Besty Devos splits Senate with 50/50 vote, VP Pence confirms nomation

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God fucking dammit

My wife is about to graduate with a masters in school counseling and I have aspirations of going back to school to get my teaching degree. How fucked are we?
 
Mahonay said:
So fuck kids? Ok cool. Great attitude.
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The American people voted for this. What are you angry at me for? I'm not saying not to fight, but sadly people need to feel the consequences of their actions. Even their innocent children. That is our system and how it functions unless you want to allow children the right to vote. Which seems like something that will eventually happen.

TwntyOneTwlv said:
God fucking dammit

My wife is about to graduate with a masters in school counseling and I have aspirations of going back to school to get my teaching degree. How fucked are we?
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You can always teach outside of the US.
 
What are the positives for this woman regarding the party as a whole?

Why did they want this specific person to get confirmed over the next possible nominee?
 
Wait, I remember a YouTube video, isn't she the woman who had to answer every single answer with "no" when she was asked if she ever had to deal with high budget projects/new shit about public schools?

Holy shit unbelievable that she was nominated.
 
JHoNNy1OoO said:
The American people voted for this. What are you angry at me for? I'm not saying not to fight, but sadly people need to feel the consequences of their actions. Even their innocent children. That is our system and how it functions unless you want to allow children the right to vote. Which seems like something that will eventually happen.
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3 million less people voted for this.

Our system is fucked and this is fucked.
 
Fortunately it's not an area where the GOP can do too much damage (aside from Special Education. Be on the lookout if you have a child with special needs, folks).
 
I have so many Trump voters on FB right now upset that she got cast in. I am about to go nuclear on them, despite it likely ending friendships.
 
Why the fuck is Betsy DeVos the most controversial pick? People are exploding all over Twitter like this is the end of the world. Worse picks were already confirmed guys!
 
So serious question, as a 29yr old man wanting to go back to school to get a degree for the first time how fucked am I? Should I even bother? I just feel like I'm going to be saddled with so much debt that its going to not be worth it in the long run.
 
GoldenEye 007 said:
My only hope is that Suburbia Teacher USA is pissed off enough over this to rethink some of the decisions they made being hardcore conservatives and actively voting against their best interests and the interests of their students.
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This is kind of the truth. Wife's a teacher and she is amazed by how many of the teachers in her school are conservatives. Suddenly they're all scared of Devos or think it's overblown and she can't actually change much. They're insane.
 
Living the Dream said:
God damnit
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literally what i said after reading the title.

i have two kids, 2.5 and almost 1. Aside from supplemental education which my wife and i both planned on doing, what can we do? We were going to send them to public school, even though we could easily afford *good* private school.

furthermore, because im not an asshole, i care about education for everyone, what can we do with regard to that?
 
Well I'll be out of a job soon I'm sure. librarians are normally the first to go. Don't let those kids read, they might get ideas.
 
BFIB said:
I have so many Trump voters on FB right now upset that she got cast in. I am about to go nuclear on them, despite it likely ending friendships.
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Tell them they got what they voted for. Tell them they should probably think about this the next time they vote.
 
Advocatus Diaboli said:
Why blame Pence? You cannot expect a VP to vote against the POTUS nomination. Pence did what he was expected to do.

Blame literally every GOP senator, however.
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Why not both?

I can expect for the government who promoted themselves as one for the people and against corruption should be held accountable for their actions, regardless of how expected it is based on tradition and party lines.
 
Mahonay said:
3 million less people voted for this.

Our system is fucked and this is fucked.
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Did the American people not vote for the Republicans to control the house and the senate?

This is what happens when you think the only vote that matters is the one for the President.
 
My wife and I bought our house specifically because it was in a district that would let our firstborn go to the school with the best autism program in the area. Now we're freaked out that it's all going to go away before we know it.
 
BFIB said:
I have so many Trump voters on FB right now upset that she got cast in. I am about to go nuclear on them, despite it likely ending friendships.
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You should be happy they are at least capable of seeing past party lines because the people on my facebook just seem glad that the liberals didn't get their way again. Got to see them liberal tears. both sides.
 
Ogodei said:
Fortunately it's not an area where the GOP can do too much damage (aside from Special Education. Be on the lookout if you have a child with special needs, folks).
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This is probably going to fuck my brother over. His son's got autism and schooling has already been a nightmare for them. Fuck.
 
They could have given the nomination up with little perceived cost to themselves and the opportunity to place a more valuable ideologue in the role.
 
alternade said:
So serious question, as a 29yr old man wanting to go back to school to get a degree for the first time how fucked am I? Should I even bother? I just feel like I'm going to be saddled with so much debt that its going to not be worth it in the long run.
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I'm one year younger than you, in college for the first time.

Just go to a cheap public university, apply for financial aid, and don't let shit stop you. Things could get slightly more expensive or less funded, but DeVos can't stop you from getting a degree and they're not going to bring public colleges to their knees overnight.
 
crazepharmacist said:
Why?
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Hazmat said:
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.
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Her being confirmed is absolutely disgusting. Every single Republican senator who voted her in deserves nothing but the worst in life for condemning the future generation and the current ones to this hell.
 
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