Back in May 2005, I was about 12, living in Houston.

Saturday May 7, the Rockets got fucking pantsed by the Mavs in Game 7 by 40 points. It was a frustrating and poorly officiated series, but we just didn’t show up that last game.

The next day was Mother’s Day. I was at the florist with my dad and my brother picking…

So when you say, “We need to be so much better than this,” you’re saying that we need to be so much better at hiding this stuff?

CNN is a garbage dump. Brazile is an embarrassing hack. Clinton was never not going to win the primary, and yet she just couldn’t help but insist on playing dirty. I’m voting for her…

Y’all never fucking learn.

Ah, a humbled Warriors fan. Let’s see how long this lasts.

As a Texans fan, will my team always be butt?

Always Pulisic truthers.

Fallon sucks. Free the Roots.

This is truly some drivel, and coming from a punkass white man like Brooks, his leaning on the historical idealized (whitewashed) form of American history is exactly why people are protesting. He references “All men are created equal” without noting the irony of the slavemasters who wrote our founding documents. What…

The Clinton Foundation acts as a charitable consultancy. The Clinton Health Access Initiative, they save lives. CHAI is an entirely separate entity with its own board. Nobody is criticizing CHAI or the work they do. CF is a slush fund.

They still received an A- from Charity Watch, so I’m not sure I’m walking back my larger point, which is that Charity Watch is bunk. I believe the Red Cross does more on the ground initiatives than does CF, which largely acts as a consultancy and lets CHAI handle their actual programs.

And yet they received an A- from Charity Watch. It’s almost as if Charity Watch doesn’t count for much at all.

Even so, the Red Cross probably does more on the ground work directly than does the Clinton Foundation, which is mostly a charitable consultancy. Everyone has seized on the Red Cross thing, I suppose because…

Fair. Enough. I would still argue that in terms of on the ground work, the Red Cross does far more than the Clinton Foundation, even if it is also poorly run. The Clinton Foundation is largely a consultancy offering funding for other organizations that do actual on the ground charity work.

Even so, the larger point I…

Please explain then, what is the rating supposed to signify? The charity rating cited includes the Clinton Health Access Initiative, which is a separate entity. Charity Watch is part of a foundation, which is itself a Clinton Foundation donor. Even if the Red Cross point was dumb (it is, I guess, but whatever) that’s…

Charity Watch and Fact Check are both part of the Annenberg Foundation, which is a donor to the Clinton Foundation. How’s that fact treating you? Do you guys really have to twist and turn this much? The Clintons are better than Trump. I’m going to vote for Hillary. Do I have to be super stoked about her inability to…

So just because she didn’t have single handed/unilateral control over arms sales you’re comfortable with the cozy relationship between foreign entities and CF/State Dept? The State Department has major oversight in this area. She was involved in the decision and she was a respected voice in the room, and she was also…

Except it’s not. The Clinton Foundation does very little on the ground charity work. CHAI does do on the ground work, but it’s an entirely separate entity. CF acts mostly as a consultancy for other charities. If you look at their outlay, it’s mostly for salaries, benefits, etc., and then they pocket a fair amount of…

Except that foreign governments that donated to the foundation saw an increase in arms sales after donating. For that matter, even the small bureaucratic corruption of trying to help Jeffrey Schwarzman with a visa issue becomes a lot grosser when you realize Schwarzman compared Obama to Hitler for going after Wall St.

This is unspeakably dumb. Access to the secretary of state through cash payment is fucking corruption. In fact, if you’ll recall, after Citizens United, there was a big push by Democrats suggesting that even the appearance of corruption is corruption. This is way more than appearances.

Can you give some reasonable examples beyond Foundation press releases about the good the Clinton Foundation is doing globally? It’s been well-publicized that their work in Haiti has been an unmitigated disaster. Their AIDS work that they want credit for is actually done by CHAI, a separate organization with a…

That’s not even accurate. The Clinton Health Access Initiative operates as a separate charity. They’re the ones doing most of the actual on the ground AIDS work and they split off from CF in 2010.

For that matter, to answer a complex set of concerns with a random blanket “A” grade from some website as if it’s a silver…