Wow, they seem to have missed a lot. For one thing, there's a reason DC doesn't have politics-themed bars. We have the real thing: places where the real work o

Wow, they seem to have missed a lot. For one thing, there's a reason DC doesn't have politics-themed bars. We have the real thing: places where the real work of politics gets done. You can discuss actual politics there, not the kind of shallow Internet yammering you see basically everywhere else. More importantly, DC residents don't see politics as a game. It's not an election we hold every four years and then all go back to being friends, like football fans in a sports bar. We are extremely aware that elections have consequences that help or harm actual people. And even more so over on U St, where an awful lot of people are acutely aware that they will be deeply harmed by the most recent election. DC is a city where literally millions of people are about to be out of work because of politics. The actual government employees will eventually get paid, but there are far more who work on contracts. And this is just a preview of a permanent set of layoffs. I don't think this was malicious, just bad market research. But I think practically anybody could have told them it was a bad idea.