Originally published at: ‘The Intern in Charge’: Meet The 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked To Lead Terrorism Prevention - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article first appeared at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus…
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Seriously deranged and dangerous.
Our government is lead by the infamous Kraznov “Taco” Bin Ladin, leader of the Y’all Quesadilla.
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My son is 22.
I love my son.
I’d rather he not drive a car yet because his prefrontal cortex, responsible for cognitive functions like decision-making and impulse control, is not yet fully developed.
So, yeah, choosing a 22 year-old to lead terrorism prevention?
Only if you are staunchly pro-terror would you do that.
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Not at all serious people. I work in Boulder and was relieved to find out that none of my coworkers were in the area of the firebombing attack on Sunday. This story does not make me confident about the future.
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This putz is “an errand boy for grocery clerks, collecting a bill.”
Selected to fail. Expected to fail. Fail he will.
Notice his pathetic, glaring, arched-eyebrow pose. Whose picture do you think he masturbates to?
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Trumpism is an assault on the meritocracy by the morally mediocre and the merely ambitious. Mr. Fugate’s eyebrows do make a nice companion piece for Mr. Miller’s perma-smirk, however.
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Ah, but it makes someone(s) confident that an(other) event like Boulder, only worse, will happen, “justifying” emergency declaration of martial law.
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The Trump Administration is a confederacy of f_ck ups.
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Seagulls?
And maybe an umbrella for the coming shit storm.
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“Who’s going to volunteer to be the next civil servant if they think their supervisor is an apparatchik?”
“Apparatchik”? This kid will need years of study to rise to the level of an apparatchik. A Vandal (capital V) maybe.
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A Dunning-Krueger hire; too stupid and inexperienced to know he’s out of his depth.
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I knew a retired physician and WW2 vet who flew his first mission at the controls of a B25 at age 22. I couldn’t find my ass using both hands at age 22. But 1944 was desperate times.
As someone here pointed out, the brain isn’t fully developed until age 25 in most adults.
I suspect this kid is just a place holder in an administration that gives not a shit for any kind of counterterrorism.
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What a stupid, fucking unserious country.
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That is the weird dichotomy. One difference is that 22 year old pilot was put through military training including discipline, coupled with hands on and immediate evidence of failure to follow through. Why he is there, his focus is entirely different from those 22 year old who did stand up in a time of war.
Fugate has a desk, a title and opportunity to talk big.
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“The Leader we need: he doesn’t know what can’t be done!”
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At least he knows the weed-whacker is for weeds.
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Hey!
The kid’s got the Arched Eyebrow of Omnicompetence. We should all feel humbled to be in the presence.
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This is typical. Not just of this foul, malignant regime but of Americans in general. The ease of technology to help people do their jobs has led to the idiotic belief that anyone can do those jobs.
Case in point. I’m a professional writer. With each passing year, there are fewer and fewer jobs, and it’s not just AI bullshit. This started decades ago when every halfwit moron was handed a keyboard and got it into his empty head that the keyboard meant he or she knew how to write. They can’t, and it’s screamingly obvious to anyone who does. Or knows how to read.
The idea that just stringing words together into something that kind of makes sense is writing is just stupid. It’s the same as saying that knowing how to run makes you a marathoner or having a decent spiral makes you an NFL quarterback.
The difference between basic competency and total command of a subject is staggering and vast and only a complete fucking moron would believe they were the same thing. Like this fucking moron, who will either steal the money or get people killed. So yeah, he’s perfect for an administration run like a fucking mob family.
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