Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

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    Patel was selected for this purpose.

    Trump wants the DOJ so he can go after his enemies. He wants to grind the FBI to a halt because they are his perceived enemies.

    If Kash is getting drunk and sewing chaos, he’s doing the job he was hired to do.

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    Even though this is getting reported by numerous publications, apparently Kash Patel and his external advisors are threatening a lawsuit against The Atlantic over this.

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      There should be minimum requirements for these positions instead of the president appointing whoever the fuck he wants. For example, the secretary of health should have expertise in health. The attorney general should be a lawyer.

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        That seems like a good tenet, but it goes against my presumption that I could do a better job than these idiots without that expertise. I could overcome that feeling to be pragmatic about enacting such a requirement, but then we would still end up with someone like Mehmet Oz or Phil McGraw as health secretary.

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      Well he made sure it’s not functional by filling every single to position to people that are completely incapable of being more evolved than a sophomore frat boy.

      All we hear are stories of them getting drunk as hell, totally fucking up their job, and now disappearing.

      I would make a much better FBI director. Even the idiot magats that get interviewed by TYT would be.

      The photo that gets constantly mocked of him is entirely accurate to his level of intelligence. There is no deeper awareness than “shlorp daddy’s mushroom”. None at all.

      When he finally dies I hope it’s absolutely humiliating and painful. And that photo better be at his almost empty funeral.

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    So, Josh Johnson is right. Patel is the next one fired.

    It’s crazy how much more spot on some of our comedians are than the official journalists.

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    Why would he be so worried about being fired? He was a podcaster before, he can be a podcaster again but this time he’ll (unfortionately) have the added clout of having been the FBI Director.

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      you know trump probably made them all sign NDAs that probably include federal prison for violations (i.e., saying anything about anything, ever), because “national security”

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        Probably but the don’t need to disclose anything. Even if fired, he has credibility as the former Director.

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    Patel has publicly proclaimed that the FBI needs to demonstrate that it is “fierce,” and officials I spoke with said that he is fixated on that image in private as well. He recently expressed frustration with the look of FBI merchandise, complaining that it isn’t intimidating enough.

    Our superiors.

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      This certainly explains how Caesar and company established the Planet of the Apes. If Patel is the measure of a man, a monkey stands tall.