That last part. Yeah, his math doesn’t add up. I get folks hate Obama but don’t ignore the facts just to fit the meme.

Thank God this change happened. I’m more than elated Trump got elected, by white, brown, and black men and women. Hopefully we can return to a civil society where rule of law and self sufficiency are the order of the day.

The article is *about* government agencies under Trump. The VA serves around 6.5 million people a year. Saying it “sucks” is uselessly reductive - it certainly has massive problems, but to pretend an agency that serves that many people who are that vulnerable can’t get worse under an uncaring or incompetent…

It’s not about disagreement. It’s about the difference between right and wrong. Voting for Trump is a vote for racism, sexism, and general bigotry. There’s no other interpretation. No one’s voting for him for his economic policy or his foreign policy, because those things don’t exist.

wait... are you insinuating that “clean coal” isn’t green and isn’t a real thing?

The thought literally makes me want to have a tantrum. This is the state of environmental science in America: held in lower regard than religious superstition.

One of my professors told me that when Bush II came to office the NSF was told that it could no longer fund grants that mentioned the word “evolution”. Of course there was also the ban on any research using embryonic stem cells. I find the former incredibly hard to believe as someone interested in evolutionary…

Because they voted for a moron,wannabe fascist in an american presidential election. You bet they wouldn’t be seeing my kids either.

I’m a federal natural resources technician. We do a lot of climate science in my agency as well. I am fucking petrified, but I can’t admit it out loud at work.

I assert that a vote for Trump was a vote for “burn it down” (government programs in general, not the VA specifically).

These are very personal decisions and you are in NO position to judge someone unless you know the full circumstances. My own mother voted for Trump - the only one in the family who did - and although I am disappointed, to say the least, by her choice, we handled it by my telling her we were simply never going to…

I can disagree on Gore/Buse or Bush/Kerry or Obama/McCain or Obama/Romney and still consider them family that I love and respect. Those are philosophical differences, and while I don’t agree with the ideology they uphold, I’d defend to the death their right to believe it.

I work for the EPA, and the mood has been pretty grim. The idea of a climate change denier as our boss is hard to swallow, to say the least...

I know people (including my ex-wife) who work for the Fed EPA, and after getting a look at the guy being rumored to be the new Boss (Myron Ebell...climate change denier), they are absolutely despondent.

This isn’t regular times. The GOP strategy is going to follow what they’ve done in Wisconsin, Kansas and other states. They are going to pass massive tax cuts which will blow up the deficit, and then use the deficit as a justification for austerity and slashing the federal payroll.

One of my friends works for a state natural history survey, and he says people are terrified. Three of their top four highest funded projects are focused on carbon sequestration and green energy. I guess like 40% of the staff would be laid off if the federal government cut the funding to their biggest project.

It’s going to be privatization. The GOP Congress wants to privatize Medicare first thing next year, and the VA is going to go the same way. But be clear the VA is going to be on the privatized prison model, not the single-payer health care model. It’s going to be horrible services provided on the cheap with a gloss of…

I used to be a federal employee, I’m married to one, and know lots. And one thing I can tell you is that there are a lot of conservative federal employees and I have no doubts that many voted for Trump. They’re a sizable minority, but they’re out there. And in my experience, they are going to be stunned when Trump and…

My wife also works for the VA. It’s a disorganized mess that is in such rat’s nest that things aren’t going to be resolved with a swipe of the hand. It’s trillions of dollars of infrastructure for basic things like computers.

It’s not an “ass-kicking” that’s needed. It’s an investment. One that big-talkers on the Right…

It’s not a Republican administration, it’s a Trump administration. Nothing that has come out since the election has given any indication that this will be anything approaching normal. I don’t think there will be even the bare minimum level of competence.