'The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned'

[whell]

Originally Posted by barbara

I read both accounts in the news today.

Which is real and which is fake news?

Considering the track record from the Trump camp when it come to lying It makes it difficult to tell.

Considering WaPo's track record of late, I'll go with WaPo being the fake news source.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by barbara

I read both accounts in the news today.

Which is real and which is fake news?

Considering the track record from the Trump camp when it come to lying It makes it difficult to tell.

That is good.

People now have a healthy skepticism of "News".

[barbara]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

That is good.



People now have a healthy skepticism of "News".

I have always had a healthy skepticism of news as I think most people do. I think what happens most of the time people choose news sources that reflect their bias.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

Considering WaPo's track record of late, I'll go with WaPo being the fake news source.

The WaPo, winner of 47 Pulitzer Prizes, and the publication tracking Trump's Presidential lies should strive to match the journalistic ethics of Fox News, the employer of grown-up Hitler Youth member, Sean Hannity, who willingly gives Trump handjobs under the table during interviews?

[icenine]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

You're going-in assumption seemed to be 'boy is their big shit wrong with them.' How one feels about individuals one knows doesn't ever relate strongly tto how one feels about big groups in the abstract.

Some of my best friends are (fill in the blank)...

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The WaPo, winner of 47 Pulitzer Prizes, and the publication tracking Trump's Presidential lies should strive to match the journalistic ethics of Fox News, the employer of grown-up Hitler Youth member, Sean Hannity, who willingly gives Trump handjobs under the table during interviews?

You sound like someone's pet yorkie yapping in the backyard. This one's so easy Finn, even you should be able to figure it out.

The Wapo OPTION piece in the OP put a spin on this story that just ain't correct. To say that these folks resigned "unexpectedly" is BS. The OPINION writer's piece was designed to give the reader the impression - and you and Bob fell for it - that a mini protest was underway at the State Dept. Even your lefty friends at CommonDreams.org have figured this out:

Update:

Despite some initial speculation that their 'unexpected' and 'abrupt' departures were possibly an expression of protest by employees who did not want to work for the State Department under President Trump, later reporting on Wednesday indicates the mass exodus was triggered, according to department officials, by the new administration "cleaning house" and telling the top-level managers their services were no longer needed.

"Any implication that that these four people quit is wrong," one unnamed senior State Department official told CNN. "These people are loyal to the secretary, the President and to the State Department. There is just not any attempt here to dis the President. People are not quitting and running away in disgust. This is the White House cleaning house."

On the record, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told the Washington Post, "These positions are political appointments, and require the president to nominate and the Senate to confirm them in these roles. They are not career appointments, but of limited term,” Toner said.

Trump's election has you so tied up in knots that you're becoming a caricature. Please continue. It's hilarious.

[Dondilion]

Wapo then and Wapo now are two different organs.

Wapo's Trump anxiety bedevils it.

[sheltiedave]

If you are told that your services are no longer needed as of February 10, for instance, but you submit a letter of resignation of January 25, then you resigned. If you submit a letter of notice that your final day is February 10, but you then are told to pack up and exit the premises that afternoon, then you are terminated, fired, released or whatever euphemistic term is bandied about this week to the press.

In most workplaces, one of the most important concepts that drives worker productivity is continuity. The main thrust I am gaining from looking at the Trump administration's transition is the most important goal is a gleeful putsch.

[Dondilion]

Putsch: A plotted revolt or attempt to over a government.

[donquixote99]

Use of the word is figurative, goes to illegitimacy, and rapid radical change.