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NYTimes: Trump Backers Go to Court to Block Vote Recounts in 3 States
Trump Backers Go to Court to Block Vote Recounts in 3 States
“In an election already tainted by suspicion, previously expressed by Donald Trump himself,” she said, “verifying the vote is a common-sense procedure that would put all concerns around voter disenfranchisement to rest. Trump’s desperate attempts to silence voter demands for recounts raise a simple question: why is Donald Trump afraid of these recounts?”
Trump’s $7MM deal with Indiana and Carrier has a -102.9% ROI
Someone on reddit did the math on the Carrier deal. It’s a bad deal.
More importantly, it’s the opposite of what Trump ran on. Tough guy Trump talked about taxing companies that moved jobs to Mexico. Here he is giving them money while they move a net 200 jobs to Mexico.
An ethical double standard for Trump — and the GOP?
“If Hillary Clinton wins this election and they don’t shut down the Clinton Foundation and come clean with all of its past activities, then there’s no telling the kind of corruption that you might see out of the Clinton White House,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt.
Presumably Cotton will take the lead in advising Donald Trump to “shut down” his business activities and “come clean” on what came before. Surely Cotton wants to be consistent.
TheMoneyIllusion » Trump favors teasier money
So what are Trump’s views? Very simple. For elderly savers, Trump favors higher interest rates. For big developers, he favors low rates. For consumers, he wants a strong dollar. For exporters, he wants a weaker dollar. Each group will get what they want, but not all in the same universe. You see, Trump’s monetary views are best described as a wave function, which will collapse to a single outcome on January 20th. Trump is the first post-modern candidate, the first to understand that truth is what the voters let you get aways with, and that the multiverse offers the possibility of achieving seemingly irreconcilable aims.
When Ivanka was a kid, she got frustrated because she couldn’t set up a lemonade stand in Trump Tower. “We had no such advantages,” she writes, meaning, in this case, an ordinary home on an ordinary street. She and her brothers finally tried to sell lemonade at their summer place in Connecticut, but their neighborhood… Continue reading Up is down, rich is poor
When people start throwing Nazi salutes in public, it has a way of clarifying where everybody stands. (via The ‘alt-right’ splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along – LA Times) … Some white nationalists themselves have a term for the split: the alt-right versus the “alt-lite.” Yep.
Paul Krugman: 5.5 million Trump voters could lose health care — because they voted for him
As Krugman notes, 6 million non-Hispanic whites gained insurance between 2013 and 2015; considering 66 percent of white people without a college degree (and therefore likely uninsured before Obamacare) voted for Trump, Krugman reasons at least 3.96 million non-college educated Trump voters will lose their insurance.
Sure you’ll lose your healthcare, but think of the tax cuts coastal elites will get.
Extremely competitive work visa programs face an uncertain future at best. (via The US tech industry will suffer if Trump tightens immigration laws) Blocking H1B visas is a form of protectionism. It’s a good thing our tech sector isn’t an important growth industry like coal is.
In a post on Twitter, he said he would “terminate” the pact President Obama made if Cuba is unwilling to make “a better deal for the Cuban people.” (via Trump Threatens to Roll Back Obama’s Cuba Policy – The New York Times) I’m going to guess that the “better deal for the Cuban people” he… Continue reading Trump Threatens to Roll Back Obama’s Cuba Policy – The New York Times
In many of the president-elect’s international development ventures, his business partners have close ties to foreign governments. (via Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President – The New York Times) This is the story the latest tweet storm is distracting everyone from.