At first, we thought this headline came from the Babylon Bee or The Onion, it’s so bizarre.
As it turns out, it appears that it’s just some State Department bureaucrats trying to spend money before the end of the fiscal year on 9/30 (to avoid losing the budget next fiscal year).
As we award the Molière Citation to the nameless, faceless bureaucrats at the U. S. Department of State, we wonder how things got this far out of whack.
How does a vocal minority of easily triggered mental cases get such influence over the way the executors of our foreign policy export this kind of “aid” to other nations — at significant cost to the taxpayers.
In bestowing this Citation upon the recipients, might we suggest that the prime movers behind this initiative take personal action by going personally to some of the nations where they want this play to be performed — and see how they treat those of the LGBTQ+ persuasion.
If they are unwilling to face this disconnect directly, perhaps they should just join the “Gays for Gaza” demonstrations in the performative exercise. Just don’t try going there in person, where they are not only unwelcome but subject to summary execution.
We’re just shaking our heads and waiting for the next untied shoe to drop.