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OOPS All Grift! Taxpayers Pay $19 Million for Betsy DeVos’s Superfluous Armed Security
Friday , 16, November 2018 Sad! Leave a commentTrump promised to drain the swamp when he went to Washington. So far, the swamp has been relocated to his cabinet and gradually draining back into their civilian jobs. The most recent kicked to the curb was Attorney General Jeff “Keebler lost an elf” Sessions. Currently, scrutiny over Ryan Zinke’s undocumented meetings on company time […]
Let’s All Enjoy a Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Moment
Friday , 20, October 2017 Religious Fundamentalism, Sad!, Section 16, Trumpenreich Leave a commentAlright everyone, play some relaxing meditative music, maybe light a few candles to set the mood. Find a comfy chair to relax in and close your eyes as you begin to visualize what it’s like to be a billionaire who bought her way into a cabinet seat in the United States Federal Government. You’re sitting […]
Betsy and the Rest of the DeVos Crime Family are Monsters
Tuesday , 7, February 2017 Section 16 Leave a commentThe results of today’s senate vote on Betsy DeVos were extremely disappointing, but not surprising. This woman owns as many politicians as she can without shame or remorse as she takes her must destroy public education show nationwide. She’s been laying the ground work for this for a long time. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette […]
An Open Letter to the Senators Betsy DeVos Bought With Her Money
Monday , 6, February 2017 Section 16 2 CommentsTo the Republican Senators who intend to vote for Betsy Devos’s confirmation as Secretary of Education because she bought the office in the 2016 election: “I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence,” she wrote. “Now I simply concede the point. They are right. We do expect something in […]