Banned on Youtube. I wonder why 🙄

Sounds like a match made in (Trump's) heaven!

Could this be true? https://news.yahoo.com/gop-sen-pat-toomey-says-200705327.html

Go for your life, Mr Orange Buffoon - I love to watch you screw things up: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-thinks-announcing-2024-run-012909372.html

Also, the election fraud deniers that he created (let's face it, this was never as bad before Trump came along) just won't go away: https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1109442956/these-candidates-lost-badly-but-now-are-claiming-fraud

Hence why I won't be reading new Dilbert anymore (the classic ones I still find quite amusing). He can pander to Trump's audience now, I'm finished with him.

I think things are looking rather ominous (in a bad way) for Scott Adams, especially when you consider the following:

* in one interview, he has said that since becoming a vocal Trump supporter in 2017, his public speaking career ended as he became a "Trump apologist"

* as a result his income has declined by about 40% - however he also said he had made enough "f--k you money" (his words not mine) before that happened, so that may not be as bad as it sounds or such a concern to him

* in a separate interview, he said his number of friends was down 75% due to supporting Trump

* I don't know how many people watch the videos of drivel he posts on his site, but most of his Youtube ones don't even crack 30,000. Okay, that's still a decent number, but consider the millions who used to read and follow Dilbert (count me in this category) in the late 1990s and early 2000s and no longer do - how much has his readership declined? How many books does he sell? Yes he probably has Trump-lovers like himself who will snap up a copy of whatever drivel he publishes, but how many more would have purchased a plain old good-fashioned Dilbert book that poked fun at office politics prior to him pivoting to the Trump universe he's in now? While I realise writers etc have to stay with the times, basing your cartoon on fraudulent lies - especially election ones - might not end as well as you think it might. Does he think Trump cares about him still? I doubt it.

* he considers the January 6 Commission a "kangaroo court", whatever the hell that means - I guess that means he thinks it's not legitimate? What happened was real and it needs to be fully investigated. Doesn't matter who does it, it needs to be investigated so something like this can't happen ever again - or maybe he was okay with what those Trump-loving thugs did that day?

* I wonder if his syndicator is going to face a backlash from him putting out election fraud cartoons. Possibly not, but it speaks a lot about the standards (or lack thereof) they hold themselves to

Sorry for the massive post, as I said before it depresses me that someone I used to admire previously has - as neb says - jumped the shark and seems to be desperate to appeal to a small group of people just to push lies. Hell, I used to hang Dilbert cartoons on my cubicle at work as I felt like he understood what it was like working in such an environment. His cartoons are so far removed from that now it feels like he's abandoned what made him famous just to become another I'll-agree-with-anything-Trump-says sheep.

As I said in my post on the last page if anyone is interested in my last remaining Dilbert books to buy (written before he became the Trump-fanboy he is today) please see my thread in the Offers and Wanted subforum 🙂

Very pertinent opinion piece I came across this morning: https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1014808/the-turning-point

According to this, the sworn testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson is bringing many other witnesses forward and multiple prosecutions of people in high places, including Trump himself, could be forthcoming. This fourth of July may end up really being an Independence Day.

A very thoughtful opinion piece from Mitt Romney, a Republican I actually respect.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/mitt-romney-republican-denial-biden-election/661468/

quickymart:

 

A very thoughtful opinion piece from Mitt Romney, a Republican I actually respect.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/mitt-romney-republican-denial-biden-election/661468/

Yes a very good piece.

"I hope for a president who can rise above the din to unite us behind the truth. Several contenders with experience and smarts stand in the wings; we intently watch to see if they also possess the requisite character and ability to bring the nation together in confronting our common reality. "

Who are these 'several contenders' ??

I wondered that too. I don't think he's referring to Ron De Santis. Maybe Liz Cheney?

In any case, anyone has to be better than Trump.

Georgia grand jury subpoenas Trump lawyers over effort to overturn election | Georgia | The Guardian

 

The special grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia has subpoenaed several of the former US president’s legal advisers and political allies.

 

Court documents show the Fulton county special grand jury has issued subpoenas to members of the Trump campaign legal team, including Rudy Giuliani, and Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South Carolina.

 

The grand jury is also seeking information from the conservative lawyers John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis. Mitchell participated in the phone call between Trump and Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state in Georgia, that sparked the grand jury investigation.

 

DeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state | Salon.com

What a load of crap:

 

Public universities in Florida will be required to survey both faculty and students on their political beliefs and viewpoints, with the institutions at risk of losing their funding if the responses are not satisfactory to the state's Republican-led legislature. 

 

The unprecedented project, which was tucked into a law signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, is part of a long-running, nationwide right-wing push to promote "intellectual diversity" on campuses — though worries over a lack of details on the survey's privacy protections, and questions over what the results may ultimately be used for, hover over the venture.

 

Based on the bill's language, survey responses will not necessarily be anonymous — sparking worries among many professors and other university staff that they may be targeted, held back in their careers or even fired for their beliefs. 

 

According to the bill's sponsor, state Sen. Ray Rodrigues, faculty will not be promoted or fired based on their responses, but, as The Tampa Bay Times reported Tuesday, the bill itself does not back up those claims.

 

The only details on the survey come via a passage over its purpose, to discover "the extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented" at public universities, and whether students "feel free to express beliefs and viewpoints on campus and in the classroom."

 

"It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you'd be exposed to a lot of different ideas," DeSantis said at a press conference following the bill signing. "Unfortunately, now the norm is, these are more intellectually repressive environments. You have orthodoxies that are promoted, and other viewpoints are shunned or even suppressed."

 

Republicans have long held that universities promote left-wing ideologies and discriminate against conservative students and staff.

 

Though the bill does not specify what the survey results will be used for, both DeSantis and Rodrigues suggested that the state could institute budget cuts if university students and staff do not respond in a satisfactory manner.

 

"That's not worth tax dollars and that's not something that we're going to be supporting moving forward," DeSantis said.

 

When pressed by reporters, the governor did not offer any specific examples of repression and discrimination faced by conservative students, simply saying that he knows "a lot of parents" who worry about their children being "indoctrinated" on campus.

 

Sigh. Aren't there more important things to worry about?
I thought Republicans were all about their beloved "freedoms" but I guess that doesn't extend to "what party are you going to vote for? As long as it's us, you're all good." 😠

Is there a chance Democrats could hold onto the Senate?

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/democrats-senate-2022-republicans-house/index.html