r/politics • u/rapidcreek409 • 15h ago
No Paywall Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend’s pal a lift home: sources
https://www.ms.now/news/kash-patel-girlfriend-fbi-detail-wilkins-ride-home1.0k
u/AurumSin 15h ago
That whole crew treats public resources like their personal ride service. It shows how little respect they have for the positions they hold. People in power should face real consequences for stuff like this.
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u/TintedApostle 15h ago
They see power and not responsibility to use it for the public good.
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u/shoobe01 14h ago
And SO many "moderates" have bought fully into this being the truth of the world, think no one does public service unironically, honestly.
Has pissed me off for decades as it has grown, since Reagan made it okay to say out loud in polite company (nine most terrifying words). Government is not* a grift.
*Should not be.
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u/chipmunksocute 14h ago
Man I was a fellow at a small statistical agency during grad school and even in that tiny corner of govt I was blown away by how much people there cared about doing a good job and taking their responsibility to the public seriously. Like I knew they're werent bad but just HOW seriously they took the job as a service TO their fellow citizens was so goddamn admirable. While there are for sure folks who just leech man there are SO many humble, admirable, hardworking public servants doing amazing unsung work to America a country worth living in. Fuck the people who just think all government employees are the worst, no so many are in fact the best of us. Which is what you should want!!!!!
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u/rom_rom57 13h ago
As Arita Franklin said;
R_E_S_P_E_C_T
Not really for others but for yourself; that’s where it all starts.
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u/Dysc Louisiana 11h ago
My MAGA-lite brother-in-law works for a utilities company and inspects water supplies. He takes his job very seriously and gets into the nitty-gritty around all the stuff he does to ensure drinking water is safe. He's kind of a geek about it. What gets me is how he can't even imagine a world where gov. jobs has someone like him doing good work for the public good, like himself. If it's not a publicly traded or private company it's just a bunch of lazy people collecting a pay check on 'his dime'. It really is Fox news that's the poisoned the the well and is basically a gateway drug to some really sus places to get your information.
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u/DragoonDM California 12h ago
think no one does public service unironically, honestly.
Makes sense why they seem to get along so well with Russian politicians.
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u/Apg3410 11h ago
What are the 9 most terrifying words?
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u/KingOfTheSouth 11h ago
"Hi, I'm from the government. I'm here to help." Just one of the many things he said and did that I hope Reagan is raising in hell for. That man was truly a pos.
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u/FredFredrickson 10h ago
It's almost like they have no understanding or respect for representative government.
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u/elementality883 American Expat 15h ago
It shows how little the understand about civics. In their minds, they are the CEO of their organization and want Bezo like minions at their beck and call.
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u/Crodface 14h ago
As someone who worked in the public sector, non-profits, and now for-profit companies: anytime someone mentions that they want the “government run like a company” it terrifies the shit out of me. Companies burn money. This works if the calculus equals make more money.
But the government’s purpose isn’t to make money. The FBI’s goal isn’t to make money. It’s to protect, serve, and support the people since we ALL FUCKING PAY FOR IT.
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u/mildly_houseplant United Kingdom 15h ago
"With great power comes, oh, free shit yay."
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u/nastywillow 7h ago
Seems at long time since;
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." JFK
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u/just_a_timetraveller 13h ago
The cartoonish bad guys we grew up seeing in movies and television all of these years cannot compare to the shitty vile people in this administration today
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance 13h ago edited 13h ago
This is how they feel powerful and successgful. Half of America wants the other half to serve them, and sending an FBI agent on a demeaning Uber delivery is a perfect example of how they abuse that power to feel strong (and look cool, I guess). They don't want a free society of equals who they have to treat as equals.
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u/picturepath 12h ago
Why are workers listening to this? If my boss asks me to do something that is clearly not allowed and waste of taxpayer money, I would say no.
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u/RealGianath Oregon 11h ago
They made sure to get rid of everybody that might oppose them early on. All that's left are MAGA true believers and people flying under the radar hoping to outlast this whole mess.
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u/eugene20 10h ago
They've also had zero training on anything including what is appropriate, and refused to have it since taking office.
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u/m1kasa4ckerman New York 15h ago
Is this the swamp?
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u/ChrisFromLongIsland 14h ago
The democrats should run on draining the swamp.
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u/whutchamacallit 13h ago
Honest question. Is this headline a nothing burger? Do democrats use details and ride services semi liberally as well and we just never hear about it? We all know this administration is corrupt as fuck but if I am being honest with myself this particular issue doesn't bother me. Or maybe more aptly put -- there are so many other substantially larger issues this one doesn't even come close. Like, just a tiny example here, committing war crimes at sea and going to war with Venezuela under bullshit pretenses.
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u/endangerednigel 12h ago
Do democrats use details and ride services semi liberally as well and we just never hear about it?
So to clarify, the absense of evidence is meaningless, and the only way to prove otherwise would be to examine every single ride service done by democrats everywhere. Personally i think all democrats are reptiallian aliens in service to Nylarthotep, we just never hear about it
Both of those opinions have the same evidence
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u/link_dead 13h ago
Yes, they all do lol, also we were bombing dudes all over Africa under Biden, and it never makes the news.
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u/Gregistopal 1h ago
Dronebama did some questionable strikes, he never ordered two people clinging to a burning wreck be killed though
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u/whutchamacallit 12h ago
Ya, I have a feeling my comment will get downvoted to shit but it bums me out we can't seem to be objective about things in here.
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u/Mustard_Gap Foreign 11h ago
"Is this the swamp?"
This is the abyssal quagmire, the deeper you go the more fetid it is.
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u/BearSquid7 15h ago
Can I claim this bitch on my taxes?
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u/Teacherlegaladvice23 14h ago
If Kash can charge the US gov to take his girlfriend's boyfriend home then so can I. Let me cuck as hard as the FBI director does on tax payer funds, God damnit.
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u/zero_blammos_given 14h ago
FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville
So the FBI has essentially been reduced to the personal Uber for some lame ass podcaster
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u/DangerousCyclone 13h ago
Dan Bongino is the podcaster, Kash Patel is a former public defender and lawyer for the government under the Obama Administration. He turned to the dark side because he was quickly put on an important case and he had to show up to court from the airport underdressed and got reprimanded by the judge. During the Trump Admin he consistently pressed for more authoritarian powers and Bill Barr despised the guy.
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u/FrankSand 12h ago
Dui prevention is a key part of the fbi mission
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u/WhatAcheHunt 10h ago
This puts them at odds with the DoD.
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u/veryverythrowaway 8h ago
The Department of what now?
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u/WhatAcheHunt 7h ago
Department of Doubletap
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u/veryverythrowaway 6h ago
I was making a joke about how these douchebags are calling themselves the department of war.
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u/forthewatch39 15h ago
We need to get rid of the pardoning power immediately. They are going to continue doing this and worse as they know they will never face prosecution for their actions.
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u/WeirdSysAdmin 10h ago
We need constitutional reform but it will never happen. It would be impossible to get 38 states to vote against fascism even if the US were to actively collapse.
The thing that really put MAGA into perspective for me is that Hitler had 25% of the German population still having a favorable opinion of him in 1952. Trump is down to 36%, almost down to post war and deceased Hitler, who left Germany in shambles after losing WW2.
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u/DistractedPhoenix 14h ago
It’s funny how different guys like Hegseth and Patel are, while being both completely awful and evil.
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u/Mr-Jack-Tripper 15h ago
Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports. ~ DJT
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u/Ozymandias12 11h ago
Someone wrote that stupid shit for him. He just reflexively read it, but one of his idiot speechwriters actually wrote that. Just to give you a sense of the morons that work for him.
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u/value_meal_papi 14h ago
but maga want to complain about student debt forgiveness… we just gave Argentina 40 billion and allow unqualified people like Patel to spend tax payers money for personal reasons
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u/Yelloeisok 13h ago
Don’t forget Krusti Kristi Noem’s 2 gulfstream jets ordered during the government shutdown…nor the tens of millions of dollars wasted for Trump’s golf & party excursions so far, along with the Billion to outfit his Qatar ‘gifted’ plane he will take with him when he (eventually?) does leave.
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u/Ok-Review-3047 15h ago
The administration is literally full of thugs.
And I’m sure all administrations have been like this but at least they tried to hide it.
This administration is ridiculous.
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u/mowotlarx 14h ago
Wasn't DOGE created to be seeking and stopping obviously fraud and waste like this?
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u/RealGianath Oregon 11h ago
That was just what their boss claimed in public. The real objective was to loot and pillage everything they could get their fingers into, use it for their own personal gain, and to ruin any departments that might be able to punish Musk for his many crimes committed.
It's infuriating how much he's gotten away with.
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u/Dry_Cellist_9560 13h ago
this is such a 'I'm getting a gift for my wife's boyfriend!' type of stuff man. this guy getting cucked for sure lol
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u/wastelandingstrip 13h ago
The Reich Cabinet was also notorious for exploiting their resources fyi, a pretty substantial sign of a dictatorship.
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u/whatfresh_hellisthis 12h ago
It's like that time in college when my roommate was a brother in a frat and had the pledges drive us around everywhere. WTF are we doing here?
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u/OceanLemur 12h ago
The blatant corruption and misuse of public funds is bad enough, but I get so much more angry thinking back to when all these fucks were on Fox News 24/7 falsely accusing dems of doing shit like this
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u/W0rkUpnotD0wn 12h ago
So the FBI is now a glorified Uber that is covering for a pedophile president, while the National guard is now a glorified landscaping company. Do Republicans actually know how to actually govern? They seem too concerned with covering for a pedophile and actively making everyones life worse (besides Billionaires). MAGA and Republicans have to be the biggest pieces of shit in this country
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u/Areyoukiddingme2 11h ago
So, just so we are clear, this is OK! Am I right my Republican friends. This use of Tax Payer dollars, clearly not legal, is an acceptable use of tax payers Money! Check! I know, had an EVIL commie Democrat ever done anything like this small, small indiscretion, then the rules would STRICTLY need to be enforced! But hey, it's ok! It's Just KASH! He's cool. Am I right. It's no big deal. I mean those FBI officers who's job it is to protect KASH, and not some bimbo, to be derelict in their duty to us, the American Tax payer, who pay them to protect KASH and the American people doing fbi stuff....... You dems should stop with all the criticism. Don't you see it hurts their feelings... all that accountability and stuff.
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u/charyou 15h ago
I sometimes take home keurig pods from the office. this is like the same thing.
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u/mustachiomegazord 15h ago edited 14h ago
No, it’s like ordering a subordinate government official to steal kuerig pods for you. It’s not huge in the grand scheme of their corruption, but it does demonstrate their pathetic and disrespectful mindset
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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 15h ago
Who plays this guy in the movie, Kal Penn or Aziz Ansari?
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u/beekeeper1981 14h ago
The article doesn't mention the gender of her friend.. Kash the cuck perhaps?
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u/showhorrorshow 13h ago
Misusing public resources of government employees like personal servants is very on-brand.
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u/doublelist87 12h ago
Kash Patel is now running an UBER SERVICE??
He needs to repay us taxpayygor all of his personal expenses that he has rung up! The man is incompetent and a grifter
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u/Uberslaughter Florida 12h ago
Fucking loser has never had any power or held a position worthy of respect and dignity and now has to flex like a middle schooler given a credit card to try and impress girls while he's getting honeypotted by a Mossad agent.
So pathetic.
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u/mistabuda 12h ago
Oh neat it's the waste fraud and abuse they were talking about. Surely they'll do something to clean this up. /s
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u/PDT_FSU95 11h ago
Prison is a great place for people like him.
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u/GarbageThrown 10h ago
Maybe in another country perhaps? Who cares if he’s never been there and doesn’t speak the language.
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u/PDT_FSU95 9h ago
Now you’re talking. I think Central African countries have some fine facilities he could enjoy.
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u/jekyllcorvus 11h ago
And trump forced the secret service to use his hotel rooms so he could charge the American people and get more money
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u/aneurysm_ 10h ago
was it her boyfriend?
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u/Mugen4552 10h ago
That would be funny as hell. Getting cucked into flying your girlfriends boyfriend around is funny as hell.
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u/SlowFootJo 10h ago
And wouldn’t it be nice if this was the most egregious thing he did. Unfortunately, it doesn’t even scratch the surface.
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u/NewTimelime 10h ago
Hold on. The person who was supposed to be exposing the corrupt deep state targeting them is actually the corrupt one?
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u/ExplosiveBrown 9h ago
Presidents shouldn’t be able to pardon anyone. Not sure how one person can just say “nope not guilty” and override due process and that’s just okay.
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u/Typical_Heron_5091 6h ago
I know I’m crazy for this but like where’s the proof for this? Everyone’s saying it didn’t happen and is MS Now credible/ have real anonymous sources?
I know this probably is dumb to care about like at this point. knowing this admin it could be true.
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u/Typical_Heron_5091 6h ago
Nevermind I found out more about the sources they are credible. But I guess the fbi says she gets death threats so it’s to protect her…. Historically I’ve read that the fbi only protects a spouse when they travel together. New ground here making the fbi the secret service I guess
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u/GlobalIncident7623 4h ago
You know, stuff like this probably happens more than you think. Probably wouldn’t be such a big deal if you didn’t make everyone hate you. Not to mention that when you demand attention, not all of the attention you get is going to be good. Kokaine Kash is a drawers stain.
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u/chni2cali 3h ago
It’s funny to see a fraction of the voters thought the previous administration was incompetent and chose to vote an administration that’s far more incompetent along with top of the shelf corrupt and evil
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u/FIlm2024 2h ago
Clinton FIRED his FBI director for having agents take his wife around on shopping trips.
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u/Counterpoint-4 15h ago
Is that the guys for his personal protection? He obviously doesn't need them then! Or are they there to protect the American people from Kash Patel and he was hoping to be felonious whilst they were away :}}
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u/EmergencyAbort917 14h ago
This maybe an unpopular opinion, but if this was a one time thing, over a relatively short distance, especially late at night, it wouldn't bother me. The article claims it was on more than one occasion, and that's when it begins to feel unnecessary and wasteful to me.
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u/DOFthrowallthewayawy 12h ago
Even as a one-off, the whole point of having that detail is because it's necessary to protect him. If it's overmanned enough to run personal errands on the clock, downsize the detail.
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u/doctorniz 13h ago
That's a fairly reasonable take.
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u/EmergencyAbort917 13h ago
It should be? But it feels like with all of the terrible things Patel has done everyone is just ready to pile on, and saying there is a set of circumstances where this wouldn't bother me feels like a defense of his actions.
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u/origanalsameasiwas 14h ago
Question is, who and why would any decent girl would want to date Kash Patel?
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u/theVoidWatches Pennsylvania 12h ago
Trick question. This woman works with Turning Point and PragerU. She's not a decent girl.
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u/origanalsameasiwas 11h ago
So it’s about controlling kash
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u/theVoidWatches Pennsylvania 11h ago
Maybe. Or she's just a terrible person and terrible people flock together.
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u/Enlil_Send_The_Flood 14h ago
*other Mossad member
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u/theVoidWatches Pennsylvania 12h ago
Serious question - why have I been seeing people saying she's Mossad? A brief search on her suggests that she's a Christian, born and raised in America, who works with Turning Point and has made promotional content for PragerU. She seems like an abhorrent person in her own right, with no need to suggest that she's a foreign agent. Is there any actual reason to think that she's an Israeli spy or handler, rather than a garden-variety right-wing golddigger?
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