The Proud Boys did not seem to provide all the recruits Pres Trump wanted for his personal militia?

So sad.

More from the cited article ...

...President Donald Trump's administration is grappling with an embarrassing setback in their plans for a recruitment surge of deportation officers, reported The Atlantic on Monday: tons of the people applying can't do the basic fitness test.

"More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency's plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes," reported Nick Miroff. "'It's pathetic,' one career [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous."

Now, because Trump officials have signficantly eased the hiring process, many people who cannot do even light exercise are getting job offers that may have to be revoked or altered once they get to the training facility, said the report: "An email from ICE headquarters to the agency's top officials on October 5 lamented that 'a considerable amount of athletically allergic candidates' had been showing up to the academy; they had 'misrepresented' their physical condition on application forms. The email directed leaders at ICE's field offices to conduct preliminary fitness exams with new recruits before sending them to the academy." ...

@#21 ... I see this as a similar circumstance. ...

How so?

(asking because I have not a clue)

@#2 ... "It is changing everything."

Specifically: Life Expectancy. ...

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
- - - Isaac Asimov

@#6 ... As usual, the problem is between the chair and the keyboard.

Yeah.

I fully admit that this was my self-induced issue.

I was not aware of the "yes or no" selection that RCade referred to in #5.

And, at the time I posted those comments I had been "tabbing" around the posting page. And at some point, I, it seems, twiddled that selection to not post the comment on the public blog.

So, yeah, I erred.

Many thanks, as always, for the corrections.

Remember that "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" dude from the early 1960's?

Well, he's back, and more interesting ...

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... An acolyte of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Takaichi is now almost certain to become prime minister at a parliamentary vote on Tuesday after her Liberal Democratic Party on Monday agreed to a coalition deal with the right-wing Japan Innovation Party, known as Ishin. She is expected to appoint another Abe protege, Satsuki Katayama, to the post of finance chief, local media reported. ...

... Efforts by some encouraging the U.S. Air Force Academy to posthumously honor former conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk were rejected ...

And, imo, correctly so.

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... With Manookian in the video are two of her allies, the leaders of Health Freedom Idaho. It was April 4, hours after the governor signed the Idaho Medical Freedom Act into law.

The act makes it illegal for state and local governments, private businesses, employers, schools, and daycares to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any other "medical intervention." ...

@#2 ... How will the Palestine people benefit from any of these "deals" that have been proposed? ...

Will there be, or will there not be, a self-governing Palestine State established?

@#50 ... #49 That's the attitude - it's the message not the entertainment. That's why nobody watches anymore. ...

Hollywood still seems to be making money.

Yeah, it seems to have turned from movie theaters to streaming, but it still seems to be making money.

In a Capitalist world, that is A Good Thing. No?

So the "no one watches it" attribution seems to be rather lame, even for you to say.

Doncha think?

What else yer got?

@#26 ... Great song. ...

Agreed.

A shame it seemed to have been relegated to college radio, though.

@#48 ... Where is my entertainment? ...

It is not about your entertainment.

It is about the entertainment of the public.

Stated differently, if you do not like what Hollywood produces, then don't watch those productions.

See, simple.

imo ...

She is going to be pardoned for her silence.

Child of the Universe...

Back in the day, this was a song that engendered emotions ...

... Antisemitic Paul Ingrassia (30), Dummkopf Trumpf's embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be "tossed into the seventh circle of hell" and brazenly admits he has "a Nazi streak. ...

So, apparently an excellent fit in the current Trump admin?

The Republican-controlled Congress should approve him forthwith, if that approval is needed for this nomination.

/s

@#25

I have things I could say.

But for now, I'll not say them.

@#12 ... " Hate speech" is not defined as anything you and your ilk disagree with. ...

... It was the latest swing in Trump's position on the war that often shifts following contact with Putin, who has shown skill in persuading the U.S. president. ...

"Persuading" or "dictating to?"

That is the question that I have.

@#37 ... #36 Lampy, have you kept up with Marvel? When they discontinued Captain America, he was overseeing an encampment of Black soldiers who had been given the super soldier serum, and the government ordered them all killed in an artillery strike. Look it up if you don't beleive me. ...

It is not whether or not I believe you.

imo, it is that you seem to ascribe the imagination of Hollywood to reality, apparently failing to understand that Hollywood is not reality, but a profit-seeking entity.

.