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I'd like to chime in and say that that Kash Patel, while completely unprofessional and incompetent, is way less of a weirdo than the rest of the administration.

His scandals are all about shirking job responsibilities to party and sightsee. That's not great from the FBI director but its way more normal than the rest of them.

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I dunno, a sitting FBI director testifying under oath about details that are clearly false, goes above and way beyond "to party and sightsee". At least in my world it puts him up there together with the rest of the weirdos.

A sitting FBI director testifying under oath about details that are clearly false is tradition at this point.

How can you way that with a straight face when this book exists.

https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Against-King-Kash-Patel/dp/19555...

I did not know about that book, yeah that is cringe.

This is insane lol. I didn't know about this.

That’s why the memes about his new deer in headlights look is so funny

He sucked up to get his position and realized - through the fbi - that the cabinet and administration is crazy

idk if you have to dig in and link to some amazon link...

this iran hack is a dismal propaganda failure...

nothing much to see I guess

Dig in? Was already aware of his book, and he's made many more weird books. Trump's cabinet are all weird little goblins, some more Nazi than others, like Miller.

isn't that "hackers" supposed to get some unknown secret scandalous stuff?

if you're digging amazon FOR them, what's the point of their activity?

and by "digging", yes it's digging because is that link THE FIRST RECOMMENDED THING from amazon?

gosh I didn't even say "trump cabinet is the best and perfect"...

...damn did you get like 300 on SAT reading?

Why do you assume I did any digging at all? I just said we might find out some fun stuff in his emails about his weird book, which I already was aware of. Presumably the SAT includes properly written words and sentences, not whatever you spew out.

That's not remotely true of his history.. he's a full on Jan-6er, deep into Q-Anon, he was involved in numerous serious scandals during the first Trump admin (Nunes Memo / Russiagate 'parallel' investigation: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-men...), he has a number of sketchy moneymaking side-businesses, he was formerly living with a GOP megadonor 'Timeshare Tycoon' as roommates in Vegas (https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/trump-fbi-pick-kash...), he collected enemies' lists for Trump which resulted in firing of most of the Iran counterintel team right before we started launching attacks because they had the termerity to investigate why Trump was showing donors top-secret maps of Iran after he left office..

In the current environment, those are more expecteds than scandalous. Insider trades around government activities, same-sex behavior, overt racism for example might nudge the needle.

Don't normalize this behavior.

yeah that world-event gambling stuff gotta stop...

I mean, if I can send troops, I would bet on sending troops, wont I?

those gamblers who aren't Trump or any 'event initiators themselves' must be idiots of extraordinary quality

I'm not defending or advocating for the guy, just saying, if you're gonna be a piece of shit, he seems more relatable than the rest of them.

90% of US media is not aligned with the Democrats and as such they do not possess the same power to manufacture outrage as the Republicans do.

> 90% of US media is not aligned with the Democrats

The media works for the same people both parties do. If capital wanted to manufacture Democrat-aligned outrage they could easily do so overnight.

But it's a complete mistake to think about politics in a partisan manner at all. Of course the democrats won't ever fight for you. Doing anything decreases chances of getting elected again.

Whatever force will depose capital won't come from the two-party system.

The media works for the billionaire elite and it is mostly aligned with the Republican party. And if you think that "both parties are as bad" or that the last president was as batshit insane as the current one, that same billionaire elite has duped you.

It's actually almost exactly the opposite, at least when considering the number of media outlets. Fox news is a massive outlier with a huge audience and strong republican leaning, but most of the major networks engage in democrat-aligned signaling (not necessarily the progressive branch of democrats).

Considering number over outlets versus population served is exactly the wrong way of looking at it.

Fewer outlets serving larger populations means stricter control over messaging, and a better propaganda base.

I can't tell if this a sarcastic statement or you believe this to be true.

So you mean to point out that the sitting FBI director is a bro's bro.

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