CURRENT EVENTS - May 8-11

nycfan said:


Flashback yesterday, this was treated as a quip:





“You know what would be good? Library of Congress.”
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Marco Rubio would happily suck Trump’s, Musk’s, Thiel’s, and a host of other dicks on the Washington Mall if it gave Little Marco access to power.
 
circlesky88 said:
Can't believe they haven't at least gone to the go to excuse of dehydration.
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I blame all that extreme masulinity that just oozes from all those male Fox hosts. Some women just can't handle being that close to a real man for that long. Either that or those roofies Fox slipped her in the Green Room kicked in a tad early.
 
05C40 said:
I blame all that extreme masulinity that just oozes from all those male Fox hosts. Some women just can't handle being that close to a real man for that long. Either that or those roofies Fox slipped her in the Green Room kicked in a tad early.
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I blame the stretching of her face to make her look like an alien life form.
 
Missed these from the official White House account while I was laid up with stomach bug (finally turned a final corner just yesterday, fingers crossed, worst damned version of stomach bug or food poisoning I have ever had by a wide margin):

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BUT Wait for it

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Is he claiming to be a Sith Lord (crossed with The Hulk I assume)?
 
circlesky88 said:
Can't believe they haven't at least gone to the go to excuse of dehydration.
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I can't get over the anchor guy just sitting there and looking at her passed out on the floor while he stays in his seat and keeps talking to the camera. He's a true Fox News host. His facial expression when he looked over at her was like "Oh, well, she'll probably be alright, gotta keep the show going!"
 
Mulberry Heel said:
I can't get over the anchor guy just sitting there and looking at her passed out on the floor while he stays in his seat and keeps talking to the camera. He's a true Fox News host. His facial expression when he looked over at her was like "Oh, well, she'll probably be alright, gotta keep the show going!"
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I'm not even gonna lie, that shit cracked me up. The show must go on, I guess. :LOL:
 
Mulberry Heel said:
I can't get over the anchor guy just sitting there and looking at her passed out on the floor while he stays in his seat and keeps talking to the camera. He's a true Fox News host. His facial expression when he looked over at her was like "Oh, well, she'll probably be alright, gotta keep the show going!"
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I've read that a decent % of the job as news anchor is filtering out distractions to read the news no matter what is happening around you. It's an important part of training for the job. IDK, maybe there are people with more TV knowledge than me around here. But anyway, one wonders if the training goes overboard. 99% of the distractions are news room stuff. You're supposed to filter it out and keep reading. Woman next to you collapses? Maybe they didn't practice for that.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
If she's chosen she'll likely have a harder time hiding her box wine under her desk as a judge than as a talk show host.
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Nomination is for a US Attorney position. She'll keep a low profile and the box wine in her office.

It's probably another huge hit to morale in the DOJ to have that buffoonish woman in charge. To say she hasn't practiced law in 20 years undersells her inexperience. As far as I can tell, her career has had zero contact with federal law. Actually, zero contact with law outside NY. She spent her whole career, basically, in the Westchester County DA's office save for a brief stint as a local judge.
 

Kash Patel's new way of leading the FBI: Fewer morning intel briefings, more pro sports events​

Supporters of the new director say he is bringing needed change. Some current and former FBI and DOJ officials worry he is not taking the job seriously enough.

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Kash Patel's new way of leading the FBI: Fewer morning intel briefings, more pro sports events

Supporters of the new director say he is bringing needed change. Some current and former FBI and DOJ officials worry he is not taking the job seriously enough.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

“… Unlike his recent predecessors, Patel is receiving the “director’s brief” two days [instead of every weekday] a week, according to two current officials with direct knowledge and two former FBI and Justice Department officials familiar with the matter. Patel has also stopped holding the weekly Wednesday-afternoon video teleconference with FBI leaders, one current and one former FBI official said.

… Officials who worked on the morning director’s briefings were told that the schedule was changed because Patel sometimes failed to arrive on time, said two current and two former FBI and Justice Department officials familiar with the matter.

At the same time, Patel has drawn attention for regularly appearing with celebrities at professional sporting events around the country, according to flight logs and social media posts.

… Ben Williamson, an FBI spokesman, confirmed the reduction in 8:30 a.m. director’s briefings but denied that Patel had arrived late at morning meetings. He said Patel still attends five morning meetings each week — including three that are smaller than the director’s brief.

… FBI officials said the director’s weekly teleconference with field office leaders was stopped after “attempted leaks” led to a spate of news stories. But Patel still regularly speaks to the field office leaders. …

The two current FBI officials said Patel sometimes seemed uninterested in the material and his intelligence briefers are struggling to craft a briefing that captures his attention. Williamson, the FBI spokesman, denied that Patel was uninterested and said the new director has worked tirelessly since taking office.…”
 
nycfan said:

Kash Patel's new way of leading the FBI: Fewer morning intel briefings, more pro sports events​

Supporters of the new director say he is bringing needed change. Some current and former FBI and DOJ officials worry he is not taking the job seriously enough.

www.nbcnews.com

Kash Patel's new way of leading the FBI: Fewer morning intel briefings, more pro sports events

Supporters of the new director say he is bringing needed change. Some current and former FBI and DOJ officials worry he is not taking the job seriously enough.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

“… Unlike his recent predecessors, Patel is receiving the “director’s brief” two days [instead of every weekday] a week, according to two current officials with direct knowledge and two former FBI and Justice Department officials familiar with the matter. Patel has also stopped holding the weekly Wednesday-afternoon video teleconference with FBI leaders, one current and one former FBI official said.

… Officials who worked on the morning director’s briefings were told that the schedule was changed because Patel sometimes failed to arrive on time, said two current and two former FBI and Justice Department officials familiar with the matter.

At the same time, Patel has drawn attention for regularly appearing with celebrities at professional sporting events around the country, according to flight logs and social media posts.

… Ben Williamson, an FBI spokesman, confirmed the reduction in 8:30 a.m. director’s briefings but denied that Patel had arrived late at morning meetings. He said Patel still attends five morning meetings each week — including three that are smaller than the director’s brief.

… FBI officials said the director’s weekly teleconference with field office leaders was stopped after “attempted leaks” led to a spate of news stories. But Patel still regularly speaks to the field office leaders. …

The two current FBI officials said Patel sometimes seemed uninterested in the material and his intelligence briefers are struggling to craft a briefing that captures his attention. Williamson, the FBI spokesman, denied that Patel was uninterested and said the new director has worked tirelessly since taking office.…”
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BUT

“…
Patel came into the FBI as someone who has harshly criticized it as a corrupt and anti-Trump. But since he took the job, he has sought to be supportive of the workforce, touting its achievements. So far, he has not ushered in the kind of radical changes his background suggested he might.

Although a number of senior career FBI leaders were fired after Trump took office, there have so far not been the sort of widespread personnel purges at the FBI that have occurred in some divisions in the Justice Department.

Patel announced a reorganization that changed the FBI’s structure, but the changes do not seem to have fundamentally altered how it operates. …”

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Sounds like Patel is not a detail guy and is spending a lot of time doing social media and media hits, as well as traveling on the FBI private plane for what mostly appears to be personal reasons (a lot of details in the article). That said, the upside of his approach has been that he hasn’t yet purged the FBI the way other departments were purged and the way many feared would happen to the FBI.
 
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