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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention

www.thedailybeast.com

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Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention

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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Counter-terror chief was pulling up weeds just five years ago.
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    Hahahahahhhahhahah

    We’re all going to die

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    More concerned with the 22 then what he was doing at 17. I’m not against younger blood in leadership roles but you got to have done the job at least somewhat. If the guy was 35 or so and had been at it for a decade, that’d be a different beast. This feels like a nepo hire

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      Not necessarily a nepo hire, but they are scraping the barrel.

      Project 2025’s playbook was to fire all the existing people in the federal government and replace them with Trump loyalists. To that end, they created a list of pre-vetted replacements.

      Problem is, those people are vetted for loyalty first, and competence a distant second. Also, a lot of them likely have jobs already that are more lucrative than a federal position. In other cases, their circumstances change in the months in between vetting and the offer becoming concrete. So even though they may have a few thousand people on the list, a big chunk of them aren’t going to accept when the time comes. Those that do aren’t necessarily going to be qualified in any way.

      What may be surprising here is that they’re scraping the bottom so quickly. You’d think out of several thousand possibilities, they could find someone more qualified than this guy.

      This tends to be destructive in the short term, because incompetent people are making important decisions. In the long term, it’s one of the self-defeating factors of fascism. A system just can’t work this way, but it can destroy the rest of society before it implodes on itself.

    • Lady Butterfly she/her@lemmy.world
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      Or someone he can easily control.

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    I feel like… Were caveman smarter than us? Feel like they would of solved this long ago.

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      I feel that someone with a large, heavy club could solve a few of our issues. Caveman tactics still work!

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    Looks like a B movie or kids movie villain.

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    The inexperienced 22-year-old reportedly tasked by Donald Trump with tackling U.S. extremism

    so he’s gonna impeach trump?

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    these aren’t secretaries and ministers of organized government

    it’s capos and yes men of organized crime.

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    Putin’s agent?

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    If anyone is wondering the connection:

    This guy had internships at the Heritage Foundation and did some service as a special assistant in a DHS immigration office.

    Heritage foundation strikes again with installing young puppets.

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      his experience at Four Seasons Total Landscaping also helped

    • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one
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      The Nazi Foundation positions another pawn.

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      wonder what kind of internship, doesnt look like his major/degree is anything useful, certainly not a lawyer to be judge material for the foundation.

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    gardening and grocery store experience? overqualified for this administration for sure

    • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Hey, he at least has experience with grocery shoppers, which can be awful people to deal with, just like terrorists!

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        if you can handle customers you can definitely deal with a bunch of terrorists. terrorists usually have better justifications for their actions

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    Are you sure this guy didn’t star in a Dreamworks movie? That eyebrow lmao

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      Star in, no. Was the clumsy villain, I think so.

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      That hairstyle! Though to be fair, I also did some stupid shit thinking it was cool when I was 22.

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    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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        Don’t sully Dr.Evils name.

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    Got it, he wants US to burn.

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    I know I feel safer already.

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      You know who to thank

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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        This is so cursed

      • That Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        why don’t you wear a suit?

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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          fishing

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    he’s a yes man, that trump is gonna steamroll over at trump’s earliest. THank you for your attention to this matter.

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      Also will probably be a strawman, and fired or jailed when Trump fucks up, blaming others as always.

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        Yup. How do these idiots not see that trump is gonna sell them out as soon as there is any hot water

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    Am I only one who thinks he looks like a MAD magazine cover?

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      …and now I can’t unsee it.

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