Pompeo Heads to Iowa, Texas, Kansas – And Where Else? That’s a Ridiculous Question!

March 4, 2019 By in Funnies, Huh? News, Mike Pompeo, Pompeo, Secretary of State, State Department Tags: , , , , ,

Posted: 2:21 am EST

 

It looks like the State Department is dropping the #swagger hashtag for the moment.  There’s now a new hashtag #StateDeptStateside for trips to Iowa, Texas, Kansas, and who knows where else.  They’re also selling this as a recruitment trip, but doesn’t the secretary of state know that he already has Diplomats in Residence (DIRs), career Foreign Service Officers located throughout the United States who are responsible for providing guidance and advice to students, professionals and the community about Department careers? The DIR Midwest located in Illinois covers Iowa, and there is actually one located in Texas! Yay! But hey, nothing else is going on in the world, so yes, it absolutely makes perfect sense for the secretary of state to be doing stateside trips to recruit personnel for the State Department.

Listen, just ditch the plane, folks. Make this a whistle-stop tour; say it saves money. On the way to Texas he’ll get to stop at plenty states without even trying. He can chat with folks at every stop. Easy peasy lemon squeezy pitch.  Say come work at a national security agency that makes the world a better place; it’s such an important agency that they make half the people work with no pay while the other half are just sent home with no pay during a government shutdown. Also no one found the national security agency get out of shutdown free card until the 27th day of the shutdown, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is they found the card on the 27th day of the shutdown, and the money, so it’s all good now. No, it’s all great now! Sign up sheet to join over 75,000 warriors over there!

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