But he changed his position?
It’s wild watching the Trumpists fall all over themselves telling each other what a badass he looks like in that mask. It’s like watching parents’ reaction the first time their baby makes a poopy in the potty.
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To be fair, that IS something to be proud of…
But those assholes. Ugh. I wonder if you go back and look at their feeds, how many of them would be calling Biden a coward for wearing a mask…
I hate this timeline.
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Not when the baby is 74.
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:projectile_vomit:
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Hope you were wearing a mask to protect those around you.
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That would depend on who was around me.
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Not particularly.
This is him yesterday:
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Using the crisis to push the agenda - students be damned.
“ “If schools aren’t going to reopen and not fulfill that promise, they shouldn’t get the funds,” the education secretary opined. “Then give it to the families to decide to go to a school that is going to meet that promise.”
Wallace pointed out that a public health emergency is not the time to push a longtime Republican-led effort to favor private schools over public schools.
“You can’t do that!” the Fox News host said. “I know you guys support vouchers and that’s a reasonable argument but you can’t do that unilaterally, you have to do that through Congress.”
“Well, we’re looking at all the options because it’s a promise to the American people and their families,” DeVos remarked. “And we want to make sure that promise if followed through on.”
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This is reminding me of the Torchwood Children of Earth season, which was a fucking bleak gut punch of a season.
Probably the darkest story in the Doctor Who universe (maybe even darker than the Time War)…
After seeing this:
I’m especially reminded of this scene, where the cabinet is deciding whose children gets handed over to the aliens.
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Anyone yet found a source for the DeVos quote/paraphrase?
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That’s a similar premise to Storm of the Century; one of my least favorite Stephen King works.
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I’d forgotten that. Heartbreaking.
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I have not. But even if she didn’t say it, that doesn’t mean she actually gives a shit about the children (and their family members) who will die. She is literally asking people in vulnerable populations with vulnerable children to make actual sacrifices of their lives by demanding the schools open. This is all to justify defunding as many public schools as possible, because they want to create a new feudal system. They don’t give a shit about any of our kids, they just want to re-open the economy so the Trump will look good to voters.
I don’t think I’ve read that one. But yeah, CoE is a fucking bleak series. Even the solution they come up with at the end really fucking sucks. But it does remind me of so much that’s happening here with the pandemic and the discussion around schools in the fall.
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It was a miniseries:
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Ah! I have not seen it, I meant! 
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