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Even self-described far-left State Department employees are happy about Secretary Marco Rubio’s latest move to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to an unofficial State Department Reddit page reviewed by The Daily Signal. “I’m a believer in DEIA and pretty far to the left,” one person who claimed to be a foreign service member wrote on Reddit. “However, the way it was practiced in DoS was completely performative and was actively discriminatory.” The Daily Signal found the post on a Reddit page for “individuals who work for or aspire to work for the U.S. Foreign Service.” The Reddit is not endorsed or supported in any way by the U.S. State Department. The posts refer to Rubio offering restitution to State Department employees who the Trump administration found were denied promotions during the Biden administration for not meeting new DEI standards. Roughly 295 employees who were marked down for not showing they would “seek diversity in staff” will now receive pay increases, administrative promotions, and letters of commendation, Rubio said. “I heard multiple country teams and hiring panels give preference to based on DEIA categories and had better qualified people lose out,” one post from someone claiming to be a Foreign Service officer says. “For example if the top choice for a position was a white male and the second was a POC, we were told by leadership to go with the POC specifically for DEIA.” “The scoring for promotion was also crazy,” the post continued. “I had a direct report regularly spewing racist and sexist crap. I went through the EXTREMELY painful process to hold that person accountable. I also terminated a local staff for racist actions and held trainings for my staff on multiculturalism and respectful workplace. I was also a EEO coordinator and dealt with numerous issues there. I got a 3.5. My friend organized a multicultural lunchtime potluck and a GLIFA happy hour (in a country that is extremely open and friendly to LGTBQ+) and got a 4.5. That kind of BS is what gave the right-wing ammo to point at the excesses of DEIA and completely destroy the idea of DEIA in the department.” Another person posted that he or she was not affected personally but had a co-worker who was passed over due to DEI considerations. “I was not affected personally by the changes announced yesterday, but I have at least one coworker who claims they would have been promoted in 2024 had they scored higher on the DEIA precept,” the post said. Another self-proclaimed Foreign Service officer identified himself or herself as “a big supporter of diversity initiatives that are actually implemented correctly.” “I was recommended but not promoted in 2023. In 2024 I was mid ranked,” the person posted. “In one of those years (can’t recall), when we got the breakdown of scores, all of my scores were above the promotion average, but I had an abysmal DEIA score, despite documenting efforts. I don’t qualify for the administrative action announced unless I happen to be one of the 13 mentioned at the end – I’m guessing those are specifically identified BFFs. But I am very happy for everyone who is getting promoted after throwing out the ludicrous DEIA score. It is well deserved.” A State Department political appointee told The Daily Signal they were “glad to see that employees from both the left and the right saw how crazy the DEI policies were at the State Department.” The post Even Far-Left State Department Employees Celebrate Rubio’s Anti-DEI Move appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology. It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by white males. DEI makes no allowance for the class or wealth of the alleged victims or their supposed victimizers. So once that rigid party line is set, it cannot account for tens of millions of affluent and privileged non-white Americans or like numbers of poor and non-privileged whites. Absurdities and ridicule must then follow. One example is the spectacle of former First Lady Michelle Obama on her current book tour. Mrs. Obama cannot finish an interview without whining about the racism she allegedly encountered as the once most influential and powerful woman in the United States. According to Michelle, she was not given the exemptions that other white first ladies received. She did not get enough free stuff for the First Family. She had to hire three stylists daily to straighten her hair to meet “white” expectations—as if also Asians and Hispanics do not have straight hair, or many whites do not have hard-to-comb curly hair. Indeed, she now claims blacks cannot even swim because of white-induced pressures to maintain dry and straight hair. Because her DEI creed ignores class and wealth, Michelle has no idea how absurd she sounds. She and husband, former President Barack Obama, own three estates in addition to their former Chicago home, together valued somewhere around $40 million. Their net worth is estimated at between $70 million and $100 million. They fly private, surrounded by a throng of Secret Service guardians. The more Michelle clings to the fossilized dogma of unchanging racial victimization, the more she becomes ridiculous or offensive. Trump Derangement Syndrome is another rigid ideology that deductively mandates that Donald Trump is evil and thus must be exposed as such by any means necessary. Sometimes, such Pavlovian hatred so blinds the Left to evidence that it becomes oblivious to its own suicidal choices. Take the “Epstein files.” For four years, the Joe Biden administration had no desire to release any names that appeared in the thousands of the infamous Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and text messages under its control. To the extent that Trump’s name leaked out of the files, most had agreed on the mostly innocuous circumstances of the references. There was not just a lack of evidence that Trump was ever entrapped by the spider-like Epstein’s blackmail webs. In fact, eventually, Trump ostracized Epstein well before he was convicted and jailed. Had he been compromised, the Democrats—who raided the Trump home, tried to de-ballot him, and used lawfare to drag him into five different local, state, and federal courtrooms—would have released the files in a nanosecond. So when Trump continued the prior Biden policy of keeping the files private, the Left mindlessly shouted that the hated Trump must be hiding his own culpability. They shrilly demanded that he release all the files—without a second thought about the reasons why their fellow Democrats had previously kept them private. So a compliant but cagey Trump has begun releasing the trove of documents. The evidence does not reveal any new Trump bombshells. Instead, there are lots of new references to the Democrats, like the former Harvard President Larry Summers. A Democrat member of Congress, Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands, is exposed in the files as a partisan, compliant tool of the predator Epstein. In her hatred of Trump, the files show Plaskett texting for live prompts from the odious Epstein as he tutors her on how best to coax a congressional witness to demonize none other than Trump. Was there not a single cool Democrat head who could have seen where the party’s obsessions with Trump were headed? Similarly, Democrats embrace climate-change orthodoxy—regardless of the obvious contradictions and paradoxes that follow. Climate change religion exposes Democrat grandees like the shore-residing Obamas, the jet-setting Al Gore and John Kerry, and the multi-estate-owning Nancy Pelosi. All fly on private jets. They heat and cool with fossil fuels their various energy-guzzling huge homes—while demanding hoi polloi turn down their air conditioners or give up their diesel pickups. But even green guru billionaire Bill Gates has become conflicted and a climate apostate. Why? Wind and solar “renewables” will never supply left-wing techies like Gates the additional 100 gigawatts of electrical generation per year that they need to fulfill their lucrative artificial intelligence dreams. Nor does climate orthodoxy make allowances for vastly more U.S. oil and gas production to supply a left-wing, but energy-short Europe, or to flood the world with cheap energy to bankrupt Vladimir Putin’s oil and gas exporting Russia. The problem with a party line is that it is deductive, not inductive. Ideology makes facts fit dogmas, rather than evidence leading empirically to conclusions. So inflexible cults like climate-change orthodoxy, DEI, and Trump Derangement Syndrome make their adherents look utterly ridiculous. (C)2025 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Victor Davis Hanson: The Embarrassments of Ideology appeared first on The Daily Signal.

On Sunday, November 2nd, President Donald Trump said that he was considering sending U.S. troops to Nigeria, to help stop the killing of Christians at the hands of Muslim terror groups, claiming that these murders were being sanctioned by the Nigerian government. One day prior, the Administration placed Nigeria back on a list of "Countries of Particular Concern", those that we believe have violated religious freedoms. This past Thursday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the killings and the major networks couldn't be bothered to cover it on their nightly newscasts. Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier did cover the hearing.  ABC, CBS and NBC all took a pass on giving this the exposure it deserves. This really shouldn't  come as a big shock. From the moment Trump made his declaration, many on the left, including of course  the media, went on the attack against the President, for daring to care about innocent Christians being slaughtered for being Christians. The list includes MSNBC's Reverend Al Sharpton and his guest, House Democrat Whip, Congresswoman Katherine Clark of Massachusetts. CNN's Abby Phillip, also had a major problem with Trump, and went at it hard with her panelist Scott Jennings.  In September Senator Ted Cruz introduced the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025. The bill protects Christians and other religious minorities being persecuted in Nigeria. Cruz has pointed out that since 2009, 52,000 Nigerian Christians have been murdered by jihadists and over 20,000 Christian churches and religious-based institutions have been destroyed, and on June 13 more than 200 Christians were murdered by Fulani jihadists in a Nigerian village. On Thursday's Special Report, Fox News host Bret Baier introduced their report on the hearing, and Senior National Correspondent Aishah Hasnie, who began her report this way:  HASNIE: Tonight, the Trump Administration says it's developing a plan to compel the Nigerian government to protect Christians from persecution. JONATHAN PRATT, STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: This plan will consider U.S., State, and Treasury engagement on sanctions as well as possible Department of War engagement on counter terrorism and other efforts to protect religious communities. HASNIE: The announcement coming at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing as it looks into the President's redesignation of Nigeria as a country of particular concern. REP CHRIS SMITH (R-NJ): This is not random violence. It is deliberate persecution. Of course, as previously mentioned, for some reason the left has a problem with Trump's concern over the killing of Christians, and his consideration of dealing with it in the strongest terms.  HASNIE: The President has already threatened taking military action. Democrats blasting those threats. REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL (D): I don't think that's the right way, to go just go on Truth Social and threaten guns a blazing. Hasnie then pointed out some somber stats: "According to the the Observatory For Religious Freedom in Africa. amongst the 30,000 civilians killed in a four year period, more than 6,000 were Muslim while nearly 17,000 were Christians." And Congressman Bill Huizenga (R-MI) got emotional as he declared, "I went to school with kids from Nigeria....It ought to be outrageous."  Yes, "outrageous." The killing of Christians in Nigeria and throughout Africa is and has been "outrageous" for decades. The lack of media interest and coverage of it all is also "outrageous", as is the outrage from the left aimed at those like President Trump, who address this and are trying to put an end to it all. This must be stopped once and for all, and the media must do their part in educating the public about this inhumane horror, and all efforts to end it.

Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) announced her resignation Friday night, citing a desire to spare her family from further danger and her district from a "hurtful and hateful" Republican primary.While her current term does not end until Jan. 3, 2027, Greene indicated she will instead leave office on Jan. 5, 2026.In both her video and written statements, Greene highlighted her historic support for President Donald Trump, her conservative voting record — the New Americans' Freedom Index gives her a lifetime rating of 97% and the Conservative Review's Liberty Score gave her a 100% rating — and her subjection over the years to constant "personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander, and lies."'All I see 'Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!'"When the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington's machine from gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that they, common Americans, The People possess the real power over Washington," wrote Greene, "then I'll be here by their side to rebuild it."Her resignation announcement comes just days after Greene suggested that the latest series of threats against her life were due to her recent loss of favor with Trump.The president noted in a lengthy Nov. 14 post on Truth Social that he was withdrawing his support for the "ranting lunatic" Georgia congresswoman and would give "unyielding" support to whomever opposes her in next year's primary."All I see 'Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12% and didn't have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn't about to get!)," wrote Trump.RELATED: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she has received violent threats — and blames Trump Photo by ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty ImagesWhen asked days later about the threats against Greene — the Rome Police Department confirmed in an emailed statement to Blaze News that they received reports about them — Trump told reporters, "Marjorie 'Traitor' Greene. I don't think her life is in danger. ... Frankly, I don't think anybody cares about her."Greene subsequently noted, "President Trump’s unwarranted and vicious attacks against me were a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family."Since taking office in 2021, Greene has been the victim of numerous swatting attacks — attacks that various lawmakers have suggested are tantamount to attempted murder and domestic terrorism.The congresswoman alleged that whereas the swatting attacks and death threats she had previously experienced came from the left, she said Trump labeling her a "traitor" made her a target for attacks by individuals on the right.'Many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.'"... President Trump has called me a traitor, which is absolutely untrue and horrific," wrote Greene, adding that "this puts blood in the water and creates a feeding frenzy. And it could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome."The response to the news that Greene is leaving office has been mixed.Trump — whom Greene criticized in recent months for his June airstrikes on Iran and his Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files — told ABC News' Rachel Scott, "I think it's great news for the country. It's great."Trump commented further Saturday morning — calling her "Marjorie 'Traitor' Brown" — and saying Greene "has decided to call it 'quits'" due to "PLUMMETING Poll Numbers, and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!) ..."After Trump also dinged Kentucky Republicans U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie — and suggested Greene "went BAD" because he didn't return her phone calls — the president thanked the Georgia congresswoman for her service.Laura Loomer — who has advocated for the ouster of various elements of Trump's 2024 coalition in recent months — tweeted that "Traitor Greene is a terrible person. I get a lot of joy in watching my enemies fall."Shawn Harris, a Democrat hoping to flip Greene's seat in the midterm election, also welcomed the news, writing, "Get ready Georgia! Teachers, farmers, veterans, EVERYONE, I need your support."But some politicos expressed displeasure with Greene's resignation announcement.Former Cobb County GOP Chairwoman Salleigh Grubbs said she was "heartbroken," noting that Greene "put it all on the line time after time. She fought for her district and put America First. What more could anyone have wanted? A sad day in America."Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz (R) said "there's a lot of truth to what Marjorie had to say" and added that she can't "blame her for leaving this institution that has betrayed the American people."Cenk Uygur, the far-left CEO of the Young Turks, wrote the following to Greene: "I would have never imagined saying this, but … don’t go. Stay and fight. Even though we still disagree on so many things, you were one of the very few honest people in Congress. Stay and fight!"But Greene noted in her Friday statement, "I refuse to be a 'battered wife' hoping it all goes away and gets better. If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can't even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well."The disenchanted Republican added, "There is no 'plan to save the world' or insane 4D chess game being played."Like Blaze News? 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