Lookin' (Not) Good

He looks like Karl Malden now.

You know how? Long haul covid. The upside of being an antivaxxer and surviving 'rona.

Out of everyone in the Trump regime, he's the scariest.

He’s lying. He did gastric bypass or sleeve, or maybe went on something like Wegovy/Ozempic. It’s just about impossible to lose that much weight in that short time on your own.

Is it sweet justice that anti-women republican types always get a neck pussy staring at them every time they look in the mirror?

No one cares about this person

Some people look better fat.

He still looks like an asshole to me. Maybe losing another 200 pounds would fix that.

That's an average of 15 lbs. per month. He could do it but if he did it by diet (and a little exercise) he would have had to eat a starvation diet. Literally about 500 calories a day. For a man his age he probably wouldn't have survived on a regime like that. Nope, he's had some sort of surgical procedure.

He had a shitty personality when he was well fed. Can you imagine what he's like when he's hungry all the time?

He looks like Asa Buchanan.

90 pounds in six months is 3.5 pounds a week, or a calorie deficit of 1750 a day. If he was burning 2750 calories a day, he could eat 1000. If he was really exercising a lot, he could have been eating 1500 a day. I agree that gastric bypass (or maybe one of those less extreme, temporary procedures) is more likely than just willpower, but it’s possible. Gastric bypass just makes it harder to overeat. It doesn’t change how much weight you will lose on a given caloric intake.

[quote]He’s running.

He looks like he could barely walk.

It sounds like he’d never really dieted in his life, so I actually could believe this was just disciplined eating and working out. The first time is always the easiest, it’s after you regain and try to lose again that your body gets more stubborn.

He’s running FOR POTUS. That’s why he shed the weight.

Maybe fellow-dieter Star Jones could be his running mate.

I actually think he looks pretty good with all the weight off. I also actually think it doesn't matter - he's still a scum-sucking arrogant bastard.

[quote] he's still a scum-sucking arrogant bastard.

[bold] Christofascist [/bold] scum-sucking arrogant bastard

See also: McEneny, Kaleigh

See also: DeSantis, Ronald

See also: Barr, William

Mike Pompeo will never be president!

Having lost and gained and lost and regained (as painful as the scene in Chinatown) I am really skeptical he lost 90 pounds at his age in six months in his basement. People with a ton of weight to lose do lose a ton at the start but that kind of rapid weight loss doesn't usually happen without some intervention beyond diet and exercise.

He looks much better now but he’s still a giant douchebag,

From the article: “ But the change in diet hasn’t changed family restaurant traditions — IHOP is still the Pompeos’ favorite”

Fucking spare me and this faux folksy bullshit.

Wonder if he’s running.

The New Yorker profiled him — he started off as a never trumper and in fact gave that famous speech about it being “time to turn off the lights on the circus” (the trump candidacy) that so many of us applauded.

Then he got an introduction into the admin and quickly proved himself the ultimate loyalist and best in-fighter. He’s completely amoral. His one and only goal was to prevent accommodations and deals with Iran. He got what he wanted.

Maybe it was chronic, massive diarrhea resulting from his fear the justice is coming for Dump and all of his lackey enablers.

This guy is pure fucking evil

This was not diet and exercise

She still looks like a fat uber cunt.

[quote] Christofascist scum-sucking arrogant bastard

[quote] See also: McEneny, Kaleigh

[quote] See also: DeSantis, Ronald

[quote] See also: Barr, William

See also: Hawley, Joshua

See also: Cotton, Thomas

Notice a trend here? The "smartest" people in the room cloak their naked corruption and antagonism of democracy by not just embedding it in religiosity, but giving their whole selves over to it. Unlike MTG or Gym or even Cruz, they aren't merely being hypocritical since they can only cure their perceived weaknesses by selling their souls to a higher order.

I recently reconnected with a high school friend who was religious then but is now OBSESSED because she has convinced herself that she has failed God by not honoring His vision of an earthly embodiment. In other words Weight Watchers ain't working so she's going to pray the pounds away.

Barr has to atone for whatever it is his daddy did with Epstein. Bullshit Barbie comes from a SoFl "society" family.

Josh and Tom...well...

Well, he's a liar so it's probably cancer.

He's running, and if he gets the backing of the Murdoch family he may win. This guy is a Christian dominionist and has no business near political power. Dominionists want to start a holy war in the middle east to try to trigger the biblical armegeddon. They are dangerous, dangerous people.

He’s a completely ass wipe but good for him for losing it unlike the orange pig.

Gastric bypass or sleeve.

Lying is as natural as breathing for these assholes, so why would he be honest about how he lost weight?

Surgery, meds, or straight up starvation.

Why do they all have to lie so brazenly?

They all lie because they think the ends justify the means (a theocracy) so God is cool with it.

That this country, and now our government, is absolutely infested with religious lunatics like this is in huge part why this place is a sinking ship.

Yet if Trump told him to eat an entire cow's worth of steak and top it off with two cheesecakes, he'd do it.

“We still go there as a family — it’s important to not take those traditions away."

His second wife and her son by another relationship.

He's a couple months older than I and looks like my dad.

Do they still offer actual bypass surgery where part of the intestine is bypassed? I thought modern surgeries for weight loss ere more like leeve procedures thatmreduce stomch capacity.

I knew someone who had a some of his intestine removed because of a traumatic injury. He could eat anything and would not gain weight, but he did have to take a bunch of vitamins and supplements because of the lower absorption of nutrients. That's why I assumed they didn't do that kind of surgery much anymore.

"His one and only goal was to prevent accommodations and deals with Iran. He got what he wanted."

He was also instrumental in setting-up Afghanistan to be a problem for Biden. Pass the buck. But Biden fooled them and completed the job. The Republican operatives in Buttfukistan who keep yapping to the Press ("They left us be behind... they promised!!") are liars; they never wanted to leave.

Yeah he most likely had the sleeve or band. You usually have to be severely obese to get a full bypass from what I know. All celebs and famous people lie about it. It’s really annoying.

He's preparing for his presidential run.

Yes, that's how these turds think.

Well, there's some hope. At his age maybe his heart will give out on him.

Why is it when people lose weight their nose gets bigger ?????

There have been pictures for months now about the weird stuff going on with his neck, which looked like the aftermath of a tracheotomy.

From IG at a bar several months ago, you could see something weird going on with his neck back then, too.

Now he just needs skin surgery

Liar liar. I have been on Weight Watchers for 19 months. I was around the same weight at the start as Pompeo and I am 10 years younger than he is. I don't have cheat days and I have cut out all bad foods. I exercise on average 60 min a day cardio (I have a treadmill, bike and rower in my house). I've lost 116 lbs in those 19 months. It's an avg of about 6 lbs a month. I went through a couple plateau periods, but I never wavered from the diet. I eat about 1300 calories a day. There is no fucking way a 58 yr old who exercises 30 min a day is losing 15 lbs a month for 6 months without some sort of gastric bypass. It's not possible.

Losing 90 pounds in a year is too drastic and could result in significant health issues if not done in a proper healthy way. The article says he still likes the carbs heavy family foods meals from IHOP, so he'll eventually start getting the pounds back on. One has to make a permanent change of lifestyle eating habit to keep them off.

Sure, but just imagine the loose skin on him now:

He looks like shit. He may have lost 90 pounds but he gained 20 years.

No way did he lose 90 pounds with half an hour on his elliptical and still eating at IHOP. Calling Dr. Now!!!!

I still don't think it was gastric bypass, I think he was sick, that's why his neck looks so weird and that's why he went to the press to whine that people were being mean to him by "accusing" him of having cancer.

He wants to run and doesn't want people to think he's got health problems.

I'm sure Mike Pompeo's doctor has been warning him for years to lose weight. I look at him and I can't help seeing my brother. My brother dropped a similar amount of weight very quickly. Unfortunately, the secret to his success was actually meth.

Ultimately things didn't work out so well for my brother. Perhaps Pompeo will have better luck.

He looks terrible but would look in little better in a decent outfit rather than that cheap, baggy T shirt and Mom jeans.

His face is a lost cause.

What do you suggest for his stylish outfit, R65? Serious question. No matter what he wears, someone will trash him or dressing "too young" or "like an old man" or whatever. I'm curious to hear the DL wisdom and expertise on appropriate fashion choices in this situation.

I think he looks almost unrecognizable. The "before" pics? I would recognize him immediately in a crowd. The "after" pics? Looks like the face of a completely different person until I study it for a minute.

Hopefully nobody recognizes him

If he thought it would improve his improbable odds of becoming president, he’d regain the 90 pounds in a month.

When you're fat you are carrying around your own 'gym'. Imagine a man weighing 360 lbs. It's the equivalent of carrying two 80 lb. sand bags on each shoulder. Just walking would be burning calories. I wouldn't get far!

No wonder his damn ankle is shot.

R699 This is true. I recall 3 years ago when I lost 32 pounds, it was the equivalent of no longer carrying around 4 extra gallon size bottles of water.

Hometown editorial board

[quote] “I’ve done this for 20 years,” and never seen anything like that, said Micah LaCerte, who’s considered Kansas City’s top personal trainer. “He would have to be on a massive starvation diet,” probably taking in no carbs at all. And even then, “no way with only a half-hour workout. Ninety in six is unbelievable, especially for his age, unless he’s working out for hours every day. The numbers just don’t add up. Dude, just be honest. Mike, come on, man.”

There is an earlier thread on this, I did a search but the OP of the other thread titled it 'Lookin' (Not) Good' There is no way I could have found that, so that Nazi loving asshole better not say anything about or it will be off to the gas chambers for him.

Posted ^^^^ in the wrong thread.

Pompeo is lying. As always.

Any sign that getting the weight off made him a better person?

He had surgery. I can't believe people here are twisting themselves into pretzels to say that Pompeo lost this through diet and exercise.

They did the same thing 15 years ago with Huckabee when he failed in his Presidential bid. I remember the covers of fitness and runner magazines showing how miraculous it all was that Huckabee was skinny through diet, exercise, and God. It's the same bullshit used to sell fraus nonsense at the check out counter. Then Huckabee's Presidential campaign flamed out and got fat again within a year or so.

You don't lose weight this quickly without surgery. Also Pompeo is an evil liar (so we shouldn't be surprised) and will NEVER be president. That said, fat fuck Death Sentence in Florida better up his game and get those stomach staples--your Presidential bid is in danger gurl!

Hopefully he'll gain all back...when he loses the nomination. He has horrible skin too about the face.

DLers aren't alone in not buying his claims.

He just shat-out Kellyanne Conway, whom he accidentally sat on six months ago.

It's important, for me, for someone to come out and reveal what really happened, just to add to his public portfolio of lies. He's definitely gonna try and run for Prez, and he is certainly smarmy enough to make it, based on the Republicans' past track record.

Good for him! Much healthier! Now let's hope he gets hit by a truck.

The wife is still looking pretty wide and hippy. Those are some saddlebags on that sow

The Republicans have SO many perfectly abhorrent potential candidates to replace Shitler with. Why can't the Democrats come up with a few decent, respectable, intelligent folks who might have some hope of preventing these pigs from regaining control of our government?

I don’t get it either, r84. I think I’m most dreading the constant barrage of lies that spewed from the the former administration. I don’t want to see another smug, bald-faced liar as press secretary again. That and the conscious destruction of our government from the inside by putting people in charge who want to be a wrecking ball to the department they’re supposed to lead. Unfortunately, this country is full of really shitty, intentionally ignorant voters who want that all over again.

Why are the GOP hopefuls all so fat? I can’t think of anyone on the dem side that is a wide load.

The GQP is very, very good at negative campaigning. They can vilify even the most capable candidate or public servant.

It IS possible to lose that much weight in six months, but I still agree with the comments that he had surgery. He has that shrunken look that people who get weight loss surgery have. If he actually lost the weight via a calorie deficit and working out like he claims, he wouldn't look the way he does.

^It's NOT possible to lose 90 pounds in 6 months by "cutting down" on your food and doing 30 minutes of weight work in your basement, 6 days a week, at the age of 57. He is LYING his ass off.

R89 You're right, it's not with less food and some weight training. It IS with extreme calorie deficits.

I don't know if you've ever visited r/fasting but some of those people have lost absurd amounts of weight in very little time. You know how they do it? They stop eating. Like completely.

^I had a woman friend in New York who had been a very tall beauty (a model), who had gained a hell of a lot of weight. She went on that kind of diet, with the supervision of a doctor. She didn't eat sold food for a year, only juice (and occasionally some salad with no dressing, but she said it was a waste of time). She lost about 100 pounds, at the age of about 33. She said, after that, she didn't have much of an appetite any more, for anything, and that eating food was mildly disgusting to her.

[quote]Why do they all have to lie so brazenly?

It's weird that Republicans see truth - no matter how mundane or inconsequential the topic - as so abhorrent that it must never be told. Even for something as ordinary as weight loss.

[quote]“I started exercising, not every day, but nearly every day, and eating right and the weight just started to come off,” he said.

[quote]“I tried to get down there five, six times a week and stay at it for a half-hour or so."

[quote]There was no trainer, there was no dietician. It was just me.”

Ever had someone tell you about their diet? They're specific and tend to go into the details about their plan. Not the casual "sometime I exercised, sometimes I didn't. There were no witnesses so you can't prove anything" of Pompeo's evasive, fictional story.

Well when you no longer have the taxpayers paying for your meals any longer. Then yeah, you're gonna lose a lot of weight.

He ate good, all paid fir by the taxpayers. He and his fat ass wife.

Ok - as quoted: Pompeo, 58, said he invested in a home gym in his basement with some dumbbells and an elliptical machine, where The Post photographed him this week. “I tried to get down there five, six times a week and stay at it for a half-hour or so. And that was nothing scientific. There was no trainer, there was no dietician. It was just me.”

30 minutes of exercise 5/6 days a week is only going to burn off 300-400 calories. That's not a lot of exercising.

This piece of garbage thinks we're all stupid. Nobody at that weight all of a sudden snaps their fingers and gets disciplined overnight. This was a planned weightloss surgery so he can run for office.

And...he looks like garbage for 58. He looks 68.

I believe he did it all in his own.