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.

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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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