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Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention
(www.thedailybeast.com)
Hahahahahhhahhahah
We're all going to die
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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Got it, he wants US to burn.
I feel like.. Were caveman smarter than us? Feel like they would of solved this long ago.
The veges can wait. It's hero time! (Its hard finding good help these days. Maybe reaching outside the box is your best option?)
Idk why but I wanna slap him so bad. Like dude that brow smirk makes you look like a moron
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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
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.
Or someone he can easily control.
Putin's agent?
Looks like a B movie or kids movie villain.
these aren't secretaries and ministers of organized government
it's capos and yes men of organized crime.
The inexperienced 22-year-old reportedly tasked by Donald Trump with tackling U.S. extremism
so he's gonna impeach trump?
I can hear the MAGA crowd saying "but at least he's a white male"
Ehhhhh?
he's a yes man, that trump is gonna steamroll over at trump's earliest. THank you for your attention to this matter.
Also will probably be a strawman, and fired or jailed when Trump fucks up, blaming others as always.
Yup. How do these idiots not see that trump is gonna sell them out as soon as there is any hot water
I know I feel safer already.
You know who to thank
why don't you wear a suit?
fishing
This is so cursed
That's a big task, preventing the US or one of their many proxies from doing terrorist attacks
iran? woops, too late.
They squeezed that in before this guy was in office.
Bcs from one look at him you can already tell nothing will get past him.
Fall guy. Somehow the blame for his obvious incompetence will not be imputed up the command chain.
Are you sure this guy didn't star in a Dreamworks movie? That eyebrow lmao
Star in, no. Was the clumsy villain, I think so.
That hairstyle! Though to be fair, I also did some stupid shit thinking it was cool when I was 22.
Qualification includes that one time he asked a shoplifter to not shoplift and they left anyway.
Makes "badass" comments and does karate moves every time a vaguely brown person leaves the store. "Bro, I was waiting for him to pull out a bomb and I woulda been all like HWAH!!!"
Coming this summer, Rob Schneider is derp pa der anti terror der
Am I only one who thinks he looks like a MAD magazine cover?
gardening and grocery store experience? overqualified for this administration for sure
Hey, he at least has experience with grocery shoppers, which can be awful people to deal with, just like terrorists!
if you can handle customers you can definitely deal with a bunch of terrorists. terrorists usually have better justifications for their actions
Well, he has as much experience in his field as his peers.
Why didn't he just appoint a horse?
A horse would seduce his entire family
Great, another face I want to punch.
trump, like putin thrives on incompetance simply because they would be too disorganized to perform a "coup" against him.
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