{"id":2399760,"date":"2025-02-06T13:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-taxpayer-money-found-flowing-to-drag-queen-shows-in-ecuador\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:29:12","slug":"us-taxpayer-money-found-flowing-to-drag-queen-shows-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-taxpayer-money-found-flowing-to-drag-queen-shows-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"US Taxpayer Money Found Flowing to Drag Queen Shows in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-taxpayer-money-found-flowing-to-drag-queen-shows-in-ecuador%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2399760&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text \u200ddiscusses \u200bthe increasingly pressing need for clarity\u2063 among conservatives regarding the concept of &#8220;wokeness.&#8221; It highlights a particular instance were a $25,000\u200d grant \u2064from the Biden governance&#8217;s State\u2064 Department funded a drag \u2063workshop \u2063in Ecuador, which was perceived as\u200c promoting\u2063 a distorted view of femininity. A Spanish-language video showcased cross-dressing participants in a manner deemed offensive to customary\u200b views on gender.<\/p>\n<p>The article posits that conservatives often frame their concerns about such events in\u200b terms of wasteful government spending or the excesses of wokeness.\u2062 However, it argues that\u200b there is a deeper,\u200b more harmful agenda at play, associating wokeness with neo-Marxist ideologies that promote division and \u200dundermine traditional values.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion\u200d also\u2063 brings to light the recently revealed depth of corruption within the United States agency for International Progress (USAID), suggesting it functions as a tool for leftist political agendas rather then mere humanitarian purposes.This notion of &#8220;tactical wokeness&#8221; being used to further \u200dstatecraft is emphasized\u2063 through past examples of USAID funding projects \u2062in foreign nations designed\u2064 to incite division and \u2062protests.<\/p>\n<p>The author concludes that while outrage over \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-and-pastors-across-america-fight-drag-shows-for-kids\/\" title=\"Parents And Pastors Across America Fight Drag Shows For Kids\">taxpayer-funded drag shows<\/a> is justified, conservatives should articulate\u2063 their \u2063concerns by exposing\u200d the broader, corrupt activities of agencies like USAID. Voters must be made\u200d aware of the governmental actions and policies enacted in their name, both domestically and abroad.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have never needed clarity more than we do in the present moment.<\/p>\n<p>We know, for instance, that if it looks, sounds, and smells like wokeness, then it probably qualifies as wokeness. But that fact alone, in cases such as this, constitutes only a small part of a larger and darker story.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/05\/us-news\/video-reveals-state-department-funded-lgbtq-ecuador-groups-drag-show-workshop-with-25k-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, a $25,000 grant from former President Joe Biden&rsquo;s State Department funded a &ldquo;two-day drag workshop&rdquo; in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>A Spanish-language video, posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> Facebook, showed men cross-dressing as they applied makeup and strutted around as if showcasing themselves on a catwalk.<\/p>\n<p>The men also danced topless, fueled by their fetish- or mental illness-inspired view of what constitutes a woman.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Readers who, for whatever reason, might wish to view said video may do so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=802897258621581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. (<em>WARNING: Following the link will lead to a video that may offend some readers.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the grotesque parody of womanhood, one must give credit where due.<\/p>\n<p>After all, according to the Post, the drag queens in the video spoke of using the workshop as a &ldquo;political tool.&rdquo; That showed that they understood the workshop&rsquo;s broader objective.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings us to the point on which conservatives must achieve clarity.<\/p>\n<p>In general, of course, wokeness amounts to a neo-Marxist political movement. It divides people into identity-based groups and pits them against one another. This much conservatives understand.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, conservatives also seem to understand that wokeness has spiritual dimensions. Referring to men as &ldquo;women,&rdquo; for instance, inverts truth and thus deliberately promotes an atheistic, nihilistic view of God&rsquo;s creation.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, when conservatives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-karoline-leavitt-pulls-insane-list-usaid-expenditures-reporter-frets-humanitarian-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bemoan<\/a> U.S. taxpayer-funded drag shows in Ecuador or transgender nonsense in Heaven knows where else, too often we frame that lament in terms of wasteful spending and wokeness run amok.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that framing best resonates with the public. If so, then it serves as a useful introduction. But we cannot stop there.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in recent days X owner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fed-hr-workers-try-logging-learn-elons-changed-credentials-locked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> and his talented team at President Donald Trump&rsquo;s Department of Government Efficiency have blown the lid off one of modern history&rsquo;s darkest and most unfathomable scandals.<\/p>\n<p>In short, Musk&rsquo;s team publicly revealed the depth of corruption at the United States Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n<p>Nominally a &ldquo;foreign aid&rdquo; organization, USAID long functioned as an arm of the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency. In recent years, too, it heavily funded Democrats and their allies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/karoline-leavitt-delivers-crushing-news-politico-press-briefing-taxpayer-subsidization-ends-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-censors-babylon-bee-ceo-thinks-facebook-is-moving-beyond-news-to-suppress-wrong-kind-of-comedy\/\" title=\"Secret Censors: Babylon Bee CEO Thinks Facebook Is Moving Beyond News to Suppress Wrong Kind Of Comedy\">left-wing establishment media<\/a><\/a>. That, of course, explains why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/amid-dem-outrage-usaid-ernst-sets-record-straight-potentially-shuttered-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a> went <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dem-congresswoman-accused-violating-federal-law-unhinged-war-rant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">positively apoplectic<\/a> over Musk&rsquo;s revelations.<\/p>\n<p>Why would a &ldquo;foreign aid&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">agency fund left-wing media outlets<\/a> in the United States? Because USAID amounted to an all-purpose money-laundering outfit that did the bidding of American globalists.<\/p>\n<p>Mercifully, Trump has placed USAID under Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/marco-rubio-takes-embattled-usaid-vows-big-changes-completely-unresponsive-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marco Rubio&rsquo;s<\/a> control. From there, one hopes that the Trump administration will destroy the agency and salt the Earth beneath it.<\/p>\n<p>In short, when it sent money overseas, USAID had a political agenda, not a humanitarian one.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald, former State Department official Mike Benz explained.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;USAID exists as an illusion to fool you into thinking that USAID is not the State Department, but it is,&rdquo; Benz said in a clip posted to the social media platform X on Tuesday. &ldquo;The only reason it&rsquo;s an independent agency is because that gives aid workers access to areas State can&rsquo;t access directly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, Benz drew an important distinction between wokeness and what he called &ldquo;blobness.&rdquo; Benz has often used &ldquo;the blob&rdquo; as shorthand for what others call the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/deep-state-sabotaging-trump-malicious-compliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deep state<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s very easy to mistake wokeness with blobness,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Benz then spent several minutes describing how, following the resounding defeat of the State Department&rsquo;s preferred candidate in the 2018 Bangladesh election, one particular &ldquo;blob&rdquo; agency deliberately funded transgender projects, as well as initiatives designed to sow racial division and destabilize the country, &ldquo;ultimately culminating in throngs of street protests that forced the democratically elected prime minister to flee the country in a helicopter,&rdquo; replaced by a &ldquo;Clinton Global Initiative fellow&rdquo; who canceled elections.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You have tactical wokeness in service of statecraft,&rdquo; Benz added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&ldquo;I think you have tactical wokeness in service of statecraft.&rdquo; This is an important exchange I had with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald?\">@ggreenwald<\/a> tonight on USAID. I went over Wokeness vs Blobness, and why **the Republican** wing of NED funds transgender dance festivals, ethnic identity events and rap groups <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EtlShGFkMR\">pic.twitter.com\/EtlShGFkMR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBenzCyber\/status\/1886655861734408356?\">February 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the USAID-related bombshells have continued to develop in a fast and furious manner. On Wednesday, for instance, prominent journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bombshell-usaid-cia-state-dept-played-role-1st-trump-impeachment-top-reporter-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Shellenberger<\/a> reported that USAID, along with the State Department and CIA, helped fund Trump&rsquo;s 2019 impeachment through the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-usaid-cia-state-dept-played-role-in-1st-trump-impeachment-top-reporter-in-america\/\" title=\"Bombshell - ..., CIA, State Dept. Played Role in 1st Trump Impeachment: Top Reporter in America\">supposedly independent investigative news organization&#038;rdquo<\/a>; that actually received 52 percent of its funding from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, a U.S. taxpayer-funded drag workshop in Ecuador rightly repels us and leaves us outraged.<\/p>\n<p>We must, however, go beyond waste and wokeness when articulating that outrage. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musk-nominated-nobel-peace-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk<\/a> and others continue to uncover it, we must absorb and then explain USAID&rsquo;s hell-black activities. 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We recognize that if something appears to be wokeness, it likely is. However, this understanding only scratches the surface of a more complex and troubling narrative. The New York Post reports that a $25,000 grant from former President Joe Biden\u2019s State Department funded a &#8220;two-day drag workshop&#8221; in Ecuador. A video shared on Facebook depicted men cross-dressing, applying makeup, and performing as if on a runway while dancing topless\u2014reflecting their distorted views of womanhood.<\/p>\n<p>While the grotesque portrayal of femininity is alarming, it&#8217;s important to acknowledge that the participants viewed the workshop as a &#8220;political tool,&#8221; indicating an awareness of its broader implications. This leads us to an essential point for conservatives: wokeness represents a neo-Marxist political movement that divides people into identity groups and fosters conflict among them.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives generally grasp this concept but often frame their concerns about taxpayer-funded drag shows or transgender issues primarily in terms of wasteful spending or unchecked wokeness. While this perspective may resonate with some audiences as an introduction to the issue, we must delve deeper.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Elon Musk and his team have exposed significant corruption within USAID (United States Agency for International Development), which has historically acted as an extension of both the State Department and CIA while funding left-leaning media outlets in America\u2014a fact that has incited outrage among Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>USAID&#8217;s operations reveal it functions more like a money-laundering entity serving globalist interests rather than genuinely providing humanitarian aid. Former State Department official Mike Benz highlighted how USAID misleads people into thinking it operates independently when it actually serves state objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Benz also distinguished between &#8220;wokeness&#8221; and what he termed &#8220;blobness,&#8221; referring to entrenched bureaucratic interests often associated with deep state activities. He illustrated how certain agencies funded divisive projects after political setbacks abroad\u2014demonstrating tactical use of wokeness for geopolitical ends.<\/p>\n<p>As revelations about USAID continue to emerge\u2014such as its role in funding efforts related to Trump&#8217;s impeachment\u2014it becomes clear that our outrage over taxpayer-funded workshops should extend beyond mere wastefulness or wokeness; we must confront and communicate the darker realities behind these government actions both domestically and internationally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2399761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Drag-Shows.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[49943,49942,49788,32412,49941],"class_list":["post-2399760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-cultural-funding","tag-drag-queen-shows","tag-ecuador","tag-government-spending","tag-us-taxpayer-money"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Drag-Shows.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399764,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399760\/revisions\/2399764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}