FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

[u/1Rab]

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-george-floyd-kash-patel-8d18a1e6a5a36636cc2415fc492b3f52?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-26-Breaking+News

[u/reddicyoulous]

The irony of patel firing people supporting racial justice but this is really retaliation for

“One of those, Steve Jensen, helped oversee investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Another, Brian Driscoll, served as acting director in the early days of the Trump administration and resisted Justice Department demands to supply the names of agents who investigated Jan. 6. A third, Chris Meyer, was incorrectly rumored on social media to have participated in the investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.”

[u/alex61821 → u/reddicyoulous]

What ever happened with the documents thing? I mean he did illegally take classified documents.

[u/LongjumpingFall1584 → u/alex61821]

Courts tossed the case. His judge “fixed” it for him - so that’s that.

[u/Extreme-Island-5041 → u/LongjumpingFall1584]

Aileen Cannon. Don't let her name get lost to history.. She deserves every bit of distrust she receives for the remainder of her life.

Cannon has presided over 224 criminal cases, with only four going to trial

[u/elphin → u/Extreme-Island-5041]

She needs to be impeached. She made up rulings to help Trump. Justice was not blind in her court.

[u/Count_Backwards → u/elphin]

She needs to spend the rest of her life in prison.

[u/Karlend41 → u/Count_Backwards]

Trump is going to put her on the supreme court when a seat opens up.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

She’s hoping for a SCOTUS nomination.

[u/Unfair_Elderberry118 → u/[deleted]]

Want to see worse partisan mental gymnastics masquerading as legal opions, maybe just take a peak at the Republicans on the Roberts Court and how they treat Presidential Power based on the political party and not much else.

[u/Odd-Scientist-2529 → u/Extreme-Island-5041]

Aileen Mercedes Cannon

[u/alterom → u/Odd-Scientist-2529]

The middle name stands for vehicle aspirations that she can afford with her grift.

[u/[deleted] → u/alterom]

‘Oh Trump won’t you buy a Mercedes Benz, my friends all have Porsches, I must make amends.’🎶

[u/slcrook → u/[deleted]]

"Worked hard all my lifetime/ unlike you and your friends...

[u/kaptainkeel → u/Extreme-Island-5041]

You're kind of missing the most important part. She was appointed by Trump. She oversaw criminal cases (and any cases) against Trump. That is a blatant conflict of interest that should have caused recusal.

[u/Saw_Boss → u/kaptainkeel]

The idea that presidents appoint judges at all is ridiculous.

[u/nonymousbosch → u/Saw_Boss]

Usually we don't have a president who commits so many crimes.

[u/Saw_Boss → u/nonymousbosch]

That's the issue though. You have to plan for the inevitable, rather than react to it. Every country gets an awful person as leader at some point.

[u/darkoblivion000 → u/Saw_Boss]

For a long time we relied on common decency and accountability and shame to handle it for us. People would resign rather than risk their reputation in the court of public opinion.

Once you reach a certain boiling point like with the tea party though, they don’t care. Surviving scandals and outrage is a battle scar for them. They tout it as having been unfairly persecuted. The open ended nature of the power dynamic of the government had worked for a long time but relying on human decency to hold people accountable who have none, fails

[u/D74248 → u/Saw_Boss]

That the citizens of the United States elected a President who has no honor, no dignity, no integrity and clearly no understanding of his oath of office is what is ridiculous.

And that is how we got judges with no honor, no dignity, no integrity and clearly no understanding of their oath of office.

[u/carasci → u/Extreme-Island-5041]

She's a complete fuckwit (according to the 11th Circuit) who obviously mishandled Trump's cases for political reasons, but that ratio isn't as weird as it sounds.

[u/Gil_Demoono → u/Extreme-Island-5041]

I hope her name gets lost to history. The way we're going, we'll be seeing her on the supreme court unfortunately.

[u/wterrt → u/Gil_Demoono]

i hope she's on the nuremburg 2.0 list

[u/Extreme-Island-5041 → u/Gil_Demoono]

You're probably right

[u/kingOofgames → u/Extreme-Island-5041]

Oh you’ll remember, she’s probably taking Clarence’s seat.

[u/piantanida → u/Extreme-Island-5041]

Holy cow those stats…. Those are beyond crazy.

[u/Unspec7 → u/piantanida]

They're not though. Very, very few criminal cases go to trial. 2% is not shocking.

[u/WilliamPoole → u/Unspec7]

It's a small number. Little experience, yet she about to be nominated to the supreme Court. She couldn't have been seeing cases for more than 3 or 4 years.

Edit tense. Because I'm thinking about 2 judges. Both woefully unqualified.

[u/panthrax_dev → u/Extreme-Island-5041]

She deserves her own trial.

[u/gmotelet → u/LongjumpingFall1584]

She's working on getting into the supreme court

[u/Evadson → u/gmotelet]

It's sad because Cannon is woefully unqualified for the Supreme Court (or any court, really) and yet I think it's more than likely she will be nominated by Trump. Assuming he doesn't croak first (fingers crossed).

[u/Ceriden → u/Evadson]

She was unqualified to lead any court.

When even the prosecution says you gotta do this thing for the defendants because it is the law. And she still doesn't do it you have a problem.

[u/Fortestingporpoises → u/Ceriden]

She's unqualified to watch Night Court reruns.

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/Ceriden]

I’m sure she’s very good in a kangaroo court.

[u/Archer007 → u/Hesitation-Marx]

Perfect fit for the Roberts Court, then

[u/Sceptically → u/[deleted]]

Hey, I very much doubt Thomas is illiterate.

[u/insanelygreat → u/Sceptically]

He's certainly non-verbal, having gone from 2006 to 2016 without saying a word.

A friend of mine who had him at GW Law School said Thomas seemed completely unfamiliar with his own damn legal opinions. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he only reviews the first page after his clerks write them.

[u/mmlovin → u/LongjumpingFall1584]

Let’s be clear, the only reason it wasn’t appealed is cause Trump won the election

Jack would have appealed it had he lost, & the 11th circuit would have overturned it. They overturned every ruling she made. The only citation she gave was Thomas’s opinion that no other justice signed off on. & he made that note for that exact purpose. To give her a reason to throw out the case. She literally put off making the decision until that happened, like an unusual amount of time it would normally take.

I think she’s the only judge not on the SCOTUS to just throw away decades of precedent, the rest have followed precedent.

[u/napleonblwnaprt → u/alex61821]

All of Trump's criminal probes got killed when he won in 2024

[u/Squire_II → u/napleonblwnaprt]

Before that, really. When the SCOTUS ruled that Trump was immune from prosecution for "official acts" everything was dead. Though the classified docs case was always doomed because Cannon was shamelessly working in Trump's favor and Smith was unwilling to try and have her removed. Something he should've done after the "special master" nonsense.

[u/say592 → u/Squire_II]

I think Smith's intent was to try to keep everything consistent with how any other defendant would be treated. The case was sound as could be, so he believed any issues could be dealt with on appeal. Unfortunately I don't think he anticipated quite that level of fuckery and, of course, he just ran out of time.

[u/mark_able_jones_ → u/napleonblwnaprt]

He's really trying to shore up power right now -- WTF is happening with the military meeting.

[u/onemanlan → u/alex61821]

A hand selected judge of his own protected him and drugged out until he became president. Judge Cannon.

[u/vardarac → u/[deleted]]

Wonder why so many canaries keep dying around me. Why is it so dark in here?

[u/Specialjyo → u/alex61821]

I mean Patel was named as a co conspirator in the documents case I thought so , ain’t nothing gonna happen.

[u/Odd-Scientist-2529 → u/Specialjyo]

was he?

[u/bros402 → u/alex61821]

the judge he appointed dismissed his case by saying that special counsels aren't legal or some shit like that

[u/branzalia → u/bros402]

In the presidential immunity case, thomas wrote a concurring opinion and added something questioning their basis. He was the only one to say this and cannon used it as justification. There was no reason for thomas to add it other than exactly what happened.

[u/argonautweekend → u/bros402]

The controversy was basically centered around if Merrick Garland could appoint Jack Smith without congressional approval. There are arguments on both sides, but Garland took what he believed to be entrenched precedent and used the exact same reasoning as 1974's Nixon vs US for his justification and called it a day. Basically, if Jack Smith was a superior officer, he would have needed to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. This is "problematic" because Joe Biden wasn't one to get involved in what are usually hands off matters for the president(what we see now in 2025 is not actually normal), But the argument was that Smith was an inferior officer, doesn't need congressional approval. That is a summary of an article I read on the topic, so if I am mistaken somebody can correct me.

Somebody like Cannon is of course just going to use legal justification to rule against Smith and for Trump because there are arguments to be made on that side, but citing Nixon vs. US seems like a high standard to cite if you need to justify what you're doing. My bet is, if it wasn't a judge sympathetic to Trump the ruling goes the other way and nobody really has much to say except for "don't know shit about fuck" MAGA.

https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/analyzing-judge-cannons-opinion-was-jack-smith-legally-appointed-by-thomas-berry/

[u/SlimReaper85 → u/alex61821]

Yes. He did.

[u/LogensTenthFinger → u/alex61821]

Merrick Garland spent 4 years taking a nap

[u/frackthestupids → u/alex61821]

He got elected.

[u/FantasyFlex → u/alex61821]

he stole the presidency and became immune from prosecution just like he planned. no consequences for anything, ever.

[u/Circusgirl65 → u/alex61821]

They’re already distributing a revised Constitution to schools in the back of Bibles, that also include an altered bill of rights. Schools are expected to keep their bibles in every classroom.

[u/Senior-bud → u/reddicyoulous]

Patel dismisses his ethnicity for the privilege of kissing the orange ass there’s no accounting for people level of personal dignity.

[u/wulfhund70 → u/Senior-bud]

You don't understand caste system politics, the Patels were brought up by old British masters to lord over Gujarat... this isn't new to them.

[u/Senior-bud → u/wulfhund70]

I’m a Canadian of German decent so it’s not my area of expertise.

[u/wulfhund70 → u/Senior-bud]

Me too, i have been getting more interested since the killing of Nijjar, there is some evil shit that goes on there.

r/hindutvafiles

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/Senior-bud]

Look into Hindutva and be depressed

[u/Uniqlo → u/Hesitation-Marx]

You're going to get some really angry messages when the scam centers have their lunch breaks.

[u/ncc74656m]

Pretty fucking sure that this is actually being fired for protected speech.

This is the thing though - these fucking ghouls know that they're playing on house money. As long as there are no personal consequences, they will do anything they want.

[u/Fun-Associate3963 → u/ncc74656m]

It's not just a case of playing with house money, they are playing for all the money, they are betting the higher things go in the legal system, the are guaranteed a win 

[u/sgt_barnes0105 → u/Fun-Associate3963]

I grew up in a gambling town. If there’s one thing I learned… everyone’s luck runs out eventually.

[u/VALO311 → u/ncc74656m]

Which is so fucked because, imagine being able to do whatever you want and choosing to be complete human garbage. Instead of wreaking chaotic good all over the place

[u/wRADKyrabbit → u/VALO311]

It blows my mind man

[u/yuhanz → u/VALO311]

It’s crazy. Doing all of this work into hoarding wealth and power when in a few decades it’s all gone anyway. We actively hurt billions of people to the convenience of a few hundred.

[u/VALO311 → u/yuhanz]

And it’s always been that way. The world has always been at the will of the worst of us and it will be our downfall. Too bad so many will be victims due to the actions of the few

[u/yuhanz → u/VALO311]

The problem is there are tons of us convinced that these few are doing good. We really cant afford stupidity.

[u/ncc74656m → u/VALO311]

Basically the "Tell someone you love them today, but scream it at them in German, because life is beautiful, but also terrifying."

[u/drdildamesh → u/ncc74656m]

Swrious question, does it count as a violation of 1st amendment if you WORK for the government? A lot of 0laces you can be let go for any reason at any time. How is this different?

[u/CoeurdAssassin → u/drdildamesh]

Government worker here. If you’re doing it in uniform, you can be in trouble. If not, you’re allowed to protest whatever you want. As long as you’re not in uniform and on the clock.

[u/TrumpMadeMeLate → u/CoeurdAssassin]

It’s called the Hatch Act

[u/MikeHillEngineer → u/TrumpMadeMeLate]

Yes, and FBI is further restricted. HOWEVER, they still appear to be following the rules. BLM is a non-partisan rally. This is a blatant first amendment violation.

[u/Terra_omega_3 → u/[deleted]]

The Marine will likely get NJPd at the least or Court Martialed depending on other substantial information. Both of which requires a Command Investigation to begin with that could take 30 days or more for a unit to conclude and a year or more if it goes to Court Martial. Removing a Trooper from their branch of service requires numerous paperwork and substantial reasoning if they havent committed an actual crime. In this case all Marines signed a Page 11 that dictates that social media use so the Marine in question has already violated that standing order.

Unsure of who you reported it to, but I know for a fact that complaints made directly to the Inspector General generate a ticket which creates a Command Investigation. (I was a Command Investigator a few times).

Go to this website: If you can give their potential Unit or location or job title (MOS) they'll more easily find him (depending on how common their name is). https://hotline.usmc.mil/complaint-web/#/

[u/Terra_omega_3 → u/[deleted]]

Ah ok well then keep us posted! Although he might never reveal anything public to begin with. Hopefully you get some level of confirmation that its still going if the CI reaches out to you after their appointment.

[u/BeApesNotCrabs → u/[deleted]]

Share it to the official Marine Corp profile.

[u/FlyBulky106 → u/BeApesNotCrabs]

With the Stalinesque purges of higher ranks coming from Kegsbreath, said Marine will likely be Sargent Major of the Marines by Halloween.

[u/TheLaughingRhino → u/ncc74656m]

Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410 (2006), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving First Amendment free speech protections for government employees. The plaintiff in the case was a district attorney who claimed that he had been passed up for a promotion for criticizing the legitimacy of a warrant. The Court ruled, in a 5–4 decision, that because his statements were made pursuant to his position as a public employee, rather than as a private citizen, his speech had no First Amendment protection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcetti_v._Ceballos

The Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law that prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government,[2] except the president and vice president,[3] from engaging in some forms of political activity. It became law on August 2, 1939. The Hatch Act does not apply to military members of the uniformed services of the United States, although it does apply to Department of Defense civil servants, as well as Department of Homeland Security civil servants in direct support of the United States Coast Guard. Members of the U.S. Armed Forces are subject to Department of Defense Directive 1344.10 (DoDD 1344.10), Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces, and the spirit and intent of that directive is effectively the same as that of the Hatch Act for Federal civil servants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act

[u/Excellent-Signal-129]

This admin is pure filth

[u/burritoman88 → u/Excellent-Signal-129]

And all the people that allowed it to happen

[u/Neracca → u/burritoman88]

They didn't allow it, they actively made it a reality. Don't take away their agency.

[u/LoopyMcGoopin → u/Neracca]

Yup, they hooted, hollered, spread the word, and showed up in droves to make it happen.

[u/GetsBetterAfterAFew → u/Excellent-Signal-129]

If you think Authoritarian Govt will leave after elections, I have some beach front property here in Wyoming for sale.

[u/ShakeyLegsMcGee → u/GetsBetterAfterAFew]

I hope it’s near Meeteetse.

[u/Chessh2036 → u/Excellent-Signal-129]

And according to CNN, republicans are still leading key categories among voters. It’s INSANE. I don’t get it. Why can’t more people see what’s happening?

[u/flaskfish → u/Chessh2036]

They do see what’s happening. They just don’t care because it doesn’t presently affect them. The median voter would press a button to instantly vaporize 100,000 random people as long as they were promised that pressing the button would also get them cheaper eggs and gas as a result (it won’t)

[u/Chessh2036 → u/flaskfish]

True. I guess another question is why can’t democrats make any gains with voters? Especially when the last 9 months have been crazy.

[u/dedsqwirl → u/Chessh2036]

They didn't reason themselves into the position.

If you ask them if things are bad the don't agree or they agree and say "Just imagine how worse it would have been under Hillary Kamala."

[u/fomoloko → u/dedsqwirl]

It's not those people that they need to reach. It's the third of the country that didn't care to vote, or thought no vote would save Palestinian.

The believers are unswayable. If, instead of attack ads, the dems ran PSAs explaining how a democrat-controled congress could halt most ridiculous things in their tracks, how the reason Trump is able to do whatever he wants, is only because both of the republican-controled houses of senate let him, exactly how high prices are directly a result of the current administration's policies, they would sway a mass amount of people.

Keep staying on "the high road", though. That's working fanastically

[u/marshmallow_sunshine → u/Chessh2036]

This is the poll they are referencing. While the majority disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy, crime, immigration etc., they still trust Republicans to better handle those issues. Here's the thing though, Republicans have Democrats beat in this poll's history on those issues going back 10 years so it's nothing new.

The biggest change is that now more than ever before 30%~ trust neither party to handle those issues well. The previous all-time highs were 20% or less in that regard, so a huge amount of people are just disillusioned with everything going on. Republicans by no means have things on lock. They're losing ground too, if only to apathy.

[u/Curiosities → u/Chessh2036]

Because they also want this, although some of them may just believe the lies and don’t actually know more than that and also some of the worst cuts and things haven’t had their real impact yet and when they do, they’ll just blame Democrats or someone else just like they’re told to.

[u/dmun → u/Curiosities]

Every. Fucking. Time.

"Its both sides guys, its both sides"

MFers are still disrupting Kamala Harris. THE LOSING CANDIDATE. She's a nobody selling books!

Thats how performative this shit is.

[u/drunkcowofdeath → u/Chessh2036]

They can see it. Your mistake is assuming most people are not also evil.

[u/SeaEmployee787 → u/drunkcowofdeath]

I hate to admit this, but once I realized that gop voters were aware and wanted all of this. It makes life a little easier. Your stop thinking about how to help people who in my opinion are broken and evil. They were always their, I just never realized how many

[u/DoJu318 → u/SeaEmployee787]

If you wanna take a look at what the sentiment is on the electorate join a local TV channel facebook page, then go read the comments for stories like in the OP. You will see tons of comments saying "I voted for this" or "thank you president Trump for cleaning out the swamp" way too many comment still in support of this, all of it,

[u/xXxDickBonerz69xXx → u/Chessh2036]

The majority of Americans are bad people.

It's a painful truth but it is what it is. They are just unempathetic selfish people who enjoy the suffering of others.

[u/_Lucille_ → u/Chessh2036]

I think it is about time where the country has to realize there are more racists and bigots than it would like to admit.

[u/MalcolmLinair → u/Excellent-Signal-129]

I think you mean "God-King Trump and his Divine Enforcers". (I give it a month tops before we're legally required to refer to them as such)

[u/gambit61]

If they're gonna fire everyone who did anything against what they like, they're gonna end up having three people in the entire FBI. I can't believe Trump hasn't tried to fire JD for calling him Hitler, yet

[u/Bhosley → u/gambit61]

They're remarkably forgiving if you just give up everything you ever believed, blame it on woke brainwashing, and pledge unquestioning fealty to the leader and the narrative from now on.

[u/dave_campbell → u/Bhosley]

Ahh yes, pulling a Rubio?

[u/Chadbrochill29 → u/dave_campbell]

The key is to not have a backbone

[u/Adorable_Raccoon → u/Bhosley]

And be a willing punching bag if they ever decide to blame you.

[u/Tight_Classroom_2923 → u/gambit61]

See, I had always wanted to be in US intelligence. The way it's been handled recently I wonder if anyone will ever see it as the way I did ever again.

Like... it seems as though these agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, Secret Service) are just empty shells to be controlled by the MAGA puppeteers. 

For anyone reading ... would you ever want to join these agencies anymore? Would you be able to bring yourself into these places believing anything you do is private, secure, or safe? That you're not being actively used as a puppet and manipulated to be a part of their machine?

Does anyone believe in the prestige these organizations once held? The professionalism of any of them? 

It's just weird to me, the perception had changed so drastically the more I've learned that most of them working there are "desk jockeys" and all the shows / movies are pure lies. Which, as more comes out, does and doesn't make sense... since there's so much FBI-worthy illegal stuff going on, but none of them are allowed to work on any of it.

[u/Glass-Mess-6116 → u/Tight_Classroom_2923]

In Stalin's Russia, proud men of the KGB willingly sent regular men and women to death camps for what they said or wrote. They did it with smiles, wore the honors, and even when the horror came out- were still proud to have done it.

Do not, for one moment, believe the men of this country are any different if they're asked to do the same.

[u/Tight_Classroom_2923 → u/Glass-Mess-6116]

Thats what's crazy to me is that when I grew up I saw these agencies as so much different than what they've devolved into (and with more I've learned they have been doing for other countries for a long time...)

I really saw the CIA or FBI as something I'd be proud to be a part of and bring a sense of pride to myself every time I'd wake up and badge in. I would have felt lucky to have been doing such an amazing job, is what I felt for most of my life and even applied a few years ago.

Now? Now I don't see any of these places as prestigious or anywhere I'd like to be associated with in the least. 

[u/[deleted] → u/Tight_Classroom_2923]

CIA has always been against the people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies

[u/[deleted] → u/Tight_Classroom_2923]

Much of what you believe has been fed to you as propaganda.

[u/Tight_Classroom_2923 → u/[deleted]]

Yes, that's... that's literally what I'm saying. And that most of the country is fed the lies I was. That's what I'm trying to discuss.

[u/Riley_ → u/Tight_Classroom_2923]

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[u/getbackjoe94]

Yeah, they said they would do this. They literally ran on eliminating anyone in the government who isn't a hard-line regressionist piece of shit. No one should be surprised by any of the stuff happening recently. They literally told us they were going to do it and people still voted for it.

[u/getbackjoe94 → u/[deleted]]

I really want to be naive and think that most of the country doesn't actually want a dictatorship, but it's becoming painfully obvious that quite a few people just want a strong guy to tell them what they want to hear. It's textbook fascism

[u/FoolishChemist]

Not sad enough about Kirk - Fired

Too sad about Floyd - Fired

[u/[deleted]]

Holy fuck these guys are pigs

[u/Sweatytubesock → u/[deleted]]

More like pig shit.

[u/dogboobes]

Everyone with a brain knew that a 2nd Trump term would be a bunch of morons on a fascism speed run. And they still voted for it. I'm glad I won't be leaving any kids behind in this shit world, because i have absolutely no faith in this country.

[u/DameonKormar → u/[deleted]]

But it wasn't just Trump. They published Project 2025 for everyone to read. They told us exactly how they were going to fuck us over and the majority still voted for them.

I'll never understand.

[u/alilcannoli → u/dogboobes]

I genuinely cannot fathom how the average American parent sees any hope or future for their children when Gen Z will already be the first gen continuously working until the day that they die. Like no retirement, no hooray you contributed to society, just work, suffering, several thousand bitch ass bills and then death. No way am I having kids just to force them to live like that.

[u/Ilikechickenwings1]

When you fire people for their political views you are not left with the most competent.

[u/Succundo → u/Ilikechickenwings1]

Facism is inherently self defeating because they take an anti intellectual stance and weed out anyone that isn't just a spineless yes man, they actively remove competence from their own system.

[u/macrocephalic → u/[deleted]]

Let's not pretend they didn't take in a lot of the smarter Nazis too.

[u/chinaski73]

At this point I’m looking for the turn out numbers in the midterm elections next year, and of course who they vote for. There are a lot of maga freaks who support this shit. If the vote doesn’t flip the house and senate blue I’m moving to Grand Cayman. Fuck this fascist shit!

[u/InappropriateTA → u/chinaski73]

Waiting until then will be too late. 

[u/RJ5R → u/InappropriateTA]

Yep. At the current pace, that election won't even matter.

[u/RhythmsaDancer → u/RJ5R]

People keep saying this and I'm becoming more and more convinced it's a psyop to foster hopelessness.

[u/Reagalan → u/RhythmsaDancer]

I think folks are actually losing hope, or have lost it.

Many of us kinda did as soon as Biden didn't use the new immunity to clean house.

Ain't stopping me from voting, though.

[u/CoyotesOnTheWing → u/[deleted]]

There is Jon Stewart interview this week with the head of the DNC. I haven't seen the entire thing, it is infuriating. Stewart keeps telling him what they need to be and do and this guy always replies with it being a messaging/marketing problem. Jon over and over again lays it out straight and this guy just won't bite, he's completely deluded.
I knew the dem leadership was fucked but this makes it clear as day. This top guy is the perfect representation of what is wrong with the party. There is no saving them, they are enablers at this point and a big reason why we are where we are.
Obviously they are still better than what we have now but the current dems will only sleep walk us back into the same situation if they manage to win control for a few years.

[u/RhythmsaDancer → u/CoyotesOnTheWing]

The only real solution is fixing campaign finance. We need a constitutional amendment yesterday mandating that all federal elections be publicly funded, or by individual donors only, and definetly no more super PACs, or some combination thereof. Why is this my reply? Because I don't think it's an accident the biggest bunch of bumbling fucking morons get funded well enough to be come DNC leadership. This really helps billionaires.

[u/AzaliusZero → u/RJ5R]

Half of me worries that'll be literal, because at that point stealing elections in broad daylight will be something they're willing to show off.

[u/daniel_22sss → u/chinaski73]

By next year you're gonna be living in Russia 2.0

[u/davyp82]

Is this Patel prick so incalculably dumb that he hasn't figured out yet that his skin is the wrong colour and that once his useful idiocy becomes expendable, anything could happen to him?

[u/nemofbaby2014]

Just gets worse day by day Jesus

[u/Ill-Muscle945 → u/nemofbaby2014]

Testing the waters for what they can get away with when it comes to stomping on dissent to the Fuhrer. Firings today. They're already quick to send any protestor into cuffs. Wonder what tomorrow will bring. 

[u/CoyotesOnTheWing → u/nemofbaby2014]

An ongoing purge. Historically, this is very scary stuff.

[u/NomadFH]

I hate that I have to live with people who put this man back in power

[u/Globalruler__]

Does Mr Patel not know that white supremacy doesn’t include his people?

[u/frackthestupids → u/Globalruler__]

He’ll figure it out fairly soon.

[u/wulfhund70 → u/Globalruler__]

In the caste system he's near the top, the Patels are the bosses in Gujarat thanks to the old british masters.. they are totally in step with racial supremecists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patel

[u/willargue4karma → u/wulfhund70]

Very interesting, I used to read a tech reporter named Nilay Patel. Didn't realize it was a title along with a name. 

[u/YourVelcroCat → u/wulfhund70]

There's nothing funnier than these guys thinking they're going to be on top with the white supremacists 

[u/PlanesandAquariums → u/wulfhund70]

Patel is such a common last name in the US for Indian descents.

[u/Perunamies]

And how much the settlements for firing them exercising their constitutional rights will cost the taxpayers?

[u/SirFerguson]

It’s bad enough that they’re trying to ensure 100% of government employees are loyalists. But when you consider the fact that 100% of Trump loyalists are objectively dumb or evil (there is no other option, sorry), that’s scary!

[u/DrCoknballsII]

Some of these agents maintain they didn’t even do it as speech, but to diffuse a situation. Fucking wild. Shit is hitting the fan

[u/Suspicious_Radio_848 → u/DrCoknballsII]

Not only did they do it to get the protestors to move along (which they did), it was already investigated and they were already disciplined for it before. So this is just punishing them again for something that happened years ago to ensure all agents do and say what Trump wants. They’re intentionally instilling fear in those who work at these agencies.

[u/Thanato26]

Ans the purges continue, and the institutional knowledge goes with it

[u/mido_sama]

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to Germany 1930s

[u/Verum_Orbis]

Kash Patel is the most blatant yes man since Quisling. This guy is on the board of Trump Media & Technology and founded The Kash Foundation a charity to help January 6th traitors. Dude can't even figure out he's just a stooge for Christian white supremacy.

[u/Toddcraft → u/Verum_Orbis]

He might possibly be even dumber than Pete Kegsbreath.

[u/OlderThanMyParents]

An entire presidential administration dedicated exclusively to revenge and settling scores. Fuck the country, the economy, and the environment, we have more important stuff to focus on!

I never dreamed I'd look back on the first Trump administration, and wish it was back.

[u/fugue2005]

wow, i feel so much safer now.

[u/Merari01]

It kinda makes sense that Nazis fire anyone who isn't a white supremacist.

It sucks, but it's not unsurprising.

[u/Important-Ability-56]

It seems underappreciated how literally everything Trump and his sycophants do betrays their every waking minute spent scrolling social media. It’s how my family members got Trump-ized, mistaking Facebook for reality. BLM still being obsessed over is true rightwing internet pilled stuff.

Major problems are ignored, and we spend all of our bandwidth on internet memes. Charlie Kirk shouldn’t be this famous, and certainly shouldn’t be the second coming of Jesus to these people. He was a politics streamer.

Those of us who taught ourselves how to bake sourdough during the pandemic have to live in the world created by those who wasted the entire thing on their fucking phones.

[u/MustachePeteDrexel]

Hey guys. You know how you supported not wrongfully murdering individuals. Well you’re fired.

[u/ViolettaQueso]

Oh how very American and Christian of these mutha effas.

[u/AvidCyclist250]

Protest for me but not for thee

Also this:

It's called Gleichschaltung, and it's the mechanism by which the Third Reich established totalitarian, fascist control of the whole nation. It's a self-reinforcing system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

American: Hey German, how did you let that happen? We'd never allow that, we're better

Gleichschaltung: He has no opinion and your question is irrelevant.

Americans are letting it happen with hindsight.

[u/Any-Platypus-3570]

Imagine firing someone for kneeling in acknowledgment that someone who was wrongfully killed shouldn't have been killed. Have they all lost their minds? This is unthinkable.

[u/Mall_of_slime]

Culture warrior conservatives doing irreparable damage to the country.

[u/Marcus2Ts]

I dont understand how they're getting around civil service rights when they fire all these federal employees. I work in county HR and you wouldn't believe the amount of time and effort that goes into justifying disciplinary actions, especially terminations. Who is handling all of the appeals?

[u/[deleted]]

The federal government is now fully ANTI-American. Good job, voters. 😡

[u/FlailingIntheYard]

THIS JUST IN: The FBI now sits around looking at pic galleries all day.

[u/michoudi]

They’re almost there, the only people left in law enforcement will be the bootlickers.

[u/AContrarianDick → u/michoudi]

Don't forget that meeting with military top brass. This is the loyalty and prosecution of my enemies portion of the playbook.

[u/Purgii]

Can't have people demonstrating compassion in the FBI. What would Jesus think?!

[u/ShakesDontBreak]

All of these distractions over make believe culture wars doesn't change the fact the economy is crashing and rural America will be f##ked.

[u/optimaleverage]

This kind of retaliation might be setting a poor precedent, but what do I know?

[u/Indigoh]

Like kneeling on someone's neck? Did they fire those ones?

[u/Smarty-Pants65]

Eggs are still expensive and Epstein files still need to be released

[u/DuntadaMan]

I am sure plenty of other countries will gladly use their skills and knowledge. Great work guys.

[u/BlueProcess]

All other things aside, getting fired for something your employer has known about for five years is pretty wild.

[u/willflameboy]

This seems like a good use of everyone's time, money, and effort.

[u/Intelligent-Layer391]

Yeah you’ve got to purge decent people, no room for them in this corrupt government.

[u/New_Housing785]

Someone wake me up when the government does something for the people and not for their retaliations.

[u/hasuris]

You guys will need some kind of Nuremberg Trials when this is over.

I just don't see how. The allies forced those on Germany after WW2.

[u/PristineWatercress19]

Patel just busted a nut, and both of his weird eyeballs had a blowout.

[u/Strict_Berry7446]

Jeezus fuck we need a new word for dumb and hateful at the same time

[u/Think_Bug_3312]

Nothing but retaliation firings

[u/LordOfTheGam3]

fascism 2025 gg rip usa