Well - 

✅ CONFIRMED: @Kash_Patel as the 9th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation pic.twitter.com/LAEZVGVhQL

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 20, 2025

Thank goodness it's done.

🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/9aYCb3nWnS

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 20, 2025

Squeaked through, but that's okay.

Our new Director of the FBI @Kash_Patel 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/zs6dJwWKYx

— Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis) February 20, 2025

There were tremendous, last-minute Democratic protests. 

We are over Target. 🎯
I repeat, We are over Target 🎯

Sen. Whitehouse losing his fcking mind over Kash Patel imminent nomination. pic.twitter.com/N4SGXObApp

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) February 20, 2025

Sheldon was ranting about not knowing 'what evil' Patel would 'do in the building behind me' as part of a quintuplet peanut gallery chorus of pathetic progressive liars and losers.  

JUST IN: Adam Schiff, who deceived the public for 8 years by weaponizing his position against his political enemies, says Kash Patel is a political hack who will weaponize his position against his political enemies.

The irony.

In 2023, Schiff was called out to his face on CNN… pic.twitter.com/0pYAkq045o

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 20, 2025

...In 2023, Schiff was called out to his face on CNN for intentionally lying to the American people. Instead of coming clean, he doubled down.

DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA

I honestly don't know how they didn't have more of an impact on the vote.

Did Schiff steal Bidens sneakers before he left?

— Todd Starke (@Crusaderf8u) February 20, 2025

The media meltdowns are already in progress. This is pure progressive poetry by anyone's standard.

Republicans Put Kash Patel, MAGA Conspiracy Theorist, in Charge of FBI

In what would normally be considered a signature moment of a government gone wild, the Senate on Thursday confirmed the nomination of the MAGA activist and conspiracy theorist Kash Patel to run the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It’s an organization he has frequently attacked as a key entity in an evil “deep state” and which supplied 11 members of the famous “enemies list” Patel published in his 2023 book Government Gangsters. Patel tried to clean up his act during his confirmation hearings, but his background was such that in the final floor debate over his nomination, Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse tried to make it clear that the country’s top law-enforcement agency was being put in the hands of someone who was not just a “normally weird person” but an “abnormally weird person.” His social-media history alone marked him as part of Trump’s vast troll army rather than the sort of sober lawman you’d expect at the FBI.

NBC's tone was much more moderate, which isn't surprising - they're probably worried about subpoenas, too. They did make sure to hit all the talking points - Trump 'loyalist,' Elon Musk, partisan figures 'taking control of the bureau.' Basic boogieman boilerplate.

Kash Patel, a longtime loyalist to President Donald Trump, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation — an agency he has talked about drastically restructuring while echoing Trump’s claims of the “weaponization” of the bureau’s powers in its Capitol riot investigations and other recent cases.

Patel was opposed by a pair of Republican senators: Alaska's Lisa Murkowski and Maine's Susan Collins. But he won support from every other Republican, including Sen. Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, who had opposed some of Trump's other nominees. The final vote was 51-49, with all Senate Democrats opposing Patel.

Patel's confirmation comes at time of significant turmoil and turnover at the FBI. Since Trump took office a month ago, an Elon Musk affiliate was among those brought into the bureau, sparking worries about partisan political figures taking the reins of the powerful law enforcement agency. The head of the Washington Field Office — which oversaw the sprawling Jan. 6 probe — was forced out, as were six of the FBI’s most senior executives and multiple heads of FBI field offices around the country.

The Grauniad hit the 'Spazz 'bout Kash' button.

...Notably, at his confirmation hearing, Patel refused to commit that he would not use his position to investigate officials he portrayed as Trump’s adversaries in his book, and affirmed that he believed the FBI was answerable to the justice department and, ultimately, the White House.

Patel’s responses suggest that his arrival at FBI headquarters will usher in a new chapter for the bureau as a result of his adherence to Trump’s vision of a unitary executive, where the president directs every agency, and willingness to prioritize the administration’s policy agenda.

That objective to implement the Trump administration’s mandate has already taken hold at the justice department, which oversees the bureau and last week forced through the dismissal of corruption charges against Eric Adams, the New York mayor, in order to get his help to deport undocumented immigrants.

The greatest challenge for recent FBI directors has been the delicate balance of retaining Trump’s confidence while resisting pressure to make public pronouncements or open criminal investigations that are politically motivated or that personally benefit the president.

Patel is unlikely to have difficulties, such is his ideological alignment with Trump on a range of issues including the need to pursue retribution against any perceived enemies like former special counsel Jack Smith and others who investigated him during his first term.

The new leadership at the FBI also comes as questions about the far-reaching nature of his loyalty to Trump remain unresolved. At his confirmation hearing, Democrats on the Senate judiciary committee tried in vain to elicit answers about his role as a witness in the criminal investigation into Trump’s mishandling of classified documents.

The question is, what does FBI headquarters look like now that the issue of 'the boss' is settled?

Did they lock all the windows?

And where does Kash go from here once he gets to his office?

There has been such insane - sometimes giddy - speculation about what's the first thing he does. He talked about it a while ago, before this was a real thing.

Something tells me Kash Patel will be revolutionary at the FBI.

“I’d shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state."

"I'd take the 7,000 employees that work in that [FBI] building and send them across America to chase down… pic.twitter.com/aQVbnJPYjQ

— George (@BehizyTweets) February 20, 2025

..."I'd take the 7,000 employees that work in that [FBI] building and send them across America to chase down criminals... Go chase down m*rderers and r*pists and drug dealers, and violent offenders."

Most of us feel like there are plenty of criminals in D.C. with whom Director Patel could keep a fair amount of those agents busy, and we'd be awfully happy if he did so. 

There's also been speculation about releasing the Epstein files - many people see it as a priority. True or not, the number of people losing sleep over it has to be worth its weight in gold.

Patel's name is worth its weight in fear and anxiety factors alone just because of his no-nonsense reputation. He'll be giving a totally new set of marching orders to a bureau that's become sclerotic in its entrenched corruption of purpose and vision and will not tolerate subversion or malicious compliance. 

The blunt and fiercely focused 'disruptor' is going to shake the sneks out of the trees.

...But to most Republicans, Patel is a disruptor who will lead an overdue shake up the nation's top law enforcement agency, which they and Trump claim has been weaponised against conservatives.

Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told colleagues on Wednesday: "Mr Patel wants to make the FBI accountable once again, get back the reputation that the FBI has had historically for law enforcement."

Amazingly, the main and critical puzzle pieces of President Trump's cabinet have made it through the process unscathed and are in place.

BREAKING: Kash Patel has been confirmed

Trump's Cabinet is set pic.twitter.com/rGlnXhbRql

— Kalshi (@Kalshi) February 20, 2025

Kudos to Senator Thune for guiding the process with speed and assurance. Well done, sir.

Now, for sure, as someone on X said:

THE DEEP STATE IS COOKED

🚨 #BREAKING: Kash Patel has been CONFIRMED as FBI Director by the U.S. Senate

The Deep State is COOKED! 🔥

CONGRATS Director @Kash_Patel pic.twitter.com/Ycds1p9KU6

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 20, 2025

What a time to be an American.

LFG!

Beege ADDS: Ladies and germs, I am delighted beyond words to introduce our new Director of the FBI.

I am honored to be confirmed as the ninth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Thank you to President Trump and Attorney General Bondi for your unwavering confidence and support.

The FBI has a storied legacy—from the “G-Men” to safeguarding our nation in the wake of…

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) February 20, 2025

...Thank you to President Trump and Attorney General Bondi for your unwavering confidence and support. 

The FBI has a storied legacy—from the “G-Men” to safeguarding our nation in the wake of 9/11. The American people deserve an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice. The politicalization of our justice system has eroded public trust—but that ends today. 

My mission as Director is clear: let good cops be cops—and rebuild trust in the FBI. 

Working alongside the dedicated men and women of the Bureau and our partners, we will rebuild an FBI the American people can be proud of. 

And to those who seek to harm Americans—consider this your warning. We will hunt you down in every corner of this planet. 

Mission First. America Always. Let’s get to work.