FBI Director Kash Patel wrote that the drinking incidents — including an arrest for public urination — were not his usual behavior.

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    24 hours ago

    This was over 20 years ago. Let’s focus on his modern fuck-ups instead when he was barely of drinking age.

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      It demonstrates a lifetime pattern of irresponsible drinking, which is relevant to the discussion. This isn’t a new thing, something that happened from the pressures of his new job, etc. This is a lifelong problem that has been ignored, and is now a National Security Threat.

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      Oh, we are absolutely focused on his current f***-ups. And we also look to the past to see if it’s been happening for a long time, which it has.

      I mean look, if you’ve been an alcoholic for decades and now you try to lie to people and say that you don’t have a problem with booze, people are going to go to your old drunken Facebook posts, point them out, and laugh at your lying ass. That’s just common sense my friend.

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        You are allowed to swear here on the internet, but if you truly don’t want to say fuck-ups then just don’t say it. Or change it to from fuck-ups to foul-ups, mess ups, or something.

        See, I’m petty, so self censoring just makes me not want to agree with you.
        However, fucks sake, I do agree with you…but begrudgingly. FUCK UPS.

        Your one self censorship had led to me writing fuck-ups four times.

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        24 hours ago

        agree with jack, the headline is massively misleading.

        headline should have made it obvious that this is something from the past, showing that his current drunkenness is a fundamental problem of his, as it is rooted in a pattern

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          agree with jack, the headline is massively misleading.

          I don’t disagree that the title is misleading, but that wasn’t Jack’s complaint. And I didn’t change the article’s original title, particularly because I crossposted this to several comms, some of which have rules against this.

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            21 hours ago

            All y’all saying the right things

            This is old. Who hasn’t peed in a bush once, or thrice, etc

            But most of us aren’t foolish enough to do so in a visible/observable way, and most of us aren’t currently part of the Drunkard’s Parade that’s fuckin up the country with great enthusiasm and effect.

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              21 hours ago

              Who hasn’t peed in a bush once, or thrice, etc

              not someone who should be running the FBI

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                This is the kind of shit which makes it hard to take liberal news sources seriously.

                Genuinely, if you have a problem with some one who caught a ticket for public urination in their, honestly whenever, I don’t want to be politically aligned with you.

                It’s a stupid form of puritanical politics I want nothing to do with. The guy is a piece of shit now, that is what matters.

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                  It’s pretty ridiculous that anyone would defend this guy, or especially that you would call it “Puritanical politics“

                  That’s what makes it so hard to take you seriously

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                    The fuck else would you call what you are catching mass down votes for?

                    If you would you consistently apply this standard to all candidates, I would want NOTHING to do with your political project.

                    I want people who’ve both pissed in public and gotten caught. I want people who have had real human lives not those secured by the guardrails of class or capital. This guy’s a cunt but not because he caught a minor infraction 20 years ago and focusing on that is distracting from the real price of shit that he is.

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                Imma be real with you. If you find a candidate for that role who claims not to have had such minor indiscretions in their past: that person is lying. Whether that makes them a good or bad candidate for the FBI is left as an exercise for the reader.

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                  19 hours ago

                  Defending Kash Patel with some hypothetical isn’t a strong argument, especially, because, ya know, Kash Patel, who would make a good or bad candidate is, in fact, up to congress.

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                The problem isn’t that he ever did this, the problem is that it was entirely believable that he would do it today (because he’s a careless idiot, not a college student who would later stop such shenanigans). But I agree with the person saying it’s old news and not really worth bringing up right now especially given the misleading title.

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        In my youth I have also been to the Government Hotel for public urination. And it does indeed correlate to my present behavior of peeing outside.

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      It doesn’t matter. None of it actually matters. It’s all just theater, distraction and misinformation hiding political power which is utterly detached from legality, morality or decency.