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Just had the @RoguePOTUSStaff Twitter account pointed out to me. This has apparently brewed up in the past few days -- it claims to be White House insiders who have had enough and are going to just leak away. I don't know whether it's real or not, but it's impressively *plausible*, including being just paranoid enough to have the ring of truth.

It's kind of fascinatingly fun, and weirdly encouraging: it paints a White House that is *completely* in disarray, and trying desperately not to fly apart at the seams in factional warfare. (They've coined the hashtag #UnholyTrinity for the alliance of Pence, Ryan and Priebus, who appear to be more or less at war with Bannon.) And it links to a whole nest of related "insider" accounts that purport to be at various government agencies. Check it out.

We'll see if it proves to be real. But it's a nice reminder that the social-media game cuts both ways, and the good guys can use it just as effectively as the bad...

Crossposts: http://jducoeur.livejournal.com/875445.html

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From:

dsrtao

The Anti-West-Wing.

From:

mindways

Holy crap. If that account's accurate, things are in way more chaos than I'd thought they'd be. I mean, any administration is going to have lots of internal debate that would make it look fractured if publicized, but the details of some of those disagreements...

But... how on earth are they finding the time to tweet that often without being noticed? They're being super-careful about identities; I'd expect them to be super-careful on that front as well.

Edited Date: 2017-01-30 06:15 pm (UTC)

From:

jducoeur

Well, if this is real, it's likely low-level staffers. And if it's telling the truth, and everybody's running around like headless chickens pecking at each other, that fits -- by and large, disorganized organizations fail in large part because they are so busy with stupidity at the top that they aren't effectively using their staff. So it's not actually *that* surprising that they'd have time to tweet. But it would imply that they're doing it from inside the WH, and that seems like a recipe to get caught before terribly long...