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In reply to the discussion: Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A "Historic Opportunity" [View all]LetMyPeopleVote
(178,789 posts)57. Overgrown 12-year-old Kash Patel announces RIDICULOUS new plan to have UFC fighters train FBI agents!
This is a stupid stunt
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FBI Director Kash Patel just announced the most unserious, clown-show "training" program in law enforcement history: a two-day "historic seminar" with the UFC at the FBI Academy in Quantico on March 15-16.
Agents and senior staff from around the world will now learn "fighting techniques and tactics" from Dana White's professional cage fighters to supposedly "better protect the American people."....
This comes right after Patel shamed himself by crashing the U.S. Men's Olympic hockey team's gold-medal locker room celebration in Italy.
Now he's turning the FBI's elite training facility into a mixed-martial-arts boot camp while the country deals with the consequences of Trumps already disastrous war with Iran.
The UFC calls it part of the FBI's push for "exciting, innovative training options" to "revamp and improve" preparation.
Excuse me, what the hell does the UFC know about the serious work the FBI is supposed to be doing?
This is beyond unserious; it's just embarrassing. The FBI Director treating Quantico like a UFC tryout gym makes Patel and Trump look like complete idiots who think protecting America means learning how to throw elbows instead of doing actual police work.
While families bury their dead and the economy suffers, the administration is playing fight club with pro wrestlers.
Agents and senior staff from around the world will now learn "fighting techniques and tactics" from Dana White's professional cage fighters to supposedly "better protect the American people."....
This comes right after Patel shamed himself by crashing the U.S. Men's Olympic hockey team's gold-medal locker room celebration in Italy.
Now he's turning the FBI's elite training facility into a mixed-martial-arts boot camp while the country deals with the consequences of Trumps already disastrous war with Iran.
The UFC calls it part of the FBI's push for "exciting, innovative training options" to "revamp and improve" preparation.
Excuse me, what the hell does the UFC know about the serious work the FBI is supposed to be doing?
This is beyond unserious; it's just embarrassing. The FBI Director treating Quantico like a UFC tryout gym makes Patel and Trump look like complete idiots who think protecting America means learning how to throw elbows instead of doing actual police work.
While families bury their dead and the economy suffers, the administration is playing fight club with pro wrestlers.
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Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A "Historic Opportunity" [View all]
demmiblue
Yesterday
OP
I checked and double checked to see if this was Borowitz (even though I just read today's Borowitz) or the Onion,
Amaryllis
22 hrs ago
#20
Why not Lucha Libre wrestling training, too? They could wear those really cool masks!
Ocelot II
21 hrs ago
#27
I can't imagine the FBI folks being stupid enough to think this is interesting.
Hope22
21 hrs ago
#30
I bet those agents can't wait to have ballsacks in their faces and some fighters have been known to shit their pants.
chowder66
21 hrs ago
#34
I suppose that scrawny bug-eyed twerp thinks UFC is the height of manly manhood,
Ocelot II
21 hrs ago
#36
Seems like there objective is to make it look "good" for tv (assuming you think show fighting is good tv)
blue_jay
17 hrs ago
#55
Overgrown 12-year-old Kash Patel announces RIDICULOUS new plan to have UFC fighters train FBI agents!
LetMyPeopleVote
17 hrs ago
#57