Yep. “I’m gonna oppose legislation I’m on record as supporting, unless you give me something I want, at the expense of something you want.”.

I guess for certain media outlets, like the intercept, russia today, and sometimes jacobin. It’s not that calling out the US is wrong, it’s always right, but they stump for dictatorships solely because of how they position themselves to the US, which is why they will defend people like Putin and Maduro, and in the…

Try the Eugene Bell Foundation - they’re US based but do excellent work helping NK deal with tuberculosis, especially drug-resistant forms.

I agree. Which is why we should probably stop the war games with SK on the peninsula and take up NK on their offer to give up their nuclear program.

Fun fact: in an effort to have them overlook the doping scandal, the Russian Federation first tried to bribe the IOC officials. When they flat out refused the bribe, the Russians the offered to make a generous “donation” to the next IOC charity ball, to which the IOC responded: “We don’t have balls.”

Small point but one that always sets my hair on fire. They did not “meddle”. They attacked. They won that round. We need to be clear about that. I feel like if we said that, instead of “meddle”, which sounds like grandma trying to set you up with the neighbors son for a date, maybe a few more idiots would wake up and…

She wouldn’t be competing if the IOC had balls.

Agreed. He’s a third generation totalitarian dictator. We shouldn’t be underestimating him, or dismissing him.

If you really want to go down a rabbit hole of insanity, read up about people who actually think North Korea is a paradise and that every single bit of information that comes out is fake. They are usually older, hardliner folks, but they are a hoot.

The establishment Republicans need to realize their party is dead. It is fully dead. Do not try to revive it. Vote with the Democrats in the next cycle to get us out of this racist, misogynist, embarrassing quagmire and then rename yourselves the Whigs or the Pennypinchers or the Moral Relativists or whatever and come…

Yea WTF is going on when Buzzfeed of all sites was the only initial one I saw to be like “oh hell no, she’s evil”? Very glad to see Jezebel didn’t disappoint.

look what a fucking 180 we did with Russia. Decades of Russia being a villian and in a few news cycles....its all gone

I think you may be conflating my being amused at the driver being checked right after he said something outrageous, with being amused in that he was checked for being an immigrant. I was amused at the former, not the latter. The when was humorous to me, not the why. Furthermore, if someone is bold enough to want to…

Unfortunately we can’t leave the president out of it because the goddamn Republicans in Congress are shoring him up. I wish they’d just ditched him when they got their tax cuts, but nope, apparently we’re going to split the government right down the middle, fantastic.

There are many aid groups that work with and in North Korea - I have friends who are involved in some programs. Unfortunately, sanctions do almost as much as the North Korean government to make things harder:

Yes, I want to vomit. What the fuck is wrong with us. KJU is getting ridiculously positive coverage for a low-stakes publicity stunt at the same time as he’s actively threatening the US with nukes. Why the fuck are we falling for this. It’s SO FUCKING STUPID.

Sorry...too much brevity on my part. First and foremost, I agree with the points you made. I totally softpedaled the horrible role KJU’s sister plays on a day-to-day basis. And I believe that we will see One Korea in our lifetime.

With you there. I think it will happen.

We should start with the understanding that assuming that Nefertiti was black is a fallacy, and is based purely on personal bias and desire. The fact is that it is nearly impossible to ascertain what color her skin was, but even if she was ‘black-skinned’, our perception of what that means would be foisted upon a…

North Korea generally competes in the Olympics (though not always the Winter Games), and fields a soccer team, too. They were in group play in the 2010 men’s World Cup, for example. There’s a difference between welcoming their athletes and welcoming and legitimizing members of that nation’s totalitarian leadership.