And it’s not a drinking contest. Good grief. Where is he getting these ideas? This one is kinda weird. It seems that he wants to upgrade the FBI, but he’s been listening to Hegseth. This is not important for the country. It could be important for the FBI, but the way he is going about this is approaching it from the side. He doesn’t need to make an end run when something would be better met head-on. With gratitude for Raw Story:
FBI Director Kash Patel’s latest training gimmick will be a competition to find the fittest male and female agents, according to new reports. The Daily Mail and Washington Examiner confirmed with bureau officials that the internal contest will look for the ‘fittest’ agents.
Wait, what? Why is he bothering with this when there are any number of things the FBI could be *doing* that would be better for the country? He *has* been listening to Hegseth. The agents in the ‘best’ physical fitness. Being in shape could certainly be good for field agents, but are they being taught other, more important things as well? How to read the room. How to spot someone tailing them. How to read body language. All of these are important, and there are many more. One would think it would be part of the overall training. But apparently, Kra$h thinks it’s most important.
Each of the FBI’s 56 field offices is expected to nominate one male and one female agent to represent them at the event, according to an FBI spokesperson who spoke with the Daily Mail.
Is this going to be some sort of MMA competition? Or weight lifting, obstacle course, what? They can’t win anything except the title. Some sort of prize would be close to tacky. It just doesn’t make much sense. A physical fitness test. Does anyone remember the days of decades ago with the President’s Physical Fitness tests? Those were funny and frustrating. Why does a girl need to know how to throw a ball? Nothing like blowing the rest away, then being faced with a stupid ball and blowing the chances of the top percentile, which had been earned in everything else. So, is this something like that? An FBI physical test, and you get a t-shirt? Yea, whatever. This is ridiculous. There are better things to do with his and their time. And the irony of an out-of-shape, heavy-drinking, disappearing FBI head doing this makes it a farce. We’ll see what happens.
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“Does anyone remember the days of decades ago with the President’s Physical Fitness tests? Those were funny and frustrating. Why does a girl need to know how to throw a ball? Nothing like blowing the rest away, then being faced with a stupid ball and blowing the chances of the top percentile, which had been earned in everything else.”
Well, I’m old enough to remember those and am genuinely fortunate I never had to participate in the nonsense. But, I’d like to ask why did *boys* “need to know how to throw a ball?” How did that knowledge prove FITNESS? Maybe I can’t throw a ball but I can damn well pull a bowstring and fire an arrow (getting it to hit a specific point on a target is a different issue). Considering the “test” had to be done in front of your classmates (and sometimes parents, from what I recall), it was more an opportunity to embarrass kids who already had issues with their self-esteem–and gave bullies yet another reason to pick on their existing victims (as well as a new group of potential victims).