ANALYSIS – America's Navy is sinking fast – last year, the world's premier maritime combat service launched, then apparently scuttled, a new recruiting campaign led by an active-duty ‘non-binary' sailor drag queen.
And our nation's enemies are likely quaking in their boots at the promise of even more drag queens being recruited to fight on the front lines by our armed forces.
The Navy's appointment of a gay cross-dresser as its first ‘digital ambassador,' while struggling with recruitment, has sparked outrage, disbelief and mockery of the Navy and the entire Department of Defense.
A Navy spokesperson told Fox News that the now defunct program was “designed to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates” as the Navy battles “the most challenging recruiting environment it has faced since the start of the all-volunteer force.”
Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, has a large following on TikTok (of course). He announced his role in November but has only recently been discovered by mainstream news sources. (RELATED: US Navy Used Drag Queen As ‘Digital Ambassador')
(NOTE: I don't use preferred pronouns. He is either a ‘he' or she is a ‘she,' regardless of how they ‘identify.' And ‘they' is only used to refer to two or more individuals.)
Kelley calls himself an ‘advocate' for those who ‘were oppressed for years in the service.'
Many have compared him to Dylan Mulvaney, the biologically male trans activist whose association with Bud Light sparked a PR crisis for the brand and sent sales plummeting. (RELATED: Bud Light Hires Transgender Influencer: Report)
Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana, tweeted that “Biden DoD's [Department of Defense] recruitment is as good as Bud Light's marketing.”
Jesse Watters said on his Fox News show on Wednesday: “What's wrong with the Navy? They looked at Bud Light and said: ‘Hold my beer?' Harpy is the Navy's Dylan. Dylan killed Bud Light sales. What do you think Harpy's going to do to recruitment?”
Kelley is not the Navy's only digital ambassador (he is one of five). The Navy says that the ‘digital ambassador' was a pilot program that ended in March 2023.
According to surveys, only 13 percent of 18-29-year-olds in the U.S. are ‘highly willing' to join the Navy, while 25 percent are ‘somewhat willing.' Critics like me can't see how a man made up to look like a caricature of a woman will help convince more of our youth to serve in a warfighting role. (RELATED: Radical ‘Diversity, Inclusion, Equity' (DIE) Agenda Is Killing Trust In Military)
Unless the plan is to recruit even more cross-dressing young men with possible gender dysphoria to serve aboard warships, planes and tanks.
Robert J. O'Neill, a decorated combat veteran who served as a member of SEAL Team Six, and was on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, said on Twitter he “can't believe [he] fought for this bulls**t.”
“Alright. The U.S. Navy is now using an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter,” he tweeted. “I'm done. China is going to destroy us.”
His tweet quickly gained 1.1 million views and thousands of likes and retweets.
“Not this Navy veteran. I'm ashamed of the Navy,” wrote another veteran. “It's an insult to every veteran. The army kept making me go to trans EO-type classes before I retired. Nope. Didn't go.”
Another veteran responded: “As a Navy veteran, I am ashamed on behalf of the US Navy. I hope that goes over as well as Bud Light did.”
But another person – who can't distinguish between freedom of expression in the civilian world and pushing a bizarre, fringe sexual agenda in our armed forces – mockingly commented:
“Local man angry he fought for freedom of expression.”
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The big question is who is giving these draggies access to preparing recruitment info and the funds related thereto ? The percentage of the recruitable population that these ads are supposedly aimed at has got to be minimal. If our international enemies were to want to weaken our recruiting effort would not this be a great campaign ?
That would be Austin and Miley, they need to be fired on the spot for Treasonous acts. They want us to be taken over by China, Iran and Russia. Time to stop them Mr Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Indeed, they’ve read Marx and they think that’s great. Of course they are completely ignorant of what a disaster that theory is in practice.
“Freedom of expression??” Enlisting in the military service requires a degree of sacrificing one’s personal needs and desires as part of the agreement upon enlisting. Clearly the person who made this absurd comment is completely ignorant of the entire concept of military service. What a dumb comment!
No one accused the left of being smart.
This is just beyond disgusting, I fear for this country.
The Navy has for some time been our most liberal military branch, and likely the least prepared to defend our Country.
Absolutely agree. They wonder why the enlistments are down. This is because of Miley and Austin. Put those two in a war zone with this nit wit.
Good lord! Fairies only kick a$$ in the brain-dead, leftist la-la land of movies and other make-believe woke, sicko story venues.
We can’t get Trump back in office fast enough, where he can drain the military swamp right along with the D.C. swamp!
‘i can’t go into combat, Sir! It might smudge my mascara!’ This BS is coming down from the top. I blame the Corrupter-in-Chief.