Surprise: Obese Transgender Generals Are Super-Pissed That Pete Hegseth Wants Them to Do Some Squats and Eat a Salad Every Once in a While

streiff at RedState gathers up the media amplifying the anonymous sniping of General Big-Bones and Admiral Funstuff.

Generals Are Whining That Hegseth Has 'Lost' Them, but the Facts Say They've Lost the Plot

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is the subject of another scurrilous article claiming, without proof or evidence, that he has lost the trust and confidence of the flag and general officer corps. A story in the Washington Times uses mostly anonymous sources to make the claim that Hegseth, "has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public "grandstanding" widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former cable TV host leading to an unprecedented and dangerous exodus of talent from the Pentagon, said current senior military officers and current and former Defense Department officials." The whole article tells a different story.
The core of the critique seems to be that Hegseth is incapable of thinking above the level of an infantry major, and that keeps him from focusing on real stuff like, well, we don't know.

The September 30 meeting--

"It was a massive waste of time. ... If he ever had us, he lost us," one current Army general told The Washington Times.
It was "embarrassing" and theatrical to a degree that "is below our institution."
"The theater of it all is below our institution," the officer said. "Several of these changes are being made already by the services. And they could be made by any secretary. ... They don't have to be announced on stage in public in this grandstanding kind of way."
Focus on the wrong things--

"Not about f------ haircuts," the current Army general told The Times, referring to Mr. Hegseth's deep focus on grooming standards, a view expressed by numerous sources.

The focus on haircuts is about making men wear their hair like men, rather than growing out their transgender locks. Sorry if this is a problem for you.

Another source described it as "the mentality of a midgrade officer" who is deeply focused on fitness, grooming standards, and other issues that typically don't reach the desk of the defense secretary.
"Hegseth's focus on fitness, weight and appearance reflects his experiences as a junior officer. These are perennial challenges at the small unit level; anyone who has commanded a small unit in the military understands where he's coming from,"
[Retired Marine Corps Col. Mark Cancian, now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies] wrote. "However, if his military experience had been at higher levels, he would have discussed strategy, threats and warfighting at the operational level. As it was, these topics were nearly absent from his remarks.

More at the article. The jive they're pushing is that insisting that the military enforce its already-existing standards somehow stops generals from scheming their 11th-dimensional chess plans to win wars. Which -- hey, great job with the last few wars, Geniuses.

And they're complaining that this is a "junior officer" agenda. Well... check this out: Enforcing grooming and fitness standards will be the job of, get this, junior officers. Generals are not going to weigh privates or count how many sit-ups they can do. That task will fall to lietuenents.

So what they're really arguing is just that these standards shouldn't be enforced by anyone.

It's just about trying to argue in favor of DEI and transgenders-in-the-military while, as usual, dishonestly pretending it's about something more defensible, like "warfighting."

Hey fatty -- if you skip a meal every day that gives you an extra forty minutes or hour to focus on "warnighting."

streiff notes that despite the claims that Hegseth is "deeply damaging" the military, recruiting is way, way up. Almost as if part of the appeal of the military is joining an institution in which masculine traits like courage and strength are prized.

He also points out that a military that fails to enforce the basic rules will also fail at the big stuff, too. But if troops aren't lacing their boots properly, you can bet they're also performing poorly at weapons maintenance.

You've heard about Van Halen's infamous contract rider which demanded a bowl full of M & M's with all of the green M & M's removed, right? David Lee Roth explains that that was never about the M&M's -- it was about other, crucial contract terms such as venues needing to have electrical systems that could actually support Van Halen's huge speakers and lighting systems. David Lee Roth says that if he walked backstage and saw the bowl of M&Ms with all the green ones taken out, he would be a little more confident that the power system would not blow up when the roadies set up the equipment.

In more DEI/falling standards news, Susan Crabtree reports that the Secret Service is not moving quickly to repair the long rot caused by Obama's and Biden's determination that protecting VIPs was of secondary importance compared to the main goal of staffing the Service with short fat women.

The whole article is alarming. The Secret Service is simply not reforming and is clinging to its DEI priorities, despite Trump's orders to the contrary.

The Secret Service agent assigned to protect the "model" and former vice presidential step-daughter, Ella Emhoff, turns out to be a part-time plus-sized model who has repeatedly failed her physical fitness exams.

Yes, that's the exact level of agent I think Ellie Emhoff has earned, but seriously, what are we even doing here? Why is this person an agent?

Have we just decided to grant Make A Wish dreams to all the stupid, unqualified, incapable people so they can feel good about themselves?

Trick question -- of course we have.

Susan Crabtree writes about the rot at the Secret Service.

The pressing question now, seven months after [Sean Curran] took the helm [of the Secret Service], is whether he and his team are doing enough to transform the culture, jettison DEI priorities as President Trump ordered, improve morale and retention, and return the Secret Service to its elite mission-focused status.
...
In an interview with RealClearPolitics, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, recalled how former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who was forced to resign after her disastrous congressional testimony in the wake of the Butler assassination attempt, had aggressively promoted the "30x30" initiative under a Biden directive to make the federal government a DEI model for the nation. The DEI program promotes the arbitrary hiring of women with the goal of 30% women agents and officers by 2030.
The goal was one of Cheatle's top priorities, and she had achieved 24% women agents and officers in the agency by the time she resigned last year, according to several Secret Service sources.
"Now, if that is going to be your goal, and you're taking your eye off of your core mission, which is to protect individuals, and then you are no longer meeting your prescribed mission," Blackburn said, "this is how you end up getting ineffectiveness into agencies, and we see it in agency after agency."
"The American people are tired of this, whether it's the ESG or any of these other initiatives," she added. "They want government to do their job, and with the Secret Service, it is to protect these individuals who face constant threats."

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Shortly after Curran was sworn in in March, he sidelined many of Cheatle's top lieutenants to bring in his own team. Just a few weeks later, however, a U.S. District Court judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from firing 19 intelligence officers who had previously served on DEI programs at the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The judge's order requires the employees to remain on paid administrative leave while they seek reassignments or appeal their firings.
There was no similar attempted mass firing of DEI officials at the Secret Service.

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Over the past several years, agents also report that outside of the top details, including the team protecting the president and the vice president, some field offices around the country are allowing the honor system for self-reported physical fitness or are simply not requiring them. For years, there's also been such a manpower shortage, and agents are stretched so thin, that many offices have drastically reduced firearms practice, according to several sources in the Secret Service community.

He's keeping one of the most egregious DEI warriors on the staff:

Darnelly De Jesus, a 25-year agency veteran and proponent of DEI, became the Secret Service's agent in charge of its Office of Professional Responsibility last November, under then-acting Director Ron Rowe. Rowe was a Biden appointee and Cheatle's previous hand-picked deputy, whom then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tapped to lead the agency after Cheatle's departure.
Curran has decided to keep De Jesus on his assistant director team. In that role, she oversees all agency misconduct cases and is ultimately charged with signing off on all disciplinary recommendations.
Serving as a member of the president's or the vice president's security team immediately positions a young agent for future promotions. But instead of pursuing that track, De Jesus rose through the ranks as the agency's chief ethics officer and the deputy assistant director of training, while serving as one of the agency's leading architects of and advocates for DEI recruiting and promotion policies.
In her current role overseeing misconduct cases, De Jesus is one of eight assistant directors who comprise the Secret Service's top-tier leadership team, aside from the deputy director and chief of staff.
Curran's decision to keep De Jesus in that post, and his more recent decision to promote another female agent who served as Cheatle's chief of staff, are raising questions among the rank and file about whether he's doing enough to break with the agency's recent past.
De Jesus' presence in leadership is seen as a symbol among Secret Service critics on Capitol Hill and numerous current and former agents who believe that misplaced DEI priorities during the Biden years contributed to the failures at Butler.
One agent, Rashid Ellis, has publicly blamed DEI for contributing to the near-assassination of Trump. Ellis, who opposes DEI, also argues that he was unfairly denied an agency leadership position and believes women gender quotas "played a factor."
Whatever action the Secret Service takes with regard to Ellis' complaints, De Jesus, a major DEI advocate who has the power to pull employees' clearances, suspend, or terminate them, will ultimately be the one signing off on those decisions. Some Secret Service employees fear that De Jesus could retaliate against whistleblowers, including Ellis, who have expressed concern about the agency's DEI policies on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.
As of Sept. 30, De Jesus' LinkedIn resume still touted her work during the Biden administration drafting an "enterprise white paper" on Cheatle's 30x30 initiative to hire more women, which she said was designed to "increase hiring, retention, and advancement with the projected goal of meeting 30% of women in the law enforcement by 2030."
After RCP inquired about her role in the 30x30 program, that bullet point disappeared from her online bio, although she still touted several other DEI accomplishments, including her cross-agency work creating "a ground-breaking first-line supervisory class for all females across 22 separate agencies." She also mentions her experience increasing staffing in two divisions from "35% to 80% in 10 months, resulting in a 128% increase in hiring, with 73% being qualified minorities and female candidates."

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Curran has publicly said he disagrees with DEI initiatives, but many in the Secret Service community have questioned just how committed he is considering these two personnel decisions and just how deeply rooted and pervasive DEI became under Cheatle.

The whole article is worth reading. Sean Curran is not a "change agent," but another go-along-to-get-along liberal stiff.

This is amusing:

Under Cheatle's leadership, DEI had become so normalized that an overweight female agent who never passed her physical fitness tests was not only retained on staff -- she was allowed to moonlight as a model. The agent, who was featured in a magazine profile, traded on her job in federal law enforcement and hinted at her Secret Service position in a photo shoot labeled, "Undercover, But Never Underdressed."
The female agent, who bills herself as a "nationally published curve model, plus-size fashion and fitness influencer, and body-positive advocate" on social media, was assigned to protect Kamala Harris' stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, in New York. After several failed attempts to pass a physical fitness test, the agent was placed in the Special Services Division, which handles support functions for the agency, including the maintenance of the armored vehicle fleet and the screening of mail and packages for the White House complex, according to four sources in the Secret Service community.

So all of our institutions are now just branches of the Make-A-Wish foundation, handing out lifetime jobs to unqualified, incapable, stupid people.

So of course this is a disguised GAINZZZ thread.

I wanted to mention: If you're taking creatine, let your doctor know. I may not have the details of this right, but I believe when creatine is metabolized, creatinine (actually a slightly different word) is made. Creatinine isn't dangerous in itself (if I have this right), but is a marker for problems with the kidneys.

So if you're taking high doses of creatine and don't tell your doctor, he may see elevated levels of creatinine (trust me, it's a slightly different word) and order tests for your kidneys.

My own GAINZZZ: None. I've been really busy and I haven't exercised much and I've just completely gone off keto. I'm getting back into a healthier regime, starting... last night at 8pm. When I finally had a low-carb meal.

How about you? Any GAINZZZ?

Or PROJEXXX, TRIPZZZ, or PLANZZZ?

Has anyone taken creatine and if so, do you find it helps your focus? I didn't have it for a few days but started taking it again last night and I think I'm much more focused today than I was yesterday.

Below, Paul Saladino talks creatine.

Posted by: Ace at 04:10 PM

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1 They should be required to run down an antelope and eat it raw or go hungry.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 24, 2025 04:12 PM (ExV1e)

2 I nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 24, 2025 04:13 PM (ExV1e)

3 My son is taking creatine. He says it helps his mind focus as well as building muscle mass. I'll have to tell him about the dr thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 24, 2025 04:14 PM (ix8EF)

4 "It was a massive waste of time. ... If he ever had us, he lost us," one current Army general told The Washington Times.

Resignation is an honorable thing, Fatty.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 04:14 PM (jc0TO)

5 As long as a real conservative is president these slime balls will self retire from the military. Once a democrat gets back in the rot will start all over again.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 24, 2025 04:14 PM (0N4FZ)

6 America hasn't won a war in over 30 years and the complaint is the CinC is too mean to our military leadership?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 24, 2025 04:14 PM (sKqQm)

7 "It was a massive waste of time. ... If he ever had us, he lost us," one current Army general told The Washington Times.

Oh no! Anyway...

Posted by: Pete Hegseth at October 24, 2025 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

8 These same fat fucks will retire on a "disability", and put the "disabled" tag on their oversized expensive truck or foreign sportscar and speed and tailgate folks on the way to the gym and their tee time after visiting the side pieces.

Posted by: Soaking The Taxpayer at October 24, 2025 04:15 PM (R/m4+)

9 I, for one, am comforted, know the fat ass brass doesn't care to understand "leading by example" is something they should strive for.

They obviously don't care if their standards lead to preventable battlefield deaths.

Fire them all.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 24, 2025 04:15 PM (tT6L1)

10 I'm about three weeks into running again. Dietary changes are happening, but more slowly.

I'm also back to the pushups (80/day in sets of ten throughout the day) and pullups (5 sets of 3 per day throughout the day).

I was running ultramarathons as recently as 2023 and haven't done anything at all since the MCM that year. It shows, and I feel it.

Rebuilding habits is hard - don't stop once you've built healthy ones.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at October 24, 2025 04:15 PM (oSeBJ)

11 Woot. It's always good to have a GAINZ thread after I've already been to the gym, so I get to feel pious instead of guilty.
Also I didn't solicit prostitution like this Presbyterian #nevertrump pastor
x.com/Cernovich/status/1981810831957651957#

Posted by: gKWVE at October 24, 2025 04:15 PM (gKWVE)

12 Honestly, all soldiers, Man OR Woman, should have to shave their heads completely bald at all times during service.

It's more intimidating, and you're there to kill people. People SHOULD be afraid of you.

Posted by: XTC at October 24, 2025 04:15 PM (UnA8+)

13 Has the US Navy won any war-games in the last two years West of Wake Island vs. the PLAN (breaking a blockade of Taiwan)?

Can we refill vertical launch tubes on DDGs at sea?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 24, 2025 04:16 PM (u82oZ)

14 I support General Mayhem.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:17 PM (abIsI)

15 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is the subject of another scurrilous article claiming, without proof or evidence, that he has lost the trust and confidence of the flag and general officer corps.

Fun fact... the power dynamic runs the other direction.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 24, 2025 04:17 PM (ExV1e)

16 Hegseth's focus on fitness, weight and appearance reflects his experiences as a junior officer.
_____

Curious, what do the senior officers focus on? Whatever it is, it ian't showing much success.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 24, 2025 04:17 PM (Dv3i1)

17 We need to remove about 3/4ths of the admirals/generals.

Getting rid of the ones that are physically out of shape would be a good start

Posted by: 18-1 at October 24, 2025 04:17 PM (sKqQm)

18 What does this have to do with Sydney buttering my face?

Posted by: wth at October 24, 2025 04:17 PM (UjdFS)

19 Curious, what do the senior officers focus on? Whatever it is, it ian't showing much success.

Getting post service consultant gigs.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 24, 2025 04:17 PM (sKqQm)

20 R. Lee Ermy was 43 years old in Full Metal Jacket.

At 43, he looks like he could run rings around the recruits.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 04:17 PM (UjDHi)

21 [Retired Marine Corps Col. Mark Cancian, now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies] wrote. "However, if his military experience had been at higher levels, he would have discussed strategy, threats and warfighting at the operational level. As it was, these topics were nearly absent from his remarks.

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You mean like the withdrawal from Afghanistan? How did that work out for you geniuses?

Posted by: Decaf at October 24, 2025 04:17 PM (unUNN)

22 It's more intimidating, and you're there to kill people. People SHOULD be afraid of you.
Posted by: XTC

I wasn't there to kill anyone. I was there to translate and interpret Russian. Not every MOS requires one to be a killing machine.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

23 >>18 What does this have to do with Sydney buttering my face?
Posted by: wth

This topic interests me.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:18 PM (abIsI)

24
You want General Washington
You will settle for General Pinochet
You will get Corporal Punishment

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 04:19 PM (jc0TO)

25 This reminds me of a Dave Thomas biography I read long ago.

He talks about how he once went into a Wendy's and screamed at the franchise owner because the mop water was "sour" and made the restaurant smell.

Can you imagine the CEO of a major fast food chain worrying about mop water? Crazy. This gave me great respect for Dave, as I had mopped many floors and hated sour mop smell.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 24, 2025 04:19 PM (IxOhs)

26 Posted by: gKWVE at October 24, 2025 04:15 PM (gKWVE

I'm not a Presbyterian nor have I ever solicited prostitutes or critiqued people on line for voting for Trump.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 24, 2025 04:19 PM (ix8EF)

27 ... he would have discussed strategy, threats and warfighting at the operational level.

He probably would have started by pointing out that you've lost every conflict you've been in over the past 60 years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 24, 2025 04:19 PM (ExV1e)

28 >>>Hegseth is incapable of thinking above the level of an infantry major

>>>Another source described it as "the mentality of a midgrade officer"

It's almost as if someone had a narrative in mind and went shopping for support?

Real cowardly to hide behind a reporter to voice your faggoty "concerns."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:20 PM (i24o9)

29 Bulg

When it is sufficiently pear-shaped, all service members need to be warriors.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 24, 2025 04:20 PM (u82oZ)

30 Women shouldn't be in front line combat. I didn't say "combat" I said "front line".
Which means women can be snipers in which case pixie cuts should be fine (don't want long hair in the rifle scope).
If they want to intimidate people I guess they can be trainers on the base yelling at retarded recruits when they can't reassemble a weapon on time.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 24, 2025 04:20 PM (gKWVE)

31 If you need me to perform protective services and provide you cover from gunfire, you're in the wrong place.

Posted by: Fat lesbian SS agent at October 24, 2025 04:20 PM (TbWk/)

32 Court martial all these whiners for insubordination

Posted by: Fatty Fatty Bo Batty at October 24, 2025 04:20 PM (3mF9A)

33 I'm going to say this from inside the machine: grooming and fitness standards are the excuse for them being pissed off. What they (and their past colleagues and future employers) are really mad about is the shakeup to the acquisition system, including blowing up the entire JCIDS process. A lot of Beltway Bandits are starting to take it in the shorts because DoW acquisition is favoring smaller "more agile" (I hate that phrase, but it's appropriate here) companies that actually produce on time and on budget.

And now I'll do a Gump: "That's all I got to say about that".

Posted by: Bert G at October 24, 2025 04:20 PM (VARTN)

34 I'm not a Presbyterian
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You don't know what you're missin'.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:21 PM (77rzZ)

35 I saw Obese Transgender Generals open for Meat Loaf at the Agora Ballroom '88

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 24, 2025 04:21 PM (VPPG8)

36 When will there be an admission of a torrid love affair taking place between Ella Emhoff and her Secret Service agent?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 24, 2025 04:21 PM (5yDGQ)

37 I often don't get enough sleep, and I find that taking creatine does help me focus during the day. (The downside is that not sleeping enough is bad for you in a variety of different ways.)

Posted by: TR at October 24, 2025 04:21 PM (hazdd)

38 ace, I do worry about the long term damage you are doing to yourself with these rapid assaults to your metabolic system.
Your body and your choice but damn.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2025 04:21 PM (QGLzn)

39 FenelonSpoke, one of the better arguments for female pastors is we don't see them at the strip club.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 24, 2025 04:22 PM (gKWVE)

40 Dan Bongino had somebody on from the Federalist and she talked about how a person failed the polygraph when asked about do they support terror states like Iran (Or Palistine terror) and they failed but because they were a Minority they hired her. I had to rewind it cause I could not believe I heard that right

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 24, 2025 04:22 PM (FCrpy)

41 I remember when Admiral Zumwalt was fixated on haircuts and beards.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 24, 2025 04:22 PM (63Dwl)

42 There should be no women in combat roles or roles that could reasonably see combat.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 24, 2025 04:22 PM (sKqQm)

43 Posted by: gKWVE at October 24, 2025 04:22 PM (gKWVE

You mean as strippers or as clients?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 24, 2025 04:23 PM (ELdpA)

44 Patton ate a salad before his steak once

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at October 24, 2025 04:23 PM (jrgJz)

45 When it is sufficiently pear-shaped, all service members need to be warriors.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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This^^^

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 24, 2025 04:23 PM (Hm8Vv)

46 FenelonSpoke, one of the better arguments for female pastors is we don't see them at the strip club.
Posted by: gKWVE

In the audience, or onstage?

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

47 Patton ate a salad before his steak once
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at October 24, 2025 04:23 PM

Patton subsisted entirely on the hearts of his enemies.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 04:24 PM (jc0TO)

48 Creatine does NOT build muscle tissue.
Creatine simply hydrates the muscles hence the swelling
All water

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 24, 2025 04:24 PM (VPPG8)

49 Dan Bongino had somebody on from the Federalist and she talked about how a person failed the polygraph when asked about do they support terror states like Iran (Or Palistine terror) and they failed but because they were a Minority they hired her. I had to rewind it cause I could not believe I heard that right

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 24, 2025 04:22 PM (FCrpy)

Hired at The Federalist?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:24 PM (i24o9)

50 Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:21 PM (77rzZ

If I were a Presbyterian it would be PCA the more conservative branch.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 24, 2025 04:24 PM (ELdpA)

51 Just keep those fatty Generals away from Guam, okay?

Posted by: Rep. Hank Johnson at October 24, 2025 04:25 PM (Y1sOo)

52 I wasn't there to kill anyone. I was there to translate and interpret Russian. Not every MOS requires one to be a killing machine.
Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

I hope you mean that you were there to translate and interpret Russian while killing every single thing that moved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 24, 2025 04:25 PM (ExV1e)

53 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is the subject of another scurrilous article...

When I saw that article, I called bullsh*t on it. Since then my viewpoint hasn't changed.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2025 04:25 PM (2WIwB)

54 Didn’t know “war fighting” meant sneaking around and trash talking their boss

Posted by: General Pork Chop at October 24, 2025 04:26 PM (3mF9A)

55 And they're complaining that this is a "junior officer" agenda. Well... check this out: Enforcing grooming and fitness standards will be the job of, get this, junior officers.

PO-LEASE THAT MOO-STASH!

Posted by: SgtMajor Sixta at October 24, 2025 04:26 PM (TbWk/)

56 Can't he dismiss them? Fire them? Send them on a mission to the Arctic or Antarctica or maybe even Alaska?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 24, 2025 04:27 PM (UkwIP)

57 A strong body feeds a strong mind.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2025 04:27 PM (QGLzn)

58 The complaining about haircuts pisses me off… I never liked a real short haircut but it was part of the deal when I signed up. Frickin’ general officers should know this… it’s a pathetic thing to whine about. Get a haircut fatso!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 24, 2025 04:27 PM (xT8gx)

59 What does Ella Emhoff need SS protection for?
Wild pig attacks?

Posted by: wth at October 24, 2025 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

60 Kurt Schlichter has a great article on this. He makes his point by reviewing exactly how little the top brass of today have achieved in 30 years.
https://tinyurl.com/2jd9s6eb

Posted by: Polka will never die at October 24, 2025 04:28 PM (TgDgL)

61 Can't he dismiss them? Fire them? Send them on a mission to the Arctic or Antarctica or maybe even Alaska?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 24, 2025 04:27 PM (UkwIP)

We have to be willing to accept that these anonymous accounts might be entirely fictitious, made up to support a pre-existing narrative intended to sow hate and discontent within the ranks by commies inside the wire.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:28 PM (i24o9)

62 Bert G.
Spot on. And many of the small to midsized beltway bandits have learned how to write winning proposals much to the chagrin of the big boys. I loved beating out the big guys.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (2WIwB)

63 When it is sufficiently pear-shaped, all service members need to be warriors.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

I'm just saying that's not what I signed up for. I signed up to be a Russian linguist. And it was peacetime, the end of the Cold War.

My interest in killing anybody was nil.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

64 I actually have fond memories from basic training… we all walked out of the barber at Fort Jackson rubbing our near-bald heads… it was hilarious in retrospect

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (xT8gx)

65 Surprisingly, I was able to recover from my massive weight gain over the weekend in Corsicana by yesterday morning.

And I did it all on a diet of brown M&Ms.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (EXyHK)

66 Lean, Mean, Fightin' Machine!

Posted by: Pvt Dewey "Ox" Oxberger at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (wVcYX)

67 FenelonSpoke, one of the better arguments for female pastors is we don't see them at the strip club.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 24, 2025 04:22 PM (gKWVE)

Or you don't recognize them in their stage makeup.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (8zz6B)

68 What does Ella Emhoff need SS protection for?
Wild pig attacks?

Posted by: wth at October 24, 2025 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

Rabid beautician attacks with deodorant and razors.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (i24o9)

69 And they're complaining that this is a "junior officer" agenda. Well... check this out: Enforcing grooming and fitness standards will be the job of, get this, junior officers.

I was enlisted, but I imagine this holds true in the officer corps, as well: Your actual war fighters - the ones who actually get shit done, are typically the E-3s through E-6s. Below that and you're learning, above that, you're administrative.

I imagine the O-3 through O-5 paygrades to be similar in functionality.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (oSeBJ)

70 I hope you mean that you were there to translate and interpret Russian while killing every single thing that moved.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

No. I'm not a psychopath.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:30 PM (77rzZ)

71 I tell you for sure I never worried about my hair getting in the way of anything at basic… that’s the thing idea; along with basic discipline

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 24, 2025 04:30 PM (xT8gx)

72 Seeing as how we're probably going to have some kinetic activities in South America soon, this comes at a pretty good time.

Suck it up General Butterbutt.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 24, 2025 04:31 PM (Q4IgG)

73
>>A story in the Washington Times

What? What happened to them?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 24, 2025 04:31 PM (ldc7S)

74 OTOH: If they're not bitching they're scheming.

Given the past 2 decades of schemes I'd rather they bitch.

Posted by: DaveA at October 24, 2025 04:31 PM (FhXTo)

75 Curran has publicly said he disagrees with DEI initiatives, but many in the Secret Service community have questioned just how committed he is considering these two personnel decisions and just how deeply rooted and pervasive DEI became under Cheatle.

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Perhaps he has been told to hold status quo until after the mid-term elections, no need to cause a stir to damage Republicans' chances. After the election clean house.

Posted by: Decaf at October 24, 2025 04:31 PM (unUNN)

76 I was enlisted, but I imagine this holds true in the officer corps, as well: Your actual war fighters - the ones who actually get shit done, are typically the E-3s through E-6s. Below that and you're learning, above that, you're administrative.
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Pretty much my experience also.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 24, 2025 04:31 PM (Hm8Vv)

77 I'm just saying that's not what I signed up for. I signed up to be a Russian linguist. And it was peacetime, the end of the Cold War.

My interest in killing anybody was nil.
Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

So. Missing those days with the Monterey Marys?
Toujours an Avant!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2025 04:31 PM (2WIwB)

78 Kurt Schlichter had a hilarious piece about this today; "Fat Loser Generals can get Bent."

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 24, 2025 04:31 PM (uWKK8)

79 I feel like the "meeting" Hegseth arranged had an ulterior purpose. There was something going on behind the scenes, maybe a trap to catch leakers. It definitely had some kind of national security angle.

Posted by: Max Power at October 24, 2025 04:31 PM (q177U)

80 58 The complaining about haircuts pisses me off… I never liked a real short haircut but it was part of the deal when I signed up. Frickin’ general officers should know this… it’s a pathetic thing to whine about. Get a haircut fatso!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 24, 2025 04:27 PM (xT8gx)

What a bad look to be complaining about standards as a supposed general. I really can't even with these people.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 24, 2025 04:32 PM (fGmWu)

81 I'm just saying that's not what I signed up for. I signed up to be a Russian linguist. And it was peacetime, the end of the Cold War.

My interest in killing anybody was nil.
Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

Not even as a hobby?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:33 PM (i24o9)

82 Come on Bulg… I’m picturing you as Francis (I mean Psycho) in Stripes!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 24, 2025 04:33 PM (xT8gx)

83
Every division commander I served under in the 80s was in their 50s or above (Major Generals), and every one of them could hang with the troops in a basic 5-6 mile run. When we did full battalion runs, they'd always show up to serve as an example for the troops, and despite the normal soldier complaints (if a soldier isn't complaining, he isn't happy), we appreciated their willingness to get out and do PT with the units.

I guarantee that most of these modern flag officer fatasses couldn't complete a 2 mile run without medics following them with oxygen bottles.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 24, 2025 04:33 PM (y9nCu)

84 36 When will there be an admission of a torrid love affair taking place between Ella Emhoff and her Secret Service agent?
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 24, 2025 04:21 PM (5yDGQ)

Scissor me timbers

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 04:33 PM (vwL3N)

85 I earned this rank so I can be fat and lazy
General Puff N Stuff

Posted by: Skip at October 24, 2025 04:33 PM (+qU29)

86
Made it home, safe n sound. Evidently MegaRoy was waiting for me to get home so he could shat the litter box full. Little grey bastard. Then he sat by me and purred like he was ratting out Smash for taking him to the vet and giving him antibiotic pills twice a day for his teeth.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 24, 2025 04:33 PM (QVmho)

87 Interesting note about the plus-sized model/protective agent: Federal police agents are not allowed to have any outside employment. At all. One would think this would be doubly enforced in the case of protective detail members. And probably is for anyone normal who can't claim super-special exceptions to the rules for everyone else.

Posted by: malaking baboy at October 24, 2025 04:33 PM (hNH6/)

88 This post is a continuation of last one.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 24, 2025 04:33 PM (guCHD)

89 I watch TV to escape all the bull shit I have to go through during the day.
I liked my nature and various sciences documentaries.
Now most narrators are women. I wondered for years how that happened. It is now becoming clear. I never thought for one minute that women had become that smarter than men in the sciences. I only liked womens voices during phone sex.
On a side note. Stay far away from women dentists..they are mickey mouse and their shit is fucked up.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 24, 2025 04:33 PM (VPPG8)

90 66 Lean, Mean, Fightin' Machine!
Posted by: Pvt Dewey "Ox" Oxberger at October 24, 2025 04:29 PM (wVcYX)

Awww, he was so funny and lovable, the character and the actor.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 24, 2025 04:34 PM (fGmWu)

91 The talking to they got from Hegseth was to reorient them to killing and surviving. Thats the job. Not equity, or sustainability, or who won the army navy game.

They wokesters got the message and are leaving. Well done.

Posted by: Ha at October 24, 2025 04:34 PM (rbAIK)

92 "Hegseth's focus on fitness, weight and appearance reflects his experiences as a junior officer. These are perennial challenges at the small unit level; anyone who has commanded a small unit in the military understands where he's coming from,"

Holy cow. That this shit got to his level is a problem. If nobody is enforcing standards, where does the buck stop? If not Pete, then Trump. That's it. Those little assholes down the chain were lax and lazy.

Posted by: mishdog at October 24, 2025 04:35 PM (qNaYV)

93 Mark Milley in addition to being a treasonous scumbag was also fat and out of shape.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:35 PM (abIsI)

94 Perfumed princes shove off. Gut the SS. Do it Donald. Your life depends on it. The SS set you up to die.

Posted by: Kingsman at October 24, 2025 04:35 PM (+JkBi)

95 It would be embarrassing if in the middle of combat one of our trannie general's vagina fell out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 24, 2025 04:35 PM (8RjCi)

96 Those Generals and Admirals do not know that Article 88 of the UCMJ is still a thing?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 04:35 PM (vwL3N)

97 Ace: "Have we just decided to grant Make A Wish dreams to all the stupid, unqualified, incapable people so they can feel good about themselves?"

I will make them feel good about themselves- and I'll feel good as well.

DENNY CRANE.

Posted by: Denny Crane at October 24, 2025 04:36 PM (i49OE)

98
Glad i missed the thread downstairs, i have zero nice things to say about 100% of the female executives and demi-executives (directors) that i know and work with.

Off to read ace's nice content and catch up on the snark you lot post.

My position on fat fuck military NCOs and Officers...if you are gonna chapter out the lower enlisted and junior officers, your ass needs to be fit and earning a perfect score on your PT test.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 24, 2025 04:36 PM (QVmho)

99 It was "embarrassing" and theatrical to a degree that "is below our institution."

But flag officers XYs running around with prosthetics tits and french whore makeup is On Brand for the institution.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 24, 2025 04:36 PM (PVBkQ)

100 I can't imagine being assigned to follow Ella around all day.
Must see some weird shit.

Posted by: wth at October 24, 2025 04:36 PM (v0R5T)

101 Have we just decided to grant Make A Wish dreams to all the stupid, unqualified, incapable people so they can feel good about themselves?

Dealing with this at work right now. I have tried for months to apprise my boss re: my one co-worker’s ineptitude and literal infirmity to no avail. She did address the problem with the Make A Wish, and performance improved, sort of…for about a month.

This a.m, back to pro forma.
So I went over my boss’s head.
After I spoke with boss’s boss, a few hours later, I came to find out, quite by chance…that my immediate supervisor was looking for people to come in and do Make A Wish’s job…while MaW was still on her shift!

Incompetence supports and enables slackers.

Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 04:37 PM (dMVEi)

102 Hegseth should announce that he'll personally oversee the fitness test of all senior grade officers next year in front of the Pentagon. Buckets and unsigned letters of resignation will be conveniently staged around the track, and the video will be live-streamed on X. To give 'em a little motivation to either get prepared or gtfo.

Posted by: Polka will never die at October 24, 2025 04:37 PM (TgDgL)

103 Red states rule!

Posted by: Denny Crane at October 24, 2025 04:37 PM (i49OE)

104 Hooray- gainnzz! Still 185-190/5-6% body fat. Training for Rocky Run next week (goal is top 3 in my age group, under 7:45 miles- should be doable on a nice cool fall day). After that, Philly marathon for funsies!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 04:37 PM (hlNLQ)

105 I have creatine but I can't seem to get it in my daily routine. Probably because I rarely drink plain water.

Posted by: Octochicken at October 24, 2025 04:37 PM (oCS0o)

106 Besides, with my shooting skills, I probably would've ended up killing someone on our side.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)

107 A story in the Washington Times uses mostly anonymous sources to make the claim that Hegseth, "has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public "grandstanding" widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former cable TV host leading to an unprecedented and dangerous exodus of talent from the Pentagon, said current senior military officers and current and former Defense Department officials."

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Fittingly (pun intended), they sound extremely Feminized and Emasculated.

Unexpectedly ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 04:38 PM (Fsl9/)

108 After that, Philly marathon for funsies!

Does the Philly marathon go through areas that encourage you to run faster?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 24, 2025 04:38 PM (EXyHK)

109 "However, if his military experience had been at higher levels, he would have discussed strategy, threats and warfighting at the operational level. As it was, these topics were nearly absent from his remarks."

Wrong. As an NCO I'm not going to instruct my squad on tactics if half of them are unsat. That must be fixed first, ad if it's foundational.

At least the Marine LtCol had the integrity to go on the record. The others, with their chickensht anonymous sniping are a disgrace to their branch and rank. I don't know what the F happened since I.got out in.97 but we need a good culling.

Posted by: Fen at October 24, 2025 04:39 PM (NHf9S)

110 I will make them feel good about themselves- and I'll feel good as well.

This is EXACTLY the attitude of my immediate supervisor that I described in 101.

Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 04:39 PM (dMVEi)

111 i have zero nice things to say about 100% of the female executives and demi-executives (directors) that i know and work with

The C-suite of every publicly traded company I've worked with was a human centipede of ass kissers, manipulators, and grifters, to the extent their chromosomes don't make a difference.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 24, 2025 04:39 PM (gKWVE)

112 Creatine simply hydrates the muscles hence the swelling
All water
==
I is duh SWOLE!!!!!!

Posted by: Look at me and despair at October 24, 2025 04:39 PM (rbAIK)

113 I is duh SWOLE!!!!!!
Posted by: Look at me and despair at October 24, 2025 04:39 PM (rbAIK)

As am I!

Posted by: Denny Crane at October 24, 2025 04:40 PM (i49OE)

114 OT: James Woods caught Chuck Schumer doing the double hand job gesture.

https://tinyurl.com/3r724uve

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:40 PM (abIsI)

115 It would be embarrassing if in the middle of combat one of our trannie general's vagina fell out.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
.....

He would get the Purple Heart.

Posted by: wth at October 24, 2025 04:40 PM (v0R5T)

116 My position on fat fuck military NCOs and Officers...if you are gonna chapter out the lower enlisted and junior officers, your ass needs to be fit and earning a perfect score on your PT test.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 24, 2025 04:36 PM (QVmho)

One of my great joys as an Ops O was walking past an office (I took my PT test that day) and hearing some of the troops in there talking about "DO NOT be out there with Major Cow Demon because he will KILL you on the run. I watched him blow past 20 year old Airmen".

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 04:41 PM (vwL3N)

117 Critical Drinker on a new Kylo Ren movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgcSyVW8OYk

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2025 04:41 PM (Riz8t)

118 Does the Philly marathon go through areas that encourage you to run faster?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 24, 2025 04:38 PM (EXyHK)

It used to, but since the gentrification, probably not.

Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 04:42 PM (dMVEi)

119 I have creatine but I can't seem to get it in my daily routine. Probably because I rarely drink plain water.

Posted by: Octochicken at October 24, 2025 04:37 PM (oCS0o)

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Wifey and I take Creatine, Collagen, and occasionally DMSO -- awful NASTY-tasting stuff that oozes out of your breath and pores with a sulfur-garlic odor -- with V-8 and a natural Hot Cocoa sleep aid.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 04:42 PM (Fsl9/)

120 I have researched a detail from the last GAINZZZ thread:

The dosage of Methylene Blue my doctor recommended is 25 mg three days per week with four days per week off. He suggested I try 12.5 mg to start and go to 25 if the lower dose didn't seem to help.

I have noticed definite improvement in my cognitive function when using MB. I do not use it very often due to budget constraints, but it is very helpful for exams or other high-demand endeavors. I just take 25 mg on the day I need it.

Posted by: Emmie at October 24, 2025 04:42 PM (syXXq)

121 "Which -- hey, great job with the last few wars, Geniuses."

If I had confidence the military could actually win wars, I'd let them have that extra helping of macaroni salad. Maybe even toss in an extra pudding cup.

But show me that the military is filled with elan mean fighting machines first.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 24, 2025 04:43 PM (gDhA9)

122 Does the Philly marathon go through areas that encourage you to run faster?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 24, 2025 04:38 PM (EXyHK)

When you finish your leg of the race, do you have to hand off the hubcap to the next runner?

/denounces self

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 24, 2025 04:43 PM (8zz6B)

123 My experience is probably a little different from most, but as an 0352 (infantry TOW missileman) in the Corps, our platoon was attached to HQ company and each section was farmed out to the battalions in the regiment for field ops. Functionally that meant the we were always in close proximity to the senior regimental officers, including the CO- Col. "Iron" Mike Byron. He'd PT with us, drink with us, call us by our last names, and bust our balls when we effed up- and we loved him.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 04:43 PM (hlNLQ)

124 Has anyone taken creatine and if so, do you find it helps your focus? I didn't have it for a few days but started taking it again last night and I think I'm much more focused today than I was yesterday.

I went on a 48 hour fast to get into a autophagy mode, then went strict keto for a couple days then a 72 hour fast to clear out the system.

Dropped all of the energy drinks, maintained covfefe levels, and eliminated processed sugars when possible. Then consumed creatine like I did for years and years in my youth while body building.

Except this time I tripled the dosage. It will mess with your stool just like mega doses of Vitamin-C. After four or five days of loading, I still consume loading levels of creatine but my focus and stamina are like it was decades ago when I was working 80-90 hour weeks.

Don't need naps either. Creatine at regular loading doses does the trick. The maintenance levels, eh. For complete dominance, go with ephedra, Excedrin and creatine mixed in a protein powder. Like meth without the part of teeth and hair falling out.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 24, 2025 04:44 PM (PVBkQ)

125
I have noticed definite improvement in my cognitive function when using MB. I do not use it very often due to budget constraints, but it is very helpful for exams or other high-demand endeavors. I just take 25 mg on the day I need it.
Posted by: Emmie

Do you look like a Smurf now?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:44 PM (abIsI)

126 OT: James Woods caught Chuck Schumer doing the double hand job gesture.

https://tinyurl.com/3r724uve
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:40 PM (abIsI)

He needs to focus on the cocks he is stroking, he keeps opening his hands!

Posted by: Denny Crane at October 24, 2025 04:44 PM (i49OE)

127 There should be no women in combat roles or roles that could reasonably see combat.
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Correct. And there should be no women in street officer roles either. And nobody who hasn't served as an officer on the street should ever be eligible to serve in a police leadership position. Police and military positions require the ability to effectively *hurt* people when necessary, and leadership should consist solely of people with proven experience in doing just that.

Posted by: Crusader at October 24, 2025 04:45 PM (TN0g+)

128 Look, Hegseth has said, publicly, we need about half the senior staff we have. A lot fewer generals and admirals.

One way to cull the herd is with PT.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 24, 2025 04:45 PM (gDhA9)

129 >>Another source described it as "the mentality of a midgrade officer" who is deeply focused on fitness, grooming standards, and other issues that typically don't reach the desk of the defense secretary.

Not to put too fine of a point on it, but go fuck yourself, fatty. Most of these jackasses are the same GO’s and field grades who lost Afghanistan and got us screwed in Iraq. When it was time for tactics and plans for theater they were teaming up with JAG dbags to limit our QRF even during TIC situations and drawing up battle plans that incorporated the latest DEI bullshit. They were also undermining things like Ranger School to make it easier for more women to get the tab. That’s before we get to SOF and Q Course. So go pour yourself into that uniform and put in your papers.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 24, 2025 04:45 PM (GvHI2)

130 When you finish your leg of the race, do you have to hand off the hubcap to the next runner?

/denounces self

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 24, 2025 04:43 PM (8zz6B)

In Shitcago, it is a glock with fun switch, in honor of local dindu customs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:45 PM (i24o9)

131 But flag officers XYs running around with prosthetics tits and french whore makeup is On Brand for the institution.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 24, 2025 04:36 PM (PVBkQ)

Or what if they need to dilate **shudder** in the situation room

Posted by: mishdog at October 24, 2025 04:46 PM (w5QtQ)

132 IDK, my first time, but the Broad Street run starts in North Philly, which is, I understand, one of the worst parts of town, but for the run, lots of folks were out there cheering us on, holding funny signs, etc.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 04:47 PM (hlNLQ)

133 How about you? Any GAINZZZ?

Yes…and I don’t even know how???

I have been doing very light weight training at home, chair exercises at work, and walking some days, other days not so much.

I have gone down a size and have muscle tone that really shouldn’t be there since I’m not at the gym anymore.

I wanted to stretch out my spine and was stunned that I was able to do a plow position, after being creaky and stiff for I don’t know how long.

Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 04:47 PM (dMVEi)

134 In April 1941, he became commander of XII Corps responsible for the defence of Kent. During this period he instituted a regime of continuous training and insisted on high levels of physical fitness for both officers and other ranks. He was ruthless in sacking officers he considered unfit for command in action. He was promoted to temporary lieutenant-general in July, overseeing the defence of Kent, Sussex and Surrey.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery "Monty"

I think Secretary Hegseth read Monty's book.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 24, 2025 04:47 PM (wVcYX)

135 This reminds me of a Dave Thomas biography I read long ago.

He talks about how he once went into a Wendy's and screamed at the franchise owner because the mop water was "sour" and made the restaurant smell.

Can you imagine the CEO of a major fast food chain worrying about mop water? Crazy. This gave me great respect for Dave, as I had mopped many floors and hated sour mop smell.
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That book was amazing! It sold at Wendys locations and the proceeds went to his adoption charity--Dave Thomas was adopted. He did a great job of explaining how he judged his franchise stores in that one (with letter grades, like in school).

Posted by: Crusader at October 24, 2025 04:47 PM (TN0g+)

136 RE; Secret Service agent who can't do a push up; she got the job because of a push for more women in federal law enforcement. A man that routinely failed PT tests would be shown the door. The Biden Administration mandated that DHS have 30% female employees by 2030, and this is the result.

Posted by: UGAdawg at October 24, 2025 04:48 PM (9dClJ)

137 Do you look like a Smurf now?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:44 PM (abIsI)

That's colloidal silver that turns a person blue.

But this stuff will stain your tongue if you take it in liquid form. I've been taking capsules, so no problem. It does temporarily turn urine blue. Also your brain and heart, but that's only an issue during autopsies.

Posted by: Emmie at October 24, 2025 04:48 PM (syXXq)

138 I have creatine but I can't seem to get it in my daily routine. Probably because I rarely drink plain water.

I dropped the 4C, Monster and other crap and drink water dosed with creatine and Re-Lyte®. Find your flavor (mixed berry is my Go-To)

I keep two Yeti cups, a smaller one for covfefe and a larger one for the Creatine/Re-Lyte.

I kind pound out 10-12 hour days behind the keyboard like a kid.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 24, 2025 04:48 PM (xE0sV)

139 >>>It will mess with your stool

So does my man-wife's dick

Posted by: Pete Buttgig at October 24, 2025 04:48 PM (Y1sOo)

140 AI Security Camera System Mistakes Bag of Doritos for Gun, Triggers Police Response to School in Baltimore.

And they want this kludged up crap to drive a car?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:49 PM (abIsI)

141 The drug dealers of the Kensington district in Philadelphia are being outhustled
x.com/CoconnellFox29/status/1981749133321920815
There's plenty of opportunity in prison laundry, maybe cooking

Posted by: gKWVE at October 24, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

142 Austin, Milley and countless others are a disgrace. The only thing these guys inspire is a fragging.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2025 04:49 PM (QGLzn)

143 Is Colonel Bear Claw Vindman among the fatties in question?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at October 24, 2025 04:49 PM (kTd/k)

144 Sec. Hegseth is recruiting the next great class of generals for 20 years from now.

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in”

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 24, 2025 04:49 PM (HFXwb)

145 140 AI Security Camera System Mistakes Bag of Doritos for Gun, Triggers Police Response to School in Baltimore.

And they want this kludged up crap to drive a car?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:49 PM (abIsI)

What if that were Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea?

Posted by: mishdog at October 24, 2025 04:50 PM (soKpm)

146 >>It will mess with your stool

*Lindsey Graham enters the chat*

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:50 PM (abIsI)

147 But this stuff will stain your tongue if you take it in liquid form. I've been taking capsules, so no problem. It does temporarily turn urine blue. Also your brain and heart, but that's only an issue during autopsies.
Posted by: Emmie at October 24, 2025 04:48 PM (syXXq)

Tydee-Bowl Man hardest hit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 24, 2025 04:50 PM (8zz6B)

148 “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in”
Posted by: Cray Cray

Ooh, I like that. Who said it?

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

149 Blue heart sounds like the title of a good country song.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 04:51 PM (hlNLQ)

150 It was "embarrassing" and theatrical to a degree that "is below our institution."

And he wasn't wearing his dog mask.

Posted by: Lost My Cookies at October 24, 2025 04:51 PM (qWsiB)

151 In Shitcago, it is a glock with fun switch, in honor of local dindu customs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:45 PM (i24o9)

I ran the Chicago marathon once and it was a very positive experience… along the lakefront, past Comiskey and finishing in Grant Park…. A local pizzeria post-race for a delicious Chicago-style pie…. Of course this was more than 20 years ago. I wouldn’t do it today…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 24, 2025 04:51 PM (xT8gx)

152 >>What if that were Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea?
Posted by: mishdog

SWAT

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:52 PM (abIsI)

153 Blue heart sounds like the title of a good country song.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 04:51 PM (hlNLQ)

I got a blue heart, blue balls, and a blue brain.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:52 PM (i24o9)

154 Tydee-Bowl Man hardest hit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 24, 2025 04:50 PM (8zz6B)

Yep, that's what it looks like when it gets diluted in the bowl.

Posted by: Emmie at October 24, 2025 04:52 PM (syXXq)

155 Judge Jamal Walker is letting Letitia's case dismissal go forward joining it with Comey's where they are both claiming that the US attorney wasn't selected properly.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 24, 2025 04:52 PM (3uBP9)

156 Ooh, I like that. Who said it?
Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

Read it on a portajohn wall.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 24, 2025 04:52 PM (HFXwb)

157 ABC News@ABC
Satellite images show that President Trump's project to build a $300 million grand ballroom appears to have removed two historic magnolia trees on the White House grounds, as well as the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.

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OMG! This is worse than Pearl Harbor!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 24, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)

158 >>It will mess with your stool

*Lindsey Graham enters the chat*

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:50 PM (abIsI)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:53 PM (i24o9)

159 Blue,

In truth, my brother said that to me when I planted trees in my back yard.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 24, 2025 04:53 PM (HFXwb)

160 Their real gripe is the risk they feel in losing their safety net meal ticket. It's a revolving door for command. Some president waltzes in with his political perspective, shows the door to those in command not on the same page....BUT, no problem because they have that nice cushy fallback to a defense contractor or a lobbying firm...or in some cases, foreign governments. Then, when another president waltzes in with political views along their same lines, they are pulled back out of "retirement"...and placed back in command. It's a revolving door, and the current administration is talking about putting restrictions on what they can do in retirement.

That's what they are all pissed about. Hegseth (and Trump) threaten to trample on their bank accounts.

Posted by: Orson at October 24, 2025 04:53 PM (dIske)

161 Austin, Milley and countless others are a disgrace. The only thing these guys inspire is a fragging
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YOU DIGUSTING FATBODIES DONT DESERVE TO BE IN MY MILITARY. I WILL MAKE IT MY PERSONAL MISSION TO RUN YOU OUT OR RUN YOU TO DEATH.

Posted by: Secertary of War at October 24, 2025 04:53 PM (rbAIK)

162 ABC News@ABC
Satellite images show that President Trump's project to build a $300 million grand ballroom appears to have removed two historic magnolia trees on the White House grounds, as well as the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.

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OMG! This is worse than Pearl Harbor!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 24, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)

Insurrection!!! It’s the end of “our democracy”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 24, 2025 04:54 PM (xT8gx)

163 157 ABC News@ABC
Satellite images show that President Trump's project to build a $300 million grand ballroom appears to have removed two historic magnolia trees on the White House grounds, as well as the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.

Pretty sure that's grounds for impeachment.....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 24, 2025 04:54 PM (VE6XX)

164 I've been taking creosote for years. Never does anything for me.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

165 >>157 ABC News@ABC
Satellite images show that President Trump's project to build a $300 million grand ballroom appears to have removed two historic magnolia trees on the White House grounds, as well as the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.

He'll replant MAGAnolia's.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:54 PM (abIsI)

166 Secret Service agent who can't do a push up; she got the job because of a push for more women in federal law enforcement. A man that routinely failed PT tests would be shown the door. The Biden Administration mandated that DHS have 30% female employees by 2030, and this is the result.
Posted by: UGAdawg

Transfer them all to ICE.
They can be the designated shooters.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 24, 2025 04:54 PM (/lPRQ)

167 Running as an old man is funny. It takes about two miles for the knee pain to subside- I feel like I look like I'm hobbling along, then, my stride "comes in" and it's like I'm 20 again.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 04:54 PM (hlNLQ)

168 How does urine turn blue and not green?

Back when people had toilet cleaner things that would always add blue to the water after you flush and then you peed, blue+yellow=green.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 24, 2025 04:55 PM (3uBP9)

169 Read it on a portajohn wall.
Posted by: Cray Cray

The words of the prophets are written on the portajohn walls...

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

170 Blood should turn purple by that logic as well.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 04:56 PM (hlNLQ)

171 164 I've been taking creosote for years. Never does anything for me.
Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

But your scent must all kinds of women.

Posted by: mishdog at October 24, 2025 04:56 PM (soKpm)

172 I'm not a Presbyterian nor have I ever solicited prostitutes or critiqued people on line for voting for Trump.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I'm sorry, I've been absent most of the day--I'm hoping you weren't accused of that? Or am I missing a punch-line?

Posted by: Crusader at October 24, 2025 04:56 PM (TN0g+)

173 My buddy hadn’t seen me in months. He noted my weight loss and told me I was getting White Girl Butt.
When I went home I looked at myself in profile. My friend wasn’t lying.

😳

Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 04:56 PM (rCchb)

174 163 157 ABC News@ABC
Satellite images show that President Trump's project to build a $300 million grand ballroom appears to have removed two historic magnolia trees on the White House grounds, as well as the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.

Pretty sure that's grounds for impeachment.....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 24, 2025 04:54 PM (VE6XX)
_______________________________

Not until they impeach Obama for putting basketball court lines all over Teddy Roosevelt's tennis court. Sacrilege!!!

Posted by: Orson at October 24, 2025 04:56 PM (dIske)

175 Back when people had toilet cleaner things that would always add blue to the water after you flush and then you peed, blue+yellow=green.
Posted by: banana Dream

I thought it was all the asparagus they ate.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

176 Have these asshole officers explained their lack of drone development/ttp's and the utter failure to train the UA brigades , where instead we shoveled boot camp slop and PC bullshit at them instead of real training?

Our advanced systems are phenomenal. Our training at grint level is slipping badly, and the woke shit is out of hand.

Posted by: heya at October 24, 2025 04:57 PM (N15rr)

177
A story in the Washington Times uses mostly anonymous sources to make the claim that Hegseth, "has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public "grandstanding"

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Well see, it's not just anonymous sources. They interviewed some silly bastards, too.

By the way, what's going on with the Washington Times? They're Swamp-adjacent now?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 24, 2025 04:57 PM (ES1Rb)

178 My buddy hadn’t seen me in months. He noted my weight loss and told me I was getting White Girl Butt.
When I went home I looked at myself in profile. My friend wasn’t lying.

😳

Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 04:56 PM (rCchb)

LMAO

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:57 PM (i24o9)

179 I hope Pete Hegseth gets support from many people in the military, because every time I read a story about him it's that they dislike him and there's another scandal . And yes, I know the stories come from the MSM but it seems like he has a hard job and works quite hard at it.

I also think he's good loooming but that's neither here nor there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 24, 2025 04:57 PM (looXz)

180 >>164 I've been taking creosote for years. Never does anything for me.
Posted by: Bulg

Glad to hear that boring insects will not be a problem for you.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 04:57 PM (abIsI)

181 Jessica Rabbit endorses Jack Ciattarelli
x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1981710649710485892

Posted by: gKWVE at October 24, 2025 04:57 PM (gKWVE)

182 Jesus Ace,

That RealClearPolitics article on the Secret Service was depressing.

As for GAAIINNNZZZ? Damned straight! I have lost six pounds since returning from France, simply by cutting out delicious bread and delicious cheese.

Yes...my life is diminished, but at least I fit into my pants now!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 04:57 PM (n9ltV)

183 sorry, I've been absent most of the day--I'm hoping you weren't accused of that? Or am I missing a punch-line?
==
Dear G*d. Not a presbyterian!!!!!

Posted by: Zoinks at October 24, 2025 04:58 PM (rbAIK)

184 "Functionally that meant the we were always in close proximity to the senior regimental officers, including the CO- Col. "Iron" Mike Byron. He'd PT with us, drink with us, call us by our last names, and bust our balls when we effed up- and we loved him."

Same. 0313 with 2D LAR BN (LAV-25s). Our CO was Col Neller, apex predator, 140 IQ, built like an NFL linebacker m Went on to become Commandant to no one's surprise.

Posted by: Fen at October 24, 2025 04:58 PM (NHf9S)

185 Then you're welcome back to the book thread CBD!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 04:58 PM (hlNLQ)

186
ABC News@ABC
Satellite images show that President Trump's project to build a $300 million grand ballroom appears to have removed two historic magnolia trees on the White House grounds, as well as the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.

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First that ballroom was $230mil, then $250mil, and now $300mil? Inflation is really running away!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 24, 2025 04:58 PM (ldc7S)

187 I also think he's good loooming but that's neither here nor there.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

He is good at looming. Over the generals.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ)

188
One of my great joys as an Ops O was walking past an office (I took my PT test that day) and hearing some of the troops in there talking about "DO NOT be out there with Major Cow Demon because he will KILL you on the run. I watched him blow past 20 year old Airmen".
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 04:41 PM (vwL3N)

That reminds me of the recreation director at our base in Egypt in 89-90. Herb Brav, a legend in SpecOps. Combat in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Worked with the OSS in WWII smuggling arms and ammo to the Norwegian resistance, captured by the enemy twice in Korea and Vietnam, escaped by killing his guards and making his way back to US lines. The list of badassery goes on.

Anyway, he ran our gym and had something he called the Monkey Strong Workout (wanna be strong? watch the monkeys gotta be monkey strong watch the monkeys....) All body weight, no equipment other than monkey bars. None of us 20-something troops, NONE of us could keep up with him, including Ranger and SF qualified troops, even a couple of guys who were later pulled to try for Delta.

He was 69 years old at the time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 24, 2025 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

189 184- Ooh Rah! and Semper Fi brother.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 05:00 PM (hlNLQ)

190 I still want an exoskeleton.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2025 05:00 PM (QGLzn)

191
Anyways, it's funny because I was thinking thanks to that "White House Timeline" that Trump trolled the idiots with, and which featured the Cocaine incident, why we haven't exposed the truth about that incident yet.

The reason seems to be clear: Sean Curran. Is this another Trump 1.0-style appointment that's more faith than reason? You'd think Trump would value his and Melania's LIVES a little more.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 24, 2025 05:01 PM (ldc7S)

192

LMAO
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:57 PM (i24o9)

I guess I have to do squats now

😄

Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 05:02 PM (rCchb)

193 I still want an exoskeleton.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2025 05:00 PM (QGLzn)

You'd settle for a set of medieval armor.

You'll get a couple illegal aliens mooching off you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 05:02 PM (i24o9)

194 He was 69 years old at the time.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 24, 2025 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

This guy’s life sounds biopic-worthy

Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 05:03 PM (rCchb)

195
I still want an exoskeleton.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2025 05:00 PM (QGLzn)

It's overrated.

Posted by: Frau Gruppencankles at October 24, 2025 05:04 PM (y9nCu)

196 ... transgenders-in-the-military...

***********

The officer corps has gone rouge!!!

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 05:04 PM (/iMjX)

197 LMAO
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 04:57 PM (i24o9)

I guess I have to do squats now

😄

Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 05:02 PM (rCchb)

When I was 13, my Mom was sewing a band uniform for me and remarked that I had a large posterior. I've carried the scar that I have a big, giant, freak ass around my whole life.

I'll never have that problem.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 05:04 PM (i24o9)

198 WebMD, 'Is Creatine Safe for Older Adults?' Written by WebMD Editorial Contributor, Medically Reviewed by Sanjay Ponkshe, MD on April 27, 2025

Worth reading, imho.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 24, 2025 05:05 PM (NFX2v)

199 Running as an old man is funny. It takes about two miles for the knee pain to subside- I feel like I look like I'm hobbling along, then, my stride "comes in" and it's like I'm 20 again.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 04:54 PM (hlNLQ)

I have a similar experience… I’ve had a knee replacement so I do an extended dynamic warmup before starting my run… that warmup takes place over about a half mile…. But then I’m warned up and I don’t feel quite like an old man. I always roll with a foam roller right after the run and that way I don’t feel sore later in the day or the next day!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 24, 2025 05:05 PM (xT8gx)

200 Trump announced 3% inflation !!!
Also says will not demolishing East wing of white House dating to 1902.
Ballroom will also have a disco but with real class

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 24, 2025 05:06 PM (YLI2d)

201 155 Judge Jamal Walker is letting Letitia's case dismissal go forward joining it with Comey's where they are both claiming that the US attorney wasn't selected properly.
Posted by: banana Dream at October 24, 2025 04:52 PM (3uBP9

The real estate fraud charges opened the door for investigations. I read more serious Federal charges are coming down the pike for both James and Comey.. at least that was the plan 3 or 4 months ago. I think it was Mike Davis on Bannon who revealed that.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 24, 2025 05:06 PM (VPPG8)

202

One of my great joys as an Ops O was walking past an office (I took my PT test that day) and hearing some of the troops in there talking about "DO NOT be out there with Major Cow Demon because he will KILL you on the run. I watched him blow past 20 year old Airmen".
Posted by: Cow Demon

We must have the same drive, professionally. As a Patriot Battery Warrant, i was also the Platoon Leader. I would generally pull rank and snag a road guard vest, then do road guard duties on the unit run, then run circles and laps around the battery when not jogging in place or doing push ups waiting for the unit to catch up to me at the next intersection. Couple 18 year olds tried to pace me on the PT test and I smoked that ass. Did the same thing to my BC too when he challenged me as a newbie commander.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 24, 2025 05:07 PM (QVmho)

203 >>200 Trump announced 3% inflation !!!
Also says will not demolishing East wing of white House dating to 1902.
Ballroom will also have a disco but with real class
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith

Yes!

He also told Canada to suck a beaver dick.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 05:07 PM (abIsI)

204 I've been taking creosote for years. Never does anything for me.
Posted by: Bulg

**********

I tried that. The only thing I noticed was I felt tarred all the time.

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 05:07 PM (/iMjX)

205 "One of my great joys as an Ops O"

S-3? I did a stint in Ops. We always stayed up with Maj McCoy and the others for briefings - we had to do the map overlays to pass down to Company Commanders the next morning. Usually that meant sitting back and observing as the Officers shaped the battlefield.

I remember always coming away shaking my head at how totally fcked the enemy the enemy was, I almost felt sorry for them.

Posted by: Fen at October 24, 2025 05:07 PM (NHf9S)

206 >>>Below, Paul Saladino talks creatine.

He doesn't look very ... healthy. That's superficial of me, I'm sure! He looks kind of ropy, and he seems way out of breath and losing track of his topic.

Posted by: m at October 24, 2025 05:08 PM (RuTUS)

207 Time to demolish the Pentagon and send the chateaux generals packing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2025 05:08 PM (TFXAN)

208 I've been taking creosote for years. Never does anything for me.
Posted by: Bulg

**********

I tried that. The only thing I noticed was I felt tarred all the time.

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 05:07 PM (/iMjX)

It cured my wood pecker problem.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 05:08 PM (i24o9)

209 I ain't noways tarred, Muldoon.- HRC

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 05:08 PM (hlNLQ)

210 I'm not a Presbyterian
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You don't know what you're missin'.
Posted by: Bulg

I have a cookbook that was produced by a Presbyterian church in the late 60s or early 70s.

"Predestined to Please"

Posted by: Miklos has a weakness for sinful desserts at October 24, 2025 05:08 PM (M772T)

211
When I was 13, my Mom was sewing a band uniform for me and remarked that I had a large posterior. I've carried the scar that I have a big, giant, freak ass around my whole life.

I'll never have that problem.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 05:04 PM (i24o9)

Reminds me of a kid in Junior High we called high pockets. Harry high pockets. heh heh for real

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 24, 2025 05:08 PM (VPPG8)

212 I've been taking creosote for years. Never does anything for me.
Posted by: Bulg

**********

I tried that. The only thing I noticed was I felt tarred all the time.
Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 05:07 PM (/iMjX)

Stands to reason you wood.

Posted by: Burning yearning at October 24, 2025 05:09 PM (TbWk/)

213 As a veteran my opinion is that these fat fucking generals and flag officers are soft pussies and I don't want them in the military.

Posted by: Spartacus Booker at October 24, 2025 05:09 PM (W+TLY)

214 Last few years thought I should run, but maybe more wind splints. When I do run say across a parking lot few hundred feet is it.

Posted by: Skip at October 24, 2025 05:09 PM (+qU29)

215
Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 04:47 PM (dMVEi)

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Wow! That's encouraging.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 24, 2025 05:10 PM (ldc7S)

216 191 Anyways, it's funny because I was thinking thanks to that "White House Timeline" that Trump trolled the idiots with, and which featured the Cocaine incident, why we haven't exposed the truth about that incident yet.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 24, 2025 05:01 PM (ldc7S)

Hunter was pardoned by his dad, yes?

Posted by: m at October 24, 2025 05:10 PM (RuTUS)

217 I've been taking creosote for years. Never does anything for me.
Posted by: Bulg

**********

I tried that. The only thing I noticed was I felt tarred all the time.
Posted by: muldoon

Gave me a case of shingles.

Posted by: Miklos got better at October 24, 2025 05:10 PM (M772T)

218 You have to see the big picture. Climate change and the lack of (gender) diversity are currently the biggest threats to the US. But mostly the latter.
/s

Posted by: PG at October 24, 2025 05:10 PM (uX4U2)

219 208 I've been taking creosote for years. Never does anything for me.
Posted by: Bulg

_____________________________

Some illegal immigrant somewhere is sitting in a warehouse with a pen knife scraping creosote off of discarded railroad ties.

Posted by: Orson at October 24, 2025 05:10 PM (dIske)

220 I saw Fen's "I'm not Presbyterian" comment and it made me think, I always enter my building by way of the ramp in the parking garage. There's a large sign at the entrance that says, "no pedestrians" and I always think to myself, "that's okay, I'm Catholic."

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 05:10 PM (hlNLQ)

221 I tell people who have bitched about Hegseth's speech that it was niet just for the senior leadership. It was also aimed at the American people, and at our potential enemies. I can promise you they got the message. And I think most off those officers did too.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2025 05:11 PM (2WIwB)

222 220 I always enter my building by way of the ramp in the parking garage. There's a large sign at the entrance that says, "no pedestrians" and I always think to myself, "that's okay, I'm Catholic."
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 05:10 PM (hlNLQ)

; )

Posted by: m at October 24, 2025 05:11 PM (RuTUS)

223 59 What does Ella Emhoff need SS protection for?
Wild pig attacks?
Posted by: wth

From mirrors. See her Instagram

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 24, 2025 05:12 PM (NFX2v)

224 The creosote bush has a very long tap root.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 24, 2025 05:12 PM (abIsI)

225 Ever since I pulled a hammy two years ago, I do my windsprints up a hill to shorten my stride.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 05:12 PM (hlNLQ)

226 I have taken consistent doses of daily creatine the last 6 months. ~75% of recommended dosage and do see focus improvement.

I drink a lots water thru the day.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 24, 2025 05:12 PM (b8J4P)

227
Judge Jamal Walker is letting Letitia's case dismissal go forward joining it with Comey's where they are both claiming that the US attorney wasn't selected properly.
Posted by: banana Dream

==================

That looks like a joke. Judge Jamal Walk-her.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 24, 2025 05:12 PM (ldc7S)

228 Another example of the feminization of an American institution.

Posted by: Social approval over competence at October 24, 2025 05:12 PM (TbWk/)

229 Nood not paying troops

Posted by: moki at October 24, 2025 05:12 PM (wLjpr)

230 Why do we care what issues out of ASS?

Posted by: gKWVE at October 24, 2025 05:13 PM (gKWVE)

231 nood Democrats Vote Against Paying the Troops Currently Defending the Country Without Pay; The Two Vulnerable Georgia Democrat Senators Peel Off From the Party, Vote In Favor of Paying Troops
—Ace

Posted by: m at October 24, 2025 05:13 PM (RuTUS)

232 Creatine helps sharpen an aging mind. Although you may never tell from my postings.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 24, 2025 05:13 PM (wBaIH)

233 200: I want Slayer inaugurating the new ballroom with a mosh pit. 100% pure American metal.

I'll take 3% inflation if it continues to drop.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 05:14 PM (vwL3N)

234 I'm doing 20g @ day and also 120G protein and doing free weights and strenuous resistance workout in the pool every day for two months now to rehab my shoulder. Can't say I'm any smarter but but is working for strength, energy and muscle mass for being over 29.

Posted by: DBCooper at October 24, 2025 05:14 PM (4JrlJ)

235 Ever since I pulled a hammy two years ago, I do my windsprints up a hill to shorten my stride.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 24, 2025 05:12 PM (hlNLQ)

I pulled both quads at the same time sprinting for a flyball, being dehydrated and not properly stretching. That was fun.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 05:14 PM (i24o9)

236 I’m thinking, with the White House renovations and all that, maybe Trump can turn the center of the Pentagon into a magnificent gym, PT center and salad bar, Where the first thing every GO and field grade does in the morning before they go their ring and sit their fat asses at a desk is pass a PT test. Maybe put it a nice gold trebuchet for the fatties who fail. Launch them into the parking lot or something.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 24, 2025 05:16 PM (zdAo9)

237 NOOD ALERT

Posted by: Max Power at October 24, 2025 05:16 PM (q177U)

238
He was 69 years old at the time.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 24, 2025 04:59 PM (y9nCu)

This guy’s life sounds biopic-worthy
Posted by: kallisto at October 24, 2025 05:03 PM (rCchb)

It was.

Another story (possibly apocryphal) about him was when he built Herb's Beach for the peacekeeping troops to use around 1980. The reef had to be broken up where the wadi flowed into the sea to bring sand in. Problem is, the reefs are protected, and required blasting to break up the coral. Both the Egyptians and his bosses forbade him from doing the work. So the story goes that he bought a bunch of Semtex on the black market and blew a big hole in the reef himself. Somehow he got away with it and the beach was named after him.

The hole is visible on Google Maps.

https://tinyurl.com/Herbs-Beach

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 24, 2025 05:18 PM (y9nCu)

239 Afternoon, folken,

I've been taking the standard dose of 5 mg of creatine for a week or so. Not sure I've seen any improvement in anything . . . but my workouts in the morning have been easier, with longer and easier jogs in the mix.

On the other hand, it's been cooler here the last few days. That improves everything.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 24, 2025 05:18 PM (omVj0)

240 I would say 99% of officers bitching , active or retired are Liberal Jack offs .

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 05:19 PM (EYmYM)

241 So they are all like that, no manners.

Can't tolerate rude behavior.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 24, 2025 05:19 PM (EyfuW)

242 She's my kind of gal, but never should she be on secret service.

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 24, 2025 05:19 PM (XLfSN)

243 "Trump announced 3% inflation !!!"

I just received a notice that social security will be raised 2.8% next year. Not sure it is really 3%, though drop in gas prices no doubt helped that number.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 24, 2025 05:23 PM (vbXSk)

244 "The pressing question now, seven months after [Sean Curran] took the helm [of the Secret Service], is whether he and his team are doing enough to transform the culture, jettison DEI priorities as President Trump ordered, improve morale and retention, and return the Secret Service to its elite mission-focused status."

I fear selecting Curran will prove to be a mistake by Trump.

The report of the DHS-level outside/independent review team of the Butler mess recommended a new SS director must be appointed, a person without any former SS employment or any association with the SS. They in effect said, it was the only hope of fixing the broken culture and bad habits of the SS.

Biden and Trump both decided to ignore the recommendation.

Personnel is policy. Trump now owns any fork-ups by the SS.

Posted by: Gref at October 24, 2025 05:27 PM (5rh/l)

245 Cynical Publius published an article on American Greatness about the feminization of the military that's well worth reading.

Posted by: Clark at October 24, 2025 05:44 PM (feBQ6)

246 I'm 62 & exercise quite a bit. I started taking creatine about 4 months ago and it seemed to give me a boost both physically & mentally

Posted by: Dave at October 24, 2025 06:27 PM (sbsMc)

247 Creatinine is a marker for kidney disease. I had a transplant 18 years ago. My creatinine level before I went on dialysis was over 60. After transplant is was about 1.4 and now it is around 1. A lot of things can affect levels, such as infections, but usually not all that much. Creatinine is waste produced by muscles as they work, the more they work the more creatinine. A healthy kidney has no problem getting rid of it through urine production even for muscle heads. If you find you have elevated creatinine ever (over 2.0) see a doctor.

Posted by: EyeofSauron at October 24, 2025 06:36 PM (G6FGs)

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