US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

https://www.latlmes.com/obituaries/simon-h-3

LA Times

LA Tlmes, you mean

is that anything like Rashida Tlaib?

Apparently the Mueller report will not be turned over to Congress for weeks, and will first be reviewed and redacted by the WH.

The entire point of the special counsel’s investigation - to avoid the perception that the investigation and it’s conclusions are politicized - has been undermined.

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday defended deep cuts to programs meant to help students and others, including eliminating $18 million to support Special Olympics, while urging Congress to spend millions more on charter schools.

"We are not doing our children any favors when we borrow from their future in order to invest in systems and policies that are not yielding better results," DeVos said in prepared testimony before a House subcommittee considering the Department of Education's budget request for the next fiscal year.

It was the first time that DeVos, a wealthy former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman and school choice advocate, had been called before a Democratic-led panel in the U.S. House to explain President Donald Trump's spending priorities.

While proposing to add $60 million more to charter school funding and create a tax credit for individual and companies that donate to scholarships for private schools, DeVos' budget proposal would still cut more than $7 billion from the Education Department, about 10 percent of its current budget. President Trump proposed a $4.7 trillion overall budget this month with an annual deficit expected to run about $1 trillion.

It calls for eliminating billions in grants to improve student achievement by reducing class sizes and funding professional development for teachers as well as cutting funds dedicated to increasing the use of technology in schools and improving school conditions. In many cases, DeVos said the purpose of the grants has been found to be redundant or ineffective.

In the case of the $17.6 million cut to help fund the Special Olympics, a program designed to help children and adults with disabilities, DeVos suggested it is better supported by philanthropy and added, "We had to make some difficult decisions with this budget."

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/03/26/betsy-devos-special-olympics/3278388002

If the white house so much as touches it prior to release i am not adverse to anything yet, but i dont know what ppl might have in mind.

devos is a void of evil

I live in Ground Zero for charter school hell

wow, special olympics even. thees people have zero shame.

https://www.latlmes.com/breaking/kublai-khan-found-alive-and-given-key-cabinet-position-3

"we had to make some difficult decisions" should be an instant ticket to Hell.

If someone proposed turning Betsy DeVos into a set of fancy luggage, I'd like to think that I would protest the essential inhumanity of such a horrific act, but I can't say with absolute certainty that I would. I might need to confer with my pastor on this moral conundrum, guys.

How did we go from Rickrolls to open Buffalo Bill fantasies

it's that kind of day

Rickrolls to Buffalo Bill Fantasies: My Years in the Trump Family

well DJT did try to purchase the Bills, maybe that was just a fantasy

"i love children," DeVos said, before adding, "i had one this morning on my toast"

'we can't afford $18m for special olympics' is amazing. that's a rounding error. it's half of one apache helicopter. six months of trump golfing. 20% of what the beloved military parade would cost. etc

where's the evidence that the special olympics "work," mookie? c'mon!

teacher training, smaller classrooms BLAH BLAH HEARD IT ALL BEFORE we gotta build charter schools instead, which totally work great! and allow private school kids to use public money to defray their tuition fees! oooh lordy i feel a voucher comin on!

devos is a straight-up ghoul. Americans have a moral obligation to get people like her away from the levers of power as quickly as possible. if taking Trump down over Russia isn't it then something had better fucking be

Lol we can barely convince millions of people that vaccines aren't poison

OK, this is at least kinda funny.

Trump appoints Jon Voight, Mike Huckabee to Kennedy Center board

I'm sure the only reason he didn't nominate Ted Nugent and Kid Rock is that they're going to receive Kennedy Center Honors next year.

BREAKING: Deutsche Bank has agreed to turn over Trump’s financial records to Congress

— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) March 27, 2019

air...guitar?

I think I've found the worst take of all time, from the Dilbert man of all people

If climate change models are correct, the people who brought us the Russian Collusion hoax have doomed the planet to annihilation by making it impossible to convince skeptics to "believe this one." So there's that. #WeHadaGoodRun #RussianCollusion #GreenNewDeal #YouTooSmollett pic.twitter.com/bNzZ0SiIJ6

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 26, 2019

man he's got a lot of moron fans, huh

"of all people"

I live close to the devos empire and sometime in the last year a bunch of black stickers with FUCK BETSY DEVOS in rainbow lettering have appeared all over my town.

"OMG Is that a real pic?"

xp maracas.jpg!

frogbs, please enjoy

tucker carlson made the same point -- linking russiagate to wmds and then to climate change as examples of "mainstream" hoaxes

His face is a hoax

it's a narrative the right wing is running with for sure

i'm sure they all said the same when Hillary's emails wound up being nothing

Politico indicates Mulvaney & allies drove Obamacare decision over objection of AG https://t.co/6m0DXG8UFd

— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley) March 27, 2019

lol

A Treasury Department committee has determined that Chinese ownership of Grindr constitutes a national security risk https://t.co/daP7nlejdv

— Liam Stack (@liamstack) March 27, 2019

“CFIUS’ specific concerns and whether any attempt was made to mitigate them could not be learned” but I can guess

amazing that the Trump admin was handed the single biggest win of his entire term and just immediately pivots to blowing up healthcare and the Special Olympics

He's the Lane Kiffin of politics

I still don't get : Trump fires Comey after worrying that he was investigating his connections to Russia - an investigation is launched to make sure there is no connection with Russia __ Obviously there is a connection to Russia and russian hackers are found guilty of hacking , and Trump friends and family know about the stolen emails - (.) (.) - Yet Trump is victorious because

1. There is no "collusion" which was never a crime to begin with

2. He is not exonerated nor convicted of obstruction of justice .WHAT WAS THE POINT THEN OF THE INVESTIGATION

Now the report gets redacted beyond all recognition before release??

SAD!!!

2. He is not exonerated nor convicted of obstruction of justice .WHAT WAS THE POINT THEN OF THE INVESTIGATION

Investigations don't convict. It would be up to someone to bring charges, and then a trial to take place. The head lawyer for the entire country has chosen not to bring charges in one instance; Mr Mueller's purview has referred many other instances to other law agencies, who have brought charges and secured convictions already.

Ok then, I'd like to bring charges against Trump for being a dickhead

LG you forgot the part where the President's son meets with the Russians with the explicit purpose of getting Hillarydirt in exchange for ????

he remembered to put boobs in though

fuck this fucking bullshit

State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz prayed for Trump and insisted everyone bow to Jesus just before Pennsylvania’s first Black Muslim woman Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell was sworn in pic.twitter.com/ryS2lIn4pk

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 27, 2019

how the fuck is an opening prayer at a state House even a thing ? this shit is crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=81&v=RLVrgWygwQo

By the time she said “Amen,” Borowicz had invoked Jesus 13 times, deploying the name between prayerful clauses as though it were a comma.