Betsy says.......wait.......WHAT????

[Nevilledog]

[uponit7771]

1. Bullshit !!! She's a bigger. Case than Trump then!!

[Bettie]

2. Isn't that the whole point of planning?

Or did I miss something in school?

[Tanuki]

33. I guess she completely missed the lesson about what happened

when her boss failed to plan for a pandemic that hadn't happened yet.

[coti]

46. "You keep using that word..."

[Zoonart]

3. Ummmm....

that's what "planning" is. Jeebus Rice what a dangerous idiot.

[tblue37]

4. Wow. She got hit really hard with the idiot stick. nt

[KS Toronado]

28. Yep, and by her teachers at her "Private" schools where she went.

[KelleyKramer]

35. She fell out of the dumbass tree & hit every branch on way down

That's an old Southern saying, I think it fits perfectly for her

[patphil]

37. Sort of like this guy

[wishstar]

5. Quite oxymoronic of course

she fits in so nicely with the others in this misadministration

[tavernier]

6. I work at the school making lunches to go during summer hours

And today we were talking about how long it would take for the virus to spread once they opened up the classrooms to all the kids. The rest of my group were all chiming in with numbers like 10 seconds flat, 10 minutes before they even walk through the front door, 100% new cases within 24 hours.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. Usually I claim.......

when I see something that is a surprise or funny or shocking, someone owes me a new keyboard - you know, coke spew!

But THIS................

THE BITCH OWES ME A NEW MONITOR AND KEYBO................

[Wounded Bear]

8. The problem with planning ahead...

is that it reduces the opportunities to exploit the crisis for profit when it happens.

Disaster Capitalism 101-first you have to eliminate all the agencies and entities that plan ahead for crises. That way, it's easier to make money off of them.

[gratuitous]

9. Sounds like Thor logic

[MoonchildCA]

10. Someone needs a dictionary...

[Hekate]

11. Blithering idiot

[Volaris]

23. It's a feature, not a bug. It's also why Hillary Clinton couldnt be president...

because she actually fucking KNEW HOW.

[Thomas Hurt]

12. Damn testing and planning just gets in the way of ideological based solutions people!

Get in sync with the narrative folks, this about sympathetic magic not rational thought....sheesh.

[Yavin4]

15. Data and magical thinking just don't get along do they? n/t

[CaptYossarian]

13. It sounds a bit like Yogi Berra.

"When you see a fork in the road, take it."

[Walleye]

22. I thought the same thing.

It’s hard to make predictions especially about the future

[VOX]

31. "It gets late early out there." n/t

[George II]

32. He also said, when attendance was down, "if the people don't want to show up nobody can stop them"

[Yavin4]

14. Yes, only plan for those things that HAVE happened already, and your plans will be 100% foolproof.

I just finalized my plan for landing Neil Armstrong on the moon.

[dlk]

16. The US Secretary of Education doesn't understand planning

Republicans have gone far in dumbing down America.

[brush]

17. That ranks right up there with, "if we stop the testing we wouldn't have the cases."

She's one of the Kool-Aid drinkers.

[stillcool]

18. she's like a kool-aid kingpin..

doesn't drink the stuff, but mass-produces it and gives it away free.

[2naSalit]

40. I could see her being good friends

With Gislaine Maxwell.

[Blecht]

19. Devos is a sick joke

One of thousands of sick jokes Trump has dumped on us.

[lunatica]

20. The sensation of synapses firing in all directions at once is

quite trippy isn’t it? Even in the 60s we couldn’t do that unless we took drugs.

[LAS14]

21. Like you said!!! Wait!!!.... WHAT??????? nt

[LisaL]

24. Wow.

Isn't planning implies that you plan for something that hasn't happened yet?

[Iggo]

25. That's the very definition of what it means to plan, dear.

[thesquanderer]

26. This is too stupid for me to believe without a source...

Does anyone have a link showing that she actually said this?

[betsuni]

39. What she actually said was:

"If there's a short term flare-up for a few days, that's a different situation than planning for an entire school year in anticipation of something that hasn't happened."

[Traildogbob]

27. Amway

She has been injecting some of that Amway Jesus brewed disinfectant concentrate. She musta forgot, all Amway cleaners are concentrate. She gets a discount and the money climbs up to the top of her pyramid anyway.

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. She is as deranged as her boss.

[rickyhall]

30. Repugs don't know how to Act, only React.

[bucolic_frolic]

34. Schools will be empty by Halloween

Shutdowns, no-shows, fear, panic, and worse. Once infections start in schools, parents will act to protect their children.

[plimsoll]

36. Sorry this is textbook MBA behavior

Someone suggested that things might go wrong. Plans can only be made based on the assumption that everything will work out for the best.

It's called happy path folks. When it fails she'll say, "who could have predicted that COVID19 would break out in the schools."

Everything is in the present. Don't look at previous results to try to understand what might happen. Don't put in contingency plans in case something goes wrong.

[Sloumeau]

38. It makes sense that Betsy Devos, who has never been trained in education does not realize that

every teacher in America must plan their day in advance, before the day actually happens, for every working day of their lives. One of the stupidest and least educated women in America is currently the head of education in America. It boggles the mind.

[sarge43]

41. In the big Officer Club in the sky,

Dwight Eisenhower orders a double, then ponders the devolution of his party.

[SergeStorms]

43. Ike would be...

labeled a 'flaming liberal' by today's far-right lunatics.

[sarge43]

47. Very true.

I was thinking of his planning, sweat and tears that involved Operation Overlord. Plus, he planned for both outcomes.

[SergeStorms]

55. Ike was a damned good man.

Those who convinced him that Richard Nixon was the future of the Republican party, thus a good vice-presidential choice, were the very enemies of the United States Ike warned us about.

[sarge43]

56. Yes, he was

Unlike a couple of flag bearing prima donas I could name, he didn't romanticise war.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

44. I would've thought he'd developed a heroin addiction by now............... nt

[SergeStorms]

42. Yes folks, she really IS that stupid!

Every time I read some horror story about Betsy DeVos, Trump's words come back to haunt me..... "only the best people". Maybe in your circle of friends Donald, but certainly not in any other sentient being's circle of friends.

[keithbvadu2]

45. Any video of it?

[betsuni]

51. Here (part about not planning "in participation of something that hasn't happened" at very end).

[wnylib]

48. She needs to read Cuomo's plan.

Only schools in regions that are at stage 4 of opening can open. Masks mandatory for everyone in the building. Any school or region that goes to 5% or more infection rate, all schools in the district close immediiately and cannot reopen until the rate goes down. Distancing maintained at all times.

Buffalo campus of SUNY requires all students to quarantine 7 days before entering campus. All out of state students required to quarantine 14 days. Major campus activities cancelled. No large lecture hall classes at all. Football might be cancelled. Still in discussion.

That's how you plan for things that haven't happened yet.

[wnylib]

49. I am so glad that my school days are over.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

50. Which means she hasn't planned...

....on exactly how many dalmatian puppies she needs...

[3catwoman3]

52. Dictionary.com - plan. Noun.

A scheme or method of acting,doing, proceeding , making, etc, developed in advance.

Lesson plans come to mind.

[lame54]

53. Yogi Berra says what?

[DFW]

54. In a previous incarnation

She was a Polish military advisor on August 31, 1939 and mayor of Hiroshima on August 5, 1945.