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The ATF tries to save DEI and gets caught
American Thinker ^ | 25 Jan, 2025 | Mike McDaniel

Posted on 01/25/2025 4:09:37 AM PST by MtnClimber

It’s not going to be fast or easy to eliminate a cancer that has not only been allowed, but encouraged, to spread in the federal government.

I’ll not take any credit for predicting federal agencies would do anything to retain their DEI bureaucracies. And why wouldn’t they? Even if their administrators weren’t DEI true believers, and most probably were, DEI gave them unprecedented and totalitarian control over the lives of their employees--more power than they imagined--and unrestrained virtue signaling opportunities. By claiming DEI was essential to their missions, they would be invited to DC cocktail parties and praised by equally dimwitted bureaucrats. The ego boosting was incalculable. Recently, in Bye, bye DEI, I wrote:

We’ve learned merely mandating the decommissioning of DEI bureaucracies isn’t enough. DEI bureaucrats, true believers all, usually with the help of dim-witted and even malicious administrators, have adopted the subterfuge of rebranding. Giving new titles to their DEI offices and functionaries, they’re trying to keep their racist, hate-filled policies and Marxist thugs in place while pretending to obey the law.

It will be no surprise to learn the ATF, an agency sane Americans have been trying to abolish for decades, leads the pack:

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives appeared to try and avoid Donald Trump's anti-DEI executive order by switching the job title of its Chief Diversity Officer.

On Tuesday, Trump's administration ordered federal agencies to place all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) hires on paid leave pending review and warned authorities not to use 'coded or imprecise language' to circumvent the move.

But within a day of the order being announced, eagle-eyed online sleuths noticed the ATF's Chief Diversity Officer Lisa T. Boykin had a new job title, appearing to have been updated...


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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; dei; lisatboykin; lol; trumpmas; wokeism
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1 posted on 01/25/2025 4:09:37 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Just another tool for narcissists to torment people.


2 posted on 01/25/2025 4:10:54 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Cheat and LIE is what Democrats do!


3 posted on 01/25/2025 4:12:42 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MtnClimber

Insubordination - justification for firing whoever approved this.


4 posted on 01/25/2025 4:14:35 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: MtnClimber

bttt


5 posted on 01/25/2025 4:16:55 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: ArcadeQuarters; All

PURGE everyone involved.

Actually, just purge everyone at the top and then weed out the communists down the line.

FEMA needs to be ended and remade into a new organization that works.

That way they’d have to rehire everyone as new employees.


6 posted on 01/25/2025 4:18:04 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: MtnClimber

What the heck does a ‘chief Dei officer’ do?

And what is the pay grade?


7 posted on 01/25/2025 4:18:13 AM PST by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

I agree. That move didn’t happen in a vacuum. Someone made it happen. That person has to be exposed and dealt with.


8 posted on 01/25/2025 4:19:17 AM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: MtnClimber

That will happen in dozens of cases.


9 posted on 01/25/2025 4:22:27 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: MtnClimber

Inssubordintation = termination, period.


10 posted on 01/25/2025 4:25:18 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Big Pharma, Big tech, Big Comms, Big Oil, Big Defense Contractor, Big Banks - BUST THE TRUSTS)
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To: Mr. K

“What the heck does a ‘chief Dei officer’ do?”

Their main job is to drive-out White men from their departments, a form of purging the federal workforce to prevent people who might believe in Constitutional Rule from getting in the way of Democrat plans.


11 posted on 01/25/2025 4:27:35 AM PST by BobL
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What the heck does a ‘chief Dei officer’ do?

Hire more and dumber than she is hersef


12 posted on 01/25/2025 4:38:37 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: BobL

Your wizened answer is the clearest statement on the topic that I have read.


13 posted on 01/25/2025 4:40:11 AM PST by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (It personal now. Joe sucks!!!)
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To: MtnClimber

The most effective way to get rid of DEI in the ATF is to just get rid of the entire ATF.

That will never happened. What needs to happen is to repurpose the ATF to take guns away from criminals while at the same time leaving law abiding citizens alone. Leaving them alone means “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”!


14 posted on 01/25/2025 4:43:05 AM PST by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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To: ArcadeQuarters
Insubordination - justification for firing whoever approved this.

Exactly. This would send a strong message to anyone else thinking about doing the same.

15 posted on 01/25/2025 5:00:02 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar

“Your wizened answer is the clearest statement on the topic that I have read.”

Thanks. One of the problems that our side CONSTANTLY has is underestimating the intelligence of Democrat leaders. For example, I keep hearing from our side “why can’t they understand that the sun doesn’t always shine or the wind doesn’t always blow. They’re so dumb.” I see comments like that daily here and trying to straighten out the people when I can. I concede the fact that many Democrat voters are clueless, but the ones that rise to the top know EXACTLY what they’re doing, and arguably are far smarter than our side.

That gives the Left a HUGE ADVANTAGE over us as we do the equivalent of trying to fight off a severe infection with aspirin, rather than going to the root of the problem. In other words, conservatives often say “but they’re not considering the energy storage problem with ‘clean energy’”. Oh, they are, and they are JUST FINE with that, because at a minimum, it greatly drives up the cost of power, and if blackouts still happen, what’s the big deal, the Deplorables deserve it.

As to how to deal with them - first, our side IMMEDIATELY needs to discount their words (”we just want a cleaner planet” or “we just want to end racism in the workplace”) and instead look at the EFFECTS of the polices, and then work backwards, which is what I did here - DEI demoralizes Whites, especially White men, so it will drive them out. As far as ending racism, DEI does nothing but INCREASE racism. I won’t go to black doctor at this point unless I get a damn good referral (I did in one case, but he’s an older man), and not because all black doctors are bad, but because there’s no way to know which ones are actually qualified. On the other hand, a White male doctor, or Indian/Asian doctor received no preferential treatment and thus, by default, is qualified. We can thank DEI for driving my decisions in EXACTLY the opposite direction of what the Democrats ‘claim’ they want to see.

As an aside, I suspect that’s a big reason why the government wants to get total control over health care, as they can force us to use their DEI doctors, and we have no say in it. I remember in one case my wife got a referral for a doctor with a colorful African name. I thought, definitely black, but if African, then maybe qualified - if American, no way. She was totally American, so I called to cancel and their office was literally angry at me - I guess I wasn’t the first to be on to their scam!


16 posted on 01/25/2025 5:05:29 AM PST by BobL
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To: MtnClimber

Fire her and now fire everyone involved. The “fire everyone involved” part will get people’s attention in other executive agencies and let’s say “encourage” them not to try crap like this.


17 posted on 01/25/2025 5:09:16 AM PST by FLT-bird
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But she has no problem taking advantage of what white man have done to make her life easier. Car. Telephone. Electricity. Cotton. TV.


18 posted on 01/25/2025 5:22:27 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: FLT-bird

Yes. Cautionary tales can be effective.


19 posted on 01/25/2025 5:24:44 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: MtnClimber

Schultze‘s Axiom: Government jobs exist to provide a middle class lifestyle to otherwise unemployable adults.


20 posted on 01/25/2025 5:27:24 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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