He clearly hates the job and wants to quit. It's actual work. Incredible off-ramp here and a good way to keep the grift going.
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He can also avoid any blame for any future FBI lapses which seem much more likely given the changes they've made.
jul 11, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
the grift certainly pays more and gets him more freebies (which the govt has to now call “tips”)
jul 11, 2025, 6:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Nobody wants to work anymore
jul 11, 2025, 7:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m sure there’s a way to be the head of the FBI without doing any work. Bongino is probably just too stupid to figure it out. As the old saying goes, where there’s a will, or a Republican appointed to an important government position, there’s a way to do it without actually doing anything.
jul 11, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Some people say nut and gluten allergies aren't real, others say work allergy isn't real.
jul 11, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
He just wanted the job under the hopes he could use the position to arrest the person who wrote that song about him
jul 11, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Huh, its more profitable to be a right-wing pundit than to actually do work for the government. Who would have thought? Please note: This does not apply to any elected positions, only appointed ones.
jul 11, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Risk is if Trump designate persona non grata if he does this. Could lose a huge chunk of his former audience if/when Trump turns on him.
jul 11, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Some men just can't handle the intensity and emotions of a stable job, and that's okay ... ... because women probably can. But that's DEI, I here.
jul 11, 2025, 6:42 pm • 17 0 • view
Honestly we should make all of their lives more miserable so they all quit. 🥰
jul 11, 2025, 7:01 pm • 4 0 • view
And didn't he get his ass handed to him by a bureau hand-to-hand instructor?
jul 11, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
At least he’s self aware to know he’s not competent for the job. I wish others were as well.
jul 12, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Him whining on Fox and Friends about having to work an actual JOB was hilarious.
jul 11, 2025, 6:41 pm • 5 0 • view
🎯
jul 11, 2025, 6:41 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s not that he hates the job so much as he hates having to work.
jul 12, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
umm....
jul 11, 2025, 6:42 pm • 1 0 • view
This is the part of the con where the victims try to save face by distancing themselves from the con artists.
jul 12, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
I fully expect these idiots to revert to conspiracy theory grifting the second they leave office, with zero acknowledgement of the irony.
jul 11, 2025, 7:16 pm • 6 0 • view
From a fucking wanker who said that he spends his day staring at the 4 walls of his office... SMDH. In any office I've ever worked in, we called these fuckers slackers. Fuck off BoingBoing!
jul 12, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Nailed it.
jul 11, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Much like Ted Cruz...he prefers a podcast to a real job.
jul 11, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Same with @johnfetterman.com
jul 11, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
It would be cool if the "lock up all the democrats" guy quit, but I doubt the replacement would be any better.
jul 11, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Fucking show pony. Can't handle the hard graft.
jul 12, 2025, 11:55 am • 1 0 • view
Why would you listen to anyone that soft?
jul 11, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Being the #2 in charge of a massive federal agency requires a lot more than posting and streaming, which really seems to be his calling. Bongino is probably miserable.
jul 11, 2025, 8:59 pm • 8 0 • view
Do we know if he ever found evidence that the FBI was lying about the pipe bomber as he told his audience on his podcast?
jul 11, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed! After his public mewling—“I have to work EWWWW!”— I think he has been looking for some hill to die on.
jul 11, 2025, 6:47 pm • 7 0 • view
He realizes that he's been protecting the biggest scum of them all. Trump
jul 11, 2025, 7:36 pm • 3 0 • view
And they are all so shocked that TACO may be implicated? Don't they know who they're working for?
jul 12, 2025, 3:54 am • 0 0 • view
Yup. He's just looking for a reason to quit that sounds principled and isn't, "I had to sit in an office for eight hours a day and people expected me to read things!"
jul 11, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
💯 suey sando boy 😂.
jul 11, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
How disconcerting that your pet conspiracy theories are stymied
jul 12, 2025, 8:28 am • 0 0 • view
He’s the dog that caught the car, is now riding in the car, and is enviously looking at the dogs chasing the car
jul 11, 2025, 7:21 pm • 27 2 • view
A tragedy. Well, what’s everyone got on for dinner?
jul 11, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m not sympathizing with him 😂 but I do think it’s possible that the conspiracy industrial complex that’s in power can’t handle the contradictions of *being in power* and could very well collapse. There’s a big market for the “Trump regime is actually evil, guise” hot takes going forward.
jul 11, 2025, 9:26 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m with you there. Hard to say “The opposition party did you dirty” when there’s no opposition party to speak of.
jul 11, 2025, 9:28 pm • 3 0 • view
None of them can handle actual work. Well, accept Stephen Miller but it’s the hate that drives him.
jul 11, 2025, 6:41 pm • 58 0 • view
I get the impression that Miller would work for free.
jul 11, 2025, 8:32 pm • 10 0 • view
For an air supply, technically
jul 11, 2025, 9:02 pm • 2 0 • view
You're sassy today. I like this 💛
jul 11, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Lotta questions already answered by my spacesuit that says "Keep your distance, communist penal colony in space, you will be fired upon" on the beacon radio. No allegations of alligator abuse on MY camp are gonna make it past the Court Clerk transecting orbitals.
jul 11, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
One rough cut away from splicing in Event Horizon, the narrative is THAT dark at this point. I weep. I bolster. I feed friends. Le sigh. When the first gator gets Paul Hogan'd down they're gonna pogrom 🙃
jul 11, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
CNN would have him on every single day.
jul 11, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Didn't he also say there was "nothing" in the files? Or has he backtracked that?
jul 11, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
And, government pay is so low. 🤷🏻♀️
jul 11, 2025, 11:39 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 11, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
My favorite is all of these ding bats get behind a mic and talk about no one works hard and meanwhile they talk for an hour once a week and they consider that hard work.
jul 11, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I am being SILENCED Oingo Boingo shouts from his widely disseminated platform to his legion of followers.
jul 11, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Quitting is the only economically rational move for Bongino. The real money is in selling supplements to his podcast audience of insecure and uber-credulous homunculi. The Alex Jones Grift, if you will: nymag.com/intelligence...
jul 11, 2025, 9:10 pm • 19 1 • view
And now he’s got some DEEPER insights on the DEEP STATE, having been part of the apparatus for over 12 Scaramucci’s! Straight heroin for his fan base!
jul 11, 2025, 9:12 pm • 12 0 • view
It’s way harder than podcasting and poasting - honestly who would chose to interact with the rest of the trump 2.0 cabinet members - it’s like a chamber of horrors
jul 11, 2025, 6:44 pm • 10 0 • view
Most of the Republicans at my job dislike each other to my considerable amusement
jul 11, 2025, 6:53 pm • 10 0 • view
Podcasting > office job
jul 11, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
It must be tough to be a conspiracy theorist, when you're on the inside.
jul 12, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Wasn’t he whining about being in the office from 7:30am sometimes to 7:00pm? 🙄
jul 11, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
“My wife…she suffers. My lifestyle is not compatible with having a job.”
jul 11, 2025, 6:48 pm • 3 0 • view
😹😹😹
jul 11, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Was so much easier for him to point his weird face at a microphone and lie
jul 11, 2025, 6:46 pm • 15 0 • view
That we’re at the point where politicians have to consider things like computer and what holding office will do to their posting cred or podcast numbers is kind of fucked up
jul 11, 2025, 7:40 pm • 6 0 • view
Dan is trying to figure out who in the FBI is that producer he gets to yell at during breaks. Also why are there no breaks
jul 11, 2025, 7:59 pm • 7 0 • view
👍
jul 12, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
None of them want to do their actual job because it’s boring and not full of conspiracy theories all day every day. I think it definitely is a way for him to slink away.
jul 11, 2025, 6:46 pm • 5 0 • view
Hmm, here in the UK Reform MPs and councillors are finding it difficult to understand they now have a job to do
jul 11, 2025, 6:50 pm • 3 0 • view
Still can’t blame Trump though. Seems like everyone has designated Pam Bondi as the fall guy but then what happens if a new AG does the exact same thing?
jul 11, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. Big boost for his pod.
jul 11, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe had his heart set on that Ambassador to Malaysia post…?
jul 11, 2025, 7:01 pm • 1 0 • view
He’ll announce he’s quitting by the end of the day. He badly wants to be back on his podcast.
jul 11, 2025, 6:41 pm • 2 0 • view
i can’t hear his name and not thinking about a vagina bongo
jul 11, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
💯
jul 11, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Several will quit because the job is over their heads.
jul 11, 2025, 11:22 pm • 1 0 • view
if he's brave enough.......he could land right back in cushy MAGA podcast world and make a lot more money.
jul 12, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The Epstein stuff has to be driving them all batshit. Promise me the Onion will never let it go, just a nice comedic poke in the eye at every opportunity.
jul 11, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Wasn't he a secret service washout?
jul 12, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
If someone actually has something and shared it, I’ll watch. Otherwise…
jul 11, 2025, 6:45 pm • 3 0 • view
🎯
jul 12, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly
jul 11, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 11, 2025, 6:42 pm • 1 1 • view
🤣😂
jul 11, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
But he’d have to turn against trump then? Or I guess he’d claim people around trump were letting him down
jul 11, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
The fix is always in with these fuckers
jul 11, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 11, 2025, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
He didn't think he was going to have to actually work. Who wouldn't want to go back to podcasting for a couple hours a day as their job?
jul 11, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view