Guest Post by Scott Adams
No. Clinton’s team of cognitive scientists and professional persuaders did a terrific job of framing Trump as scary. The illusion will wear off – albeit slowly – as you observe Trump going about the job of President and taking it seriously. You can expect him to adjust his tone and language going forward. You can expect foreign leaders to say they can work with him. You can expect him to focus on unifying an exhausted and nervous country. And you can expect him to succeed in doing so. (He’s persuasive.) Watch as Trump turns to healing. You’re going to be surprised how well he does it. But give it time.
I’ll be doing my persuasive best to help our new president unify the country. I’m not a monster either – just a little bit deplorable when the situation calls for it. And I would ask other Trump supporters to step up and be useful as well. If you helped elect Trump, you have a responsibility to calm the nerves of Clinton supporters who also have their country’s best interests in mind. Let’s all be worthy of our decisions.
How did you know this would play out like a movie?
About a year ago I started telling you in this blog that the Trump journey to the presidency would play out like a great movie script. And it did. Movies generally have three acts:
Act 1: The hero’s life abruptly changes.
Act 2: The hero encounters and solves one problem after another, in an entertaining fashion.
Act 3: The hero faces a seemingly insurmountable problem.
Finale: Against all odds, the hero succeeds.
The audience can’t always tell when the third act has arrived because all of the hero’s problems seem big until solved. I thought we reached the Third Act in Trump’s campaign about five different times since May. In retrospect, the real Third Act happened on election night when Trump was behind in nearly every poll. THAT is an insurmountable problem.
Then Trump won anyway. Like a movie.
How did I predict it would turn out so movie-perfect? I saw the following situation developing:
1. The social bullying coming from Clinton’s supporters guaranteed that lots of Trump supporters were in hiding. That created the potential for a surprise result, so long as the race was close.
2. Trump’s powers of persuasion are better than I have ever seen from a living human. That made it likely that the election would be close. And people generally vote for their party’s candidate, so that too promised a close election.
3. The mainstream media backed Clinton. That created a situation in which she was likely to be ahead at some point near the end of the election cycle.
4. The business model of the news industry guarantees lots of “scandals” on a regular schedule. Small things get inflated to big things, and I assumed there would be plenty of them. Trump has the skill to overcome medium-sized scandals and bumps in the road. That’s all you need for an entertaining Second Act.
5. Once I framed this election as a movie script, it primed you to see events that way. Our brains are movie-trained to recognize the three-act form. That’s why all movies use it.
6. Act One happened when Trump announced he was running. Act Two developed during the primaries and continued to the general election when Trump overcame one medium-sized problem after another. Act Three was defined by the Access Hollywood tape and Trump subsequently falling behind in the polls all the way to Election Day. The Finale was our collective discovery that Trump was right about the polls undercounting his support. It turns out he was Keyser Söze all along – and by that I mean smarter than you thought.
And that’s your movie.
I ask Trump supporters not to gloat too much. Be good to your fellow citizens. Be inclusive. Be useful. The country needs you at your best.
Fuck off. I for one am a sore winner. Those cock suckers on the other side will never change.
I just hope Trump keeps the fines of the Metros who were dumb enough to pay it rather then sign up for health insurance.
And “maybe” just maybe when he needs their vote considering refunding it.
Exactly. You don’t celebrate successfully storming the castle by being nice to the losers. You toss them off the highest tower, impale them on pikes, hang them from the walls, and so on, post-haste.
Now is the time to start utterly destroying the institutions which the liberals have been using to annihilate Western civilization, and to bury as many of them in the rubble as possible. In four years, they need to have nothing to work with. We must force them to start over with as close to nothing as we can manage to give them.
Yes exactly. Look at them today, when u lose u have to stop and ask what u did wrong. No they are doubling down instead. You cant reason with them. Outlaw and ban all their bullshit so they can not bring it back. The only words I have are THIS IS HOW ITS GOING TO BE NOW.
This election is showing that a huge percentage of the population is totally unhinged, excitable, propagandized and completely ignorant of the true faults of Hillary Clinton. You have to go easy – at least at first – on people who are in the throes of a mental breakdown.
Sure, I’ll go easy. No, I won’t gloat. Yes, I’ll be inclusive.
And to quote Ronald Reagan when faced with the same kind of vicious, criminal, state-worshipping collectivists filled with power-lust, “if takes a bloodbath, let’s get on with it.”
Crimes were committed. People beaten, property destroyed, reputations smeared by the Mooks and Podesta’s. They need to be made accountable and imprisoned.
If we let the Democrats get off ( again) they will do it again. Their filthy campaign tactics must be exposed and punished.
Finally, Trumps vow to expel Syrian refugees, deport illegals and build the wall are non negotiable. Too bad for them but they have no right to be here.
Unit,
I can dig it. The statement you made is right on perfect.
I like Trump. I’m glad he won. I think he’ll do his best.
That best has to include regaining the rule of law. We have to
summon the energy to insist on that. The people who plotted
to harm others and did harm others have to be prosecuted.
As for butt hurt libs/dems? I am usually polite to everyone
regardless. If provoked, well, I’ll keep myself in check.
All we need after the first of the year is the appointment of a politically independent US Attorney General and a blank check written by the President to go after every lying, scummy, asshole of any political persuasion (including bankers) and stuff their butts in jail.
Muck
Who you like for AG?
Personally, I lean toward Sheriff Clarke although I doubt he will be in the running.
Sheriff Arpaio
AG will be Giuliani or Christie. My bet is Giuliani.
put Sheriff Arpaio in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
anon above = me
ASIG,
I would like to give you 2-3-4-5 thumbs…
that was funny.
Sheriff Clark was my sheriff. I have met him, heard him speak.
He would be great. We lived in the same suburb and I saw him buying
groceries. His wife is blond. That is okay by me. And, I think they
want to keep him in Milwaukee because he is honest, also a nice guy.
To my AVERAGE fellow citizen I will forgive and understand that they are beguiled by programming, propaganda and billions in false narratives.
For the corrupt elite–NEVER–drain the swamp…no pardons..Podesta, Mills, Hillary/Bill/Chelsea and any other associated wityh the “foundation”, get hard time in FEDERAL prison. Abedin, the muslim brotherhood and CAIR group who have ties to foreign terror groups but had Obama’s ear–they get disbanded and deported. BLM movement’s agitators are put on a no-fly list and terror watchlist. Soros is put at the top of the FBI most-wanted list. I wish we could prosecute the MSM for something like “collusion of attempted treason” or something.
Ryan, McCain, McConnel, Cusick (Ohio Sen sp?), Romney, Bush clan–all need to perform some serious groveling and then forgive them so we can get some work done.
ASIG,
I would like to give you 2-3-4-5 thumbs…
that was funny.
javelin,
nice you are but I beg to differ…Ryan, McCain, Kasich,
Bush crime family…I don’t think so…and the Virginia gov. that
last minute said 60K felons could vote? All of them and others
have committed crimes against the people big time. If any slack
were to be cut, I would offer some of them the opportunity to resign.
“Be good to your fellow citizens. Be inclusive. Be useful.” —– from the article
WHY????
Because they were good to us? Because they were inclusive? Because they are useful?
Or, is because the day after the election you find libtards saying this;
“White Won. We are still the country that produced George Wallace. We are still the country that killed Emmett Till.”
here —– http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/white_won.html
Only in the mentally deranged world of Libtardism can a white candidate be pitted against another white candidate … and then when their candidate loses, turn it into RAAACCISSMM!
I should be nice to them?? Blow me, Scott.
But, if you want to sing Kumbayah with the denizens of hell, knock yourself out. But, when you dine with the devil, you eventually become devil’s food.
Me? I’m going all Conan on these fuckers; “What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!”
I want to eat their fear.
Their tears of unfathomable sadness are delicious!!
““Be good to your fellow citizens. Be inclusive. Be useful.” —– from the article
WHY????
Because they were good to us? Because they were inclusive? Because they are useful?”
The way I see it is this……….. Trump has an uphill fight. Reps hate him. Dems hate him. I doubt they will work with him at all.
The truth is that things have gone so far off the rails is due to an absence of rule of law and our fiat money system. These things fuck every single one of us including those who *think* they benefit from it. Trump needs to educate people……….all of the people. If they choose not to see that is their problem but Trumps greatest strength will be in educating people about the media, constitution, congress abdicating their responsibilities, and the fucking evil fed. Until people understand how we ALL get fucked by these things they can’t begin to change anything. Trump can’t change shit. All he can do is empower the people to take their country back.
He needs to be sincere and gracious at every step. Doing so will give him the moral high ground to point out the hypocrisy of the leftist media and elites and how they use their hypocrisy to control people.
If he chooses unassailable educators to deliver the message without hyperbole or innuendo, just cold hard facts, I think he can change enough minds to drive many of the rats out of congress at the mid-terms.
those are very worthy goals and ideals…
educate the people. Explain the Fed eg.
I’m not done with you Scott Adams!
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CHRIS MATTHEWS: You know, she won every debate by all standards. Every debate.
JAMES CARVILLE: Every debate. Everything.
MATTHEWS: Every debate. She had the best ad campaign, the best ground game. This is a shot against meritocracy, I think. Because she merited everything and the normal way you standardize these things, she did what you’re supposed to do to win and Trump came in around the corner. Well, we’re going to study this for a while.
CARVILLE: For a while? Try the Civil War. There will be a Ken Burns film on this.
KASIE HUNT: First of all, I don’t think we should overlook the human element here either, if Hillary Clinton does [sic] win this. This is potentially, I mean it’s a devastating end. I know, you’ve been so close to them. I wonder what the President is saying to her now as she is trying to process this and deal with it?
RACHEL MADDOW: I’m thinking about President Obama too. I mean, to have the first African American President succeeded by a guy who was endorsed by the KKK is — a guy who has as his campaign manager, his campaign CEO, someone who says ‘I run the website for the alt-right, which defines itself as in white nationalist terms. For them to get that edgy on white racial animus and have that be the succession to the first black president, it’s a big deal.
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I should be nice to these fuckers?? Blow me.
Stucky, if Trump can convert even 5% of the lefties via truthful education the Maddow, Carville, Hunt and Matthews will be seen for what they truly are and be left to twist in the wind. He needs to hire some Bernays manipulation experts to get thru to people but education will be the biggest gift he can give ‘Murica.
I have to admit that I enjoyed watching that SOS James Carville flop around like a gasping fukkin flounder moaning about how DEVASTATED he was. Tough shit Carville, I only hope your pain lasts 8 FUKKIN YEARS.
TBP folks are certainly a bunch of sore winners. We don’t need to start a war with 1/2 the country that voted for Hillary. We also don’t need to coddle them. Let’s just ignore them.
Rather than seeking revenge, let’s hope Trump takes care of important things first like prosecuting the bankers and other crony capitalists who have screwed this country so thoroughly the last 8 years. Put a few bank CEOs in a cell with Bubba and a few of his heavily-tattooed friends and we will quickly return the rule of law to this country.
Then kill the TPP and other trade deals, go meet with Putin and share some vodka, and send invoices to our NATO “partners” for their share of their protection costs. Once those tasks are complete, the majority of citizens in this country will realize Trump is actually a pretty good President.
“I ask Trump supporters not to gloat too much. Be good to your fellow citizens. Be inclusive. Be useful. The country needs you at your best.” – Not going to happen.
The Stronger Together crowd lied, cheated and belittled Trump supporters without batting an eye. Speaking down at us from the top of a mountain of hypocrisy was no way to earn quarter.
If there was any semblance of an honest campaign they might be deserving of my respect.
Inclusive? In what? I’ve never been inclusive of idiot liberals and I’m not about to start now. If my fellow citizens are so stupid that they bought into the lies and deception then they are not worthy of my best. They were ready to shit on the carpet and they need a swat on the ass to remember that they fucked up.
Gloating is not necessarily the way of deplorable people that earn by working their way thru life . Obviously by the protests and riots and threats are the antics of the progressive left like the child throwing a temper tantrum we use techniques to pacify them or restrict certain privileges till they learn ! One thing most progressive left people don’t seem to get is how our government is designed to work and keeping all the little snowflakes safe and warm is not it . Help people sure but help not total support infinitem . I suppose the reason for the riots and protests oh and the crying is the realization that daddy’s home and the adults are in charge now ! Let’s hope we can stick together for our DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF INDEPENDENT STATES !
Give an inch and they will take a mile.
You don’t have to be malicious or gloat – just make decisions and LEAVE THEM OUT OF THE DELIBERATIONS, like Pelosi and Reid did on ObamaCare and Obama did on every E.O. he signed. Just repeal every E.O. that B.O. signed, and don’t ask for opinions.
Don’t ask the ABA for Supreme Court recommends – read a case or two by each candidate, and decide who will stand for the Constitution instead of “progress”.
Don’t ask the bankers for FED recommends – disband the SOB and make Congress work for its’ pay.
Don’t ask the Wall Street execs for Treasury recommends – pick Jim Grant or Jim Rickards, and ignore the howls. Maybe an Austrian economist for Council of Economic Advisers – and tell Krugman he’s too stupid to listen to.
LEAD the US into a better day, better direction and better life. God knows we could use a break!