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!
Hahahahahhhahhahah
We’re all going to die
Idk why but I wanna slap him so bad. Like dude that brow smirk makes you look like a moron
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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
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.
Looks like a B movie or kids movie villain.
The state is run by kids movie villians doing ww2 movie crimes.
Am I only one who thinks he looks like a MAD magazine cover?
…and now I can’t unsee it.
these aren’t secretaries and ministers of organized government
it’s capos and yes men of organized crime.
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
Why is he making that face. lmfao
He interned in DreamWorks as a face model
More like nightmareworks.
Don’t sully Dr.Evils name.
Great, another face I want to punch.
22-Year-Old
Obvious lack of experience and not qualified for the position.
Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant
Completely irrelevant, and not something to criticize. God forbid people get a shit starter job when they’re joining the work force.
Listing previous work is pretty standard when getting a job, also shows his prior qualifications which I think we’re entitled to know.
The lack of experience is worthy of criticism; but the “Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant” is presented as not worthy of respect. Which is bullshit.
It has the same air as some trumpanzee dipshit trying to insult AOC by calling her a ‘bartender’, as though having been a bartender makes her unqualified for her current position, which is similarly bullshit.
Gardeners, store assistants, and bartenders all contribute to our society and shouldn’t be looked down on for their role; nor should that role be held against them when they decide to move on to something else.
…I guess my point is that gardening and entry-level-grocery are completely fine and expected experience for a 22 year old; but that no 22 year old could have the experience to do well as a leader in terror prevention. So, there’s a distinction between criticizing the absence of experience (justified), vs criticizing someone for having actual experience in an unrelated field (bullshit).
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 must have worded something stupid in my initial post here - half the ‘retorts’ here have just restated the post I made. Or, tried to make?
Normally on Lemmy I wouldn’t get this much pushback for saying that being a gardener or w/e isn’t something to shit on.
I’d be willing to bet most everyone in this conversation is 99% on the same page, but some dumb miscommunication has us bashing heads.
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.
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?
The inexperienced 22-year-old reportedly tasked by Donald Trump with tackling U.S. extremism
so he’s gonna impeach trump?
Are you sure this guy didn’t star in a Dreamworks movie? That eyebrow lmao
That hairstyle! Though to be fair, I also did some stupid shit thinking it was cool when I was 22.
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
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.
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.
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!?”
