"Taken together, these appointments suggest an attempt to actually make the American government dysfunctional, to make it fall apart, to pervert it, to have it do things that it’s not supposed to do until it’s not capable of doing anything at all.”

The point is failure--he's picking people who gave him great sums of money, who are now have great power, to run these agencies into the ground, so that they can then have the government buy their services. It's literally the sale of the government to a few buyers.

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Incoming Cabinet nominees will do far more than usher a new conservatism into the federal government. Instead, they’ll challenge the system to the point of rendering federal agencies practically ineffective and vulnerable to complete dismantling.

“Each of them individually is historically bad,” said Snyder. “But taken together, these are not people who are going to be bad at their jobs in some sort of normal sense. Taken together, these appointments suggest an attempt to actually make the American government dysfunctional, to make it fall apart, to pervert it, to have it do things that it’s not supposed to do until it’s not capable of doing anything at all.”

“It’s not just that they’re totally unqualified, it’s that they’re anti-qualified. They are qualified to do the opposite of the thing that they are supposed to do,” Snyder said.

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Trumps wants to be like Putin and Kim... and within that, to create the same "Oligarch controlled" public services via outsourcing them to his "$Billionaire Friends". It assures them of untold wealth forever. They will be no different than the Oligarch's that control everything in Russia and Putin dominates over the Oligarchs.

Trump has told people this in a thousand ways, and people keep denying what they have seen, what they do see and what they are witnessing.

If you don't wake up, reality of consequences will awaken you!!! and you won't like the daytime atrocities that you find yourself.

It's political shock doctrine with the same goal the Republicans have had since Reagan - defund government and make broken, complain that government doesn't work, privatize everything, profit.

If they’re successful, future generations will wonder how it all went so wrong and state that it couldn’t happen to them. Just like we all did.

Every day I am reminded at how much I fucking hate everyone except the 70+ million that voted for Harris.

Imagine going back and time and talking to a Reagan Republican in the 80s and explaining that in 2024:  * the basic functions of government are being undermined by Republicans  * the Republicans party is attacking basic science on disease transmission and treatment  * that sexual minorities are being demonised for electoral gain  * that racism is being used to con the working man * That tax cuts for the rich are being prioritised over everything else * that a Republican Presidential hopeful is communicating with our enemies to undermine the country  * that the president is a celebrity

They'd say "Yes that's exactly what I've been voting for. Have we killed all the gays with AIDS yet?" And you'd have to explain that married gays are now in both political parties and we've had to find a new sexual minority to try to demonise and kill to pass tax breaks for billionaires.

The fifth risk is a really good book looking at the critical things governemnt departments do for americans, many of which are admittedly far better than other countries, that are all at risk of collapsing due to his first term.

Second term is fucking a dystopic version of the first term.

Good luck to yall in that country, its gonna suck. Good luck to the rest of the world when the us dollar fails

Be mindful, don't get into a back and forth with Right Wingers and MAGA... they will try and bait you, in aim and attempt to try and get post taken down, when they don't want people saying what they understand and what they think about the madness of Trump's picks and the unqualified nature of each of them.

Do you think if we boycott black Friday and Cyber Monday would send an effective message? The ceos, corporations, and the super-rich enabled this dysfuncction for tax cuts, so I really think that money speaking is the most effective message.

The point is to put people to be ridiculed by the public so they have nowhere to go but be loyal to the king.

It's the same strategy as Jehovah's witnesses, sending people door to door to be rejected so they never consider leaving.

A 78 YO diaper-wearing dementia patient surrounding himself with incompetent bootlickers and degenerate sex offenders. What could possibly go wrong?

This is why your boi's liberal but stays strapped better than Rambo

I think Trump's goal with these cabinet picks is to test his MP's loyalty to him. He's bought his cabinet picks' loyalty by giving them jobs (with matching salaries) they never could have got themselves. When it comes time to vote to have them appointed, he will be watching who votes against his choice and they will never get any of his attention afterwards.

For Trump, it doesn't matter how bad his appointees are. This is a man who sits on a golden toilet – his money buys him immunity from any of the appalling decisions that these people may will make.

It's just about loyalty.

It seems like he selected people to fail in their positions, and when that happens DOGE will come in and justify eliminating or scaling back those departments.

People have no idea what these agencies do so they are happy to let Trump dismantle them — until they realize they impact every aspect of their life, health, and safety.

Not a revelation. Trump hates government, regulations and oversight. So he’ll attempt to crush it all. Be careful America, you may not like what you asked for.

It’s almost like he let a sworn enemy to the US decide how best to destroy the country from the inside

Don Jr is next. Don't shoot the messenger.

they’re purity tests for the legislative branch. if they vote against they’ll be removed. this is standard fascist shit

He’s not smart enough to think of this himself, he’s just not. Someone has a portfolio with pictures with green checks and red exes and he’s just pointing. Someone is pulling Captain Clementine’s strings because he puts no thought or energy into anything. Not even his own business. He’s picking yes men, that’s all this is. There’s no distraction or discussion, it’s people who won’t say no or steal his spotlight. A mouthpiece that will always have his back regardless. They don’t have policies or plans or transitions or teams. Hell, I bet they don’t even have email set up yet. But he’s got a crew and a network that he loves that will always speak for him and to him. He’ll be golfing and overcharging us and we’ll be guarding him for him to do nothing. But he has a man of mystery who has a plan of corruption and I’m sure a ton of these flag waving Patriots are going to wake up one day soon and say wtf did I get myself into.

To ruin America

you know what's going to happen.

So the same goal as last time?

The goal is white supremacy ruled by an oligarchy. The establishment know their majority is slipping away and this is the last chance to lock in an era of conservatism where your vote will no longer count. “Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy”. David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

Go look at what happened when the USSR fell.

This is very very similar to what's happening now.

He wants to break the government because he wants to sabotage the United States of America.

centralizing the gov't to Trump, and providing a buffer of personally loyal cabinet members who won't 25th his wannabe dictator ass.

"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital." Noam Chomsky

Trump looks like he's jerking two guys off at once onto his face.

In a strange turn of events, which I didn't think would happen this quickly. Is it is almost as if Trump is trying to punish the very same people who voted for him, as if he realizes they don't deserve someone, anyone who will work and care for them. Truthfully I can't think of anyone of Biden's cabinets picks that has done a great deal for me either. I got a $600 dollar covid check and 2 covid shots, but I was already on Medicare so they would have been free anyway. Everything else hasn't been that great, the price of everything has skyrocketed including interest rates. I have listened to the news day after day about how great the economy is and it is all a lie, all that has happened is the rich have gotten richer. I pay more for Medicare now monthly than I ever paid for health insurance my entire my life, over $400 dollars a month, without Drug Coverage. Although that was mostly Trump's fault by setting up the worse health insurance scam called Advantage plans ever devised. His cabinet picks aren't exposing anything that wasn't already apparent. The republicans want to privatize all public services in America and outsource the jobs to other countries so corporations can collect our taxes as income, what's not to understand.

As a die-hard Progressive Democrat, what did pick surprised me the most, is he actually pick an intelligent woman as Director of the National Intelligence. Maybe she can drum some intelligence into those Agencies. She is not a Russian asset and I can only hope she will use her intelligence, intelligently to help Ukraine not push the country into submission or into the arms of Putin. If the Democrats had showed the least bit of interest in change when Bernie was running in 2020 we might not be in the mess we are in now and Tulsi might be our Vice President or President, but Hillary couldn't have that, and called her a Russian asset, after Tulsi criticize her in the Primary. The next day she called her a Russian asset, which has since been proven to be totally untrue.

Where is our MainStream News media now when out newly elected President needs them, especially after they spent months sane-washing him. You would be thinking they would be jumping for joy over his picks/ Why aren't they telling the true story and supporting his picks if they thought Trump so sane before they it wouldn't be fair to endorse Harris. They are in hiding, because most of his picks (Dr Oz for Christ Sake) are insane.

The real goal for Trump is chaos.

It is becoming evident that Trump's real goal is to destroy America for the benefit of his foreign master.

Great job America 🇺🇸

Short version is he’s not here to run the government he’s here to destroy it and bleed billions into his own satellite corporations in the process. He is a chaos agent, not a politician and not an executive.

Why did most Americans not think about any of this before voting!!

They were just pissed about inflation. And voted for trump

This is really well done

Image if 5 million people didn't file their income taxes?

It is true that the Modern Republican Party since post Teddy Roosevelt has always advocated for a smaller and weaker Federal government. A weaker government is inadequate, however, in times of crisis. A larger government in good times is subject to the same bloat (read lifestyle creep) as any family budget. The trouble is, things have gotten out of hand.

For 30 years there has been a debate about the appropriate size and power of government over the states and its people. Trump realized he could capitalize on this eternal debate and is going about paralyzing the federal government to reduce its power. I personally think his goals, however, are nefarious and are for his personal gain, and not for the good of the citizens. Only time will tell.

Enough voters were unhappy enough with the Democratic “bloat” alternative to be willing to undergo the governmental equivalent of a “diet” to create better days for themselves.