>Democrats and their surrogates are describing Trump’s speech as “dark.”
>“Dark” is a linguistic kill shot from the left. >I assume all the TV pundits on Clinton’s team got the message to use the word “dark” right out of the gate. > It’s designed, Trump-style, and it didn’t come from an amateur. >The Clinton team is playing some serious 3D chess now.
>Do you remember all of those policy details Clinton talked about this week? Me neither. She’s done with that uselessness now.
Let me tell you why “dark” is so good.
1. It’s unique. That’s a Trump trick. You haven’t heard “dark” used before in a political context. That makes it memorable and sticky. And it brings no baggage with it to this domain because no other politician has been so labelled.
2. Dark makes you think of black, and black makes you think of racism (in the political season anyway), and that makes you reflexively pair Trump with racism even though it makes no sense.
3. Dark can describe anything scary. It invites the listener to fill in the nightmare with whatever scares them the most about Trump. That’s a hypnosis trick. Leave out the details and let people fill in the story that persuades them the most.
4. Repetition. Dark is the kind of word that pundits can work into almost any answer when talking about Trump. That means you’ll hear it a lot.
I don’t think this one word will change the election by much. But it’s a sign that Clinton has at least one world-class persuader/advisor on the team. I have a feeling I know who. This linguistic kill shot has a partial fingerprint. If I’m right, Godzilla just got into the game.
>I have a feeling I know who. If I’m right, Godzilla just got into the game.
TRUMP BTFO wtf i hate trump now Im now a #HilldoDildo
>dark >good literally forgot about 1 minute later. fucking terrible forced media meme.
John Torres
The dnc doesn't seem to be showing much in the way of cleverness or foresight. He may be giving them too much credit.
Brandon Green
>If I’m right, Godzilla just got into the game.
tease
Luke Mitchell
Thats it then. I'm officially #MentallyHill
Xavier Adams
Wonder how long this man had this written up. Doesn't even mention the Wikileaks stuff.
Pretty soon no one's giving a shit about Trump's "dark" speech.
Joshua Peterson
>he doesnt know the power of 4d chess
I thought crooked hillary was pretty weak at first but it catches on.
Anthony Peterson
Pretty sure*
John Cruz
Who's the Godzilla? Kanye? Tony Robbins? Elon Musk? Some jew?
Jackson Sanders
Dems have gone full retard, you never go full retard.
David Powell
Bill
Gavin Foster
The Dark Knight fights corruption in the night, and ushers in the Don.
Sebastian Reyes
>giving them too much credit.
It is amazing how Sup Forums will praise Scott Adams when he describes the tricks & methods Trump uses. But then when he writes something explaining that the Hillary team has pulled a similar trick, suddenly Scott Adams is wrong, suddenly he is "giving them too much credit" Just, amazing, really.
You guys are fucking human trash There I said it you're all a bunch of idiots
Grayson Williams
It looks even better as a spicy meme. This alone is an effective dose of redpill for some people.
Jace Martinez
it's funny how all it does it let slip how it's all co-ordinated bullshit
Elijah Ortiz
wait, who's godzilla?
o-obongo?
Ryan Davis
This dilbert guy has jumped the shark for sure.
Adam Kelly
the dark word came before the leaks
the leaks are all anyone cares about right now. it would've worked normally but HRC and the DNC are so corrupt they're bleeding out for everyone to see now.
Joshua Moore
I remember scott saying something about Bill not wanting Hillary to win or some shit.
He said it's not Obama on his twitter.
Jeremiah Reyes
Says the retard who's here shitposting like everyone else
Josiah Cox
Stfu scott your book shilling is getting annoying
Alexander Collins
Trump is really weak orator and seems to me to be a degenerate. Where can I get my moneys for posts for Clinton?
Luke Ramirez
The darkness is my ally.
Jack Gutierrez
Godzilla? Recent kingmakers: Carville? Karl Rove??! Linguistic master Frank Luntz?
Christian Cooper
Are there not some laws against this kind of press collusion?
Evan Hernandez
>I don’t think this one word will change the election by much. But it’s a sign that Clinton has at least one world-class persuader/advisor on the team. I have a feeling I know who
This is some Death Note tier anime bullshit.
"Oh, Trump, you thought your powers of persuasion were enough, but behold, my powers are far greater." "W-who is this guy?!? His persuasive power is unlike anything I've ever felt before!"
Kayden Howard
He jumped the shark because there was some actual credibility to trump playing a chess game, while Clinton panders to millennials cringe style daily.
What dildobert is trying to tell us is a "kill shot" is actually just a cringe attempt at being in control of the situation just like her "delete your account" tweet was. She's mimicking her adversary which shows she's on the defense even when it looks like an offensive.
Matthew Hughes
I am the law
Tyler Bennett
>pol makes a thread worrying about clintons 4d chess skills >one idiot says "na-ah" >other idiot goes on tirade at said first idiot, proclaims all of pol to be full of idiots
Well done
Ethan Cruz
~Hello darkness my old friend~
Ethan James
just a friendly reminder who the god of darkness is
Sebastian Peterson
This shit is racist chaps.
It is associating dark with evil and by extension black skin with negativity.
Coming from the Democrats it is even worse, as they are supposed to be sensitive to language that denegrates BAME.
etc.
This could backfire spectacularly in the right hands. Hillary's campaign is essentially preaching to the choir at this point, a substantial number of whom have very dark skin.
Wyatt Rogers
Dark is a victory but they are still using Love Trumps Hate.
Kuk (also spelled as Kek or Keku) is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness in ancient Egyptian religion. In the Ogdoad cosmogony, his name meant darkness. As a concept, Kuk was viewed as androgynous, his female form being known as Kauket (also spelled as Keket), which is simply the female form of the word Kuk.[1]
Like all four dualistic concepts in the Ogdoad, Kuk's male form was depicted as a frog, or as a frog-headed man, and the female form as a snake, or a snake-headed woman. As a symbol of darkness, Kuk also represented obscurity and the unknown, and thus chaos. Also, Kuk was seen as that which occurred before light, thus was known as the bringer-in of light.
ITS REAL
MEME MAGIC
Jaxon Mitchell
>This could backfire spectacularly in the right hands.
No it can't. Trump is so heavily associated with racism at this point that anyone supporting him accusing Clinton or the DNC of being racist will be dismissed out of hand.
Adrian Wright
>...and yet, a Trump presidency would still be preferable to the dark man currently corrupting the white house.
Charles James
Trump is tall, dark, and handsome
Hillary is short, pale, and makes me wince some.
Isaac Williams
trumps not dark, he has blond hair, blue eyes and very light skin
Mason Adams
Why would you be scared of being called dark. Perfect time to double down and drill the message.
Jacob Wood
>mug linguistic kill shots Jesus, this cunt is an idiot.
Lincoln Anderson
>implying crooked hillary, lyin ted, little rubio, low energy jeb, wasnt hella effective
Jesus, this cunt is an idiot
Gabriel Carter
Yes, that's exactly how highly this guy thinks of himself. He's fucking retarded. Keeping in mind, this is a guy who writes comics for a living because he couldn't keep a regular job.
Brayden Stewart
its true they're doing this but there was literally a mass shooting the day after the speech. i mean who are they kidding.
Alexander Perry
>mfw trump flips this shit around so quick our heads will spin
Brody Gutierrez
The Egyptian word for magic and charm is Hekau.
KEK is represented by a frog, and associated with chaos.
It is a good choice word to be used against trump. I'm kinda surprised it wasn't shot down by clintons team of fuckwitted milenials for point 2 alone.
John Morris
Dilbert man frames the election entirely as a movie, and frankly we do too a lot of the time.
Grayson Stewart
>implying those are anything other than funny names Jesus, this cunt is an idiot. And I can tell that you're stupid because you actually fell for Scott Adams' bullshit. Fucking retard.
Nolan Hughes
DARK MAGIC VS MEME MAGIC
James Morgan
...
Ian Diaz
I wonder if Trump can somehow spin this by agreeing that the world is dark, but he is the light.
Parker Gonzalez
Dark Dangerous Out of control
Trigger words for women
It has been going on for a long time, Adams is a little slow in spotting it.
Michael Smith
Oh shit I forgot the most important one.
ANGRY
The subliminal message is clear. Trump is a woman beater.
Daniel Torres
Didn't polls show that most people found his speech positive?
Michael Perry
Triggering those bandies rite off :DDD
John Gomez
Yeah, Bill Maher kept hammering home the "dark" angle. Comparing the speeches to horror movies. Not slating his intelligence anymore. Instead painting him as some evil Sauron like figure.
Owen Hill
>All women want is a "tall,dark and handsome guy" Trump is -tall -handsome now also dark
Women love dangerous men Women will vote an alpha dangerous man that can smack a bitch,deport a minority and hustle for that cash
MentallyHill btfo
Dominic Campbell
nah your the dumb cunt m8. Do you actually think most people vote on policies, and not on character traits and brands like low energy?
Brandon Myers
Clinton is sad! Sad! Very Sad! #ClintonSad #CrookedHillarySad #CuntIsSad #SadCunt #SadCrookedHillary #SadHillary #HillarySad #SadVerySadHillarySadSadSadIfIfIfIfSad
Kevin Harris
Keep calling it dark. Just make more people curious enough to watch it and be moved by the light that it really is.
Oliver Lewis
You never were a democrat were you? >being accused of racism is the worst thing on the planet >having proof of racism via microaggressions like "dark" connotation a negative, indicating they think people with "dark" skin are bad >thinking pic related won't white boy bitch >they wanted to call it a white speech but oh shit they need those white voters now
DNC ya dun goofed.
Gabriel Peterson
Ah Fuck
>ment real pic related
Noah Jones
At least they're right about Dark being bad
Henry Myers
This. It's why he has support from people of.every demographic. Good rational people sense his light. That's why all the Christians of the US latched on early. Why Hindus in India praise him. Many more righteous examples exist.
Trump is the light. Of course, his supporters are the greatest light.
Blake Hernandez
>>Democrats and their surrogates are describing Trump’s speech as “dark.”
That is pretty racist of them. So only the "light" can be good?
Sounds like fucking white supremacy to m.
Oliver Murphy
dark, dangerous, untamed donald
this makes him sounds like a bad ass
men want to be him because he is a bad ass
women want to be with him because he is a bad ass
these morons can't get anything to stick to teflon don
Xavier Morales
>a four letter word is used. >Therefore, a complicated series of events must have occurred which involves me and my little persuasion clique.
Anyone else think Scott is starting to lose his fucking mind?
Lol, it's not about ethics it's only about Ms. Soggyknees.
Aaron Morgan
The word isn't what's worrying, nobody cares about if. It's the "Godzilla" behind the word which is scary
Luke Lopez
You got the collage of when everyone in the media suddenly learned the word 'dystopia', too?
Nathaniel Harris
I bet he drank his own Kool-aid and is making up these things about an underground persuasion clique ruling the world in the hopes that it'll actually become true one day.
He claims that's how he made Dilbert successful
Christian Johnson
>>Democrats and their surrogates are describing Trump’s speech as “dark.”
Dark? Howbout Black. Like Blacked.com
Gavin Russell
>use word dark >world class persuader
lol.
Austin Smith
>Adams notes that literally every fucking leftist media source on the planet immediately begins using the same adjective within the hour >again >n-nothing to see here goy, simply a (((coincidence)))
Trump can spin this in many ways >Donald the DARK Knight >The DARkness before the Don >The person who liked DARK chocolate is gonna be your boss (President)
Plus dark suffers from a bad case of Jamais vu (where words become suddenly meaningless to you but is familiar) since its a one syllable word unlike Crooked Dark Trump sounds fucking racist considering the fact that dindus will be seeing the DNC and those nigs will be swayed by it and wouldn't touch the Democrats with a 10 foot pole after
Grayson Adams
Tony Robbins is my guess
Jeremiah Price
The Democrats exploited women's fear of men very effectively against Sanders. Especially obvious during the Nevada caucus.
Sanders supporters described as: Threatening Throwing chairs Vile Vicious Chaos Yelling and throwing things
...but yeah Trump is getting the same dangerous man treatment
Fear mongering against Islamic Terrorists bad, fear mongering against men in the US, success.
Cooper Edwards
Reminds me of those 16 articles during GG that all dropped the same day. I imagine Ezra Kline is up to his old tricks and they're all working together with an email list.
Anthony Myers
KEK WILLS IT
Jacob Hughes
Didn't you know Sup Forums is one person you fucking emu faggot
Xavier Johnson
>Trump's speeches are "dark" >Kek is the god of darkness
