When you call your Senators (and you should), have reasons for denying his appointment. Use words he has said, facts, not just comments from memes or MSM. He can be stopped.
I find it interesting that, in both his terms, removing the head of the FBI was one of the first things Trump felt necessary to do. Wonder why that is....
“This whole checks & balances thing & separation of powers thing isn’t necessary because Trump won and that means he gets to do whatever he wants” is a unique take from the “we’re the macho men” crowd.
“Willing to give him a shot.” This isn’t a new ice cream flavor at Dairy Queen, it’s the director of the FBI. These senators are just spineless cowards.
I have absolutely nothing to back this up except instinct, but...I think they're temporizing with him. I think they know he can't hear too many nos too quickly
wow Shelly really isn't thinking through her "former senator" Wikipedia blurb as a spineless enabler of fascism and the end of democracy when she's gone.
Facebook / Instagram and X Promoted lies, misinformation and propaganda during this whole election and you still sit by this horrible lie of free speech. Hate isn’t free speech nor are lies. Delete the social media platforms actively working against you!
Wake UP! Stop 🛑 and do actual work addressing THE ISSUE. Until this is addressed on a global scale we will be here pointing fingers. Stfu! 🤫 addres this. Don’t keep reporting utter bullshit! You have an obligation, no? @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social
Facebook / Instagram and X Promoted lies, misinformation and propaganda during this whole election and you still sit by this horrible lie of free speech. Hate isn’t free speech nor are lies. Delete the social media platforms actively working against you!
Facebook / Instagram and X Promoted lies, misinformation and propaganda during this whole election and you still sit by this horrible lie of free speech. Hate isn’t free speech nor are lies. Delete the social media platforms actively working against you!
Facebook / Instagram and X Promoted lies, misinformation and propaganda during this whole election and you still sit by this horrible lie of free speech. Hate isn’t free speech nor are lies. Delete the social media platforms actively working against you!
i'll be shocked if they reject any of these whackjobs. He could nominate a guy who wants to dissolve all of Congress and the sentate would give him 53 votes.
If Kash Patel does become Director of the FBI, everyone at the FBI should just totally ignore him whenever he comes into work. Maybe he’ll just go away.
Scary, annoying, and totally expected. Anyone out there who doesn't realize that the shredding of the Constitution has already begun is naive or blind to the new reality of a Trump administration. It's happening, and it will get worse.
All of these cabinet picks are unqualified, by design. The picks themselves know they are not qualified. Trump's handlers, and project 2025 members just want people in there that will follow instructions, and do what they are told. They will be there to dismantle as instructed.
The MAGA movement has politicized the FBI, culminating in the nomination of Patel. He'll do worse than "defund," he'll destroy. All over one case, the Documents case.
But the FBI did much more in the same period of time. Done to protect ALL of us. But that's it's all destroyed for one man's ego.
If you have access to a better library, you should be able to find that article in Vanity Fair--as I recall it was in early Feb '21, but it might've been late Jan or later in Feb. I've busted two computers since then. Title was something like "--threw me under the bus"...
Of course with so many Senators also involved they naturally have no memory of J6 at all. According to an article in Vanity Fair that year, one of their reporters "embedded" with the unconfirmed but appointed assistant SecDef Christopher wossname (I've had another concussion since then)
Kash Patel was personally responsible for ensuring that the "blocks" he'd helped plan and install worked to block out all calls. And according to Gen. Milley's report, Kash Patel was IN the Pentagon at least until Milley ejected him. I'll bet he has Putin's private number tattooed somewhere.
They "don't know Patel that well?" They don't remember that he helped organize J6? They don't remember that it was reported he was involved in the lockdown of communications so that Pelosi and others in Congress could not reach the President or the relevant personnel in the Pentagon to get help?
Neither the Senate nor Congress will protect the United States from Trump's autocratic madness. They will confirm all nominations and kowtow to their new king. They don't care if they destroy the US because they are deep in the pockets of Russian influence.
They must have something on them. Our country will not be safe inside or outside. Perfect time for our enemies to attack us. Unless our enemies are to busy laughing their asses off at us
Hence the recess nominations. Article II Section 3
"...in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper."
Remember he asked to suspend the Constitution. No more 2A, only verified patriots allowed to have guns....
They were willing to draw the line with a pedophile creep like Matt Gaetz, but a vindictive fascist authoritarian like Kash Patel is okie-dokie by them.
actually, the president is not “allowed to have his appointees.” The senate decides which are confirmed. It’s the “advise and consent” part of their job.
The history of the GOP since Trump took them over in 2016 is that they roll over whenever he threatens them. Don't expect truth, justice & democracy to be protected from Trump & his techno-nazi/Christian Nationalist/alt-right oligarchs by any in this group.
They’re not giving him a shot. Once he’s installed they can’t get rid of him. If they try they’ll find themselves on the same list of democrat victims he’s compiling.
That’s what happens when the press focuses on the sex abuses only of nominees and doesn’t dive deep on why they are chosen and the impact Trump wants on the departments and country as a whole. The press is failing at the real story.
Senator Capito seems not too bright when she argues that she'll allow Trump to have his appointments because he's allowed to have them. If he's allowed, then the Senate doesn't have to allow or disallow, which means advise and consent doesn't exist at all. ... My goodness! I'm dizzy.
Senate GOP bowing to Trump instead of being the checks and balance the founders meant them to be. The Constitution is only as strong as those we put be
Chris Wray & Merrick Garland have been trumps guardrails and guardian angels for the last four years - he could keep them & the status quo. Instead he just want to poke our eyes out because the GOP & SCOTUS will standby by as eunuchs.
Because K$H Patel has long-signaled his willingness to persecute/prosecute/investigate Democratic politicians, "Never-Trump" Republicans, & numerous journalists.
The same reason he nominated Gaetz, then his personal lawyers Bondi as AG, and Blanche, Bove, & Sauer to the DOJ #2, #3, & #4 positions.
“ “We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections,” Remnick quoted Patel as saying, on a podcast with Steve Bannon last year. “Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out.”
If by "he" you mean Trump, and why he benefits by nominating the likes of Patel, Bondi, Blanche, Bove & Sauer, Trump made this very explicit throughout his two-year campaign.
"It's all about revenge and retribution" is a near-verbatim quotation from Trump. He says/posts it _every chance he gets._
Why not just resurrect J. Edgar Hoover, he's just what Trump wants. Some of us are old enough to remember Hoover and his spying, lying, closeted 48 year term as head of the FBI. Vile man who used the FBI as his personal vendetta agency.
Let’s give him a shot? They don’t know him that well? I say bullshit. They are just spinning words to suit their narrative. So what happens if they give him a shot and don’t like him?
He doesn’t have an “early green light…” Come on with that reporting. Ted Cruz? Of course those people are going to pop out front right away… It just needs one person on the committee to stop that nomination from even going forward.
Isn’t the GOP tired of saying “I don’t know anything about what trump is up to, but I’m willing to sign on and see how it plays out”? No one ever said “I know mercury is deadly, but I’m willing to drink a glassful and see how it plays out”.
All the responses show just how defeated Republicans are. "Well what whatever it's the presidents pick" never defending the nominees.
They know it's bad. They don't care they just want to keep the jobs they where hoping Trump would lose so they could be done with him.
The senate is GOP hell hole, a bunch of weak no spine white men and white women afraid of another old white man, but they all blame people of color as the downfall of the country they need to look in the mirror
So none of them care about what the people want or what is good for the country! Or only hope to hold up the guardrails and they only care about what is good for themselves.
No, FBI directors are appointed to terms and esp since trump put wray in office, there is no legitimate reason to not let him finish his term imo. Secondly, as John Flannery says, the Senate should hear from NO ONE that hasn't passed an FBI background check, that is STEP ONE!
And then people wonder why Biden pardon his son if cash Patel has threatened Hunter many many times. Joe needed to protect his son from the Trump administration.
any republican who would rather throw away their integrity just to keep their position in congress is absolutely NOT fit to BE in congress.
ethics & morality seem to be passe.
Of course they'll go along. When are we going to learn that there is really no true opposition to him in his party? There is only surface pushback. And there is 100% pure fecklessness on the part of dems. The ONE lesson I hope they take away from DJT is to wield power when you have it.
Dem's need to remember this and replace every single Trump appointee when they get back in power. Even if their term is not up. Every last one, no exceptions!
He's not allowed to have his appointees. He's allowed to nominate them. Ffs why do we allow these people to spew this shit about a reality that doesn't exist and then pretend like their statements aren't fucking insane?
When Trump files for re-election on inauguration day (again), folks will be up in arms over the obvious constitutional violation, but in the background, the same meek Senators will acquiesce to whatever justification Trump gives.
"The Presdient is allowed to have their appointees"....yeah...if they are actually competent and not intent on destroying the agency they are charged with running. The GQP senators are going to totally capitulate to Trump.
So what is the point of a 10 yr term for FBI Director if Trump can randomly fire for no reason? GOP senators are craven cowards and this laying down for Trump isn’t going to end as well as they think for them. They’re going to get trampled. ETTD.
Part of me says let them fill the cabinet and positions with idiots and when people call foul because things are going south then we will again clean up their mess. They will screw up and a lot. They don’t know what they are doing. Just like the people that voted for them
They bred this beast because all they care about is power. They swore an oath to do what was best for America and they claim that Trump is exactly that. IT will be 4 dark years and I hope that you can still vote. I won't be sure until the 2025 project is implemented.
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Be serious gop
Let's get into some good trouble instead.
... with Senate consent.
Exercise your right(s) and refuse to answer any questions. Let an FBI under PATEL be met with a wall of silence from all citizens.
Civic Disobedience thru silence. A stone wall.
But the FBI did much more in the same period of time. Done to protect ALL of us. But that's it's all destroyed for one man's ego.
It's pure fanfic.
https://bsky.app/profile/pluribus-unum.co/post/3lc7c2aqd2s27
"...in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper."
Remember he asked to suspend the Constitution. No more 2A, only verified patriots allowed to have guns....
Feature, not bug.
https://www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics.html
Even Trump himself said Patel was crazy "but sometimes you need a little crazy" were his follow up words,
Why aren't these people saying the obvious?
Stupidity knows no bounds these days.
Why are there no minimum employment requirements?
Are these the “best” we can get?
Patel has said several times that he has a list - Republicans are ok with that? Hope you are not on that list
Certainly not Shelley Moore Capito based on this excerpt
God, that is going to get old.
Why am I not hearing from Democrats except for the centrists attacking Biden?Are they still hiding under their desks?
The same reason he nominated Gaetz, then his personal lawyers Bondi as AG, and Blanche, Bove, & Sauer to the DOJ #2, #3, & #4 positions.
"It's all about revenge and retribution" is a near-verbatim quotation from Trump. He says/posts it _every chance he gets._
Thats the *real* story. 😏
Um, the President isn’t entitled to jack shit
They know it's bad. They don't care they just want to keep the jobs they where hoping Trump would lose so they could be done with him.
Do your damn job already!
ethics & morality seem to be passe.
ALL republicans!!
Us to be “scared”!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLft0t_Ex0X4UPdlwAgvX-J0YYKgBhXxtE
Like Obama was allowed Merrick Garland?
Doesn't Caputo realize that she's debasing herself into merely one of "his senators"?
Or is she afraid of a Musk/Mellon-financed challenger in 2026?
Is there any situation dire enough for Republicans to grow a spine? They created this beast. It's time they stopped feeding it.