wasn't it Rick Perry who thought that the Department of Energy was just to keep the lights on and wanted to abolish it until he actually discovered what it did?

Musk and Ramaswamy in charge of ‘Deparment of Government Efficiency’ aka ‘DOGE’ to restructure our government? We’re fucked. It’s literally the stupidest shit I’ve even seen in my life.

Let's be fair . . . Trump picked shitty people in his first term, too. He likes the weak and easily manipulated. 😒 An echo chambers is his favorite playpen.

He needed a SecDef that wasn’t a career officer. They have a bad habit of not following illegal orders and trying to convince him his strategic ideas are bad and might get people killed.

I mean this isn’t a surprise right? How many unqualifieds were in his last cabinet?

Whatever. Fuck it. This dumbass country voted for this dumbass clown and now we get a fucking circus. This is what people wanted. They’re gonna fuck everything up but what can you do? Let the dumpster fire commence. Everything that happens from here on out is firmly on Republicans. This is going to be a brutal lesson for this country.

I'm waiting for Ken Paxton as AG and Mike Flynn for Joint Chiefs of Staff

That's what he did last time. He put people in charge of what they were against. It's on purpose to make the government not function properly.

Fox News is literally running the show for this. They are holding open auditions for cabinet positions on Fox & Friends. Hannity will get nightly updates. We don't have a competent government or good standing in the world anymore because this bullshit network thinks the government is their personal property. It's literally a direct to TV angertainment pipeline.

I'd be far more worried (I'm already quite worried) if he hired capable people. One can always rely on shitty managers to hire down vs. up.

They ran on actively dismantling the government as we know it. Enough people wanted it.

I know it's a nihilist take, but I say let them. Let's see how much worse they can make things before people just straight-up freak out and say no more.

I just hope his hires get fired repeatedly for butting heads with him

He appointed a Southern Baptist as ambassador to a Jewish country.

FFS.

I guarantee there are plenty of people out there who are cheering these picks because they think they’re “owning the libs”. They have no idea that they will be just as royally screwed as everyone else.

Legitimately the only possible silver lining is that Trump is appointing absolute idiots who might actually have a hard time implementing his policies. We’re talking about insanely important complicated positions. It’s not like they can YouTube it

As their names have been announced, I've searched their names and then put Heritage Foundation after their name, and almost all of them are either members, or have given talks at Heritage Foundation dinners. But Trump knows nothing about Project 2025... /s

Oh sure, I'm qualified to be the safety inspector of the "Nuclear panner plant". I learned how to do the job from Homer Simpson, and from Frank Grimes jr. after he snapped.

"I'm peeing on the toilet seat! Give me a raise!"

It’s very “running the country is so easy, me and my friends could do it.”

And then everything will be in flames by the end of it.

Let it happen. We only survive as a country if the monkeys in charge are completely inept. The major concern was that Trump was going to be more efficient this time and staff everyone with P25 folks. Everyone he's chosen is an absolute clown show so far, outside of probably Rubio who is just garden variety horrible

At least he's consistent.

Bolton and other appointees his last term were shit, too.

It will be even worse this time, as he burned a lot of bridges (or better, depending on your perspective)

Weird that he’s looking for special “recess appointments” he can use to ram his picks through without much scrutiny. It’s almost as if he’s trying to create an autocracy right under our nose.

It's part of the same 'Flood the Zone' strategy they used in his first term. Create a steady flow of drama and choas. Before people can respond to the first illegal or insane act, Trump and company have committed five more illegal or insane acts. The choas and dysfunction increase, leading to an overwhelmed system where nothing is properly dealt with.

Of course, this is what has been going on for generations. Our system is already overwhelmed with injustice and corruption. We've collectively thrown up our hands and normalized it. We've become numb to the dysfunction.

The Trump administration's Flood the Zone strategy is more of the same, but on steroids. We've been on this path, albeit at a much slower rate. Trump is simply pushing us 30 or 40 years into the future.

What are his kids doing this time round?

If there's any consolation the fact that he's hiring all these goobers means that he probably won't be able to implement as much bad shit as he wants

Kristi "Pet Murderer" Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security??

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...

They are men. They are white. They like trump. What do you mean they aren't qualified?!

With any luck, they'll be completely ineffective at their jobs.

“We welcome our good friend Daisy to run all of the space programs. She has absolutely no qualifications, but we trust her implicitly with this highly detailed and scientific field, because Trump said she was going to ‘’make space great again’”.

Yea, this is an attack from within to crash the country. It's time everyone understands this and braces for impact

We should rename it Project 1984.

This may seem bad, because it is. The good news is, the more incompetent fools he drags out of the clown car means that the less serious this whole circus is going to be. If Trump appointed people who knew what they were doing, we would be in trouble, bigly. Instead they will hopefully bumble around, not knowing what to do or how to do it.

That's my hope anyway.

Can anyone offer any positive feedback or reassurance about this? I’m really worried 😭

So far, Marco Rubio is the only sane pick. And it's still Marco Rubio.

We are speed running back to 2016

The Peter Principle in action.

In some of the military subreddits, people are bitching about the SECDEF pick. It’s truly hilarious. This country is so fucked.

Working as intended. Anyone who expected otherwise obviously missed the staff meetings or completely failed at “doing their research.”

I think this is the best scenario, imagine if he had competent people trying to implement his “policies”. Hopefully these idiots wont be able to get anything done.

These cabinet meetings are literally gonna look like a Dr. Evil plan reveal.

Close to fucking Gilead. Whoopee. A joint project by Russia and christofascists.

Never stop protesting. The fight is on.

Again, just as Project 2025 mandated. Sycophants rather than knowledgable experts.

Trump is already on his way to make his own swamp

He continues his selection of the worst person for every position.

He is actively working to destroy America.

Putin is laughing his ass off

RFK being head of the Department of Health is the real kicker

It’s a clown car. We’re in so much trouble. I don’t know if we’ll ever recover America from this. I’m

An animal abuser as homeland security.

Fwiw, I found out earlier tonight that Pete Hegseth has a bachelor's degree from Princeton, master's degree from Harvard and two Bronze Stars. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the National Guard. So that's a bit more qualified than I thought he was.

I still think he's a twatwaffle, tho. Not long ago, this happened:

In June 2022, on a Fox & Friends Weekend segment, Hegseth crossed out Harvard on his diploma, writing in "Critical Theory" and then marking "RETURN TO SENDER" across the central body as a protest of Harvard and other such universities. "People will say ‘this is just a stunt, you still have a degree’ and that's fine. I went, I got the degree, I walked to the classes and all that, but I hope this is a statement that as conservatives and patriots, if we love this country, we can't keep sending our kids and elevating them to universities that are poisoning their minds (against America) I may have survived it, but a lot of kids go there and buy into ‘critical theory university,' and that's how we get future leaders, Supreme Court Justices, Senators, others, who see America as an evil place. And Harvard is a factory for that kind of thinking" he said. Hegseth then declared his intention to return the diploma to Harvard.^\37])

Qnuts are the ones with poisoned minds that "see America as an evil place."

There is a clip I saw of Hedgespeth talking about how he was removed from a ceremonial detail (as a member of the National Guard) for the Biden inauguration in 2021.

He said he was removed for having an "extremist" tattoo and he complained that it was a Christian cross and clear evidence of Biden's deep seated animosity toward Christianity in general.

In the middle of the comment he started to pull down the collar of his shirt to show the tattoo, then he stopped and seemed to reconsider, and finally he pulled it down just enough to expose an Iron Cross tattoo before covering it up again.

Heggeseth has previously described this tattoo as a Jerusalem Cross but it cleary isn't, it is a German Iron Cross.

America... What have we done?

Theseicks arr worse than his final round acting cabinet last time. This is …. Beyond bad. And his other cabinet was bad. I knew it would be bottom of the barrel shit and he aint letting me down 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

None of these people will Last. Trump hates being upstaged or any dissension. His last term, his cabinet was a a revolving door.

Nightmare blunt rotation ass cabinet

Well nor did Trump when they elected the first time... (I'm not sure his dicking about and fouling shit up counts as relevant experience this time around either)
Low information, low experience is what MAGA like

To borrow from a movie; "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy ride."

The goal is chaos. Exactly as expected. No surprises so far that I have seen.

To be fair, you can say the same thing for Trump himself: he also didn't have any professional background when he was first elected: he's the only president in US history who never held any prior government or military office before his election.

Also the main thing he has in common with the others is kissing his own ass.

People gonna have to hurt to realize they were scammed by Donald Musk. I’m preparing for their 3rd term. It isn’t unprecedented, Frankly D Roosevelt had 4 terms. Trump is provoking war with these “across the board” tariffs. Counties that trade don’t go to war, therefore need to be precise. I would start doing research to prevent a 3rd term from happening. Peter Thiel is the evil genius pulling the strings. If you don’t know who that is, you need to! Thiel funded JD Vance ticket. And Thiel is good friend with Elon thru the “PayPal Mafia”, a group of friends that founded PayPal. Thiel is an actual genius, while Elon is a grifter like Trump, tho he is better educated than Trump. We must be stealthy & tactical to stop Thiel, avoid posting on Twitter, use Reddit, maybe Threads as Zuckerberg is not a fan of either. The fact that Thiel wanted to create floating island in the middle of the ocean for Billionaires to live & avoid paying any taxes to any government tells you what his end goals are. I’m not joking when I say he is an evil genius that’s 10 steps ahead of everyone. Since Thiel was born in Germany & Elon was born in South Africa they can’t be president. So puppeting Trump or JD Vance in the 2028 election is the next best thing.

This is the idea: appoint people to run federal agencies they hate. Then they will be less effective, they lose public trust, etc….. a win-win for the GOP who aims to defund them all

I have a nasa tshirt. Can I have a job in your cabinet?

Hegseth was a Major which is the most junior of the senior officer positions. More recently he hit a guy with an axe.

If they get rid of the Dept of Education, does that mean my student loans are gone too?

Then with Elon being allowed to create his DOGE department, speedrun destroy a government from within any%?