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FBI Director Kash Patel wrote that the drinking incidents — including an arrest for public urination — were not his usual behavior.

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[-] JackDark@lemmy.world 209 points 4 months ago

This was over 20 years ago. Let's focus on his modern fuck-ups instead when he was barely of drinking age.

[-] homes@piefed.world 33 points 4 months ago

it helps to establish a pattern of behavior. it's relevant.

[-] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 100 points 4 months ago

agree with jack, the headline is massively misleading.

headline should have made it obvious that this is something from the past, showing that his current drunkenness is a fundamental problem of his, as it is rooted in a pattern

[-] homes@piefed.world 21 points 4 months ago

agree with jack, the headline is massively misleading.

I don't disagree that the title is misleading, but that wasn't Jack's complaint. And I didn't change the article's original title, particularly because I crossposted this to several comms, some of which have rules against this.

[-] Scirocco@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

All y'all saying the right things

This is old. Who hasn't peed in a bush once, or thrice, etc

But most of us aren't foolish enough to do so in a visible/observable way, and most of us aren't currently part of the Drunkard's Parade that's fuckin up the country with great enthusiasm and effect.

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[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

In my youth I have also been to the Government Hotel for public urination. And it does indeed correlate to my present behavior of peeing outside.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 months ago

It doesn't matter. None of it actually matters. It's all just theater, distraction and misinformation hiding political power which is utterly detached from legality, morality or decency.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago

It demonstrates a lifetime pattern of irresponsible drinking, which is relevant to the discussion. This isn't a new thing, something that happened from the pressures of his new job, etc. This is a lifelong problem that has been ignored, and is now a National Security Threat.

MOST people drink irresponsibly when they start drinking. That he did something dumb when he was young doesn't prove anything.

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[-] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

Oh, we are absolutely focused on his current f***-ups. And we also look to the past to see if it's been happening for a long time, which it has.

I mean look, if you've been an alcoholic for decades and now you try to lie to people and say that you don't have a problem with booze, people are going to go to your old drunken Facebook posts, point them out, and laugh at your lying ass. That's just common sense my friend.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

You are allowed to swear here on the internet, but if you truly don't want to say fuck-ups then just don't say it. Or change it to from fuck-ups to foul-ups, mess ups, or something.

See, I'm petty, so self censoring just makes me not want to agree with you.
However, fucks sake, I do agree with you...but begrudgingly. FUCK UPS.

Your one self censorship had led to me writing fuck-ups four times.

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[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago

As much as I hate this shitty fuck, public urination is a stupid "crime". No one and nothing is hurt by it, instead lets focus on actual horrible shit hes done.

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[-] mech@feddit.org 20 points 4 months ago

This is nothing. Completely irrelevant. He was 25 at the time, barely an adult.
I'm 70 and I still whip out my dick in public regularly.
That doesn't detract in any way from my authority as chancellor of Germany.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 19 points 4 months ago

hilarious that none of this would have come to light but he could not just let it lie.

[-] BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I believe they need to start randomly drug testing politicians and public officials. They should be held to the same standards as the 30% of the workforce that are legally required to be part of the government's drug-free workplace program.

If the person manufacturing their toilet paper isn't allowed to smoke weed or take drugs, they shouldn't be allowed to either. Since the head of the FBI is undoubtedly a sensitive safety position, they shouldn't even be allowed to take prescription controlled substances.

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 13 points 4 months ago

The thing that pisses (heh) me off about this is, is that we’re talking about Crash mcgoogly eyes here takin a leak. Like we’re still living 20 years ago where this would have been a big scandal.

Meanwhile the US still has a sun downing pedoffender in the Oval Office who’s getting blackmailed by Israel to fuck up this planet and life on it for generations to come.

Don’t get me wrong, Krash ain’t any better and deserves what’s coming to him. But there’s bigger fish to fry front and center instead of this incompetent fool.

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure this puts you on the offender list don't it?

[-] Manjushri@piefed.social 9 points 4 months ago

I am not a lawyer, but every state has different laws and penalties.](https://teamjustice.com/public-urination-laws-penalties-by-state/). None of them will normally put you on the sex offender list for simple public urination. This of course assumes you aren't doing something to elevate it to the level of public indecency.

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Right.

While public urination in of itself not a sex offender level crime, public urination in a kindergarten classroom likely is.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Wouldn't that depend on where you did it?

[-] DokPsy@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

And who you are apparently

[-] devolution@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

The least of my problems with him. This actually humanizes him.

I don't want that.

[-] Swemg@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah because taking a piss when you need is so fucking awful. The only thing wrong about that if shops says no to use their bathroom or/and because there's no/not enough clean secure free public bathroom. Basic needs of life.

Dude is a fucktard that should at least not be there tho

[-] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 months ago

Now now, let’s be fair. He’s not a drunk anymore. Thanks to the massive amount of cocaine he snorts on a daily basis, he is now completely immune to the effects of alcohol.

[-] al_nusra@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

compared to howard lutnic, trump, hegseth and others he is better

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[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Pissing out the window and shitting out the window are two different things

[-] Brummbaer@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

Is there anything left you don't get arrested for in the US?

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago
[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 3 points 4 months ago

No that will, just depends on how wealthy the rapist is on if they get arrested

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Fleecing religious rubes out of their money?

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

He's going to be fired in 3....2....1.....

[-] seerdomin1983@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago

He’ll be pissed about that

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