Patel celebrates in the locker room after coming under fierce scrutiny over his personal trips on government jets

FBI Director Kash Patel is once again under fire for his use of official FBI resources for travel as he appeared alongside gold medal-winning members of Team USA hockey on Sunday at the Olympics in Milano Cortina.

The FBI chief has was previously accused of using federal government resources to take “extravagant” trips with his girlfriend, allegedly earning him the derisive nickname “Make-a-Wish Director” behind closed doors.

But on Sunday he posted photos of himself grinning alongside members of the men’s hockey team mere hours after a spokesperson for his agency blasted the mere suggestion that Patel had used government resources for a personal vacation.

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[–] 99 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Goddamn these corrupt fucks are shameless. Inb4 the administration takes all the credit for this win

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  • [–] 68 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    This hockey team should be shunned for partying with Patel. As if they don't know he's a traitor, in league to kill the republic? They know, or should know, how can you not. They are not patriots, they are traitors, feathering their own nests with the American Eagle Patel just shot.

    Patel is not a passive participant either, he's the FBI director, a very active position in both crushing civil rights, the right to protest, and in helping to steal the election.

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  • [+] 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 51 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The FBI is now a Make-A-Wish foundation for a low rent podcaster

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  • [–] 37 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Most predictable thing ever. This guy has what qualifications for the job, by the way?

    Also: anyone see that interview he did with Dan Bingobongo or whatever the fuck his name is?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Apparently he somehow has a law degree .. and worked in a government position (DOJ?) for 10 years or something, not sure that qualifies him for FBI director though, I seem to remember the director role being more political and it's the deputy directors that need more actual expertise ..

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Why should the FBI director be a lawyer at all? Why should lawyers make up over 96 percent of all lawmakers and appointees or whatever it is? Obviously what we have been doing isn't working, so let's try getting non lawyers, that aren't pieces of shit in these positions.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not saying being a lawyer is appropriate for the role, just that he does surprisingly have a reasonably professional qualification. He seems like an idiot but he must be some degree of competent if he can pass a law degree. His ridiculous children's books and evidence of his corruption would suggest he is not suitable for the current role.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Snort enough adderall and anyone can cram/rote learn enough temporarily to scrape through a degree. Did he pass the bar anywhere? I assume it’s a case of that old joke - what do you call a guy who partied all through med school, stole the answers to exams and scraped through by the skin of his teeth? “Doctor”.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Apparently he did pass the bar, but holy hell there's some real corkers in his Wikipedia page. He's a Ugandan Asylum Seeker and his senior year yearbook quote is "Racism is man's gravest threat—the maximum of hatred for a minimum reason" pretty rich for his current general attitude. He also claimed to be lead prosecutor on the Benghazi case but barely worked on it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Good grief - that’s wild, but somehow wholly unsurprising. Asylum seeker from Uganda to FBI Director. It’s the American Dream™️. I can’t imagine his mother could be proud of this version of her son. I hope she’s disappointed as hell, not because she deserves it, but so he has to at least face that reality, because whatever bug-eye inducing, drug-fuelled, taxpayer-funded fever dream he’s living isn’t anyone else’s reality (no one with a soul anyway)

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    "What makes people who've spent years studying and practicing law so qualified for and interested in writing and executing federal law? Golly, it's just such a mystery why one might value a law degree for the person tasked with directing the principal law enforcement agency of the United States."

    The fact that @Lodespawn@aussie.zone had to defend "law degree" as a qualification to lead the FBI (not sufficient unto itself, but just a qualification) shows how insular places like Lemmy are. Just staggeringly asinine. You would be laughed out of the room if you asked this anywhere else.

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  • Most countries would laugh you out of the room if you said being a jurist was a requirement to be the head of police.

    It is a good background for such a position, but it is also true that the US government is overweighted with jurists and that there are a lot of shitty right-wing law schools in the US. See JD Vance for an example of how good Yale is.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    Well they are corrupt and dishonest and clearly not a great choice. I think defending the captured bureaucracy and the politicians that appoint them, as the proper people to be running the country, marks you as a sheep, not us as misguided.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago

    This is such a disappointment after a great game. Really just sours the moment.

    Doubly so because one of the first thing the broadcast talked about was how inspirational these guys and gals are for future generations of athletes.

    Our youth shouldn't look up to people who party with pedophile defenders and protectors.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It looks more like he's celebrating near them while being ignored by the team.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    The silver lining to all of this is that none of us have to be Kash Patel. That lame motherfucker has a life sentence of being himself.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Well at least we got to enjoy the win for a few minutes.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    The tkchunk brothers are big fascist lovers.

    Most hockey players are very stupid but they take after their stupid father very well.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I think it’s easy to see hockey players might be kinda dumb because the women have full caged helmets and all their teeth, and I assume the men could do that but just don’t because they want to “be manly.”

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    You can't wear cages in the NHL unless you have an injury.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    The only loser in the room atm

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Hockey team deserves to be shunned for partying with patel in all honesty. Patel is actively betraying the US, helping to fix elections, and they know or should know that.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    I have to keep reminding myself the athletes are representing the athletes of the US and deserve no disrespect for celebrating as athletes. It's hard to separate those "USA" chants from the meaning it's been twisted into today, but can't really hold them all responsible for Patel crashing their party.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe he PAID them to party with him.

    Some people are so rich, all they have is money.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    He's the US director of the FBI. He just shows up and they let him in. What're they going to do say no? They just let him in, do the photo op, and that's that. None of them are thinking about it. Half the dudes on the team probably don't even know who he is. Hockey players are so insulated, that's why the young guys always do the worst interviews, their entire life has been hockey, and that's it.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    More proof that this was a victory for pedo-fascism.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    And then once he gets back to the US he finds Pam Bondi waiting with a frown on her face and stacks of documents…

    Oh no, the nightmare is still there…

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Bro did coke and this is OP I'm patriotic cuz I like olpymics

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    That win was bullshit anyway. USA had too many men on the ice and didn’t get a penalty for it, but then Canada got a 4 minute penalty for high sticking during what should’ve been their power play.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    What a gross thing for team USA hockey to do. Literally partying with a guy who protects pedophiles. Wonder what that says about them.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The tkachuk family are MAGA. i'm sure a lot of the team is as well

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    Exactly why you shouldn't give a single shit about what athletes have to say. The days of Muhammad Ali, Kareem, and Bill Russel are gone. All thats left are a bunch of media whores who will say anything to protect their bottom line.

    Looking at you Lebron

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    They wouldn’t even call high sticking on Kash.

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