Oh, goodie. We love bad news about Trump’s cabinet, and this is some trouble for Kra$h Patel. Actually, make that a lot of trouble. His “off-camera” actions have been brought into the light, and they’re not pretty. Yet another idiot gets busted for being an idiot. We’re into the domino effect, starting with Gnome and then Blondi. Is it going to be Kra$h or Petey Boy next? Could we be lucky, and would it be both? I appreciate Raw Story:
FBI Director Kash Patel is hanging onto his job by a thread, reported Sarah Fitzpatrick for The Atlantic on Friday — and a large part of that stems from accusations of erratic behavior, including unexplained absences and problem drinking, that have alarmed FBI staff For the entirety of his time in charge.
Patel, a former GOP House Intelligence Committee staffer known for his hard-right, pro-Trump attitude, has faced rumors of being absent from critical parts of his job, which he has denied. New reporting gave deeper insight into how bad it has gotten — and how much Patel fears he’s about to lose his job any moment.
Yannow, we were pretty sure this guy was a moron from the get-go. He was a worse choice than Hegseth, which isn’t saying much, but you get the idea. We knew about the jet trips on the FBI’s dime to see his girlfriend. We knew something about the drinking. And his absences were reported a long time ago. Soooo, what’s going on now that he’s suddenly worried? Has he been getting drunk with Petey Boy?
“Patel, according to multiple current officials, as well as former officials who have stayed close to him, is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy,” wrote Fitzpatrick. “He has good reasons to think so — including some having to do with what witnesses described to me as bouts of excessive drinking.”
Furthermore, she wrote, “Patel was among the officials expected to be fired after Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ouster, on April 2. ‘We’re all just waiting for the word‘ that Patel is officially out of the top job, an FBI official told me this week, and a former official told my colleague Jonathan Lemire that Patel was ‘rightly paranoid.'”
Heh. If he’d done his job correctly, starting with being in the office and not out by a pool in Vegas, he wouldn’t have had to be so paranoid. There are a whole lot of things he has done that are coming out, and he should rightly be worried. The best one was how he was going to do a press conference and made an agent take off their FBI jacket so he could wear it. He’s just as bad a diva as Gnome and Petey Boy. Wonder if he ever got his own jacket and, if so, will he have to return it? This thought makes me giggle.
The White House has reportedly already begun talks about who could replace Patel if he is let go. “Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information and private conversations, they described Patel’s tenure as a management failure and his personal behavior as a national-security vulnerability,” said the report. Fitzpatrick wrote that Patel’s security detail even struggled to rouse him at times when he was needed for certain FBI duties.
Lawd have mercy. Was he an eff-up from the beginning? Dang, how did we miss this? Or rather, how did the news miss this? It must have been all off-camera, and Kra$h was able to cover for it. He can’t anymore. Too many people have seen him, and too many people know about him. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, like being fired.
“A request for ‘breaching equipment‘ — normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings — was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors, according to multiple people familiar with the request,” the report said.
Patel was so fearful for his job that last Friday, when he was locked out of the FBI computer system due to an IT error, “he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach,” the report said. “Two of these people described his behavior as a ‘freak-out.'”
Ahahahaha. Just because he’s paranoid doesn’t mean people *aren’t* out to get him. Jumping the gun like that does not reflect well on him. With the information that’s coming out, he has dug himself into a hole of his own making, and there’s no ladder to help him get out. Poor baby. He’ll just have to deal as the rest of us do. No more perks for Kra$h. No jet, no leadership role (did he ever actually *do* anything as head of the FBI?), just a regular person like us. Incidentally, I found an article that said the *FBI* is threatening legal action against The Atlantic, which is the one that broke the story, but only over the claim that he drinks on the job. Ha. Seeya Kra$h!
Just discovered that *Kra$h* made a statement denying what the report said and threatening to sue because they said “erratic behavior”. *yawn* Whatever. Please forgive the nicknames (ha) I’ve been trying to behave….
There is another article with some really entertaining reactions on social media. I decided I would be writing a novel if I tried to include it in this column, so here is the link. See you soon!
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