People are scared: Paranoia seizes Trumps White House

[Kaotic]

The Steve Bannon/Alex Jones conspiracy virus is a full blown infection taking over the WH...

Staffers are leaving their phones at home, using secret apps and monitoring each other’s social media.
Aides are going to great lengths to protect themselves. They’re turning off work-issued smartphones and putting them in drawers when they arrive home from work out of fear that they could be used to eavesdrop. They’re staying mum in meetings out of concern that their comments could be leaked to the press by foes.

Many are using encrypted apps that automatically delete messages once they’ve been read, or are leaving their personal cellphones at home in case their bosses initiate phone checks of the sort that press secretary Sean Spicer deployed last month to try to identify leakers on his team.

It’s an environment of fear that has hamstrung the routine functioning of the executive branch. Senior advisers are spending much of their time trying to protect turf, key positions have remained vacant due to a reluctance to hire people deemed insufficiently loyal, and Trump’s ambitious agenda has been eclipsed by headlines surrounding his unproven claim that former President Barack Obama tapped his phone lines at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.

One senior administration aide, who like most others interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the degree of suspicion had created a toxicity that is unsustainable.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-white-house-paranoia-236069

[Arkansas Granny]

1. How long will it be until a total collapse?

This is no way to run a country.

[dalton99a]

2. Best place to work in America.

Great leadership. The best ever.

[Kaotic]

4. A "fine tuned machine" - lol n/t

[anneboleyn]

7. That image of Alex Jones has scarred me for life!

[bleedingulcers]

3. They should be frightened...

They signed on for this. The rest of us just get to be frightened to death, ALL THE TIME, without having done anything to put ourselves in this position.

Does anyone else here feel as if they've only slept in fits and starts since the so-called Inauguration? My health can't take 4 years of this stress!

[lagomorph777]

6. I wake at 4AM every day. It's hell.

I watch Rachel every night, waiting for the big break.

[NBachers]

14. Since the election, I have been beset by the most disturbing and awful dreams at night.

I'm afraid that they are reflections of a terrible future that is bleeding back into my consciousness.

[Blue_true]

22. I developed an ulcer. Got it under control. nt

[CountAllVotes]

5. Time to turn off that microwave!

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Obama and others are spying on you!

Don't be fooled in believing that it is a microwave oven! It is a secret spying device!





Nothing to fear but fear itself!!


SAD!

[smirkymonkey]

9. LOL!

It's all so ridiculous! If I couldn't laugh at this I would cry.

[CountAllVotes]

21. As the old saying goes --

It is better to laugh rather than cry! I agree needless to say! What the hell else can you do? *eek*

[lunatica]

15. My microwave will catch me

talking to my cat like it understands every word I say. Eeek!

[CountAllVotes]

20. I hate to tell you this

Your cat told me via telepathy all of YOUR secrets! I know everything about you and I don't even have a microwave spying device (yet!)! HA!

[lunatica]

23. Oh yeah? Well tell me, smarty pants, what's my cat's name

Ha! Gotcha!

[CountAllVotes]

24. Your cat told me that it is a secret name

In the world of THE CAT. l

[lunatica]

25. No wonder he doesn't answer when I call him

I get it now...

[MoonRiver]

17. Bwaaaaaa!

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Can not imgine the Stress Level

or the distrust among Staffers. Had a manger who was a paranoid idiot who would go line by line thru our Company issued phone bills,checking to see if we were making unauthorized personal calls. Talk about loss of trust.

[Johnny2X2X]

10. Shame

If these people had a shred of common sense they'd quit, they're going to be associated with a monster before this is through. Many of them will end up in prison or worse.

[barbtries]

11. they can all rot.

only exceptions being the patriotic americans who may be there for the purpose of witnessing and thwarting the clusterfuck that is this administration.

i hope there are some of them.

[NastyRiffraff]

12. Looks like the police state is starting in the White House

This is an authoritarian government and it begins with direct employees.

My initial question was "why don't they just quit?" But possibly they're terrified of quitting. They know too much and can't be permitted to go. Hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I think it is a possibility.

[FailureToCommunicate]

13. So...the Republican dream of disfuntional government is comes true. They must be

popping corks and celebrating in their gated communities.

I weep for my America.

[lunatica]

16. Stalin did that stuff to his staff

Actually what he did was far worse. He used to make some of them prove their loyalty to him by sending their spouses to the Gulag. He "purged" a lot of the top level military and others.

But I'm sure this may be the way he started.

[MoonRiver]

18. Yeah, but Stalin was probably ten times smarter than Dim Don.

So, we've got that.

[LiberalLovinLug]

19. What is scary is that this is just the start of 4 years, potentially

So there may be a cloud of paranoia now, but Trump and Bannon will slowly replace any that are fired or quit due to stress until every position, down to the last secretary, with crazy Trumpsters.

Problem solved.

[JDC]

26. The hallmarks of an incompetent leadership team.

Trump is a disaster on every level.

[Kahuna7]

27. President Queeg. nt

[caroldansen]

28. As the saying goes, oh what a tangled web they weeved when first they practiced to deceive.

[gibraltar72]

29. I'll bet

No one is touching Trumps strawberries.

[MontanaMama]

30. If they feel a fraction of the dread and fear

that I feel every day before my feet hit the floor, I almost pity them. Almost, but not quite. They are perpetuating this national nightmare. I miss waking up without my heart racing because of what might have transpired while I slept - badly.

[Kaotic]

31. New top secret technology to be deployed at WH to thwart eavesdropping...

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