Patel celebrates in the locker room after coming under fierce scrutiny over his personal trips on government jets
FBI Director Kash Patel is once again under fire for his use of official FBI resources for travel as he appeared alongside gold medal-winning members of Team USA hockey on Sunday at the Olympics in Milano Cortina.
The FBI chief has was previously accused of using federal government resources to take “extravagant” trips with his girlfriend, allegedly earning him the derisive nickname “Make-a-Wish Director” behind closed doors.
But on Sunday he posted photos of himself grinning alongside members of the men’s hockey team mere hours after a spokesperson for his agency blasted the mere suggestion that Patel had used government resources for a personal vacation.
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FancyLad@lemmy.world · 101 pts · 184d
Goddamn these corrupt fucks are shameless. Inb4 the administration takes all the credit for this win
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 32 pts · 184d
I assume next week trump will get a gold medal gifted to him and he'll be an Olympic gold medalist
breezeblock@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 184d
They brought the swamp
hector@lemmy.today · 69 pts · 184d
This hockey team should be shunned for partying with Patel. As if they don't know he's a traitor, in league to kill the republic? They know, or should know, how can you not. They are not patriots, they are traitors, feathering their own nests with the American Eagle Patel just shot.
Patel is not a passive participant either, he's the FBI director, a very active position in both crushing civil rights, the right to protest, and in helping to steal the election.
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 183d
90% of the American hockey players I know are conservative. I bet the majority of the players loved this.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 183d
I dunno man, most conservatives seem to think kash is a fuckin loser as well.
Blueliner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 184d
They should have given him a true hockey experience that he'd never forget.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 184d
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 184d
Oh well ¯_(ツ)_/¯ No consequences for his class.
LMurch@thelemmy.club · 8 pts · 183d
I feel like he's just a visitor to this class. A high-level visitor, maybe VIP, but if push came to shove, he's getting thrown under the bus before a lot of the other losers like Kegsbreath, Bondi, Steven Miller, etc...
rhubarb@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 184d
The FBI is now a Make-A-Wish foundation for a low rent podcaster
bajabound@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 184d
You forgot world renowned author!
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 184d
Most predictable thing ever. This guy has what qualifications for the job, by the way?
Also: anyone see that interview he did with Dan Bingobongo or whatever the fuck his name is?
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 184d
Apparently he somehow has a law degree .. and worked in a government position (DOJ?) for 10 years or something, not sure that qualifies him for FBI director though, I seem to remember the director role being more political and it's the deputy directors that need more actual expertise ..
hector@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 184d
Why should the FBI director be a lawyer at all? Why should lawyers make up over 96 percent of all lawmakers and appointees or whatever it is? Obviously what we have been doing isn't working, so let's try getting non lawyers, that aren't pieces of shit in these positions.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d
"What makes people who've spent years studying and practicing law so qualified for and interested in writing and executing federal law? Golly, it's just such a mystery why one might value a law degree for the person tasked with directing the principal law enforcement agency of the United States."
The fact that @Lodespawn@aussie.zone had to defend "law degree" as a qualification to lead the FBI (not sufficient unto itself, but just a qualification) shows how insular places like Lemmy are. Just staggeringly asinine. You would be laughed out of the room if you asked this anywhere else.
Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 183d
Most countries would laugh you out of the room if you said being a jurist was a requirement to be the head of police.
It is a good background for such a position, but it is also true that the US government is overweighted with jurists and that there are a lot of shitty right-wing law schools in the US. See JD Vance for an example of how good Yale is.
hector@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 183d
Well they are corrupt and dishonest and clearly not a great choice. I think defending the captured bureaucracy and the politicians that appoint them, as the proper people to be running the country, marks you as a sheep, not us as misguided.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 184d
I'm not saying being a lawyer is appropriate for the role, just that he does surprisingly have a reasonably professional qualification. He seems like an idiot but he must be some degree of competent if he can pass a law degree. His ridiculous children's books and evidence of his corruption would suggest he is not suitable for the current role.
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d
Snort enough adderall and anyone can cram/rote learn enough temporarily to scrape through a degree. Did he pass the bar anywhere? I assume it’s a case of that old joke - what do you call a guy who partied all through med school, stole the answers to exams and scraped through by the skin of his teeth? “Doctor”.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 184d
Apparently he did pass the bar, but holy hell there's some real corkers in his Wikipedia page. He's a Ugandan Asylum Seeker and his senior year yearbook quote is "Racism is man's gravest threat—the maximum of hatred for a minimum reason" pretty rich for his current general attitude. He also claimed to be lead prosecutor on the Benghazi case but barely worked on it.
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
Good grief - that’s wild, but somehow wholly unsurprising. Asylum seeker from Uganda to FBI Director. It’s the American Dream™️. I can’t imagine his mother could be proud of this version of her son. I hope she’s disappointed as hell, not because she deserves it, but so he has to at least face that reality, because whatever bug-eye inducing, drug-fuelled, taxpayer-funded fever dream he’s living isn’t anyone else’s reality (no one with a soul anyway)
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com · 1 pts · 184d
He does have an Israeli girlfriend though. That covers the qualification part.
Wammityblam@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 183d
This is such a disappointment after a great game. Really just sours the moment.
Doubly so because one of the first thing the broadcast talked about was how inspirational these guys and gals are for future generations of athletes.
Our youth shouldn't look up to people who party with pedophile defenders and protectors.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 184d
It looks more like he's celebrating near them while being ignored by the team.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 184d
They weren’t sure if he was talking to them when he asked to party. They thought he was looking at another team.
ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 184d
The silver lining to all of this is that none of us have to be Kash Patel. That lame motherfucker has a life sentence of being himself.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 184d
More proof that this was a victory for pedo-fascism.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 183d
Yeah, I wasn’t particularly excited by the win. Felt like the bully winning the game.
Blueliner@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 184d
garretble@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 184d
Well at least we got to enjoy the win for a few minutes.
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 184d
The tkchunk brothers are big fascist lovers.
Most hockey players are very stupid but they take after their stupid father very well.
garretble@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 184d
I think it’s easy to see hockey players might be kinda dumb because the women have full caged helmets and all their teeth, and I assume the men could do that but just don’t because they want to “be manly.”
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 184d
Nah they’re stupid because they live extremely sheltered lives doing exactly one thing from as soon as they can skate.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
You can't wear cages in the NHL unless you have an injury.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 184d
Why not?
Gunrigger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 183d
I know you're just stating a fact, but that doesn't stop it from being stupidity.
garretble@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 183d
If that’s the rule then I wonder what the reasoning behind it is.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
No way eh. Team Canada.
Blueliner@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 184d
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 184d
The only loser in the room atm
hector@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 184d
Hockey team deserves to be shunned for partying with patel in all honesty. Patel is actively betraying the US, helping to fix elections, and they know or should know that.
johnofrobotz@news.girolab.foo · 7 pts · 184d
I have to keep reminding myself the athletes are representing the athletes of the US and deserve no disrespect for celebrating as athletes. It's hard to separate those "USA" chants from the meaning it's been twisted into today, but can't really hold them all responsible for Patel crashing their party.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 184d
Maybe he PAID them to party with him.
Some people are so rich, all they have is money.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d
Getting paid to hang out with fascists doesn’t actually absolve you of responsibility for hanging out with fascists.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 184d
He's the US director of the FBI. He just shows up and they let him in. What're they going to do say no? They just let him in, do the photo op, and that's that. None of them are thinking about it. Half the dudes on the team probably don't even know who he is. Hockey players are so insulated, that's why the young guys always do the worst interviews, their entire life has been hockey, and that's it.
Wammityblam@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 183d
Why not? What does Patel have to do with their victory? Not a god damn thing.
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 183d
Women’s team declined White House visit. Hope the men do the same
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 184d
I mean, they’ve all got to return to the US so thats a loss
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 183d
Brother, tell me about it
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 4 pts · 183d
And then once he gets back to the US he finds Pam Bondi waiting with a frown on her face and stacks of documents…
Oh no, the nightmare is still there…
Netrunner@programming.dev · 2 pts · 183d
Bro did coke and this is OP I'm patriotic cuz I like olpymics
gukleszl4hs48ughgxhr5xgd@fedia.io · 1 pts · 184d
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 184d
That win was bullshit anyway. USA had too many men on the ice and didn’t get a penalty for it, but then Canada got a 4 minute penalty for high sticking during what should’ve been their power play.
Wammityblam@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 183d
Sure, but Canada had a 3v5 for almost 2 full minutes and couldn't sink one
US goalie was a monster and it made the difference
Blueliner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d
yonderbarn@lazysoci.al · 1 pts · 182d
They let stuff go both ways.