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I’m heading back towards Colorado today so my already minor output might be even more minor. Before I go, lets talk about the weak men who inhabit the Trump administration. First, Hegseth, who has banned some photographers from his press briefings because they took “unflattering” photographs. Perhaps this is one of them:
Pete Hegseth demonstrates the size of his erect penis at a Pentagon briefing.
Strong Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard energy from old Kegstand:
Moving on, another totally unqualified fragile male ego at the FBI has decided that he’s got the cure for a non-problem in the institution he’s decimating:
FBI director Kash Patel and UFC CEO Dana White have partnered for an unprecedented training seminar. UFC fighters are headed to Quantico, Virginia, where they will offer instruction at the FBI Special Agent Academy on Saturday and Sunday.
One of the interesting things about Patel’s tenure at the FBI is that the Trump chaos (Iran War, Epstein, etc., etc.) is completely obscuring the fact that Patel’s FBI can’t find Savannah Guthrie’s mom. In a normal timeline, the abduction of Nancy Guthrie would be the kind of story that the press would obsess on for days, trying to hold the FBI, the President and every other elected official responsible for their abject failure to find an woman who is probably buried somewhere in the vast desert outside of Tucson. Patel has lucked out, so far.
Since this post is about appearance of MAGA men, I just want to point out that MAGA is also weird about femininity, as you can see from the plasticized faces to the left and right of Patel:
I’m not a big believer in diagnosis by non-physicians from afar, but I’ll break my rule to point out that Kash probably has Grave’s Disease (hyperthyroidism), which is characterized by Grave’s opthalmopathy, a bulging of the eyes and lid retraction. Barbara Bush had it. I hope he’s getting treatment from someone other than the guy prescribing his botox, boner pills and testosterone. As a non-board-certified non-physician, it is my duty to leave open the possibility that his odd appearance might be some kind of weird reaction to whatever other hormones his Dr. Feelgood has been prescribing.
While I’m making completely unfounded medical speculation, Hegseth is almost certainly on some kind of muscle building hormones that, mercifully for future generations, will shrivel his testicles to the size of raisins and make it impossible for him to procreate further.
The reason these guys work out obsessively and wear suits that are a size too small is because they are completely insecure about their place in the world. I grew up in a part of the country where, whatever bad things you want to say about the men (and there are a lot of bad things to say), they didn’t exude the weak-ass, overcompensating hyper-masculinity of these losers. Something went wrong with Pete and Kash’s parenting, and I hope that science will someday explain why these obviously mediocre men think they can hold themselves out as examples to actually decent males.
On the same topic, Reader R Po sent me a piece about a pastor in Prescott, AZ who is in charge of a site called manhood.org, but that’s just his latest grift. Since this is an appearances post, this fucker is so creepy looking that I hope women cross to the other side of the street if they see him coming:
This guy calls himself a “Christian” but he’s really just another member of the He-Man-Women-Haters Club:
DINGMAN: I know that the wealth-building component of this is only one piece of it. ... Some of the other core tenets here are holy ambition, health for high performers. And to be clear, you see those things as core to masculinity specifically.
PARTRIDGE: Yes, I would say that they are core to masculinity ...
DINGMAN: ... Just to say, I could also imagine women caring about all of those things.
PARTRIDGE: Yeah, they can, certainly. Women are going to care about all those things, but in different ways. Men are designed naturally to lead. They’re designed to build, to protect, to be these providers.
And so women are incredible administrators. They’re incredible helpers. They’re incredible nurturers. They have not felt free to be feminine.
Feminism, in my opinion — this might sound harsh — it’s generally women wanting not to just be treated like men, but to really act like men. ...
DINGMAN: But what do you say to a woman who would hear you say that and assert the idea that it is not for a man to dictate what is in their nature to want or desire?
PARTRIDGE: Well, I’d say that no one’s forcing anybody to do anything.
DINGMAN: But you are. Just to be clear, Dale, you are asserting that this is the superior worldview to which everyone else must submit.
PARTRIDGE: Correct. But so is everybody else. ... It’s politicize or be politicized.
DINGMAN: But do you think feminism seeks to have the worldview you politely believe in submit to it?
PARTRIDGE: A hundred-percent.
Read the whole thing because it’s yet another example of a local journalist doing a far better job than DC journalists paid an order of magnitude more.
One of the key characteristics of MAGA is that they all believe they’re persecuted victims even though they’re the top turds on the shitpile. One of the key characteristics of the kind of “Christianity” that Dingman practices is the idea that women are child-bearing slave labor.
Since my wife and I are, in my kid’s words, “squatters” — staying in short-term rentals for a few months at a time — we get to meet a lot of different people. We rented from a couple a few years ago where the husband was a mini-Dingman. They were church-goers. They had young children, and it was obvious that she did most of the work because she looked tired all the time. She also handled every aspect of the rental. I guess she was an “incredible administrator.” He was some kind of a manhood coach, with a divinity degree and a questionable counseling practice. I hardly ever saw the guy, but one time he was working on something in the back yard of our rental, and I really had to suppress my urge to punch him in his fucking face. One of his counseling “specialties” was marital infidelity, and when I talked to his weasely ass, I had the strong feeling that he had cheated on his sweet, hard-working wife.
My wife says I should be more charitable, and she’s probably right. But I’m also a strong believer in the notion that if someone gives you the ick, trust your instincts. All of the guys I’ve mentioned in this post give me the ick, and I’m certainly going to trust my instincts.
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