He knows all that. He was a lawyer. He also knows how the bullshit civil courts work in the US and how Americans think suing someone means you are validated.
The later is not absolute evidence for the former. There are lawyers who are also morons. Well known example: Rudy Giuliani. I sincerely believe that Patel may not understand the hole he's dug for himself.
Also, you can just harass and paper-whip a journalist out of existence a lot easier when you're the head of the FBI. Hell, worse comes to worst, call up your buddies in charge of the Pentagon or CIA, I'm sure they can find someone to just knock off the plaintiffs for cheap.
That normally implies cordial relations between heads of departments. No one in the administration likes anyone else, they like themselves and sucking up to Trump to benefit themselves.
Kash would need to get Trump to get someone else to cooperate and you can't go running to the boss to clean up your mess when you're supposed to be cleaning up his!
He's a bully, so he thinks that the threat of a lawsuit will make the problem go away. He hasn't thought about what happens if it goes further than that.
He could've ignored the news and not sued anyone and it probably would've blown over in a few days. He's streisanding himself and hopefully he gets counter sued for damages and then gets fired
hopefully he gets counter sued for damages and then gets fired
He'd get fired for not doing what trump wants...
Kash and people like RFK Jr are where they're at because of all this stupid shit they do.
Every headline about how dumb they are, takes the place of a headline about how dumb trump is.
But no matter how much they fuck up, as long as they do what trump says they won't get fired. trump doesn't pay attention to what the FBI should be doing, so it doesn't matter if that shit gets done.
Only time this will be a problem, is if he's wasted and unreachable when trump demands he goes on TV and lie. As long as he can stumble up there and lie, he's golden in Trump's eyes.
It doesn't even have to be convincing, look at that video of a guy too drunk to stand up at a TPU event recently, trump was fine with that, because the guy said what trump wanted him too.
Exactly, Kash has an audience of exactly one, and that is all that matters to him. If his lawsuit causes Trump to look bad, that's when he'll be in trouble.
Literally nothing about this joke is denigrating southeast Asians, it's just a pun-infused pop culture reference. You need to understand what racism is before you start lobbing it as an accusation...
There's a movie called Slumdog Millionaire where it's a guy that comes up from the slums and enters the "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" gameshow.
He changed the word "slum" to "rum" because he drinks booze and I guess enters the Whitehouse.
I don't think the poster thought more than the wordplay but others are tying in other class and cultural aspects of the movie and applying it this instance. Others are saying name calling is sad.
I'm tired, it's a Friday night and I'm figuring out whether to study more on how to get better observability on my k8s cluster or just do more agentic programming stuff because my director told me this week that AI is going to take over everything and we're just going to write JIRA tickets and let the AI bots code and we're not allowed to code any more and I feel like I need rum myself to deal with this internal struggle I'm dealing with.
Using a racially-based pop-culture reference to make fun of someone seems pretty in line with racism to me. Just because it’s making fun of someone we don’t like seems little reason to discount it as racism.
This is like when someone put a statue of Trump with a micro penis in some park in New York. People loved it, but if someone had done the same thing to Hillary, there would be uproar. I hate Trump, but making fun of his body is no better when it’s him than it is when it’s someone else.
I think the divide on this issue has a lot of parallels with the paradox of tolerance.
In the eyes of many, punching down and crossing lines of social/human decency is permissible when dealing with high-profile professional peddlers of punching down and crossing lines of social/human decency.
I'm not exactly arguing in favor of it or trying to convince you, but I think that's the angle when you're dealing with a crowd that has contempt for the person but not for actual racial reasons.
I agree with your analysis. I hate Popper’s paradox of tolerance though. Not because I disagree with it but because of how it’s used by angry leftists to justify their own hatred. I do think fascists should be executed, but only the ones that truly would kill others for their ideology. Too many people on the left are fine with killing those that merely provide cover for the truly violent by agreeing with their views but not having the conviction to carry them out. ACAB people bother me this way. Patel is a piece of trash. But he’s a worthless piece of it. Let him drink himself to death. Let him be an example to his people.
You literally make no sense. For this to be racist, there would need to be something racist about the comparison. Like say if the movie itself was racist against Indian people. It is not. The joke is literally playing with the title of a movie. There is no further implication whatsoever. It doesn't make a judgement against him because he is Indian. It is pretty absurd to me that I need to explain this honestly. This is truly reaching to find something "racist" to feel superior about. Only problem is, it's not there whatsoever. There is nothing racist about noticing a person's ethnicity. Kinda mind boggling that people could be so blind to reality that they insist that's a thing.
South asian, not south east asian. It's not racist but I definitely rolled my eyes. It's a movie from 20 years ago and Americans are not known for being particularly 'worldly' so it comes across as sees brown person - oh here's a movie from a couple decades ago that I remember had similar looking people in it
Lol, "annoying". Good. Most people don't like their racism called out. Those with actual merit can manage to self reflect, though. Whining about how the calling out makes you feel bad is pretty much the opposite of that.
I always just remember 'an affect is not a thing' as in, effect is a thing (noun) and affect is a noun. Then I just avoid the second one, the effect verb form.
I have been inundated by additional sourcing going up to the highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work, providing additional corroborating information.
There is a player, I believe wearing a blue shirt (top left), who appeared unimpressed with the Keystone Cop and the way he guzzles down beer. What a complete waste of good beer that is going to be pissed out by a fucking clown.
His misconduct is an asset to his bosses. This kind of administration doesn't hire people who don't already have a good reason to be fired. Yes-men have to be easy to fire and they have to know it. Otherwise they start thinking for themselves.
Right? I can't believe how easily we all get suckered into the latest shiny object. This is just another distraction to keep us looking the other way. Another example of flooding the zone. Meanwhile, on polymarket ...
Its gonna be hilarious if he just made this undeniable (who am I kidding these folk would deny being ass fuckers to the person they are currently sodomizing)
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hansolo@lemmy.today · 195 pts · 101d
I love how much he doesn't realize discovery will be part of this process.
Kiddo, you can't throw SLAPP suits at journalists when you're swimming in evidence you're doing exactly what the jounalist said you're doing.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 115 pts · 101d
Kash is not using HIS money, that's OUR hard earned money he's wasting.
Where is DOGE when you need them???
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 25 pts · 101d
Why tf does he get to use government funds for a personal issue?
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 101d
It's not a personal issue, he's the head of the FBI and the suit is against how he's
runningruining it.An excellent example of why you should vote Democratic for the next few years. Clear out these idiots.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 101d
I thought the suit was him suing a reporter for writing a story about him?
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 101d
Yes, him running the FBI while drunk.
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space · 0 pts · 100d
FBI director wasn't on the ticket last I checked
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 101d
Voters
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 101d
Well, I know the voting MACHINES like him.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 101d
Corruption...?
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 99d
Corruption and abuse of power.
girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 101d
Working for the pedophiles like they always have.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 101d
Gnome shot the wrong DOGE.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 101d
He knows all that. He was a lawyer. He also knows how the bullshit civil courts work in the US and how Americans think suing someone means you are validated.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 23 pts · 101d
The later is not absolute evidence for the former. There are lawyers who are also morons. Well known example: Rudy Giuliani. I sincerely believe that Patel may not understand the hole he's dug for himself.
redsand@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 101d
But does he know about cocaine and ethanol? Me thinks not.
Mirshe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
Also, you can just harass and paper-whip a journalist out of existence a lot easier when you're the head of the FBI. Hell, worse comes to worst, call up your buddies in charge of the Pentagon or CIA, I'm sure they can find someone to just knock off the plaintiffs for cheap.
BigPotato@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d
That normally implies cordial relations between heads of departments. No one in the administration likes anyone else, they like themselves and sucking up to Trump to benefit themselves.
Kash would need to get Trump to get someone else to cooperate and you can't go running to the boss to clean up your mess when you're supposed to be cleaning up his!
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 15 pts · 101d
He's a bully, so he thinks that the threat of a lawsuit will make the problem go away. He hasn't thought about what happens if it goes further than that.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 101d
It seems like the modus operandi of anyone in the Trump circle and the misunderstanding of MAGA meaning Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
shweddy@lemmy.world · 153 pts · 101d
He could've ignored the news and not sued anyone and it probably would've blown over in a few days. He's streisanding himself and hopefully he gets counter sued for damages and then gets fired
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 101d
He'd get fired for not doing what trump wants...
Kash and people like RFK Jr are where they're at because of all this stupid shit they do.
Every headline about how dumb they are, takes the place of a headline about how dumb trump is.
But no matter how much they fuck up, as long as they do what trump says they won't get fired. trump doesn't pay attention to what the FBI should be doing, so it doesn't matter if that shit gets done.
Only time this will be a problem, is if he's wasted and unreachable when trump demands he goes on TV and lie. As long as he can stumble up there and lie, he's golden in Trump's eyes.
It doesn't even have to be convincing, look at that video of a guy too drunk to stand up at a TPU event recently, trump was fine with that, because the guy said what trump wanted him too.
Even if it was incomprehensible
Edit:
It was Paul Goser
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/04/18/he-drunk-trump-watched-from-the-front-row-as-slobbering-ally-slurred-through-gloating-praise-then-a-strange-physical-breakdown-sparks-viral-chaos/
Article has a video
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 101d
Exactly, Kash has an audience of exactly one, and that is all that matters to him. If his lawsuit causes Trump to look bad, that's when he'll be in trouble.
limonfiesta@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d
Paul Gossars own siblings volunteered to help in attack ads run by his opponent a few cycles back.
khepri@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 101d
The Streisand Effect is very rarely understood by the kind of emotional infants Trump prefers to surround himself with.
desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 101d
yeah because this is the REAL streisand effect
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 40 pts · 101d
Rumdog millionaire 🤌
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 101d
gothic_lemons@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 101d
Fuckin Mozart making me nut so good from jealously
ech@lemmy.ca · -20 pts · 101d
Cause racism is OK when it's people we don't like?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 101d
Literally nothing about this joke is denigrating southeast Asians, it's just a pun-infused pop culture reference. You need to understand what racism is before you start lobbing it as an accusation...
seejur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
I'm out of the loop. What is the reference?
lobut@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 101d
From what I can see ...?
There's a movie called Slumdog Millionaire where it's a guy that comes up from the slums and enters the "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" gameshow.
He changed the word "slum" to "rum" because he drinks booze and I guess enters the Whitehouse.
I don't think the poster thought more than the wordplay but others are tying in other class and cultural aspects of the movie and applying it this instance. Others are saying name calling is sad.
I'm tired, it's a Friday night and I'm figuring out whether to study more on how to get better observability on my k8s cluster or just do more agentic programming stuff because my director told me this week that AI is going to take over everything and we're just going to write JIRA tickets and let the AI bots code and we're not allowed to code any more and I feel like I need rum myself to deal with this internal struggle I'm dealing with.
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 101d
Using a racially-based pop-culture reference to make fun of someone seems pretty in line with racism to me. Just because it’s making fun of someone we don’t like seems little reason to discount it as racism.
This is like when someone put a statue of Trump with a micro penis in some park in New York. People loved it, but if someone had done the same thing to Hillary, there would be uproar. I hate Trump, but making fun of his body is no better when it’s him than it is when it’s someone else.
Zink@programming.dev · 3 pts · 101d
I think the divide on this issue has a lot of parallels with the paradox of tolerance.
In the eyes of many, punching down and crossing lines of social/human decency is permissible when dealing with high-profile professional peddlers of punching down and crossing lines of social/human decency.
I'm not exactly arguing in favor of it or trying to convince you, but I think that's the angle when you're dealing with a crowd that has contempt for the person but not for actual racial reasons.
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d
I agree with your analysis. I hate Popper’s paradox of tolerance though. Not because I disagree with it but because of how it’s used by angry leftists to justify their own hatred. I do think fascists should be executed, but only the ones that truly would kill others for their ideology. Too many people on the left are fine with killing those that merely provide cover for the truly violent by agreeing with their views but not having the conviction to carry them out. ACAB people bother me this way. Patel is a piece of trash. But he’s a worthless piece of it. Let him drink himself to death. Let him be an example to his people.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 101d
You literally make no sense. For this to be racist, there would need to be something racist about the comparison. Like say if the movie itself was racist against Indian people. It is not. The joke is literally playing with the title of a movie. There is no further implication whatsoever. It doesn't make a judgement against him because he is Indian. It is pretty absurd to me that I need to explain this honestly. This is truly reaching to find something "racist" to feel superior about. Only problem is, it's not there whatsoever. There is nothing racist about noticing a person's ethnicity. Kinda mind boggling that people could be so blind to reality that they insist that's a thing.
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 100d
Then you’re not listening, and I don’t need to respond.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 100d
Because nothing you could say would make it make sense
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 100d
South asian, not south east asian. It's not racist but I definitely rolled my eyes. It's a movie from 20 years ago and Americans are not known for being particularly 'worldly' so it comes across as sees brown person - oh here's a movie from a couple decades ago that I remember had similar looking people in it
ech@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 101d
Pejoratively, and based on his race. I suppose you'd argue it's fine to call a Japanese man "Mr Miyagi", or African American man "Kunta Kinte"?
This is the same shit racist, conservative bigots do, and it's not OK just because it's aimed at them this time.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 101d
You're wrong. There is zero indication of judgement of Indian people. You're just white knighting and it's annoying to everyone else.
ech@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 101d
Lol, "annoying". Good. Most people don't like their racism called out. Those with actual merit can manage to self reflect, though. Whining about how the calling out makes you feel bad is pretty much the opposite of that.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 101d
Frauds do like to invent reasons to feel superior. No surprise there.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 0 pts · 101d
Yeah. I thought that when reading "rumdog millionaire" too.
Hardly adds to the veracity of the linked article.
ech@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 101d
Name calling has become so normalized in politics. It's seriously depressing.
Etterra@discuss.online · 30 pts · 101d
Oh Streisand effect you harsh mistress lol
Edit: autocowreckt
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 8 pts · 101d
*effect
To affect (verb) is to alter something
To effect (verb) is to cause to happen
The effect (noun) is the result
So one can affect the situation by effecting the effect.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 100d
Urgh I'm terrible with that. I just avoid those two words like the goddamn plague.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 100d
Do you find the effect of those words affects your mood ?
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 100d
There's definitely an impact.
MrEff@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 100d
I always just remember 'an affect is not a thing' as in, effect is a thing (noun) and affect is a noun. Then I just avoid the second one, the effect verb form.
Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 101d
Thanks lol. It's just an autocorrect typo.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 101d
Trump confirmed snitching on Patel's drunk ass
Etterra@discuss.online · 13 pts · 101d
Or maybe couch fucker.
CoconutLove@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 101d
Like the US men's hockey team?
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 101d
There is a player, I believe wearing a blue shirt (top left), who appeared unimpressed with the Keystone Cop and the way he guzzles down beer. What a complete waste of good beer that is going to be pissed out by a fucking clown.
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 101d
His misconduct is an asset to his bosses. This kind of administration doesn't hire people who don't already have a good reason to be fired. Yes-men have to be easy to fire and they have to know it. Otherwise they start thinking for themselves.
ape_arms@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
Right? I can't believe how easily we all get suckered into the latest shiny object. This is just another distraction to keep us looking the other way. Another example of flooding the zone. Meanwhile, on polymarket ...
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 101d
Archive because trying to read this site is rough.
https://archive.ph/IlMwq
HubertManne@piefed.social · 7 pts · 101d
Its gonna be hilarious if he just made this undeniable (who am I kidding these folk would deny being ass fuckers to the person they are currently sodomizing)
redsand@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 101d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaethylene
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 101d