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The thing that ppl are not realising that Kash Patel is just a prop. He looks like that, and behaves like that because he can not only not tell he is just a sock puppet, but also because it's Trumps hand inside his ass.
No wonder why he looks like he is staring into headlights.
So very many dipshits on the right seem to have really fallen for the completely delusional idea that it was all going to be about the Democrats.
I mean...just how delusional can you be? Have they met the Republican Party?
Also, if these right wing dumbfucks think the average Democratic supporter could give a flying fuck about protecting either Bill or Hillary from any fallout coming their way over this, they are just projecting about how they behave over things like this. Of course, these are the same Einsteins that think "Big Tech" is liberal 🤣 , and because of that, Bill Gates is also someone we are interested in protecting from the law.
I couldn't care less about any of those folks tbh
Big tech is liberal, it’s just that America has been propagandized into thinking liberal means left-wing, when really it has always meant right-wing.
What? Oh really? You're kidding right? What cover up? He's such an honest man! He never did anything wrong.
This truly is of a 'no shit Sherlock' level. They're not even trying their best to cover things up in secret. It's so obvious and out in the open. Their excuses are complete and utter bullshit and they expect people to believe it. Funny thing is, many still do believe it. Goebbels would be proud.
They are trying their best. But everyone still willing to be associated Trump are the dumbest people on the planet.
Just let these people keep lying under oath and then if we can get a mid term election to flip congress, they'd better prosecute the fuck out of all of them.
flip congress, they’d better prosecute the fuck out of all of them.
That would require the "D" faction of the corporate party to develop spines, consciences and morals. If you think that is going to happen, you have slept through the last 50 years of history.
This.
If I was in the tRUMP circle of corruption (which would never happen because I have decency and morals) I would be asking myself this very very simple but really important question:
Did I get this position/job/etc because I'm good at what I do?
If the answer is an emphatic yes then, hey ho, you're probably safe from that bus wheel heading towards you in slow motion.
If the answer is "Hmmm, yeah...?", then get ready for being thrown under that bus which is careering towards you at astonishing speed.
The fat orange child rapist probably will never see consequences to his thousands of crimes, but other people like that FBI idiot don't have that type of protection.
which would never happen because I have decency and morals
I would never be in the trump circle of corruption not only because I have decency and morals but also because trump's type of person is just so fucking awful to be around on a personal level. Those people are just so boring and stupid in addition to being evil. If I knew I was going to have to spend the rest of my life only socializing with them -- even if millions of dollars came along with it -- I would just kill myself.
Every single person at the DOJ and FBI involved in this shit needs to lose their job and be thrown in prison.
As a former police officer it is an absolute disgrace that law enforcement agents have so willingly subverted the law to protect paedophiles.
Any decent cop would have gathered evidence of what they were being told to do, resigned and gone public.
That's kinda sorta what the chief of police in Palm Beach, Michael Reiter, did when he realized he was getting stonewalled by the county.
First, as was his job, Reiter took the case to the Palm Beach County State Attorney, Barry Krischer, who agreed Epstein would be a great case to prosecute -- then suddenly got cold feet and refused to proceed. When Reiter asked Krischer to remove himself from the case and Krischer didn't, Reiter went over his head and took it to the FBI. That's when Alexander Acosta (Krischer's counterpart at the federal level) stepped in to shut it down.
I don't think people really understand what Reiter was risking to do that, and also later to help the victims with their own cases. Reiter has, of course, since retired.
I'm not a big fan of cops in general but Reiter and the two or three detectives he kept working on this, in spite of the overwhelming political pushback and even the moles in his own office, are absolute heroes.
Don't worry, the DOJ will investigate the FBI, and the FBI will investigate the DOJ, and there will be no wrongdoing found.
Decent cops seem to be in very short supply, not just in the US. What pisses me off most about this shit is that Biden sat on this stuff for four years without doing anything.
The investigations were open throughout Biden's term: legally Biden could not release them. Trump closed them himself, probably thinking he could keep them hidden anyway, until some congresspeople with spine crossed the aisle to make sure he couldn't.
So if you wanna get pissed off at someone, remember that Epstein remained a repeat, habitual sexual offender against children after his sentence ended. He never stopped offending. He also never stopped visiting his Florida home in Palm Beach.
Guess who was Florida AG from 2011 to 2019 and COULD have done something about him, whose actual job it was to do something about him, but did not? Pam Bondi. Where is your ire for her?
Or for Alexander Acosta, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida that worked hand in hand with Alan Dershowitz and the rest of Epstein's attorney's to boil all his crimes down into one offense and give immunity to his unnamed co-conspirators? How has he not made it onto your shit list?
These are not secrets. These people are not hidden. Their roles in keeping Epstein out of jail are well known, and there are others too. But you blame Biden? The ONE guy who legally could not release the files without closing all the related investigations?
I will never understand people who claim to be righteously angry at the exact individuals who had nothing to do with what they're angry about. If it's worth expending the energy of rage on, it's worth learning the bare facts of who is actually responsible.
So why didn't all these investigations lead to any indictments in four years? You can try to sugarcoat it all you want, but the Biden administration had a chance to clean up the whole pigsty and did absolutely fucking nothing.
So why didn’t all these investigations lead to any indictments in four years?
You're so intent on it all being Biden's personal fault that you are completely ignoring those who are actually guilty. Who needs "sugarcoating" when the truth alone suffices? It had nothing to do with Biden. There's more than enough guilt to go around.
Did you even look up Pam Bondi, or Alexander Acosta? I gave you their names. What about Marie Villefana or Barry Krischer? Do you know who they are? They were the ones who were actually stalling investigations, in part by keeping them open to freeze all the evidence, duh. You act like you have no idea how any of this works -- except Biden, and he's absolutely the only person involved!
There's nothing like the stink of willful ignorance to start a day. It's not a president's job to start, stop, or run criminal investigations. The US Constitution is very clear on this, even if you are not. The executive and judicial are two entirely different branches of government, and presidents until now did NOT interfere in that process. If needed they called on the DoJ to do it, and went through the courts, because running the judicial is not a president's job.
Except Biden! Biden alone is guilty! Biden does everything and nothing, everywhere and at all times, and never! He's like Schroedinger's Satan to you, lol.
By Biden I mean the Biden administration. He was the head of the administration and he's ultimately responsible for its failures. And I'm very sure such major strategic decisions were run past him. And if they weren't that's even more of a failure.
You do have a fair point actually.
No, he really doesn't. What he has is a willful and profound ignorance of the separations of US government, our constitution, and how until now, no president took it upon himself to throw out the constitutional divisions of government and try to run all three branches, including the judicial, which includes criminal investigation and prosecution at the federal level. Federal, not state.
Biden literally had nothing to do with any of it, except being president at the time.
Why are you so insistent on blaming Biden, the president of the country, for not interfering in state level investigations?
Why are you so intent on looking away from those who were and are actually guilty of stalling investigations and using their positions to protect pedophiles?
Why are you both working so hard to point fingers anywhere except at those who actually worked to cover these crimes and keep them covered, and still are?
You know, it almost seems like you aren't really interested nearly as much in bringing the real perps to justice as you are in playing a game of squirrel to take the blame off of those who are STILL in power and STILL working to cover and defend these crimes.
"hey guys, I know we're saying that Trump is an existential threat to the US, but leaking documents to stop him would violate norms. So we won't. We'll just blame the left when we lose."
You misunderstood me. I am not the least blaming Biden government for being complicit and not releasing the files. What I am saying is that they could have expedited the process knowing that there is a looming danger of Trump becoming the president and doing all the fuckery he is doing right about know.
I absolutely know that his hands were tied, and that his regime was too ethical to not interfere in the matter. They could have been less so - so that justice could have been served. But, yes - that would have punched holes in litigating the wrong doers, and probably could have gotten off on technicalities.
I guess - damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Maybe Trump wanted to become the President so bad this time because he knew that the investigation was closing in on him. He was probably also egged on and helped by his other powerful bedfellows because they knew that Trump was their only chance.
But the Biden government should have put all the foot to the pedal knowing this! God, what a missed opportunity for America to see Kamala Harris as their President. No joke, American missed its wonderful opportunity and so did the world.
I bet the evidence was purposely gathered in a way that it wouldn't be admissible I court.
Seriously, why does every picture of cocaine kash look like he’s rocking a an entire drug bust’s worth of meth?
I saw someone say "he looks like what a normal person would look like after they've read all of the unredacted epstein files and watched all the uncensored videos."
not enough machetes/hatchets/flamethrowers and general anger for that.
He looks like the guy who is smuggling a condom full of heroin up his ass and the condom just broke.
RFK told him it’d be okay. And he’s an expert!
Shouldn't have trusted those tRump branded condoms, I guess!
He's a perennially uncomfortable weird sonofabitch
I'm glad he's uncomfortable. he makes everyone around even less comfortable.
Awesome take.
You mean Kash 'brown enough to take the fall' Patel? Sure you saw this comming when Trump named him, right?
Take his head MAGA. He lied to you.
nah, he gets a pass for owning the libs so hard.
really tho, have the chickens forgotten how to come home to roost?
The foxes that are guarding it keep eating them in the way in.
Sadly they got it wrong, he isn't part of a cover up, he leads it
That’s the face of a guy who couldn’t lead a marching band, let alone an alphabet agency
His job is to destroy the organisation he leads, just like the other Trump appointees.