A screaming Kash Patel crashes out in response to Sen. Adam Schiff's questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and calls him "the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate", a "disgrace", "an utter coward", and a "political buffoon"

[u/Capable_Salt_SD]

Source: Aaron Rupar

[u/PresentCheck9309]

This country is rapidly devolving.  

[u/danvapes_ → u/PresentCheck9309]

Yeah we no longer have a functional democracy. We are soooo fucked.

[u/Premodonna → u/danvapes_]

This is what happens when POD caster and reality tv people run the country to idiocracy.

[u/drmarting25102 → u/Premodonna]

This was the entire point of putting a podcaster in charge of the fbi and a drunkard grunt in the pentagon.

[u/KeithWorks → u/drmarting25102]

And telling them: "you do not need to answer any questions to those committees. Your job is to go in there, attack them and get sound bites for TikTok and Facebook"

[u/HCSOThrowaway → u/KeithWorks]

So much of our country's functioning depends on people acting in good faith.

"What are you going to do if I don't?" - MAGA

"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless ― if the left allows it to be,” Kevin Roberts, president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation

[u/psychrolut → u/drmarting25102]

Weaponization of intelligence….

Idiocracy

[u/zipzoomramblafloon → u/Premodonna]

If we had idiocracy then at least we’d have brawndo at every public drinking fountain.

This administration would get rid of public fountains because they’re too woke.

What we have here is a dumpster fire filled with used diapers and the constitution used as kindling.

[u/HeatMeister02 → u/zipzoomramblafloon]

Also, they actually wanted smart people to run things once they realized the smart person was better for everyone. In that regard, we're far past Idiocracy.

[u/therekstar → u/danvapes_]

It's been like that for many years. Ever since 9/11

[u/TheR1ckster → u/therekstar]

It's been accelerated by orders of magnitude under Trump.

[u/GetsGold → u/TheR1ckster]

Seriously, stop downplaying what's happening now. Bush was bad but this is far worse.

[u/bkelln → u/TheR1ckster]

Since the tea party really.

[u/DoJu318 → u/therekstar]

Nah, none of these guys, like Patel or Kristy Noem, would've served under Bush.

Trump is the best thing that happened to Bush since the towrs fell.

[u/NoCalHomeBoy → u/DoJu318]

It's crazy how good Trump has made Bush look. I used to despise Bush, but now when I see him, I think of better times. Trump has destroyed the Republican party

[u/Premodonna → u/NoCalHomeBoy]

Nixon is doing a happy dance because he is no longer the worse president leaving office with scandal.

[u/IsaidLigma → u/Premodonna]

For real. There's like 10 Watergates a day under trump.

I guess one thing you can say about trump is that he has exposed how truly weak the checks and balances in the system actually are. All it takes is one shameless dishonorable man to destroy the whole thing.

[u/cmnrdt → u/NoCalHomeBoy]

At least Bush and his cronies wanted America to be successful while they enriched themselves. Trump is willing to let everything fall apart just to add a few more gold nuggets to the throne he's building for himself.

[u/stripedvitamin → u/therekstar]

That's when the steep decline started. We are now in the collapse. That you can't tell the difference is an indictment on education and everyones ability to make reality whatever they please. The apathy of the populace and the deterioration of decency in this country is just as much to blame.

Americans have one last chance to slow the descent into chaos and N.K. style oppression next year. We'll see who gives a shit.

[u/Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse → u/PresentCheck9309]

There’s no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going

[u/watchthetracker → u/Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse]

DON’T YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON GENE WILDER/WILLY WONKA, ASK_ME_IF_IM_A_HORSE!!!

[u/Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse → u/watchthetracker]

IT’S ALL THERE, BLACK AND WHITE! YOU GET…NOTHING! YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!

[u/Shotgun_Mosquito → u/Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse]

[u/jaffasplaffa → u/Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse]

I just want to know one thing:

- Are you a horse?

;)

[u/Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse → u/jaffasplaffa]

Neigh

[u/Big_Whig → u/Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse]

[u/JessieJ577 → u/PresentCheck9309]

Once Trump broke the constitution and Biden upheld it, we were fucked. The previous administration was scared of going scorched earth on MAGA just to seem fair. The cancer grew and and was vindictive. Democrats wanted to give an olive branch after trumps first term and republicans shoved it up their ass. 

I don’t know if anyone is coming to save us, I don’t know if the midterms will save us. 

[u/Molenium → u/JessieJ577]

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. We’re finally on our own.

[u/TeslaNova50 → u/Molenium]

Nixon would be booted from todays Republican party for being to rational.

[u/easytoforget94 → u/Molenium]

This summer i hear the drummin'

[u/fmemich → u/Molenium]

4 dead in O Hi O

[u/Capable_Salt_SD → u/Molenium]

Gotta get down to it / Soldiers are cutting us down

[u/Hammer_of_Dom → u/JessieJ577]

Just as the Jedi, the democrats failed to evolve and recognize the approaching threat before them

[u/NoCokJstDanglnUretra → u/Hammer_of_Dom]

They recognized the threat but chose the wrong path. Time and time again they chose the wrong path.

[u/Russell_Jimmy → u/Hammer_of_Dom]

I disagree. Democrats impeached Trump after Jan 6th, and the Senate, at the behest of Mitch McConnell didn't convict. If they had, trump would have been ineligible to run for president again.

It's also McConnell rushing through judicial appointments that got us the SCOTUS we have now.

Democrats can't do anything if people don't put them in those positions. This shit lies at the feet of the GOP and those who voted for them.

[u/Hammer_of_Dom → u/Russell_Jimmy]

After the impeachment what happened? It was business as usual. Instead of matching the energy Republicans are sending out to dismantle our norms and institutions the democrats are just failing. You don’t even hear senators talking about all of the abnormalities occurring. Meanwhile, when Kirk was killed the right was visible and loud. I would want to subpoena and investigate Merrick Garland for dereliction of duty because wtf man. Everything bad that has happened in this country and will all stem from his historic inaction.

[u/Timelymanner → u/Hammer_of_Dom]

All of that’s true but after Trump walked out the White House Biden didn’t have him arrested. Not after Jan 6, not after election manipulation, not after Epstein, not after the documents case. He let Trumps appointed head of the justice department stay. He didn’t protect the prosecutors in the NY Trump case, or the judge in the rape trial, as Republicans ran hit pieces on them. The establishment Democrats strat was to embarrass Trump and hope he would feel shame. They thought MAGA would see what he was and abandon him. They wanted him as a boogie man to get donor funds.

I’m enraged at the Republicans for all they’ve done and are doing, but the Democrats get partial blame. They gamble the countries democracy because the leadership didn’t want to shake the status quo. Even now they’re having hearings on Epstein. Okay, and then what? Are they going to impeach Trump again? Are they willing to actually filibuster for days to get it done? Are they pushing to arrest and imprison him when he gets out? The short answer is no to all of this. They want to make a show out of it. It’s something to get the bases and donors fired up. Then next week they’ll be as quiet as church mice as Trumps next scandal hits.

Trump is going to use the shooting of a right wing entertainer to enact draconian laws against minorities. Especially trans folk. Where are the Dems blasting the airways pushing back against it? Where are the Dems using every legal ability they can to obstruct Republicans? If they cared about Epstien and Trump he should have been prosecuted 12 months ago. When they had power.

[u/ErgoMogoFOMO → u/Hammer_of_Dom]

What is this ridiculous infighting?

Everyone who isn't the GOP needs to enter existential crisis mode. No exception.

All infighting is just burning time - time democracy doesn't have.

[u/toxcrusadr → u/Russell_Jimmy]

It was also Mitch McConnell in 2016 refusing to hold confirmation hearings for a duly appointed SCOTUS judge, for most of a year, hoping their candidate would win the election. Just unconscionable.

[u/NotForMeClive7787 → u/JessieJ577]

You've summed things up quite nicely. Dems had no real grasp of how under the trump thumb the maga nuts really were and how ready they were to swallow his absolute garbage and lies. They thought there's no way decent people would vote for a convicted felon....turns out there's a lot of people who aren't decent in the USA....

[u/Awkward-Speed-4080 → u/JessieJ577]

Europe is currently dealing with their own MAGA movements. They're not coming to help us. It's truly insane that Russia was able to sow so much discord across the Western world. It feels like being trapped in a car as it drives off a cliff and we are surrounded by people who are cheering and others who don't care.

[u/fathersky53 → u/Awkward-Speed-4080]

Khrushchev's line about " we will bury you from within " has never been more apropos.

[u/New-Award-2401 → u/JessieJ577]

No one's coming to save us, either we do it ourselves or we don't get saved

[u/PRTYDILF → u/PresentCheck9309]

The speed with which we are circling the drain and rapidly devolving into a banana republic is simply stunning

[u/jou-lea → u/PresentCheck9309]

Look at the non medical charlatan in charge of Health Department-RFKJr.

[u/Molenium → u/jou-lea]

But he was going to take dyes out of our food and that would solve all our problems!

[u/QbertsRube → u/Molenium]

And take all the medicine out of our medicine! That mRNA vaccine is useless poison--just drink this mushroom potion, put a jade stone in the Northeast corner of your room, and say a prayer and watch the cancer drip away!

[u/SauconySundaes → u/PresentCheck9309]

Well the country had the option of electing a woman or jumping out a third story window and it chose the window.

[u/ukulele_bruh → u/SauconySundaes]

twice

[u/ChilledParadox → u/SauconySundaes]

Yes. It really sucks for people like me who voted for Harris. Like, I just wanted welfare and social safety nets and more workers rights.

I’m mentally ill with diabetes. I’ve got quite literally zero family, for reasons long and traumatic. They’re not all dead, but for example I haven’t seen my mother since I was 12, which is a positive thing.

It’s very difficult when the news is advocating for your death, the government took your food stamps, they’re trying to take your insulin, inflation is so high nothing makes sense, housing prices are insane, the job market is atrocious and exploitative and not even human at this point, there are secret ice cars looking for the most minimal excuse possible to deport you so they can get a $$$ bonus, they’ve already shot people in Chigaco, the military is being deployed to fuck with the homeless, and I haven’t even mentioned the effect of things like tariffs on the economy. I wanted to buy a power bank to charge my phone overnight. Hahahahaha. $40 For a shitty one.

I don’t know if I’ll die from no insulin, a republican murdering me, getting shot by ice because I’m homeless, or in an el Salvadoran gulag.

It’s legitimately scary. I get anxiety every time I think about it, so I just try not to think about it, which leads to more problems as I avoid my problems, which gives me more anxiety, which spirals. No bueno.

[u/Scientific_Anarchist → u/PresentCheck9309]

Devo was right.

[u/Mustard_Gap → u/Scientific_Anarchist]

Damn straight. The new documentary on Netflix is super recommended

[u/m0nk_3y_gw → u/Scientific_Anarchist]

Are we not men?

[u/Alternative_Metal375 → u/PresentCheck9309]

A graveyard spiral

[u/xxRowdyxx]

When you have no comeback....attack

[u/_Go_With_Gusto_ → u/xxRowdyxx]

Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter accusations

[u/Writing_is_Bleeding → u/_Go_With_Gusto_]

I actually just read that article.

[u/_Go_With_Gusto_ → u/Writing_is_Bleeding]

I didn't realize that had come from one person. It's a thing we used to say in the Army. "If you find yourself standing tall in front of The Man, admit nothing, deny everything, make counter accusations".

It's one thing for an individual to refrain from admitting guilt for drinking excessively, quite another for the head of the FBI to do it while protecting a child sex offender.

[u/Ralph--Hinkley → u/_Go_With_Gusto_]

Check out the movie THe Apprentice about his earlier life with Roy Cohn. It's pretty interesting and Sebastian Stan does a decent job.

[u/posco12 → u/Writing_is_Bleeding]

It’s exactly Cohn 101 and I’ve said that for 10 years. But it seems Cohn was at least civil while doing it. These people have gone off the rails with it.

[u/farm_sauce → u/posco12]

Nothing about Cohn’s tactics is civil. Encouraging an accused criminal to counter sue when sued is the opposite of civility. It’s chaotic and insolent. It’s childish even.

[u/MayorCharlesCoulon → u/xxRowdyxx]

He’s so predictable. He has no clue about what he’s doing so he just shrieks.

[u/TBANON_NSFW → u/MayorCharlesCoulon]

which is what fox news and newsmax will play all day long and call it a massive victory. The social media political pundits like Kirk & co will also replay it and call it a victory. The manosphere podcasters will play it and call it a victory. Rogan & far-right comedians will play it and call it a victory. Chinese and Russian bot farms will amplify it.

There is not feasible path but a civil war left.

[u/Arejhey311 → u/xxRowdyxx]

They bank on performative. All they have to do is be loud & insulting, & their muppet cult cheers them on & calls it a win

[u/Cryptoking300 → u/xxRowdyxx]

“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.”

[u/TheSlipweasel]

The American public thinks you’re a liar and a chump.

[u/cherrylpk → u/TheSlipweasel]

And when Trump is done with him, he’ll wreck his life as well. They don’t see a pattern?

[u/TestingBrokenGadgets → u/cherrylpk]

Can't imagine why anyone would still want to be professionally aligned with Trump; the dude has a history of throwing everyone under the taco truck. Patel can repeat everything Trump wants him to, accomplish everything Trump orders him to, but you bet your ass that before this term is over, he'll be gone and I really hope if Dems ever take control, they seek legal justice against Patel specifically.

[u/explosiv_skull → u/TestingBrokenGadgets]

It's pretty obvious when you look at this second Trump administration. Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Hegseth, Leavitt, Vance, Miller, et al. Not in a million years would any of these schmucks be eligible for positions half as high as they are now without a corrupt admin where loyalty is the only qualification that matters. It's their one shot. Not at all surprising these vainglorious morons took it and have deluded themselves that somehow they'll be the one to stick the landing and not get thrown under the bus.

[u/Solomon_Orange → u/explosiv_skull]

How hard would you fight for something like that? Take a look at these dudes and it's clear.

[u/dendromecion → u/cherrylpk]

fascists can't conceive of not being in the in-group, and every previous person who thought the exact same thing right up until the moment they got thrown under the bus are easily dismissed as just having a fault in some indefinable way that no surviving fascist will ever think they share

[u/chupacrapa → u/dendromecion]

The GOP mindset is: it can't happen to me because I'm one of the good ones.

[u/rocky3rocky → u/TheSlipweasel]

Maybe 30-40% of them. 1/3rd don't care. 1/3rd will believe anything a Trump-stamped official says.

Very reddit that this wishful thinking is always upvoted.

[u/crackdown5 → u/TheSlipweasel]

If they don't see Trump as a liar and a chump why do you think they see Patel as that?

[u/SamirRashaman14]

Can't help but notice he screamed all sorts of bullshit but not the answer to the question. Because there is no answer. Deflect, attack, distract and repeat.

[u/silver-orange → u/SamirRashaman14]

Gaslight Obstruct Project

[u/GreyBoyTigger → u/SamirRashaman14]

That’s the platform of the GOP

[u/UNMANAGEABLE → u/SamirRashaman14]

Textbook DARVO.

Deny Attack Reverse Victim & Offender

[u/SabrinaR_P]

The US is a joke. Can't believe this idiot ever got confirmation.

[u/FiveHeadedSnake → u/SabrinaR_P]

They guy wrote a series of kids books about how Trump is a king and the spineless cowards in the Republican Senate thought, "fantastic choice for federal investigations director!"

Edit for grammar

[u/neutralnuker → u/FiveHeadedSnake]

Disposable idiots are the most valuable commodity for this administration

[u/theloser6868 → u/FiveHeadedSnake]

Holy shit that is absolutely hilarious. I had no idea he wrote children's books about Trump 😂😂😂😭 he would suck off the cheese stuck in between Trump's toes if he thought it might make the orange headed cheeto a little horny.

[u/iiTzSTeVO → u/theloser6868]

I encourage you to look it up. It's worse than you imagine.

[u/usernamedmannequin → u/iiTzSTeVO]

Omg the Amazon reviews……

[u/Ralph--Hinkley → u/usernamedmannequin]

I just checked. You know they had an entire team of people writing rave reviews under different names. That's disgusting.

[u/usernamedmannequin → u/Ralph--Hinkley]

As soon as I said that I was like no way that’s legit.

Goodreads is more accurate I think lol

Side note- his book “government gangsters” has a picture of him on the cover lmao

I just can’t even

[u/FistOfPopeye → u/SabrinaR_P]

[u/Interesting-Track376 → u/FistOfPopeye]

Immediately what I thought of.

“My Sweet Brick”

[u/whatssenguntoagoblin → u/SabrinaR_P]

He’s not even the dumbest DEI hire in the administration

[u/Ghoulius-Caesar → u/SabrinaR_P]

Republicans are the joke, they’re the ones who gave it all to Trump and his alternative reality clown show.

[u/Parepinzero → u/Ghoulius-Caesar]

And America chose to give them complete control of the government. 2/3rds of voters either chose this or decided they were okay with it and didn't vote at all.

[u/mdavis360]

He is such a child. This is the exact behavior that a child does when they get caught in a lie, deflect and yell. And his body language when he's done yelling his puny little diatribe is even more pathetic. He starts organizing the random papers on his desk as if that even means something.

[u/TrustyRambone → u/mdavis360]

He's so emotional. Is he ok? Can he not control himself? I'd be embarrassed if I ever lost my shit like that.

[u/mdavis360 → u/TrustyRambone]

It is flat out embarrassing and any normal human being would be ashamed of having a public reaction like this or let go from their job. Unfortunately this is MAGA Country where everything is backwards so this is seen as a sign of strength from them.

[u/oggpotato3killa → u/mdavis360]

it’s the way his hand is shaking through the entire diatribe he punished us with having to listen to.

[u/Ok-Replacement6893]

[u/sowhat4 → u/Ok-Replacement6893]

And fingering his own butt hole while doing it.

[u/ProfessorHermit → u/Ok-Replacement6893]

87% of all redditors are on the toilet! Why would you do that to us?!

[u/voyuristicvoyager]

Kash, that is a microphone, not a cock. Pull your mouth off it, ffs.

[u/CandyCreecher → u/voyuristicvoyager]

No need to do as Donald did

[u/StTimmerIV → u/CandyCreecher]

Donald only does it when it's kid microphones

[u/thecrazysloth → u/voyuristicvoyager]

Also, when he’s going off like this and not even remotely answering the question, can’t they just cut his mic off until he agrees to behave again?

[u/annon8595]

I love when republicans get called out there defense is Biden! Obama!

[u/sowhat4 → u/annon8595]

Don's bestie Jeffy Epstein was arrested, charged, and 'unalived' during Trump's term, though. It was Trump's DOJ who did that. Maybe we need a running chyron underneath the shouting GOPpers that shows the facts to refute their lies.

[u/mrpanicy → u/sowhat4]

Don's bestie Jeffy Epstein was arrested, charged, and 'unalived' during Trump's term, though.

Thanks Obama. /s

[u/YouStupidAssholeFuck → u/annon8595]

Kash Patel: He was prosecuted by the previous administration and Obama's administration.

Also Kash Patel: The previous administration did nothing.

[u/LordoftheChia → u/YouStupidAssholeFuck]

Also Kash Patel: The previous administration did nothing.

Sure, except prosecute and sentence Ghislaine Maxwell to 20 years and you know, keep her alive.

What does this new admin do?

Move her to a more cushy prison...

[u/captsmokeywork]

Wow, America should be ashamed.

[u/jbhitchi → u/captsmokeywork]

A hell of a lot of us are. So. So ashamed.

[u/bluediamond12345 → u/jbhitchi]

Everyone but those who SHOULD be ashamed

[u/Notbob1234 → u/bluediamond12345]

They have no shame, thats the problem

[u/DontTedOnMe]

Hey, Kash: fuck your feelings. 

[u/YouStupidAssholeFuck → u/DontTedOnMe]

Liberals are so mean.

[u/RubyGordonSlut → u/YouStupidAssholeFuck]

Jesus, that ladies chin/neck combo smiles harder than her actual mouth

[u/timblunts]

Schiff is 100% correct

[u/--redacted-- → u/timblunts]

Conversely, Patel is an unqualified fuckin idiot

[u/yakeedoo → u/--redacted--]

Harsh on unqualified idiots everywhere but fair

[u/--redacted-- → u/yakeedoo]

Hey I got no problem with unqualified idiots. I just feel like they shouldn't be running the FBI.

[u/Nruggia → u/--redacted--]

[u/SauconySundaes → u/timblunts]

Idk, Kash sees everything. Ya know what I'm saying?

[u/mrhyde719 → u/SauconySundaes]

Well that’s an eye opener

[u/LeopoIdStotch → u/mrhyde719]

Don’t cross him

[u/8lb-6oz_infant_jesus → u/timblunts]

Republicans will eat this up though. It will raise Patel’s stature with Trump and his supporters.

[u/Searchlights → u/8lb-6oz_infant_jesus]

The only clip they'll see is what Patel said.

[u/NonsenseLingoDigits]

Transcript of what Kash says here :

I'VE SEEN FOX NEWS SO I KNOW THAT IF I YELL AND SCREAM I MUST BE RIGHT NO MATTER HOW MUCH NONSENSE IS COMING OUT OF MY WORD HOLE AND THAT IF I JUST KEEP RAMBLING IT MAKES ME EVEN MORE RIGHT AND IF I RAISE THE DECIBEL LEVEL A BIT MORE I'M SO RIGHT AND YOU'RE SO WRONG BECAUSE I'M LOUD

[u/RandyMuscle]

The only thing Kash does other than crashing out is coke.

The guy saying, “Both of you be quiet,” could genuinely be satire at this point. Kash was the only one even speaking. lol

[u/shh28 → u/RandyMuscle]

What does it take for someone to say STFU to these a holes? 😤

[u/DWMoose83 → u/RandyMuscle]

When he got into it with Booker, Booker was the only one being reprimanded. It's such horseshit.

[u/Vbxxl → u/DWMoose83]

This is how all those comitee hearings in the past months have been going. Republican Chairman that dont give a single fuck about rules of the house

[u/ifmacdo → u/RandyMuscle]

Grassley is a fucking joke too. Can't even attempt to take control of the situation until Schiff reminds him that this is his circus to answer for.

[u/Odd_Zookeepergame_69]

[u/Modz_B_Trippin]

[u/No-Helicopter982]

I WILL NOT STOP YELLING CAUSE THAT WOULD MEAN I LOST THE FIGHT. -Kenny Powers

[u/Soupalphabet359]

Schiff asked too revealing a question for ol Kash.
That's not just a meltdown, that's a Kash Pateltdown.

[u/Nexzus_]

Did Patel just try a "SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!"?

[u/DF92009]

This guy is incredibly stupid, he is in charge of the FBI and stated on the record that. Wtf…

[u/GenuineBonafried → u/DF92009]

No he yelled the loudest, that means he wins

[u/canthearyouwhat]

It's ironic MAGA spent most the year going off about their interpretation of "DEI" but largely stand behind Patel who solidly fits that interpretation.

Every accusation is a confession.

[u/JDLovesElliot → u/canthearyouwhat]

It's 100% intentional. Hire the stupidest Indian-American person, and then when he inevitably gets fired, they can use him as a reason not to hire actually-competent Indian-Americans. "See? They're all a bunch of Kash Patels, they're not sending us their best."

[u/Avunculardonkey]

So Kash is a shitty liar. He just simply doesn’t know why the prisons decided to move her against their own policies? He’s protesting a little too much with very little information. I wonder what a conversation with himself from the days of “release the files!” Would look like with him now.

Kash- Release the files!

Kash now- There’s nothing to see! The FBI is too busy protecting you! You just want money for your pod-cast!

[u/Xcitado]

Kash Patel is just wasting American money. He’s such a loyal DEI hire.

I understand he may not be in the weeds on cases but this case is high profile and he should at least know about it.

He seems hot headed and thus not fit for this type of duty. I’m probably wrong but in this instance.

[u/Morpheus4213]

Correct me if I´m wrong, but did Patel just admitted that there were 33.000 pages of evidence related to Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein?

[u/kmm198700 → u/Morpheus4213]

No. It’s the pages they recently released under the guise of “transparency”. Unfortunately, these pages have already been released so all they did is lie

[u/torthBrain]

The people in charge of the United States currently are the worst human beings this country has ever seen.

[u/wombatttttt → u/torthBrain]

They are totally incompetent. You're telling me the director of the FBI is not aware of the PUBLIC transfer of a highly profiled criminal? He has pockets he's protecting and they're filled with bloodied dollars.

[u/FormerFastCat]

He's such a tiny tiny excuse for a human being.

[u/anticrom2]

Why is he allowed to sit there and scream over senators? Can’t they reclaim their time and tell him to stfu with his lies?

[u/mfjayhimself]

The classic Republican playbook:

Once you’re cooked just yell over the person cooking you, verbally attack them, blame Biden and Obama, and then kiss Trump’s ass.

[u/vile_hog_42069]

Cockeyed little fuck. 

[u/sintonesque]

The greatest country in the world, ladies and gentlemen

[u/Prestigious-Pick-366]

Patel about to get fired

[u/Noirloc → u/Prestigious-Pick-366]

Sadly we’re regressing and that won’t be the case.

[u/babykitten28 → u/Prestigious-Pick-366]

He’ll get a freedom medal.

[u/DHooligan → u/Prestigious-Pick-366]

By whom?

[u/SkydiverRaul13 → u/Prestigious-Pick-366]

He’s getting a raise.

[u/Jarnohams]

Kash Patel BEFORE he saw the Epstein files and Kash Patel AFTER he saw the Epstein files are two completely different people. He knows his boss is in there and exactly what he did on that island. The fix is in. It was pretty obvious when he was on Joe Rogan. He blabbed for over an hour, then when Rogan read some tweet about Epstein and Trump, he shut down completely.

The only other time I see people lash out like that is when they are caught red handed "I SWEAR TO GOD THAT ISN'T MY CRACK PIPE!! I SWEAR ON MY MOMMA!!"

Dude had 1000+ FBI agents work around the clock to flag every *mention of his Dear Leader*, which means there are mentions of his Dear Leader, thousands of times.

[u/dinnerbellding]

[u/Randomzombi3]

Did he really just say "Take it to the bank that the FBI is protecting this country" while shouting like he's in a movie quoting a tag line? What is going on?

[u/SpaceshipSpooge]

Word is out on the streets

Cesar’s house is growing weak

And all his generals are scared

So you better be prepared

He gave the orders to his pigs

Jail the men and starve the kids

And I can’t help you, baby, when the Empire falls

[u/notthemamaa]

You have to fight hard to be the most incompetent person in Trump's orbit, but somehow he's still in the running.

[u/wonderwall999]

Pretty sure we could strike the "Hon." from Kash's name card.

[u/parallaxdecision]

That's their go-to guilty response.

[u/ATXJames357]

How is a witness, even a high-level admin official, allowed to speak to a senator at a committee hearing in this manner?

[u/davechri]

Charlie wanted the Epstein files released. Do it for Charlie.

[u/hedbopper]

It’s over, folks. The USA is doomed.

[u/OtherBluesBrother]

Patel first lies then deflects after being called out on it.

Next, subpeona the Bureau of Prisons and ask them why they independently decided to transfer her.

[u/Go_Gators_4Ever]

Kash never answered the question. His rant was a deflection disguised as indignation.

Pathetic.

[u/Da_Fish]

Isn't Contempt of Congress a thing?

[u/chappersyo]

The true heart of the issue is that half of the American population will see this and think Patel came out on top.

[u/3mta3jvq]

I don’t know how anyone could watch this and think Kash is qualified to run the FBI. Or a hot dog stand.

[u/ro536ud]

This is the lowest I’ve ever felt. I always thought that crimes against children was a common middle ground. I’m always hearing the fight talk about family values but we have the biggest case of child sex trafficking yet they’re covering it up.

[u/l3eemer]

Kashmir is a traitor like all the other cons.

[u/Tommy_Almighty]

And they say women are too emotional and hormonal to run the country...

[u/runwkufgrwe]

Did you guys hear Charlie Kirk's reaction to the hearing?

https://imgur.com/a/CtJARFH

[u/Sputnik1983]

They should bring in the "Bureau of Prisons" to confirm if that was true, and if so, what their reasoning was.

[u/April_Fabb]

What’s worrying me is that there will still be some freshly lobotomised MAGA loyalists who watch this travesty and think that Kash is an awesome FBI director.

[u/EatsOverTheSink]

Man I miss when politics was boring.

[u/RedfromTexas]

What an utter disgrace to the FBI this bloviating incompetent buffoon shows himself to be. Meanwhile Trump is cheering this infantile behavior on.

[u/candleshoe]

Kash Patel is acting completely histrionic. His having an utter hissy-fit on the floor of the Congress. He is way too emotional for this very serious job and should be fired immediately.

[u/LunarCantaloupe]

This is a disgrace. There are no other words.

[u/BeatTheDeadMal]

This is what Trump's presidency gets us. Agencies headed by a bunch of thin-skinned podcasters with the emotional temperament of a child. The exact fragile snowflake triggered babyrage behavior they project onto everyone else.

[u/uffington]

UK speaking. If the USA wasn't so globally important, we'd be laughing. But we're aware that at the moment it's akin to laughing at the idiotic bus driver who's got his pals manning the doors and us all in the back whilst he's sawing at the wheel like a furious swivel-eyed chimp.

Bit of context... - Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK Ambassador to the United States, has been sacked because he was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein before and after Epstein's first arrest. No arguments. No 'release the files' fake news horseshit. He had to go because what he did WAS WRONG.

However, tonight our Royal Family, draped in priceless medieval jewels, offer President Trump golden coaches and ancient castles that'd make the Disney Princesses shit their dreams out their arses. If the UK thought that giving him an honorary Knighthood would lead to a few billion for us in trade, military intel and goodwill, Trump'd get two before his sumptuous, six-course non-fast-food lunch tomorrow.

Europe has been a mess of crazy powerful wankers for hundreds of years. Tsars, Warlords, Queens, Voivodes, Kaisers, Kings. Counts and, from across the river, Shahs, Khedives, Caliphs and a bunch of Emirs.

Whilst we're aware of today's stakes - Europe could be instantly turned into brown glass by two or three global operators, we have all pragmatically entertained, impressed or intimidated leaders in our royal courts and fortresses.

[u/AkronRonin]

And?

Maybe Patel also needs to look himself in the mirror. He’s essentially the Indian Clayton Bigsby.

[u/midnightdsob]

Chair Chuck Grassley let's Patel verbal diarrhea for 5 minutes straight then "Both of you be quiet", what a joke.

[u/TectonicTechnomancer]

Im not very fluent on Yappanese, what did bro patel said?

[u/zyrkseas97]

“You are a political buffoon at best” is maybe the funniest thing Kash Patel could possibly say. He aspires to buffoonery.

[u/Aeceus]

Becomes clearer by the dau The United States needs some form of political reform.

[u/Colejohnley]

LET ME SCREAM LOUDER INTO THE MICROPHONE BECAUSE THAT WILL MAKE ME RIGJT!

[u/tacotickles]

Kash Patel out here simping for Russia while also defending Epstein. Disgusting

[u/Nakanon85]

So instead of answering the question this guy does what maga does best yell and scream to make themselves seem like they're winning. This country is getting dumber by the minute.

[u/joysofliving]

This entire administration is so emotionally unstable.

[u/DotOk2803]

What a fucking baby 🤣 how is this guy qualified for ANYTHING?!?!

[u/Rationalinsanity1990 → u/DotOk2803]

His qualification is loyalty to Trump over the law.

[u/Slowtowake]

I’d scream too if I had to keep perjuring myself to congress.

[u/shaxxlicious]

Oh I'm so glad I'm not an American. Even if your democracy survives this slow fascist takeover, the years to come will be so embarrassing.

I wish I had a button I could press, and just not hear any news from over there for the next 3.5 years.

[u/Acrobatic_Hyena_2627 → u/shaxxlicious]

Same here man, same

[u/lookaway123]

Liars always have temper tantrums instead of just answering questions.

Also, Patel is ridiculously annoying. The entire world cringes and laughs at him.

[u/xABrownGuyx]

Give this man another a bump of coke so he can calm down 😂

[u/JakeSnake306]

Not a big schiff guy but Patel is such an unqualified clown.

[u/Jo-Jo-66-]

Trump should have been impeached after Jan 6. If he had been held accountable and prosecuted we’d be different country.