Hello. I’m not American. Can someone tell me why America thought it was a good idea to make a functionally illiterate man with severe personality disorders the President of the United States of America?

I assume her nomination is to make us look forward to the Dept of Ed being disbanded rather than being left in her hands.

Setting aside her bizarre anti-public education stances and her weird fear of grizzly bears, Besty DeVos is completely unqualified for the position for which she’s been nominated. She’s like a Ben Carson or a Rick Perry without any actual accomplishments to point to except for being rich and giving lots of money to…

In a way I blame McCain for ALL OF THIS.

Why the fuck does McCain even care about that? He’s eighty years old! He can’t possibly run again! I can’t believe how eager he is to set his entire record on fire, after he started to pull out of the whole Sarah Palin debacle.

I know some teachers who took a early retirement rather than continue on.

Pssst, it’s not about the baby. It’s the lack of reproductive rights for women leaving them dependent and controlled by their husbands. That’s why they oppose birth control too. And are for the death penalty. Once you realize that, it all makes sense.

I don’t think everyone gets what an epic disaster this is. I work in education and EVERYONE is freaking out. Even charter schools and voucher schools. This woman honest to God has no idea what she’s doing and her ideas ideas are outdated even among the voucher crowd.

Yeah, where are Graham and McCain? I thought they were so outspoken against Trump?

There has been. But, if it’s not been loud enough in your estimation, it’s probably because Betsy is next in line to be confirmed, I believe.

No surprise in Pence, as he sold whatever was left of his soul to be Trump’s butt boy. I’d just like for once to see someone so virulently pro-life give a fucking shit about what happens to a fetus when it quits being a fetus. A world with clean air and water? Well-funded public education? A world where female,…

They are incompetent, but power-crazed, people who will pick all the battles. Add to that the hubris that they think they can win ALL the battles. I’m hoping they don’t win this one because DeVos will be a disaster for public education, but there are so many fronts on which to push back as we’ve been doing. It is…

It does seem weird on one hand. But, on the other, I think they feel that if they lose even one of these, then the Dems smell blood.

Alternate Headline: Vice President Vows to Defy the Will of the People; Confirm Public-School-Hating, Pyramid-Scheme Heiress & Largest Soft Money Donor to GOP Betsy DeVos.

This just seems like such an odd thing for them to pursue. Why in the hell are they going to the mat for this imbecile? When it comes to picking your battles, the Trump administration is choosing a blitzkreig

outrageous ruling from a so-called judge, i believe is how he framed it.

Uh yeah and the fact that he is calling the judge’s ruling his “opinion”?? like dude no its the LAW not an idiotic man just willy nilly making decisions to suit his mood at the moment. some people are actually respecting the rule of law...

that he thinks what has happened here is an affront to law enforcement only further underscores the fact that he believes his word is law.

The Klimts I can’t fault him for. I wasn’t partial to Klimt until I saw a few of them in person in Vienna and now I am all about Klimt.

Well, when your “masterpiece” has been plagued with criticism for having a weak story, no character development, and tons of plot holes, I guess you pick your battles where you think you can win.