US border patrol chief resigns after claims of sex with prostitutes abroad

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This is the least scandalous thing to come out of this administration. I almost feel sorry for the guy.

Right? How, out of all the Trump appointees, is this the one shamed out of a job? Not even the ICE terrorists who killed people in cold blood are

I've never been to Thailand because of the terrible image built up in my mind by my High School sport coach, who would spend the entire summer vacation there then come back and tell us stories about all the sex he had with girls our age and that we needed to screw around with a lot of the girls in the high school because this was the best age. One year he actually came to the last day wearing beach shorts and a hawaiian-style shirt with all of his luggage because he was flying out to Thailand that evening directly after the farewell event. This is still the image I have of adult men who visit Thailand alone or with bro friends. People try to tell me it's family-friendly and all the Thai people I've met have been wonderful people, but I just can't get over that first impression.

Adults and *not trafficked* you mean. Like actually consenting.

People talk about Epstein Island because its genuinely wild how many powerful and scandal surrounded figures seem to overlap in the same elite social circles around Trump and his associates At a certain point the constant connections, photos and relationships stop looking like random coincidence and start making people wonder how all these individuals ended up knowing each other in the first place.

I mean, in a lot of countries prostitution isn't a crime

I know right? Is it.... All of them?

> sex crime. I admittedly only skimmed the article, but was there any crime committed here? I didn't see anything suggesting he was/is in legal jeopardy. (Pedantically, prostitution is technically illegal in Thailand, but it's not really prosecuted.) Don't get me wrong, anyone who is in charge of the border under trump is pretty obviously going to be a piece of shit human. But that's not a crime.

Some Marquis had a book about this

Safe bet. To achieve this level of power, your bosses need to know they have leverage on you so you maintain the company line.

Replace super authoritarian type with men in ranking positions of authority and you’ve got it. As someone with an adjacency to the sex industry in the earlier 2000s, you could randomly canvass any pool of girls working in world class area known for strip clubs and sex work (and professional conventions) and they could tell you the really dangerous ones were were the judges and government types and there were a disproportionate quantity of judges represented in the clientele. Doctors were just c****, clergy was c**** but fun, engineers and tech workers were generous, lawyers were generous but super unpredictable, network exec types were extremely polite but transactional and expected oral sex at the very least, actors/signers were hit or miss for generosity (even from one night to the next), and judges and senators were crazy scary territory and their people always moved/impeded/or shut off cameras. Those are the guys you had to really worry about pissing off.

Tom Homan got busted with a bag with $50k and HE'S still in office.

Remember that "law and order" is not the same as "right and wrong." Those doing wrong love the idea of seizing power so they can direct the law away from themselves. They are still operating under a "law and order" platform.

It is hard not to notice, but gosh darn it, Republican voters manage not to notice it nonetheless. It's impressive in its own special way.

You have to be a real pos to want to work in this administration. It’s not surprise that any of this is happening.

People who cannot control their own vices and deviant appetites are easy to control and manipulate. This is why they exist throughout the power structures.

To wit, conservatism has a group for which the law protects, but does not abide, and a group for which the law abides, but does not protect

"laws for thee and not for me" This is how it's supposed to work as far as they're concerned. As long as they get theirs, screw everyone else.

China getting a fresh batch of kompromat on our leaders.

The Usual Suspects!

In this economy?

He could but you know....it's illegal to pay for sex and all that

It's the hypocrisy of it all.

This is also one of the things they pretend they're fighting when they use your kids' classmate to lure their parent out to go to a black site for three to twelve months.

How do you celebrate promotions?

No. That was the new acting ICE chief, not border patrol. From the article: "Banks took over as border patrol chief in early 2025..."

Engaging in prostitution is a disqualifier for most if not all law enforcement agencies in the US. Doesn't matter if you do it where it's legal.

I wondered the same..... so In Columbia , it is legal for adults. In Thailand, it is illegal, but not really enforced. If both are consenting adults, I could care less. Once there are kids involved, these people need to see a jail cell.i would even agree with castration.

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