FBI Director Kash Patel is an immature little child

[clevergrrrl]

Here is the evidence. Reminds me of what little boys were drawing on their notebooks in 5th grade elementary school. Head of the FBI folks! Head of the FBI. (sorry for the link to X but I couldn't figure out how to show the photo any other way)

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

1. Wtf is a challenge coin?

[clevergrrrl]

2. It's a military thing

It's to promote morale within a unit. They usually are specific to a military unit or squadron, etc. Or they make them for a particular mission. Of course since the line between military and law enforcement in this country is becoming nonexistent it's found its way into cop culture too. They are usually given out for a deed that is worthy of recognition but one that doesn't quite warrant a medal. There is a game behind it to. If you go to a bar and you see a military person at the bar then you can put your challenge coin on the bar and if the person puts down their coin and its of an inferior rank then they have to buy you a drink.

[SheltieLover]

5. Ty for explaining

I can only imaging what one has to do to earn one of Manson Eyes' little trinkets.

[genxlib]

9. Fire Departments use them as well

Our FEMA Search and Rescue team (I am a civilian along for the ride) often does them after major deployments. I have a few of them

I have never thought that much of them but they really seam to matter to some people.

[clevergrrrl]

10. People are hardcore about collecting them

Modern Presidents have started collecting them and their display can usually be seen in the background of Oval Office photos.

[Vinca]

4. It's essentially a collectible handed out by various agencies of the government and military, usually for

specific operations. You can probably see some of them on ebay. Usually, they're more like . . . coins. I mentioned to my husband that K$H has probably spent more time designing this idiotic thing than anything else during his reign. I have a hard time imagining Marvel gave him rights to the image either.

[SheltieLover]

6. He used a Marvel image?

Ty for sharing.

[clevergrrrl]

7. Yeah The Punisher

All the right wing authoritarians have stolen that image. It's too bad because they have no idea of the real meaning of The Punisher

[SheltieLover]

8. Never saw any of the movies

Ty for sharing

I hope they sue his Manson Eyes ass off!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Punisher has a series on Disney+ and is part of Daredevil series

The latest Daredevil series is great and season 2 of the latest Daredevil series just finished filming and they are starting on a season 3

[SheltieLover]

14. Thx for sharing but no subscription

[Blue Owl]

3. That's almost as impressive as Herschel Walker's "Junior Deputy" sheriff's badge

[J_William_Ryan]

11. "All the right wing authoritarians have stolen that image."

Starting with the ultimate rightwing authoritarians: the Nazis.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. The creator of the Punisher thinks that it is dumb for Patel to use the symbol of an anti-hero

Link to tweet

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15. MaddowBlog-As his FBI tenure goes from bad to worse, Kash Patel abandons the pretense of seriousness

The problem isn’t that the FBI director is failing at his attempts to be a serious and capable figure. The problem is that he isn’t even trying

The problem isn't that Kash Patel is failing at his attempts to be a serious and capable figure. The problem is that the FBI director isn't even trying.

Take his firing of a field agent who wouldn’t humiliate James Comey, for example. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-06T17:27:39.716Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/fbi-tenure-goes-bad-worse-kash-patel-abandons-pretense-seriousness-rcna235945

When Kash Patel arrived at the FBI as its new director earlier this year, he faced the kind of credibility hurdles his predecessors didn’t have to worry about. If Patel was going to be seen as a serious and capable figure, one who is prepared to help lead federal law enforcement, he would have to invest time and energy into proving his mettle, rolling up his sleeves and doing quality work on behalf of the bureau......

Around the same time, the public learned that Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year. That coincided with news about the FBI director’s ridiculous challenge coins. (“Patel’s coin does not convey ... gravitas,” The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols summarized. “Instead, it says: ‘I am a grown man who has spent way too much time on the internet.’”)

But arguably the lowest of the recent low points was the news about another one of the FBI director’s recent firings. Reuters reported:

An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a ‘perp walk’ of the bureau’s former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday. Comey was charged on September 25 with making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation, in a dramatic escalation of President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign against his political enemies.

This has been confirmed by MSNBC, which reported that an FBI agent in the Washington, D.C., field office really was fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk Comey, the former FBI director.

In other words, Patel wanted to disregard Justice Department policy and humiliate Comey after Trump orchestrated the politically motivated indictment. When an agent balked at playing along with this partisan game, the FBI director ended the agent’s career.

To be sure, Patel has spent 2025 overseeing a political personnel purge at the bureau, but these new revelations suggest the problem is still getting worse.

I was happy to see that there was no perp walk for Comey today