Trump Chooses Superstore Actor to Head Up the FBI!
K-A-S-H P-A-T-E-L, do you know what that spells?
It spells, “apply for a passport ASAP before it’s too late.”
If this guy reminds you of the actor who appeared on one episode of the hilarious store Superstore, then you are normal. If he reminds you of a potential head of the FBI, then you need help.
This is the actor Ravi Patel. Amazingly, he is unrelated to Trump’s pick for FBI director — at least none of which Ravi and Kash know. Ravi is a pretty entertaining actor. In his brief episode on Superstore, he was outstanding. He so nailed the district manager role that anyone who has ever worked in retail probably hated him the second he opened his mouth on the screen. I highly recommend the show, and if you get sick of the two main characters, work through it because the ones who make up the rest of the team in the Target-like store are brilliant!
If only my article could end here, though. It would have been a light-hearted, half-hearted review of one of my family’s favorite shows. But we don’t live in the “if only” world now, do we? We are living in an extended version of The Apprentice, and like so many intellect-challenged Americans from the now infamous heartland, we all will be forced to observe how King Trump turns the American government into a who’s who at the carnival’s sideshow.
The craziest thing about Patel heading the FBI is that sycophant extraordinaire and former Attorney General Bill Barr was so disgusted that he threatened Trump. Trump tried to appoint Patel then to head up the FBI, but Barr is reported to have said, «Over my dead body.» Even in the asylum, Kash Patel is considered someone other patients and inmates try to avoid. Kash Patel, if he indeed takes over the FBI, will usher in America’s first-ever political police force.
Kash Patel scares people.
It wasn’t a question of ideology. He wasn’t a zealot like Stephen Miller, trying to make the bureaucracy yield to his agenda. Rather, Patel appeared singularly focused on pleasing Trump. Even in an administration full of loyalists, Patel was exceptional in his devotion.
This was what seemed to disturb many of his colleagues the most: Patel was dangerous, several of them told me, not because of a certain plan he would be poised to carry out if given control of the CIA or FBI, but because he appeared to have no plan at all — his priorities today always subject to a mercurial president’s wishes tomorrow. (Patel disputes this characterization.)
What wouldn’t a person like that do, if asked (The Man Who Will Do Anything for Trump)?
Donald Trump has long dreamed of having people who sit at attention when he walks into the room. Donald Trump forced smarter, better, and more patriotic professionals, some with brilliant and spotless careers behind them, to praise him as if he were the Second-coming of God at his first full cabinet meeting in 2017. It was a sad and embarrassing spectacle at which only his then-Head of Homeland Security, Marine General John Kelly, managed to avoid kissing the orange beast’s ass. Trump is an insecure coward, smart enough to know that he is dumb as a rock.
Kash Patel and the rest of the escapees from the island of misfits are Trump’s preferred choices because they will not only do anything he asks, but they will also praise his imagined genius in a way that makes the rest of us look stupid as hell.
The danger, however, of appointing a man whose sole waking thoughts revolve around how to make Donald Trump pound his chest and laugh like Tarzan is that Donald Trump is an “angry little elf.” Trump is the epitome of evil and cognizant that he might only have a year or two before he is no longer cognizant, Trump wants to spend that time getting even. He has turned half of the country into sniveling, lying, hateful cowards who take joy in bullying people. Trump wants to force the half that hates him with every ounce of their being into accepting him lest they be imprisoned.
If Kash Patel indeed becomes the director of the FBI, without even the slightest hint of sarcasm or hyperbole, I fear that the freedom with which any American citizen can get a passport will end. I can see a day when Trump’s enemies will be denied that right and when everyone else will have to take a loyalty test to demonstrate their acceptance of Trump. Does this sound crazy?
Not much crazier than if I told you on January 7th, 2021, that Donald Trump would, after being found guilty on 34 felony counts and having stolen state secrets, be elected to a second term in 2024.
With Kash Patel running the most powerful law enforcement body in the nation, the sky will be the limit in how he will prove he is an obedient servant not to the U.S. Constitution but to Donald Trump.
Kash Patel will effectively turn this country into the United States of Trump, and if you don’t agree with that sentiment, then there will be a 6 by 8-foot cell waiting for you.
As Ravi Patel said in Superstore:
