Kash Patel posted an AI video of himself chainsawing heads off of political opponents but Republican Senators need a hearing to think deep thoughts about whether he should run the FBI - ThreadSky

douglindner.bsky.social • 24 days ago

Kash Patel posted an AI video of himself chainsawing heads off of political opponents but Republican Senators need a hearing to think deep thoughts about whether he should run the FBI

Reposted from Doug Lindner

About to watch the Kash Patel FBI Director hearing but first can we take a second to acknowledge how profoundly ridiculous this is

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jasongrvin.bsky.social•24 days ago

It's a requirement to be a Senator that you have to enjoy being the center of attention.

grumpygizmo.bsky.social•24 days ago

Some senator should have a large poster of Patel & the beheadings behind him/her during questioning.

douglindner.bsky.social•24 days ago

Chuck Grassley just said Patel helped Devin Nunes uncover “the truth about Russiagate” and honestly what are we doing here, as a country

douglindner.bsky.social•24 days ago

Grassley is now complaining about recently forced-out Republican FBI Director Chris Wray, who Trump appointed after he fired Republican FBI Director James Comey.

Apparently Wray declined to stick around for a longer hearing one time when he had a plane to catch. So bring on the chainsaw guy!

douglindner.bsky.social•24 days ago

If i were Senator Grassley and i cared deeply about specific oversight matters on which the FBI hasn’t answered my emails i would simply not vote to make myself irrelevant by helping Trump weaponize law enforcement with these nominees

douglindner.bsky.social•24 days ago

Durbin up now, rightfully pointing out how awful and lawless the FBI was under Hoover, including to MLK. This is a good windup

douglindner.bsky.social•24 days ago

Fun fact: the FBI is a century old and every Director it’s ever had was a Republican. Every single one! Congrats to the multiple Democratic presidents who kept that going for some reason

douglindner.bsky.social•24 days ago

Back to Durbin, who among other things made the same points about Comey and Wray that i did above, so you know he’s doing well

senategabe.bsky.social•24 days ago

Well there was that one interim Democrat but he kinda sucked because he kicked out that one guy who was telling everyone Al Queda was going to attack the US again.

kjephd.bsky.social•24 days ago

Descending into fascism?

douglindner.bsky.social•24 days ago

Love to spend 66 consecutive years in elective office and proceed to shill for the end of democracy

kjephd.bsky.social•24 days ago

One of the only defensible justifications of gerontocracy is that it induces stability via the conservation of established institutional patterns and memory. What happens when (great) grandpa officeholder loses his marbles and votes for fascist revolution?

douglindner.bsky.social•24 days ago

Tbh Grassley is still one of the least bad Republicans on this committee

isaactherebel.bsky.social•24 days ago

This reminds me of the Gosar/AOC video a while back. I remember being so exhausted by all of the GOP cruelty, I called Speaker Pelosi's office to beg her to censure him and I just burst out sobbing. I had to hang up in the middle of my voicemail, but called back after I pulled myself together.😕

drkimberlyd.bsky.social•23 days ago

Wild that the GOP Leopards think Patel won’t eventually come for their faces too. You’d think self-preservation would kick in at some point.

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