Name: Richard Devos
Age: was 92
Occupation: crooked old man
Last Seen: being poked with yokes
Bee-otched For: making shitloads of money with shit
Age: was 92
Occupation: crooked old man
Last Seen: being poked with yokes
Bee-otched For: making shitloads of money with shit
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The world has lost Richard Devos, the multi-billionaire co-founder of Amway. He died at his home in Ada Township earlier today at the age of 92.
That's 92 years too many.
Devos and his partner, Jay Van Andel started scAmway in 1959 after 10 years of selling nutritional supplements. Eventually, scAmway became a huge company by selling garbage through a pyramid scheme. Eventually, Devos became one of the ten wealthiest persons in America. At his death, he was worth over $5 billion.
Devos was also a huge supporter of severely-right-winged causes and his children followed in his footsteps like The Sorcerer's Apprentice. As we all know, Devos' daughter-in-law is Betsy Devos, a bitch who has never worked a single fucking day in her life and is now working hard to fuck up the public school system. Like the Devoses, Betsy's parents, Edgar and Elza Prince were a bunch of right-winged kooks.
Along with scAmway, Devos was also the owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team. Known for his strong stance against the LGBT community, Devos notoriously gave over $1.5 million of his own money to fight against pro-gay causes. However, he ended up giving $500,000 to the victims of the Pulse shooting massacre in 2016. Why? Two words: DONALD STERLING. When Sterling was fighting to keep the Los Angeles Clippers after a tape was discovered of him telling his mistress not to bring blacks to their games, he told NBA brass about Devos' homophobia. Being a Christian Reformist, Devos is one of those who believes that King James wrote The Bible and that God hates gays, women and virtually anybody who isn't a white man.
What's sad is how the media here in Grand Rapids is covering Devos' death. I just saw a top of the hour ID slide on WZZM-13 that had his face with the caption "Remembering Rich Devos". Personally, if I were 13, I'd replace it with an image of Devos rotting in hellfire with Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast" in the background. Apparently, WOOD-TV 8 devoted 16 minutes of their noon newscast to Devos and his legacy. One clip of him showed him saying "I told my children that this is our town and you are responsible for it". Of course, this is a man whose name is on several downtown buildings and his children also run several businesses like the Grand Rapids Griffins hockey team and Fox Motors (Devos, BTW is Dutch for "the fox"). The word "Devos" on a downtown Grand Rapids building is pretty akin to swastikas in Nazi Germany. Also, his son, Dick unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2006. He lost simply because, well, who wants somebody from scAmway as this state's governor? His grandson was also the creator of fArtPrize.
Richard Devos was anti-union and anti-worker. As somebody who once worked also for a Hollander who never gave his workers raises, I should know. I love it how people talk about how the Devoses helped shape Grand Rapids. In reality, they fucked it all up. As a matter of fact, I had a cousin who worked for one of Fox Motors' dealerships here in GR and he didn't last long because they treated him like horseshit. He now lives in the Detroit area, married with a young daughter with another on the way and now works in real estate. He always talked about how in GR, the Hollanders controlled the area and their attitude is that it's all about themselves and not others. And sadly, he's right.
I know, it's not nice to bash the dead, but when you're an asshole like Richard Devos, I would proudly dance and piss on his grave all at the same time. Just because your name's on a few buildings doesn't make you the greatest human being. It's people like the middle class - or what's left of it - that builds a great city, not assholes like Richard Devos.
So, where is he now? I think it has to do with Procter and Gamble's old "moon and stars" logo....
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The world has lost Richard Devos, the multi-billionaire co-founder of Amway. He died at his home in Ada Township earlier today at the age of 92.
That's 92 years too many.
Devos and his partner, Jay Van Andel started scAmway in 1959 after 10 years of selling nutritional supplements. Eventually, scAmway became a huge company by selling garbage through a pyramid scheme. Eventually, Devos became one of the ten wealthiest persons in America. At his death, he was worth over $5 billion.
Devos was also a huge supporter of severely-right-winged causes and his children followed in his footsteps like The Sorcerer's Apprentice. As we all know, Devos' daughter-in-law is Betsy Devos, a bitch who has never worked a single fucking day in her life and is now working hard to fuck up the public school system. Like the Devoses, Betsy's parents, Edgar and Elza Prince were a bunch of right-winged kooks.
Along with scAmway, Devos was also the owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team. Known for his strong stance against the LGBT community, Devos notoriously gave over $1.5 million of his own money to fight against pro-gay causes. However, he ended up giving $500,000 to the victims of the Pulse shooting massacre in 2016. Why? Two words: DONALD STERLING. When Sterling was fighting to keep the Los Angeles Clippers after a tape was discovered of him telling his mistress not to bring blacks to their games, he told NBA brass about Devos' homophobia. Being a Christian Reformist, Devos is one of those who believes that King James wrote The Bible and that God hates gays, women and virtually anybody who isn't a white man.
What's sad is how the media here in Grand Rapids is covering Devos' death. I just saw a top of the hour ID slide on WZZM-13 that had his face with the caption "Remembering Rich Devos". Personally, if I were 13, I'd replace it with an image of Devos rotting in hellfire with Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast" in the background. Apparently, WOOD-TV 8 devoted 16 minutes of their noon newscast to Devos and his legacy. One clip of him showed him saying "I told my children that this is our town and you are responsible for it". Of course, this is a man whose name is on several downtown buildings and his children also run several businesses like the Grand Rapids Griffins hockey team and Fox Motors (Devos, BTW is Dutch for "the fox"). The word "Devos" on a downtown Grand Rapids building is pretty akin to swastikas in Nazi Germany. Also, his son, Dick unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2006. He lost simply because, well, who wants somebody from scAmway as this state's governor? His grandson was also the creator of fArtPrize.
Richard Devos was anti-union and anti-worker. As somebody who once worked also for a Hollander who never gave his workers raises, I should know. I love it how people talk about how the Devoses helped shape Grand Rapids. In reality, they fucked it all up. As a matter of fact, I had a cousin who worked for one of Fox Motors' dealerships here in GR and he didn't last long because they treated him like horseshit. He now lives in the Detroit area, married with a young daughter with another on the way and now works in real estate. He always talked about how in GR, the Hollanders controlled the area and their attitude is that it's all about themselves and not others. And sadly, he's right.
I know, it's not nice to bash the dead, but when you're an asshole like Richard Devos, I would proudly dance and piss on his grave all at the same time. Just because your name's on a few buildings doesn't make you the greatest human being. It's people like the middle class - or what's left of it - that builds a great city, not assholes like Richard Devos.
So, where is he now? I think it has to do with Procter and Gamble's old "moon and stars" logo....
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