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I’ve enjoyed playing in the Dilbert universe, but lately, I’ve been realizing how white and male it is. When female or non-white characters appear in Dilbert, they tend to function only as stereotypes, and I’m afraid I haven’t shaken that up nearly as much as I could have. I’ll try to do a bit more […]

Unless our Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief invokes emergency powers to suspend Congressional investigations and Presidential elections, we’ll soon be rid of him. The problem of Donald Trump will still remain, however, even after the specific damage he’s done is ameliorated, because the problem of Donald Trump is not really about Donald Trump himself. The real problem, which Trump […]

Scott Adams has made a kind of parlor game out of spotting “cognitive dissonance” in critics of Donald Trump. He believes that exhibiting the “tells” of cognitive dissonance (such as long pauses) shows that a person has been confronted with facts or reasoning that have shaken their belief system, and the pause is them rallying […]

Is Trump Hitler? At the risk of calling up unpleasant Democratic memories: it depends on your definition of “is”. Is he going to send 4 million scapegoats to their direct deaths? No. Is he going to try conquering the world militarily? No. If there are progressives that really believe this, then that’s just unfortunate for […]

Welcome to Trumpbert, my parody of Scott Adams’ Dilbert. I created this strip as way of dealing with my bafflement over Adams’ support for Donald Trump, whom he can’t seem to recognize as the ultimate “pointy-haired boss.” This strip will run as long as Trump sticks around, which might not be for much longer. So […]