Your Tax Dollars at Work: Government Accountability Office Mandates What Employees Can and Can't Say
By Bob Hoge | 9:00 PM on May 28, 2023

Ever wonder where your tax dollars are going? They don't seem to be doing much to lower crime or solve the homelessness crisis. All too often these days we find that our money is going to fund indoctrination efforts by the Biden administration as they force their woke brand of justice on society - whether you like it or not.

The latest victims are the 3,100 employees of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) who have been told to avoid "gendered language" in the workplace. According to its website, the Office wasn't created to engage in social activism, but instead to keep an eye on the government itself. Their website describes their function:

GAO provides Congress, the heads of executive agencies, and the public with timely, fact-based, non-partisan information that can be used to improve government and save taxpayers billions of dollars.

Our work is done at the request of congressional committees or subcommittees or is statutorily required by public laws or committee reports, per our Congressional Protocols.

An internal memo dated October 2022 and obtained by The Daily Mail, however, shows that they have other ideas in mind. The 3,000+ word missive penned by the "chief diversity management officer" demands that workers not use "wording that diminishes anyone's dignity." It sounds like a noble enough goal - until you hear some of the words like "manpower" that are considered triggering. Have you ever heard someone use a phrase like, "We don't have enough manpower for that job" and immediately thought that someone would find it deeply insulting? If you have, you're probably one of those people who sit around searching for things to be aggrieved about.

More from the memo:

Inclusive language allows us to support GAO's mission by appropriately addressing all members of society. [I throw the red flag right there, folks. the use of the word "members" is extremely inappropriate and offensive.] Writing inclusively means your words, phrases and tone are free from assumptions, implications, and connotations that may exclude people or perpetuate misconcenptions. The overarching goals are to respect the identitites and prerefences of all people and to avoid wording that diminishes anyone's dignity or humanity.

If I'm working for the GAO, I'm thinking to myself, what does all that gobbledygook actually mean in practice? They supply more confusing guidance filled with buzzwords to help explain:

"When it is necessary to refer to sex or gender identity, be aware of the distinction and avoid equating the two," the leaked memo reads.

"Sex is a classification of people into categories such as male, female or intersex on the basis of biological characteristics.

"Gender identity is a person"s innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both, or neither.

"Gender identity may align with the sex a person was assigned at birth (cisgender), another sex (transgender), or neither.

"A person whose gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth or with another sex may identify as nonbinary, agender, or gender fluid, among other identities."

Maybe it's just me, but I think the employees should be focused on holding the government to account and detecting financial irregularities, not obsessing about their gender identities. Aren't there some important issues out there?


There's more stupidity, but you get the idea: don't call illegal aliens illegal aliens, use footnotes "when your choice of inclusive language could be unfamiliar or confusing," don't use "differently abled" (which until recently was deemed considerate), etcetera, etcetera.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) had an appropriate response:

If Biden and the radical leftists in his administration focused on the real problems facing America - forty-year high inflation, out of control crime, open borders and a flood of deadly drugs - instead of forcing a woke ideology down our throats, our country would be in a far better position to tackle the problems he has exacerbated.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was equally scathing:

The GAO is tasked with investigating federal spending and performance, but under President Biden they're wasting valuable government time and resources on regulating language.

While it's nice to be polite, this whole exercise reeks of silliness, especially when as RedState's streiff reported, the GAO doesn't "doesn't know why and may not even care" about the disastrous military recruiting numbers our forces are experiencing. Maybe they should spend some time on that?

The government should not be dictating social policy on its workers or on its citizens. Increasingly however under Biden's administration, the federal bureaucracy often seems to be preoccupied with anything except their actual jobs.

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Edited: 05/28/2023 at 09:27 PM by Fish Killer

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was equally scathing:
"The GAO is tasked with investigating federal spending and performance, but under President Biden they're wasting valuable government time and resources on regulating language."


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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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Is this anything like banning the words "climate change" or "global warming" during pigsugar rick's regime, fish fairy?
Or, maybe: "don't say gay"?
What about rhonda dusantini is a pizza faced, wannabe soldier, and a fascist posturing embarrassment for my beloved florida?
How'z bout anti business, grandstanding liar?
then there's that garilynne is a girdle wearing transitioning.....person
with a pellet gun and a whiz bang lazer sight
who likes posting arab queer porn....on a surf forum

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It's a democratic hoax

Media's New Hoax - Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill
March 15, 2022
Seamus Brennan

In the latest instance of mainstream media manipulation, American journalists have once again linked arms with the Democrat Party to push a series of falsehoods and exaggerations about a piece of socially conservative legislation. This time, they have taken aim at a parental rights bill in Florida.

The Parental Rights Bill in Education (H.B. 1557), which the press has deceptively dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, was passed by the Florida Senate on March 8 and is expected to be signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis in the near future. The legislation prohibits classroom instructors from teaching children in kindergarten through third-grade content related to sexual orientation and gender identity, a response to a disturbing trend of left-wing gender ideology making its way into elementary school classrooms in recent years.

"A school district may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students," the bill states. The legislation also bars "school district personnel from discouraging or prohibiting parental notification and involvement in critical decisions affecting a student's mental, emotional, or physical well-being" and takes additional measures to increase curriculum transparency and parental oversight of their children's education.

However, you wouldn't know any of that from listening to the media's breathless coverage of the bill as an all-out assault on anyone who isn't a straight white male. While advocates of the legislation are quick to point out that the bill merely prohibits teachers from exposing children to highly inappropriate sexual discussions at a young age, the left has launched a full-scale attack against what it falsely claims is a homophobic assault on the gay and transgender communities. Gender theory activists have insisted the legislation amounts to a "Don't Say Gay" bill that forbids the use of the word "gay" in any context - a ridiculous charge that was quickly echoed by leaders of the Democratic Party and further advanced by the mainstream media. Media headlines rarely refer to the legislation by its actual name and have instead adopted the "Don't Say Gay" moniker invented by left-wing activists.

President Joe Biden even denounced the bill as "hateful" after it was passed by the Florida Senate Education Committee in February. Following the Florida Senate's passage of the legislation this month, Biden retweeted a post from the White House claiming that the bill is designed to "attack LGBTQI+ kids" and make "growing up harder for young people." White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki similarly disparaged the legislation as "discriminatory" and "horrific."

Countless other politicians, celebrities, and corporations did not hesitate to weigh on the matter either, castigating the not-yet-signed bill as a revolting assault on gay and transgender Americans. Hillary Clinton joined the chorus and criticized the bill as an instance of "performative cruelty" that "will only serve to hurt children and families." Democrat members of Florida's state legislature protested in the Florida Capitol by linking arms and walking down the hallway repeating the word "gay" while activists brandished signs suggesting the law is a source of brutal marginalization and oppression.

DeSantis, however, has not fallen for the media's trap. When asked about the legislation during a press conference, he immediately pushed back against reporters' usage of the "Don't Say Gay" tagline: "Does it say that in the bill? Does it say that in the bill? I'm asking you to tell me what's in the bill because you are pushing false narratives," he said. In a later public appearance, he further emphasized his support for the legislation, vowing, "We are not going to allow" anyone "to inject transgenderism into kindergarten."

"The chance that I am going to back down from my commitment to students and back down from my commitment to parents' rights simply because of fraudulent media narratives or pressure from woke corporations - the chances of that are zero," DeSantis said, in a likely reference to the Disney CEO's statements in opposition to the law.

The media's maniacal response to the Florida bill is nothing unique. For years, American journalists have allied themselves with left-wing causes and gone out of their way to paint what in another era would have been considered common-sense legislation in the most negative light possible. As conservative commentator Ryan Anderson noted, the media's perennial dishonesty in response to state-level laws like the Texas heartbeat bill and Georgia's election integrity law should have cast the media's credibility into doubt long ago. "Do not trust any mainstream media reports on social conservative legislation until you've verified yourself," Anderson said.

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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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Edited: 05/29/2023 at 04:45 AM by Fish Killer

"like banning the words "climate change" or "global warming": When reached for comment about the supposed ban on the terms, Gov. Scott's spokesperson John Tupps said "it's not true." Tupps said that neither the governor's office nor the DEP had a policy on the use of the terms.

These idiots fall for literally EVERY hoax in the book!

FACT!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Is this anything like banning the words "climate change" or "global warming" during pigsugar rick's regime, fish fairy?
Or, maybe: "don't say gay"?
What about rhonda dusantini is a pizza faced, wannabe soldier, and a fascist posturing embarrassment for my beloved florida?
How'z bout anti business, grandstanding liar?
then there's that garilynne is a girdle wearing transitioning.....person
with a pellet gun and a whiz bang lazer sight
who likes posting arab queer porn....on a surf forum

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It's a democratic hoax

^hoax

(they fall for every single one)

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.