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Now Republicans demand answers from Navy over TikTok drag queen hired for recruitment: Question why a banned app and 'inappropriate' behavior are being promoted in the military
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 4, 2023 | Nikki Schwab

Posted on 05/04/2023 4:26:03 PM PDT by Morgana

A group of 14 Republican senators wrote a letter Wednesday to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro asking why the Navy enlisted a 'TikTok drag queen' to beef up recruitment numbers.

Sens. Ted Cruz, Rick Scott, Marco Rubio and others told Del Toro that 'we are concerned about both the promotion of a banned app and behavior that many deem inappropriate in a professional workplace.'

Their letter follows media coverage this week of how Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley had been named a 'Digital Ambassador' for the Navy as part of a pilot program that started in November and ran through March.

Kelley goes by stage name 'Harpy Daniels' and has a strong following on social media, including TikTok, with 60,800 followers and 1.3 million likes. Kelley is also on Instagram with nearly 9,000 followers.

In the videos, Kelley often starts out in uniform, and then reappears as Harpy Daniels. The non-binary drag queen dances and often shares an inspirational message about being an LGBTQ+ sailor.

In the letter, the Republicans first took issue with the Navy seemingly endorsing TikTok, with the choice of Kelley as a 'Digital Ambassador.'

They pointed to the No TikTok on Government Devices Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law in December, and which bars the app from being downloaded onto U.S. government devices due to its Chinese owner.

'The bottom line is that the Navy should not be promoting use of TikTok, an app banned on Department devices, on the personal devices of servicemembers or its "ambassadors,"' the letter stated.

The Republicans then moved on to the Navy's choice to make a drag queen a 'Digital Ambassador.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
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All republicans should complain
1 posted on 05/04/2023 4:26:03 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Waste of time.

There are so many big issues of constitutional size like the current invasion.

This is just more Alinsky.

Keep people tripped up on trivia


2 posted on 05/04/2023 4:29:02 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Morgana

True, they should complain, but I wonder how many of them secretly think it’s pretty cool.


3 posted on 05/04/2023 4:29:25 PM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Morgana

The Navy is run by Chinese Communist Party spies


4 posted on 05/04/2023 4:33:30 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ken in texas
but I wonder how many of them secretly think it’s pretty cool.

Probably most of them.

5 posted on 05/04/2023 4:47:57 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Chickensoup

What’s to complain about; the Navy upgraded a perverted tranny to admiral. Rachael Levine is a tranny Admiral and had set the mode to try and make sailors out of any weirdo who will enlist. Navy bought it now let them live with it.


6 posted on 05/04/2023 4:54:31 PM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: Chickensoup

A Navy that seeks to recruit lunatics is hardly trivial. Imagine being crew on a ship where sexual assaults are likely.


7 posted on 05/04/2023 4:56:30 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Morgana

https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/03/the-new-ugly-americans/

...

Yet, in our skedaddle, the LGBTQ flag still flew high from our new Kabul embassy.

A George Floyd mural was prominent on city streets.

And gender studies programs—to the tune of $787 million in American subsidies—were showcased at Kabul University, in one of the most conservative Islamic countries in the world.

Rainbow flags and Black Lives Matter banners have hung from our embassy in South Korea.

Such partisan cultural activism is a diplomatic first.

The woke Left has now weaponized the country’s diplomatic missions abroad to advance highly partisan and controversial agendas that can offend their hosts, and do not represent the majority of American voters at home.


8 posted on 05/04/2023 4:57:26 PM PDT by Bobibutu
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To: Morgana

“All republicans should complain”

Wonder how many of them are gay. All of the supportive attention to the non-standard genders makes me think that there are a lot of them and they’re becoming belligerent, imitating the black activists.


9 posted on 05/04/2023 4:57:59 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Morgana

what if i want to go into the military to get away from all that crappola? now what?


10 posted on 05/04/2023 4:58:34 PM PDT by stylin19a ("Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Vulgar Brawl")
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To: Chickensoup

Yuppers
.
If you can’t Dazzle them
With Foot Work
Baffle them with BS !
.
Meanwhile
We circle the Drain.


11 posted on 05/04/2023 4:58:49 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: Morgana

Never ask questions of liars.

Demand the resignation of the Secretary of the Navy for treason.


12 posted on 05/04/2023 5:00:11 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Morgana

Mary Tyler Moore could “make a man out of you!” in this 1976 TV program MARY’S INCREDIBLE DREAM. Wait till she comes out in her dark green suit! WOW! I still remember it! At about the 4:38 minute point...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVS0Phpplo


13 posted on 05/04/2023 5:00:54 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: chopperk

The tranny admiral is NOT a naval officer but a US Public Health officer. US Public Health officers are authorized to wear Navy like uniforms. One of the United States eight uniformed services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Service

I am sure it feeds the trannies ego to prance around in that uniform!


14 posted on 05/04/2023 5:01:40 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Morgana

Oh no, the strongly worded letter! They are really trembling now!


15 posted on 05/04/2023 5:01:46 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: Morgana

With no conscience or soul, the democRATS can deem anything appropriate. Any ‘behavior’ with anyone or anything. And if it tears us apart, all the better.


16 posted on 05/04/2023 5:02:42 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Morgana

This is the same Navy that wanted to use the Village People’s gay little disco song “In The Navy” to recruit young men. They didn’t learn their lesson, and now look at what’s going on.


17 posted on 05/04/2023 5:03:51 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Soros on assisting the Nazis with the Holocaust: "That's when my character was made.")
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To: Morgana
More importantly, some of the video was taken aboard ship. It’s probably his personal phone.

Who knew this would be a problem after “don’t ask, don’t tell.” (Room full of 🤚 🤚 🤚)

18 posted on 05/04/2023 5:04:59 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

she looked sofa king hot


19 posted on 05/04/2023 5:06:54 PM PDT by al baby (Yes he did he said how come i wasnt invited )
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To: Morgana

What are they doing to attract rum afficionados and lash afficionados?


20 posted on 05/04/2023 5:11:19 PM PDT by posterchild
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