Hence our surprise that he was asked to begin with, let alone that he accepted. But it gave me a flicker of hope that perhaps Kelly, Mattis, and McMaster were actually exerting some significant control over matters as grave as nuclear conflict...

Victor Cha being jettisoned is the most fucking terrifying thing to happen with regards to US-NK relations to date IMHO. Mr. BallOfStress works in this field and knows Cha and we were incredibly relieved (though frankly surprised) that he had agreed to take the position, but he’s a sane, rational actor with an…

They exist. They’ve been carefully established and vetted since 11/9/2016. We won’t go back.

While I wish that were true, the way it actually works is that Congress members (and the President) are all automatically eligible for security clearances, due to the fact that they are duly elected representatives of “the people” and it is often a necessary component of their jobs. Hence, why Donald Trump, who by no…

Takoma Park is for obscenely wealthy, overwhelmingly white, hippie-liberals who want to pretend they are having an ‘authentic’ experience IMHO. I don’t know anyone who lives there who isn’t in a multi-million dollar house...

Hello and welcome to the neighborhood! I’m between Bethesda and Silver Spring and I cannot for the life of me imagine why anyone would push NoVa, which just seems so.....soul-less....to this native Marylander. It’s all high-rises or planned communities with the same mass-market chains. My brother lives down there and…

No it won’t. Republicans - specifically white women - fucking KNEW what was going on! The Trump tape was already front page news. This changes nothing and will only hurt Democrats.

Hillary did. She accurately named them as the “deplorables” that they are she was crucified for it. Dems can’t win anyhow and yet we seem determined to hamstring ourselves just the same, on ‘principle’ as though that’s more important than SCOTUS, ensuring health insurance, not getting into a nuclear war, etc.

THANK YOU!

This bisexual socialist doesn’t care who wannabee-Senator Child Molester blames, as long as his ass is never seated in the Senate. I still have an ounce of faith in McConnell (Southern girl here, counting on him to do the right thing).

To be fair, I like so very, very selective Hank Jr.

Exactly. And even he used to be a Democrat, which is freaking bonkers to me.

That didn’t use the be the case....Garth Brooks was on the front lines talking about domestic violence in the 90s and Reba and some other artist (I can’t remember) were singing about AIDS pretty early on. The moral cowardice can be traced to 9/11 and deciding that being xenophobic, jingoistic assholes would sell more…

I want that on a t-shirt.

I’m really, REALLY glad to hear that! I’m a recent convert, so to me there was no option to not be 100% in for Yom Kippur this year. It was essential to me, personally. But any other time, I would 100% have been willing to bet that g-d would have understood and approved....I am also very involved in Jews for Justice,…

And here I thought Jezebel was an echo chamber...

Again, not at all what I said, but ok........

No, that is not at all what I said, I was just offering the actual reason that myself and many of my friends weren’t there. We tried to bring this up months ago and were met with the same dismissive attitude that you are demonstrating now....I was merely pointing out that many of the liberals, Jews for Justice…

Many of us wanted to be there in solidarity with our black sisters, but they scheduled the march for Yom Kippur, which is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. And there are an overwhelming number of liberal Jews in the DC area who weren’t able to participate because of the timing. It’s akin to holding the Women’s…

WHO DO YOU KNOW?! And can you please introduce me to them?!