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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo Believe Trump You Must Believe Contradictory Things
May 29, 2017 By Taegan Goddard
Washington Post: You must believe that there are a slew of leakers in the executive branch who are providing damning details to the press illegally, and who must be rooted out and punished.
You must also believe that the press makes up imaginary leakers simply to slowly and incrementally report false stories that are tangentially embarrassing to the president.
Trump, unlike most politicians and, frankly, most people, will nonchalantly argue two logically inconsistent points at the same time.
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)correlates highly with GOPers.
MiddleClass
(888 posts)It could be summed up in one very intellectual term,
a bullshit artist.
You don't have to be to immersed in politics + policy to recognize that the Washington Post overstating the obvious.
But maybe that's how you have to fight fake news, logical fallacy talking points, and the like.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fineuntil it wasn't.
― Ron Suskind, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
Wounded Bear
(58,793 posts)You have to be deeply religious to believe in those kinds of paradoxes. Modern liberal religious folk are mostly immune to this, but the fundamentalists have no problem with calling a serial womanizer a spiritual leader.
bresue
(1,007 posts)we might believe him.
Where are the people with new jobs? Where is an affordable health care? Why is ISIS still attacking?
Shall I go on?
FigTree
(347 posts)Contradictions are therefore irrelevant to belief. As is any logical reasoning.
The more you believe, the less you know. The more you know, the less you believe.