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global1

(25,167 posts)
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:04 PM Oct 2017

Why All The Conflicting And Contradictory Stories....

We hear that Trump is unhinged and losing it. He's blowing up in the WH. He hates everybody there. Kelly is on the outs and will get fired.

Then today - they trot out Kelly and he basically refutes all those stories and says everything is beautiful.

What are we to believe any more. What is fact? What is fake?

Who's snowing who?

I just can't take anymore of these Chutes and Ladders.

Is Mueller even real?

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Why All The Conflicting And Contradictory Stories.... (Original Post) global1 Oct 2017 OP
No person keeps their job sarisataka Oct 2017 #1
Occam's Razor--Trump has a long history of chaos and conflict. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #2
Precisely. He can somehow function marginally in his own Category-5 shitstorms. VOX Oct 2017 #5
++++ Love this description FakeNoose Oct 2017 #7
This situation reminds me of Invasion of the Body BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #3
I hear you... defacto7 Oct 2017 #4
I wouldn't be surprised if the story changed the outcome Bradical79 Oct 2017 #6
Yes to all that, but it won't matter FakeNoose Oct 2017 #10
The fact that they have to trot out Kelly - means the stories are true womanofthehills Oct 2017 #8
I wouldn't expect Kelly to say anything different. haele Oct 2017 #9
There have been a lot of false stories right here. cwydro Oct 2017 #11
You might as well say you can't determine who is telling the truth Blue_Tires Oct 2017 #12
Trolling Everyone disalitervisum Oct 2017 #13

sarisataka

(18,216 posts)
1. No person keeps their job
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:08 PM
Oct 2017

For very long by going on national TV and announcing their boss is a narcissistic child and the team is in chaos.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,085 posts)
2. Occam's Razor--Trump has a long history of chaos and conflict.
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:08 PM
Oct 2017

Ergo, I doubt it's any different with him as President.

Nothing has changed in him as President from the 71 years of him before he was President.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
5. Precisely. He can somehow function marginally in his own Category-5 shitstorms.
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:18 PM
Oct 2017

The rest of humanity -- the sane ones, anyway -- can see right through him, and spot him for the phony, grifting bullshitter that he really is. And knowing that fact, it's doubly hard to listen to that braying jackass spew out his self-congratulating, self-involved, self-profiting, LYING crap. And then to be dragged into his personal dramas that may, at some point, result in a genuine existential threat to this country.

#45 is definitely the bull who carries his own china shop around with him. He is coarse and common, and transforms everything around him into a vulgarity.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
3. This situation reminds me of Invasion of the Body
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:09 PM
Oct 2017

Snatchers or The Stepford Wives. If I were still a sane employee in the White House I would be afraid to fall asleep at night.

 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
6. I wouldn't be surprised if the story changed the outcome
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:21 PM
Oct 2017

Trump plans on firing him, it leaks, Trump keeps him on for now to avoid more embarassment.

FakeNoose

(32,350 posts)
10. Yes to all that, but it won't matter
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:36 PM
Oct 2017

Kelly is going to resign at the first opportunity. He would have resigned already, except he knows he has to be the one to shoot Cheeto when he tries to start World War 3. It could be any day now.

haele

(12,581 posts)
9. I wouldn't expect Kelly to say anything different.
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:34 PM
Oct 2017

Just like Tillerson and his press conference.

Drumpf said "You go out there and tell them everything's under control and I'm a great boss to work for..."
And they did it.

Anyone who's had to deal with top brass in crisis, whether military or corporate, understands that no matter what, admission of failure or ineptitude is never an option unless there's no way it can be hidden.

Drumpf will fire everyone and threaten them with the NDAs they signed before he allows anyone to imply anything is going wrong or that he's incompetent.

Haele

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
11. There have been a lot of false stories right here.
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:36 PM
Oct 2017

Perhaps they're wishful thinking, but they do us no good.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
12. You might as well say you can't determine who is telling the truth
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:41 PM
Oct 2017

between Weinstein and his growing list of all-star accusers, since they're both giving very "contradictory" accounts about what happened...

 

disalitervisum

(470 posts)
13. Trolling Everyone
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:48 PM
Oct 2017

The whole country. This is what he does. When you actually listen to a conman, he tells you upfront exactly what is going to happen.

The only problem we have now is anyone's personal refusal to accept what is right before their eyes.

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