Posted on 12/18/2025 2:03:50 PM PST by Kazan
This announcement (Dan Bongino's resignation from the FBI) does not come as a surprise to those follow the details of corrupt systems closely and who have watched the scale of the problems surface through the years.
The problems within the FBI as an institution are systemic. Both Kash Patel and Dan Bongino faced a monumental challenge in trying to get their arms around the scale of the problem within the institution. There is no apple, only worms.
Any type of institutional confrontation at this scale can only succeed if the problems are first admitted. Bongino faced a big challenge with Director Patel refusing to accept institutional corruption was the biggest issue. You cannot correct problems of great consequence until you admit the core of the problem. No admission was made. The problems remain.
Inasmuch as we all wanted Dan Bongino to succeed, we must also admit to ourselves he did not possess sufficient skills that neuter the attack vectors that would be exploited against him. Training that skillset first starts with an inward conversation.
Easily identified attack vectors are mechanisms deployed by those who retain corrupt activity within the institution.
We knew from the outset the corrupt FBI actors would seek to remain in control by manipulating the leadership Trump dispatched to confront them.
Kash Patel’s primary attack vector comes as an outcome of his ego, desire for affluence and delusions of grandeur.
Dan Bongino’s attack vector was/is his emotional need to be liked and appreciated by his audience. As a broadcast personality an internal codependency heading is good for business. However, in an institutional leadership position that same a codependency mindset is the opposite of the skillset needed to confront a corrupt audience.
Emotional dependency, definitions of self-worth determined by an external audience, creates vulnerability. Corrupt FBI actors know how to exploit a personality that needs to be liked (Bongino), and corrupt FBI actors know how to exploit a personality that assigns value to the indulgences of position (Patel). This was the non-pretending baseline for easy to predict failure.
Former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz held a worldview that was counter to the perspective of President Trump. He did possess the skillset; he just held the wrong mindset. For Dan Bongino it was the opposite. Bongino holds the same mindset as President Trump, he just didn’t have the skillset.
Misaligned outlook or misaligned skillsets, when combined with easily identifiable attack vectors, creates manipulative opportunities for those who intend to continue corrupt endeavors within big institutional systems.
We wish Dan Bongino all the best as he returns to private life.
We will continue praying for Mr Bongino’s physical and emotional health, and we sincerely thank him for his efforts.👇
How do any of us know Bongino was appointed to “reform” the FBI? None of us know how narrow or wide his charter was.
Kash Patel is there to “reform” the FBI, that we can agree on.
If I were in that position, I’d just be firing people. Or establishing a new branch in North Dakota, and reassigning a heck of a lot of people there. I would be constantly trying to get FBI agents to quit. Thousands of them. I probably wouldn’t do anything else. And, maybe, after a year people would say I failed and I’d have to look for a new job. But in my heart, I would know that I had won.
Okay. This is dime store psychobabble BS here.
Kash Patel is the FBI director because he spent years as an assistant to Devin Nunes on the House Intelligence Committee, he had been investigating the corruption closely, and had government weaponized against him. He faced up to it without backing down, had intimate knowledge of the perpetrators and refused to get cowed by people aiming to ruin him.
That is why he was there, not because some person on X thinks it was his ego, desire for affluence and delusions of grandeur.
NO ONE can “reform” the FBI. LMAO!!!
Nobody has the skillset to reform the FBI.
Congressional support is required for what is needed for such reform. Until then, replacing a few senior staff is simply a matter of feeding one sacrificial offering after another into the hopper.
Quite bluntly, a majority of the Special Agents and almost all of the senior executives must be replaced in this agency. It has been the "sword and shield" of the Democrat party for too many decades. Even worse, it appears to be insubordinate to the Executive office of the President - even a Democrat President.
Was President Biden actually calling the shots on directions for the FBI? Hell no! Who was actually doing that? We still do not really know.
The agency has presumptions to be "independent" of the Executive branch. They are certainly independent of Congress and the Judicial branches of government.
This must end.
Are related to Patel? Know him personally?
The lack of accountability for numerous atrocities committed by the FBI going back to the Russians collusion hoax suggest otherwise.
Easy to reform it if the big guy backs you.
Eliminate the whole agency and start over.
There is no doubt that not anyone backed him.
Washington DC is a cesspool.
He had the skillset. It is not possible for someone in his position to get his way over a completely corrupt organization with the backing of Thune, Johnson, Blondie and Trump.
I give him credit for trying, and walking away when he could see it was pissing in the wind.
This is dumb.
The FBI is a product of the progressive era, given to us by the progressives. By definition it cannot be reformed. By definition nobody can have such an impossible skillset.
It’s baked into the cake.
The only plausible solution is to abolish the FBI. There’s no other valid path.
Unfortunately, it seems like only a person like Josef Stalin can reform a bloated, politicized, power-hungry, internal security and surveillance agency.
And nobody would like that.
Otherwise, most only get “reformed” when the regime collapses.
And nobody would like that either.
NO ONE can “reform” the FBI. LMAO!!!
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EXACTLY
But, there’s always gonna be people who still think we can vote ourselves out of this. Or that the deep state doesn’t exist.
This X post seems to jibe with, plus put more flesh on the bones of, This Guy’s comment yesterday:
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Breaking Exclusive! Dan Bongino’s Staff Has Quit, His Office Is Empty And He Is Set To Officially Resign Within The Next 48 Hours
12/17/2025, 8:07:40 AM · 16 of 132
one guy in new jersey to Red Badger
Positing for the moment that Bondi, Patel and Bongino all went into their jobs with all the right intentions and determined to support PDJT, the three of them put together may never have been sufficient to contend with the size and scale of the deep state menace they encountered in DOJ and FBI.
Trump’s having come up short in terms of having a sufficiently intelligent and ferocious Attorney General, well... it has really been a huge source of disappointment.
The perp walk parade, which is so necessary, being what true patriots have been waiting for, for so long, hasn’t materialized yet. So frustrating.
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Bongino must have wanted much more in terms of success than it appears he was able to achieve in his short tenure.
It stands to reason that disappointment must be occupying a huge proportion of his headspace right now.
Many other thoughts and feelings must be present, constituting regret. He must be wondering, if not I, then who? Who’s got the combination of boldness, intelligence, personality and skills to mix it up with these creeps’ and come out on top?
The rest of us are also feeling that way.
Is it not true, that we don’t exactly have all the time in the world to get the upper hand here? To get the bad guys either caught red-handed, or permanently (or at least for the forseeable near- or medium-term future) out of power, and on the run?
Has Bongino truly failed? Or will someone be able to build on a foundation he’s built.
The only way to reform it is to demolish it and build a new FBI with some real dedicated people not politicians. An almost impossible task.
You are just in denial.
This hindoo jackass is more interested in the perks of office than working 24/7 to clean the place up.
(Boomer-Cons are the easiest marks for hindoo scammers, eg. Ramascamy)
https://x.com/GeneralMCNews/status/1984739869802053792
The comment you made "...The lack of accountability for numerous atrocities committed by the FBI going back to the Russians collusion hoax suggest otherwise..." is a simplistic refutation, though not as simplistic as some dweeb nobody on X who says Patel is where he is because of "ego, desire for affluence and delusions of grandeur".
I honestly don't think your refutation is as bad as that person on X, though I think anyone who prefers that explanation from someone with the moniker of "Last Refugee" on X of why Kash Patel is where his or is the reason he got there at all might be intellectually lazy at best, or weak at worst.
Reverend Wright, is that really you?
They way to solve most of the FBI’s issues would be to transition the operations to a new, separate department. New rules, new policies, etc. Interview and move employees as groups into the new building. So, if there is, for example, a team going after domestic terrorists, you’d go through and select the ones you intend to keep and move them and their job. Get rid of the ones you have reason to get rid of. The transition would take several years, so it would need to be set up and ready for the next president. Otherwise, we could end up with two competing agencies, the old FBI and the new alphabet operation.
One problem would be setting up and funding the operation that would oversee the transition. You would need to find a way so that doesn’t end up as yet another agency. Perhaps pull people off other agencies on temporary assignment. Have them review the records with no visibility of which agents they’re evaluating. That should prevent favoritism and nepotism.
Having been involved in some massive corporate reorganizations and having managed two of them, I have a taste of what this entails. I would run from this job. But I’m old and no longer have the required enthusiasm.
“They are certainly independent of Congress and the Judicial branches of government.
This must end.”
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Patel doesn’t seem to have any plan or desire to clean it up, impose accountability, and end the deep politization of the bureau. Not even a sweeping reorganization.
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