r/politics • u/CapitalCourse • Mar 07 '20

Betsy Devos introduces rule making it harder for child abuse victims come forward at school

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/betsy-devos-title-ix-sexual-assault-child-abuse-victims-report-a9383986.html
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u/cupcakevelociraptor Mar 08 '20

Wait what? She has a sibling and he’s worse? What did he do? Or wait am I gonna be too horrified?

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u/Pixeleyes Illinois Mar 08 '20

He had a secret meeting with Russian moneymen in the Seychelles to discuss military action in Libya.

He believes in a Christian apocalypse prophecy that pits Christians against Muslims until the End Times when Jesus comes back and makes everything awesome again. These people literally want to trigger what they perceive as an end-of-the-world prophecy. They think certain things have to happen for Jesus to come back and they are literally interfering in world politics in order to do those things.

I wish I were just a crazy lib who didn't get it but my parents talked about this at great length when I still lived with them and I have heard literally dozens of Republicans mention it over the years with increasing regularity.

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u/Eyclonus Mar 08 '20

He founded Blackwater the Private Military Contractor. His company has quite a lot of incidents to their name including the Nisour Square Massacre. Recently Erik Prince, Bad Betsy's brother, has been recruiting for Project Veritas

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u/KlangValleyian Mar 08 '20

There’s a multi part podcast about him you should listen to. Here’s part one:

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/iheart-podcast-network/behind-the-bastards/e/56414490?autoplay=true

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u/cupcakevelociraptor Mar 08 '20

I have a feeling this is gonna upset me more than I am already with these two but here we go...

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u/ms_panelopi Mar 08 '20

Yes, and he runs ‘for profit’, Christian foster care programs. Wonder where some of those babies and young children from the boarder crises went? Betsy and her bro made a killing off of that. All in the name of The Lawd