{"id":3372,"date":"2026-05-19T21:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:20:53","slug":"operation-trust-me-bro-let-them-drink-kah-bourbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3372","title":{"rendered":"Operation Trust Me Bro: Let Them Drink Ka$h Bourbon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With no grown-ups in sight, a feckless war lurches and whipsaws on, run by a regime full of clowns, drunks, losers, grifters, all steadfastly defying the will of the people. Trump rants, Hegseth lies, Rubio punts, and shameless, “bad paranoid mess” Ka$h Patel, who actually likes to spell his name that way, is gifting bottles of personally branded bourbon – “KASH PATEL, FBI<\/a> Director,” boasting “strong notes of insecurity” – on all sides. Nothing to see here.<\/p>\n

The dizzying pivots on Iran go on, with Dear Leader “paralyzed” by what he started and can’t for the life of him figure out how to end. The military blockade of Iran’s ports is “the greatest military maneuver in history”; also, if Iran doesn’t give in to his demands, they will be “blown off the face of the earth.” The “already legendary Epic Fury” is almost over, and the Hormuz Strait will be “OPEN TO ALL” if Iran just agrees to the 14-point US plan they dismiss as “a wish-list.” One day, Project Freedom is “a gift to the world” that will get all 2,000 stranded ships through the Strait; the next day, with two ships through and Navy commanders resisting, <\/a>he pulls the plug <\/a>in the name of an almost-here “complete and final agreement” that doesn’t exist. It turns out he veered away because the Saudis, angry and mistrustful, <\/a>wouldn’t let him use their bases or air space; NATO countries are also increasingly.barring the US from their bases. Iran’s chief negotiator<\/a>: “Operation Trust Me Bro failed.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more bad if unsurprising news: Pete and Donnie “lied through their teeth”<\/a> about how the war’s gone: Iranian airstrikes did far more damage<\/a> to US military<\/a> sites – hitting or destroying at least 228 hangars, barracks, <\/strong>fuel depots, aircraft, key radar, defense, communication systems – than they’ve acknowledged, and Iran’s military <\/a>might is far from “obliterated.” The lies flew through, in part, because they \u201crequested\u201d <\/a>that several large satellite imagery providers withhold images of the war to tightly control a bogus \u201cwinning\u201d narrative. The result, critics say: \u201cNot since Vietnam<\/a> has there been a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the costs, consequences, and results of a war.\u201d Meanwhile, NATO<\/a> is increasingly moving on <\/a>without the US – who can blame them – and even Australia is pissed<\/a> at the economic chaos: \u201cInterest Rates Rise Because Some (Emotionally-Stunted) Fuckwit in America Wasn\u2019t Hugged Enough As A Child.”<\/p>\n

Amidst the carnage, a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime stupid\u201c <\/a>Trump post<\/a>s bonkers AI memes<\/a> – Biden as \u201dCOWARD,” Obama as \u201dTRAITOR” – and proof <\/a>the Iran war is shorter<\/a> than Afghanistan: “Wow! Study this chart!\u201c His clowns flail. Todd Blanche wants SCOTUS to let the DOJ trash E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million win. Howard Lutnick told the House his relationship with Epstein was “inexplicable.\u201d Hegseth still inexplicably pursues <\/a>Mark Kelly for obeying the law though multiple judges tell him to stop; Pete also posted <\/a>a cringe video of “performative dipshittery wrapped in fictional jingoism,” insisting a proposed $1.5 trillion military budget is \u201cputting the American taxpayer first.\u201d Also: “Arsenal for freedom” WTF? GOP tax cuts for the rich and slashing of Obamacare tax credits will see millions lose health care and food stamps, which they call cutting fraud: “Let them eat ballrooms.” ICE promises, “Mass deportations are coming.” America wants none of this shit.<\/p>\n

They also likely don’t want much of what Trump’s FBI – which boasts,<\/a> “Law and order is back,” complete with vows <\/a>to hunt down “bad guys” at the World Cup – is selling. Especially given its alleged director, fresh off drunken drunken <\/a>revels celebrating<\/a> with his hockey “friends” in Milan and reportedly, perennially panicking about being fired after a series of scandals, is now facing yet more bad press thanks toThe Atlantic’<\/em>s Sarah Fitzpatrick, <\/a>who’s been lauded as “a fearless badass” for staying on his sketchy trail. Her first story, on April 17, cited <\/a>two dozen FBI sources “alarmed” by Patel’s erratic behavior, “conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences” after nights of boozing. Patel responded with a sputtering, typo-riddled,<\/a> $250-million lawsuit charging Fitzpatrick and The Atlantic<\/em> with an elaborate, organized-crime-like conspiracy. The FBI also reportedly launched a criminal leak investigation, usually reserved for “insider threats” involving classified documents, into who told Fitzpatrick what.<\/p>\n

This week, Fitzpatrick followed up with another boozy story: <\/a>Patel travels with a stash of personalized, bespoke, presumably taxpayer-funded Ka$h Patel bourbon he regularly hands out wherever he goes, including on official FBI business. The bottles bear the label, \u201cKASH PATEL FBI DIRECTOR\u201d with the rendering of an FBI shield; around it, text reads, with his preferred spelling, Director Ka$h Patel. An eagle holds the shield in its talons; sometimes the 750-milliliter bottles bear Patel\u2019s signature. They also bear the imprint of Kentucky distillery Woodford Reserve<\/a>, who have helped out MAGA before. In 2025, they gifted bottles to attendees of the 2025 inauguration luncheon, part of the swag arranged by Mitch McConnell’s team. They also created a commemorative “Trump Presidential Woodford Reserve Whiskey, <\/a>part of their Spirited Gifts <\/a>line. It’s unclear to what extent they’ve been impacted by or spared from Trump’s infamous tariffs. <\/p>\n

Patel is already known to have “a great affection” for swag: “He is known as being very merch forward.” The Ka$h-branded crap on his website – <\/a>\u201cChoose Freedom. Shop Based” – has included t-shirts, beanies, faux-camo Fight with Kash hoodies, Fight With Kash Punisher scarf, \u201cJustice for All\u201d #J6PC tees to support Jan, 6 rioters, \u201cgovernment gangsters\u201d playing cards, tacky juvenile “Steel Wall Art,” and his children’s book The Plot Against the King<\/em>, about a heroic wizard, Kash the Distinguished Discoverer, who helps “King Donald” uncover conspiracies and crush his enemies. Profits supposedly go to a non-profit Kash Patel Foundation that \u201csupports whistleblowers, education, defamation cases, etc.” Patel was also already a bourbon fan during Trump’s first term; he reportedly kept a barrel of bourbon at the National Security Council which was regularly <\/em>brought out <\/a>to celebrate successes.<\/p>\n

In her account, Fitzpatrick lists places and occasions, including FBI events, where Patel has given out bottles of his bourbon. She reports that, when a bottle went missing during a March FBI “training seminar” with Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes in Quantico, Virginia, the incident caused Patel to “lose his mind”; he was so angry he threatened to make his staff take polygraph tests and face prosecution if they were found to have been involved. The FBI did not deny Patel gives out the whiskey; they defended the gifts as “routine” within the FBI, where Bureau officials “exchange commemorative items in formal gift settings consistent with ethics rules.” A spokesperson “declined to clarify which ethical rules he is following, or which past directors also did it. When Fitzpatrick asked a former longtime senior official if he’d ever seen personally branded booze gifted, “He burst out laughing.”<\/p>\n

Several current and former FBI leaders said the action was “unheard-of,” noting, “The FBI has traditionally had a zero-tolerance approach to unauthorized use of alcohol on the job or its misuse off duty.\u201d Said one, “Handing out bottles of liquor at our premier law-enforcement agency – it makes me frightened for the country.” Others called it “weird,” “uncomfortable,” “a “shitshow,” “a misunderstanding of the Bureau’s culture of quiet professionalism,” \u201cdemoralizing because it suggests one set of standards for the director and another for the rest of the Bureau.” Then again, said one, “If you make allegations against Patel, you’re screwed.” “The Kash Patel bourbon has strong notes of insecurity, narcissism, incompetence and alcohol-fueled national security risk,\u201d wrote <\/a>Dem lawmakers online. “Pairs well with taxpayer-funded getaways and the occasional SWAT-assisted wake-up call.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I knew one day I’d have to watch <\/a>powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers.”<\/em> – Rebecca Shaw in The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ka$h Ka$h Patel, FBI Director and Moonshiner<\/small>Photo from The Atlantic<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With no grown-ups in sight, a feckless war lurches and whipsaws on, run by a regime full of clowns, drunks, losers, grifters, all steadfastly defying the will of the people. Trump rants, Hegseth lies, Rubio punts, and shameless, “bad paranoid mess” Ka$h Patel, who actually likes to spell his name that way, is gifting bottles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}