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So you may have seen my tweet this morning that Jake Tapper of CNN is drawing Dilbert for the week. The comic art that Jake draws. So I wrote the words, Jake did the art. So if you don't think they're funny, that would be my fault, not Jake's. And just to be clear about that. So I wrote them, Jake drew them. He drew them in his own style so they don't look like the same characters exactly, but you'll recognize them. And that's part of the fun, is that he gets to reimagine that universe in a whole different visual way.

Now I don't think the little purpose of it is that they will be framed and then auctioned off so you can get our signatures on both of them and they will be framed. If you'd like to find out more about that, go to my pinned tweet and you'll see a link over to Homes for Our Troops. Now Homes for Our Troops is not just a veterans organization, but they take care of some of the hardest cases: people who have lost arms and legs, people who need special situations for their housing.

And I'll tell you how I looked at this. Now I can't speak for Jake, so I'll just speak for myself, but it's probably fair to assume there's something like this was happening in his mind, but I can't speak for him. You know, one of the most basic principles or practices, you decide, of our American experience is that we don't leave warriors behind, right? If you're in the military and even if somebody goes down, if they're wounded, we don't leave them. It's like one of the most basic principles that keeps our country so safe. Because would you join the military and would you serve your country if you thought you would be left, if you thought there was even a chance, if you thought there was any chance you would be left behind? Would you serve? Well some would, of course, but I kind of think that it's part of the glue that holds civilization together is that if you do this stuff for the benefit of the country, we will make you one promise: we won't leave you there. That's it. It's like the primary promise.

And so these warriors who are coming home badly wounded, it doesn't seem like they're all the way home. So when I look at this situation, and probably Jake has a similar feeling, we could do a little bit more. So that's what we're doing.

Now for your amusement I would like to read to you some of the comments from the internet over this project. Now keep in mind that the entire point is to help badly wounded veterans. It should be pretty obvious that that's the point. All right? But people also are quite aware that CNN and my brand have some conflict. But that's not what that's about, because the highest principle is you don't leave people behind. So we're operating on that principle, sort of the civilian version of that, where once they're home they're still not all the way home. You got to bring them all the way home if you can. So we're operating on just trying to be useful because people in the public eye, we have some extra tools that the average person doesn't have. We can get a lot of attention. So we're using our tools, get a lot of attention, help the veterans.

But here are some of the comments so you see what kind of a world you're living in. So the worst comments are on Jake's tweets. So Jake tweeted it this morning. I did my own tweet. So the comments under my tweet tend to be fairly supportive but anti-Jake. And as you might imagine, the comments under his feed are more anti-me. So I'll just read the ones that are anti-me. So keep in mind the noble cause and it's obvious this is for good purposes. Everybody who's making these comments knows that Jake and I did a bunch of work and putting our time and effort and reputations on the line to try to do something useful. And these are the comments we got.

"Hey look it's a cis white male privilege on parade." And there's somebody who comes in who has a whole bunch of rumors about me. He says, this is somebody saying this about me, he says "rape is a natural instinct for men." Now keep in mind that these are never things I've ever said. These are things people imagined I said about a blog post. There was a parody that people didn't know was a parody years ago. I saw nothing, nothing that this guy says is actually representative of my opinion. But this is what he comes in to do. He comes in to destroy me on a charity project.

All right, and then this guy says, "I got a Jake you're rich you're on TV every day you get to hobnob with the elite it's got to be fun but the rest of us have to live outside of DC where men like Scott Adams just view this." And then he's got some more spewing there. All right. "I was hoping this was straight-up satirizing Scott Adams. Now it's just too dumb to get it but instead you chose to promote him." That's not what he's doing. Nobody's promoting anybody except the charity. "But instead you chose to promote him and attempt to restore credibility and legitimacy to him and his opinions." Wait, are you telling me I lost my legitimacy? I didn't even know. This is my worst day ever. According to Rando on Twitter I've lost my legitimacy, my credibility. But maybe this whole charity thing can get it back.

This question to Jake on the internet: "Why are you partnering with that loon? Have you asked Scott how he feels about your network and your peers, Jake? You might want to look into that before you do our comics with him." These are not helpful people. These are not helpful people.

Here's another one. So this is the same guy who misrepresents my opinion. He says, or this one, so he's inferring that this is my opinion where he says "if you can't hug women he'll have to start killing them." Does that sound like something I might have actually said? No, I have never said or impli

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ed or thought that if I am unable to hug women I will have to start killing them. That's what somebody's actually wrote in public about me. All right, somebody else says, "Glad you're supporting a guy" meaning me being the guy. "Glad you're supporting me. I use the mass shooting to promote his Apogee." Well that's not exactly what I did. I made a tool available at a time when it would be useful.…

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