Posts made by rawr

@insex:

Of course it's not fully helps, but as for me, more control on the borders, could help, at least tunnels, most of them, will be closed and prevent to build another. The Great Wall helps China through the history, why such wall couldn't help there. 95% of the drugs comes from South America. I like Duterte position about drugs, so maybe US could took his methods in the future. With air is always more control, then with ground. Also good law-height radar-system near with border will helps, too. Cost ineffective or effective, who cares, if Mexico will pay for that.

The US has been at war with drugs for 40+ years. It doesn't really work, the US has the largest prison population of any country. Duterte's tactics may work in such a small country, but I don't see it lasting and there's zero evidence that such tactics are effective long term. The people who participate in the drug trade are attracted to risk and the money associated with high risk activities. All US policy has done, is make the drug business more lucrative for the dealers.

US Tax payers are paying. Mexico isn't paying for anything. The estimate for the wall is 20-25 billion dollars.

@royalcrown89:

This is disgusting. Seriously, how many weekend vacations will he be taking? President Obama's first trip was in like March or April of 2009 (still too soon to be vacationing that early in presidency). Granted, we were in the midst of a horrible financial crisis and #45 isn't, but jeez you'd think he'd be working on…you know...economic opportunities for those 77,000 voters spread across Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. He owes those 77,000 people "bigly."

He's starting his 2020 reelection campaign on Saturday.

"We are going to put America back to work. We are going to put people before government. - Donald J. Trump"

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-rally-melbourne-florida-235061

Unconfirmed at this moment in time, but the "Rumor" is that Puzder will not be the next Labor Secretary.

Multiple sources are reporting the same.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/labor-secretary-nominee-andy-puzder-expected-withdraw-nomination-n721421

Edit: He withdrew officially.

@SemenDemon:

It has to be conceded, though, that "hate speech" is a very vague, open-ended term that's rife for abuse. It really should be replaced with something more clear-cut. I am not okay with people willfully misinterpreting the meaning to silence anyone's freedom of speech. It's always been one of my most–perhaps only--strongly-held beliefs that people in the US have the right to express the most grotesque, offensive, disgusting ideas and personal convictions imaginable. The only time it breaks the law is when it goes from expressing beliefs to encouraging/inciting direct actions of violence or other egregious illegal activity such as rape.

I'm not sure what you're talking about.

The legal definition of "Hate Speech" is extremely clearly defined. It's not really up for debate, but some people believe whatever they want. In reality, if there's any real question as to whether it's hate speech or not, more than likely it is. I think you are confusing the issue by factoring in the "degree of offense" and in reality that isn't relevant when determining whether something is, or isn't, considered hate speech.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/h/hate-speech/

If you want to participate in hate speech in an open assembly, I would highly recommend having a lawyer review the content first as you are right about that, there is a grey area regarding when hate speech becomes a hate crime. There are many statements that are protected under the first amendment, the issues arises when the material crosses an interpreted boundary of specificity. So, if one is directing hate speech at an individual, this could be considered a hate crime. Certainly instructing a party to commit murder of a specific person, on the basis of race, would be a hate crime.

@insex:

As for me problem is very clear, it's only my opinion from the side, but open borders with South America is really destructing US people, There are a lot drugs from Mexico and сountries below, causes standart rule of capitalism "supply and demand". So the Wall, really save your nation. Maybe Trump too concentrate on the border, but definetely it makes sense, cause i've never heard before that illegal immigrants, can vote for the POTUS, it was also shock for me. How it really could happen, and why no one seems don't care about Person ID's, when voting, for such important things.

We don't have "open borders" that's a political/media lie. I definitely think we need better border security on the southern border (and the vast majority of Americans agree) but a physical wall is incredibly cost ineffective. I have no idea where the majority of drugs entering the US come from, but I do know that there are many, many other sources than the Mexican border. Even if the wall could effectively stop the flow of drugs from Mexico (it won't) that does absolutely nothing to stop the flow in other regions. Even, in regions of the southern border where there are walls, the drug cartels tunnel underneath it, or smuggle the drugs in cars/trucks and go right through the border crossing.

Some members of the TSA (Airport Security Police Force) were recently caught smuggling massive amounts of cocaine. Walls don't stop airplanes and it's nothing new.

https://www.rt.com/usa/377252-tsa-cocaine-smuggling-tons/

@royalcrown89:

Thank you so much for this post man, because I'm tired of the misconceptions with the Food Stamp program. It is currently used to uplift businesses which proves that we have a serious inequality problem in this country. If people had the opportunities and economic means to buy what they truly needed, there would not only be little need for food stamps but our country would be better off. The reality is some companies would fail without the system that's currently in place due to their unhealthy products. Who would spend their hard earned money on junk if they could afford better, healthier alternatives? Politicians on both sides have used many fake issues to divide people enough to where the program is seen as something that's crucial to survival when in reality it's a huge business subsidy aka business welfare.

If they didn't get food stamps, they would just figure out how to eat for a few dollars a day. This is kind of justified as "who's problem is it anyways?" Is it really a dairy farmer's fault that companies figured out they can pay their employees so little that they qualify for government assistance? I could argue either side of this easily but I think it's kind of ridiculous. I honestly don't know what the solution is. The 10 year job outlook for America is very bad as companies continue to embrace automation. You don't need a bank teller because ATMs are automated, automated gas purchases, automated grocery store purchases, manufacturing jobs are mostly automated or are sourced overseas, some companies already have robotic warehouses, and we may have mainstream automated cars, transportation, and delivery services soon.

I mean what is the future for going to be like for the average American? You work a part time customer service job and never have any ability to accumulate money, while the government pays for everything? Do we just let people die who get sick and can't afford $85,000 for the Hep C treatment that costs a few hundred to make? Something, sooner or later has to drastically change, but I have no idea what.

@insex:

OMG…It's kind of last station before hell, real nonsense. I don't simply understand what Trump will do with such mess, but it's still better than nothing, as for me.

I don't know, but people who live in areas where the majority voted for him, are dying from drug overdoses left and right and there's probably a couple thousand tons of methamphetamine in the country right now. He's going after things that don't seem to be an actual problem when you think about it. More people die in the US every day from opiate overdoses than Muslim terrorists in a year. There's even more suicides on an average day.

Note: I'll be fair, not exclusively his supporters, I'm just suggesting that he hasn't done anything important to help his supporters in certain regions.

@insex:

I was really shocked, when I heard about food stamps for people in your country. It was OMG moment, it was in USSR, it's a communist thing, and what this thing do in USA. Also in your words, I hear a lot of thoughts, what Kiyosaki and Trump wrote in their books. Sadly truth, pity to hear it. Cause I like cars and architecture, I read a lot about Detroit, from New Renaissance City to Ghost City, it's a very strange metamorphose. Also knew about Rust Belt States. And people seems to be don't care about economics, and don't care about other people of their own country. All this happen while watching all this protests about immigrants, feminists and others. Kind of crazy stuff.

People misinterpret the fact that 43 million Americans are on food stamps, it's not that those people would starve, it's just the government giving money to companies, I'll explain. If the government didn't give out food stamps, then stores in certain areas of the country would have to sell extremely cheap food because the people in those areas can't afford anything else. This is bad for local business, since cheap products don't typically make the business much money (less jobs), and it's bad for large corporations who generally have expensive products compared to generic products.

I personally think it's ridiculous that people can use food stamps to buy Cocacola, Pepsi, or other sodas. If you don't have enough money to afford food, you should be drinking water because it's basically free, right? But instead, people buy, incredibly unhealthy, carbonated candy water. This is effectively free sales for the soda manufacturers, who then have the audacity to lobby the FDA, to control the nutritional information on the can/bottle.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Almost everything in the entire country has a certain degree of complete non-sense policy because some political lobbying group thought it was a good idea. Much of the problem is that politicians and lobbying groups have tricked Americans into believing that "Reverse Robin Hood" economic policies will benefit them. The problem here is supply and demand, the largest corporations in America have production levels to meet the market's demand, so "giving them more money" does nothing in the long term since demand doesn't change. I could write a book on this subject, but I do have better things to do with my time.

Stunning.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/michael-flynn-resigns-as-national-security-adviser/2017/02/13/0007c0a8-f26e-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html

@insex:

If you played Fallout games, it will be better to understand, first of all you must survive in such situation, not moaning about rights of poor pandas…

I don't play video games or watch TV.

I'm also not even slightly concerned about a Russian attack.

Dude we don't have Pandas in the US, that's China.

As far as the rights of minority groups: look here's how things work in the US.

The government is massively corrupted by corporations on both sides, neither party is worse than the other. The political parties lure people in by making people believe they are "for their rights" and when they get elected, they either hand money indirectly to corporations via government subsidies, or they let the companies do whatever the hell they want and just screw people over. The entire economy is based upon debt, or more specifically, repaying debt owed, so normal people usually end up with a mountain of debt they can't actually manage and basically become legal slaves to the corporations (The American Dream is to go massively in debt to a bank in order to afford a home.) While spending the next 10-25 years of their lives, slowly repaying their debts and making their employeers rich, they get all upset about "their rights" not realizing that it's not really possible for everybody to get "everything they want" so they endlessly whine about it and don't realize what the corporations are doing. Also, there's a consistent theme in America, that if you work hard and get a good education, you will earn more. This is completely accepted (even thought it's not completely true) and most people don't realize that they are just basically buying a job by going into student loan debt, which they have to repay, so they better work hard because if they don't, their employeer, who has no actual investment in them, can just fire them and then go play golf.

Edit: All of this has been going on for quite awhile now and has led to large gaps in wealth among the classes and the people in the US can not realistically do anything about it, the way the government works. The government is even worse off financially speaking than most of the citizens, every year the government continues to spend more money that it earns (it's actually designed to work that way), and the majority of that money eventually ends up in the hands of large corporations. The highest earning corporations have relatively small teams of people who sit around all day and try to figure out how to take advantage of the current political environment, so they can either get away with whatever they want (due to lake of oversight), or take advantage of subsidies, or ideally, both…

With that said. I'm 100% confident Russia will not attack the US in the foreseeable future. Why the hell would they want to?

I don't think Vlad wants 15 calls a day from debt collectors while some guy repossesses his car.

@insex:

Hello!? It's the most free country in the world!!?? or maybe I am wrong with adress… from my point US looks like a jail now, where for every critical word you say, you can be sued by SJW or similar people.

You're kind of right about that.

@insex:

Never mess with Russia and Russians. Our story, not the story which rewrite for you by yet another proffesor of yet another US University by request of your gov. One of the last nonsense about "poor" Crimean Tatars, "oh, they was so pooooor", but no one word, that they was with NAZIS killing Russian soldiers. So I just imagine what happens in brains of the US people, after such books.

I'm not completely sure what you're talking about but if you're referring to WWII, I assure you, it's in the history books as well as on Wikipeda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union

@insex:

Nowadays, I always hear about russian hackers. OMG!!! :cheesy2: They are everywhere, if you listen CNN, BBC and other american propaganda or west media. Maybe for a change listen some russian propaganda RT, just to have different opinions, not from one side.

Yeah man! I love Crazy Russian Hacker. https://www.youtube.com/user/CrazyRussianHacker

@insex:

Please imagine, will you still moaning about it, when your hometown will lie in ruins after nuclear bomb, i don't think so…

I really have no idea what you're talking about.

@raphjd:

Just because you don't read/watch X Y and Z doesn't take away from my point, unless you are claiming the entire universe revolves around you.

Obama obviously thought Ellen was important enough to give her the Medal Of Freedom.

I don't watch Ellen either, but I'm not stupid enough to think that because I don't watch her, that she has no influence on millions of people.

As I've repeatedly said in various threads, if the left want to praise transsexuals for their courage, then they can choose from millions of real transsexuals, not a cheap ass cross-dresser.

No, I just don't read tabloids. I just checked Google news and surely enough there are quite a few articles about Bruce Jenner, but much of it is crap like TMZ.

Oh my God! Did you know that supposedly she is going to have gender confirmation surgery? I just saw the headline and I still couldn't care less.

Timothy Harper Aka Cameron Diggs "was charged with the manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance after police found him at an apartment complex with more than 1,600 grams of a substance believed to be methamphetamine"

http://heatst.com/life/gay-porn-star-nazi/

@aadam101:

The whole rise of Bruce Jenner was in response to the ridiculous "bathroom bills" coming from the right.  The Daily Show did the best bit on this on why it is so ridiculous.  They opened a food truck in NC and every male who walked up to the truck was refused service on the basis of them looking gay.  These men were likely not gay.  They were just random guys trying to buy lunch but it shows the absurdity of the thinking from the right.

This week they are all bent out of shape because private businesses have made business decisions to not carry Ivanka's products.  This is exactly the sorrt of  thing that Republicans preach.  A private business should be allowed to sell whatever they want.  I actually heard Judge Jeanine on her show say to someone on the street. "Why shouldn't I be allowed to buy these shoes?".  Isn't  the real question "why should retailers be forced to sell a product that they don't want to sell?"

Ivanka is free to sell her products directly.  She can sell online.  She can open her  own stores.  She can sell at other retailers.  She can sell them on Ebay if she wants.  That's the great thing about America.  She has freedom…..and so do Nordstrom and TJX.

LOL @ "She can sell them on Ebay…" Have you seen her designs? It's pretty obvious to me why they are dropping her line.

Ivanka Clothing Lines:
"I look like a Pillow Case"
"I look like a Couch"
"Ugly Patterns"
"Weird Shoes"
and my personal favorite
"Blah and Over Priced"

Take look for yourself. http://ivankatrump.com/collection/

@raphjd:

It wasn't a right leaning magazine that made Bruce Jenner their Woman of the Year 2016.

Bruce has been the darling of the left media, while being nowhere when it comes to the right media.  He was on Ellen, but not Tucker Carlson; for example.

Vanity Fair is infotainment/a tabloid. I don't read that crap.

I've never watch an episode of Ellen, I do have actual responsibilities and don't have the time to sit around and waste my life away mentally masturbating to TV shows.

I check the news online daily (multiple sources) and Peter Theil definitely got more coverage than Bruce Jenner from my perspective, who I honestly only remember seeing once or twice, which I didn't read, because I read the headline and thought "Who Cares? This is noise."

@amicusets:

1. Do you realize how polls work, and how they decide which demographics voted which way? If you don't then you probably quit trying to use "demographics" as an argument for why you think only stupid people voted for Trump.

2. I did NOT mean Korea. I was repeating Rep. Waters's claims.

3. So, you are a constitutional law expert, that thinks the EO was unconstitutional? What brings you to that conclusion considering I have yet to read a single expert opinion that thinks that. For one thing, the constitutionality has yet to be argued in any court, and if you are referencing CA9's decision not to stay the TRO, I would like to remind you that CA9 is consistently one of the tope 2 circuits overturned by the SCOTUS, but please, enlighten us all on the constitutional law that you are apparently more versed in than the vast majority of experts in the field.

1. Demographics do not change based upon polls, polls that sample populations can. This is extremely basic statistics… If you do not understand the difference, I can not help you.

2. Okay, I see what you're saying but; you can't mix quotations and your own statements and be credible. The quote was "And the fact that he is wrapping his arms around Putin while Putin is continuing to advance into Korea." Your failure to either quote the (potentially) misspoken statement or indicate the statement was misspoken is your responsibility, I read what you wrote. Your statement is just as incorrect as the statement Maxine Waters made. Also, you accusing somebody of being ignorant when you fail to use quotations properly is comical… Since you didn't quote her, you just made the same mistake.

I don't even understand why you would bring this up when Donald has said things like: "Because I was down there and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7/11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down. And I saw the greatest people I've ever seen in action."

Not to mention, that he has repeatedly made up words and don't even get me started on Sean Spicer, who is probably going to be out a job soon, or Kellyanne Conway referring to nonexistent terrorist attacks.

If you want to argue they are all ignorant, sure I completely agree. Something tells me you didn't think your argument through very carefully.

3)It appears you have not read the ruling, I suggest you go read the ruling yourself: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2017/02/09/17-35105.pdf

I'll remind you that "the opinions you have read" do not represent all opinions and there were certainly many who did not agree, but I realize, Googling the information would require you to leave your comfort zone, which you obviously have no plans on doing.

It's unlikely that SCOTUS would even hear the case. The solution is quantification, it's easy to evaluate the legality of a binary order. An order of the same effect be easily achieved by dramatic restrictions and reductions. Trump should give up (sounds like he is) and rewrite the order, preferably into separate orders.

I'm totally for restricting the flow of migrants from countries in the middle east, which is where the majority of the terrorists are and have historically come from. Cherry picking out a handful of countries and then blaming Obama is not how that should have been handled. I think people know Obama isn't the president anymore.

The US is going to be in a bad situation in a decade when companies like Google automate cars and basically everything else. I think it's a wonderful idea to start to limiting immigration now before the job market gets completely taken over by robots. If you think the percentage of people not participating in the job market is high now, just wait…

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

I hope you understand that the unemployment numbers are complete horseshit... This is a real issue...

Immigration needs to get heavily restricted across the board and the illegals need to go... This Muslim crap is a total distraction from what needs to happen.

@amicusets:

Are you fucking insane or just monumentally stupid?

LOL … I knew you were a zombie worshiper. Zero awareness of reality and history. Please tell me about your distorted version of the world you learned from a 2000 year old comic book written by some guy.

Don't worry, even Donald Trump has mastered the art of manipulating the army of religious sheep.

"Muslim Ban", LMAO...

Glad to see ICE start rounding up the felons.

@raphjd:

Bruce Jenner is a republican, but it's the liberals who made him a saint for being a transvestite as part of their identity politics.

400 years ago, excluding Northern Ireland, christians were the main problem.  Now it's clearly muslims that are the problem.

Uh, the Liberals making Bruce Jenner a Saint? Think about that statement carefully. There was a point, not that long ago, that it was decided by certain Republican leaders to drop their anti LGBTQ stance around 2014 (I know you won't believe me so Google it.) Since then, they've 180ed on this to a certain extent. I really don't recall seeing much about Bruce since I don't read Tabloids, but I am aware Bruce was being covered, so I have no idea what you're getting at here.

Clearly the Muslims, let's just take complex issues and blame their religion… Clearly the west imposing their values and deconstructing middle east governments had nothing to do with any of it. Come on now. Trump knew was the problem was when he decided to run, I'm not sure if he still does as his dementia appears to have advanced significantly. The problem is the extremists, and I have absolutely no problem, not letting extremists in, and blowing them up with drones. If you're an American, you should be worried about the police. In America, many more people are killed by the police every year than any kind of terrorist. A big reason for this, is that America is flooded with meth and heroin, and I'm totally for Trump, rounding up the immigrant dealers, and throwing them out of the country. Or you know what? They likely contributed to the deaths of Americans, so just throw them in the ocean… Jesús Malverde wouldn't approve of them, so it's probably better that way.

@amicusets:

Why would I give two shits what the demographics of some polls are that say who Trump voters were? Those same polls were saying, up until and throughout the day of the election that he had less than 13% chance of winning. I am speaking of my experience, as a well-educated gay man. I know more "educated" people than your average Joe Schmoe, and I am telling that you more voted for Trump than the media would have people believe. As for your bubble, everything you post come straight from the Democrat talking points spewed by their elected officials and the biased media. EVERY SINGLE THING.

What do polls have to do with Demographics? Okay so you "know more educated people than most", great. Who cares… That's absolutely not relevant to this discussion in any way. I'm not fooled or impressed by the "feats of anonymous internet users." So you spent two decades paying somebody for pieces of paper. Great life man...

What's next? Are you going to tell me next that you're superior to me because you worship 2000 year old comic books?

@amicusets:

You thought it would be funny to point a funny comment Secretary DeVos made in answer to a question, but it isn't so funny when the circumstances surrounding that comment are explained. So, just to prove the point that your bubble doesn't include a real grasp of "everything" that takes place or is said in Washington, this week Pelosi referred to the President, on more than one occasion, as President Bush. She didn't bother to clarify if she thinks it is 41 or 43 that is currently the president, but I am sure someone will eventually let her know what year it is. Also, the terrifically ignorant Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was discussing her calls to impeach Trump, because of his friendship with Russia and Putin, even after Putin had invaded Korea.

FTR… my Ph.D. is in Philosophy, so reasoning and logic are the cornerstones of my beliefs, and I would never presume to try and silence anyone, at any time. I have found through experience that more the people like yourself speak, the more your bias hatred and shows.

What are you a Buchanan fan or something? Yeah. Great Idea! The main stream Republicans impeach Trump, the guy who once ran for president as a Democrat. I can see the headlines now; "Republicans Save America From Trump." A guy that's sane and knows what he is doing becomes president, this is a great plan…

Also, no offense, but you literally just did what Pelsoi did. I realize you meant Crimea.

Edit: And yeah, I hate that noise coming from the Alt-Right crazy camp, who somehow believe that main stream elected Republicans actually care about them or that America is some how now becoming "fascist." The Republicans have complete control of the government and they can fix the financial issues that actually matter. Screw your feelings, fix the problems… Come on ... What the hell is this??? Privatizing education doesn't bring jobs back, it doesn't reduce the deficit, and it's not going stop the BS trade deals which sound good, until you see what happened and realize that America traded quality jobs for crap products...

Devos was a bad choice.

The sooner the Republicans realize that Trump used them just like he used everyone else in his life, the better.

Trump got the nomination, not many people believed he could win, he won. Great, Hillary lost, but it's time for people who know what they're doing to take over one way or another. This "Twitter Presidency" while the president waffles around with basic constitutional law is insanity. I could have written 50 different executive orders that would have effectively done the same thing and would have been legal. There's a broken link somewhere and it can't be fixed. Trump is definitely exhibiting signs of age related mental illness.

@aadam101:

She is never honest.

Today she turned the White House into a TV Shopping Network and told people to go buy Ivanka Trumps products.  Trump said he was going to have nothing to do with the family business and now he has his paid shrill Conway(who is a government employee) selling products for him on TV.

I don't agree that she is never honest, her antics typically do not involve direct lies, but rather misdirection. She's certainly a master at creating circular arguments, talking over others, and has an amazing ability to avoid answering questions that would make the individual she is representing look bad.

I think she would do the same thing for anybody who pays her though. I don't believe she has any legitimate loyalty to anybody.

As far as dropping Ivanka's brand, I was a bit surprised she would actually do that. Initially I thought the quote had to be taken out of context but apparently it wasn't.

@amicusets:

I'm not sure why most gays are so hateful and ill-informed, but something tells me that it is because they live in little bubbles and don't bother to actually educate themselves or ever learn how to think for themselves.

Your statement is so ridiculous, on its very face. I tend to vote Republican, and have my Ph.D. from one of the premier universities in the world. Coupled with the 3 Masters degrees, and my recent acceptance to one of the best Veterinary Schools in this country, I know very few people who are well educated that don't live in the bubble of academia who support the far-left progressive (regressive) agenda. I guess it is easier to assume that anyone that isn't just like you must be a racist, misogynist, homophobic, ignorant hick.

By the way, I really hope Pelosi asks President Bush to step in and protect Korea from Putin.

LMAO… PHD and can't Google basic demographic statistics.
I know, facts are such ridiculous things sometimes.
I love the childish remarks about "little bubbles" and the comments about the people you know. Hysterical...
I'm not a liberal so I feel it's important to let you know that I'm not the one in the bubble. The majority of Americans in your "education situation" do not vote the way you do.

Why do you care what Pelosi said? What does that have to do with the topic? I really figured I would be able to have an intelligent conversation with somebody who has "3 masters degrees" and a "Ph.D." but I guess somebody with such a high level of education is "entitled" to vocalize their assumptions of what other people think.

I really do appreciate your opinion that "most gays are hateful and ill-informed" but my post was objective and based upon facts.

Thanks for the hate speech Doctor Amicusets.

@aadam101:

I don't know how anyone can vote Republican and still look at themselves in the mirror.  Betsy DeVos is the most unqualified person I've ever seen.  I watched her entire confirmation hearing and I wouldn't have hired her for an entry level data entry position.  She was awful.  She could barely answer any questions.  She refused to answer some of them.  She provided written answers to questions that she plagiarized from Obama!  I've watched most of the hearings and there are some people I liked more than others but she is BY FAR THE WORST.

Her family has given $1 million to sitting Republicans with $115,000 of that  money coming from here.  There is also another $8 million they have given to Republican Super PACS.  This is "pay to play" at it's finest and it's exactly what Trump promised he would stop.  "Drain the swamp" is a total joke.

On the other hand…...at least parents won't have to worry about their kids being eaten by grizzly bears.

The people in her "School of thought" feel that the Government shouldn't be the end all in regards to education. I can't say I completely disagree but this is another "if it isn't broken don't fix it" type of situation. Granted one could argue the system is broken and that American children are provided a substandard education.

This is kind of a strange issue since by the time these children get through school, the vast majority of the low skill jobs in America will have been replaced with automation. So, maybe it makes sense to adjust the education system. There will be virtually zero low skill jobs available, so I'm pretty sure the idea here is to effectively create an additional tier of education by eliminating the government standards for public education while creating private schools who provide a "superior education." It's not that there isn't private schools already, Betsy's "crowd" just feels the people going through the public education system are not going to participate in the employment market anyways, so there's really no point in the government utilizing resources for people who won't contribute back into the system by paying income tax.

I'm fairly confident it will be revealed that Betsy Devos just wants an education system where "her supporters" can get wealthy off government subsided private schools, while the public school system collapses. Which would force "well-to-do" families to spend the extra money and put their children into the new voucher-ized private schools.

It's just more of the reverse robin hood economic policy that a certain group of "Republicans" want. I'm not sure why the pro autocracy, corporate goon, types gravitated to the Republican party, but something tells me that has to do with the fact that "Republican voters" are skewed towards lesser levels of education.

Most people who have recently obtained a degree in the higher education system will tell you that they kind of felt like they got scammed. Since generally this picture of having a high paying job is painted by the college, then after 4 years of accumulating ludicrously high student debt, the majority of graduates find that the jobs they believed would be available to them, don't materialize. I guess some people feel that this is the way the entire education system should work. I find it really hard to believe that any voter actually supports Betsy DeVos.

As the job market continues to shrink in America, politicians will continue to support low education voters with lies like the concept "of bringing coal jobs back." Which, isn't going to happen. Do you really think investors in the energy sector are going to invest heavily into coal when Solar is now lower in the cost per KWH than fossil? It should obvious that's what Betsy was trying to do here, I'm sure the majority of her supporters are not aware of the fact that there have only been 18 reported bear attacks in the United States since 2010, none of which lead to the death of a child who was at school. I'm sure the comment is a wonderful rallying point for low education Americans.

She was on CNN yesterday and had a dramatically different approach.

She seemed honest for once, which would make sense, I have no idea why she was lying to the media after the election.