“Why would you even get into bestiality?” he asked. “We’re not into bestiality,” said Patel.

In a further exchange, Patel explained to Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican, that previously, regulations had barred anyone who engaged in bestiality “on either side of it.”

“Either side of what, the bestiality?” asked Kennedy. “So you disqualified the animal?”

“We have great canines, but we’re not going to disqualify them,” said Patel.

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    The answer he was getting to is just as crazy. There were so many trafficked victims who were also forced into beastiality that ALSO want to be in the FBI there grew a need to update the policy. Like…what?

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    “Why would you even get into bestiality?” he asked. “We’re not into bestiality,” said Patel.

    In a further exchange, Patel explained to Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican, that previously, regulations had barred anyone who engaged in bestiality “on either side of it.”

    “Either side of what, the bestiality?” asked Kennedy. “So you disqualified the animal?”

    “We have great canines, but we’re not going to disqualify them,” said Patel.

    Is this real life or a god damn SNL skit? It reads like an SNL skit.

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      Scene opens on a group of new recruits wearing FBI uniforms.

      Camera pans out, it’s an animal shelter.

      Camera pans out further, the man speaking is Kash Patel in a gimp suit.

      Here at the “Friends of Beastiality Institute”, we take not asking or telling very seriously, and my thing is definitely bleeeeep*

      Scene cuts to disclaimer of no animals being hurt.

      Disclaimer ends. As we return to the scene with the recruits, we see Kash zipping up his gimp suit.

      “And that, my friends, was consensual.”

      Cut to dog wearing a bee suit and smoking a cigarette…

      “live from New York, Kash fucks dogs!”

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        Space Ghost: “So how was it working with Lassie?”

        Triumph the Insult Dog: “If by worked with you mean ‘banged up the ass,’ it was great.”

        SG: “Whoa. You can say that on TV? Huh, well I, too, once banged a dog up the a-”

        technical difficulties message

        SG: “Well how was I supposed to know I couldn’t say it?!”

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          … Moltar appears on-screen

          “I thought I recognized you! We both were foced to hench for an obscure Canadian comedy group in 1997! How’s it meltin’, yo?”

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      those arent exact quotes btw. you can find video of the whole thing. patel explains that his team told him that there have been applicants that were sex trafficked and forced to do some things that might count as sexual acts with animals. apparently that what he meant by being on the other side of beastialty.

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    If you watch the full thing they removed the restrictions for vicims according to Patel. Apparently someone was forced to engage in such acts against their will.

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      I get that’s what he’s trying to say. But that still doesn’t make sense to me. Because if someone was trafficked and forced to engage in those acts against their will, wouldn’t that situation come up in whatever trial put that on their record? And if someone was in that circumstance, do they still get charged with beastiality despite the fact that it was completely non consensual on their part? That seems wrong to me. Especially if, as he also tried to imply, it happened when they were a minor. If that is the case, I think he should be pushing for the laws around that to get changed, rather than the FBI hiring guidelines.

      But to me this whole thing reeks of a hastily thought up shitty excuse. Because even if it is actually the case, that minors who are trafficked and forced into beastiality against their will still face charges for it, how frequent is it that people in that very specific scenario are also actively applying to the FBI? And if it is one specific person they were trying to make exceptions for, why not make an exception specifically for that person instead of opening up the guidelines as a whole. It’s just so stupid and incompetent. But what else can you expect from Kash Patel.

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      Honestly the US is so crazily stupid now. And that cones from someone who lived through Brexit and Boris Johnson as prime minister of the UK.

      We are living in the stupidest timeline.

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        We are living in the stupidest timeline.

        Careful, there’s a 50/50 chance that every time somebody says that, the stupidest timeline gets stupider.

        Maybe I shouldn’t have quoted it.

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          Nah, it’s the most corrupt & greedy timeline…maybe.

          The stupid people in charge are a feature, not a bug.

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    This is what happens when you elect a degenerate, he’ll bring other degenerates to positions that they would never have gotten in a normal situation.

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    What’s really funny here is that they could have said something like “we condensed the questions using screening questions. Instead of asking about specific, uncommon, convictions we ask if they’ve been convicted of anything. This is to make the process more efficient.”

    Or whatever.

    But now, no one is going to believe that’s why, and everyone’s going to believe cash got shagged by a horny goat.

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      That wouldn’t have been as useful as a distraction from the Epstein files and/or various looting and power grabs going on.

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    You’re all missing the bigger picture, with FBI agents being placed at polling stations they need this to - say it with me - RAT FUCK THE ELECTION!

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    The memories of those ‘invading’ horse cocks could explain his resting facial expression…