'Big Balls' Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee

Thursday, June 05, 2025

The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.

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SCOOP: The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul. www.wired.com/story/big-ba ...

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'Big Balls' Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee

At least until the first random drug test that is.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-06-05 03:41 PM | Reply

Check out this new Teumb appointee. Competence is not a requirement in the Trump Administration. Only loyalty

Meet Thomas Fugate: 22-year-old ex-gardener and grocery store assistant to lead US terror prevention

US President Donald Trump has reportedly picked 22-year-old ex-gardener Thomas Fugate to lead the Centre for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Fugate was working as a neighbourhood gardener just five years ago and in a grocery store as recently as August 2023, Daily Beast reported.

Fugate, who graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio just 12 months ago, is currently heading up the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at the DHS.

Who is Thomas Fugate?
Acccording to the youngster's LinkedIn page, Fugate has almost no experience in this field"and in 2020 was working as a self-employed Landscape Business Owner.' According to his LinkedIn, he would "perform various activities around every department of the store, fulfilling key duties contributing to store operations."

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#2 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-06-05 04:35 PM | Reply

Poor Harriet Miers, still wondering why she isn't a Supreme Court Justice.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-05 04:38 PM | Reply

How could a kid that worked his way through college at a fly over state school get a government job that rightly belongs to a trust fund scion of an entrenched political dynasty from Harvard?

#4 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-06-06 02:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

At least until the first random drug test that is.

#1 | POSTED BY QCP

They are not random anymore. Not sure they ever were. Now it's just another tool to use to silence an employee that speaks up or, gawd forbid, talks back.

If you have enough courage to resist tyranny you are obviously on drugs.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-06 01:02 PM | Reply