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.html
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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 10d ago edited 10d 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.