Summary
New FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump ally with no FBI experience, has made unusual security requests, showing distrust of his own agency.
He asked for a private security detail instead of FBI protection and sought a direct secure line to the Oval Office, bypassing the attorney general.
FBI directors since J. Edgar Hoover have maintained independence from the White House, but Patel is closely aligned with Trump.
Known for promoting conspiracy theories, he has also been accused of leading an FBI purge.
The FBI dismissed reports on his requests as “false leaks or distractions.”
and sought a direct secure line to the Oval Office, bypassing the attorney general.
FBI directors since J. Edgar Hoover have maintained independence from the White House, but Patel is closely aligned with Trump.
Congress should really codify that into law, instead of it just being a “Gentleman’s/society Agreement”.
Add it to the list of things we need to codify. Like the president releasing his tax returns.
Yep. I know its a rule (that is being ignored), but it isn’t actually a law?
Wonder why we bother with rules, if nobody is ever going to enforce them, especially when we vote into office those who don’t care to follow them.
You could say the same about laws, considering how no one is enforcing them against the current administration.
The problem is that the Executive Branch is the one that enforces laws, and they have the authority to ignore laws they don’t want to enforce. Discretion is a fundamental part of law enforcement, it is why you can get a warning for speeding instead of a ticket every time, their discretion ability wasn’t codified. That is why generally federal law enforcement like the FBI operates independently even though they’re under the Executive, so they can enforce laws and judicial decisions without interference. Interfering should trigger check and balances from the Legislative branch, and impeachment.
The system was never designed with the possibility of a takeover of all three branches simultaneously as a possibility. That just wasn’t a thing they thought was likely to happen. But the system was also designed at a time when only white landowners could vote, and part of their societal expectation was to be educated, critical thinkers that were up to date, and active with politics. So those voting actually knew what was going on, and were educated to look at the various outcomes, even with media bias of the time.
As we’ve expanded voting rights, we never adjusted the system to account for uneducated voters or an increase in propaganda and outright lying from media outlets in any way. On top of that we’ve artificially limited the expansion of the House of Representatives so it no longer operates as designed. It was designed to represent the people via population, but the limit of 435 means that instead of it being representative of population, there are members representing a couple hundred thousand people and members representing millions, yet they have the same single vote. The House has become a pseudo-Senate, and is no longer capable of doing its job correctly because of it.
They are to subvert the working class and keep them in line
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Please stop harassing this person so I don’t have to ban you. Plenty of us find this SovCit-level nonsense annoying, but the thing to do is block them, not continually harass them.
Relatedly, we get a lot of reports against you, which is a pain in our asses. Please make our jobs easier and work on your bedside manner.
Man i’d like to apologize, I didn’t believe you, about all the thin skinned, overly sensitive, humorless, monotonous and insipid people in this place. I’m doing my best to learn how to navigate away from their gravitational draw into the black hole of their bleak existences. Have a pleasant day.
- my comment wasn’t harassing anyone
- oh it was the link at the bottom of the comment that you didn’t like!
- Those people should just block me then and not waste your time reporting me.
Those people should just block me then and not waste your time reporting me.
Blaming the other person is not the way to go. We are each responsible for our own actions.
As been mentioned to you before, feel free to block me, or even better, respond to the subject matter being discussed directly.
We all have to be civil here, especially if we want Lemmy to grow.
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You’re a petulant child
You’re pretty slow for a gutter slug.
Somehow I don’t think that would have mattered with these traitors.
Normally I would have disagreed with you, but these days, 🤷♂️ .
At least, it would have made it where they would be on the record officially about it, for history’s sake.
And it would give others a chance/ammunition at pushing back, in the courts.
Just for the record, I do agree with you that these should have been codified by Congress.
Congress is irrelevant now. We’re in a soft dictatorship now.
I’m just throwing this out there,not saying I would do it.
If an FBI, CIA, Teacher, um…lets say delivery boy does some crazy shit to Kash. I believe I could forgive them, like jesus said to, even in a courtroom.
What are you talking about? Clearly all of those people were hanging out with me all night. They’re completely innocent. My hand to god.
How big of a piece of shit do you have to be to fear your own people? The director of the FBI doesn’t have enough faith in the ability or willingness of his own agents?
Or is it he doesn’t want them knowing what he’s up to? Where he goes and who he talks to?
Fucking embarrassing…
They are purging agencies of anyone disloyal to Trump or investigating Russia
lol, no such thing as a “false leak”
Something tells me that’s the next “fake news” catchphrase
Right! I was about to comment that when I saw your note - pick a lane bozos: either it’s a leak or it’s fake news, if it’s fake it can’t be leaked, only made up. These fuckers even suck at being paranoid cry wolf liars
I bet his mom thinks he’s a fudu and a panchod.
Lmfao
never trust someone with crazy eyes.
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Way to show your Racist ass, you can disagree with someone even hate them for what they’re doing or plan to do but fuck you for making it about his race
I understand feeling frustrated about Kash Patel’s actions, but this kind of ethnic stereotyping isn’t the way to express it. The “Patels should stick to corner stores” comment reinforces harmful stereotypes about an entire community of people.
People with the surname Patel are doctors, engineers, artists, teachers—contributing to society in countless ways. When we reduce any group to a stereotype, even in casual comments, we lose sight of their humanity and individuality.
We can criticize someone’s actions without bringing their ethnicity into it. I’m sure you didn’t mean harm, but these small moments are where we can all help build a more thoughtful community.
When we reduce any group to a stereotype, even in casual comments, we lose sight of their humanity and individuality.
Except Nazis. They deserve every bit of the suffering caused by it.
Being a Nazi is a choice.
I dunno. Do we start off being regular human, or do we make a choice along the way to accept that other humans are worth basic respect until proven otherwise.
Did they choose to be had, or just not choose to be normal?
That’s a “nature vs. nurture” question. Generally, I think racism is a learned behavior. Personally, even as a child growing up in a mostly white area, I didn’t even notice that some of the other kids were black until years later when I looked back on it.
Also we hate nazis as individuals, because being a nazi requires being a fascist piece of shit. Calling them horrible isn’t a stereotype, because we are not generalizing, just acknowledging.
True. My main point there was “losing” their humanity. Can’t lose what they don’t have.
uwotm8
One day block! Noice.
I can’t read it without a paywall popping up. What does it say?
Thanks!
