Our friend, Newsmax host, and former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie opened his Thursday show Carl Higbie Frontline with a scathing takedown over the U.S. Navy’s shoveling of “woke trash” by bringing in a sailor/drag queen in an effort to boost what’s been a dismal stretch of recruitment, saying “the military is not a village people social experiment” and joking it’ll certainly comfort “the next American hostage in Djibouti...that they’re sending RuPaul and not a SEAL team.”
Higbie’s brief cold open before the opening credits said it all: “Well, the back-to-back World War champs now have a drag queen as their spokesman.”
He wondered whether “our military leaders are, like, bored, stupid, or actually trying to destroy the ranks, but this little drag queen stunt the Navy is pulling is in a long list of bad ideas” and even worse than their vaccine mandates.
Higbie laid out some sobering statistics:
The U.S. Navy has missed their recruiting goals by more than 20 percent in their active pipeline and 30 percent in the reserves. Why? Because of all this woke trash. This guy, the secretary of the Navy, Carlos Del Toro, who I wouldn’t pick for my kickball team, yet, here he is running the Navy. Want to know how he’s responding to the loss of interest in joining the military? More cowbell. The beatings will continue until morale improves. Hello? The reason recruiting is failing is precisely because of all this stuff.
Mocking Del Toro’s supposed rationale despite two decades as a deck officer, Higbie joked it’s as though “he did a keg stand in Loudoun County with Lia Thomas holding his feet. Marketing 101, dude. You should have learned this from Bud Light.”
“[I]f Carlos thinks it’s better to do it this way, I’m sure the next American hostage in Djibouti will be absolutely thrilled to know that they’re sending RuPaul and not a SEAL team,” he added.
After showing a March exchange between Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley over drag shows at Nellis Air Force Base, Higbie threw a few more jabs to close out his monologue.
“Who in their right mind wants a bunch of weirdos as brand ambassadors on TikTok for the world’s greatest fighting force,” he asked before listing off a slew of the Navy’s capabilities.
Higbie concluded with the real implication of the Navy going woke in that it’s divisive and makes America less safe:
Getting some gender fluid cross-dresser to speak out on TikTok no less does not make America safer. The military is not a village people social experiment, Carlos. Other countries are laughing at us. Even Canada is. China thinks this is great, though. But we’re about to learn a really hard lesson and then one that may actually be the downfall of America.
To see the relevant Newsmax transcript from May 4, click “expand.”
Newsmax’s Carl Higbie Frontline
May 4, 2023
5:00 p.m. EasternCARL HIGBIE: Well, the back-to-back World War champs now have a drag queen as their spokesman. Let’s do this [OPENING CREDITS] I don’t know if our military leaders are, like, bored, stupid, or actually trying to destroy the ranks, but this little drag queen stunt the Navy is pulling is in a long list of bad ideas. Not even second to the vaccine mandate. I mean, it tops the list. And before we go any further, I really don’t care if you’re offended by any of this. I’m interested in protecting America and you probably should be too. The U. S Navy has missed their recruiting goals by more than 20 percent in their active pipeline and 30 percent in the reserves. Why? Because of all this woke trash. This guy, the secretary of the Navy, Carlos Del Toro, who I wouldn’t pick for my kickball team, yet, here he is running the Navy. Want to know how he’s responding to the loss of interest in joining the military? More cowbell. The beatings will continue until morale improves. Hello? The reason recruiting is failing is precisely because of all this stuff. But hey, let’s keep throwing gas on the fire that should do it. And what’s crazier, is it this guy was a fleet officer in the Navy for 22 years. I’m sitting there wondering what the heck happened to him. It’s like he did a keg stand in Loudoun County with Lia Thomas holding his feet. Marketing 101, dude. You should have learned this from Bud Light. What worked in the past?
[PREVIOUS NAVY AD]
HIGBIE: Yeah. When we were running these ads, we didn’t have a recruiting problem. When you started kicking people out for not getting a vaccine they didn’t want or maybe even didn’t need and making them spend more time in DEI seminars than on the gun range, this type of person who — you — that’s the person you want defending your country, but they’re no longer drawn to the military now with this junk. But if Carlos thinks it’s better to do it this way, I’m sure the next American hostage in Djibouti will be absolutely thrilled to know that they’re sending RuPaul and not a SEAL team. This all comes like three weeks after General Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he didn’t agree with this drag stuff.
CONGRESSMAN MATT GATEZ (R-FL) [on 03/29/23]: Nellis Air Force Base hosts first ever drag queen show essential to morale and readiness. That’s a Breitbart piece.
[SCREEN WIPE]
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF CHAIRMAN, GEN. MARK MILLEY [on 03/29/23]: That’s the first time hearing about that kind of stuff. I don’t read those news stories. I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’d like to take a look at this because I don’t agree with those.
CONGRESSMAN MIKE ROGERS (R-AL) [on 03/29/23]: Well, they’re now in the official record.
MILLEY [on 03/29/23]: That shouldn’t be happening.
GATEZ [on 03/29/23]: Thank you. Thank you for that admission.
HIGBIE: Oh really, General? Cause you certainly seem to support it now, either that or you’re completely out of the loop. I don’t know which one’s worse. Who in their right mind wants a bunch of weirdos as brand ambassadors on TikTok for the world’s greatest fighting force? We have nuclear powered aircraft carriers that go as fast as most jet skis. We have silent underwater war machines that can launch nuclear warheads anywhere in the world at any target at the push of a button. Fighter jets that go over 1000 miles an hour. There was a time as recently as my service when, if you are an enemy of the United States of America, people like me and my friends would find you and kill you in the middle of the night and your neighbor wouldn’t even know we were there. That is how you recruit people to the military. Getting some gender fluid cross-dresser to speak out on TikTok no less does not make America safer. The military is not a village people social experiment, Carlos. Other countries are laughing at us. Even Canada is. China thinks this is great, though. But we’re about to learn a really hard lesson and then one that may actually be the downfall of America.
