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| DATE | 2017-01-28 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Holo-who?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-statement-marking-holocaust-remembrance-leaves-out-mention-of-jews/2017/01/27/0886d3c2-e4bd-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html
Trump’s statement marking Holocaust remembrance leaves out mention of Jews
By Abby Phillip January 27 at 5:23 PM
A statement from President Trump marking International Holocaust
Remembrance Day omitted any mention of Jews or anti-Semitism, a
departure from recent bipartisan precedent set by previous presidents.
The statement calls for remembrance of “victims, survivors, heroes,” but
nowhere does it mention the millions of Jewish people killed during the
Holocaust, nor does it mention the ideology of anti-Semitism that led
to the killings.
[...]
Here, let me help you rationalize that, Ruben! Let me show you how it's
done:
Hey, let's be fair to Orange-Americans, here. Trump's statement _did_
refer to Jews, because it talks about 'depravity and horror inflicted on
innocent people'. Most of those innocent people were Jews, and clearly
Trump is aware of this. You're making far too much of a mere accident
of word choice. It's not as if the Trump Administration has a problem
with being tainted by its reliance on and catering to white
supremacists, and as if Trump himself were having a bromance with the
ex-KGB authoritarian leader of Russia, one of the more notably
anti-Semitic countries in the world.
Meanwhile, let's also not be unfair to Insane-Americans, such as the guy
occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who sees non-existent millions of
people everywhere, and issues executive orders to investigate them.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-conspiracy-theorist-in-the-white-house/514343/
Another of the highlights of a week full of target-rich examples of
corruption from the 'drain the swamp' comedians was the confirmation
hearings of Education Department nominee Betsy DeVos, Blackwater
billionaire and opponent of public education:
Sen. Kaine: Do you think that K-12 schools that receive government funding
should meet the same accountability standards, equal accountability in
any K-12 school or education program that receives Federal funding,
whether public, public charter, or private:
DeVos: I support accountability.
Sen. Kaine: _Equal_ accountability for all schools that receive Federal
funding?
DeVos: I support accountability. [thin smile]
Sen. Kaine: OK, is that a yes or a no?
DeVos: [smiling like a corrupt billionaire who cannot be required to
give a straight answer] I support accountability.
Sen. Kaine: Do you not want to answer my question.
DeVos: [grinning like the Cheshire Cat, now] I support accountability.
What the grinning pirate _means_, of course, is 'Senator, I donated
hundreds of millions of Blackwater dollars to the Michigan and national
GOP in order to buy the right to protect Billy-Bob's Red-Blooded
American Corporate-Owned Full Gospel Skool from county boards of
education and guarantee it an endless supply of Federal pork barrel
funding, despite it meeting _no educational standards whatsoever_, and
you don't have the votes to keep me out.'
Sen. Franken: I would like your views on the relative advantage of
doing assessments and using the results to measure proficiency, or
to measure growth.
DeVos [confused; obviously has zero clue on this basic education issue]:
If I'm understanding your question correctly, around proficiency, I
would also, um, correlate it to competency and mastery, so that you,
eh, each student is measured according to the, um, advancement that
they are making in each subject area.
Sen. Franken: Well, that's growth. That's not proficiency.
DeVos [trying to figure it out on the fly]: The proficiency is if
they've reached a... a, like, third grade level for reading, etc.
Is that...?
Sen. Franken: I'm talking about the debate between measuring
proficiency and growth. I'm kind of surprised -- well, I'm not
_that_ surprised, that you did not know this issue.
DeVos: [silent]
Sen. Franken: You said that student debt has increased by a thousand
percent, since since 2008?
DeVos: Nine hundred and eighty percent, in eight years.
Sen. Franken: I'm sorry?
DeVos: Nine hundred and eighty percent.
Sen. Franken: That not... that's just not so.
DeVos: That's almost a thousand.
Sen. Franken. That's just not so. It's increased a hundred and
eighteen percent in the last eight years.
DeVos: [blandly] Mmmm.
[...]
Sen. Murphy (who represents Newtown, CT): Do you think guns have any
place in or around schools,
DeVos: I think that's best left to locales and states to decide.
If the underlying question is... um....
Sen. Murphy: You can't say today definitively that guns shouldn't be
in schools?
DeVos: Well, uh, I will refer back to Sen. Enzi and the school he was
talking about in Wapiti, Wyoming, I thin there... I wold imagine
that there's probably a gun in the school to protect from potential
grizzlies.
Sen. Murphy: If President Trump moves forward with his plan to _ban_
gun-free school zones, will you support that proposal?
DeVos: I will support what the President-Elect does.
Actually, no, Ms. DeVos, what actually works to keep grizzlies out of
Wapiti School is a wildlife fence, and bear-spray.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/18/politics/betsy-devos/
Sen. Sanders: Mrs. DeVos, there is a growing fear, I think, in this
country that we are moving towards what some would call an oligarchic
form of society. Would you be so kind as to tell how much your family
has contributed to the Republican Party over the years?
DeVos: I wish I could give you that number. I don't know.
Sen. Sanders: I have heard the number was two hundred million. Does
that sound in the ballpark?
DeVos: Collectively? Between my entire family?
Sen. Sanders: Over the years.
DeVos: That's possible.
Sen. Sanders: Do you think, if your family had not made hundreds of
millions of dollars in contributions to the Republican Party, that you
would be sitting here today?
DeCos: [grins wildly]
Yeah, baby! Go, swamp monster!
Most goddamned corrupt administration in American history, and an
_Education_ Secretary nominee who could not answer a single question
about education correctly, and promised only to make sure there are
basically _no_ education standards and just a massive handout of
public funds, but she's a shoo-in because she's been a massive source of
slush-fund money and bought her Cabinet seat fair and square. And
the Administration is only a week old. Wow.
But 27.2% of voters are completely oblivious to this because it's not on
Fox News and so must be just an invention of the lügenpresse.
How's life in that bubble, Ruben? Having fun, yet? Wait until stupidly
starting trade wars and screwing around tanks the world economy. Which
will then be Obama's fault, of course.
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