I’m sure he’ll hire “competent people”, but you won’t like what they’re competent at: advisors handpicked by Wall Street, soulless DNC lifers, people coming out the other side of the lobbyist revolving door. They won’t be as vulgar, as bigoted or as openly corrupt as Trump’s administration, but they’ll only “fix” what’s unacceptable to the neoliberal order and put an acceptable veneer on the rest.
I’m sure he’ll hire “competent people”, but you won’t like what they’re competent at: advisors handpicked by Wall Street, soulless DNC lifers, people coming out the other side of the lobbyist revolving door. They won’t be as vulgar, as bigoted or as openly corrupt as Trump’s administration, but they’ll only “fix” what’s unacceptable to the neoliberal order and put an acceptable veneer on the rest.
Come the fuck on, hiring some neoliberal secretary of education who started as a teacher but then went to Goldman Sachs isn't better than Betsy Devos? Save me the orthodox bullshit.
"Not Betsy Devos" is such a low fucking bar. I don't think we should let the existence of the Trump administration and its unique combination of incompetence and malice lead to a corruption of standards whereby we fool ourselves into thinking that the hypothetical Secretary of Education you have conjured up, who sounds horrible, is somehow "good" because they're not literally Betsy Devos.
Nowhere did you say what? In any event, it's pretty difficult to read any of your comments here and not come to the conclusion that you are saying "Well, at least the SoE won't be as bad as Devos."
Nowhere did I say that a hypothetical Biden appointee would be "good." I said they'd be better than Betsy DeVos and far more beholden to labor and education-best-practices advocacy efforts than anyone in the Bush II or Trump administrations have ever been. That's a net positive. You appear to be part of a hive of commenters on here who believe that all political stripes not specifically tied to your Twitter timeline are inherently the same evil and exist beyond nuance or a world in which advocacy, lawmaking and organizational politics apply pressure to an administration and make progress depending on the even *slight* bent of an appointed secretary. It's keyboard warrior bullshit.
Wow, for someone who wants to object to the somewhat semantic distinction between whether you said not-Betsy Devos would be "good" or just "better," you sure are imputing a lot of beliefs to me that I have said nothing about!
It’ll be marginally better, yeah! But Biden’s EduSec will likely continue to push for the privatization and charterization of schooling and will probably continue to protect the interest of university administration over victims of sexual assault and harassment. They won’t have that classic ultra-rich evangelical ghoul look and feel, but There’ll be enough left in tact so that the next DeVos type can pick right up where Betsy leaves off.
Treating Biden and his administration as the enemy the instant they enter the office should they win the election, and opposing them just as strongly as we do Trump?
I’m sure he’ll hire “competent people”, but you won’t like what they’re competent at: advisors handpicked by Wall Street, soulless DNC lifers, people coming out the other side of the lobbyist revolving door. They won’t be as vulgar, as bigoted or as openly corrupt as Trump’s administration, but they’ll only “fix” what’s unacceptable to the neoliberal order and put an acceptable veneer on the rest.
Come the fuck on, hiring some neoliberal secretary of education who started as a teacher but then went to Goldman Sachs isn't better than Betsy Devos? Save me the orthodox bullshit.
"Not Betsy Devos" is such a low fucking bar. I don't think we should let the existence of the Trump administration and its unique combination of incompetence and malice lead to a corruption of standards whereby we fool ourselves into thinking that the hypothetical Secretary of Education you have conjured up, who sounds horrible, is somehow "good" because they're not literally Betsy Devos.
Nowhere did I say that
Nowhere did you say what? In any event, it's pretty difficult to read any of your comments here and not come to the conclusion that you are saying "Well, at least the SoE won't be as bad as Devos."
Nowhere did I say that a hypothetical Biden appointee would be "good." I said they'd be better than Betsy DeVos and far more beholden to labor and education-best-practices advocacy efforts than anyone in the Bush II or Trump administrations have ever been. That's a net positive. You appear to be part of a hive of commenters on here who believe that all political stripes not specifically tied to your Twitter timeline are inherently the same evil and exist beyond nuance or a world in which advocacy, lawmaking and organizational politics apply pressure to an administration and make progress depending on the even *slight* bent of an appointed secretary. It's keyboard warrior bullshit.
Wow, for someone who wants to object to the somewhat semantic distinction between whether you said not-Betsy Devos would be "good" or just "better," you sure are imputing a lot of beliefs to me that I have said nothing about!
It’ll be marginally better, yeah! But Biden’s EduSec will likely continue to push for the privatization and charterization of schooling and will probably continue to protect the interest of university administration over victims of sexual assault and harassment. They won’t have that classic ultra-rich evangelical ghoul look and feel, but There’ll be enough left in tact so that the next DeVos type can pick right up where Betsy leaves off.
What the fuck are you pretending to advocate for here?
Treating Biden and his administration as the enemy the instant they enter the office should they win the election, and opposing them just as strongly as we do Trump?
lol awesome good luck champ
I have a theory that if Kennedy loses to Markey he'll end up in Biden's cabinet. Buttigieg also is a likely lock.