If you want to feel extra depressed about this, listen to this interview from NPR with an advisor of Carson’s. He gets really mad when the interviewer points out that Carson alread said he shouldn’t take this kind of job. Then he tries to explain why he is qualified Anderson does a pretty good job of showing why he is…

That really is just a perfect example of the monumental levels of stupidity that pervade the US. The most ridiculous, blatantly self-contradictory statements can be made, even on national television, and tens of millions of people applaud. Rednecks on disability whine about government handouts. Boomers on Medicare…

I work closely with housing providers and they’ve been all freaking out about this. HUD is a slow moving beast to begin with and to think of the damage that Carson will do in office is fucking horrifying. In the past couple years, HUD has made some real efforts to end homelessness, provide affordable housing and give…

As a lawyer in the housing and mortgage lending industry, my only hope is that there is at least one Democrat with the testicular fortitude to ask Carson some extremely specific questions about what HUD does in his confirmation hearings.

he did spend part of his childhood in public housing

I’ve been basically waiting for him to bring this up. Alex Jones, Breitbart, and all the white “alt-right” supremacist websites have been saying this since like the day after the election. They were saying this when it wasn’t even fucking possible to have that data yet. The “three million illegal votes” thing has been…

Dog whistle years?

Charleston Police Department Chief of Detectives Lt. Steve Cooper: “

So I work in affordable housing that using both federal and state tax credit programs and where apartments are built often using HUD and other subsidized loans. It’s a win-win, as wealthy companies can go ahead and build affordable housing while in exchange getting a huge, yearly tax break for 15 years. The program…

There’s a livestream here: http://www.nytimes.com/live/trump-at-the-new-york-times-the-tweets/

Let’s pull in the economics argument. Unplanned costs have to come from somewhere. You think $.33 per American is no big deal (I think your estimate of how much things like this cost is really fucking low but OK, let’s go with it). I say that a hundred million dollars can do a hell of a lot of good to some other…

LOLOLOL Keep starbucks accountable!

I really feel like the worst thing a barista could do to anyone participating in this “statement” is fill their order just like they would any other customer.

or decaf

We call that Freedom Foam.

I agree so, so much. Just yesterday he demanded that Mike Flynn and Jared Kushner, (the kid who apparently sings him to sleep,) stay for his first ever Presidential level briefing. The intelligence advisors actually said no to Kushner, but yes to Flynn, apparently unaware or indifferent to the undisputed fact that,…

I used to work for a fed contractor and had a clearance and the thing that’s really bugging me about the top secret clearance request for his son-in-law is that just having the clearance doesn’t give you permission to access information in that clearance classification. Besides having the proper clearance, you also…

I’m starting to think that Obama will have to stay on past January.

I’m going to keep saying this. Trump is the greatest threat to US Intel there has ever been. He already has access to classified briefings and there is zero guarantee that he hasn’t already been spraying that shit like a broken hydrant across the phone and to his sons etc. This man likely, won’t even know when he’s…

Meanwhile, a “Stalinesque purge”: Donald Trump transition team in disarray after key adviser ‘purged’