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Indeed.
Not my cup o' tea, if anyone cares to read the article, here ya go: http://theslot.jezebel.com/the-u-s-department-of-education-misspells-w-e-b-du-bo-1792275923?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=The_Slot_facebook
LongNamesAreStillCoolRight
>Jezebel. I'll skip.
mericanidiocracy
WhiteRiceWhiteMeat
Aren't they trying to get rid of the department of education? After that she won't have a job.
kingscottish
Yeah
carrstone01
Schadenfreude is the worst kind of joy
inum
the good thing about Trump's government: we finally get to see how stupid the people who used to rule in the shadows really are
Birdman2112
Gezzz
dweezy23
Is this ironic?
RiverBear
Maybe she wanted to head that department because she wanted to work with people who were used to 3rd grade English levels.
amop
http://imgur.com/1h4C2Pw
gtmiller
Just like Dan Quail.
Bandlith
From personal experience getting orders from schools. Not all educators can spell or understand possesives(" 's").
IMakeStuff100
Think she can teach Donny to read? Probably not.
eromitlab
Donny's 70. Dude's not learning anything new. Including how to handle being President.
bloatedplutocrat
Shit like this is what makes me understand the birther movement. Believing in easily disproved theories is just good 'ol fashion fun.
eroso
For real: Bannon tricked Trump to sign a paper that made him a member of the security counsil - it was a surprise for Trump,he didnt read it
w0ntoan
tl;dr; noclickbait; "WEB DeBois" and "our deepest apologizes"
PreciousPotato
Whenever you think it can't get any worse and dumber...
newce
who cares if you have money right?
BrownskinOriental
Extremely ironic considering they'll be in charge of making us better, but then again we are 21th in Science.
BrownskinOriental
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/0ct2k3/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-american-horrible-story
PercivalLongbottom
"Twenty Firth"
frosty147
"I'm not good at math." - Lois Lerner
FlyingTigerRose
Oh, my fucking God. The idiocracy is here.
TheMeatWhisperer
Number 1: We've got this guy Not Sure. Number 2: He's got a higher IQ than ANY MAN ALIVE. and Number 3: He's going to fix EVERYTHING.
PsychopompGecko
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
inaplasticcup
Just today I heard someone in a podcast say "I watched the Super Bowl for the adverts". :/
FlyingTigerRose
Eddie fan, with that username?
inaplasticcup
covered in beeeeeeeeeeees!
TheMeatWhisperer
Shit. I know shit's bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings.
Turrican73
That's the Joker´s bride right theere
Grubenwolf
To think that these are the people who are in charge of our country.
inconspicuousmailbox
majorbojangles
Let's put their souls on ice!!
nlaw1013
Jezebel makes it sound like the Department of Education was incompetent. Am I alone in thinking it was intentional to speak out against her?
rlloucks
was it really her or just some social media intern working in that department?
frogbog
I assume whoever ok'd it was someone she / trump hired
HappyJello
The sad part is that I think a social media intern would've had be better at spelling that DeVos
TestPattern
I like how the internet's best defense is that she sucks at hiring and management, which is her job.
AceOfShovels
...is that not a good enough argument?
Wastyvez
While you're probably right, the head of department is responsible for hiring her senior staff, which includes a "press secretary". The 1)
Wastyvez
AS of the Office of Communications and Outreach of the DoED is responsible for managing social media, and ultimately from keeping fuckups 2)
Wastyvez
like this from happening. That position is currently still vacant. Draw your own conclusions from that. 3)
BubbaRunski
Either way, it shows an embarrassing lack of readiness and suggests they are either incompetent, understaffed, or both.
Cuntard
Or, it shows that everyone occasionally makes a simple typo
BubbaRunski
That's why you have someone whose job it is to proofread those tweets. Either they don't have that staffer or that staffer is incompetent.
TypicallyKyle
A simple typo in the Department of Education, where they vet their statements to the outside world?
jmulderr
I had the same thought, but I can't imagine they already fired and filled whatever social media person they have over there. But they 1/2
jmulderr
used to be able to English, so who knows? 2/2
jgbaby
Look, I think she was a bad appointment but misspellings in a tweet are indicative of the problem. It's her policies and lack of expertise.
happyishturtle
It's just ironic
BugEyedLemur
If you're the SOE you should probably take the time to make sure your shit is spelled correctly. I don't think that's too much to expect.
IreallyMGur
There were also mispelled words on that list of terrorist attacks that 'weren't covered' almost as if it were quickly compiled half-assedly
IreallyMGur
There were also mispelled words on that list of terrorist attacks that 'weren't covered' almost as if it were quickly compiled half-assedly
noforeplay
You mean the murder of a Japanese tourist by an unknown attacker WASN'T masterminded by ISIS?
VultureTX
except it was done by the outgoing staff, not the new SoE.
jesusfuckingchristwhatnameisnttaken4
Just lie, and if people catch you making shit up, just lie again.
VultureTX
care to bet on it sunshine? The twitter acct was under the control a long time DoE staffer according to multiple sources.
PaintedSlate
That's useful for derailing the meaningless criticism. Source?
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VultureTX
A spokesperson for the Education Department said Sunday the misspellings had been made by a long-time department employee. 1/
Croso
Having worked in the schools system, I don't know why so many people think she's less qualified than most of the people in education...
ThatAssholeOverThere
She completely destroyed Michigan's education system. She'll probably ruin the country's system (more than it already is)
Croso
I don't disagree, but the education system is already destroyed.
Sebastan
If, so if you can choose who to put in charge, would you choose those dumb dumb?
waddyaknowjoe
Alternative spelling
CorgiCircus
JustABonelessAlien
Alternative spelling. You mean like color vs colour?
AdventureRoomba
*autistic screeching*
MrCannibal
The top comment is always gold
TheFilmLife
Bruh, almost half of his name is spelled out for you...
xtraa
…not like they spell in the biased mainstream media
mithiwithi
Lamestream* media, or are they still doing that one?
ministryofpeace
US English?
moredownvotesplease
Just alternative, get with the programme
huntleybaker
this will be tpo comment
huntleybaker
SHIT. sorry...i meant to say "this will be top commnt"
huntleybaker
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT. THIS IS THE FAULT OF THE LIBERALS
ThePartestHard
You're not sorry, you meant to spell it alternatively
drnathaniel
Politics not aside, my god are these swamp people stupid and incompetent.
JackCrash
I live in DC, shockingly few of us have anything to do with this shit
YouCapturedMe
Sorry, but they call themselves Americans.
iuploadbearpics
Yes liberals are, they're the most ignorant swamp types alive..
hakdragon
You leave the Baker's out of this.
Kmoose1983
Only if they didn't drain the swamp, they could have all drowned by now...
gbombuh
Well they did say they wanted to drain the swamp
jandrem
"Drain the Swamp, Oh, OH! No, I meant "Drown the Swamp." It'll be the best swamp. The greatest. Ask anyone."
jandrem
"Drain the Swamp, Oh, OH! No, I meant "Drown the Swamp." It'll be the best swamp. The greatest. Ask anyone."
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HillaryClintonsLamp
Hi fellow Louisianian!
absolutezero182
How's it feel knowing that Trump wants to drain those swamp areas you live by?
KiyaSeraphia
That'd mean getting rid of the mosquitos, and as a bloodsucker himself I doubt he has it in him.
TheHolyPotato0
umberskies
Holy fuck that was beautiful
lordofthedice
DickMercenary
Fuck it. Let's release alligators in D.C. if they attack a politician the gator gets to replace them.
TheNLK
Best idea i've ever heard. I'd definitely support chompy for president.
pandahbeah
At least we can trust the Alligator's tears to be more genuine than the politicians'...
Bassaker
Not sure if switching swam people (the washington kind, no offense) with lizard people will change anything to the better.
DickMercenary
Probably not. But it would be satisfying to see them mauled.
id12368
Yeah, DeVos is gonna ruin out stellar public education system! She must be stopped so we can keep doing what we've been doing for 50 years!
WouldYouKindlyKill
Our* and you need a comma in that last sentence.
JenniferAnuston
Proving the point
mikeatike
So killing off public education is the answer?
CigaretteMan
Oops, my house needs new plumbing. Better bulldoze the entire structure and start again.
TinyRocktopus
And I'm going to hire the guy from McDonald's to rebuild it
CigaretteMan
The irony is that I'd trust the average fast food worker to do DeVos's job a lot more than I would trust her. They might not have the (1)
CigaretteMan
skills I'd like to see, but at least they *probably* wouldn't be openly malicious towards the organization. (2)
bloatedplutocrat
Improving? Is that bad. We could be better but given what happened to MI after she implemented her plans in the our current path is better.
bloatedplutocrat
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/02/u-s-students-improving-slowly-in-math-and-science-but-still-lagging-internationally/
PreciousPotato
I think one of the problems is that it takes time to see the effects. If one president makes changes, and people don't see improvements /1
PreciousPotato
after only 2 or 3 years, the next will undo it all again, just like with Obamacare.
PaintedSlate
It's worse than that. Taking money out of schools doesn't immediately cause education outcomes to suffer. But it looks good now..
summermaple
Here's another source to verify: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dept-of-education-misspells-iconic-educators-name-in-tweet/
HowComeThisIsAFeature
Thank you, i found the link he provided was more satire simply by its use use of "shit" so many times.
eroso
Latter tweet: "Post updated – our deepest apologizes for the earlier typo. — US Dept of Education (@usedgov) February 12, 2017"
DonnaNobleInTheLibrary
That's not a misspelling. The guy who's the lowest (deepest) in the hierarchy apologizes for their bosses mistake. :P
LordBaneoftheSith
That's not even a misspelling that's non-native English speaking right there.
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StrongIndependentBlackHairedWoman
Um. The tweet should say "Our deepest apologies", not "apologizes".
eroso
Yes. That was my point. One can say he apologizes/apologises. But only "These apologies" is correct.
TheLurkerThatOnceLurkedOnImgur
The error literally stands out like a sore thumb.
eroso
I'd disagree it being clear instantly. As I explained in the example, z version is correct as a verb, but not as noun.