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.
“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.
CBS News Poll Show 57 Percent Approval to Deport All Illegal Immigrants
Earlier today I noted CBS News Poll Show 57 Percent Approval to Deport All Illegal Immigrants
Imagine the therapy sessions needed once that starts.
Disconcerting to discover that for State Trump is more traumatic than facilitating the genocide of hundreds of thousands of non-Jews.
surely all the embassies and consulates have well equipped safe spaces Trump has a Augean stables like task before him
Most big govt facilities/agencies I worked at had sessions like this for anyone who wanted to stop by. This is probably just one of those things. I suppose a few people go to these things to whine about the election and the patriarchy blah blah blah but there are plenty of people whose lives seriously suck and I hope it does them some good.
Some of the bigger corps. provide this kind of service also, especially when large layoffs are ahead.
Poor babies, maybe one day they’ll grow up.
The State Department has proven itself the CIA’s equal at sowing death and destruction around the world. Throw in USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy. They all need to be purged and scaled way back. The latter two should probably be eliminated.
“They all need to be purged and scaled way back.”
All departments and agencies need to be eliminated and/or scaled back to the respective sizes they had during the Jefferson administration. No exceptions.
I love this image, so often shown at Zero Hedge back when Trump was first elected:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=show+me+images+of+woke+people+crying&t=newext&atb=v423-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgflip.com%2F7c9edz.jpg
D.O.G.E. the State Department and while you are at it DOGE the department of health and human services. Their budget mentions equity 838 times. 838 reasons to cut the crap out of their budget and fire a bunch of wokesters.
It WILL be time to clean the houses of Government. FIRE THEM!
Thinking about these Wilted Flower-Children causes me to reflect on the Generations before my time (Grandparents, WWI Vets and Uncles who ere WWII Vets) who were SO tough-minded – even though shell-shocked – were able to make new lives in both of those Post-War American moments.
My Grandpa’s were BOTH so tough-skinned that this story would be unbelievable to them. Then, my Generation, BOOMERS came to the Fore.
We were of course tougher than these Lilies who now follow us. My Generation were NEARLY as hard-working as my Predecessors. However, the moment that I could retire early, I DID IT. My wife and I bailed out.
My Dad was blown away by that and so was my Wife’s Dad who worked all the way up to 83 years old, just two years ago. He never pushed me on our decision because he could see how happy we were to just travel and see the world.
But, NO WAY would my wife’s Uncle Mervyn HANDLE IT and he just looked at me as if I had grown horns. He hated my guts for lazing around. I loved my life and was lucky to do it but our relatives were clearly not like-minded.
They were TOUGHER THAN I AM !
I grew up post ww2, I’m 80. WW2 vets were usually mentally damaged and frequently alcoholics. I didn’t see any of the toughness you claim, although there were pretensions galore. Therapy would have been helpful for the vets I saw growing up but therapy over an election is ridiculous.
Small town folks beware. The dregs of the left will scurry to find other income sources that worthless bureaucrats can hold. They will be looking to fill city council and town boards in places they believe will be easiest to turn Blue again.
Most of these twits have needed therapy for years; ignorant whiner toddlers who hate mainstream America
Otherwise entitled,”Avoiding prison time when you did what your boss told you to do and he is definitely going to be indicted and will throw you to the dogs to get a plea deal”. Weeping and knashing of teeth. Lock them all up.
How can a Federal government that is comprised of about 90-10 in favor of the democrats faithfully represent a nation that is a 50-50 split ? How could they ever get to a 90-10 lopsided split without the insiders making that happen by discriminating against conservative leaning people ? The answer is they couldn’t without a consertive effort over many years of discriminating against conservative people .
This group of people represent a big portion of the most rabid lefties and will do anything to undermine a Trump administration or any administration that is voted in by the people that doesn’t agree with their Ideology . Has anyone been held accountable for the attempted coup of the first Trump administration called Russia Collusion ? No .
Great questions, BillyBob.
Isn’t there a song that says suicide is painless? Perhaps the Kool Aid drinkers of the looney left need to follow Jim Jones and reduce their carbon footprint?
Many of these folks believe they are thinking OUTSIDE the (pine) box for a solution. They instead should be thinking how much better things will be for them if they keep thinking INSIDE the (pine) box.
I am for it as long as they are given electroshock therapy. Alternately we can consider lobotomy but I expect that many of them have already received one.
Good way to find out who isn’t cut out to work at the State Department.
Poor souls face the prospect of getting real jobs and working for a living.
Two birds with one stone.
1. Freeze State Dept budget. ALL funds that previously went to NGOs to get the illegals here now go to police departments to get them out of here.
2..create a pipeline mechanism to transport the illegals home.
3. offer a 90-day amnesty: if you are here illegally and want to go home, turn yourself in to any LEO anywhere in the country and that LEO will get you into the pipeline.
4. After 90-days, illegals have a target on their back. The ride home should not be so smooth!
I gotta hand it to you Mish. You work your butt off presenting topics followed by your opinion and then providing a forum for, and frequently responding to, comments. I appreciate your efforts and enjoy your work.
I used to be an easy going, live and let live kind of guy….all this radical progressive woke crap has turned me into a hard core conservative traditionalist.
I once thought I was somewhere in the middle. Never much cared for the politics. Now it seems I am far-right conservative. It happened gradually, then suddenly.
Terminal TDS is a horrible disease. Will these therapy sessions include any evaluations so the worst afflicted can be relieved of duty?
Your opening line is completely accurate – these people are far more pathetic than I ever would have believed.
LOTS of whacky / unnecessary / Obama / Biden nonsense to be swept out, starting with the open border massive debacle. Homan is just the guy to sort that out.
The therapy sessions will come in good stead, according to Tucker Carlson’s interview with former undersecretary Russ Vought. Also enlightening to understand how the swamp works.
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1858640384643002751
Send them to the front lines of Ukraine. They broke it, they bought it.
I thought it was against the law to be a federal employee and be partisan in any way
yep … you’d think it’d be against the law for a federal employee to censor and suppress Civil Rights too….but not when serving The Powers That Be.
You can’t do anything political if you identify yourself as a fed. Like, you couldn’t go on TV and say “I’m the local federal dog catcher and I support Kamala for president”. Of course, that’s pretty much the definition of what politicians do, but the proles have to be alot more careful if they want to keep their jobs. It’s not an unreasonable law.