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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.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 181 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

“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.

[–] brem@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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!"

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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?!"

[–] brem@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

... 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?"

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

The lunatics have taken over the asylum long ago.

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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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[–] remon@ani.social 130 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How do you start a fight between Kash Patel and JD Vance?

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Or the weirdest Eiffel Tower.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 94 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Or an escalation from the Epstein files. They have gotten all the underage rape they want, now they want to normalize beastiality.

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[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The following post didn't make much sense until I saw this one further down the feed.

Thanks, OP, for keeping me sufficiently aware of the insanity to understand the memes.

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[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 63 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

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?

[–] Sackett@thelemmy.club 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He can't give out FBI jobs to his fraternity alumni because they all had to fuck a pig as part of the initiation.

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[–] Zomg@piefed.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The applicant pool is so narrow we had to consider this limitation. It's sad applicants may have been forced to perform those acts either way though.

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[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the type of shit that would be written for a South Park episode.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

South America get it right patriot

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Hr is trying to say people who fucked animals during hazing rituals are victims.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like the framing of whether they are victims or not is kinda irrelevant. I just don’t want people who won’t say no to fucking animals just to get into a frat to have any kind of authority.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You know what, I particularly don't want people who are willing to admit to fucking an animal during a job interview to work.

Not just at the FBI, kinda anywhere.

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, people who get hazed are victims of abuse. You can be both an abuser and a victim.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 15 points 2 weeks ago

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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[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 41 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Jesus, is this what even qualifies as a distraction now? If gas prices keep going up Kash may end up sucking off a llama in front of Congress.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck, these people are weird.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

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.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] Gorillazrule@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

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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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Its hard to understand why they would do this. Some high muckety muck must have hit bestiality (I'm sure they prefer "zoophilia") on their polygraph, or else its a opener/stage setter to ease a broader category of crimes, probably pedophilia and rape.

But no one can claim the GOP doesn't love animals anymore. A Lot. Patels claim that this is aimed at protecting sexual assault vicitims is nonsensical. They could carve out a law specifically for that use case but they didnt. And the FBI pushing a law specifically for an exceedingly rare outcome for victims is out of pattern. Its not about victims, its to protect perpetrators-- as is usual for republicans in the US.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)
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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Why do I get the impression some second rate LLM scraped references to "fucking the dog' and turned it into official FBI policy?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think it's really just as simple as Kash Patel likes doggie dicks. It's not rocket science.

[–] Boe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's really just as simple as Kash Patel likes doggie dicks. It's not red rocket science.

FTFY

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Two years of total control and this is what they consider a win?

I know there's no conservatives here because Lemmy is very much not a safe space for them, but I'd really like to ask one what the fuck they think winning is.

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[–] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 19 points 2 weeks ago
[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess that's one way to out one of your kinks.

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I just keep thinking Furry Bureau of Investigation.

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

These DEI hiring standards are getting out of hand.

Are companies going to have to hire donkey fuckers to their boards in order to comply or what?

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[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm gettting tired of saying this but I'm glad I'm not an Onion writer. Those poor guys have never had to work so hard to get a head of reality.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 15 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

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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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Which White Supremacist group is it that has bestiality as an initiation rite?

[–] Kupi@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

“We’re not into beastiality,” said Patel. “It’s interspecies erotica, and we will not engage in this type of kink shaming.”

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[–] TwodogsFighting 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Someone rich is about to join the FBI.

Shaq was not on my bingo card.

[–] Heikki2@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Kash: Someones gotta fuck those animals. No kink shame

Anyone reasonable: do you really need to find people who fuck animals though?

Kash: How else will do we replace the mounted division with a centuar division with out the JTRHNBR people? Checkmaate liberals!! drops mic showers self with tallboy of Fosters

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