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Victoria Brown's avatar

Lifestyles of the rich and infamous.

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Pablo Manríquez's avatar

$21k/hr to talk online is a BAG, bro ... damn

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oldpunkjoe's avatar

Thinking you should write a tragic maga opera

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Rikki's avatar

Patel and all of Trump’s appointees are the whiniest babies on the planet. So sensitive and so insecure and so prone to tantrums. I hope I’m never stuck on a plane with any of them.

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Ben Herb's avatar

The effort Seraphin goes out of his way to try and paint himself as not the real problem when he is clearly someone who has an axe to grind with the FBI is hilarious. It is that narcissist behavior that led him to get in trouble to begin with. Now as for Patel, he's he is a disgrace and he should not let a podcaster push him around. But when he clearly wants to be an online personality rather than the director of the FBI, which is his real job (God help us all), he is concerned about tweeting and being liked.

Hey Will if you see this, is there any conversation in the magaverse about the administration spending a huge chunk of money on Argentina?

In any case thanks for the great read!

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Jerry Norman's avatar

So, Seraphin can be an angel or an annoying devil. Agree with Robyn B on the FBI, "What has happened to decorum, duty, competence and professionalism?"

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Robyn Boyer's avatar

Looking forward to the future, 2029, will there have to be a purge of MAGA and MAGA-adjacent FBI agents to clean out the whack jobs? How far the agency has fallen. Once the world's premier law enforcement organization, it is now a bunch of idiots trying to drive the train, without a known destination, hanging on to the caboose and shouting bad nothings at each other. What has happened to decorum, duty, competence and professionalism? Add another to the list of the pro-democracy movement's reform and rebuild agenda.

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Frau Katze's avatar

Decorum? Professionalism? Sorry this is the 🍊buffoon regime.

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Mark P's avatar

Fuentes will have Russian AI bots lining up for those $21k chats.

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Steve Roditti's avatar

This certainly is not the West Wing? Where are Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Rob Lowe, (wait he's now a Fox what ever Game show host), John Spencer (can't count him he passed away) etc.

While the gossip is kinda fun I guess, it's depressing as hell, that this administration is totally into chaotic mind bending/breaking of norms, I wonder how long before the back stabbing starts and guy/girls start getting fired/quitting......this is not the same rodeo as Trump one at least to this point.

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orbit's avatar

Maybe that wrasslin' thing Trump wants to have at the White House next year should instead be cat fights between the directors and underlings of his Cabinet.

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Steve Roditti's avatar

I might watch that

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Robert J Danolfo's avatar

Will, Intriguing little nugget. Seems everybody in this administration has got something in their heads. Patel's got this guy. Kennedy's got the worm. Vance has rocks. And of course, the dear leader has absolutely nothing. Gee, What could go wrong?

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Dan Lamson's avatar

Interesting write up. How online this admin is never ceases to amaze.

One quibble: “a grotesque JD Vance meme photo” — come now Will, as a purveyor of the most vile online filth, this gets the grotesque descriptor? I mean it’s dumb sure but grotesque? I’ll give you unseemly and even unsightly but grotesque? 🤔 (disclaimer: there may some memology I don’t know and it may be grotesque but it just looks like a silly face edit to me… your link even went to JD posting it. I refer to the second sentence of my comment, lol.)

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ANoneinNY's avatar

Please keep up this tawdry gossip! I am not “above” it - I love it. I used to consider schadenfreude a bad emotion; now it’s something that perks up my day. Seraphin is an interesting last name. I understand that there is a hierarchy among the angels from baby “cherubim” up 6 or 7 more rungs (I have not researched this at all). “Seraphim” are up towards the top, I believe. My (lapsed Catholic) Swiss sister-in-law chose Seraphine as my first niece’s name. That was 26 yrs ago so I don’t remember the details about the angel maturation ladder she explained. I will note that former FBI agent Seraphin doesn’t seem at all angelic!

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Steve's avatar

I've read in several places; don't remember where due to volume of reading; that both Fuentes and Loomer considered Charlie Kirk to be "soft."

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Christopher Roosen's avatar

Congrats Will. This newsletter made the Drudge Report.

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The Blockhead Chronicles's avatar

1. Kash Patel has a girlfriend? I looked her up. Certainly sus, as the kids say, but the same could be said about Patel.

2. Is that British guy trying to popularize a new mustache style -- all upper lip, no philtrum?

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CJ's avatar

Wow. These stories would fit right into The Onion’s Our Dumb Century.

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