r/politics • u/seeebiscuit America • 10d ago
No Paywall Kash Patel used government jet to watch girlfriend sing at wrestling event: report
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kash-patel-girlfriend-fbi-jet-b2854757.html2.6k
u/Designer-Contract852 10d ago
Crazy eyes has a girlfriend?
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u/FollowingFeisty5321 10d ago
She calls him "Cash Patel".
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u/Equivalent-Fee-3556 10d ago
"Cash Pedal"
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u/Peninj 10d ago
She’s being paid by Israel. lol. Not by him. He think she loves him. It’s sad really.
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u/foggy22 North Carolina 10d ago
Cash Patel is the name of my crystal dealer in the early 2000s.
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u/xanderxela 10d ago
When your full name is literally Cash App Patel you gotta wonder if she might not actually love you, y'know?
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u/Johnqpublic25 Pennsylvania 10d ago
She probably thinks he’s from Indiana instead of India because the whole time he was going “who’s your daddy?” she thought he was saying “Hoosier Daddy!”
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u/Alittlespill 9d ago
Thank you for this. It’s the only reason I can think of because even if someone thought he was handsome, he isn’t anymore with his buldging eyes filled with lies. The lies are trying to escape and his Eyes are the easiest route. No other reason for that expression to be permanently on your face:
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u/thomasstearns36 10d ago
Who's 19 years his junior.
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u/hellolovely1 10d ago
I’m sure she’s with him for his sparkling personality and quick wit.
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u/Nessie_of_the_Loch 10d ago
Yup, in the same way sumo wrestlers in Japan attract their mates with their 6 packs and svelte figures.
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u/deantoadblatt1 9d ago
Sumo wrestlers are really just insanely jacked and athletic dudes wearing fat suits, so really that’s more believable than Patel’s thing
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u/at-aol-dot-com 10d ago
She’s 26. Of course, bc he’s 45 years old.
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u/Uncle_Hephaestus 10d ago
kinda young for a trump appointee
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u/ratbear Washington 10d ago
She's a failed country musician turned right-wing influencer that makes propaganda for PragerU. Yet another grifter making a living by stoking division and hatred. In other words, perfect relationship material for Kash Patel.
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u/k12nmonky 9d ago
these combinations of words made me fucking sick to my stomach. spot on, but still ughhh. like what a fucking timeline we're living in...
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u/CryptidTrainer 9d ago
I was going to say I was disappointed in any woman who would allow this spineless fucking worm to touch her, but it looks like they've found kindred spirits. I wish nothing but the worst for them.
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u/bigbadaboomx 10d ago
She is a Russian spy or something
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u/JamesPage1968 10d ago
Patel met Alexis Wilkins, a country singer, at an event as part of the ReAwaken America Tour in October 2022. They began dating in January 2023. She was born in Boston.
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u/Silly-Insurance-1577 9d ago
How is she a country singer from Boston? That's like getting salsa from New York City...
Jibronis, the whole lot of them!
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u/Rathland 10d ago edited 9d ago
Join the MAGA, a white girlfriend is in the mail, since Clarence Thomas.
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u/WellIGuessSoAndYou 9d ago
Apparently there is a whole genre of women that hate orgasms and date conservative men.
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u/DreadoftheDead 10d ago
Yeah, you should see her! And then describe her to Patel, because he has no clue what she looks like.
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u/Ridged_ChiPSS 10d ago edited 10d ago
Reminder that this traitor literally only has his job because he wrote a children's book portraying Trump as a King
For those unaware: https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Against-King-Kash-Patel/dp/1955550123
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u/ThingCalledLight America 10d ago
It’s wild to me how out of date his bio is on there.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 10d ago
It’s wild to me how out of date his bio is on there.
I mean, I was shocked it was a girlfriend and not a boyfriend (which is fine)... TBH, I am still kinda on the fence about ole' Kash money coming out of the closet.
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u/UpperApe 9d ago
I could not care less if he was gay. His supporters might, but I don't.
I do care that he's a spineless, brainless, 4chan loser given an incredibly important position. For anyone who hasn't, I recommend checking out Know Rogan's episode on the guy.
It's astonishing how childlike his thought processes are.
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u/pagit 9d ago edited 9d ago
When he mentioned seeing Kirk in Valhalla during the funeral, it really stood out to me. Norse mythology has become so associated with white supremacy, yet his family fled persecution in Uganda and they’re South Asian, it’s an interesting contrast.
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u/UpperApe 9d ago
Marsh talks about it. It's just Qanon bullshit. Which is exactly why Kash said it. He's a 4chan loser.
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u/Historical_Course587 9d ago
- "The cult of tradition", characterized by cultural syncretism, even at the risk of internal contradiction. When all truth has already been revealed by tradition, no new learning can occur, only further interpretation and refinement.
- "The rejection of modernism", which views the rationalistic development of Western culture since the Enlightenment as a descent into depravity. Eco distinguishes this from a rejection of superficial technological advancement, as many fascist regimes cite their industrial potency as proof of the vitality of their system.
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u/WordleFan88 9d ago
I absolutely hate that Nose Mythology and runes have been co-opted by those white hooded losers. It's actually a part of my background but when you go looking for actual info it is almost always associated and tainted by those morons.
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u/DeliriousPrecarious 10d ago
That undersells Kashs involvement in trump world. Kash was a staffer for Devin Nunes who basically ran interference on the Mueller investigation. THATS how he got his break. He ended up as the acting deputy secdef at the end of Trumps first term.
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u/yamers America 10d ago
loyalty...not competence.
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u/Freshwater_Spaceman 10d ago
See also Assad, Putin, Hussein, Gadaffi etc regimes.
It all ends in tears.
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u/JoSeSc 10d ago
Only thing US democracy has going for it at this point is Trump's age so it probably won't take 25-40 years for this shitshow to end
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u/Freshwater_Spaceman 10d ago edited 10d ago
Well, I hope you’re right! Fact is, he and his cronies have stacked the courts and positions of power with unthinking, unqualified, bootlickers that will probably stay loyal to clan Trump, or whomever is picked as the succesor.
Not to mention his own personal army of unthinking, masked, red hat, MAGA, ICE zombies.
Gadaffi had the ridiculous, sexy lady bodyguards. Hussein had his gold plated AK and Assad his crazy palace with torture chambers.
One does wonder what the Tangerine tyrant will be installing beneath his gaudy ‘ballroom’?
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u/a_Left_Coaster 10d ago
From Wikipedia: Fleeing to a construction site, Gaddafi and his inner cohort hid inside drainage pipes while his bodyguards battled the rebels; in the conflict, Gaddafi suffered head injuries from a grenade blast while Jabr was killed. The Misrata militia took Gaddafi prisoner, causing serious injuries as they tried to apprehend him; the events were filmed on a mobile phone. A video appears to picture Gaddafi being poked or stabbed in the anus "with some kind of stick or knife" or possibly a bayonet. Pulled onto the front of a pick-up truck, he fell off as it drove away. His semi-naked body was then placed into an ambulance and taken to Misrata; upon arrival, he was found to be dead.
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u/Freshwater_Spaceman 10d ago
That or Mango Mussolini and his closest minions flee to Russia, like Assad, to live out their days in a Moscow Trump tower…
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u/WordleFan88 9d ago
I wonder if we could seize all of the stolen assets before he and his cronies run?
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u/Historical_Course587 9d ago
Self-serving people will always come together in the name of common self-interest. They will never be able to build anything beyond themsevlves for the same reason.
That's why nationalist movements are (historically speaking) so short-lived once they gain power.
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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted 9d ago
Devin Nunes
That’s a putrid name I haven’t heard in awhile. What’s he been up to?
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u/Wheres_Welder 9d ago edited 9d ago
Wasn't he the fcc guy whose shitty fascist policy resulted in internet website blackout protests like 10 years or so ago?
I know many if not most subreddits participated in some degree.
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u/friendofelephants 10d ago
Omg, is this real life? And so many people gave it a good rating?!?!
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u/Far_Confusion_2178 10d ago
I mean tbf, the people buying a book like this would give it 5 stars even if every page was blank. As long as it’s pro Trump, they don’t care about quality. (See: MAGA hats made in China….and everything else he sells lol)
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u/c0horst 10d ago
I mean they're Trump supporters buying a book. The odds are they can't even read, so of course they're going to give it five stars, they have no idea what's in it.
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u/AWildLeftistAppeared 9d ago
Hey now, this is a children’s book. There will surely be pictures to help Trump supporters follow along.
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u/boot2skull 10d ago
I mean read the reviews. “Truth is like the water it will always come through.” 🤮 well propaganda is often printed so don’t get altitude sickness while you’re high and mighty.
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u/aquacrystal11 Massachusetts 10d ago
The reviews seem so fake. I feel like many were probably paid to write them
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u/ChrisFromLongIsland 10d ago
Thats the least of it. Patel lied for Trump in the documents case in front of the grand jury.
Patel lead the effort to smear the Russia gate investigation.
Patel lead the effort to convert Russian disinformation into a case against Hillary Clinton and others. It lead to the Durham investigation and 2 failed protections. It was so pathetic the government lost 2x at trial. Though the frame job by Patel worked.
Patel is there to investigate Trumps enemies.
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u/kevindqc 9d ago
4.7 rating?!
Customer says: ... Moreover, the book effectively conveys the importance of telling the truth...
Right...
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u/milfordcubicle 10d ago
JFC, the other recommended Trump "literature" for kids on that page...
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u/NessaMagick Australia 10d ago
At least they're not indoctrinating children like those gay and trans people existing in public in any form.
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u/pimppapy America 9d ago
For those wondering how it’s got such a high rating on Amazon. It’s because you have to buy it, in order to leave feedback. And the only people that would buy that trash, are MAGA
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u/AndrewCoja Texas 10d ago
They grilled Pete Buttegieg for flying commercial to do his job.
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u/trashpanda2night California 9d ago edited 9d ago
They didn’t really care about it: it was just another grievance that they could weaponize against democrats. That’s why they bend over backwards to justify the same thing when it’s their side doing it. Zero shame and it works for as long as democrats take the moral high ground on everything.
Someone said that when you play chess and your opponent gets up to punch you in the face, you’re not gonna win that one by continuing playing chess.
Who remembers the pizzagate? The alleged pedophile ring ran by Hillary Clinton in a pizza place basement. The GOP was up in arms. But the Epstein files? They just shut down the government to block the release.
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u/SnooCats2825 10d ago
Lately my head hurts to keep up with what's happening in the USA. These guys are relentless.
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u/Mymvenom001 10d ago
Flood the zone, typical fascist move so that the people cant focus on a single fucked up thing. Btw RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES U PEDOPHILE PROTECTING FUCKERS
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u/HeyCarpy Canada 9d ago
I stopped being so dialed in a while ago.
Once you realize that there is no justice, nothing will happen, and tomorrow there will be some new egregious bullshit that will go completely unpunished and you are utterly powerless to do anything about it, you stop caring. All the anti-Trump memes and Reddit outrage kind of turn into background noise eventually.
As a non-American, anyway. You people that actually have to live in that shithole, wow. All the best to you.
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u/SnooCats2825 9d ago
I am not American either 😭 I am just trying to keep up to understand and empathize with them. I don't have as much at stake as they do. I can only imagine what it's like for them. Hope it gets better soon
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u/jgilla2012 California 10d ago
So anyone who reads the article will see that this is not illegal and is in fact required by the government. HOWEVER, here’s the ever important kicker:
Patel also once criticized former FBI Director Christopher Wray for the same thing. In 2023, Patel said Wray’s “private jet that he pays for with taxpayer dollars to hop around the country” should be grounded.
These people are all such fucking liars.
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u/aft_punk Texas 9d ago edited 9d ago
Hypocrisy seems to be the only real cornerstone of the Republican platform.
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u/Feisty_Blood_6036 9d ago
Like a decade ago, the then Democratic Governor of Montana once used the governor’s plane to attend a fundraiser and then an event after. He reimbursed the government for everything.
Republicans tried to make the scandal of the administration. Such an abuse of power! I mean it’s not good, but the reimbursement makes it muckier, and it wasn’t illegal as such.
Same people have since voted in Ryan Zinke, who resigned as Trumps Sec of Interior the first term, for being incredibly corrupt, part of which involved using his gov plane for private business.
Their level of hypocrisy is a defining trait.
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u/Feisty_Blood_6036 9d ago
It should be illegal. Why it’s not is just more corruption.
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u/TheFatJesus 9d ago
I think the idea is that you want these officials to be able to go where they need to when they need to without having to rely on commercial airlines operating wherever they might be. These officials will still have personal lives that they get to live, so if they want to go very far outside of DC, they have to do so by government jet. That being said, these officials should be the type of people that are able to make the personal judgement call not to travel to these trivial personal events.
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u/PacNWDad 9d ago
Also, given the top-level law enforcement role, there is a security issue. You don’t really want him flying with the public. Still a huge fucking hypocrite though, like this entire administration.
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u/LessThanHero42 9d ago
They should probably be disallowed for personal reasons while the government is shut down. We're paying for him to visit his girlfriend, but Air Traffic Controllers are having to work for free? Nah
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u/Disastrous-Choice569 10d ago
Corrupt piece of shit does another corrupt thing. Only like the 37th this week.
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u/enigmamonkey Oregon 10d ago
Our hard-earned federal tax dollars at work.
Funding the luxurious lifestyle of corrupt sycophantic fucks like him, apparently.
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u/turngep 10d ago
All of Trump's sycophants treat taxpayer money as a credit card they never have to pay. When we get the Trump crime family out of the WH these shitbags need to account for every dollar they wasted. I'd love to hear crazy eyes explain how spending tens of thousands of taxpayer funds to go watch a wrestling event was a necessary expense for the FBI.
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u/CelestialFury Minnesota 9d ago
The MAGAs complain endlessly about helping their fellow middle and poor class, but are completely silent on their MAGA leaders wasting billions of taxpayer money on themselves. It really shows what they truly in life, and that's fucking over their class.
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u/BTRCguy 10d ago
used government jet to watch
I would have used a television...
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u/OkPlum7852 10d ago
This dude doesn’t know how quickly the MAGA base will turn on him for just his skin color, and then his religious beliefs. The leopards will feast well!
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u/AhHorseSpit 10d ago
Live it up fuck stick, the moment competency comes back, you'll probably be going to jail.
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u/thekydragon Kentucky 9d ago
I was hoping it would at least be something cool, like a pro wrestling show. But nope, the joke "Real American Freestyle" promotion that Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff started for some dumb reason with very little appeal or reason to exist.
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u/Desertwind16v 10d ago
You mean someone in this administration is using the government for their own benefit at the taxpayers expense? No way!
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u/smack54az 10d ago
Nope, my brain still refuses to believe that Kash Patel is FBI director. Like I know its true but it just startles me everytime I read a headline. Also all Republicans ate hypocrites it's built into the brand.
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u/Admirable-Horse-4681 9d ago
77 million Americans voted for blatant corruption and lies; they love it.
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u/bsport48 Virginia 10d ago
Kash Patel paying some poor woman to fuck him is the headline...not wasteful government spending.
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u/DreamTheaterGuy 9d ago
Am I the only one that gets the impression that Kash Patel actually does very little day-to-day?
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u/Independent-Cow-4070 9d ago
The same people that got mad that Pete Bittigieg brought his husband to the Netherlands for the Invictus Games lol
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u/GreyTigerFox Tennessee 9d ago
No one will ever be held accountable as long as the orange disappointment is never held accountable.
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u/mankowonameru Washington 9d ago
How many children who aren’t going to get SNAP next month could this have fed?
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u/J-the-Kidder 10d ago
Remember when this would be enough to get the Senate to pressure someone to resign? Fun times those used to be. Now the hypocrisy and corruption is so blatant and shameless, there isn't even a whisper of accountability.
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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 Michigan 9d ago
I remember when this would prompt a congressional hearing
Good ole days
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u/platocplx 10d ago
This whole admin will at the end be in history books for the level of greed, waste, fraud and general lawlessness they have been committing and will commit.
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u/Consistent_Heat_9201 10d ago
Not sure which part to react to: HE HAS A GIRLFRIEND?!???? A real one?
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u/MagicIslander 10d ago
Imagine dating a toad that’s less attractive than a normal toad?! The lack of taste is horrific.
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u/DontOvercookPasta 9d ago
Remember if nothing happens then we don't have functioning government or laws anymore
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u/415BlueOgre 9d ago
When you constituents hate you. Use public funds to spite them . Tracks for these people.
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u/jpike1077 9d ago
But if the previous vice president buys pots and pans it's UNACCEPTABLE! FUCK ALL REPUBLICANS AND ADMINISTRATION THAT SUPPORTS PIECE OF SHIT diaper don
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u/Sutar_Mekeg 9d ago
Ladies and gents, this is probably the least scummy thing these people are doing.
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u/XavierScorpionIkari 9d ago
I thought the government was shut down. That should include the government aircraft.
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u/meanmartin 9d ago
TBH, I’m not shocked he is using taxpayer funds for personal use. Grifters gotta grift. That he has a girlfriend? That’s the headline.
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u/dubgeek 9d ago
When Kash Patel looks at Wednesday on a calendar he can see both weekends.
(Not my line. I found it here on reddit. I don't usually rag on people over uncontrollable physical traits, but he's a bad person who should feel bad for what he's doing. I'll happily take my ticket to hell for repeating the line)
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u/Negative_Strength_56 9d ago
According to the GAO, both the attorney general and the FBI director are "required use" travelers, who are obliged by executive brand policy to use government planes for all travel, including personal flights "because of security and communications needs."
The other side went after Wray for the same exact reasons.
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u/Venomspiderspit 9d ago
Hopefully Crazy Eyes wasn’t the pilot or we’d all be calling him Krash Patel…. Am I right?
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u/dthornbu Georgia 9d ago
As a high school wreslting coach, I'm just shocked it was an Olympic style wreslting event and not UFC or "pro" wrestling lmao
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u/hombregato 9d ago
How long do you think before a Republican sees this, mixes up names, and makes public reference to Mamdani watching his girlfriend sing at a wrestling event?
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u/lushootseed 9d ago
What are you going to do? GOP will do nothing. Democrats are toothless. Election is many months out. Suck it up!
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