Why do Trump appointees treat public service like a fantasy camp?

Posted by youhavetherighttoo

35 Comments

  1. None of them are even remotely qualified for the jobs they got. Just larping their way through while they also use the positions to make themselves rich.

  2. Unqualified loyalist intended to inflict maximum pain on Americans. Sadly 40% of the population will support this. 

  3. Because everything is performative with this administration. Real results are irrelevant so long you play the part.

  4. Because they are primarily influencers and grifters. They aren’t trying to govern. They are trying to drive engagement.

  5. Capitalism rewards branding/marketing rather than innovation or ability.

    These people are where they are because they sold an image. All they know how to do is keep performing and selling the image.

  6. DeterminedThrowaway on

    Maybe this is too blunt for something that’s supposed to be humorous, but fascists have always been deeply unserious people. Even though they have those positions, they’re also kind of cosplaying what they think it should look like.

  7. They can’t win on policy or economics, so they are trying to win the culture war with memes. It’s literally their only hope for swaying voters

  8. All of them , to the very last one of them knows they are unqualified, grossly incompetent or just fucking off the rails. Kennedy openly admits he has major mental health issues – which I suppose we should applaud him for his candor.

    60 years ago we hired ‘the best and the brightest’ and they fucked up, it turns out data-driven analysis does not necessarily win wars. But we can presume they largely intended to do right by the nation as they understood it.

    Even Dick Cheney – Darth of the GOP as could be said to be operating with the best intentions of his corporate masters, who in turn had the profits of their US based firms in mind. He and the crop of degenerates under him however viewed the constitution like a Rubik’s Cube to be “solved” to get around rules.

    Now – DJT has a free pass – and being the monster he is, expect nothing less than a blood soaked lesson in why the letter and spirit of the law are critical. We’ll learn that liquidation camps are bad, that “you too” can find your friends and family disappeared and you never hear from them again.

    When all is said and done how many dead Americans will there be at Trump’s feet. His first million dead happened during Covid of course, is it 2 million , 3 million or more…..and the most depressing part is that we’ll learn that even with open pit mass graves, and putrid landscapes. There will absolutely still be people who utterly believe every bad thing said against Trump was untrue and he’s the best President in US history, they will never get the memo, and they and their children will absolutely believe they were right , no matter the depth of the scar on our history left by Mango Mussolini.

  9. its all part of the troll. these people up to and including trump are totally unqualified for these positions. in fact most of them were put in their positions purposefully to ruin the offices they head.

  10. This is a very interesting question that you pose. I don’t really know, but it could be that deep down they are feeling inadequate, and these are ways of trying to compensate

  11. It’s all optics, there is nothing beneath the surface except corruption. So it’s cosplaying being a person.

  12. Because no one is going to stop them.

    Congress could, but Mike has no knowledge about any of this, and pretends not to watch potn instead.

  13. Because they are all narcissists and not serious people, it’s ALL about them. America is being run by a cadre of low level intelligence with serious personality disorders. And the mature serious people are going along with it to profit. The rest of the world can see clearly what’s happening.

  14. Used_Intention6479 on

    To fill the void created by their absences of empathy, intention for the public good, morality, and intelligence – they are left only with performative posing and posturing.

  15. Fascism. Fetishize the military. Make it a fashion statement. Regina George wears army pants and flip flops.

  16. Because it plays well to MAGA. As someone else mentioned, everything is performative with this administration: the uniforms, weapons, tough talk. Trump, the media, the MAGA audience all eat it up.

    Say everything loud and brash to get attention and then very quietly, if at all, never do what you said or drop investigations. MAGA will believe that the administration has done it or is still working on it. The Mark Kelly investigations, the promises of checks, the Executive Orders that aren’t laws are just a few examples.

    You’d think after so many years, more people would be wise to all this obnoxious marketing, but conservative media helps by choosing not to cover any of it. If they do, it’s very brief.

    We have a cosplay government. It’s embarrassing but Patel, Noem, all of them know that they are doing. Look at how MTG acts now versus when her job was to be a shit-stirrer. Everything is pro wrestling.

  17. They aren’t qualified to do these jobs and they know it so they have to put on a show to make it look like they are running the show. We all know they throw all the real work onto someone else and only show up when there is a camera around. Can you remember the last time you seen the head of the FBI out doing leisurely activities? You can’t because all the ones before this were actually doing the job because they were qualified and they know lives were at stake.

  18. MinuteMaidMarian on

    Because they’re not planning to ever face consequences. People keep talking about “midterms” like fascists just politely let you vote them out of power when they get too fascisty.