I just listened to that yesterday and came here to see if anyone was commenting about it (you can listen to the whole thing on podcast, which I suppose you probably know - that’s how I get it). Her speech to the conservative ladies in which she decries those who want a stronger system in favour of one that champions…
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“Incredibly short sighted and stupid”
I just listened to that episode too, and found the whole thing strange. She paid for an impoverished girl’s private education and bought her mom a car to help her get to work. And then she hired the mom to be her personal laundry woman, which is nice I guess, since the mom was having trouble holding a job. But they…
Part of the conservative ethos is that private charity is just as good as and can replace public policy and funding, so this makes sense in a way. She picked a family she thought was “worthy” of the help, and gave it. She didn’t consider the other kids who were still in the school and that they all might benefit from…
Last night I listened to an NPR show @ Betsy DeVos and her time as a mentor in a low income school. I missed the beginning, but the teachers who were interviewed talked about how profoundly misguided she was. She took a shine to one family and bought them a car, but never tried to figure out what would actually help…
.They’re wretched scum to degrees I couldn’t even imagine as a vitriolically anti-Trumper from the start.
To be fair Betsy Devos may literally be too sheltered and too stupid to grasp how evil she is, then again Eric Prince is her brother and he’s a bad 80s action villain.
Everybody gets a participation trophy. How nice.
By removing forced protections, they’re creating a survival-of-the-“fittest” situation where “fittest” is whoever they like most as a demographic.
I also think De Vos was bred in the same petri dish as Phyllis Schlafley - ie. “all women should forget about anything but fulfilling their Godly duty to keep the home and submit to their husbands...all women but me because I am the special anointed one to send this message to the wee little lambs”. Title IX is just…
Every cabinet member appears to be in a deranged competition to see who can do the most brazenly awful things.
It’s this weird-ass sort of eugenics they’re wanting to do. If you can’t “hack it” through their bullshit American hazing ritual — involving being the right skin color, conforming to certain cultural roles they want to enforce, etc — you just don’t make it and out you go. By removing forced protections, they’re…
I guess I don’t understand. Why is it a bad thing to protect against sex discrimination? Or to keep pollution out of our air & water? Or to pay people equally for the same job? Or to have regulations in place to keep buildings from falling down or people from being poisoned? I just can’t wrap my mind around whatever…
Texas is experiencing the worst flooding in US history, and the entire state of Washington is covered in a cloud of smoke today, but sure, climate change isn’t a problem.
Nope. They’ll just continue to rationalize it all by saying “This is punishment for LGBT acceptance”.
My thoughts exactly. How many catastrophic hurricanes, ungodly heat waves, and 500 year droughts, and “Snowmageddons,” and “Polar Vortexes” and other unprecedented weather events will it take before they start figuring out that maybe A) there’s something to this whole climate change thing, or B) God is pissed at…
Oh, thats just because you’re thinking like someone who has some sense of decency. You see, as far as these people are concerned the future only really exists to the point at which they die, or perhaps just long enough past it to ensure their rivals don’t get their stuff.
I don’t understand what these people think the future will be like with what they are doing. They must just not give a shit about their own grandchildren.