cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24940002
“One, a senior adviser to the director, is a 21-year-old whose online resume touts his work for Palantir,” per Wired, while another “who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024.” A copy of the latter’s resume include his summer internship with Musk’s Neuralink, alongside jobs as — we assure you that we are not joking — a camp counselor and bike mechanic.
Although both these tykes are ostensibly poised to rip and tear through America’s federal agencies, Wired declined to name them “because of their ages” — a somewhat baffling choice given that both appear to be of legal age. (And if they’re not, well, that’s a much bigger problem.)
Populating the OPM with naive-yet-loyal yes men seems to be a key strategy in Trump’s plan to drastically cut down the federal workforce.
That was a little esoteric of a quote. In the movie, the British whip, I guess, is coming over for a meeting about a war committee. The British government wonk is in his 50s. He shows up to the meeting with his US counterpart and it is played by a young actor.
Another line from the movie: You know they’re all kids in Washington? It’s like Bugsy Malone, but with real guns.