by Mish Shedlock, Mish Talk:
This headline sounds like it’s from the Babylon Bee or the Onion, but it’s not.
The Free Beacon comments on ‘Managing Stress During Change’, Biden Style.
The Biden-Harris State Department organized an in-house therapy session for employees early Friday following Donald Trump’s election victory, four sources with knowledge of the meeting told the Washington Free Beacon.
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
“Managing stress during change,” read an internal State Department email sent across the agency that encouraged employees to attend a one-hour session in which they could discuss their feelings about Tuesday’s election results. The department’s Employee Consultation Services in the Bureau of Medical Services hosted the session, according to a copy of the email notice described by sources to the Free Beacon.
The session was led by a licensed clinical provider. A second one is scheduled for Nov. 13, according to the email notice.
The State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, which oversees American diplomacy in the war-torn Middle East, also held a group discussion Friday with assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs Barbara Leaf and acting undersecretary for political affairs John Bass, according to three sources briefed on the matter.
One source described the meeting as a “cry session” over Trump’s victory, which is likely to usher in wholesale change at Foggy Bottom.
“For four years, within the rank and file, there has been an over emphasis on people’s feelings, often with a college campus-like fervor, rather than the work of advancing America’s interests,” one U.S. official with knowledge of the meetings told the Free Beacon.
“This meeting was hopefully the last gasp of that,” the source said, adding that there is “lots to unf—k” at the State Department after four years of the Biden-Harris administration.
A second source briefed on the private discussions said they suggest “the State Department is filled with partisan Democrats who are unwilling or unable to faithfully serve in the Trump administration.”
The State Department did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.
The State Department also held in-house therapy sessions in May 2023, after a system-wide email glitch assigned random and often incorrect pronouns to employees.
The agency urged “any employee who feels hurt or upset as a result of this unfortunate mistake” to use its mental health services, the Free Beacon reported at the time.
Rep Darrell Issa, Sends Blinken a Letter
In response to this total nonsense, please consider Issa’s Letter to Blinken emphasis mine.
Dear Secretary Blinken:
As a Senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I write to you regarding reports of official post-election State Department therapy and listening sessions. I am concerned that the Department is catering to federal employees who are personally devastated by the normal functioning of American democracy through the provision of government-funded mental health counseling because Kamala Harris was not elected President of the United States.
Instead, on November 5, the American people resoundingly elected Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States – a decisive repudiation of four years of failed Biden-Harris foreign policy. It is disturbing that ostensibly nonpartisan government officials would suffer a personal meltdown over the results of a free and fair election, something the United States champions around the world. It is unacceptable that the Department accommodates this behavior and subsidizes it with taxpayer dollars. Furthermore, the mere fact that the Department is hosting these sessions raises significant questions about the willingness of its personnel to implement the lawful policy priorities that the American people elected President Trump to pursue and implement. The Trump Administration has a mandate for wholesale change in the foreign policy arena, and if foreign service officers cannot follow through on the American people’s preferences, they should resign and seek a political appointment in the next Democrat administration.
The mental health of our foreign service personnel is important, but The Department has no obligation to indulge and promote the leftist political predilections of its employees and soothe their frayed nerves because of the good-faith votes of – and at the personal expense of – the American taxpayers.
With this in mind, I request a briefing with the appropriate officials by no later than Friday, November 22 to answer the following questions:
1. How many sessions have been conducted and how many more are planned? 2. What materials were used during the session and what was the agenda? 3. How much did these sessions cost the Department? 4. Are these sessions being conducted overseas? 5. Has the Department held similar sessions in the past, and if so, what events prompted them?
Sincerely, Darrell Issa Member of Congress
Lesson of the Day
Don’t hire DEI snowflakes and you won’t need to offer therapy sessions.
Anyone who does need therapy sessions should never have been hired in the first place.
