Reporter: What were your thoughts during the last major terrorist attack on US soil on 9/11?
This guy: umm, I hadn't been born yet.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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It is a bit critical but not out of line. He is so young posting his experiences is critical. If he was 50 and worked as a landscaper 30 years ago, no big deal. When you are barely old enough to buy a beer the job experiences you do have are a significant proportion of your qualifications. This job requires an experienced person. It is not the same as AOC working as a bar tender while obtaining cum laude double majoring from BU.
All he needs to do is raise his eyebrow at a terrorist and they die of cringe.
m’terrorist
While I know Thomas was only picked cause they demonstrated loyalty to Trumpy.
The whole framing around their age and past jobs makes me feel icky. People are defined by the first jobs. We’re all complaining about how this world is being run by drooling old people.
The framing really implies that young people should never been put into positions of power and we should really highlight people’s first jobs.
Really, the framing should be “Is Thomas bringing in experts? Are they learning about everything? Are they addressing the short comings of knowledge?”
If the answer is yes, it shouldn’t matter at all about their age or past experience.
Alas, the most likely situation is that Thomas suffers from “Idiot Confidence” and will muck things up. The whole purpose of Thomas is to find ways to crack down on leftists, non-white communities, and the LGBT community.
I expect someone in a position of this power and responsibility to bring a certain amount of experience. At least the experience to know when to stop and ask the experts. I don't believe someone who has never ever worked even close to such a job to be qualified to do this.
This has nothing to do with his selection of jobs, but with what he had not done in the past. It does not matter if he was a bricklayer, car salesman, or primary school teacher. It does matter that he never worked in law enforcement, defence, intelligence, or similar.
Nobody should care if he used to be a landscaper. It's not relevant. His age is absolutely relevant though. He's far too young to have the wisdom and experience to handle this job properly. How is he going to know which experts to bring in and who to listen to? He's grossly unqualified.
Landscaper absolutely is relevant if it makes up the majority of his resume.
If you spent 5 years working and 3 of that was a landscaper, it is relevant to your current position.
If you spent 30 years working and 3 of that was landscaper, much less relevant.
This administration is a joke.
And it’s not even funny
WHY did he get this job?
If the roles were reversed, Republicans would be cynically asking who he slept with to get this job. He’s clearly not a wealthy donor.
No, they'd be asking who his parents paid off. They only ask who someone "slept with" to get a position when they're a woman. And especially if they're a woman of color.
I remember Republicunts suggesting Kamala Harris gave Biden a blowjob for the VP spot. They never made those insinuations with Biden as Obama's VP, or with Tim Kaine as Hillary's running mate, because they were both men.
They're disgusting, wretched, awful pieces of shit.
He's a Heritage Foundation pick.
This dude reads like a shiftless rich slacker who got the gig because daddy helped him or something. Guy was going nowhere fast, and now he’a got one of the top slots in the nation?
Rob schneider is a politician
rated pg-13
“As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention,” Murphy wrote — referring to Fugate. “22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk. Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.”
Woohoo.
I guess since I'm not on Reddit anymore, I can just say what I feel — this kid almost certainly has wall-to-wall glass curio cabinets filled with resin hentai figurines.
As all good god fearing Americans do
a bald eagle screech rings through the valley
Fun fact, the "bald eagle screech" as depicted in media is actually the sound of a red-tailed hawk. Bald eagles actually sound more like seagulls.
Coooool. That's a fun fact indeed.
Hey, Dad! Check it out, I finally got a real job!...Uh, what's "Counter-Terrorism" mean?
It should be easy. I can count to twenty and a half if I take my pants off. How hard could counting terrorism be?
That article was mostly tweets
I hate that that’s a thing now.
That’s been a thing for a decade or more. Twitter journalism is the lowest form of journalism. Right below listicles.
Laying the narrative groundwork for the Mossad false flag terror attack - gotta have a fall guy
His photograph wears a fedora
Lawn man, pa.
Why can I can smell this photo?
Smells like Ax body spray
“Critics”, ffs.
ah, so the liberal media has already fully accepted the "Iranian terrorists are coming to kill us all!!!!" narrative, huh
Yeah, the Iranian government will probably just take it as the prank it was meant to be. Just boys being boys! No need to get revenge.
/S, dummy.
my point is that the narrative is being used to justify war with Iran: "we need to attack them harder before they get their revenge!"
by talking about "Iranian terrorists" as if that’s an actual threat, the media is contributing to that justification for war
Iran has been funding probably most of the terror groups you've seen in the news. Not that far fetched
He looks at least 28 years old. Not that looking old further diminishes him.
I hope they didn't really put a child in charge of terrorism protection and that this guy is at least as old as he looks.