r/politics • u/mom0nga • Jul 15 '26

No Paywall Hegseth announces annual testosterone screenings for service members

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5969935-hegseth-testosterone-testing-dod/
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u/Backwardspellcaster Jul 15 '26

Next will come the head measurements to determine intelligence

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u/Violet-Journey Jul 15 '26

Hegseth would definitely think that’s real. He has the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter.

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u/Philip_Marlowe Jul 15 '26

Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago.

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u/swordrat720 Jul 15 '26

And reaffirmed as fact 160 minutes ago.

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u/corpusjuris Jul 15 '26

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times

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u/firesmarter Jul 15 '26

Completely flat back of the head

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u/Mikeseddit Jul 15 '26

30 years ago, I knew a 60 year-old teacher in Japan who was raised by parents who thought babies should sleep on a big plank of wood. His nickname was “flathead.“ He had some laughs with it. He was smart enough to be a teacher, but it was pretty astounding – you could put a ruler on it.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 Jul 15 '26

A stagecoach tilter?

Google led me to The Simpsons, is that what you meant?

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u/plumbbbob Washington Jul 15 '26

Yeah, The Simpsons had a throwaway phrenology joke

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u/Bungle001 Jul 15 '26

If he thought it was real he'd have so much filler injected in his forehead he'd look like Megamind and think he was fooling everybody.