Crazy idea, if you were President, wouldn't you hire people who might succeed?

[NightWatcher]

Unless you owed favors, why would you pick incompetent people like Rick Perry to head the DoE, Ben Carson HUD, and others who can only fail as they are operating well outside of their skill set?

Is Cheetolini seriously trying to succeed, or is he staffing so that these agencies, and in turn our country, fail?

He's going to run us into a ditch, set fire to the wreck, and escape into the night with a bag of cash.

[madokie]

1. Exactly the plan

he holds grudges and that will be his downfall if nothing else will. fuck tRump and the right wingers he rode in on.

[DURHAM D]

2. Success will be measured by their

ability to completely destroy agencies and institutions. Seems obvious as that has been the Republican agenda for awhile now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. It is an article of faith of conservatives that government is bad.

So, having thrown sand in the gears by hiring incompetent people, when inevitably something does go terribly wrong they can say, "See? Government doesn't work."

[RKP5637]

4. I seriously think his agenda is to drive the US over the cliff. I'm not sure how he will

benefit from this, but looking at his cast of characters, that seems to be his agenda. The US could be in total destruction, he and his ilk will do well, they can just pick up and leave.

We are really about to be led by individuals with some real mental quirks and totally out of their league. It's weird, like really out of a Stephen King novel or a Twilight Zone episode.

I'm frightened. Not that I'm a coward or spineless, just that I see the US about to go totally out of control and in some ways that none will likely know until the results start pouring in.

I guess the damn fools that elected him are happy, no doubt they will shortly be millionaires, what damn ignorant fools.

[Bucky]

6. Oh come on!! You're talking as if he's some kind of foreign agent hostile to US interests

What on earth could give you that idea?

[RKP5637]

10. "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

[lagomorph777]

5. Define "succeed." The goal is to destroy the country, starting with most cabinet-level agencies.

These picks are perfect for the job; their anti-qualifications are hardly an accident.

[Iggo]

7. He's a salesman.

He sells his name and his persona.

That's it.

His persona, to those of us who don't give a shit what he's selling, is: He's an idiot.

He's trying to fix that by surrounding himself with people who make him look like a genius in comparison, so that we'll buy what he's selling.

It's not going to work, but that's the only thing he knows.

[C_U_L8R]

8. No one is allowed to outshine Trump

Hence the bar is pretty low for getting in the cabinet. Cause Trump's, y'know, smart and stuff.

[surrealAmerican]

9. Republicans always do this.

They want to prove that "government" doesn't solve problems, but causes problems. That way they can privatize everything.

[lunasun]

12. If you know anything about Bannon too this is his dream, to see it be taken down & both parties

[Calculating]

13. Conservatives hate these government agencies

And think regulation in general is bad. It only makes sense that they would staff these agencies with people who are contrary to the purpose of the agency. This is all a big spiteful game to them.

[NightWatcher]

15. These idiots are going to burn their house down while they're still inside and their kids sleep

[alarimer]

14. It is perfect if your aim is to destroy these agencies.

Which has been the entire goal of Republicans for decades now. So hire people who would normally be judged as incompetent for the job and watch them destroy it.

It's what they want.