“Why would you even get into bestiality?” he asked. “We’re not into bestiality,” said Patel.

In a further exchange, Patel explained to Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican, that previously, regulations had barred anyone who engaged in bestiality “on either side of it.”

“Either side of what, the bestiality?” asked Kennedy. “So you disqualified the animal?”

“We have great canines, but we’re not going to disqualify them,” said Patel.

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    Jesus, is this what even qualifies as a distraction now? If gas prices keep going up Kash may end up sucking off a llama in front of Congress.

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      This hasn’t been in the news (I’ve seldom seen this in reputable places other than Wired), so it’s an ineffective distraction if so.

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    Its hard to understand why they would do this. Some high muckety muck must have hit bestiality (I’m sure they prefer “zoophilia”) on their polygraph, or else its a opener/stage setter to ease a broader category of crimes, probably pedophilia and rape.

    But no one can claim the GOP doesn’t love animals anymore. A Lot. Patels claim that this is aimed at protecting sexual assault vicitims is nonsensical. They could carve out a law specifically for that use case but they didnt. And the FBI pushing a law specifically for an exceedingly rare outcome for victims is out of pattern. Its not about victims, its to protect perpetrators-- as is usual for republicans in the US.

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    Why do I get the impression some second rate LLM scraped references to "fucking the dog’ and turned it into official FBI policy?

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    Two years of total control and this is what they consider a win?

    I know there’s no conservatives here because Lemmy is very much not a safe space for them, but I’d really like to ask one what the fuck they think winning is.

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      The cruelty to immigrants makes everything else worthwhile to a lot of them. There’s also much enthusiasm for Hegseth’s bro-ification of the armed services. For wealthier supporters, the enablement of open corruption is a huge plus.

      Anyone whose identity requires them to be Republican, but isn’t enthused about previous points, can fall back on the claim that Dems would be even worse and this is the lesser evil.

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      I’d really like to ask one what the fuck they think winning is.

      its pretty clear that being able to fuck livestock on a streetcorner and get away with it = winning. Good job republicans. Whenever I’ve heard “the south will rise again” this is exactly the sort of stuff I thought would happen. This and the elimination of womens rights and the legal enshrinement of racism.

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      They say the sky is green, the govt says it’s green. They say you are vermin, the govt says your vermin. They definitely love seeing you having to live beneath whatever they say. Costs be damned, they won.

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      I’d really like to ask one what the fuck they think winning is.

      Not a conservative, but I guess “them libs” being mad is worth it for them?

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        True, but they dont love being laughed at for being idiots. And this will 100% result in a lot of comedy at their expense. So GOP leadership must want this pretty badly. It could be related to this governments attempts to integrate government functions with the state of israel.

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    The following post didn’t make much sense until I saw this one further down the feed.

    Thanks, OP, for keeping me sufficiently aware of the insanity to understand the memes.

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      Probably every other frat boy on Kash’s short list for hiring, if not himself.

      I mean I think it was an Oxford frat that had a dead pig dick sucking hazing ritual or something. Ruling class is weird.

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    Which White Supremacist group is it that has bestiality as an initiation rite?

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    We’re not into beastiality,” said Patel. “It’s interspecies erotica, and we will not engage in this type of kink shaming.”

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      Or an escalation from the Epstein files. They have gotten all the underage rape they want, now they want to normalize beastiality.

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        excellent point. A tie in with the epstein files would explain this. If they were fucking kids at an industrial scale I bet they had animals too. So some rich bastards fucked some animals and now they want that decriminalized. Finally this makes sense.

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      This has become more culture war bullshit. People don’t genuinely care except that it’s a political football. Like, I’m sure if they stopped and thought about it, they could work up some tears, but that’s just not the part of their brain that is activated 24/7.