The far likelier explanation is that they’re a pair of idiots who look at all the options then choose whichever is the most stupid.
That was very well said! Yesterday Jacob Wohl tried to raise his profile and organize a leftist protest against himself. We know that he did it because he used his own e-mail address to register the protest group. That's the guy who is so dumb he'd get a second place in world dumbass championship. Too dumb to win even that!