I get a perverse kick out of seeing the MSM call Kash Patel a Trump loyalist. He’s a sycophant, not a loyalist. He’s a nobody elevated to a somebody by the Kaiser of Chaos who now wants to appoint the biggest bootlicker in Trump World to head the FBI.
Who but a sycophant would write not one but three children’s books about Donald Trump and how America done him wrong? I wrote about the first book in a 2022 post, Kash Is For Kids. I’m not a dedicated follower of this fascist so I didn’t know about the other books until the nomination was floated.
In the books, Patel portrays himself as a wizard out to protect and save his motley monarch. I had a good zinger about that in the earlier post so I might as well quote myself:
Patel’s MAGA fairy tale transforms a run of the mill political hack into a wizard. Instead of the Wizard of Id, Kash is the Wizard of Idiots.
That has a nice ring to it, but I landed on the Wizard of Odd. Kash is also an idiot masquerading as a master of the universe when he’s just another brown noser sniffing around Mar-a-Lago. He’s every bit as corrupt as his crooked lord and master:
Kash also sells a line of merchandise, as an FBI director is known to do
— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) 2024-12-01T21:34:40.963Z
This is who Trump thinks is fit to run the FBI; make that ruin. Given Patel’s obsession with the Russian collusion scandal, it’s another way for the Insult Comedian to insult Bob Mueller and the agency he led.
Instead of a wand, Patel will take an axe to the FBI. His goal is to transform the bureau into a tool of Trumpist vengeance. We’re going from the so-called Deep State to deep shit with this appointment.
President-elect Pennywise regards his nominees as weapons to destroy the departments they’re appointed to lead. It’s the political equivalent of pulling the wings off flies for entertainment. Burning shit down should be for pyromaniacs, not presidents but that’s the current state of the nation.
Christopher Wray has three years left in his term as FBI director. The ten-year term was adopted as a post-Watergate reform to insulate the bureau from politics. It held up quite well until Trump fired Jim Comey for insufficient subservience. That will not be an issue with Kash Patel. He’s the sycophant’s sycophant, the lackey’s lackey. I thought of Patel when I rewatched Succession and relived the boar on the floor experience:
I hope Wray will force Trump to fire him instead of resigning in anticipation of defenestration. Surrendering in advance is a bad look for the head of the largest federal law enforcement agency but bad looks are in fashion.
If Trumpers knew anything about history, they could argue that the Patel appointment returns the FBI to its politicized roots. J Edgar Hoover was neck deep in politics as well as sycophantic to his superiors up the political food chain. Kash Patel’s sycophancy makes Hoover look like a piker.
There are rumblings in the Senate about the Patel nomination. It could be another Matt Gaetz situation where Patel’s nomination is pulled for someone nominally more qualified but equally odious. We may still be spared the Wizard of Odd’s idiocy.
Stay tuned.
Since I prefer the actor Dev Patel to Kash Patel, the last word goes to the Oscar winning song from the movie that made Dev a star:
I have sometimes been called inappropriate because I talk about Patel being wild-eyed. Yah, I get there is something naturally off about his eyes being somewhat crossed. But, watch when he starts talking crazy shit…his eyes pop and focus a thousand yards away and then almost appear to spin. This guy’s lunacy is written all over his face as well as in his books! The now-famous video of him saying he would close the Hoover building and tell those 7K people inside “you’re cops, go be cops…” is often cut at that point, but what he says next is telling. He tells the 7K, who are not all “cops,” to go arrest murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and violent offenders. A looney who doesn’t know what agents do and doesn’t know that murder laws and rape laws and many drug laws are state, NOT FEDERAL, has no place running a Federal Department!! 🤬
Agreed. Kash has Manson eyes.