In less than two weeks, the social club that the federal government had become during the Biden Administration is being quickly dissolved.
President Donald Trump and DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) are undoing the official identity politics that are fragmenting the country, and his agencies are taking down the woke propaganda machine the government had become on its vast network of websites.
The dismantling of the federal forays into woke culture have happened so fast that it’s difficult to track them all, but that in itself illustrates the magnitude of how far things had gone off the rails during the Biden era, how much America had lost, and how hard the Trump Administration will have to work to put the ever-oozing government back in its container.
At the Department of State, the page that once advised precautions for “LGBTQI+ travelers” now just refers to them as LGB — Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual. No more transgender, queer or other alphabet identities. That’s due to the president’s executive order that says it is official policy that there are two sexes in America — male and female — not some salad mix of gender identities that must be catered to. How you choose to express your personality as a man or a woman is a matter of personal preference.
At the Department of Defense on Friday, a memo from Secretary Pete Hegseth says the “identity months” are dead.
The Hegseth memo says: “Our unity and purpose are instrumental to meeting the Department’s warfighting mission. Efforts to divide the force – to put one group ahead of another – erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution.
“Going forward, DoD Components and Military Departments will not use official resources, to include man-hours, to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months, including National African American/Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Pride Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and National American Indian Heritage Month.”
Hegseth, whose appointment at the head of the Defense Department was opposed by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, noted that service members and civilians are free to attend these events in an unofficial capacity outside of duty hours.
“Installations, units, and offices are encouraged to celebrate the valor and success of military heroes of all races, genders, and backgrounds as we restore our warrior culture and ethos. We are proud of our warriors and their history, but we will focus on the character of their service instead of their immutable characteristics,” Hegseth said.
Hegseth’s directives were echoed over at the Quantico education campus of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where a wall that has dozens of “core values” of the agency was painted over, according to a photograph obtained by the Washington Post:
The primary mission of the FBI includes protecting the United States from terrorist attacks, espionage, cyber crimes, public corruption, organized crime, violent crime, white-collar crime and upholding civil rights. However, the wall art of the training facility included messages to promote sustainability, equity, diversity, compassion, and emotional maturity, among other things, and none promoting patriotism, courage, bravery, civil rights, or even justice, for an agency that is a subset of the Department of Justice.
The Bureau of Prisons, which previously reported on its website the number of transgender offenders in federal custody, now only shows male and female populations. Before Friday, it reported there are 1,529 transgender females (men living as women) in BOP custody and 744 transgender males (women living as men). Now, the graphic looks like this:
At the Department of Interior, a web page is now devoted to “Interior Department Advances Restoration of Historic Names Honoring American Greatness,” and explains that the name of the Gulf of Mexico is now Gulf of America and that Denali is now Mount McKinley.
“The Department of the Interior remains committed to upholding all aspects of President Trump’s executive order, ensuring that the names we use reflect the values, sacrifices, and accomplishments that define our Nation,” the website says.
At the Department of Agriculture, the emphasis on climate change is gone and the agency has returned to explaining its core missions of agriculture, ranching, and forestry.
How is this going to lower the price of groceries?
How does your comment here bear any logical relation to the topic of the article?
You extreme radical leftists really do not understand the basics of logical thinking, do you?
(PS: That was a rhetorical question. We all know the answer to it.)
Answer his question!
Forkner; he did answer the question; How is his stupid question relevant to the topic?
Hint; it is not even close to relevant.
In the opposite way that woke garbage raised grocery prices.
Next dumb question?………
Now tariffs, I can openly admit I am tired of all this winning!
Hide in the bushes and cower. This is what taking back America looks like.
Does it look like I’m in the bushes hiding?
Do you support raising the minimum wage? Yes, you do. Even though that raises prices just like tariffs.
But, the difference is tariffs can be a negotiating tool with other countries to build a fair trade structure. Higher minimum wage just raises prices across the board, and other countries actually LOVE it because it moves manufacturing to their countries.
I used to make $2.10 an hour. I loved it when a got a quarter raise. It meant I could buy pork steak for a couple meals. It gives the wage earners something to work for
It gives them hope
Sebastian; You have not won an argument yet on this site.
How was that?
Metaphor: no one can get access to groceries, or anything else, if the path is blocked by nonsense.
It’s not. It’s going the lower the number of tax dollars spent on ridiculous, unicorn-a$$ fruitloopery.
I dunno Sebastian, it can’t do anything to raise costs though. It’s not like this EO is printing up TRILLIONS of dollars and then handing it to NGO’s headed by ones political pals for personal enrichment and the destruction of our currency.
Do you understand economics?
Do you understand that promises made are going in the opposite direction?
It isn’t.
It is going to improve military recruitment, and it is going to improve military morale, and it is going stop the military from wasting time and money on stuff that is not part of their mission.
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Not every action the Federal Government takes is about groceries.
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And, did you ask the same question when the previous administration sent billions after billions to Ukraine? No? Then why ask it now?
Idk. Campaign promises broken?
Nice!
President Trump’s quick actions to clean the muck and mire that has taken over our country’s White House is stunning and gives us all hope for our future. God Bless and protect us all!
Yeah. Take over Greenland and Panama using military forces. Piss off our allies. Destabilize the planet. Just to feather his nest
Greg, Greg, Greg. Since Suzanne doesn’t allow us to block a troll in this neighborhood (AK) chat, how’s this?
Our troops don’t have the time for and definitely don’t need distractions that take away from preparing for war. If you want to run around in rainbow colors, hugging trees, waving Palestinian flags and spreading ’em for our neighbors, please do, that’s on you. You can join the rest of your spoiled, entitled ilk in their collective meltdown over the end of their failed social experiment – DEI
And remember, the only thing standing between twits and our neighbors to the north and south, who would gladly ransack your home, kill your cat (I’m guessing you’re a cat person) and rape your children (if children are even possible for you), are highly-trained, killing machines – our warfighters in the US military.
So put down your caramel macchiato, change out of your pajamas, put on your big boy pants and go get a job. McDonald’s is hiring.
Love this Administration, and they are barely getting started. The chopping block is going to be well used during Trump II.
Yeah. Fun to watch it, him, go down
Refreshing!
Too right! We are AMERICANS, US citizens, and we shouldn’t have all the other descriptive crap in front of that designation. In an emergency, or on the battlefield, all that is important is that we are there to support each other and help one another. None of that other crap matters.
LGB? Trump needs to simplify that acronym with one word: homosexual. Those offended by a definitive word taken from the dictionary are those with the problems.
Don’t have to be mean.
You don’t have to be uneducated.
Forkner; I’m gay and I agree with Coogan.
Hip hip hurray, hip hip hurray, hip hip hurray.
I’m so loving this.
Lmao!
Finally! I’ve spent 20+ years of my professional career being asked why I don’t fly my pride flag or my black heritage month, or Pacific Islander heritage banner and attend events. I’m tired of automatically being labeled racist just because I’m not BIPOC. Nothing has been more divisive in this country than DEI and these racial affinity months. Morgan Freeman said the only way to solve these race issues is to stop talking about it. He’s right.
PREACH IT, BROTHER!
Next up: Trump writes an EO making June officially Shame Month.
Yeah. Plenty to be ashamed of to go around
For all the suddenly depowered radical leftists, and all the kneejerk pro-establishment conformists like you who sheepishly adhered to their insanity, Greg, yes, there is indeed plenty of shame.
From the person that called Martin Luther King day a racist ‘holiday’! Jefferson, you only show hatred and fear. Some shame might wake you up a bit.
The hate is alive in this one me thinks
“Truth”, I stand by my statement that Martin Luther King Day is a divisive and inherently racist holiday, because it is exactly that.
Any holiday that is focused on only one segment of our national society is inherently divisive, and wrong.
Oh, but let me guess, you always believe in the specious and equally divisive slogan “Diversity is our strength”, right? Right?
But you are correct, I do show hatred — towards anti-American radical leftist traitors like you.
Jefferson
Good comment the left can’t be fixed just forgotten.
You don’t know anything about me, and you have hatred for me? You assume I am a radical and a traitor for disagreeing with you? Martin Luther King united a nation to help stop injustice. How you can see celebrating him as only being focused on one segment of our society is bewildering. For the record, I do not hate you. I hope for peace, health, and happiness of all people, including you. I hope you can one day see through your hatred for your own benefit. Hatred only contracts your views and hinders your ability see outside of them.
“Truth”: the only productive way to celebrate MLK Jr. is to celebrate his ideas.. not the man.
People like you dwelling on skin color over content of character (as MLK wished he could see) is not honoring his ideas at all.
Show me where I said anything about his skin color! How is anything I said not about his ideas? Does it have to be Martin Luther King Ideas Day for you to be able to accept it? Do we need to change Columbus Day and Washington’s birthday? Do those holidays bother you as well?
Yawn
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
I strongly suggest you stop throwing stones, Forkner.
“…man hours..” I like this guy already.
This gay man is beyond happy that President Trump is focusing on the issues at hand in every department. The Millitary does not need to “celebrate” “Pride” officially.
I like the fact we have freedom of expression… outside the work place – that is where it needs to stay.
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