doesn't matter how smart you are, you can still be a breathtaking asshole (adzhole, for the censors) and make monumentally stupid descisions. Recent papers of Albert Einstein show what a rude pig he could be to his wife in letters to his mistress.
There are seven billion people on the planet, that means there's 140 million MENSAns on the planet. So why is everthing so fucked up (fracked up) with all the geniuses we got? Genius or not, they are only human.
And on top of it, he is a libertarian.
Contrarian attention whores – see one, you've seen one too many.
hate to say it, but i guess smoking the pot really does have a bad influence on the youths.
Wants to vote for Romney for no good reason; makes up bad reason and goes to the wall defending it.
Basic corporate behavior here, really.
Just got around to reading this post. I want to puke. So, Scotbert is still trying to have it his way–that he isn't a crazy Randroid. But he is. He never proves his hypothetical nor gives any evidence that Obama is acting out of political motives.
Loser.
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