Betsy DeVos Asked Twitter A Question. It Did Not Go Well.

[JHan]

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-pencils-twitter_us_589d3f59e4b094a129e9bbba

[Tatiana]

1. I love it. She should be made so miserable that she quits.

They should hound her everyday.

I bet she's never even had a real job.

[zentrum]

28. Nah, she's a fanatic....

They love to feel besieged and then martyred.

[Orrex]

29. That's exactly correct

"Why don't they understand that I'm trying to help[/ii] them (with my clueless micromanagement)?"

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Go, Educators!

Let her have it!

[onethatcares]

3. it's probably pretty hard

to find pencils in a 22, 000 sq ft house. with 10 bathrooms and 3 bedrooms

[3catwoman3]

4. Wow. Talk about...

...major tone deaf doofus.

Jesus H. Christ on a chalk board.

[JHan]

5. Right! She's just unsuited in every way imaginable.

[3catwoman3]

7. Just like the man...

...who picked her.

[dalton99a]

10. She's the best.

[anarch]

15. at making a mockery of everything the Department under her charge should stand for?

yeah, probably she is the best for that purpose.

Much like the rest of the cabinet being installed in the service of this organized crime coup.

I think, this time around, the people will see them for what they are. It's going to be a tough fight, but I'm confident that (if humanity makes it through this so that there is anyone to look back upon it all) we will end up on the right side of history.

It's going to be a real struggle for awhile though....

[simguy225]

36. The purpose of every the GOP does

is the destruction of the public commons.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

41. And sells it as if it's for the public good.

And they seem to be excellent at having people vote away their social benefits.

This country is falling behind the rest of the civilized world fast.

We have no real Labor Party that will work for the majority of working class Americans.

[simguy225]

42. The same forces

are taking root in Europe, too. They're just not as far along as we are yet.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

43. I suspect that the culture in Europe will not let them complete the job.

Here, in the US, we have a culture that invites this sort of thing. I'm afraid we are not sophisticated enough to reject the right-wing's platitudes. They swallow it up as if gospel, which is another problem, as well.

[mainstreetonce]

26. When a sentence ends with the word "period"

You know her daddy wrote it, period.

[underpants]

32. PERIOD!

So Spicer was channeling Ivanka?

[Cha]

38. ivanka, did you learn "period." from spicerfacts or did he get it from you?

Whatever you're both full of shit.

[irisblue]

6. She tweeted this on Wed then went the next day& got chased away

Wow . First job blues coming at her fast & furious indeed.

[SCVDem]

8. BEARS!!

Godless killing machines!!!

Oh Stephen....

[mindem]

11. Not just bears,

we're talking about the rarely seen Potential Grizzly, the much larger cousin of the American Grizzly. Legend has it the Potential Grizzly is bullet proof.

[n2doc]

9. Well, clearly you ask your personal assistant to go fetch some!

Doesn't everyone have a personal assistant or two?

[tclambert]

16. She has flying monkeys.

[mcar]

12. I wonder how many of her staffers worked together

to come up with that stupid excuse for a joke?

[elleng]

13. Stupid for ANY in this 'administration' to do ANYTHING on social media.

Twits!

[JHan]

21. In a kind of a way it's good because we get extra evidence of how dumb they are lol

[OldRedneck]

14. This post almost cost me a computer monitor . . .

My wife of 50 years, Sweet Thing, is a retired high school English teacher.

She read DeVos' Tweet and I had to restrain her from putting a bullet through the monitor!!!!

God knows we cannot count the THOUSANDS of $$$ we spent over here 35 year career on supplies.

[tclambert]

17. Surely your wife has a gun to defend against Grizzlies.

[JHan]

19. Good that your monitor survived because your wife is right to be incensed.

De Vos is utterly clueless and tonedeaf, and I don't think she'll change.

[Initech]

18. #1 threat to our schools: bears!

[JHan]

20. lol!

[SeattleVet]

31. I like the way Fox covered it a while back:

"It would have looked like this..."

[underpants]

34. I wonder if she checked with her Amway distributor

BEARS!

[TrekLuver]

22. Yes please do use pencil since we will need to erase damn near everything you do.

[Jamaal510]

23. These people are harsh.

[Lucinda]

24. Creeped me out to hit the follow button, but I want to see what she is doing

Thanks for the post!

[NBachers]

25. I instinctively went for a cruder, yet anatomically appropriate, reply.

[Takket]

27. if she had ever spoken to a teacher she would probably know the answer!!!!!!!!!!

[AllaN01Bear]

30. my late mom was a teacher ( k1)

she had to buy all the pencils ,paper and other things that made the classroom run.

[underpants]

33. OMG the Bears replies were hilarious

[Tanuki]

35. My mother could not afford college when she graduated (Valedictorian)

from high school, but she started college at age 40 and was proud to become a public school teacher. I saw how she put her heart and soul into her profession. The weekend before she started her first year of teaching, I went with her to the local supply store and helped her pick out all the materials she needed to get started, on her own time and her own dime, before she earned her first paycheck. She continued to do this all throughout her career, and I know of many, many instances in which she purchased clothing, or shoes, or food to send home over the weekend for needy students (we lived in a county in WV with a high poverty rate). Nobody had to tell her where to find the pencils, but then my mother, like every other public school teacher I have ever met, worked hard to get where she was. She didn't buy or bribe her way into a position for which she was ludicrously unqualified. None of my 4 grandparents had the opportunity to be educated beyond the 8th grade, and I cannot imagine my life if my own options had been limited by inaccessibility of public schools, or if funds that were located for public education had been gutted by a clueless ideologue like Betsy DeVos who is playing at education in much the way Marie Antoinette amused herself by sporting about in a milkmaid outfit at Versailles.

[Cha]

37. She stupidly walked right into that one.

Mahalo, JH!

[JHan]

39. Mahalo Cha! :D

[Cha]

40. Kickster!