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Swede

(39,917 posts) Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:48 AM Wednesday

The FBI was a tv show way back when.

kash patel spent 11 months investigating a single picture of some seashells
— Adam Bates (@abates.bsky.social) 2026-04-28T22:33:48.702Z

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The FBI was a tv show way back when. (Original Post) Swede Wednesday OP

Patel is an incompetent, drunken, hack. -misanthroptimist Wednesday #1

Imagine being a long-term FBI officer/agent, and flvegan Wednesday #2

Now imagine mercuryblues Wednesday #3

What do you think Efrim Zimbalist Jr's character displacedvermoter Wednesday #4

Loved that show! hamsterjill Wednesday #5

-misanthroptimist

(1,824 posts)

1. Patel is an incompetent, drunken, hack.

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:09 AM

Wednesday

flvegan

(66,449 posts)

2. Imagine being a long-term FBI officer/agent, and

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:18 AM

Wednesday

having the intelligence level to go with that. Now imagine that this moron is also your boss, saying that it "takes time" for you to "investigate" this sort of stupidity.

mercuryblues

(16,501 posts)

3. Now imagine

Reply to flvegan (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:24 AM

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Your loved one has been missing for months/years or found brutally murdered.
But the FBI is busy dusting every seashell in the ocean for fingerprints.

displacedvermoter

(4,889 posts)

4. What do you think Efrim Zimbalist Jr's character

Reply to flvegan (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:25 AM

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would make of this?

hamsterjill

(17,713 posts)

5. Loved that show!

Reply to displacedvermoter (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:36 AM

Wednesday

Yes, I am as old as dirt.

I think Inspector Erskine could probably handle Trump, don't you???!!! LOL

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