4mo ago

Exclusive-Kash Patel Removed as Acting ATF Director, Replaced by Army Secretary, Sources Say

www.usnews.com /news/top-news/articles/2025-04-09/kash-patel-removed-as-acting-atf-director-replaced-by-army-secretary-sources-say

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27995219

Now we're mixing the leadership of law enforcement and military.
In other news, armed minorities are harder to suppress.

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Why does everything they do feel like it’s just another step in their plan that ends with all of us dead, all of our wealth stolen by them and all of our daughters forced birthing their rape babies?
- Jokes on them, I've never had wealth or any prospects of having children.
  
  Jokes on you. Your wealth exists. It’s just already been stolen.
- read gilead.
- Because it is, and I keep getting deleted for pointing out that a bunch of stupid fucking signs isn't going to cut it.
  
  I keep getting deleted for pointing out that a bunch of stupid fucking signs isn’t going to cut it.
  Well you're certainly standing up to the authoritarians by telling people not to make their voices heard. /s
  What are YOU doing then? Should I watch the evening news tonight opening to see you marching into a government building?
The abrupt change in leadership comes at a time when senior Justice Department officials are weighing whether to merge the ATF with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as part of an effort to cut costs.
Merging the departments together under GOP control, really? They'll have to rename the departments then. These jokes write themselves.
Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms or DAFT?
- No, they need to put it in order of how much they love it: Firearms, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs. They're getting some FAT D
  
  ATF literally already has a division named this.
  Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD).
  They do "testing" on commercial products and in recent years they've mostly been tasked with railroading people who didn't do anything.
  The entire Bureau should be shut down and replaced with a hot dog stand.
  
  ATF literally already has a division named this.
  Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD).
  They do "testing" on commercial products and in recent years they've mostly been tasked with railroading people who didn't do anything.
  The entire Bureau should be shut down and replaced with a hot dog stand.
- The saying about ATF was that it sounded like a convenience store rather than a govt agency. I guess adding drugs just makes it better.
Note that the Secretary of the Army is a civilian position. (The current secretary is Dan Driscoll, who is an Army veteran, though only as a 1LT from 2007-2011.)
- Never jump straight to boiling the frog. Raise the temperature in increments.
How many Scaramuccis was that?
- A 'mooch' is 11 days iirc. So exactly 4 mooches.

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