Nothing more stupid than Celebrity GOPhascism at the Olympics

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Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026 Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026 at 5:12:30pm PST

Kash Patel speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) — Like many Trump appointees (& Trump himself), Patel is a small child with no impulse control. He’s so excited about being in the team’s locker room, & thinks he looks so f’ing cool there, that he can’t refrain from posting this even though it hurts his, & the FBI’s, standing in the public eye.

Why is FBI Director Kash Patel flying to Milan on a government jet to watch Olympic hockey on the taxpayers’ dime? How is that part of the job?

Kash Patel was accidentally recorded on Team USA’s Dylan Larkin’s Instagram video (now-deleted) celebrating with Team USA in the locker room after the Gold medal game, even though the FBI Assistant Director of Public Affairs claimed it was false when MSNow Journalists reported that Patel was going to the Olympics on the Taxpayers’ dime.

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The FBI claimed Kash Patel didn't spend $75,000 in taxpayer funds to fly on a private jet to watch the Olympics. Today, Patel was spotted partying in Team USA's locker room.
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2026-02-22T21:58:13.99212405Z

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Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) Feb 22, 2026 at 4:48 PM

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Kash Patel: busy drinking beers in the locker room. Not defending America. Not releasing the Epstein files. Maybe he can pass one to Hegseth?
vid credit: William Turton

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— Forward Blue (@forwardblue.bsky.social) Feb 22, 2026 at 8:08 PM

remember this when he states he is doing all he can to find Savannah Guthrie's mother

Keystone Kash Orders Cover-up After Using $60M Plane as Uber for Girlfriend

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Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) Nov 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM

It's not that conservatives are hypocrites, it's that conservatives are not capable of having beliefs, except the one belief, in their own entitlement. The rest is them contradicting themselves, saying whatever they need to say to get money, unaccountable power, and non-consensual sex

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Weird Kash Patel picture in the Epstein files. #doj #epstein #files 👀https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01652995.pdf

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— Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) Feb 22, 2026 at 9:03 PM

www.justice.gov/...

From @theathletic.com: Five-time Olympic medalist Eileen Gu has responded to Vice President JD Vance after he appeared to suggest she should be competing for the U.S. rather than China. “I’m flattered. Thanks, JD! That’s sweet.”

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— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Feb 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM