Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention
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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.
his experience at Four Seasons Total Landscaping also helped
The Nazi Foundation positions another pawn.
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.
Don't sully Dr.Evils name.
Why is he making that face. lmfao
He interned in DreamWorks as a face model
Beat me to it.
More like nightmareworks.
As an administration, it's a joke. As an exercise in evil, it's right on track.
it's inspiring that in the states you can be a convicted felon, and/or just a totally unqualified moron with no experience in any sort of political office (see: POTUS) and get a high profile position in the federal government. america truly is the land of opportunity
We really do our best to be equal opportunity here. But none of that DEI shit.
That one of the DOGE-cunts?
No, he's a poly-sci graduate: moldable lump of clay setup by the Heritage Foundation to sink or swim. Seems like he hasn't screwed up badly enough to be coat-hooked offstage just yet.
This is his actual professional portrait btw
FTFY
Does lemmy have punchablefaces yet?
That fucking eyebrow
He seems like he's as incredulous about his position as the rest of us are. like "Really? Me? fucken really?"
It is a Trump bootlicker thing.
And the US just officially warned Iran “not to retaliate”. I think we know what’s coming, lads.
Let it be known that WW3 was not unforeseen.
Anyone checked Nostradamus lately?
I stuck a magnet up his butt and now his rotation powers a small bitcoin farm.
Honestly, I wouldn't bother at this point. We're in the react portion, not the prediction phase.
Hopefully Mar-a-Lago is being considered as an ideal target for a terrorist attack.
I remember being 22... yeah... no... just... ugh... no!
There's a reason that the minimum age to run for president is 35. But rules and regulations don't matter anymore.
I'm 23 and just got promoted to head of the IT department and even I don't think I'm qualified to be here
Lucky you. Finding work for me (I am autistic) has been the greatest challenge of my life.
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
It's Deuce Bigalow!
Haha first thing I thought of looking at this picture
douche bigalow.
This guy looks like he’s about to play his best Yugioh card
The card would likely be older than him
I can't get over how a kid who did high school over zoom during COVID is now in charge of terror prevention for the US
like what the fuck
the card game came out irl 2001ish, yea its older than him by a few years.
Mission failed: Just seeing his face makes me want to strap C4 around my chest and walk into the RNC.
Try it at home first to check if it works
Idk why but I wanna slap him so bad. Like dude that brow smirk makes you look like a moron
Mmmmmuh'lady
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.
Were official portraits always this funny?
Stop using people’s work history at menial Jobs as way to attack them. Aoc was a bartender. All you’re doing is being an elitist.
His past work as a gardener or grocery store worker shouldn’t be the headline here. Looking down at the working class is a dick move no matter who you are.
I’m sure this guy has plenty of stupid and his leanings aren’t good. But don’t attack him for being working class
Context is key. Those jobs are his only qualifications.
I mean being 22 and having that work history is pretty relevant. How else are they going to make the case that he's nowhere near qualified enough for the position?
hes also a NEPO-baby, and with something like HF, i wouldnt call someone like that as having a work history.
I would not hire this person as a repair technician based on that resume. Am I discriminating? Yes, in the same sense that all hiring discriminates for skills and experience.
I would never hire someone like this for risk analysis, risk abatement, or political communications.
How is this not completely fucking obvious to everyone?
Kakistocracy
Unless that’s his entire CV because at 22 yo, because what could he have done to merit such a critical role in the government?
All work dignifies but not all work prepares you for nation impacting decisions.
Thats really not the issue here and if you don't get that then I don’t know how to help you.
Then why is it the headline?
Because it’s The Daily Beast and they suck.
If he were the assistant director, or anything that's not a key leadership role, that might be true. But an agency head should have an appropriate resume and experience.
Exactly. And if he's 22 now, 5 years ago he was 17. Lots of teenagers have menial jobs in high school to get some cash. There's nothing wrong with that.
There’s nothing wrong with having absolutely zero experience with something and then becoming in charge of it for one of the largest countries on earth?
Hahahahahhhahhahah
We're all going to die
trump, like putin thrives on incompetance simply because they would be too disorganized to perform a "coup" against him.
😐
I mean normally, I say if they communicated the message then they did all write even if they misspeeled a word or two. The juxtaposition of this makes the ironing so delicious though.
This hz 2 reed
On a frequency from 1/sec to 10/sec, how bad does it hert? I'm working on becoming a worse righter.
At least tree fiddy
For all intensive purposes, I could care less, but it peaked my interest and I waited for replies with baited breath.
Listing previous work is pretty standard when getting a job, also shows his prior qualifications which I think we're entitled to know.
AOC isn't 22. So where did he get experience to run such a department at 22 with no relevant job? No leadership, no military, no geopolical, nothing. It's like me leading an agency about anime. My knowledge of anime ends at the point that I know it exists. At 22 you can only get experience with terrorism by being military. Even if you're a rigorous and studious person, there's no way you can understand terrorism unless you've dealt with it personally.
For example, most of the suicide bomb attacks in Iraq weren't psychotic religious extremists. Most of them were pressured by the actual terrorists. They would kidnap or threaten their families to make them do it. Others were poor, destitute individuals who were promised that upon completion of their "mission" that their family would be rewarded with a large payout. This isn't uncommon even in the West. It gets underreported because in the West it usually manifests in a different way. My own grandpa repeatedly expressed concerns of not leaving his family enough before he took his own life and he tested rockets for NASA.so it's not exclusive to the Middle East to hold your family above yourself.
That level of understanding of the motive simply doesn't exist at 22, especially if you've never left the states. If you want to stop something, literally anything, you have to understand WHY it's happening. I don't wrench on my engine when the brakes are locked up, because I understand how the machine works. Terrorism is far more complicated than a vehicle, and it's an absolute requirement to have experience in it to understand it. It isn't the age, it's the experience.
I'm confused, this reads like an argument, but you're making the same point.
I'm not, AOC had some life behind her when she was elected. This dude doesn't. And wasn't elected.
I'mma quote from the post you responded to, maybe you can help me see what I'm missing.
Where does your argument contradict that?
I guess I am failing to understand your question with what I said. Can you word it another way?
It sorta feels like they hit 'AOC was a bartender' and then Pavlov kicked in and they started drooling.
If this story was this:
Ex Gardner and grocery store assistant tapped to become retail manager at H&M, no one, yourself included, would bat an eye.
The only reason it even sticks out is because everyone inherently knows those things are not relevant at all to the position.
Any negative spin on those things you are ascribing yourself.
The combination of being 22 with only those jobs as relevant experience is bad. Very bad.
Those jobs in and of themselves are fine. We are all capable of nuance. I don't hate gardeners or grocery store workers, they're all generally great.
I’m in between work from layoffs. I started at a grocery store because i needed healthcare and it’s a union job. It’s shit work. And I exhausting. But by no means is it disrespectful work. Who the fuck is going to feed everyone?
The problem here is that it's irrelevant experience. It's absolutely a respectable job, but that doesn't make you capable of leading a task force. I have a respectable job, I've never been involved in the film industry at all, beyond watching. So should I be the CEO of universal? Do you think by working at a grocery store makes you capable of farming?
Entirely agree. Kid is out of his element! Godcdamn it. Donny!
Also, as a former bartender, there is a lot of politics involved in that job. You're in charge of a bunch of (hopefully temporary) morons. There's risk assessment and mediation happening, controlling a bunch of people who are adverse to rules and being told no. Geopolitics isn't that far from breaking up a fight in a bar. But he doesn't have any of that comparable experience.
The rise from starter job to top government official usually includes things like gaining experience, having some success, being a noteworthy professional in some way....
Not... Nothing?
Boot licker extraordinaire.
So embarrassing to see.
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.
🤡
Looks like a B movie or kids movie villain.
The state is run by kids movie villians doing ww2 movie crimes.
Why didn't he just appoint a horse?
A horse would seduce his entire family
Am I only one who thinks he looks like a MAD magazine cover?
...and now I can't unsee it.
Erybody, don't worry. He got dis.
I feel like.. Were caveman smarter than us? Feel like they would of solved this long ago.
I feel that someone with a large, heavy club could solve a few of our issues. Caveman tactics still work!
these aren't secretaries and ministers of organized government
it's capos and yes men of organized crime.
Even if this guy had served in military intelligence for 4 years he would still be too inexperienced for this role.
Putin's agent?
Top. Men. Lol.
Well, he has as much experience in his field as his peers.
That's a big task, preventing the US or one of their many proxies from doing terrorist attacks
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.
I know I feel safer already.
You know who to thank
fishing
This is so cursed
Coming to a 'Concentration Camp Overseer' position near you.
Great, another face I want to punch.
If you wanted more terrorist attacks on your soil in order to justify suspending the constitution, this is exactly how you’d go about it.
Also will probably be a strawman, and fired or jailed when Trump fucks up, blaming others as always.
Did he have a stroke?
It's Bag Boy's time to shine.
Coming this summer, Rob Schneider is derp pa der anti terror der
I can hear the MAGA crowd saying "but at least he's a white male"
Ehhhhh?
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!!!"
How bizzare...
Got it, he wants US to burn.
Nut coddler face
If these weren’t traitor lunatics, this would be based and progressive.
seems reasonabl
Fall guy. Somehow the blame for his obvious incompetence will not be imputed up the command chain.
Looks just like his dad Johnny, who did not hit Lisa, despite her tearing him apart.
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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Does having working experience as a gardener and as a grocery store assistant somehow, disqualify you from doing a , may I say, very straightforward job?
I am pretty sure he won't do all of that by himself, what would be the issue then? No enough experience?
Please, complain more later in other threads about how young people can't get a job because they are inexperienced
It's official, Lemmy is filled to the brim with conservative boomers larping as collectivists LMAO
Should this kid be able to get a job somewhere in that agency? Sure, maybe. Should they be leading a major government department with zero experience? Absolutely not.
Just like an alcoholic talking head shouldn’t be leading our defense department. Or a fucking WWE wife being anywhere near leading education for the country. This isn’t about qualifications. It’s about nepotism and grifting.
Yup. That's the take. You're so 100% correct. No difference between the typical grievance about needing 15 year experience for a 10 year old system and a guy who had 2 part time entry level jobs running a department of a (for now) global super power.
I'm so glad you were so smart you could show how hypocritical it is. Cause they're the EXACT SAME situations.
lololol k
They cry and cry and cry because you g kids aren't doing enough and then when one finally lands a great job they complain "NOOoO not like that!?"