I wonder if they’re advising agency heads to do this so they can fuck with the budget for their wealthy tax break bill?
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In the photo, the fucker looks like a little kid who didn't do his homework and got caught in the lie.
Hardly the brightest and the best.
My dog ate the budget!
Reminds me of the Office: "I thought this was a meet and greet".
Why would any of Trump's administration care? None of them have been held accountable for anything, except to Trump.
The only people held to account in the US are the poor, disabled and non white.
yeah, Trump was accountable af, given that he ia now thw president again
Hold him contempt or stop clutching your pearls.
I'm sure Schumer will move quickly to form a search committee to form a task force with plans to complete a strongly worded letter by late 2027.
After a prolonged investigation taking many months and costing the taxpayer millions, the search committee regretfully concludes that they have been unable to find their balls.
that strongly worded letter will contain upwards of 12 strong questions. that way you'll know he's taking this serious
He's super-cereal!
The fucking clownshow continues.
This is you going in to your Professor's office hours to ostensibly turn in your final paper for a course, it is half your grade in the class, and you actually just sit down and explain you are 'still working on it' and 'can i get it to you maybe by the end of next academic quarter?'
I am honestly so, so relieved by this high level public idiocy.
I really am not kidding.
I've struggled with impostor syndrome much of my life.
All gone. Done. No more.
I am legitimately more competent than almost everyone in this administration at their own jobs, despite the fact that I hardly have any relevant credentials to most of their positions.
My work involves emptying dog shit bins in public parks, and I'm also pretty sure I could do a better job than this guy. We could swap roles - except that I couldn't bring myself to kiss trump's flaccid saggy butt. I'll stick with the dogshit bins - I've got standards.
Don't sell yourself short. I bet you're more competent than everyone in this administration.
I am only hesitant to agree because:
1: I have terrible social anxiety (yay autism and trauma)
2: I assume, at least, some of them are competent people... at... at least something.
That being said, I also cannot think of a single one who falls into category 2.
Hrmm.
There are a couple evil yet competent people in the administration. Russell Vought is one, a hire direct from the Heritage Foundation. Another is Stephen Miller. Heritage seems to be full of actually competent yet completely evil men. But I guess that what happens when a majority of your funding comes from oil, gas, and now tech barons.
Dismantling the FBI seems like a good idea to me anyway. It's not like their mission is a good one. Maybe in the next government the FBI can be brought back as a federal agency that is narrowly focuses on investigating/punishing local/state level law enforcement.
But of course the Dems will just approve whatever budget the republicans come up with and facism will continue unabated.
It's actually a worse idea. There will still be, nominally, federal control, centralized in him. Other than that, every local and state FBI branch will act as, effectively, a terror cell - they work their own leads, make their own arrests on their own recognizance, and generally conduct business as they see fit. This makes for an incredibly dangerous form of secret police - they have no leaders above the local level, no real command and control, and they're all tasked with only one thing: make less crime.
Imagine the Cheka, but they're organized like al-Qaeda.
I’m so tired of the theatrical outrage and shock and surprise. Of fucking course they’re working in bad faith. But no - let’s give all the fucking fascists the benefit of the doubt. You’re not allowed to be fucking surprised by this. It was all in the playbook. The playbook has been published openly on the internet since early 2020.
Its not tin-foil hat, it's Putin. Its always Putin, using Skum and HitlerPig as his muscle.
When will people truly internalize that the two biggest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history? None of them have any loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see us as a big, rich, fat, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited and looted, and it's happening in real time before our eyes.
All they care about is money, and either Putin is paying them directly out of the Russian Treasury (HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for far less than a billion bucks, and Putin could order a lot more than that), or they've cut a deal to split the booty like the pirates they are.
When it's not working, it's working.
I feel like, if this were true, wtf are literally all the other countries' intelligence and agencies doing to prevent such a thing?
I'd like to think China, while mostly on Russia's side, would not want Putin having control over the U.S.
ofc most of NATO wouldn't want that either.
Is every other country incompetent, complicit, or is the U.S. just becoming its own oligarchy?
The US was warned about Russian influence before Trump’s 2016 election by intelligence agencies in Great Britain, Germany, Canada, France, Estonia, Poland, and Australia- and those are just the ones that spoke out publicly.
They were called “fake news” and “DNC operatives.”
Don’t pretend the rest of the world was surprised by this.
Well, I'm glad they spoke out publicly. Maybe they (World Governments) can put in a bit more elbow grease next time to prevent one of the world's largest militaries from being bought by an authoritarian country at discount prices.
The CIA can destabilize governments across the world.
Russia can take over U.S. "Democracy" right in front of the world.
I guess nobody has inside men anymore. Does Germany, France, Britian not have a CIA of their own?
My point is that these World Governments have kinda gotten soft if this is where we're at. Hell, the fact that Ukraine is still at war and not being physically backed is proof enough (though stepping in w/ Russia holding U.S. means that ship has sailed).
Are you proposing more election interference...?
I mean...if it prevents a fascist takeover...
So.. the fault lies with rest of the world who should have worked harder to save the US from itself while Americans plugged their ears and gave them the finger?
Just typical American exceptionalism.
Oh they’re exceptional, all right
china is frenemies with russia, they are definitely not on thier side. China does have russia by the balls though, since they bought up some of siberia.
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Patel to lead the FBI caused a raft of controversy. Patel had publicly pledged to take the agency down and turn its building into something of a “deep state” museum. His apparent lack of preparation for this fundamental hearing will give no solace to critics convinced he was not prepared for the task at hand.
never trust someone with a crazy eyes.
Soooooo, zero budget for the FBI then.
Does that mean they won't be able to notice people organizing against the Trump administration? Or is ICE the new FBI (do they have the capabilities)?
No, they get a contigency budget of 20 bucks and this pallet of expired lunchables.
Sorry, due to 'gestures vaguely' whatever, they're expired, moldy Feastables, brought to you By Mr Beast Burger
Those expired lunchables will be worth a fortune when there's nothing left at walmart!
Why aren't we deporting this law breaker?
Wait, didn't this guy quit by not showing up to work for a few weeks? Am I thinking about another person?
He quit his second job by not showing up.
A guy living in an oligarchs mansion in Vegas was appointed director of 2 federal law enforcement agencies.
You are thinking of someone else, this is the guy who writes deranged children's books where Trump is the king.
Nah, he was removed from his position as head of the ATF. They just tried to make light of it.
Shit, I missed that.
"flood the space" is their goal. Hit you with 1,000 shit things, and hope 100 stick. We will miss a lot. Banon said it is was their goal and they cherish it. Problem is that if they were opposed by such an enemy they would say there is one solution, end them. Most everyone in this country left of MAGA is against slaughtering criminals. Hence the criminal and his thugs in the white house. A man who commits 32 felonies is looked at by a base as better than a person who commits 1 misdemeanor. The misdemeanor, trying to exist, the felonies, stealing from the banks we paid out of pocket to bail out of bankruptcy. The "criminals" paid 94 billion in taxes or some shit in 2022, we are paying more than that to remove them from this country, to get no returns. 94 billion is more than we paid out defense companies to build new weapons to replace old weapons we wanted to retire and sent to Ukraine to defend against our worst enemy for the entirety of our existence. Not even 2% of our defense budget went towards it. Yet the most senile old man that has ever stepped foot in the white house is ordering us to stop following up sanctions on the people HE OWES MONEY too.
Make America Great Again should clearly mean to remove him from the white house, as well as Johnson and Vance. Tax the rich and actually build back the middle class. Anyone who believes in capitalism should never believe in Johnson
Why are they surprised?
Fascists gonna fasc.
This is PROOF that DEI is BAD! WHY did Trump appoint a BROWN man?
-LITERALLY EVERY CONSERVATIVE who isn't Racist!
From recent article detailing POTUS47 silent attack on educational institutions by simply going "radio silent" on paperwork front I can't help but draw parallels. With Patel's stated mission of dismantling FBI I wouldn't be surprised he follows the same playbook, but this time making Dems choke finances for FBI for the lack of budget
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Well yeah, what did you expect from a partisan, incompetent fuckwit?
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