You can already tell the military is running better since Hegseth took the helm by just the fact there were no leaks about the agenda prior to the meeting.
Libtards aside, if you´re enjoying the circus, stick around for the clown show. And don´t forget, sometimes the big top catches fire. Now there's a show for ya!
So you think the CinC needs to run the hundred in 18 sec? You do realize he’s 15 yrs past the mandatory retirement age for general officers?
POTUS provides 3 things for the military unconnected to his weight:
1) Clarity of mission,
2) Funding,
3) Loyalty to those who serve
There a great line in “The Enforcer” where Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is participating in a promotion interview panel and is forced to ask a back office female officer a “field performance” question, so he says “How fast can you run the hundred?”
🙂 Bunch of them should be called "cross-dressing clowns" to boot -- Admiral "Rachel" Levine, anyone? Or people who are letting them into the military and giving them free rein.
One of the great points from Charlie Kirk was this bit:
"On January 21, 2025, Kirk praised Trump for revoking Executive Order 14004, which had allowed transgender people to serve openly in the military, and said, 'Sorry, if you're Jeff and you think you're Jill, you are not going to serve in the U.S. military. Go find something else to do.' ..."
There's no "i" in "PROUD", but there IS in "PRIDE"....
(I heard that Atsuka PhRMA is releasing a new version of Fukitol with short-range RFID chips which transmit to a wearable, internet connected device?....That's actually true, but it's about "Abilify", so Fukitol....)....
Thank-you, and I'm sorry, my friend. I'm still getting used to being Charlie Kirk now, too.....
Richard (“Rachel”) Levine was not in the military. He was a commissioned officer in the “Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,” which is part of HHS.
👍🙂 Nice to know what his "dead name" had been, particularly as I had been wondering about it. A real dick in any case ... 😉🙂
But had heard that bit about him being in the PHSCC -- in command of a flotila of fucking factotums? A rather pretentious title at best.
Though, somewhat more important and damning is that I had read, in a fairly reputable source if I remember correctly, that he had put his thumbs, to the elbows, on the scales in favour of permitting "gender-affirming care" on minors. A more odious euphemism is scarcely imaginable since it boils down into the sterilization and castration of autistic and dysphoric children.
One might, at a stretch, make a scientifically credible argument that some kids shouldn't be allowed into the "gene pool", so to speak. But that is not at all what various "Dr. Mengeles" are arguing. It is that some "gender non-conforming" kids should be sterilized, castrated, and their genitalia mangled, and "trans-mogrified", into some ersatz replica of the other sex.
Medical scandal and crime of the century. Whole bunch of "the usual suspects" -- their names are legion, though I have receipts -- should lose their licenses to practice medicine, law, philosophy, parenthood, and biology, if not be strung up by their nuts, if they still have them, and be left to twist in the wind, figuratively speaking of course ...
As to the PHSCC, it official mission is: "Protecting, promoting, and advancing the health and safety of the Nation.”
I fail to distinguish that from any number of other Federal and State agencies with comparable missions. It was chartered in 1798, when those other agencies didn’t exist.
I suspect strongly that it continues out of tradition rather than need. It would appear to be populated by doctors who like uniforms but not the bullets that traditionally go with them.
You’d think that if you watched the left media bloviate.
What he actually said is that he saw some fat generals walking the halls of the Pentagon.
People will take whatever he and The Donald say and construe it in the worst possible way, omitting context and in some (most) cases outright lying about what was said.
You called it! On ABCs GMA, Trump's buddy George Stephanopoulos just had
Senor Hakeem Yeffries on, making the claim that Trump said he wants to use the American public for target practice, in response to trump saying that enforcement assistance in cities would be good training.
It's telling that they didn't have comments from Thune, Johnson, or Hegseth.... the legacy media needs the plug pulled on their life support.... totally captured woke institutions.... worthless to the public at large.
And having them off air due to the public's choice based on ratings is how they should be unplugged, not because the President or any other political leader says so. That is the sweetest revenge, and Constitutional.
Not that many years ago I had a friend that was a Air National Guard employee with a desk job. She had to pass regular fitness tests that included a healthy weight standard in order to keep her job. Not a general, not a soldier. She had a desk job.
Zumwalt permitted beards, then along came Reagan´s perfumed pansy-warrior John Lehman, and OFF WITH THE BEARDS! Lehman and Hegseth: two exemplars from the American school of frat-boy leadership.
I watched the entire speech. Not one thing he said should be considered controversial, unless, of course, you don't give a rat's patoot about military readiness.
He stated clearly multiple times that if women can meet the physical standards, they will be a very welcome addition. Same with anyone of any race - meet the standards and you're in. No more lowering standards for ANYONE. He also stated unequivocally that anyone guilty of sexual harassment or racial discrimination will be dismissed. How is that controversial?
Normal? Normal is standing behind the podium like a fucking grownup, out of respect for the grownups in the room. Normal is keeping a draft-dodging overweight and borderline senile President away from this shitshow. TDS goes both ways, it seems.
"Normal is standing behind the podium like a fucking grownup . . . " Hegseth wouldn't have been my choice for the job, but I'm impressed he can speak with no notes or teleprompter and without getting lost or wandering off stage.
Yours is a very grownup and reasoned comment, but I doubt very much that his delivery was not aided in some way, maybe an earpiece. Frankly I don´t care one way or the other. I just write these comments for the fun of it.
I'm very impressed that you took the time to watch this very long (2.5 hour) video! Thank you for reporting what Hegseth said, I appreciate that very much as I don't have the time to watch it much as I'd like to. Hegseth is restoring military to the military I knew as a kid. I'm 70 y.o and come from a military family - this was very important to me that military got restored to what it should be - a well-run military and only qualification should be those that meet the physical standards. My dad was a mustang admiral who was in WW2, my mom was one of the first WACs in WW2 and my husband was a mustang officer in Coast Guard in Vietnam War. When admirals who were men started wearing high heels, that was the last straw for me. I'm so glad my dad didn't live to see that! He was proud of being in the military and would have had a heart attack! For me, the military being restored to greatness means AMERICA IS BACK!!!!
Another thing I read today was the reinstated Presidential Fitness Test announced in July but lightly reported on. I fondly remember marking on the form in sixth grade (way back machine humming now) my times in the 50 yd dash, 600 yard run, shuttle race, counts for chin ups, push-ups, sit-ups. I was proud. Today, teachers worry about the little darlings feeling anxious, or embarrassed, or unworthy if they are compelled to “compete.” If it gets started in the sixth grade, you won’t have to worry about fat (and anxious) generals. Go Pete.
I remember those days - there were hardly any fat kids in those days either. Sounds like you were a dedicated athlete who really enjoyed athletics. The teaching field has become something very different now, very sad.
I didn’t watch the two plus hour video. Just all of Hegseth’s portion where he outlined the ten point plan of action. That was close to an hour, but watched as I did my morning workout.
If I understand correctly, the male physical standard he was talking about applies only to ground combat roles. He wasn't saying women who serve in noncombat roles, or even aerial and naval combat roles, have to meet strictly male physical standards. But I knew the minute he put this out there, there'd be people pouncing on this.
Not really sure how black men can't meet male physical standards though. That claim is wild.
He never implied that it was rare for black men to pass the physical standards test. He talked about women who pass the standards being welcome and those who fail being out of luck, whether male or female. In short, one standard (singular) that all must be held to.
I meant John Harwood’s claim that there’d be no blacks in leadership. Isn’t he in effect saying black men can’t meet the fitness standards? Is that how bad he thinks black men would perform? Totally wild.
I'll have to go back and listen again. That's not my recollection. On the fitness standards, I recall him referencing women and 'weak' men who might not pass. I don't recall any reference to black men, but I won't stake my life that he didn't. I think he made the point that everyone, men and women, regardless their race or other immutable characteristics would be held to the same standard as far as the physical test.
He didn’t. Again, I wasn’t talking about Hegseth. I was talking about John Harwood’s X post implying blacks can’t past Hegseth’s fitness tests to get to leadership positions. Harwood said it. See the article.
What in the flying fuck does a white-bread mannequin like John Harwood know about black people? Our progressive aristocracy has a proprietary interest in black history and suffering, they treat it like it's a small startup they swallowed to consolidate market share—despite the fact that the only black people they know are either their servants or a small upper-crust that's been processed through upscale academia to share all the same dogma.
Along with the endless promiscuous Hitler/Nazi analogies, this is another dead-idea walking that needs to die now that the 20th century is gone: "WE are the GOOD whites who love and protect [blacks/browns/migrants/criminals/LGBLTs], unlike those wicked BAD whites, who we deserve to rule over in perpetuity."
Does anyone outside the liberal media bubble buy this phony condescending paternalism anymore? Is there anything left to modern liberalism besides this holier-than-thou pose about their love for the downtrodden? "Do as we say—or else a black guy gets it!" is the lowest form of moral blackmail.
National Lampoon, actually. No political correctness back then. Challenging stupidity was funny. Anyone woke would be humiliated back into hiding. Rachel Levine would be a clown in a clown show back then.
I just watched Blazing Saddles with my kids last weekend and, although Cleavon Little's performance was stupendous throughout, that scene is still jawdroppingly amazing (and hilarious). And props to Richard Pryor for writing it.
🙂 Certainly an "arresting", amusing -- laugh out loud, and insightful criticism of the current "zeitgeist".
Reminded me of another equally talented black comedian, Chris Rock, one of his YouTube videos being rather damning of many in the black community. Extensive elaboration on some of the themes he addressed in this article on linguistics:
The semantics of slurs: A refutation of coreferentialism; Adam M. Croom
A salient quote from Rock's video, link probably in the one above:
CR: Niggas hate knowledge. Shit, I was talking about niggas breaking in your house, well if you want to save your money put it in your books. Cause niggas don’t read. Put the money in the books, shit, books are like kryptonite to a nigga […]
🙂 Somewhat incongruous or a nonsequitur? 🙂 Though I assume you mean Croom's paper?
But while this case might be more a clownshow than one by any professional comedian, you might have some interest in this review of Matt Walsh's documentary "What is a woman?" -- certainly some humorous moments at least -- by Skeptic Michael Shermer, several of my comments there in particular which tie-in to and elaborate on Shermer's own discussion of Wittgenstein:
Yep, great routine. And the extra flourish of the kung fu sound fx at the end of it: "your kung fu is pretty lousy for a Shaolin monk!" was a brilliant coda to the punchline.
Its all bullshit. They despise us because we have no use for people like Harwood. Narcissist can't stand being ignored or questioned, and there's only one thing they hate more than disobedience; disrespect.
How can you respect anyone who thinks any opinion you have is proof positive of their moral superiority?!
Your opinions, no matter how kind and enlightened, can't be any better than you are. But I guess getting paid for mouthing bullshit on CNN exempts you from basic mortal wisdom.
(curtsies), you are most welcome! btw, I was just thinking about this topic the other day and how worn out the whole "racist" thing is. I think it's truly time to retire that meme.
And Voter ID was Jim Crow 2.0 and President Mr Magoo also said: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” (Nice touch with the "aint", Joe knows how to speak fluent Ebonics.)
No matter the input, our progressive aristocracy has a single output: THEY are Dr King and everyone else is George Wallace.
They cling to this worldview as much as any religious fundamentalist clings to theirs.
Thus, my alias! Biden and this comment was so reprehensible to me that I decided to memorialize it. I want it written on his tombstone! Even if I have to write it with permanent marker!! 2nd worst President ever! Obama is my first.
These fat generals are also the ones that made the call on the Afghanistan withdrawal and other such high points. If weight and fitness standards are employed to shuffle them off into retirement, so be it. It's healthier and cheaper than prosecuting them. I love this speech. Our young are fat, lazy and stupid... by and large. The idea of a drill sergeant screaming in their faces them and demanding pushups is more than mildly satisfying to think about.
What makes you say that? Who would be envious of things like them? Are you insinuating that we wish we were fat, lazy, and stupid? I might go for the lazy, but not the other 2.
I'm not envious of anyone and I'm a Boomer. I'm glad I was born when I was, after us boomers, the young folks were jabbed ad infinitum and had their brains and bodies destroyed and weren't raised too well for the most part, also don't have much in the way of a work ethic. Yes, there are exceptions and I know some, but overall they are not measuring up to what humans should be IMHO.
Maybe you could put in a (sarc) warning? You had 2 responses and neither of us got that - considering how much we Boomers are completely thrashed and insulted in comment sections (I've seen WAAY too much of that), I just took it for granted we Boomers were again being insulted. My apologies.
I was born in 1952. If you do the /sarc thing I think you're insulting people's intelligence. No one is going to get every joke. I've heard jokes I didn't get until someone explained them to me.
I know that we Boomers, at least the ones I grew up around, did not disrespect old people. It's too bad GenZ hasn't been trained.
And who made the decision to jab those young folks? They themselves were too young. Who didn't do a good job of raising them for the most part? Some group of people...rhymes with "rumors."
My point is that it's the jabs that have dumbed down the generations after the Boomers. It used to be known when I was a kid that you NEVER jab a child under age 6, as it can and probably will cause some brain damage. Jabs didn't start to be administered to babies (and become so numerous) until 1991, so Boomers were too old to have babies by then. Also, they were mandated, it wasn't something parents decided to do. Kids now are being jabbed with 92 vaxes before they leave childhood - all that mercury, aluminum and SV40 cancer cells add up to A LOT of poisons in the body and causes brain damage. I've met too many young people in their 20s who have lots of memory problems that they shouldn't be having. I'm 70 y.o. and I remember when all this started happening. You can blame the Boomers all you want to but we didn't cause the vaccine craziness. I also see way too many young people blaming boomers for things we never caused and young folks don't seem to know about boomer generation, we get blamed for lots of things we didn't do.
I was curious as a gen x so looked it up. While jabs were given to babies in the 60’s-80’s, the actual vaccine schedule didn’t come out until 1983. And, the jabs were spread out in the 60’s, not all at once ( just like the President said last week!). And yes there were a lot less. See below:
While the DTP and polio vaccines were constants in the schedules for both the 1960s and 1980s, there were two notable differences:
Smallpox vaccination: A routine part of childhood vaccinations in the 1960s, it was discontinued by 1980 due to the global eradication of the disease.
MMR vs. single-disease shots: For children born before 1971, vaccines for measles, mumps (licensed in 1967), and rubella (licensed in 1969) were given as single shots. By 1980, the combined MMR vaccine, which was first licensed in 1971, had become the standard.
As for wasting money gathering all of these generals from afar... aren't these the same folks that lathered $20,000,000,000.00 for "climate action" on NGO's that had no discernable track record at all? I don't now who said it before, but these liberals and their lapdog media should have to carry around a houseplant to offset the oxygen they suck from the room they inhabit.
Hegseth gives a speech on single standards and ending quotas, and Harwood thinks that means blacks and women can’t make it: the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Hardwood is apparently a girly man who doesn’t follow the NFL. If there’s black badasses like that in the military protecting my milquetoast ass (and I know there is), I’ll gladly be the nerd who designs the tools they need to carry on. USA #1!!! 🫡
Like Bill Murray said in Stripes, “We’re the mutts of the world!” I’m damn proud of it, too! Our ancestors all came here for the American dream. Why are so many willing to break our immigration laws if this place sucks so bad??
"We are going to win bigly....but not too big....you know that Milley guy...some people would say he is a big fat guy....I wouldn't say that, but some people say it...and they say to me...Mr. President you shouldn't talk about people that way...'boy is that guy fat'." I voted for Trump to cut the fat in government. I didn't know he was going to take me literally. Finally. Good. MORE. Take your pick.
Fortunately, I've become so jaded by the substandard performance of our media and resident "experts" that when I see tripe as this, I don't even slow down...I just ignore it and press on. I wonder if we can bring back deplatforming...no, wait...
To give you an idea of how inefficient the military is, just look at these numbers:
At the end of WW2 we had a total of 16 mil people who served in a conflict that spanned every continent except Antarctica. We had ONE general or flag officer per 8,000 servicemen.
Today we have 1.3 mil people in active duty with one general per 1,500.
The military has just become another bureaucracy.
Its being broke up and they know their "patronage" game is over, hence the fits.
There was nothing said that could not have been said in a series of memos and, Hegseth stated, those memos are now in their inboxes.
The purpose of the meeting was two-fold. First, obviously weight and standards apply to GO/FOs as well now. "I brought you back to DC to see for myself." 2) And perhaps more important, Hegseth was telling them in no uncertain terms "I am your boss." It's well understood that a lot of the brass look down on SecWar. That won't stop but now those Admirals and Generals have met the enemy they denounce and they got the word, he's not taking any crap.
The meeting was really addressed to the officers beneath the top brass. 'New sheriff in town kids with new rules! Follow me and I will have your back against these fuddy duddies!"
No wonder we are constantly nagged that reality is not reality. MSM and plenty of indies out there keep telling us day is night and some even believe them.
As much as possible one must witness events and judge for oneself. As highly staged and scripted as so much of politics and public events are, we can make up our own minds as to what we just saw and heard. We should remember regardless that it was once said, the whole world's a stage and public opinion must be managed by power brokers. We can decide for ourselves.
... and now it's going to be yet another "accepted fact" in their dossier on Hegseth (and by extension, Trump), impervious to any attempt to provide context and set the record straight.
Did Pete Hegseth just call a bunch of Generals into a room to call them fat? 😂
It's so incredibly based. I can't stop laughing.
You can already tell the military is running better since Hegseth took the helm by just the fact there were no leaks about the agenda prior to the meeting.
Solid point!
💀
Yes, then enter THE FAT PRESIDENT. Real based.
I give you: The mind of a libtard.
He has a point. Has Trump improved his shape since Bobby joined the government? I haven't seen a change, but I'd like to.
He has lost about 25 pounds after becoming friends with RFK Jr. But since he isn't front-line military, who cares?
Really? That's awesome!
You´re correct. He´s not front-line. He´s a drone operator. His mouth just drones, on and on.
If you want him to stay healthy, you should care. We don't need another William Howard Taft stuck in the bathtub.
How much bulk is the bullet proof vest?
I don't know.
At least he doesn’t drink alcohol or smoke. Gotta give him some credit for that. 🤷🏻♀️
He's obviously slipping fast into Biden land. History repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. But American history repeats itself as a re-run.
Just curious - since you're so very perceptive, when did you notice that Biden was not fit for office?
Libtards aside, if you´re enjoying the circus, stick around for the clown show. And don´t forget, sometimes the big top catches fire. Now there's a show for ya!
So you think the CinC needs to run the hundred in 18 sec? You do realize he’s 15 yrs past the mandatory retirement age for general officers?
POTUS provides 3 things for the military unconnected to his weight:
1) Clarity of mission,
2) Funding,
3) Loyalty to those who serve
There a great line in “The Enforcer” where Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is participating in a promotion interview panel and is forced to ask a back office female officer a “field performance” question, so he says “How fast can you run the hundred?”
🙂 Bunch of them should be called "cross-dressing clowns" to boot -- Admiral "Rachel" Levine, anyone? Or people who are letting them into the military and giving them free rein.
One of the great points from Charlie Kirk was this bit:
"On January 21, 2025, Kirk praised Trump for revoking Executive Order 14004, which had allowed transgender people to serve openly in the military, and said, 'Sorry, if you're Jeff and you think you're Jill, you are not going to serve in the U.S. military. Go find something else to do.' ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk#LGBTQ_issues
Seems pretty sensible to me, but maybe I'm "biased" ... 😉🙂
There's no "i" in "based".
There's no "i" in "PROUD", but there IS in "PRIDE"....
(I heard that Atsuka PhRMA is releasing a new version of Fukitol with short-range RFID chips which transmit to a wearable, internet connected device?....That's actually true, but it's about "Abilify", so Fukitol....)....
Thank-you, and I'm sorry, my friend. I'm still getting used to being Charlie Kirk now, too.....
Richard (“Rachel”) Levine was not in the military. He was a commissioned officer in the “Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,” which is part of HHS.
👍🙂 Nice to know what his "dead name" had been, particularly as I had been wondering about it. A real dick in any case ... 😉🙂
But had heard that bit about him being in the PHSCC -- in command of a flotila of fucking factotums? A rather pretentious title at best.
Though, somewhat more important and damning is that I had read, in a fairly reputable source if I remember correctly, that he had put his thumbs, to the elbows, on the scales in favour of permitting "gender-affirming care" on minors. A more odious euphemism is scarcely imaginable since it boils down into the sterilization and castration of autistic and dysphoric children.
One might, at a stretch, make a scientifically credible argument that some kids shouldn't be allowed into the "gene pool", so to speak. But that is not at all what various "Dr. Mengeles" are arguing. It is that some "gender non-conforming" kids should be sterilized, castrated, and their genitalia mangled, and "trans-mogrified", into some ersatz replica of the other sex.
Medical scandal and crime of the century. Whole bunch of "the usual suspects" -- their names are legion, though I have receipts -- should lose their licenses to practice medicine, law, philosophy, parenthood, and biology, if not be strung up by their nuts, if they still have them, and be left to twist in the wind, figuratively speaking of course ...
Neither a "Rachel" nor an "Admiral"!
As to the PHSCC, it official mission is: "Protecting, promoting, and advancing the health and safety of the Nation.”
I fail to distinguish that from any number of other Federal and State agencies with comparable missions. It was chartered in 1798, when those other agencies didn’t exist.
I suspect strongly that it continues out of tradition rather than need. It would appear to be populated by doctors who like uniforms but not the bullets that traditionally go with them.
You’d think that if you watched the left media bloviate.
What he actually said is that he saw some fat generals walking the halls of the Pentagon.
People will take whatever he and The Donald say and construe it in the worst possible way, omitting context and in some (most) cases outright lying about what was said.
You called it! On ABCs GMA, Trump's buddy George Stephanopoulos just had
Senor Hakeem Yeffries on, making the claim that Trump said he wants to use the American public for target practice, in response to trump saying that enforcement assistance in cities would be good training.
It's telling that they didn't have comments from Thune, Johnson, or Hegseth.... the legacy media needs the plug pulled on their life support.... totally captured woke institutions.... worthless to the public at large.
" . . . the legacy media needs the plug pulled on their life support.... totally captured woke institutions.... worthless to the public at large."
Well, the plug has been pulled on their ratings, so there's that.
And having them off air due to the public's choice based on ratings is how they should be unplugged, not because the President or any other political leader says so. That is the sweetest revenge, and Constitutional.
"Senor Hakeem Yeffries" 🤣👍
It's about damn time someone did!
I didn't vote for Trump, but if I did, this is what I would have voted for
That’s what you call wall to wall counseling my friends. I believe Chris knows what I’m talking about.
The best part!!!
Fat AND pussies!! There’ll be no more tolerance for traitors like General Mark Milley!!
He needed to tell them!
Not that many years ago I had a friend that was a Air National Guard employee with a desk job. She had to pass regular fitness tests that included a healthy weight standard in order to keep her job. Not a general, not a soldier. She had a desk job.
Our military needs to be fit. It’s a no brainer.
https://x.com/drefanzor/status/1973083964840521742?s=19
That’s a Texas Sized 10-4
My favorite line was either “No more beardos,” or “If you want to grow a beard, join the special forces.” 💞
Zumwalt permitted beards, then along came Reagan´s perfumed pansy-warrior John Lehman, and OFF WITH THE BEARDS! Lehman and Hegseth: two exemplars from the American school of frat-boy leadership.
And said get fit, or GTFO!
Hehehe chubsters🤭
Fat, yes, but if he mentioned gynecomastia, I didn't hear it.
Yah, but just in those uniform pants.
I watched the entire speech. Not one thing he said should be considered controversial, unless, of course, you don't give a rat's patoot about military readiness.
He stated clearly multiple times that if women can meet the physical standards, they will be a very welcome addition. Same with anyone of any race - meet the standards and you're in. No more lowering standards for ANYONE. He also stated unequivocally that anyone guilty of sexual harassment or racial discrimination will be dismissed. How is that controversial?
"Not one thing he said should be considered controversial..."
Exactly what I thought. Every word of it was...normal. A firm demand for normal behavior.
Well, see, that's the problem. "A firm demand for NORMAL behavior." Who are we to expect the numb nuts to act normal? (Smartass attack.)
"A firm demand for normal behaviour" is... well... frankly, Hitler!
You know who else made a firm demand for normal? heh
Normal is one thing the Dems cannot abide.
You think you're kidding, BUT....a local Dem, on local talk radio, rejected the word "normal" as being too "problematic"....
They have no concept of.
Surprisingly normal. What a breath of fresh air .
Normal is clearly crazy and outrageous, if not downright illegal!
There's no room in the Democrat party for normal!
This is what enrages the left…straight up honest truth.
Normal is controversial.
Normal behavior—in the military, where lives are at stake for hells sake!
Normal? Normal is standing behind the podium like a fucking grownup, out of respect for the grownups in the room. Normal is keeping a draft-dodging overweight and borderline senile President away from this shitshow. TDS goes both ways, it seems.
"Normal is standing behind the podium like a fucking grownup . . . " Hegseth wouldn't have been my choice for the job, but I'm impressed he can speak with no notes or teleprompter and without getting lost or wandering off stage.
Yours is a very grownup and reasoned comment, but I doubt very much that his delivery was not aided in some way, maybe an earpiece. Frankly I don´t care one way or the other. I just write these comments for the fun of it.
I'm very impressed that you took the time to watch this very long (2.5 hour) video! Thank you for reporting what Hegseth said, I appreciate that very much as I don't have the time to watch it much as I'd like to. Hegseth is restoring military to the military I knew as a kid. I'm 70 y.o and come from a military family - this was very important to me that military got restored to what it should be - a well-run military and only qualification should be those that meet the physical standards. My dad was a mustang admiral who was in WW2, my mom was one of the first WACs in WW2 and my husband was a mustang officer in Coast Guard in Vietnam War. When admirals who were men started wearing high heels, that was the last straw for me. I'm so glad my dad didn't live to see that! He was proud of being in the military and would have had a heart attack! For me, the military being restored to greatness means AMERICA IS BACK!!!!
Then you would have stood and applauded when Pete said ‘no more men in dresses. We’re done with that s&*%!!!’
“No more dudes in dresses”…that sounded even better! :)
Another thing I read today was the reinstated Presidential Fitness Test announced in July but lightly reported on. I fondly remember marking on the form in sixth grade (way back machine humming now) my times in the 50 yd dash, 600 yard run, shuttle race, counts for chin ups, push-ups, sit-ups. I was proud. Today, teachers worry about the little darlings feeling anxious, or embarrassed, or unworthy if they are compelled to “compete.” If it gets started in the sixth grade, you won’t have to worry about fat (and anxious) generals. Go Pete.
I still have my presidential award patch from grade school. I was so excited to hear the program is being brought back!
I remember those days - there were hardly any fat kids in those days either. Sounds like you were a dedicated athlete who really enjoyed athletics. The teaching field has become something very different now, very sad.
I didn’t watch the two plus hour video. Just all of Hegseth’s portion where he outlined the ten point plan of action. That was close to an hour, but watched as I did my morning workout.
God bless you and thank you for your service!
Thank you - but I wasn't in the military, just my family members. But they would thank you!
What its really about is woke leadership invites distractions like this so they can avoid transparency and accountability.
If I understand correctly, the male physical standard he was talking about applies only to ground combat roles. He wasn't saying women who serve in noncombat roles, or even aerial and naval combat roles, have to meet strictly male physical standards. But I knew the minute he put this out there, there'd be people pouncing on this.
Not really sure how black men can't meet male physical standards though. That claim is wild.
He never implied that it was rare for black men to pass the physical standards test. He talked about women who pass the standards being welcome and those who fail being out of luck, whether male or female. In short, one standard (singular) that all must be held to.
I meant John Harwood’s claim that there’d be no blacks in leadership. Isn’t he in effect saying black men can’t meet the fitness standards? Is that how bad he thinks black men would perform? Totally wild.
I'll have to go back and listen again. That's not my recollection. On the fitness standards, I recall him referencing women and 'weak' men who might not pass. I don't recall any reference to black men, but I won't stake my life that he didn't. I think he made the point that everyone, men and women, regardless their race or other immutable characteristics would be held to the same standard as far as the physical test.
He didn’t. Again, I wasn’t talking about Hegseth. I was talking about John Harwood’s X post implying blacks can’t past Hegseth’s fitness tests to get to leadership positions. Harwood said it. See the article.
Thanks for the clarification. I misunderstood your comment.
They hear what they think.
Unfortunately he doesn't have the stomach to call for no women in combat arms. They do not belong.
It isn’t.
Left-wing people lie constantly. It's who they are.
🙌 Amen!
What in the flying fuck does a white-bread mannequin like John Harwood know about black people? Our progressive aristocracy has a proprietary interest in black history and suffering, they treat it like it's a small startup they swallowed to consolidate market share—despite the fact that the only black people they know are either their servants or a small upper-crust that's been processed through upscale academia to share all the same dogma.
Along with the endless promiscuous Hitler/Nazi analogies, this is another dead-idea walking that needs to die now that the 20th century is gone: "WE are the GOOD whites who love and protect [blacks/browns/migrants/criminals/LGBLTs], unlike those wicked BAD whites, who we deserve to rule over in perpetuity."
Does anyone outside the liberal media bubble buy this phony condescending paternalism anymore? Is there anything left to modern liberalism besides this holier-than-thou pose about their love for the downtrodden? "Do as we say—or else a black guy gets it!" is the lowest form of moral blackmail.
"Do as we say—or else a black guy gets it!"
Big LoL. Remember seeing that as an advertisement for a Mad Magazine some years ago ...😉🙂
And a Blazing Saddles too if I remember correctly.
National Lampoon, actually. No political correctness back then. Challenging stupidity was funny. Anyone woke would be humiliated back into hiding. Rachel Levine would be a clown in a clown show back then.
National Lampoon used a dog for their photo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JOGmXpe5I
never gets old!
A movie that could never be made in 2025.
ROFLMAO! Gotta get that one out again!
I just watched Blazing Saddles with my kids last weekend and, although Cleavon Little's performance was stupendous throughout, that scene is still jawdroppingly amazing (and hilarious). And props to Richard Pryor for writing it.
🙂 Certainly an "arresting", amusing -- laugh out loud, and insightful criticism of the current "zeitgeist".
Reminded me of another equally talented black comedian, Chris Rock, one of his YouTube videos being rather damning of many in the black community. Extensive elaboration on some of the themes he addressed in this article on linguistics:
The semantics of slurs: A refutation of coreferentialism; Adam M. Croom
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039015000041
A salient quote from Rock's video, link probably in the one above:
CR: Niggas hate knowledge. Shit, I was talking about niggas breaking in your house, well if you want to save your money put it in your books. Cause niggas don’t read. Put the money in the books, shit, books are like kryptonite to a nigga […]
Greatly enjoyed the piece. I wonder how many comedians besides Rock have been featured in papers that cite Wittgenstein?
🙂 Somewhat incongruous or a nonsequitur? 🙂 Though I assume you mean Croom's paper?
But while this case might be more a clownshow than one by any professional comedian, you might have some interest in this review of Matt Walsh's documentary "What is a woman?" -- certainly some humorous moments at least -- by Skeptic Michael Shermer, several of my comments there in particular which tie-in to and elaborate on Shermer's own discussion of Wittgenstein:
https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/what-is-a-woman-anyway/comment/7630788
https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/what-is-a-woman-anyway/comment/7679755
Sorry for the vagueness, I did indeed mean Croom's paper.
Yep, great routine. And the extra flourish of the kung fu sound fx at the end of it: "your kung fu is pretty lousy for a Shaolin monk!" was a brilliant coda to the punchline.
And thanks for the link: I will read it now.
Its all bullshit. They despise us because we have no use for people like Harwood. Narcissist can't stand being ignored or questioned, and there's only one thing they hate more than disobedience; disrespect.
How can you respect anyone who thinks any opinion you have is proof positive of their moral superiority?!
Your opinions, no matter how kind and enlightened, can't be any better than you are. But I guess getting paid for mouthing bullshit on CNN exempts you from basic mortal wisdom.
But dontcha know, Trump is creating a police state?:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/09/30/biden-put-people-who-opposed-mask-mandates-on-tsa-watchlist-n2664222
Oh wait......
OK, but can you tell us how you REALLY feel?? LOL, great summary, you nailed it and I, too, am sick of hearing this. I've heard this ever since 1961.
lol thx
(curtsies), you are most welcome! btw, I was just thinking about this topic the other day and how worn out the whole "racist" thing is. I think it's truly time to retire that meme.
Well, Slo Joe did say “They want to put y’all back in chains!”
And Voter ID was Jim Crow 2.0 and President Mr Magoo also said: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” (Nice touch with the "aint", Joe knows how to speak fluent Ebonics.)
No matter the input, our progressive aristocracy has a single output: THEY are Dr King and everyone else is George Wallace.
They cling to this worldview as much as any religious fundamentalist clings to theirs.
Thus, my alias! Biden and this comment was so reprehensible to me that I decided to memorialize it. I want it written on his tombstone! Even if I have to write it with permanent marker!! 2nd worst President ever! Obama is my first.
Love the pseudonym!!😂
These fat generals are also the ones that made the call on the Afghanistan withdrawal and other such high points. If weight and fitness standards are employed to shuffle them off into retirement, so be it. It's healthier and cheaper than prosecuting them. I love this speech. Our young are fat, lazy and stupid... by and large. The idea of a drill sergeant screaming in their faces them and demanding pushups is more than mildly satisfying to think about.
It's totally self-evident, if you know ANY young people at all, that, by-and-large, they ARE, fat, lazy, and stupid.
We're just envious Boomers.
What makes you say that? Who would be envious of things like them? Are you insinuating that we wish we were fat, lazy, and stupid? I might go for the lazy, but not the other 2.
It's meant to be ridiculous, Bandit.
Ok. You hit it out of the ballpark, in that case.
I'm not envious of anyone and I'm a Boomer. I'm glad I was born when I was, after us boomers, the young folks were jabbed ad infinitum and had their brains and bodies destroyed and weren't raised too well for the most part, also don't have much in the way of a work ethic. Yes, there are exceptions and I know some, but overall they are not measuring up to what humans should be IMHO.
For God's sake, it's irony. It's the Left which is humorless. Let's not join them in that.
Maybe you could put in a (sarc) warning? You had 2 responses and neither of us got that - considering how much we Boomers are completely thrashed and insulted in comment sections (I've seen WAAY too much of that), I just took it for granted we Boomers were again being insulted. My apologies.
I was born in 1952. If you do the /sarc thing I think you're insulting people's intelligence. No one is going to get every joke. I've heard jokes I didn't get until someone explained them to me.
I know that we Boomers, at least the ones I grew up around, did not disrespect old people. It's too bad GenZ hasn't been trained.
And who made the decision to jab those young folks? They themselves were too young. Who didn't do a good job of raising them for the most part? Some group of people...rhymes with "rumors."
My point is that it's the jabs that have dumbed down the generations after the Boomers. It used to be known when I was a kid that you NEVER jab a child under age 6, as it can and probably will cause some brain damage. Jabs didn't start to be administered to babies (and become so numerous) until 1991, so Boomers were too old to have babies by then. Also, they were mandated, it wasn't something parents decided to do. Kids now are being jabbed with 92 vaxes before they leave childhood - all that mercury, aluminum and SV40 cancer cells add up to A LOT of poisons in the body and causes brain damage. I've met too many young people in their 20s who have lots of memory problems that they shouldn't be having. I'm 70 y.o. and I remember when all this started happening. You can blame the Boomers all you want to but we didn't cause the vaccine craziness. I also see way too many young people blaming boomers for things we never caused and young folks don't seem to know about boomer generation, we get blamed for lots of things we didn't do.
Lord knows we're guilty of enough other things that we don't have room on our docket for anything more.
Perhaps our biggest mistake, if you ask me, is that we took musicians as our thought leaders.
You don't have to a nutcake to believe that our childhood vaccination schedule are too aggressive and, at least partially, profit motivated.
I was curious as a gen x so looked it up. While jabs were given to babies in the 60’s-80’s, the actual vaccine schedule didn’t come out until 1983. And, the jabs were spread out in the 60’s, not all at once ( just like the President said last week!). And yes there were a lot less. See below:
While the DTP and polio vaccines were constants in the schedules for both the 1960s and 1980s, there were two notable differences:
Smallpox vaccination: A routine part of childhood vaccinations in the 1960s, it was discontinued by 1980 due to the global eradication of the disease.
MMR vs. single-disease shots: For children born before 1971, vaccines for measles, mumps (licensed in 1967), and rubella (licensed in 1969) were given as single shots. By 1980, the combined MMR vaccine, which was first licensed in 1971, had become the standard.
Anyway the Department of Defense seemed wholly focused on War, and the Dept of War seems wholly focused on Defense.
But “War! They called it War!!!”
The only shame about his presentation is that it had to be done at all.
The beauty of it is nobody can complain they didn't understand his directives.
Now about that Ministry of Truth...
I see the world through Chris Bray polarized glasses now. He’s ruined me. 🤓
I agree although I like to think of it as his 'clarity' glasses or his 'truth' glasses
“The best defense is a great offense!” - George Washington
But it sounds so…well, warlike! And such toxic masculinity! LOL!
Harwood is a liar. In other news, the Sun rose this morning.
Lies like his are what got Charlie Kirk killed! For the media to propagate this bullshit is unforgivable!!
As for wasting money gathering all of these generals from afar... aren't these the same folks that lathered $20,000,000,000.00 for "climate action" on NGO's that had no discernable track record at all? I don't now who said it before, but these liberals and their lapdog media should have to carry around a houseplant to offset the oxygen they suck from the room they inhabit.
Some need to tote around whole forests to offset all the oxygen they waste on themselves.
GloboWoko recieves some pushback. Ever seen the movie Idiocracy? Truly prophetic 😂
It's been rebranded as a documentary😜
Mike Judge IS a prophet! He might’ve had a misfire on Beavis and Butthead but maybe I just didn’t get that one.
Hegseth gives a speech on single standards and ending quotas, and Harwood thinks that means blacks and women can’t make it: the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Hardwood is apparently a girly man who doesn’t follow the NFL. If there’s black badasses like that in the military protecting my milquetoast ass (and I know there is), I’ll gladly be the nerd who designs the tools they need to carry on. USA #1!!! 🫡
Like Bill Murray said in Stripes, “We’re the mutts of the world!” I’m damn proud of it, too! Our ancestors all came here for the American dream. Why are so many willing to break our immigration laws if this place sucks so bad??
Precisely. Some can't, some can. Those who can get offered a berth.
"We are going to win bigly....but not too big....you know that Milley guy...some people would say he is a big fat guy....I wouldn't say that, but some people say it...and they say to me...Mr. President you shouldn't talk about people that way...'boy is that guy fat'." I voted for Trump to cut the fat in government. I didn't know he was going to take me literally. Finally. Good. MORE. Take your pick.
Hillarious!! Thanks for making me laugh! And a “boy is that guy fat!” right back at ya!!! 🤣
Fortunately, I've become so jaded by the substandard performance of our media and resident "experts" that when I see tripe as this, I don't even slow down...I just ignore it and press on. I wonder if we can bring back deplatforming...no, wait...
To give you an idea of how inefficient the military is, just look at these numbers:
At the end of WW2 we had a total of 16 mil people who served in a conflict that spanned every continent except Antarctica. We had ONE general or flag officer per 8,000 servicemen.
Today we have 1.3 mil people in active duty with one general per 1,500.
The military has just become another bureaucracy.
Its being broke up and they know their "patronage" game is over, hence the fits.
A tale of two audiences.
I approve of the meeting but the sense I got was...
GenZ:
Whaddaya mean I gotta put on a suite and go into the office to meet the CEO? Can't I just do this on Zoom?
800 Flag officers:
There was nothing said that could not have been said in a series of memos and, Hegseth stated, those memos are now in their inboxes.
The purpose of the meeting was two-fold. First, obviously weight and standards apply to GO/FOs as well now. "I brought you back to DC to see for myself." 2) And perhaps more important, Hegseth was telling them in no uncertain terms "I am your boss." It's well understood that a lot of the brass look down on SecWar. That won't stop but now those Admirals and Generals have met the enemy they denounce and they got the word, he's not taking any crap.
Some will wander off to pasture life. Some will embrace the new ethos and thrive. Some will plan an assassination, political or otherwise.
When the meeting ended, a lot of golf clubs were purchased on-line.
I'm ok with that. there is 4x too much brass.
Pasture life = sinecure on lib TV or a defense company board of directors.
“He’s not taking any crap.”
As it should be!
The meeting was really addressed to the officers beneath the top brass. 'New sheriff in town kids with new rules! Follow me and I will have your back against these fuddy duddies!"
I largely agree with the announced policys.
No wonder we are constantly nagged that reality is not reality. MSM and plenty of indies out there keep telling us day is night and some even believe them.
As much as possible one must witness events and judge for oneself. As highly staged and scripted as so much of politics and public events are, we can make up our own minds as to what we just saw and heard. We should remember regardless that it was once said, the whole world's a stage and public opinion must be managed by power brokers. We can decide for ourselves.
Harwood can report whatever he likes, knowing that his readers would never fact check him.
... and now it's going to be yet another "accepted fact" in their dossier on Hegseth (and by extension, Trump), impervious to any attempt to provide context and set the record straight.