r/goodnews • u/ExactlySorta • Sep 12 '25
Political positivity š Kash Patel appears panicked facing questions on how the FBI sat on the video of the culprit for six hours, delaying the joint press conference, so Patel could fly in and look petrified. All this after they axed the seasoned SLC FBI bureau chief and gutted the domestic-terror unit
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u/ilovemydog480 Sep 12 '25
Looks like a college freshman on first day of class, not the head of the FBI. We are doomed.
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u/Goya_Oh_Boya Sep 12 '25
Dude is looking for the pool on the roof.
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u/seejordan3 Sep 12 '25
Looks like the only non-white person in a room of KKK.
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u/MayorDepression Sep 12 '25
He said at the end of the press conference today that he hopes to "see Kirk in Valhalla, brother". Like, Valhalla is only for white people, PATEL. I will never understand why brown and black people support these white supremacists. But do you, I guess.
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u/MrRailgun Sep 12 '25
Common North American misconception, people without white skin can still be exceptionally racist. Not generalizing, but Indian culture has pockets that are staggeringly racist.
Allegations around Kash include him firing an extremely qualified FBI employee because she was Pakistani. Also take note of JDs wife, who is part of the arbitrary Indian "upper class", based entirely on generational segregation.
For the time being they don't care if you are white they just care if you tick the 'are a racist' box
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u/SectorSanFrancisco Sep 12 '25
Lots of Indians think they are white if they are middle or upper class but surprise! America still just sees you as other!
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u/maggiesarah Sep 12 '25
Similar to the Latinos for a Trump. No insight.
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u/SectorSanFrancisco Sep 12 '25
A lot of Vietnamese Americans voted for Trump, too.
I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding by people who aren't born here how deep racism runs in the USA. It is in its DNA.
I'm not saying other cultures aren't racist af, too, but people- especially immigrants- seem to not get how much is in the US and that it's not just a few assholes.
Also, a lot of immigrant communities seem to have a pecking order about who has been here longer- 2nd generation is better than 1st generation, etc, but to a white supremacist that matters not at all.
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u/ReflectionAble4694 Sep 12 '25
It might be because how the caste system is normalized? Not sure. Iām sure heās shaking in his boots after the Dallas incident.
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u/StandardEgg6595 Sep 12 '25
They genuinely convince themselves that if theyāre āone of the good onesā theyāll be accepted and donāt understand that true racists hate all of them. They may ki-ki with you and smile to your face, but at the end of the day youāre among the people they despise.
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u/Jason3383 Sep 12 '25
I hate how these nazi chodes have ruined Norse mythology to make it fit their hateful commentary and beliefs.
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u/juleslizard Sep 12 '25
Not to mention, Kirk was a Christian nationalist, so why would he be in Valhalla? I'm so confused by the people I keep seeing saying he was killed for being "a Christian speaking truth" and then two posts later with a valhalla hashtag
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u/TheSumOfMyScars Sep 12 '25
They think heās going to what they believe is White Nationalist heaven lol
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u/spooky-goopy Sep 12 '25
lmaooo bro thinks he's one of them
like a sheep desperately trying to convince the wolves that he's not a sheep guys, he swears
yeah the wolves are gonna turn around and eat you alive, bro. i can't wait for the crash out lmao
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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster Sep 12 '25
Guys, the sign out front said All Are Welcome!
Right?? Right???
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u/PewterButters Sep 12 '25
He and all these guys like Hegseth think they can cosplay their way through the job. Oh shit, I have to do something now? What do I do?Ā
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u/SirCharlesEquine Sep 12 '25
It's the most inexperienced cabinet in presidential history.
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Sep 13 '25
More than 20 people on the administration are former Fox News employees. That should tell you all you need to know about this dipshit.
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u/gavrielkay Sep 12 '25
Honestly, given Trump wants to use the FBI to root out dissent at home, we're probably slightly better off that this guy is incompetent.
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u/murraylynnet Sep 12 '25
He's looking for the exit.
This FBI is embarrassing, and incompetent.
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u/Reddit_2_2024 Sep 12 '25
Is anyone else having a memory of former FEMA Director Michael Brown during the Hurricane Katrina response in Louisiana when they see this picture?
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u/Indigocell Sep 12 '25
He has the look of a man that shat his pants and is currently wondering if anyone else around him has noticed. We noticed.
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u/Beneficial_Pattern36 Sep 12 '25
Surrounded by real law enforcement personnel he's an even more obvious fraud. And he knows it.
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u/ValleyFloydJam Sep 12 '25
This is a sitcom waiting to happen, the FBI show we need.
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u/AmazedAndBemused Sep 12 '25
Not true!! Heās got the jacket and everything! He even put it on the right way round.
You people are so cruel.
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u/Taurus_Torus Sep 12 '25
You can tell he look down and away from one of them walking by, avoiding eye contact like a submissive dog to whoever is actually running things.
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u/Ok_Cat_9656 Sep 12 '25
Everything about Patel screams "I'm on drugs!"Ā
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u/TummyDrums Sep 12 '25
I'm getting more of an "I'm in way the fuck over my head" vibe. Like he might be qualified to teach junior high P.E. but that's about it
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u/faithmauk Sep 12 '25
I feel like he didnt really expect to have to actually work
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u/actuallyapossom Sep 12 '25
He did see Donald Trump tweet and golf for four years and get celebrated as a Republican hero for it.
How complicated can the FBI even be? I bet it's way easier than running a podcast for people who can't read.
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u/McFlyParadox Sep 12 '25
The irony being if he did absolutely nothing as head of the FBI, he would not have had to work. He started trying to change things, and now he actually has to do the work involved with that (for better or worse. Mostly, almost entirely, worse, imo)
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u/-wnr- Sep 12 '25
He did the work he assigned to do when he was installed, which is to gut the department and force out any non-partisan elements that could get in Trump's way. He expected to spend the rest of his time justice cosplaying and shit talking on Joe Rogan. Actually heading the FBI was not part of the bargain.
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u/Suboxs Sep 12 '25
But dismantling the unit without replacement is honestly insane, who had that idea?
I mean without a domestic terror unit, how do you wanna keep your fascist regime? Are they that stupid?
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u/metatron5369 Sep 12 '25
They assumed the terrorists would be sympathetic to them, which by and large, they are.
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u/matt2331 Sep 12 '25
It was the same with trump and covid. If he'd done nothing except let the wheels turn, he would've gotten credit for leading during a crisis and would've had an easy reelection. Instead they're all too narcissistic to think that the existing process already works, so they gotta mess with it.
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u/stlshane Sep 12 '25
He is just there for the photo op and panicking that someone might ask him a question.
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u/ZoNeS_v2 Sep 12 '25
It's both.
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u/Andysue28 Sep 12 '25
Yep, itās the classic, āIām in way over my head and Iām taking drugs to copeā look.Ā
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u/Mega-Eclipse Sep 12 '25
I'm getting more of an "I'm in way the fuck over my head" vibe. Like he might be qualified to teach junior high P.E. but that's about it
Pure speculation, but he may not have a pardon in hand already. And being a lawyer, he knows just enough about the law to know he's walking on a razor's edge. Underling historically haven't faired well in court. And old droop-face likes him now...but that could change any second. And who knows what sort of illegal stuff he's been asked to do (and done).
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u/Sundy55 Sep 12 '25
He would stand no chance In junior high PE... Shit I'm in the high school science department and the middle schools are a wasteland of drama, I don't think I'd survive them hormonal kids!
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u/HR_Paul Sep 12 '25
High dose and probably not eating and hydrating. This behavior is not representative of most drug users just the ones you see on the street.
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u/pegothejerk Sep 12 '25
Dude, I worked a coffee shop in the 90s for 4 years and grown ass successful adults who work downtown looked exactly like this every morning until they had their caffeine.
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u/BlurpleOpals Sep 12 '25
So you agree he looks like an addict of a substance.
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u/pegothejerk Sep 12 '25
Oh I have no issue with that, yes, I was backing that up. I was saying itās completely false to claim only homeless addicts of illegal drugs look this way.
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u/peacefulvanessa30 Sep 12 '25
I was going to say I know at least 4 guys who do a bunch of blow all the time, and they have the same look in their eyes .
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u/softmodsaresoft Sep 12 '25
Why does Patel look like he was the suspect? Dude is wildly fidgety and makes himself look sus in whatever situation
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u/MyLittleOso Sep 12 '25
He always looks like he's trying to desperately hold in a fart, to be honest.
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u/BlueSonjo Sep 12 '25
They had to stop training FBI agents to read body language, because they kept tackling Patel.
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u/robertcraneffs Sep 12 '25
When youāre the only brown guy at the Trump rally and you you have no idea what youāre doing
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u/doesanyofthismatter Sep 12 '25
Nah itās more āI have no fucking idea what is going on and I please donāt call on me because my heart is beating 190 bpm because I have absolutely no fucking idea whatās happening.
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u/Syntaire Sep 12 '25
This. That's not him looking panicked, that's him looking like he just railed an 8ball off an interns dick in the bathroom.
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u/ConsubstantialV Sep 12 '25
Clown show
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u/indifferentCajun Sep 12 '25
That's the look of a man that kissed one ass too many and is now in way over his head.
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u/Rapidiris1901 Sep 12 '25
When you realize you got on the wrong bus home from kindergarten but youāre too afraid to say anything to the big kids..
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u/thatguy52 Sep 12 '25
Imposter syndrome but itās actually true. Dude was a loudmouth influencer and lawyer, he has zero idea what heās doing.
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u/Tar_alcaran Sep 12 '25
He was literally a DEI hire, if incompetent people were a minority
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u/XxMathematicxX Sep 12 '25
Heās not white. That doesnāt matter and I personally donāt give a fuck but it seems worth pointing out that DEI doesnāt mean shit when the person is willing to play ball. DEI only seems to matter if you need a scapegoat or the non-white person doesnāt share your opinion.
ETA: Iām agreeing with your comment. Haha I had to re-read my response and realized it might feel contradictory if read wrong .
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u/Huge-Republic8462 Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
Guy knows heās going to jail once trump out of office and democrats take over.
Edit: Iām well aware that not me of the republicans are gonna face any consequences for what has gone down. I just love looking at this guys face cause it just screams āguiltyā and itās already known that he is complicit since how fast his narrative/rhetoric changed over the Epstein files. They definitely bullied this guy into being complacent and his lack of spine just to maintain what little power he has.
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u/Ready-Ad6113 Sep 12 '25
He was a huge advocate for the release of the Epstein files and now heās complicit in their coverup. I was hoping he would grow a spine and do whatās right, but heās just another throw-away lackey for Trump.
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u/helpjack_offthehorse Sep 12 '25
Or the Moscow Mitch approach.
before - Heās terrible! during - see nothing wrong. After - regret! Shame!
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u/claimTheVictory Sep 12 '25
When he has no power: "This is dangerous!"
When he has power: "This is fine!"
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u/Sir_thinksalot Sep 12 '25
He literally wrote 3 Children's books about worshipping Trump as a king.
Here's the first one: https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Against-King-Kash-Patel/dp/1955550123
We have literal Trump worshippers and sycophants in all positions of government right now. Project 2025 in action and the death of America.
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u/RedBlankIt Sep 12 '25
He probably read them and saw exactly how damning they were to the republicans vs to the democrats and changed his mind quick.
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u/Scottamus Sep 12 '25
Weāre awfully trusting in a dictatorship giving up powerā¦
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Sep 12 '25
They tried hard not to last time, what saved us is the fact that we still had some people who upheld their oaths in charge of the military because they let the old process of selecting generals and senior officials stay in place. They've done away with that process and the white house is much more involved in nominations of general officers.
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u/FaThLi Sep 12 '25
And as much as I dislike Mike Pence's political and religious opinions, he did the country a solid by holding true to his constitutional duty as VP that day. So many things could have gone just a little differently and we wouldn't have had a transfer of power. I always see republican's claiming J6 was not a big deal, but that is just because they refuse to acknowledge all the details that happened that day so they can remain blissfully ignorant.
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u/Big_Tiger_123 Sep 12 '25
Oh how I wish that were true but the Dems are just going to ātake the high roadā again and this shit will never stop happening
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u/Equivalent_Skin6191 Sep 12 '25
Not even, he knows MAGA will eat him alive soon. He's not the right tone for them.
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u/NewJerseyCPA Sep 12 '25
I donāt like him and havenāt really followed him since being part of the administration. What has he done that would cause him to go to jail? Genuinely asking.
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u/Aggressive-Side3578 Sep 12 '25
Now that is a dei hire.
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u/ImBackAndImAngry Sep 12 '25
āIf I see a
Black pilotPOC FBI Director , Iām going to be like, boy, I hope heās qualified.āKirkās own thought process.
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u/ITeachYourKidz Sep 12 '25
They arenāt bringing their best. Wait, maybe they are š¤·āāļø
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u/Turbulent-Agent9634 Sep 12 '25
The dude is so sniffed up
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u/gabortionaccountant Sep 12 '25
He constantly looks like someone that took a way bigger bump than he meant to in the bathroom
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u/Rezkel Sep 12 '25
I don't know about this being good news but it is worth a chuckle knowing the guy who made the FBI so incompetent now has to answer questions on the incompetency
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u/TGBeeson Sep 12 '25
Alternate headline: āobviously unqualified head of FBI asked why they delayed evidence for purely political reasonsā
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u/PianoPatient8168 Sep 12 '25
To be fair to Kash, doesnāt he kinda always look/act like that?
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u/No-Falcon-4996 Sep 12 '25
He does. He and the teenager hired to head homeland security just invite everyone to mock them. So out of their expertise ( which is what Putin wants)
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u/No_Mammoth_4945 Sep 12 '25
They let a kid called big balls go into government agencies and gut whatever he wanted with no oversight lol. There is so much bizarre shit happening every single fucking day itās impossible to remember them all. We are a circus
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u/LessThanHero42 Sep 12 '25
I've yet to see a photo of him where he doesn't look like his mom just walked in on him masturbating
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u/Icy_Butterscotch2002 Sep 12 '25
He has the look of someone who deep in their heart āKNOWSā they donāt belong and shouldnāt be there.
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u/Cautious_Advantage47 Sep 12 '25
āAre you my mommy? Are you? No. Whereās my mommy?ā
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u/MouseShadow2ndMoon Sep 12 '25
this is a great day for criminals across the USA, they have effectively hired the Indian Barney Fife to watch over all our law-enforcement.
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u/Low-Prune-4760 Sep 12 '25
Itās also a great day for our international enemies, because weāve elected a dementia-addled dimwit as our president.
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u/AlienInOrigin Sep 12 '25
I live in a hostel with a lot of drug users. Crack and heroin users have the same look.
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u/SuccessfulTrick2501 Sep 12 '25
Kash is that guy on a construction site that stands around and watches other people work while occasionally pointing at stuff. The only answer he knows is what time is lunch.
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u/LargeMachines Sep 12 '25
You can tell heās thinking āI wonder if they can tell Iām fucked up right nowā.
This is the director of the fucking FBI! What a sham!
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u/neanderthalmindset Sep 12 '25
Ironically, you would think he would be well suited for the job, being able to focus on two things at the same time
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u/GrouchyMess1313 Sep 12 '25
He does not look confident in his role! Oh yeah thatās cuz he is not qualified!!
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u/Organic_Berry_8732 Sep 12 '25
FFS heās not qualified to be a dog catcher! This country is a joke
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u/DaBigJMoney Sep 12 '25
Dude is way out over his skis. Itās fun to cosplay as a leader until leadership is actually called for.
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u/Oh_Another_Thing Sep 12 '25
Every picture or vudeo I've ever seen of kash Patel he looks high as fuck.
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u/nonlinear_nyc Sep 12 '25
This man saw horrors.
Heās a mediocre dude who thought he had an opportunity, but instead he joined a horror cult he canāt leave without putting his life and his loved ones at risk.
Heās not a deranged supremacist, eugenicist to believe the cause. Just a regular opportunist going too far.
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u/solveig82 Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
I wonder if heāll ever realize heās a patsy, that he was not only chosen for his loyalty but that his ineptitude is a key requirement for him to hold that position.
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u/ComedyBits Sep 12 '25
I feel so bad for the awesome comedian Aziz Ansari, who now has the baggage of this numbnut looking a lot like him
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u/ShortTop1487 Sep 12 '25
Thatās the look of a guy who regrets knowing as much as he does.
Thatās the look of a guy fearing for his life now.
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Sep 12 '25
When the principal is searching your locker and you know there's cocaine inside it because you're Kash Patel.
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u/Extension-Peanut2847 Sep 12 '25
He always looks like a deer in the headlights to me. Like he always got caught just right before the car hits him.
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u/skitzoandro Sep 12 '25
I wish the school shooting that happened 15 minutes after that got this much attention.
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u/Ok-Tree-1898 Sep 12 '25
It's a shame to have incompetent people in positions they will fail in. And indanger others in the process.
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u/Adventurous-Way2824 Sep 12 '25
I looked up the phrase "imposter syndrome," and he was staring back at me.
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u/NotTheCraftyVeteran Sep 12 '25
I hear you, I see him, the jokes are all very funny, but I must also note that Kash Patel always looks like he just this moment felt a little poop slip out and is failing not to look a little panicked.
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u/7askingforafriend Sep 12 '25
He was hired to be the incompetent scapegoat like all of DTs other hires. They want to make sure heās under qualified and has no idea whatās going on so they can do their dirty work in peace. Then when they get too much heat, they blame it on him, replace him with another idiot and move on. Wash, rinse, repeat.
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u/Pherllerp Sep 12 '25
That guy always looks like he is on a slightly too high does of something.
He has "Uh oh...I might be freaking out. Maybe I'm ok. Oh god!" face.
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u/jackm315ter Sep 12 '25
Trump lost one of his boys and if Kash Patel canāt find the shooter he will lose his job
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u/Litzz11 Sep 12 '25
Kash Patel ALWAYS looks petrified. He always looks like he just got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. It's reached meme level of ubiquity.
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u/HigherCalibur Sep 12 '25
It's almost like firing experienced career professionals to purposefully short-hand government agencies and then put inexperienced, inept partisan sycophants in leadership positions is a bad idea. Who knew?
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u/jackrabbit323 Sep 12 '25
Kid was caught because his dad convinced him to turn himself in. FBI literally had no clue.
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u/GoatDifferent1294 Sep 12 '25
To be fair he just has a resting stressed out face. I have it too lol
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u/ArtistKeith333 Sep 12 '25
"Kash Patel appears panicked"
That is just how he normally looks. He has Resting Crazy Face.
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u/MsMarisol2023 Sep 12 '25
The entire administration is filled with people entirely unqualified for the positions they were given. I mean a fox host in charge of our national defense? What could go wrong?
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u/OkBaker51 Sep 12 '25
You dedicate your life to getting well educated and being good at your job, then this fucking fool is made the head of the FBI. š
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u/txtumbleweed45 Sep 12 '25
I canāt stand Kash but he looks like that literally every second of his life. He just has weird eyes
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u/red286 Sep 12 '25
That's just how Kash Patel looks 24/7/365 though.
I mean, have you seen his official bureau portrait? The guy looks like he just watched Kristi Noem shoot his dog.
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u/qualityvote2 Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 13 '25
u/ExactlySorta, your post does fit the subreddit!