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Meet Dick and Betsy DeVos, billionaires.  They own a mansion and a yacht.   The Yacht is named Windquest, which is important to remember. That 22,000 sq ft architectural whore of Babylon is their summer lake cottage. It also boasts a 6,000 sq ft guest house, tennis courts and indoor pool. Betsy DeVos's maiden name is Prince, of the Edgar Prince family. They're another fabulously rich West Michigan family with lots of political influence. Betsy's brother, Erik, started a company called Blackwater. You might have heard of them. Did I mention the DeVos's also own a private jet named Alticor? That's also important. They like to name things after their companies. If you don't know much about Amway, this is the direct sales MLM company that started selling laundry soap and vitamins in the 1940's, then branched out into other products. Amway works through networking members. You join the company by paying a membership fee, then you annoy your family and friends to buy overpriced products. The point is to get them to become members too, so then when they annoy their friends and family trying to sell Amway's overpriced products, you get a kickback from what they make. People in the bottom rung of membership make less than two grand a year, on average, so the money isn't in selling Amway's overpriced crap, it's about suckering more people into joining and selling Amway's overpriced crap. Amway's biggest market in the world is China, and just about all of Amway's manufacturing now is in China and other Asian countries. Russia is another major market for the company. When Russia announced their 2014 embargo on all western food products, including the United States in response to sanctions over Crimea, the exception made was dietary supplements. Amway owns the biggest share of supplement sales in Russia, making over a billion dollars a year in that country alone. The DeVos family uses all that sweet bank to fund their many projects and causes. Members of the Dutch Reformed Church (now Christian Reformed) they practice Dominion Theology, which means they want the United States to be a Christian-dominated theocracy. Dick and Betsy DeVos support all the usual fundamentalist causes: Anti LGBT, anti choice, anti public schools, anti union, anti anything and anyone who doesn't think and believe exactly the way they do. Some of the DeVos's better known organizations: Great Lakes Education Project - the man running this organization is Gary Naeyaert. GLEP is Betsy DeVos's Michigan organization to eradicate public schools in the state. They have been very successful, but the DeVos's took their show nationwide so this project mostly emails questionnaires to political candidates and publishes lists of candidates who support "school choice". Michigan Freedom Fund - another project of the DeVos family, this organizaton is broader in scope, promoting "limited government and putting people first. This organization is run by Greg McNeilly. In March 21, 2014, a federal judge struck down the DeVos-funded legislation banning same sex marriage in Michigan. For a narrow window of time, same sex marriage was legal in Michigan, until DeVos-funded AG Bill Schuette found a judge to put an injunction on same sex marriage in the state. During that narrow window, Greg McNeilly married his partner, Douglas Meeks on March 22, 2014. American Federation for Children - This is GLEP gone nationwide. Betsy failed in getting the cap on charters lifted in 2002, failed in getting her husband elected governor in 2006, and Michigan's constitution bans school vouchers, so she decided to go after states that didn't do enough to protect public education.   Betsy DeVos knows her billions can buy everything she wants. She donated millions to Trump's presidential campaign, and she wants to eradicate America's public school system.  On January 17, 2017, the confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos to become Trump's Education Secretary is scheduled to begin. Discuss!
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this mama is gonna maga!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVlXQej5ZRc
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Jan 14, 2017 19:27
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i look forward to working as a teacher at a school sponsored by a major weapons manufacturer
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Here's a transparent Betsy.  Should also mention her company, Boxed Water is Better, tried to cash in on the Flint Water Crisis. https://twitter.com/boxedwater/status/708359339539431424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw HUGE PUBES A PLUS has issued a correction as of 19:33 on Jan 14, 2017 |
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https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/821055730857996288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Jan 16, 2017 19:49
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her family runs a pyramid scheme
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Jan 16, 2017 19:50
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I work in a public school how hosed am i
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Jan 16, 2017 19:57
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The DeVoses are turds and Grand Rapids is a turd city. In fact that whole Grand Rapids/Holland/Grand Haven triangle sucks and I say that as a Michigan native. I'm friends on FB with a couple of my former HS teachers (of arts programs no less!) and I've never seen them this upset about something.
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Jan 16, 2017 19:59
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Uncle Wemus posted:I work in a public school how hosed am i As the principal of the high school of the district I work in said, "It's over."
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Jan 16, 2017 20:14
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Certainly the crypt keeper's scariest story yet
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Jan 16, 2017 20:59
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Here's a transparent Betsy. lmbo box water
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Jan 16, 2017 21:04
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devtesla posted:lmbo box water 
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Jan 16, 2017 21:11
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Hahaha instead of milk in a box with a free lunch they're gonna get water in a box and bread if they pay 2.99.
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Jan 16, 2017 21:13
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I for one am looking forward to not being able to save for my kid's college because I'm too busy paying their private school tuition
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Jan 16, 2017 21:14
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It's like a lovely zoo cafeteria in every school
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Jan 16, 2017 21:14
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why would you bring a child into this world?
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Jan 16, 2017 21:16
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It's going to be incredibly funny when 10-15 years down the line the disparity in education practices between states starts to kick in full and you end up with entire generations of functionally illiterate children in some places because Betsy Devos let them blow up their entire school system. Or incredibly lovely, I guess, if you live in those states and want your neighbors, friends and coworkers to be able to loving read.
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Jan 16, 2017 21:32
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PsychoInternetHawk posted:It's going to be incredibly funny when 10-15 years down the line the disparity in education practices between states starts to kick in full and you end up with entire generations of functionally illiterate children in some places because Betsy Devos let them blow up their entire school system. this is already the case at the system/district/individual school level
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Jan 16, 2017 21:35
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Also special education is a giant money sink with amazing social benefits, so expect states that go full-tilt private to return to the 1950s. They'll basically lock disabled students in rooms and just straight up boot kids who aren't learning quickly out of school entirely. The real kicker will be when those kids grow up into disfunctional adults with zero means of support (because you've gutted the entirety of your state's social services) and the crime rate that's been gradually decreasing the past 20 years suddenly starts to climb again.
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Jan 16, 2017 21:37
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PsychoInternetHawk posted:Also special education is a giant money sink with amazing social benefits, so expect states that go full-tilt private to return to the 1950s. They'll basically lock disabled students in rooms and just straight up boot kids who aren't learning quickly out of school entirely. Also homelessness hits record levels. It's all Trump's plans to destabilize the urban population centers and return everyone to working on farms. Viva the movement.
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Jan 16, 2017 21:40
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Uncle Wemus posted:I work in a public school how hosed am i turbofucked so business as usual then
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Jan 16, 2017 21:42
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i eagerly await our glorious future of education as pyramid scheme how will it work, though? hire one teacher, that teacher teaches two students, and so on, until the entire nation is a single chain of academic excellence and transfer payments?
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PsychoInternetHawk posted:Also special education is a giant money sink with amazing social benefits, so expect states that go full-tilt private to return to the 1950s. They'll basically lock disabled students in rooms and just straight up boot kids who aren't learning quickly out of school entirely. nah they'll just take the handful who don't require too much direct supervision or resources and everyone else is left to their own devices which again is something a lot of districts already do
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Jan 16, 2017 21:50
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The Muppets On PCP posted:this is already the case at the system/district/individual school level Not nearly as much as it could be. Remove title 1, fully privatize the system and lower teacher benefits/gut standards and what we have now looks very egalitarian in comparison. Many places would have a great deal of difficulty simply having a school period, much less one that isn't complete poo poo. Like a lot of parts of federal government, the lovely gaps in the DOE are really apparent but the things it succeeds at have largely been so ingrained into American society as to become invisible.
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Trump's cabinet is terrible, and anyone of them may end up doing immense damage but I think DeVos is in a special spot to cause untold damage to our society. The foundations of democracy are tied to public education, and without it, it's inevitable that we sink into further dysfunction. The saddest thing about her nomination is, it's not a particularly flashy issue, and it's harder to explain that she's a legitimately terrible person like Sessions is, so I really doubt the media, much less so regular Americans, will pay attention to this.
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I appreciate that the new wave of GOP garbage, represented by people like DeVos and Trump, have dropped just about every facade that still remained.
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Jan 16, 2017 22:40
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remember when he was almost gore's vice president
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:
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how hosed are state colleges? i go to one currently and i still have probaly a year left.
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Jan 17, 2017 03:56
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Dapper_Swindler posted:how hosed are state colleges? i go to one currently and i still have probaly a year left. you'll be fine, it will take at least a year for most policies to have an impact "on the ground" as it were it will also vary state-by-state but uh don't keep your hopes up because the general republican attitude towards education is "it's bad because it turns people into democrats" hope you don't have any young siblings though, lmao
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Nichael posted:I appreciate that the new wave of GOP garbage, represented by people like DeVos and Trump, have dropped just about every facade that still remained. thats because trump voters are either too loving stupid or just plain don't care except when you have a D by your name.
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remember when some republican shitstain (I think in MI, one of devos's cronies) said that children don't have a right to literacy lmao haha, 10 years from now everywhere outside of a city is going to be a blasted wasteland of ghoulish poverty
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SpaceGoku posted:you'll be fine, it will take at least a year for most policies to have an impact "on the ground" as it were Nope, though my GF has thought about going to college at some point. I should be fine with history/homeland security degree and I live in PA, but our colleges had big strike that went on for few days. so who knows.
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Amway is straight up a Pyramid Scheme and the only reason it hasn't been prosecuted as one is because of political money. Also DeVos's brother runs Blackwater. It's like their entire family are Bond villains.
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Jan 17, 2017 04:50
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i unironically support state's rights in this administration run by a bunch of out-of-touch billionaires. i'm in NY so screw you, take that poo poo away from the hard-right racists that run most states
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SpaceGoku posted:remember when some republican shitstain (I think in MI, one of devos's cronies) said that children don't have a right to literacy how will we tell the difference from now
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PsychoInternetHawk posted:Also special education is a giant money sink with amazing social benefits, so expect states that go full-tilt private to return to the 1950s. They'll basically lock disabled students in rooms and just straight up boot kids who aren't learning quickly out of school entirely. This is already happening, Trump or not, it's a disgrace and completely disgusting. I'm sure Trump will kick it into mach 10.
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Nichael posted:Trump's cabinet is terrible, and anyone of them may end up doing immense damage but I think DeVos is in a special spot to cause untold damage to our society. The foundations of democracy are tied to public education, and without it, it's inevitable that we sink into further dysfunction. The saddest thing about her nomination is, it's not a particularly flashy issue, and it's harder to explain that she's a legitimately terrible person like Sessions is, so I really doubt the media, much less so regular Americans, will pay attention to this. Maybe in 8 years when a Kansas middle school valedictorian drops trou and shits on the stage in the middle of his 3 sentence speech, people will start to realize that kid is the brightest they got and their future is even more hosed than they thought before I can't wait until public schooling stops at like 9th grade for public schools in flyover states for budget cuts. we'll have adults voting for those inflatable wiggling tube guys with a swastika crudely painted on its forehead
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Yinlock posted:how will we tell the difference from now I mean like, you might not be able to safely drive from one coast to another unless you are a trucker convoy escorted by highway patrols carrying military hardware I mean like, imagine FFXV driving at night except instead of huge swole demons it's a hoard of armed starving illiterate children and teenagers at a makeshift roadblock
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