To Believe Trump You Must Believe Contradictory Things

[DonViejo]

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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https://politicalwire.com/2017/05/29/believe-trump-must-believe-contradictory-things/

[Thomas Hurt]

1. People, myself included, have been saying this for several weeks.

[RKP5637]

2. And a high correlation IMO to conspiracy theory believers which in my simplistic analyzes

correlates highly with GOPers.

[MiddleClass]

3. You're using too much credit, Washington Post

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]

4. Trump can speak multiple positions on the same subject in one sentence. Don the Con!

“The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.”
― Ron Suskind, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

[Wounded Bear]

5. I blame the proliferation of fundamentalist religions...

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]

6. If Dump would provide information to discredit the 'fake news'

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]

7. To believe, you must hold something as true without evidence it is.

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.

[Brother Buzz]

8. I am willing to believe it. I can believe any thing.