FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”
The defamation suit, filed Monday morning in US District Court in the District of Columbia, seeks $250 million in damages.
The Atlantic called the suit “meritless.”
“We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit,” a spokesperson told CNN.
TBF, it’s mostly the people in power —and, not just government, either. The rest of us are barely keeping it together in so many uniquely defiant ways, every single gawdamn day. It’s a silent, hushed war on the poor that hisses clearly that you’ll be next if you speak up.
Don’t worry, though, fellow poors! We’re each still on deck for their wide, wide world of
fuckeryNew & Improved Democracy™ at some point down the line, regardless of compliance or allegiance or pretty much anything, really.☝🏼😅I mean, c’mon. It’s literally designed to imply there’s some hidden hope for you via this docile complicity… but there’s less than zero, in fact. This personal “choice” we each have, baked into our modern existence (as non-nepo spawn) and is intended to keep the rest of us that much more easily oppressed by the whole circus for every single person that can’t risk saying “No.” to this construct.
The ol’ rat maze has a see-through lid, but don’t let them catch you looking up. 🤫
Yes, it’s so obvious by now that even the Maga morons might be able to understand it.
And yet this is nothing new: The U.S. has been an oligarchy for at least thirty years or more, as evidenced, for example, by the fact that many, many people in the richest country in the world live as if they were citizens of one of the poorest Third World countries.
Been saying it since the early 80s, back when I was some idiot punk kid that didn’t know what he was talking about. At least, now I’m not a kid, eh? 😝 Hack the planet.