Trump is appointing people who hate the agencies they will lead

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(CNN)In the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump focused more on politics than policy, but his few policy speeches suggested the direction he would go in if he won the White House. In May, from North Dakota, Trump delivered a major energy speech. If you listened to the whole thing, you would not only have heard that wind turbines are a big environmental hazard because they kill millions of birds, but you would have also fully anticipated that he would pick someone like Scott Pruitt, a committed opponent of the agency, as its head.

At that press conference, Trump denounced the Environmental Protection Agency's "totalitarian tactics" and promised to slash its "onslaught of regulations." Standing by his side was Harold Hamm, an oil and gas billionaire who supported Pruitt in his campaign for Oklahoma's attorney general and for this Cabinet post.

Trump said American fossil fuel would make America great again. Now, with his plans to scrap clean power, build pipelines and cancel the Paris accord, and with the help of someone like Pruitt, he will put that to the test.

Pruitt epitomizes a more general trend evident in Trump's picks: the choice to name people who are downright hostile to the mission of the agency they are appointed to run.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/10/opinions/government-is-the-problem-jacobs/index.html

[MANative]

1. It's utterly obvious that his intent it to tear it all down. Every last brick.

RIP, USA.

[Generator]

6. True.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It's part of the GOP goal to destroy the federal government.

Appoint the most incompetent and/or hostile people to run it, and then when everything falls apart they can say, "See? Government doesn't work."

[drray23]

3. All part of putin's plan

He annexed the us without firing a shot. Now he can destroy us from within using his puppet.

[Thrill]

4. Cringeworthy seeing Trump voters

Trying to defend these picks on twitter. Sad

[procon]

5. If the goal is breaking all the functions of government, then what?

How does anarchy, chaos, impoverishment or even a revolt, benefit the profiteering schemes of the oligarchs?

[MANative]

7. It won't matter to them, because they'll already have raped and pillaged for everything they want.

They'll go live in their castles while the rest of us fight for the crumbs. Sport for their viewing pleasure, while they laugh, sip their Dom, and eat Russian caviar by the pound.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. The revolt, were it to happen...

would be met with the likes of Blackwater (or whatever they are calling themselves) pretty quickly. Kill 5 or 10k of the revolters, and it would be over. We don't have the stomach for such a thing. Hell, 3k people were killed in 9/11, and we said "fine- go ahead and fuck the Constitution". We are pathetic.

[KittyWampus]

9. Trump will have NEGATIVE political capital with Russian interference/investigations

and his appointments have to be confirmed by the Senate.

IF he is Inaugurated I sincerely doubt his appointments will make it through.