I know a guy that’s plausibly connected to people in power. Also kind of underspoken doesn’t brag a lot. Anyway grain of salt but he claimed that the bestiality thing got add it on to a seemingly left leaning policy of seeing no prostitutes as perpetrators because of fraternities. Evidently Kash Patel drops anything that’s embarrassing like it’s a hot rock and tries to just curry favor all the time when he is not doing his main job of looking try hard cool. Supposedly he got forced into making that change because there were so many nepotistic royalty kids who are getting their hazing activities flagged on background checks for SAE and they needed to have that not be a problem for certain appointment hires.

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    Yeah this checks out, one of the secondary things I’m thinking about now is David Cameron and the pig. In the age of cell phones all that hazing shit could be recorded.

    I will say I’m dead certain it’s all some kind of ass covering for something, so I’m gonna ride with this theory for now

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    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/15/kash-patel-fbi-hiring-policy-bestiality

    “You dropped automatic disqualification for applicants who have been engaged in bestiality, not victims of bestiality – applicants who have engaged,” Durbin said to Patel.

    Patel responded: “Applicants who have engaged in bestiality means they were victims of bestiality because they were forced to do so.”

    This is honestly really concerning. Like, jokes out of the room for a second.

    Kash. Dude. Did something happen?

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        Remember that he’s still a podcaster that got hand selected for the job lol. “How it started/ how it’s going” and all that.

        This clip will be a core part of his “legacy” as FBI director, but Trump or whoever said he had to do it, and he has got to be one of the most pliant people alive.

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    That hypothesis only works if all those hazings resulted in criminal prosecutions. The point of joining a frat is to secure elite relationships so how could that happen?

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      It doesn’t need to end in a criminal prosecution. Bestiality and hiring sex workers are not only crimes, but they’re potential points of leverage or honeypotting. I assume the FBI didn’t want agents who could be easily blackmailed into doing shit the agency doesn’t want. Until now at least

      • yeah, this is my understanding of how this theory works. it’s not just that there could be evidence of bestiality and coercive acts related to, it’s that applicants are supposed to confess all these things in the hiring/on-boarding process, including a poly. and if they say they’ve never done these things and then blow the box on a question, they are rejected.

        the standard is supposed to be, “just tell us what you did, so we know and can project you/the organization from blackmail, etc from outside parties.” and then the organization decides what combination of “sins” they can overlook. though, confessing to some activities automatically makes one “unhirable”. like probably belonging to a communist org or doing LSD or whatever the list is. and apparently, sex acts with animals.

        this whole public change is about dropping that requirement (no animal sex acts or coercive acts related to), because apparently it was eliminating all these elite institution fraternities who have had it as part of their rituals.

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    Black Mirror getting too real to shove under the carpet now.

    CW fictional beastiality

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Anthem_(Black_Mirror)

    Yucky

    A member of the British royal family is kidnapped and will only be released if the British prime minister Michael Callow (Rory Kinnear) has sexual intercourse with a pig on live television.

    The episode was later compared to Piggate, an anecdote published in the 2015 biography Call Me Dave, which alleged that British prime minister of the time, David Cameron, had placed a “private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig’s head as an initiation rite at university.[


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    I had kind of assumed it was because previously they were asking applicants a question where they listed a bunch of stuff and said “Have you ever done this?” and it was mostly related to sex work, but bestiality was on the list. And after deciding they wouldn’t penalize sex work, it seemed weird to ask about just bestiality because by comparison it almost never came up.