Did Trump take a page from the Tucker Max playbook?

[Narz]

I watched a documentary on Netflix about dishonesty/deceit featuring the burned face dude (don't remember the name offhand) and there was a piece about Tucker Max's marketing director who basically spread fake hate and online shaming of his client, delibrating riling up feminists and other SJWs, going so far as to lead a movement to ban advertisements on city buses for its own product (a movie about the guy).

From what I understand Tucker Max was a guy who went around banging drunk chicks and bragging about it and being a general obnoxious douchebag (either in reality or fiction, probably a lil of each) and started a movement of dorks who lived vicariously thru him (kinda like the cfc guy with the chatroom).

Anyway, the strategy worked swimingly, the more public shaming and panties they got bunched, the higher the profits.

Yet people don't seem to be learning that impotent rage and public shaming is feeding the very beast they love to hate.

Public shaming can be fun and cathartic but it's ineffective unless you can use it to actually achieve supression of your adversary (jail time, ousting, etc.). In a primordial homeogenius environment it works great, in our modern world it doesn't.

Who do people admire the most? Those willing and capable of persiting despite intense hatred and enemies.

 

[Zelig]

Maybe accidentally. Whatever you might think about Max, he's smart. Trump is too stupid to make the logical inferences required to take a page from someone else in order to achieve some measurable goal.

 

[Perfection]

They both took a page from the dickwad playbook

 

[Broken_Erika]

Are you implying that Trump can read?

 

[JollyRoger]

Trump found the page tucked in Melania's unmentionables after she spent a drunken night with Tucker.

 

[Narz]

Maybe accidentally. Whatever you might think about Max, he's smart. Trump is too stupid to make the logical inferences required to take a page from someone else in order to achieve some measurable goal.

I don't see how anyone can still be saying he's stupid considering he won. He may act like an idiot but there's a method to it. If liberals can't do better than talking about how moronic he is next time we will be in for more of the same.

 

[Zelig]

I don't see how anyone can still be saying he's stupid considering he won.

Because by all indications, intelligence is not a requirement for winning elections.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Intelligence has NEVER been a requirement...

 

[Narz]

To be effective and secure your goals you need some intelligence. No ones arguing he's not severely lacking in certain types of it.

 

[Zelig]

To be effective and secure your goals you need some intelligence.

No, you really don't. Cats are pretty effective at securing their goals, but they're clearly pretty stupid by human standards.

 

[Evie]

I don't entirely agree. I think, honestly, Trump's playbook has been much more about playing that game on the media and the political elites than on the "SJW". Paint himself as a victim, even a martyr, of the evil liberal media and the corrupt elites (of which the medias are part), to make the base believe he's on their side. Much more effective than playing the same game on the "SJWs".

"SJWs" were much more used, to the extent they were, in a sleight of hand game. Manufacture outrage with some quote (especially a tweet, since lots of Republican base voters and even moderates are still in the "It's online so it's not real" age) that is sure to incense the SJW but not affect his base ; watch the ensuing fireworks...and watch the media report on that outrage and take space away from the "other" story that could actually have hurt his standing with moderates, had it gained traction.

 

[Narz]

No, you really don't. Cats are pretty effective at securing their goals, but they're clearly pretty stupid by human standards.

Right, because catching a baby mouse and manipulating 50 million people are comparable

 

[Zelig]

Cats manipulate far more than 50 million people.

 

[Narz]

I suppose

 

[Hygro]

Zelig's random walk comment rings pretty compelling. And with 200 million people to draw from, the odds that someone somewhere randomly lived their life such that they won the presidency feels inevitable, if not regular.