The worst spending in the federal government is the hundreds of billions we spend to subsidize the leftist program to destroy Western society, but the least defensible spending--spending that requires no explanation to people not paying attention--are the truly insane programs that nobody can defend when they are dug up.
Cocaine dogs and rats on date rape drugs come to mind, as does this.
BREAKING: DOGE just terminated a $2.3 million contract for a virtual reality training course that taught soldiers how to have "difficult conversations" about DEI.
— George (@BehizyTweets) February 10, 2025
Supposedly, the course taught Air and Space Force soldiers how to talk to each other. - Via DailyMail
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Lest you think that the Space Force hasn't come up with a high-tech way of doing DEI training--one much more impressive than dressing up soldiers and Marines as drag queens and having them twerk--DOGE has dug up this impressive program to use virtual reality to train its airmen (Airpersons? Space cadets?) to have difficult conversations at work and at home.
Yes, difficult conversations at the dinner table will be modeled by the avatar for Space Cadets.
You may think this sounds like a joke, but this is part of Joe Biden's comprehensive program to ensure that his DEI initiatives are shoved down the throats of everybody in the military.
SBD1's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) now hosts the Leading Inclusivity Virtual Experience (L.I.V.E) Program!
This program allows the participants to have a conversation that are both realistic and difficult. It uses a virtual avatar that are controlled by trained actors.
Theis is just another way that the Air and Space Force are innovating and staying one step ahead of a time when we have difficult conversations!
No wonder the Democrats worked so hard to keep Pete Hegseth out of the Pentagon and DOGE out of the books. Turn on the kitchen lights and poke around a bit, and the cockroaches start running.
Literature produced by the Air Force to tout the program noted how soldiers who participated in the LIVE program were venturing into a 'brave space.'
'When you participate in a L.I.V.E. session, you immerse yourself in a safe, but brave space to practice addressing exclusion using realistic scenarios based on Airmen and Guardian experiences,' a brochure on the initiative states.
'When entering a brave space Airmen and Guardians accept a level of discomfort when discussing personal perspectives and experiences, but know they are safe to share because the respect and dignity given by their fellow Airmen and Guardians,' the pamphlet added.
If selected, soldiers would attend a three-day course funded by the Secretary of the Air Force's Diversity and Inclusion office at Air University's Eaker Center at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
The program grew year-over-year to include more participants.
In 2022 there were three LIVE courses that instructed 52 participants in the Air Force.
The next year in 2023 the program held eight courses that trained 160 participants
Yesterday I wrote about how bureaucrats think about spending your money. They think only a childhood trauma could scar you enough to worry about how they spend your money, and that there is no waste at all in the budget. Kathleen Hicks, who was Deputy Secretary of Defense when this program was implemented, had this to say about the Pentagon failing to pass a single audit:
This is what we’re dealing with everywhere in government
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2025
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How dare we ask how the money is spent? Doesn't everybody know that virtual reality DEIA training for airmen to model how to have a dinnertime conversation is vital to national security?
The level of arrogance is almost beyond comprehension unless you have (as I and my colleagues have) spent years marinated in the ways of government.
This is not silly spending. This is not a tiny fraction of the budget. This is not something to laugh off and ignore.
The US is swimming in debt, the Pentagon can't pass an audit, and the people spending our tax dollars (and creating the debt) have zero sense of priorities. This is a crisis the likes of which our country hasn't seen since World War II. And if the US falls, there likely will be a World War III.
Stupid little programs add up quickly, are symbolic of a failure to understand what is important and what is not, and undermine our faith in government (rightly!). If the military--which is the quintessential government function--prioritizes stuff like this, you rest assured that agencies nobody pays much attention to are doing even worse things.
Like USAID funding terrorists.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing a whole-of-government audit, and the Deep State is doing a whole-of-government resistance to the effort. It is a life or death struggle for them.
Rooting out programs like this is less about saving money--a very important goal--than exposing how the Deep State has priorities that are inimical to America's. We are spending millions to train soldiers, sailors, and airmen to have dinnertime conversations and take our eye off the ball, all while destroying the fiscal stability of the country.
The Deep State will not take this lying down. Skimming off the top of the federal budget and using the bureaucracy to implement their agenda are the pillars of their power. Congressmen are calling for violence, state government officials are plotting to arrest Elon Musk, leftists on social media want Elon Musk and DOGE employees dead, and federal employees are plotting on Reddit to--I kid you not--sabotage government buildings.
They are going to war. And not just with virtual reality.
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