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I for One Think Kash Patel Is a Great Choice to Lead the FBI [slate.com]:

It has come to our attention that President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will be nominating Kash Patel, a right-wing media personality and member of Trump’s first-term national security advisory staff, to replace Christopher Wray as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In our opinion, this is a great idea!

Presumptive FBI Director Patel, we support you fully! Do not send us to a “bloggers camp” in rural Oklahoma!

Some observers have questioned whether Patel is qualified for the job [washingtonpost.com] and wondered whether it is prudent to remove Wray [washingtonpost.com], thus abandoning the tradition of FBI directors being apolitical figures who serve 10-year terms, but you won’t catch us doing that. Ha ha! No, sir! We believe that Patel—the author of Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy [amazon.com], which, we assume, says many incisive and accurate things about the deep state and gangsters—is an excellent choice who will serve ably in the role.

There will, naturally, be cynics who suggest that our position is informed by a 2023 interview with longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon in which Patel said [nbcnews.com] he believes that the government should investigate and potentially imprison “conspirators” in “the media” who “helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections,” presumably by reporting the fact that Joe Biden had won the 2020 election and that Donald Trump had not. They might not find it plausible that we would feel that the nation’s law-enforcement apparatus should be directed by someone like Patel, who has attested to believe in “Q,” [motherjones.com] a fictitious character on a conspiracy-theory message board who purports to release secret information concerning a clandestine and ongoing war between Trump and a worldwide network of Satanist cannibal pedophiles [adl.org].

Granted, we have had our fun with QAnon [slate.com] in the past, and it is true that we have written we were not convinced by Republican claims that the 2020 election was rigged through such methods as ballot vans [slate.com], secret USB drives [slate.com], and Chinese hackers’ use of “smart thermostat” networks to remotely gain control of voting machines [slate.com]. But our current position on these past statements, insofar as they may relate to the FBI tenure of the patriot Kash Patel, is that we were just kidding.

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Some skeptics might wonder how Patel will go about prosecuting all of the “conspirators” who have at one point or another contributed to the public perception that Biden’s victory was a legitimate one, given that this group includes not just journalists but Trump’s own 2024 campaign manager [cnn.com], Trump’s incoming press secretary [cnn.com], and even the director of the most prominent movie about alleged 2020 election fraud [washingtonpost.com], 2000 Mules,Dinesh D’Souza. D’Souza is being sued for defamation by one of the people he portrayed as a “suspected ballot harvester” in the film, and he coincidentally happens to have recently released a statement [nytimes.com] in which he says he has become aware that his allegations about ballot harvesting were made “on the basis of inaccurate information.”

But far be it for us to second-guess the wise and benevolent Kash Patel, whose intellect and wisdom shines like the morning sun! Our position about how Kash Patel will navigate this conundrum is that he will figure it out!

We look forward to the Patel regime and would not, under any circumstances, urge the Senate to reject his nomination on the basis of his lack of his credentials or his promise to use the powers of federal law enforcement to engage in a facially unconstitutional effort to enforce an unstable president’s revisionist claims about events in recent

history!

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