A Lesson in Cognitive Dissonance

scottadamsblog: Imagine you are one of the anti-Trump folks who believe we just elected a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-semitic, science-denying dictator. Let’s say that’s the movie playing in your mind. That’s some scary stuff. Keep reading This is hilarious. Scott Adams is attempting to spin Trump reversing himself on almost everything as Trump being “flexible… Continue reading A Lesson in Cognitive Dissonance

A Conservative Group Made a “Professor Watch List,” and the Timing Is Grotesque

A Conservative Group Made a “Professor Watch List,” and the Timing Is Grotesque

This Monday, an organization called Turning Point USA launched a website called the Professor Watchlist, which provides the full names, locations, offenses—and sometimes photographs—of liberal academics it has singled out for ignominy.

This is what the right claims political correctness is doing to our campuses.

Donald Trump Agrees to Pay $25 Million in Trump University Settlement

Donald Trump Agrees to Pay $25 Million in Trump University Settlement

On planet Trump, the fact that Trump is always in court on fraud charges and then agrees to a settlement where the party can not talk about the case somehow proves that the system is out to get Trump.

That Clinton is constantly accused but never charged and everything is in the public record proves that we need a special prosecutors.

Trump’s big infrastructure plan? It’s a trap.

Trump’s big infrastructure plan? It’s a trap.

Trump’s plan is not really an infrastructure plan. It’s a tax-cut plan for utility-industry and construction-sector investors, and a massive corporate welfare plan for contractors. The Trump plan doesn’t directly fund new roads, bridges, water systems or airports, as did Hillary Clinton’s 2016 infrastructure proposal. Instead, Trump’s plan provides tax breaks to private-sector investors who back profitable construction projects. These projects (such as electrical grid modernization or energy pipeline expansion) might already be planned or even underway. There’s no requirement that the tax breaks be used for incremental or otherwise expanded construction efforts; they could all go just to fatten the pockets of investors in previously planned projects.

If you voted for new infrastructure, you were conned.

Trump can now loot millions of dollars from the Secret Service with no disclosure

Trump can now loot millions of dollars from the Secret Service with no disclosure

> by asking for Secret Service protection for family members who fly on his plane, Donald Trump can directly funnel taxpayer money into his own pocket.

> Justin Bachman at Bloomberg has the story:

> For any of the Trump or Pence clans assigned a protective detail due to safety risks— and the rancor of the 2016 vote could well produce many — Secret Service travel on a Trump-owned plane means the agency would need to reimburse the aircraft’s owner. In this case, the president.

Donald Trump’s administration is going to be a bonanza for bankers

Donald Trump’s administration is going to be a bonanza for bankers

> Trump’s pose as an anti-finance populist may be the single greatest trick of his entire campaign. Alongside some rhetoric, after all, Trump has an actual policy agenda that he is running on — and that agenda is incredibly favorable to bankers. He wants less regulation of banks and lower taxes for hedge fund and private equity managers.

> And despite repeatedly attacking Clinton for her ties to Wall Street, Trump has close ties to the banking industry himself. His real estate empire has created a network of conflicts of interest (and opportunities to massively enrich himself) never before seen in an American president.