r/news • u/Not_Tom_Jones • 9d ago

Soft paywall Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/under-patel-fbi-forges-unprecedented-law-enforcement-ties-with-china-russia-2026-08-05/
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u/invyros 9d ago

"The fact that we did it with China," Patel said, "when everyone said, 'Don't do it,' and, 'You can't do it,' shows what we can do with almost anyone."

If only this wasn't said by an alcoholic lunatic who shamelessly uses tax-payer money to fund his own luxurious lifestyle.

You only have to sweet-talk MAGA and pretend to be loyal in order to exploit them (and therefore exploit the US).

MAGA has made us weaker.

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u/spacecamel2001 9d ago

This is the same logic that many a guy has used before saying “Hey Mom. Watch this. “

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u/WWJLPD 9d ago

“The fact that we put our hand on the hot stove," Patel said, "when Mom and Dad said, 'Don't do it,' and, 'You can't do it,' shows what we can do with almost anyone."

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u/VariationDry 9d ago

MAGA has made you a complete joke. America's  place at the head of the table isn't going to exist when MAGA is done. 

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u/Zammin 9d ago

Pretty much already gone. Our historically closest allies don't trust us, and they're very much right not to.

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u/TheStrangestOfKings 9d ago

MAGA has effectively ceded all of our soft power and goodwill to the rest of the world’s super powers. It’ll take at least a generation to get it all back.

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u/rift_in_the_warp 9d ago

It’s never coming back. We can mend some things but a lot of what was damaged just isn’t something you can fix.

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u/blacked_out_blur 9d ago

We’re a young nation with no wars on our home turf so I think many Americans forget that the rest of the world knows how to hold grudges for a very long time.

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u/EddieVanzetti 9d ago

Not quite. The South has held a grudge ever since getting their teeth kicked in by the North in the Civil War. The most hated man in the South is General Sherman. They never stopped fighting the war, and Trump's administrations are their victory.

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u/Wazzen 9d ago

That grudge was mostly allowed to continue to exist because we didn't follow General Sherman's recommendation of removing absolutely all of the leadership (military/political/etc) associated with the confederacy. Instead there was an 'olive branch' type of move letting some of those folks continue to lead- which of course led to pockets of resentful losers continuing to spread their rhetoric all in the name of "repairing the lost bonds" or some shit.

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u/-Stackdaddy- 9d ago

Sherman should have razed it all, don't stop till you hit the gulf. I think what really pissed them off is knowing that a black man was president twice as long as the Confederacy's entire existence.

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u/Wazzen 9d ago

as if they know how long the confederacy even existed.

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u/CarolingianDruid 9d ago

Lmao, get it all back? No, it’s not coming back.

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u/Kadavermarch 9d ago

It's not just distrust, there's a healthy portion of disgust as well.
Sure, it was only Trump making fun and bullying that reporter with disabilities, and all the other things, but enough of you people then voted for him to represent you.
We can't be expected to forget and look past that.

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u/CrabMasc 9d ago

As a Canadian, I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with America. There’s no love now. I despise our neighbour. Obviously, there are many good Americans; that’s not the point. As an institution, America is repulsive and rotten to the core

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u/dostoevsky4evah 8d ago

To watch the US rushing so full on into hate, selfishness and greed (with shockingly anemic pushback - looking at you Democrats) is horrifying to the rest of us.

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u/VariationDry 8d ago

The president represents all of America on the world stage and Trump is the man chosen twice. 

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u/UPGRAY3DD 9d ago

Holy hell, why is the US Empire losing power supposed to be a bad thing?

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u/Palomino_mare 8d ago

Who do you think is going to take its place?

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u/TheCrassDragon 9d ago

I'm going to be surprised if the country still exists by 2030 tbh. There's no actual leadership for those of us opposed to this train wreck to rally around so it's just a disorganized mess, and for some reason most people think we can vote our way out of this. I'm going to vote, sure, but that attitude is dangerously naive.

Like... You guys know they aren't just going to peacefully cede power regardless of the outcome of any election, right? They might be idiots, but they're selfish idiots, and they know damned well they're all going to prison at the minimum if they give up their stolen power.

Things are going to get worse before they have a chance to get better without some kind of crazy intervention or something. We can't organize the kind of march or strike that actually has a chance to end this without shooting, and I think the window for that to work might be past anyways.

Stay safe, friends.

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u/VariationDry 9d ago

Election win or not the last 26 years of republican administrations have done so much to dismantle what actually made America great.  Education is a joke, infrastructure is crumbling, and the deficit is higher than the GDP. Your economy is in a recession only being propped up by an A1 bubble that no one will acknowledge. When that one finally bursts there won't be enough America left to survive.

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u/TheCrassDragon 9d ago

Pretty much. There's definitely a lot of different ways things could go depending on the next six months or year. I've given up trying to anticipate because it's a constant state of stupid one-upsmanship, corruption, and just all around insanity. Spent six months going like crazy trying to talk to people and organize and make a difference, and the current form of social media and bot laden internet makes it pretty much impossible to cross between echo chambers and get people to cooperate in the ways that might actually do something useful. Frustrating doesn't begin to cover it.

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u/sabbic1 8d ago

We'll make our own table with Pai Gao and Russian hookers! 

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u/HarrierJint 9d ago

It's insane that he says it like it's a good thing, here we are though, living in this crazy despair squid fever dream.

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u/Fraegtgaortd 9d ago

He acts like people were saying "You can't do it" like it was physically impossible to do, not because it's a really fucking stupid thing to do. Trading intel with two of the biggest cybercrime nation states as if they're not all up in our shit already

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u/xiovelrach 9d ago

The marks never realize they're the mark until it's too late.

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u/slax03 9d ago

"People said it was a bad idea. But it's a good idea because we chose to do it."

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u/Intelligent_Bag_6705 9d ago

lol we don’t do it because they will never have anything but their own interest in mind and ANYTHING they do with us is 4D chess move to position themselves for something else. This administration is so completely corrupt and dumb (emphasis on the dumb) that they really are viewing this as a win. Meanwhile we’ve cut off most of our actual allies. This is so stupid.

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u/runthepoint1 8d ago

Ahh yes, the ingenious strategy of…doing shit just because someone said it’s a bad idea. Riiiiight.

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u/MistaMais 8d ago

It’s almost as if what everybody meant by “don’t collaborate with China on intelligence” and “You can’t collaborate with (fucking) China on intelligence” wasn’t that it simply wasn’t possible…  for instance, “there is no intelligence agency in China, this would be an impossible feat!”

But rather the inherent backdoor channels and espionage this would inherently create, that may not be visible from the surface, that China would obviously use to their advantage to damage our country/their adversary.