In a story outlining how convicted felon President Trump’s regime is filled with obnoxious and ubiquitous “main characters,” Axios reports that FBI Director Kash Patel is being particularly derided by his own agents to the point where none of them want anything to do with him in public.

“A source familiar with the planning for one recent FBI operation said it included an unusual topic: what to do if the boss shows up. Patel’s office always sought advance notice for any newsworthy arrests, and agents wondered if he might appear at the scene. They were advised to keep their heads down and not engage, according to the source. In the end, he didn’t turn up,” Axios writes, copied verbatim here as to not mince words over how fuckin embarrassing this is for K$H and America writ large. Middle management seriously told rank and file to ignore their director in public.

It’s the little details like that which truly capture the suckery of the MAGA Reich on their own terms and – this may or may not seem overly shoehorn-y but fuck it – a Friday NYT op-ed by Michelle Goldberg contained a quote from resistance group Protect Democracy director Ian Bassin that really nicely nailed down the failure of Project 2025. Bassin says the next three years are “going to be a rocky period, but I no longer think that Trump is going to pull an Orban and fundamentally consolidate authoritarian control of this country the way that it looked like he was going to do in March or April.” The piece was more about the general, overall headwinds facing Trump’s dictatorial ambitions but the incompetence and utter unfitness of his top minions certainly has not helped.