Bit Idea: A sports bar but for C-SPAN
Bit Idea: A sports bar but for C-SPAN
Started off when I imagined wonks asking one another about the SOTU like it was Monday Night Football. Now I’m imagining that instead of being themed after local teams, they’re themed around semi-famous senators. The Minnesota expat community in your random medium sized town all go to Hubert’s at lunch to watch bills get passed. True Idaho Patriots watch book signings during dinner at the Crapo Chap House. Papa Strom’s at Myrtle Beach is getting sued yet again for violating the Civil Rights Act. You can down a Zell Miller Light at any given watering hole in the northern outskirts of Atlanta.
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pretty sure that exists in dc somewhere. maybe not that, but at least a bar with politics and dc insider shit on all the tvs. there are stock traders' bars in nyc that have tickers running on all the walls and cnbc/bloomberg news on the flatscreens. cursed places, to be sure
Getting hammered off $25 beers while the cnbc meme stocks guy yells at me to buy more shartcoin on the tv, one of the lower levels of hell.
are they good beers?
They're an overly experimental craft beer that tastes like cranberry juice, made by a local DC distillery owned by the failsons of three senators.
JUST MAKE A FUCKIGN SCOTCH ALE YOU STUPID FUCKS I'M TIRED OF IPAS
I think I accidentally got dragged to one of those in DC once. I remember walking into a bar there with a million TVs and all of them had news and politics shit on 'em. Their wings were deeply shitty, that's basically all I remember.
And yes, there are District establishments laying out the welcome mat in time for Mueller’s first appearance. Shaw’s Tavern (520 Florida Ave NW) is opening at 8 a.m. All of the restaurant’s televisions will be playing the Mueller hearing with full sound, the Facebook event promises, and there’ll be breakfast and lunch specials available. Shaw’s Tavern will start slinging alcoholic beverages at 11 a.m., which is the earliest that the venue can legally do so.
During its “Mueller Time Watch Party,” Duffy’s Irish Pub (1016 H Street NE) is offering eight flat screen televisions hooked up to a stadium sound system to watch the notoriously tight-lipped Mueller speak to Congress, alongside a full menu and drink specials. The times for the event are not yet finalized on the Facebook event page, but Duffy’s says that “creative attire encouraged.” Considering that Mueller isn’t exactly known for donning inventive clothes, it will be interesting to see how attendees interpret that prompt.
Union Pub (201 Massachusetts Ave NE), which offered patrons free drinks whenever President Donald Trump tweeted during former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony in 2017, is getting in on the Mueller action, too. Starting at 9 a.m., the earliest it can open according to its operating license, the bar will have full bar and kitchen service available. Union Pub promises a slew of drink specials alongside its broadcasting of the Mueller hearing with full sound on all TVs: $6 “Moscow Muellers,” $4 select rye whiskeys, $13 Budweiser/Bud Light buckets, and more.