Breaking News: The Senate confirmed Kash Patel to be the FBI director, installing a critic of the bureau whose loyalty to Trump has raised concerns over the agency’s independence. Two Republicans voted against him. https://nyti.ms/3EP0Exo
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The downside to getting appointed for loyalty over qualification is that he will be too inept to protect himself from the crimes that Trump will order him to commit. You have to know the rules to know how to break them and get away with it. This isn't going to end well for Mr Patel
Where are the Democrats fighting this madness?
What happened to the principled and honest GOP’s who are willingly allowing this to happen.
History will judge this era and those complicit in this lunacy very harshly.
It's all a charade. No Trump loyalist was rejected, despite being highly suspect and grossly incompetent. No one should be assigned if there's even a shadow of doubt.
How long will US citizens tolerate that? :O I mean, Trump is BREAKING USA as we have known it since its birth. Ok its not my homeland, but have admired USA from young age (on its own way, ofc theres also things to blame - but so are also other countires. But this.. WTF (sry for language)
But now it really starts to look like any banana state for me (not citizens the leaders and the political system they are turning USA into.) It is REALLY like in 1984 where just news are made again, and even ~10 year history written again by Trump. How does that differ from Orwells 1984?
Patel is beholden to the felonious orange anus and neither obeys a pledge of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America and therefore they are traitors and so disobeying their orders is an obligation based on any oaths taken as a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“Raised concerns?” NYT, this is one of your worst instances of sanitizing fascism yet. I swear, if a grizzly bear became a preschool teacher, the NYT would say it “raised concerns” about a potential threat to students’ wellbeing.
FFS, you aren’t going to have free speech much longer, it’s time to actually start telling the truth. What are you waiting for? Time is ticking on our democracy and you guys are standing there waving, insisting the people on the trains are going to return.
No shit: everyone should be concerned over his appointment. Not that it hasn’t been just a ass deep in the swamp power grab to see who can dismantle democracy first.
All the agents with institutional knowledge will be purged and loyalists put in. It’s only a matter of time before we get hit very hard in terrorist attack.
Trump, Musk and their immediate family members must be SHUNNED forever!!! America's reputation of being that "shinning city on a hill" is over. ALL members of the GOP in office today MUST be added to this list and remembered and punished for their malevolent actions. Society must NEVER forget! #2026
Grand juries and petit juries now have to assume their historical roles as bulwarks against oppression. FBI still can do a lot of damage simply with burdens of investigation.
America , you are truly fucked, if you can have this imbecile as your FBI Director.
Never, never did I THINK that a position held by the great Edgar Hoover, is being sold to MAGA, amd this right wing sociopath. low of the lowest of times....for FBI.
I hope the Republicans that voted this mess into office are voted out of office when it becomes clear America is under siege & they did nothing for their country to prevent it 🇺🇸
The abomination of all abominations. GOP confirms it has no soul or reverence for democracy. Gutless politicians on parade for their narcissistic leader
Now we’re even more f*cked since that fascist POS Maggot Patel once, let the radical right-wing un-American agenda flow even more freely to destory America and enrich the Felon-in-Chief and his buddies and punish us real good Americans
Anybody who works for the #FBI needs to get out because literally, their lives are in danger now. This guy protects insurrectionists and rioters at the expense of everyone else’s safety.
I think it will be fine but 4 very long years… that or the world will descent into full scale war. But realistically Trump alone isnt strong enough to bring down the US I think
The GOP have absolutely no balls🤬🤬🤬
America the free is a full blown Dictatorship.
I blame the lazy A**holes who didn’t show up to vote🤬🥊🤬
OR POSSIBLY an Elon hack with his little rugrats who crashed the starlinks the day after the election results🎯 hmmmm
“A critic of the bureau” is a wild way of spelling “so utterly consumed by QAnon derangement that half the first Trump administration’s DOJ threatened to resign if he got anywhere near the top CIA job he was angling for,” but I’ve come to expect no better from your rag, NYT.
It was all al lie. Everything the Right accused the Left of doing, they are doing, x100. My country was never special, well maybe up until 40 years ago, and it will never return b/c Patel, Musk, DJT will spread election lies and will rig the process going forward.
The republicans couldn’t reject order from their King. No matter how angry, upset, or disappointed you feel, it’s done and you can’t control that. Only thing you can control how you respond so register and cast your vote in the next congressional elections (2026)
🪖🤳🏿Your proof of who's funding Musky Rat, that South African apartheid guy dog walking tRump. Them boys said why fly planes into buildings when we can simply buy white kkkonservatives. The ones claiming to be the most patriotic are the easiest.
Their takeover is going as planned.
😒😒😒
When are the spineless turds in the GOP gonna start fighting against dictator Trump? They're a bunch of no backboned chicken$hits scare to death of him.
It feels like watching the US actively self harming and not being sure you can get EMTs to them fast enough while 1/2 of people are cheering on the self harm daring them to do more
I cry about what's happening to my country on a daily at this point. Idk what to do,been writing my congressman, protest, scream from the mountain tops, and it's like they just act like I'm the one that's crazy, been living in my red state for over a decade and now I'm afraid of 1/2 of my neighbors.
Ah yes, putting a critic of the FBI in charge of the FBI—what could possibly go wrong? 🤡 It’s like hiring a vegan to run a steakhouse or making a flat-earther the head of NASA. 🚀🔄 At this point, government hiring is just a very expensive episode of 'Opposite Day.' 🙃😂
This whole Senate confirmation process has basically become a useless exercise. The candidates say whatever they want, respond to questions evasively and tell outright lies. So it's "say what you want in order to get confirmed, then do as you wanted all along when you get into the job."
I’m adding a warning from David Frum (The Atlantic), that any Republican cabinet officials who think they can do good for the US from their positions of power, are deluding themselves.
Of course Kash Patel has no sense of patriotism, but some might.
Hi, I‘m from Gernany and follow you.
I‘am afraid about what happens in the U.S.
And it’s hard for me to understand, why so many Republicans Sems to be having a backbone. They support to destroy a proud nation. Am I right? Or what do I not understand?
WTF?!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY, WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬I fucking hate America right now - its a GD shitshow run by uneducated liars, white supremacists, criminals & Russian assets!!! What's next? Just let all the rapists & murderers & kartal bosses out & just not ever lock up criminals?!!!
We know Democrats don't have the numbers in the Senate. But that Schumer is treating the death of the USA as politics is beyond idiotic. He's not going to save this nation by standing in front of the FBI building for a photo op. We need leaders who can mobilize the people. The people can stop this.
It’s beyond awful that we have all these old people running our party. They don’t understand the New World and new technology. Why can’t we get them out?
Republican senators are literally the most spineless people on the planet. They 100% percent know Trump is trying to destroy this country and they don't care.
I advocated for Mainers to call, write, show up at Collins’ offices to implore her to vote no, not because I thought she would do it because of our demands, but because it is the only thing we could do.
I knew that it was very unlikely she would vote no unless her vote didn’t matter.
We can still stop the coup if we act as one and show that the American people will not allow what is left of the democratic republic to be obliterated.
But I think it is important to acknowledge that things are most certainly going to get worse near term.
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What happened to the principled and honest GOP’s who are willingly allowing this to happen.
History will judge this era and those complicit in this lunacy very harshly.
Slava Ukraini
I only see Collins. What am I missing?
#BOYCOTTNYT and hold them responsible for the damage that this is doing and will do to the country, your rights, your health and your loved ones.
This is a fucking disaster and NYT chose the wrong side.
Never, never did I THINK that a position held by the great Edgar Hoover, is being sold to MAGA, amd this right wing sociopath. low of the lowest of times....for FBI.
🤦♂️
Mentally exhausted
🙋♀️♥️ 🇺🇸 🗽
America the free is a full blown Dictatorship.
I blame the lazy A**holes who didn’t show up to vote🤬🥊🤬
OR POSSIBLY an Elon hack with his little rugrats who crashed the starlinks the day after the election results🎯 hmmmm
Their takeover is going as planned.
😒😒😒
"Well, crap! Why did I drop out? If Patel, Gabbard, Hegseth, and Kennedy can all get confirmed, I would have definitely been confirmed too!"
And he would have been right.
Gut wrenching
Of course Kash Patel has no sense of patriotism, but some might.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/state-department-ukraine/681733/
I‘am afraid about what happens in the U.S.
And it’s hard for me to understand, why so many Republicans Sems to be having a backbone. They support to destroy a proud nation. Am I right? Or what do I not understand?
Leider!
Regardless of what the NYT, Jon Stewart and others in deep denial are trying to tell you.
Way to go, America.
Things are going to get much worse.
By the way, as is always the case, Susan Collins only voted against his confirmation because her vote didn’t matter.
I knew that it was very unlikely she would vote no unless her vote didn’t matter.
Infuriating.
We can still stop the coup if we act as one and show that the American people will not allow what is left of the democratic republic to be obliterated.
But I think it is important to acknowledge that things are most certainly going to get worse near term.