{"id":27612,"date":"2020-02-08T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T21:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27612"},"modified":"2020-02-08T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T21:55:22","slug":"cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/08\/cognitive-dissonance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-AL), former Senator and former Attorney General, on the state of his political opponents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He reminded the audience of his battles against \u201camnesty\u201d and globalism; of how, despite having supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he agrees with Trump that foreign entanglements must be more carefully scrutinized; and of his prowess as a culture warrior: \u201cY\u2019all know one of the biggest things in America today is whether or not that people actually believe there is a truth and a right and wrong. This crowd, this left-wing group, are socialist, they\u2019re secularist, they believe in their revolution, and they don\u2019t believe in tradition and order and law and the Constitution. It\u2019s a big deal. I feel strongly about it, and if we do this thing right, the American people agree with us. Don\u2019t you think?\u201d Yes! came the reply from the audience.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/magazine\/2020\/02\/06\/jeff-sessions-was-cast-out-by-trump-will-alabama-take-him-back\/?arc404=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WaPo Magazine<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Running for his old Senate seat in Alabama, he released this ad to kick off the campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Out of the 100 United State Senators, I was the very first one to stand with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> and I will keep fighting for him and his agenda. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cf0tN8nzGl\">pic.twitter.com\/Cf0tN8nzGl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Sessions (@jeffsessions) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffsessions\/status\/1194993671164309506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jeff, you&#8217;re endorsing the viewpoint and man who doesn&#8217;t respect you, the Constitution, or truth &#8211; as demonstrated in the admission of many Republican Senators&#8217; admission that he was, indeed, guilty as charged by the House Democrats; the point of disagreement was whether or not the crime was a high crime or not.<\/p>\n<p>JBS III, I should be amazed that your head doesn&#8217;t explode from the obvious cognitive dissonance, but I&#8217;m not. The moral decay of the Republicans just makes me tired and sad. But, in all fairness, I must say that you made the proper decision when it came to recusing yourself from the Russia investigation, and for that, I thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Not as much thanks as I feel is proper for <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/05\/and-then-there-was-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romney, Amash<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/07\/presidential-campaign-2020-joe-walsh-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walsh<\/a>, but a small bit. Would you do it again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-AL), former Senator and former Attorney General, on the state of his political opponents: He reminded the audience of his battles against \u201camnesty\u201d and globalism; of how, despite having supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he agrees with Trump that foreign entanglements must be more \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/08\/cognitive-dissonance\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27614,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27612\/revisions\/27614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}