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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The veges can wait. It's hero time! (Its hard finding good help these days. Maybe reaching outside the box is your best option?)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel like.. Were caveman smarter than us? Feel like they would of solved this long ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I feel that someone with a large, heavy club could solve a few of our issues. Caveman tactics still work!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Got it, he wants US to burn.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Hahahahahhhahhahah

We're all going to die

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Idk why but I wanna slap him so bad. Like dude that brow smirk makes you look like a moron

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Mmmmmuh'lady

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Or someone he can easily control.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

these aren't secretaries and ministers of organized government

it's capos and yes men of organized crime.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Putin's agent?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Looks like a B movie or kids movie villain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The state is run by kids movie villians doing ww2 movie crimes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I can hear the MAGA crowd saying "but at least he's a white male"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

he's a yes man, that trump is gonna steamroll over at trump's earliest. THank you for your attention to this matter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also will probably be a strawman, and fired or jailed when Trump fucks up, blaming others as always.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yup. How do these idiots not see that trump is gonna sell them out as soon as there is any hot water

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

The inexperienced 22-year-old reportedly tasked by Donald Trump with tackling U.S. extremism

so he's gonna impeach trump?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Fall guy. Somehow the blame for his obvious incompetence will not be imputed up the command chain.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know I feel safer already.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

This is so cursed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

why don't you wear a suit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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!!!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Iran approves this message.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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.

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