Well, now we know what Betsy will do for a Klondike Bar.

[Miles Archer]

Trump Is Poised to Remove Protections on Transgender Students’ Rights



Mr. Spicer declined to discuss details of a rift on the issue between Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, and Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, who was adamant that the administration move quickly to reverse an order from the Obama administration that allowed transgender students to use the restroom of their gender identity. .

But Mr. Spicer said during a White House news conference that Ms. DeVos was “100 percent” supportive of the president’s decision.

Ms. DeVos initially resisted signing off on the order and told President Trump that she was uncomfortable with it, according to three Republicans with direct knowledge of the internal discussions.

Mr. Sessions, who strongly opposes expanding gay, lesbian and transgender rights, fought Ms. DeVos on the issue and pressed her to relent because he could not go forward without her consent. The order must come from the Justice and Education Departments.

But Mr. Trump sided with his attorney general, these Republicans said, telling Ms. DeVos in a meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday that he wanted her to drop her objections. And Ms. DeVos, faced with the choice of resigning or defying the president, has agreed to go along. The Justice Department declined to comment on Wednesday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/politics/devos-sessions-transgender-students-rights.html

[dhol82]

1. Looks like she is willing to do anything for a Klondike bar

Ewwww - just got a picture in my head of something icky. Need to go get some brain bleach.

[Rex]

3. Trump will do every horrible thing the GOP tells him to do, he proves it daily.

What a peice of garbage Trump is, I cannot believe Ms. DeVos has some kind of empathy for other humans! Learned something new today.

SO in Trumps WH you either do exactly what he says or resign? What a fucked up WH, he will never make it 4 years like that.

[atreides1]

5. Loyalty to the Fuhrer!

Trump, Sessions, Bannon, Preibus, no one in that cabal cares about this country! From the fact that John Kelly is basically okay with violations of the 4th Amendment, tells me that not all Marines follow the motto "Semper Fi"! As for Tillerson, Mattis, and McMaster, I believe it's only a matter of time before they're all marching to the Horst Wessel Lied???


https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-s&p=horst+wessel+lied#id=1&vid=661a3662b9ec001df58cad2eb52820d7&action=click

[George Eliot]

6. Shows how fucked up Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions III is.

[George Eliot]

4. Softens my view of DeVos.

I appreciate someone who is independent and given far right conservative values stands for gay transgender rights. Didn't expect that.

[putitinD]

8. you forgot the sarcasm tag!

[George Eliot]

9. No, credit where credit due. I'm no polarizer. Sorry.

[putitinD]

12. she folded like an accordian, and went along with Trump, who is going to kill any protections

the transgender kids have.

[George Eliot]

18. She did get softer language in. Yes, she could have quit but no one expected that.

So a little credit for trying. Shows she has compassion even though a different belief on public schools. I'm a teacher. I don't agree with her but I tolerate different points of view.

[putitinD]

19. I live in Michigan, Betsy has destroyed the public school system here.

[George Eliot]

20. I'm sorry anout that. No, I don't agree with her politics at sll.

[I guess i don't undertand how the public allows these people so much power. We are slways fightng gates money and Allen's out here. (Seattle) ever since Reagan. ..he broke the country.

It's happening everywhere.

[Miles Archer]

10. Except you can't stand when your knees are buckling.

I fully understand the spirit of what you're saying, but if her convictions only reach as far as her next paycheck, I'm unimpressed.

I respect your comment.

I don't agree with it, but it doesn't mean I don't respect your right to your opinion.

[FiveGoodMen]

14. "Next paycheck"?

Her husband is worth about 5 billion.

She wants power; she's already got money.

[Miles Archer]

15. Rhetorically speaking n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

16. I guess, but the thing is she really doesn't need the job

If she caves in order to keep it, that just means her wish to do all kinds of harm supersedes her wish not to do this one particular kind.

[Lucinda]

13. It does mine too...but only marginally since she folded.

[putitinD]

7. probably neither of them know what transgender even means.

[Vinca]

11. So we'll now need genitalia inspectors in every school?

This is probably the dumbest of all the dumb laws. Will trans people have to wear a scarlet "T?"

[Iggo]

17. Fuck you, DeVos. You should have resigned. (n/t)

:middlefinger: