‘As an American taxpayer I don’t want my dollars going towards this crap,’ Donald Trump’s press secretary told reporters
To do this he will have to take on more than USAid, whose overall expenditure of $50 billion a year is a puny fraction of the trillions spent by the US government. But USAid presents an attractive target that appeals to voters who are less than keen on giving money to foreigners.
Noses twitched immediately in Ireland at the second item on her list. The transgender Colombian opera singers could look after themselves, but what was this about a DEI Irish musical? It wasn’t long before our old friends the internet sleuths had established that the €67,500 or so in question had gone to a production company associated with the Other Voices festival.
The woke extravaganza in question was actually something called Dignity, a live-streamed set of performances from the US ambassador’s residence in theHaving examined the evidence on YouTube, I regret to inform you that there is nothing about white fragility, queer theory or any of the other progressive shibboleths that have attained the same status in this White House that the dictatorship of the proletariat had for the un-American activities committee of the US House of Representatives in the...
That poses a challenge for everyone. It is not surprising that the businesses that were happy to incorporate DEI into their corporate strategies, along with some of the more dubious internal policies that accompanied them, are now competing to see who can ditch those policies fastest.
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