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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 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 · 23 hours ago
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Counter-terror chief was pulling up weeds just five years ago.
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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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    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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      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.

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

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    Are you sure this guy didn’t star in a Dreamworks movie? That eyebrow lmao

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      Star in, no. Was the clumsy villain, I think so.

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      That hairstyle! Though to be fair, I also did some stupid shit thinking it was cool when I was 22.

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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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    Qualification includes that one time he asked a shoplifter to not shoplift and they left anyway.

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      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!!!”

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    Coming this summer, Rob Schneider is derp pa der anti terror der

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    gardening and grocery store experience? overqualified for this administration for sure

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      Hey, he at least has experience with grocery shoppers, which can be awful people to deal with, just like terrorists!

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        if you can handle customers you can definitely deal with a bunch of terrorists. terrorists usually have better justifications for their actions

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    Am I only one who thinks he looks like a MAD magazine cover?

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    Well, he has as much experience in his field as his peers.

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    Great, another face I want to punch.

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