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    RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours 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

    www.thedailybeast.com

    RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours 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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      Got it, he wants US to burn.

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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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      The veges can wait. It’s hero time! (Its hard finding good help these days. Maybe reaching outside the box is your best option?)

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      Idk why but I wanna slap him so bad. Like dude that brow smirk makes you look like a moron

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        Mmmmmuh’lady

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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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      Putin’s agent?

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      Looks like a B movie or kids movie villain.

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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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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      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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      I can hear the MAGA crowd saying “but at least he’s a white male”

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        Ehhhhh?

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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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      I know I feel safer already.

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        You know who to thank

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          This is so cursed

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          why don’t you wear a suit?

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            fishing

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      Fall guy. Somehow the blame for his obvious incompetence will not be imputed up the command chain.

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      That’s a big task, preventing the US or one of their many proxies from doing terrorist attacks

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        iran? woops, too late.

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          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.

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