"It is hard to think of anything more contemptible . . ."

[CousinIT]

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[Docreed2003]

1. Truth!!

[appal_jack]

35. Indeed, though the Sessions confirmation is right up there too.

A majority 'leader' using an obscure Senate rule originally enacted to protect an advocate of lynching, to silence a Senator from reading the words of a civil rights advocate during Black History Month... and all this in order to shield another Senator and now AG candidate with a decades-long documented record of bigotry.

My blood boils against both DeVos & Sessions. k&r,

-app

[hunter]

2. That's not how they'll dress it up.

Taking money away from public schools to give to crappy religious schools and crooked charter schools will be be about "religious freedom" and "choice."

If children are taught the earth is only 6000 years old in their biology classes, that slaves were happy and singing in the cotton fields in their history classes, and that Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump were God's chosen in their civics classes, what's the problem?

[Leith]

11. The Problem Is

That creeps like Devos say that poor children can get vouchers for private schools. Sure! The voucher is good for, say $2000 - while the annual tuition is $8000. They have to reapply every year with no guarantee of getting any more. Scholarships will be mighty scarce, too.

Sorry, we all know that you were asking an ironic rhetorical question.

[hunter]

14. And these private schools will only accept the kids who are easy...

... not the kids who have problems.

I'm somewhat ashamed to confess, but I burnt out quickly as an idealistic teacher in a rough big city public school.

So many problems, so few resources... it was always eating away at me. After my last class of the day I'd putter around in my classroom, neatening things up, doing mundane paperwork, until I felt composed enough to drive home safely, not raging against the world, not in a pit of utter despair.

When my wife was accepted to graduate school in another state I happily followed her.

[Leith]

20. I Understand

My mother and sister are both retired public school teachers. And I have memories of classmates and other students when I was in school (also public). A lot of kids come from some really messed up situations and they get through them with varying degrees of success.

Nuff said about that. The Amway "person" will not do a damn thing to help them though she is in a position to do so.

[WinkyDink]

21. Yeah, I got sucked in by that "Up the Down Staircase" bit, too. Thirty years later I was glad to go.

[smirkymonkey]

3. K&R

[Hekate]

4. Amen

[gratuitous]

5. Give 'em time

They've been at this less than three weeks. Wait until the folks born into wealth start telling the homeless and the hungry that they have it too good, and denying them shelter and food.

I really don't know how people who claim to be of good conscience can sit by and watch the enactment of these cruel policies.

[Cosmocat]

15. It is just fucking painful

they are like the fucking Borg, they just never stop coming and coming and coming ...

I don't understand it either, hell upwards of a 1/3 of public school teachers vote for these assholes.

[Eyeball_Kid]

26. Trumpy has his foot on the gas pedal. Bannon is pushing it to the floor.

[Phoenix61]

29. I don't get how teachers could vote for them

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

[Nay]

31. Not all teachers become teachers for good motives. That third who voted for Trump?

Many of them spent their growing-up years in RW families and environments and were motivated to become teachers in order to CHANGE teaching from the bottom up, aiming to bring the RW straight into the classroom. That's why we now have cops in schools, Christian religion spouted in classrooms (until the court says no), RW principals, RW school boards, and RW state education officials. They infiltrated schools over the past 30 years, just like they've infiltrated everything else.

Hell, maybe we deserve to lose to these fuckers. They won't give up, and we have no Dem leadership who are as determined as these assholes.

[leftstreet]

6. They don't think impoverished people are human

They think their wealth is an element of their superiority

[brer cat]

32. *This* nt

[wordpix]

36. apparently they don't

[zentrum]

7. Those poor children

......were just born to be servants, cleaners, ditch diggers. No need to educate them. Just prepare them for their animal-like life. The poor are born to be used, sources of profit. That is, at heart, a Nazi frame of mind towards a designated Other.

[shadowmayor]

8. That's why they're called

The Aristocrats!

Ta da

[byronius]

9. "Are there no workhouses? Are there no orphanages?"

"Guillotine."

[Alternative Facts]

10. It was all preordained

Just one more step towards Idiocracy

[calimary]

12. Welcome to DU, Alternative Facts!

I promise I'll always be much more respectful toward you than I ever will be if confronted with the forked-tongued individual who put that phrase into the mainstream.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. He may have had wealth, but I question his own education

Despite all his advantages, he seems to have learned nothing.

[LudwigPastorius]

16. "It is hard to think of anything more contemptible . . ."

I don't know...attacking a Gold Star family.

...saying you like veterans who weren't captured and tortured.

...publicly mocking someone with a disability.

...committing sexual assault, then bragging about it.


Trump runs the entire gamut of the Contemptible Spectrum, and I'm sure there are new depths that he will plumb in the next four years.

[Stainless]

17. Both Trump and Betsy DeVos are equally contemptible.....

vile and despicable are also apt descriptions.

[YOHABLO]

22. Because they have both been insulated their entire lives.

They have no empathy for those less fortunate than themselves. Both coming from very wealthy families, private educations at elite private schools. They haven't a clue what a low income family must face on a daily basis.


It's absolutely sickening, just sickening.

[saidsimplesimon]

18. Thank you Cousin and Sam Adams

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. Louis D. Brandeis

[ananda]

19. Love this one too (on the same twitter page).

From Kevin Farzad:

Please don't judge Betsy DeVos until you've walked a mile in her house.


It made me laugh.

[grantcart]

23. How about " a person born into wealth creating an atmosphere in order to deny children a safe

place to sleep all for short term political advantage"

We could go one for ever with these guys.

Makes Bush Administration look like social workers.

[pansypoo53219]

24. they vote GOP if you keep them stupid.

[Jamaal510]

25. The only thing that

might be more contemptible is a person who was born poor, but who was lucky enough to come up and now wants to take away the ladder s/he climbed.

[MrPurple]

28. The would be the Secretary of HUD...

[onethatcares]

30. and the

speaker of the house

[MrPurple]

27. She's born to money, but did she even get a good education herself?

Billionaire family and all they aspired to was a local fundamentalist college that doesn't seem to have provided her with very good critical thinking skills.

Now, she openly says that wants to use public tax money for education as an avenue to "advance God's kingdom". The result of that form of education was on display for all to see in her confirmation hearings.

[musette_sf]

33. They don't want the Great Equalizer

i.e., good public education -
they want serfs.

[FairWinds]

34. I can think of one thing that is even more contemptible . .

and that is a person born into great wealth who facilitates and
promotes the theft of public funds that are intended for the
education of our youth.

Here in Ohio we are at ground zero for education corruption -
from almost totally fraudulent on-line charter schools to
proprietary so-called universities - it's all about the
deliberate theft of resources meant for our kids.