Lauren Boebert rages at the US Navy for supporting drag queen sailor

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is scolding the U.S. Navy for allowing a sailor who also performs in drag to participate in a recruitment initiative, and she’s particularly worried about what China and Russia think.

“The US Navy is now using drag queens for recruitment,” she wrote. “Do our military leaders understand that China and Russia see this stuff and prepare accordingly?”

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“We need a non-woke military. Better yet, an anti-woke military.”

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The US Navy is now using drag queens for recruitment.

Do our military leaders understand that China and Russia see this stuff and prepare accordingly?

We need a non-woke military. Better yet, an anti-woke military.

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) May 3, 2023

She was referring to a story making the rounds in rightwing media about Yeoman Second Class Joshua Kelley, who is one of several active duty “Digital Ambassadors” selected by the Navy as part of a pilot program to use social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok for recruitment. Kelley is nonbinary and goes by the name Harpy Daniels when in drag.

“From joining to 2016 and being able to share my drag experience on my off time with my fellow sailors has been a blessing,” Kelley wrote in an Instagram post for the Navy last November. It’s not clear why the people concerned about Kelley’s participation in the Digital Ambassador program needed several months to find out about it.

“Thank you to the Navy for giving me this opportunity! I don’t speak for the Navy but simply sharing my experience in the Navy! Hooyah, and let’s go slay!” they wrote.

The idea that the military has become “woke” has been a GOP talking point at least since the Biden administration lifted the ban on transgender people serving openly. Florida is currently considering a bill to send a sternly-worded document to Biden administration officials denouncing the “woke” military. The bill identifies three main examples of military wokeness: the military’s opposition to racism in the workplace and the facts that “openly gay and bisexual men and women have been allowed to serve in the military” and “the ban on transgender individuals serving in the military was lifted.”

Boebert was mocked on Twitter for claiming that a sailor doing drag somehow weakens the military. Others pointed to how Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) proposed budget cuts that have been criticized by Democrats for including a 22% funding cut to the Veterans Health Administration. Others pointed to her lack of military service.

Please, Notorious GED, explain to us how China and Russia are preparing accordingly…

I'll wait pic.twitter.com/DUTaVCL97t

— Cheesy Gordita Brett (@CreampieOrDie) May 3, 2023

Remind me which branch you served in again?

— Turgid Verse (@gullyvuhr) May 4, 2023

Armies of dictators don’t do well Russia case in point.

I mean you’re there…

— April Pitney🌳🌎🌍🌏 (@PitneyApril) May 4, 2023

Yes they are using a drag queen with infinitely more time in the actual armed forces than you, MTG, and Donald Trump combined.

— KeshaWarrior (@thekeshawarrior) May 3, 2023

You can sail the seven seas…. pic.twitter.com/20sTvYHpxF

— Mike D. (@TheMIKED89) May 3, 2023

I’m confused..our tax dollars are paying for you to focus on THAT????? Oh wow. I mean…Don’t do your job. That’s actually ok….I’m sure they will find someone else to do it next election cycle. 👍

— Tara Clausen Bender (@tbender1028) May 4, 2023

pic.twitter.com/C4TBm7yVhs

— Amanda Jo 💙 (@imamandajo) May 3, 2023

Remind me again about your military service. Oh, that’s right..you never served.

The United States has the finest military force in the world, yet you continue to mock them and disparage them. While admiring China and Russia.

— 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢 (@ChidiNwatu) May 3, 2023

Why are you so threatened by drag queens? It was never about the children was it?

— David Weissman ✡️ (@davidmweissman) May 3, 2023

We have the strongest, most powerful, most capable, most trained, military in the world.

Where did you serve? I did 20. Now go sit down.

— caring 💙🇺🇸🌈✌🏻 (@caringguy1957) May 3, 2023

You’re awfully worried about the military for someone who just voted to gut the VA.

Are our troops just a prop to you, BoBo?

— Curtis Crimmins (@CurtisCrimmins) May 3, 2023

If she only knew how often the navy ended up in drag.

— James 🌻 (@NHDem4Ever) May 3, 2023