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kmblue187's avatar

I watched the Brown presser last night. The chief of police was careful to say the FBI was helping and "investigations change directions." I think if my memory is right, a reporter asked about the FBI fuckup, but again, the mayor, the chief and the governor walked carefully.

Smart, they don't need the wrath of Trump.

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T L Mills's avatar

I'd purely love to be a fly on the wall to hear what they have to say when the cameras and microphones aren't around.

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kmblue187's avatar

I imagine a lot of cussing was involved. The local FBI Special Agent at the presser (who of course had nothing to do with Patel's nonsense) looked embarrassed, I felt for him.

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DemoCat's avatar

Firing people reflects on him. When his hires are incompetent it reflects only on THEM. So he will let the fires burn and simply deny that anything is wrong.

I like how Patel threw the local police under the bus. It wasn’t his error, you see. He really did think they had the shooter, even if they were just questioning an innocent person. And surely this poor soul and the wrongly accused Kirk shooter were totally fine after and suffered no consequences.

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Karen Krebser's avatar

Which bar did Patel pass? Because I too have passed many bars: The Plough and Stars, The ECL, Cinnabar, Original Joe's (which is actually a restaurant, but they have a great bar as well), The Tonga Room, and many, many others. *hic*

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kmblue187's avatar

Having the Secret Service chauffeur his girlfriend and HER drunk girlfriend home?

Who the fuck does he think he is?

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Rockman2's avatar

Again he has a thyroid issue

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

OMG!

Kash Patel thinks telling people he only spoke to Rudy Giuliani about personal things is the better look.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. Ka$h needs to Kra$h.

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NH is for 🦡🍄🐍's avatar

I mean, I KNOW anyone who follows Grampa Assmouth is A Idiot or a scammer who wants to make a buck. But c’mon, even an idiot HAS to realize eventually that he or she is completely expendable, and will be sacrificed in a SECOND if it advantages said Assmouth. And the grifters should be even MORE aware of the risk. Are they just so bedazzled by the gilt that they don’t see the dross underneath? Are they so foolish to think that THEY are the one who is special, who will ride this human centipede all the way to the glorious finish? Or are they just so embedded in said centipede that even though they realize they are eventually going to choke to death on shit, they can’t dismount?

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Let John Foxx sing you through this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDTsG4zwSI

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Hank Napkin's avatar

"It's always difficult. So far, we've done a very good job of doing it..." -- Codename : Shambles

‼️MAKE‼️IT‼️FECKING‼️STOP‼️

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Goonemeritus's avatar

That Kash Patel picture at the top of the post is obviously photo shopped. Patel's eyes are way weirder.

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DemoCat's avatar

And his actual nose is heading westward from an easterly direction. Crooked, inside and out.

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tehbaddr's avatar

I just realized who Bongino reminds me of. Curious George!

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tehbaddr's avatar

"he left the Justice Department to work for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as an aide to Devin Nunes"

I had forgotten about that, stellar credentials!

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littlerice vice's avatar

Is that the NO MOO GUY?

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tehbaddr's avatar

I simple Dairy Farmer from CA.

Also known for his Barrel Roll out of an Uber and onto the WH lawn to deliver some breaking news to Tramp in his first term. I believe it was about some corruption the Dems were doing against Dear LEader.

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Erisian's avatar

"telling Trump [sic] that a person of interest was in custody for the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday, leading Trump [sic] to post that wrong information when once again it was the wrong guy."

This is nothing new. The Fulvous Fuckwad has, on myriad occasions, made announcements after one of his "best and brightest" fed him unconfirmed info -- that turned out wrong way more often than not. The asshole has no shame; he'll make no statement about fingering the wrong guy until he fingers the next wrong person he's told is responsible for whatever happened.

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"But he really did go to law school. A low-tier one (Pace), but still."

This still puts Patel ahead of the Corrupt Coral Coward in edjumucation. Patel went to college and law school all on his own efforts rather than have daddy buy him his degrees like Papa Fred did with his spawn's Bachelor's in Economics. (It's obvious that the Cantaloupe Codpiece did not do the work just based on his monetary policies, for example seeming to believe his arbitrary tariffs will be paid by overseas companies rather than American consumers -- or possibly he's gaslighting the low-info voters and knuckle draggers he calls his base.)

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"So Patel claimed there was a person of interest in America’s 465th mass shooting this year"

The number seems to be a low-ball or it needs updating. According to the Gun Violence Archive the number, as of yesterday, was 392 since the Shocking Orange ShitForBrains' first full day of his current regime. (https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/) There are nine pages of gun violence incidents since 21 Jan.

This is our tough on crime POTUS; mass roundups of brown skinned people for being the worst of the worst criminals -- even those with no criminal record here or their home country -- but won't even entertain the idea of curtailing gun violence because... 2A.

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"Should competence be destroyed or systematically discouraged, complex systems that we take for granted—from infrastructure to national security to education and research—will cease to function."

The Pyrite Pustule usually lies, stretches the truth beyond recognition, and pulls facts and figures out of his stinky ass, but this time he is solidly on the money. The problem -- for him -- is that this is a yuge self-own. Cronyism and sycophants rather than competence; he has gone to great lengths to destroy our systems of governance; he has halted all infrastructure projects unless he can directly benefit from them; our national security is a joke after handing the keys to the country to Vladimir Vladimirovich and Xi and antagonized our allies, and our economic security is circling the bottom of the toilet bowl; he's made it abundantly clear that he intends to dismantle our education system from preschool through post-doctoral to be replaced with indoctrination in Right wingnut ideology; and he has successfully decimated research: private, scholastic, and governmental in favor of "gold standard science" like is being installed at HHS by Bobby Brainworm.

fnord

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tehbaddr's avatar

That is the most disturbing gif I've ever seen of Kra$h!

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kmblue187's avatar

Oh yeah.

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Tom65's avatar

He may have to write some more barely-disguised fan fic about Orange Julius.

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Lady Tavestock's avatar

At this point, I wouldn't turn in any suspected killers to the FBI - even if the shooter was my ex-SIL (who I detest with the heat of a thousand suns).

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