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This one's for you Mike Olson...
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Goodbye, Betsy DeVosSo long, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos! It wasn’t just that you were unqualified to lead America’s educational system, as someone who never worked at a public school, attended a public school, or took out a school loan. It was that you were the opposite of qualified, an early example of the Trump administration’s elitist disregard for the very role of government agencies themselves. You sailed into the Department of Education as if sailing into port on one of your yachts, buoyed by your belief that public schools are a “dead end,” your declaration that government “sucks,” and your family’s hundreds of millions of dollars donated to Republican causes.

And yeah, you made the most of the opportunity. You promoted charter and religious schools while ignoring public schools. You reduced protections for victims of sexual assault, for minority students, for gay and trans students. You gleefully ignored a court order and continued to collect loan payments from students at a defunct, fraudulent for-profit university—16,000 times, including wage garnishments and tax seizures.
As chair of the Trump administration’s “school safety commission,” formed after the Parkland shootings, you declined to recommend any gun control measures, but you did rescind an Obama-era guideline instructing schools not to punish minority students more harshly than white ones. Thank goodness!
But it was in 2020, as American schools faced arguably their biggest crisis since the civil rights era, that you really made your contempt for teachers and children plain. As schools across the country sought aid and advice to reopen safely in the fall, you holed up in your Michigan compound, protected by around-the-clock U.S. Marshals that have cost taxpayers as much as $25 million over four years. (You’re the first Cabinet secretary ever to insist on such protection.) From your mansion, you joined Donald Trump’s demands that schools reopen NOW—but offered no support or assistance. The end result: politicizing school reopening as an issue, making it more difficult for schools to open safely. You’ve overseen a slow-motion education disaster that will have lasting effects on an entire generation of children.
And you’ve done it all with a haughty, better-than-this attitude that makes clear just how little of a shit you give. You didn’t give a shit during your confirmation hearings, when you plagiarized your Senate questionnaire and didn’t bother to learn anything about the Americans With Disabilities Act. You didn’t give a shit this summer, when you sniffed, “The secretary of education isn’t the nation’s superintendent.” Well, soon you won’t be the nation’s anything. 
I can’t wait to never think about you again. You’re expelled
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020...devos.html
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#2
Trump's administration was the worst I can ever remember.
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Quote: @StickyBun said:
Trump's administration was the worst I can ever remember.
It's almost like it was a bad joke. Hey, let's get the most narcissistic, petty, vindictive and juvenile man we can find, call him a Christian and elect him president.

Then fill his cabinet with sycophants--put education in the hands of a billionaire whose never worked in education. Put the environment in the hands of a climate denier. Put small business in the hands of the couple who built a Pro Wrestling empire. Put national security in the hands of a man who spreads QAnon conspiracy theories. 


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I have been trying to not do the rub people's faces in it thing. But this one. This fucking stain. I mean... what a fucking piece of shit this lady is. Just a complete and evil woman not even to try her agenda. There is a nice little corner in hell for her. 

And that's all I am going to say about that. 
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Ok sorry one ore. It wasn't that she wasn't unqualified. That isn't it. I mean that happens sometimes. But she actively worked to destroy our education in this country. Like every fucking thing she did was a negative and took away from our education system. Ugh thank god she will be gone. She is every fucking evil character from any story set in a school setting ever. 
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Good God so many unqualified people in one administration. I am so glad that they will be cleaning house. It has been one grift after another.
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Quote: @Vikergirl said:
Good God so many unqualified people in one administration. I am so glad that they will be cleaning house. It has been one grift after another.


At the bold...
You have no idea how happy I am with that statement. The incompetent individuals and jokers assembled by this administration was mind blowing and their supporters seldom seemed to care 
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#8
DeVos is clearly one for the ages.

But I also remember the first time I read what Bannon's role was going to be in the Trump Administration...

Chief Strategist and Sr Council.  I knew then and there, things were going to be bad, bad as I could fear it. 


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