Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A “Historic Opportunity”

http://deadline.com/2026/03/kash-patel-ufc-fighters-train-fbi-agents-1236750897/

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pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 146 pts · 156d (13 replies)

Kash Patel is a UFC fanboy.

Just like everyone else on the admin payroll, he is just using the position as his personal entertainment budget and holiday fund

Next he'll pay George Lucas to come visit him to "advise on Star Wars defence systems" while he gets his collectibles signed.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 156d (10 replies)

It's fucking wild that right after attacking the largest support of global terrorism, they're holding this event at the WH and you know security will be a shitshow.

I'll be shocked if it's not attacked

Jhex@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 156d (2 replies)

…and how about the soccer world cqp this Summer?

dhork@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 156d (1 reply)

I'm kind of hoping the rest of the world wakes up and realizes that sending teams to the US to compete right now us just as bad as sending teams to Russia. The world should boycott it, and let the US claim its trophy after the Saudis field the only other team.

Jhex@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 156d

and the cherry on top would be FIFA losing their pants on this WC after boot licking the rapist pedophile so hard

AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 156d

All we need is one Secret Service agent or Marine guard with a conscience and nothing to lose.

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 156d

right after attacking the largest support of global terrorism

We shot ourselves? Surely that was by accident.

pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d (1 reply)

Don't give me hope bro I'm a recovering optimist.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d

It ain't hope, it's the most likely result.

I'm pretty good at risk assessment, and the clown show trump has running the FBI can only "stop" the attacks they plan like they guy on the terrorist list they let in just so they could have a CI frame him for an assanaition plot

CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 154d (2 replies)

Largest supporter? I would have thought that was Saudi. Most of the groups US were fighting or dealing with originated from strict Sunni groups. Iran was working against many of those groups.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 154d (1 reply)

If you want anyone to give you the benefit of the doubt that you're authentically asking questions, you really need to switch off one of the largest troll instances.

CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 154d

I don't know. Lemmy world is right up there. I try to ignore the instance and treat people in good faith. It's a shame others don't.

Originally, I started on this instance after .world was unusable and down most days. I assumed if anyone could maintain an instance, it's the devs who created it. Ml has been pretty reliable. My other account on lemm.ee died. The one on shit.just.works don't work with jerboa if you want infinite scroll to work...

You could check my account and see I moderate 2 big communities. Usually trolls don't do that. Mods invest energy to build stuff, trolls suck energy out of stuff with low energy contributions.

LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 156d (1 reply)

That's already happened. Ronald Reagan was a big fan of SciFi and created a think tank of SciFi authors to advise him on potential threats of the future.

pulsewidth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d

Lol, amazing. I shouldn't be surprised

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 102 pts · 156d (4 replies)

I hate that our country is run by the dumbest people and they're also massive douche bags.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 156d (3 replies)

Run for office! I finally know someone who decided they’d had enough and are just going for it.

SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d (1 reply)

here's the problem with that..... the salary for most offices is abysmally small. Like, poverty line. So, who can afford to run for office? People who already have wealth and a safe income. You can't just quit your job to run for local office when it pays $15K yearly.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 154d

That’s a problem. I’m not sure we can say “most offices” as it seems to vary quite widely. There’s a huge variety of roles from city to county to school district to state to national. Some do just get a minor stipend, but others earn much more than “poverty wages.” California pays its state legislators $132k which is above state median wages.

So while I agree with your point, you may have overstated it.

echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 155d

Yes in a few countries that's a good idea, although in the US with all its legalised bribery and regulatory capture I don't know if there's much point.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 66 pts · 156d (4 replies)

I've had MMA-trained dickheads have a go at me. I was working as a roadie, driving a van and loading equipment after club closing. That's a job where you're constantly surrounded by coked-up drunks who've just left the club at 2 AM and now they're hanging around the backdoor. And being asked to please not sit in the open back doorway of the van while I'm trying to move a massive speaker cabinet into it seems to be interpreted by some knobheads as an invitation to fight. It's not that, I just want to haul the equipment back to the lockup so I can go home. I always ask nicely, but that's lost on people full of alcohol and Charlie Sheen.

Guess what? The ground game's different when you land on tarmac instead of a mat and someone then grinds your face into it.

And you're not going to be paying attention to getting your chokehold set up when someone's got a thumb in your eye and the other hand crushing your nutscack. And with street situations, you don't know how many opponents there are (I wasn't the only person in the crew), you're not matched by weight class or experience (I'm not a small guy and trained hard for a few decades), and (unlike any form of MMA) there really are no rules. Well, I have one rule: a fair fight is one in which I don't get hurt.

So hopefully this training will make these goons more inclined to do things that will get them into trouble, instead of just roughing up civilians.

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 40 pts · 156d

Fights are are much more winnable when you treat them like an actual fight rather than the "manospheres" angry peacocking.

dukeofdummies@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 156d

Yeah anyone who knows anything about actual self defense fighting in my experience always pushes avoid and run more than anything else.

Getting stabbed sucks, even if you win the fight.

TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 156d

All I am imagining is an FBI agent getting shot while scooting around on their butts trying to get someone to close with them.

OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 156d

Most people don't have a clue about fighting. Any training will do against an average person just as well as someone with real life fighting experience can beat someone who has only practiced it.

The reality is that what they're doing is creating more paramilitary goons to beat up civilians.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 156d

eightpix@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 156d (3 replies)

Um... has this series jumped the shark yet?

darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 156d

Back in 2016, if not before.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 156d

Some of them are going to jump the shank. That'll hurt more than a rubber shark.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 156d

This gonna be the real "jumping the shark" moment.

That was right after the peak of Happy Days, that was when it got so ridiculous that it was undeniably a shadow of it's former self.

Just like how they thought Fonzi jumping a shark would be cool, they think this will be cool.

But they're gonna fuck it up, and it's gonna be a cringe fest.

As disappointing as it is, this will have a significant effect right before midterms.

PDFuego@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Train them to... what? Get their shins instantly broken by someone with capped boots and realise real fights don't have rules like UFC does? Cops have guns and tasers and stuff because they've already learned this won't work.

Stern@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d

"Oh no when I put one guy in a guillotine choke his three buddies left boot imprints in my skull who could have seen that coming except everyone???"

expatriado@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 156d (3 replies)

Patel is the kind of guest Rogan would have and be called a genius

eddie@feddit.online · 19 pts · 156d (2 replies)

Patel is the kind of guest that did go on Rogan and completely contradict everything he said before he was appointed to public office 🤪

edited elected to appointed

helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Appointed

eddie@feddit.online · 5 pts · 156d

thank you i am a stupid american

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 18 pts · 156d

I mean, I get it, Steven Seagal isn’t available because he’s playing grab-ass with Jcvd in Russia.

You make due with with what you got.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Don’t we have any fucking work to do in this country? The childlike carelessness of this administration is horrifying.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 156d

President put everyone out of work so no not really.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 156d

Lots of FBI agents gonna get their balls kicked in.

I’m surprisingly okay with that.

(Groin shots in UFC are illegal so they tend not to defend against them as well as one should in actual combat. This is the difference between combat sports and life-and-death combat.)

Steve@communick.news · 16 pts · 156d

There are subsets of BJJ created specifically to help law enforcement subdue and cuff a suspect. But that's not what MMA fighters know. It's substantially different.

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 156d (4 replies)

Oh, please please please please drop your gun and go fisticuffs with me thinking you're some kind of tough guy. I fucking dare you.

Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 156d (3 replies)

I wouldn't want to get anywhere close to you. I've seen the kind of knives you buy. You'll be throwing out more blades than Gilgamesh.

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 156d

Postingllamas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Is that a Fate/ series ref in the wild?

Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 156d

Perhaps... mongrel.

foggy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 156d

😂

Gonna feel like make a wish foundation at those trainings.

etherphon@piefed.world · 13 pts · 156d
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entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf · 12 pts · 156d

20cello@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Chuck Norris was busy,that's why they asked ufc

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 156d

I remember a Steven Segal joke about this, can't remember where

Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 156d

Is this some sort of mog or jestergoon?

echodot@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 155d

So are the bad guys also supposed to attend this training as well so everyone's on the same page? Like, what do they do with the other person has a gun, or is actually fighting to win rather than to be entertaining.

Might as well get Hugh Laurie to teach medical students.

anon6789@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 156d

Lol, I'm just picturing a bunch of middle-aged guys throwing their backs out trying to suplex each other.

As ridiculous as everything with this guy is, going on free dates with his girlfriend and sending himself to a different sports fantasy camp every week is seeming much less damaging than what a lot of other cronies have been up to. I'll take funding a manchild's excursions over a pointless war any day.

Send him up in one of Elon's rockets next for his space camp adventure!

VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 156d

FBI future foot pursuits...
"Agent Silva! The suspect went over the west corner Burger King wall towards the freeway!"

Agent Silva: . . .

"Sir, he's getting away! Silva!! Agent Silva!! C'mon man."

notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 156d

All medical personal report to sickbay 15 immediately.

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d

Fucking banchode.

MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 156d

I've been training in martial arts since I was a kid. I'm with a traditional kitboxing school and an MMA jujitsu class. Believe me when I tell you that in our gradings when we do two or three on one sparring drills, (overseen by competent instructors who have also worked bar doors), going to the ground we'll get you finished rapidly.. In those scenarios, it's all about controlling distance, not being grabbed hold of and certainly not being taken down. Me and my pals will reach for the popcorn to watch how this actually plays out.

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 156d

Useless Feds Chinned

Philharmonic3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Kash Patel you should take a long walk off a short pier.

maniclucky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d

Shortest one he can find for preference

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d

Didn't he recently defund and/or fire people whose job it was to keep an eye on domestic terrorism?