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Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Did he find him at the Four Seasons?

Thing is though, headline means nothing; I used to run a landscaping business and work in retail back in college, so I’d probably fit that description too. All it means is the guy knows how to actually work.

Although at 22, there isn’t really enough passage of time for useful management experience.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

Yeah, the focus the landscaping part is weird. It seems more relevant to me that 5 years ago, he was in high school, rather than that he did landscaping.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

He’s 22 so the recent work experience being unrelated to running counter terror is relevant

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 days ago

At 22, he didn't even live through 9/11.

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Yeah, the headline means plenty... It means that he's breathtakingly unqualified to hold the position he's been given, just like you would have been as well. Though it sounds like you might actually have the sense to recognize that and (hopefully) wouldn't have taken such a position, thereby endangering the population at large.

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[–] hohoho@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This guy is a plant

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd still take a misanthropic ficus over a conservative.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Screenshot_20250606-001541_WEBTOON
(its a suicidal plant)

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I snickered way too hard at this.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Falseknees is one of the creators to even have their own website: https://www.falseknees.com/comics/1.html
And even RSS: https://falseknees.com/rss.xml

One of my favorite creators

[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago

Why do I think he'd look more the part, if he were wearing a t-shirt that said "I'm voting for Pedro?"

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Loyalty is the primary qualification

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

LOL lookit this fucking guy

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Absolutely no favoritism with this hire.

[–] Jym66@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

He will weed them out!

[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Now if only we find out he sexually assaulted a child and owns at least three Nazi paraphernalia, he'd be the perfect GOP candidate

[–] thisnameisnottolong@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Can't wait for the biopic! That picture alone could be the promo poster. Wolf of wall street meets pineapple express?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Almost like this administration is a horrifying turd circus of chaos and evildoing which COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED but was not because - reasons

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

Gardening is one of my hobbies but I don't have much retail experience... Guess that's me ruled out then.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

trying to look like the rock.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The ex-paste eater here is going to know what terrorists crave

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

He did work for the Heritage Foundation, so he knows all about those terrorists.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

Paste-eaters deserve better than this moron.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Democrats: sorry, if you're under 70 you're too young for us.

Republicans: give me all your children!!!

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Talk about a promotion!

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

failing upwards, just like P47

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As qualified as any of them

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that doesn't make it acceptable. if anything it makes it less so.

weakness is a sum of all parts, if all parts weak, there is no strength.

[–] danzabia@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Name checks out.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And also, clearly, a massive douche.

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