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This is the kind of endlessly infuriating thing you can expect to see in a culture that runs on abuse and enablement.
What is this special olympics thing from hometown goblin Betsy DeVos?
It’s many things, none of them a budget.
Mostly, it’s a series of statements of abusive intent, which expects enablement.
It’s many things, none of them a budget.
Mostly, it’s a series of statements of abusive intent, which expects enablement.
It’s a statement from a woman who dares call herself “pro life,” making it plain that in her vision of the world, children with special needs we are not worthy of general public consideration.
It’s a billionaire pretending concern about deficits, while serving in an administration and belonging to a party that oversaw record deficit gains in order to hand out money to billionaires.
It's fathomless hypocrisy.
"borrow from their future ... to invest in systems and policies that are not yielding better results" is the entire GOP platform, taxes to climate to health
DeVos is a vampire tut-tutting you for wastefully giving blood even as she drains you dry.
"borrow from their future ... to invest in systems and policies that are not yielding better results" is the entire GOP platform, taxes to climate to health
DeVos is a vampire tut-tutting you for wastefully giving blood even as she drains you dry.
They say this because they know they'll be allowed to say it.
They know they'll get away with it because they always have.
They know they won't be challenged on their nonsense.
They count on civility and politeness and normalization.
They know they'll get away with it because they always have.
They know they won't be challenged on their nonsense.
They count on civility and politeness and normalization.
Our leaders should be frightened of us, or at least ashamed. They're selling us out in broad daylight.
They shouldn't dare scold us for suffering the effects of their crimes.
They should be terrified.
They shouldn't dare scold us for suffering the effects of their crimes.
They should be terrified.
This is exactly right. It's all about the wealthy establishing the ability to give only on their own terms, laundering their guilt into righteousness in a way that lets them control those they assist.
It's about domination.
It's about domination.
McConnell literally blocked Obama from responding to Russia, and we all know it, but McConnell feels perfectly safe saying something like this, because our society runs on abuse and enablement.
He shouldn't be able to appear in public w/o public shaming.
He shouldn't be able to appear in public w/o public shaming.
The lack of social consequence for doing these things, or for supporting them, or for becoming deliberately ignorant to them, is a key part of what makes this whole thing work for these abusive monsters.
This makes delivering social consequence vital.
This makes delivering social consequence vital.
