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US Navy platformed ‘drag queen influencer’ to attract youth to the military in hiring crisis
FOX News ^ | May 3, 2023 | Jeffrey Clark

Posted on 05/04/2023 7:22:46 AM PDT by rod5591

The U.S. Navy has revealed that it approached a "drag queen influencer" to help persuade new recruits to join the military.

Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, who goes by the stage name "Harpy Daniels," announced back in November 2022 that he was the Navy’s "Digital Ambassador." Kelley has over 1,300,000 likes on TikTok.

While Kelley’s Instagram bio shows that the performer’s opinions "are not endorsed by DoD or DoN," the drag queen claims to have danced in drag for service officers on a number of different occasions, sharing one video from 2018.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: dragqueens; globohomo; usnavy
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To: Wdempsey

Meanwhile, Iran has resorted to piracy of oil tankers because they know Biden will do nothing. Waiting for Loyds of London to jack up premiums or flatly deny coverage for Hormuz transit.


41 posted on 05/04/2023 8:11:28 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Based on recruiting failures on the part of the armed services, it appears as if young men, especially conservative and Christian men, have been doing what is being done to Bud Light and Fox News.

Our rulers are lucky that the Russians are not the vaunted power they were believed to be and that Chin a has been reluctant to attempt an assault on Taiwan.

42 posted on 05/04/2023 8:12:43 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: rod5591
I wonder what Colonel Jessup would say.
43 posted on 05/04/2023 8:14:43 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: caww

Indeed I have the book and go back to the quotes so many match up with todays issues.

Room 101 never closes


44 posted on 05/04/2023 8:15:10 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Vaduz
True that!
45 posted on 05/04/2023 8:18:58 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: bray

Indeed diversion 101 pure media.


46 posted on 05/04/2023 8:22:02 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

OK, that’s the best case scenario. What about the worst case scenario? lol


47 posted on 05/04/2023 8:39:55 AM PDT by Religion and Politics
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To: rod5591
To attract young people? I mean like the kind of young people who historically might join the Navy? Of course not.

That's just the narrative. The reason they did this is just to f*ck with us.

Sorry to say it's not "our" Navy any more. I mean except we are forced to pay for it. They defend the interests of people who hate you, want you dead and your children raped.

48 posted on 05/04/2023 8:50:33 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: ping jockey
Ever been to a chiefs initiation?

Yes, even have a "law license;"

As I understand it, there is a wide range of good natured fun, designed to strengthen the bond between officers and enlisted. BTW, I'm a mustang.

49 posted on 05/04/2023 8:53:53 AM PDT by Ace's Dad (76)
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To: windsorknot

Probably that cross-dressing Director of Education.


50 posted on 05/04/2023 8:54:55 AM PDT by bray (Dr Fauxi killed millions)
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To: ConservativeInPA

The adversary is YOU. They are not building a military to take on China. They are building a military to come after YOU.


51 posted on 05/04/2023 8:55:54 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: rod5591

US Navy—The Bud Light of the armed services


53 posted on 05/04/2023 8:59:33 AM PDT by freebilly
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To: rod5591

This all comes as no surprise. Anyone notice the quality of folks coming out of the military academies?


54 posted on 05/04/2023 9:01:51 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: rod5591

This is going to attract the wrong type of recruit, while causing real men who find this offensive to look at the other branches for military service.


55 posted on 05/04/2023 9:13:19 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: nonliberal
Me? Little old me, sitting in my mommies’ basement in my underwear all day? 😂

You have a point.

56 posted on 05/04/2023 9:15:52 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: rod5591
Only 106 years ago, this is how the Navy recruited. Now you can join as a man, pretend you're a woman, and see the world.


57 posted on 05/04/2023 9:29:12 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: avenir

I have a white male relative in the navy currently. He enlisted when Trump was president, he scored in the high 90’s on the ASVAB. He’s so discouraged with the navy at this point. Officers have lied to him repeatedly, told him he would be discharged because he filed a religious exemption to the covid vaccine, even gave him a date for an honorable discharge. He had another job lined up as well as his wife and had their house sold at the base. Three days before the date, denied continue your enlistment.

He doesn’t believe anything his officers or command tells him at this point. He has about a year left and there is no way in hell they could induce him to re-enlist, he has no faith in the navy at this point and wants out before a shooting war starts because he knows the current navy will take a lot of unnecessary casualties because of woke/progressive/Democrat/marxist doctrine being the navies primary goal instead of winning wars.


58 posted on 05/04/2023 10:20:13 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: sarge83

Even without the wokeness the Navy is designed to fight the last war instead of the next one.

The surface ships are sitting ducks given today’s technology—easy to spot and target.


59 posted on 05/04/2023 10:23:44 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: sarge83

That’s sad. I hope he can get through it and comes out better in the long run for his family.

I hope for our sakes that We the People can, with God’s grace, figure out how to defang and depose the Marxists in our country and government. With control over all the levers of power it seems like they’ve got us in a stranglehold, with only the grace of God restraining them. But I count on Him because too many times to mention He’s let the wicked overreach and be caught in the nets they have laid.


60 posted on 05/04/2023 11:55:07 AM PDT by avenir ("They sang His praise...they soon forgot His works")
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