Betsy Devos’s wants to give parents a lot more say in educating their kids. And since parents get the most say when they educate their kids on their own, her plan would make homeschooling the only way to give your kids a good education.
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This Tuesday, the Senate has voted to confirm a billionaire/activist Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, despite the fact that she has no relevant education or experience, other than lobbying for more charter and religious schools, and donating millions of dollars to politicians. Oh, and she thinks schools need guns for protection against grizzlies. The vote was very close and Vice President Mike Pence had to be briefly released from the storage where he has been kept since the inauguration to cast the tie-breaking vote. Here are 10 reactions to her confirmation.
1) Ivanka Trump: “Betsy DeVos is a great role model for girls, and her example, like mine, shows that any girl can achieve anything she sets her mind to, as long as her dad has a couple of billion dollars.”
2) Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary: “Here are the facts, you disgusting excuses for journalism. Write them down because you’re not gonna find these facts anywhere else! First of all, Betsy DeVos has a PhD in education from Hogwarts, second, she had very successfully ran the department of education in Gotham City, and third, her students include such great people like Frederick Douglass!”
3) Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader: “I don’t know why Democrats are complaining that the system of checks and balances has failed. The system is working as intended: the DeVos family wrote a lot of checks, and it balanced the nominee’s incompetence.”
4) Donald Trump, Twitter addict: “Betsy DeVos is terrific. Look, the dishonest media is severely underreporting the number of attacks by grizzlies. This is a huge problem! There are many thousands of grizzlies in America and none of them has been vetted! It’s too bad she’s only a six, maybe six and a half, but she will be very tough on grizzlies! By the way, tomorrow I’m signing an executive order to ban immigration from all grizzly-majority countries!”
5) Lamar Alexander, Republican Senator: “Let’s be fair, a lot of kids hate schools, and it would be refreshing to have someone who shares their feelings, and in a position where she could finally do something about it.”
6) Greg Romm, immigration lawyer: “I get tons of calls about Trump’s executive order to block all new refugees. But to be completely honest, if someone as unqualified as DeVos can easily pass the government’s vetting process for one of the most important jobs in America, it’s obvious that our government’s vetting process for the refugees must also be a complete joke.”
7) Steve Bannon, acting president: “All of Obama’s Education Secretaries kept droning on about standards, standards, standards. We don’t need no stinking standards! All those spelling and grammar rules are really just tyrannical and unconstitutional restrictions on our freedom of speech.”
8) Kellyanne Conway, professional factmaker: “The Democrats and the media have no right to criticize Betsy DeVos! She absolutely deserves our respect and admiration, being a survivor of the Bowling Green Massacre!”
9) Mike Pence, Vice President: “Every study says that the more education someone has, the more likely they are to be a Democrat. Obviously, education is the real problem here, and our Betsy is a real problem-solver.”
10) Betsy DeVos: “I’m truly honored to assume the position of Secretary of Education, but isn’t it more proper for the title to be called ‘Administrative Assistant of Education’?”
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You have Trump saying “none of them has been vetted!” using the singular with “none.” This is inaccurate and incorrect because it is actually correct, and Trump would never use it. Luckily, knowing the difference soon won’t matter anymore.
#9 & 10 are gems.
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Actually, I’ve noticed that some of Trump’s phrases do have correct grammatical structure, like “I know words”, “Obama is a failure”, “When you’re a star, they let you do it”.
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It’s a rich catalogue, really.
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I actually heard all these quotes on Fox & Friends!
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Maybe I should start watching this – I spend considerable time making these up, when I can just write them down while watching TV.
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11) Barron Trump: I’m glad I picked Mrs. Devos. I thought she was the nicest one in the group Daddy let me interview.
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“She even said I won’t have to do homework ever again!”
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This is a ‘must read’ … right on target!!
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Thank you for the reblog!
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You are most welcome!
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I bet she does’t even know the 19 letters of the alphabet.
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That probably won’t really be a problem, because I assume we’ll soon be required to learn Russian alphabet instead anyway.
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You slay me.
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I have Trump to thank for all the ammunition.
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Is it wrong of me to wish you’d run out?
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You have so much to work with—keep it up!
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It’s so much to work with that I can’t even keep up.
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# 3 = Priceless!
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Thank you! Although for Betsy DeVos, there was an actual price of $10 million or so.
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And this is her brave new Education Dept…. apologising for an earlier spelling error.
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Damn, that came out too big. Click on it and you can see it all, but it says, “Our deepest apologizes for the earlier typo”
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Ha. Acting president. I saw what you did there. Bannon probably got picked on at school and is taking it out on the planet. Poor us.
Grizzlies. It’s too bizarre to be fiction. Do you think Pence is drowning in regret? I do. I think he’s probably a well-meaning bloke but now he’s in a terrible soup.
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I don’t think Pence has even an ounce of regret about this vote. From what I understand, he’s one of those religious conservative types, and he probably thinks that any class that doesn’t use the Bible for a textbook is a waste of time and taxpayers money.
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I was actually keeling over at the attributes: “professional factmaker”, “Twitter addict” and of course “acting president”! Well played, Sir!
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Thank you! I guess someone was paying attention. 🙂
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I think the tRump era is good for your particular brand of humor…
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It’s actually a little too overwhelming – there’s so much going on that I can barely keep up.
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The whole world feels that way.
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Except for those who are upset that he’s not banning enough Muslims and not deporting immigrants fast enough.
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I don’t count them as people
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DeVos… a very lamentable situation, so thanks for the laughs!
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We would have been better served by a 4th grader, who would’ve been smarter. We could at least expect the child to spell W.E.B. Du Bois correctly.
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I love 5. It is becoming the norm to nominate someone to take charge of a department/portfolio based on their exclusive hatred and disdain for the very function of that department!
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I can’t believe I forgot about the grizzlies in my post! That was classic! I like how they took Pence out of storage there. Apparently as horrible and insane as his views are, they aren’t quite horrible and insane enough for Trump.
I love how the school doesn’t even use guns on the grizzlies – they have a repellent spray. Sad, Betsy, sad.
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