{"id":2893,"date":"2017-05-09T09:09:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:44:44","slug":"contradictions-you-gotta-love-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/contradictions-you-gotta-love-em\/","title":{"rendered":"Contradictions, You Gotta Love Em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a brain teaser:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EPA and Interior Dept fire half their scientist advisors to &#8220;Clean house from Obama&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Coal mining comes back<\/li>\n<li>Water and land use regulations are pared back<\/li>\n<li>Ivanka will lead the Paris Climate Accord review<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please find the thing that is not like the others: No looking at your neighbors answer&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I am seeing the normal conservative hair shirt kneejerk when Trump does something symbolic despite concrete actions taking place. Ivanka terrifies the right and pisses off the left.\u00a0 A great camouflage player.<\/p>\n<p>Get used to symbolic dissonance.\u00a0\u00a0The President\u00a0does not care about verbal integrity, just results.<\/p>\n<p>If we kiss the Paris Climate accords but make noises about reserving the right to modify the impact, it is just words, as sincere as the &#8216;commitments&#8217; of China and India to hit their reduction targets. Symbolic but maybe necessary to give some allies maneuvering room with their constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Not all ideology needs to be confronted all the time. Sometimes you nod and ignore it.<\/p>\n<p>His opposition will now wonder if he will &#8220;Go Green&#8221; after all and they are now confused. Meanwhile, we will be drilling, mining and pumping gas. Muscle cars are being sold. (Dodge is selling an 840 HP single seat Charger in 2018).\u00a0 60% of the vehicles sold in the US in March were pickup trucks and SUVs.<\/p>\n<p>All that is fine as long as we make nice noises to Paris. Liberals really are easily fooled by ceremony, as much as conservatives are obsessive about verbal consistency.<\/p>\n<p>The brass ring this year is a big cut in corporate taxes, especially for small business. If they have to sugar coat it with corporate pledges for large companies to repatriate jobs and have action plans for hiring American, the Democrats will have a very hard time fighting it. In fact , it should be called the &#8220;Hire America Act of 2017&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2893\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2893\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a brain teaser:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EPA and Interior Dept fire half their scientist advisors to &#8220;Clean house from Obama&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Coal mining comes back<\/li>\n<li>Water and land use regulations are pared back<\/li>\n<li>Ivanka will lead the Paris Climate Accord review<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please find the thing that is not like the others: No looking at your neighbors answer&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I am seeing the normal conservative hair shirt kneejerk when Trump does something symbolic despite concrete actions taking place. Ivanka terrifies the right and pisses off the left.\u00a0 A great camouflage player.<\/p>\n<p>Get used to symbolic dissonance.\u00a0\u00a0The President\u00a0does not care about verbal integrity, just results.<\/p>\n<p>If we kiss the Paris Climate accords but make noises about reserving the right to modify the impact, it is just words, as sincere as the &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/contradictions-you-gotta-love-em\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}