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Congress Deluged with 1.5 Million calls per day coming in, most about DeVos
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……forgetit
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Again, I don't even know Republicans who can defend this crazy woman.
BoboBrazil
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And Republicans don't give a shit. They'll push her through to appease Trump.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Or to appease the person(devos) who donated to their campaign
The choice of not having to send your rich kids to schools with minorities and poors. It's why Flake is all for this.
PandaPandaPanda
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Even if she doesn't pass the vote, i'm sure Trump will nominate someone worse than her
Lets roll the dice anyway.
She paid Republicans for getting a vote and this isn't against her..surprising isn't it?
Stumpokapow
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I'm honestly surprised it's DeVos and not Sessions or Tillerson that ended up being the focal point for opposition to the entire slate.
It doesn't matter. They can do whatever they want for the next two years at least without facing any real consequences.
WiiredShawn
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The public usually doesn't dedicate much outrage to cabinet picks, so the fact that this is happening at all should be a testament to just how stupid of a decision it is.
But, Republicans can't stop fellating trust fund kids, so it will probably happen. Doesn't mean I won't add a few calls to the pile.
1) She's probably the easier target, since Sessions has other senators on his side, despite being a racist shitheel, and Tillerson was an Exxon CEO, and thus a favorite kind of human being among Republicans. 2) It's probably easier to rally educators around blocking DeVos; there are professional issues at stake. The impact that Sessions and Tillerson will have, while important, will be more nebulous.
But, Republicans can't stop fellating trust fund kids, so it will probably happen. Doesn't mean I won't add a few calls to the pile.
1) She's probably the easier target, since Sessions has other senators on his side, despite being a racist shitheel, and Tillerson was an Exxon CEO, and thus a favorite kind of human being among Republicans. 2) It's probably easier to rally educators around blocking DeVos; there are professional issues at stake. The impact that Sessions and Tillerson will have, while important, will be more nebulous.
I suspect your average voter cares way less about rights for minorities or foreign policy than they do about their child's education.
This is something they actually view as impacting them.
Well her shit is SO radical and transparent, even school choice advocates dont like her.
Also she is BLATENTLY not qualifies.
If you try hard you can argue that sessions and even tillerson are prepared for their roles, but you cannot even muster a defense for this woman.
Educators despise her.
I'd even state that a lot more American voters are okay with racism than they are with stupidity.
WiiredShawn
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Imagine that we had a job open for the Ultimate Cowboy. The person who would make decisions that would affect the entire cowboy industry.
Now imagine nominating someone who had never been a cowboy in their entire life, and had openly campaigned for changes to the industry that most decent cowboys disagree with.
That's DeVos.
If that was true, Donald Trump wouldn't be president. Maybe the combination of racist and stupid just caught people off-guard?
They're all absolute dog shit but she's the most obvious of the dog shit. It's just one shitty thing after another with her. Hell, I'm as qualified to be the Secretary of Education as she is.
……forgetit
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She's the only one who transparently hurts everyone who's not rich. You only have to be a competent human being to realize how terrible she is.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Also more than anyone other than perhaps Ben Carson she is supremely unqualified. At least Tillerson was able to speak with some credibility about....things that happen in other countries. DeVos is a moron and it shows every time she opens her mouth
She'd be in charge of public schooling in the country despite never attending one, never working in one, never sending her children to one, and making her life's work destroying public education. She can't answer basic questions that a first year education major could write you an essay on. She says that there should be guns in schools so they can defend themselves from bears.
She will cut federal funding for the disabled. What more do you need to know?
RPGCrazied
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Besides Sessions and Tillerson(they're awful too) she is the worst pick by far. Some ultra rich woman that never went to public school, nor her kids.
Add:
Also believes that rodeo clowns are an abomination against true cowboy values, so they should be allowed to be removed if individual rodeo promoters so choose at will without oversight or without consulting the cowboys
And owns the company that sells cattle trailers
And owns cattle farms
And owns the rodeo arenas
And (shockingly) donated millions to anti-cowboy think tanks that have advocated for deregulAtion of #'s 2-4 above while she is unable to identify a boot vs a hamburger when shown pictures
the best summary i've seen
You are AT LEAST as qualified as her to be the Secretary.
This. Everyone from Nebraska needs to call sasse. They claim he hasn't made up his mind
Pai Pai Master
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lol this
Advocatus Diaboli
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I'm not. Sessions was always going to benefit from "is a sitting senator" credibility. Tillerson, for all of his apparent flaws, is basically what a Republican businessman looks like (and yeah, I realize that works on two levels), and -- unlike becoming President! -- you don't get to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company by being an idiot.
DeVos is just shockingly bad and facially incompetent.
You can paper over decades-old racism and modern day greed. It's much harder to paper over a literal trainwreck of a confirmation hearing.
Similarly, "Tilllerson has business connections with Russia" is vague enough; DeVos not knowing about the IDEA program and that godawful grizzly bear statement -- well, that threatens actual parents of actual kids in a concrete way.
Aquavelvaman
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Congress: "Will of the people unclear, voting to confirm DeVos"
Dubbedinenglish
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Brother, this ain't even the Obamacare battle. Hopefully Republicans are getting spooked.
Fucking scary how accurate this is.
Literally anyone could fill in for her with how little she knows.
Dark Cloud
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How can the vote for her when the fucking people have spoken? Something needs to be done if the republicans vote her through. They're a disgrace to humanity.
... damn. There's not much going on in that head is there. A Sanders vid popped up in the suggestions and was even worse. This is disturbing.
WiiredShawn
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You, sir/madam, are a scholar and gentleman. Won't someone think of the cowboys?!
"I mean, sure, we had millions of phone calls, but what about the silent majority?"
Her hearing was embarrassing enough to reveal how dangerous and unqualified she is. Sessions is plenty dangerous himself, but he's also had 30 years to learn from his last hearing experience and better conceal his problematic qualities.
Paid protesters, paid callers...where the fuck do these people think all this money is coming from? And why do they think these donors are concentrating all of their money on a Secretary of Education confirmation, of all fucking things?
If anyone here was a TA in college or maybe a tutor, you're probably already more qualified than she is for the role. Hell, if you EVER filled out a FAFSA you literally have more experience than she does in terms of financial aid regarding college students, she's on record admitting have NONE of that.
Fenderputty
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I'm inclined to agree. Two years is a long time to stop giving a shit about a cabinet position
disappeared
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Seriously if you have the time, watch as many of them as you can.
Every interview is a trainwreck.
LOL nailed it
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