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The prolonged agony of Joe Biden is causing rifts in the political universe similar to what a black hole does—a vortex sucking everything into a void beyond which lie quantum unknowns. This episode ponders a number of those unknowns as best we can.
First off, we note the sudden media/Democratic Party discovery of “Project 2025,” and enumerate a few items we wish would be included, like year-round McRibs at McDonalds, and an end to the designated hitter rule in the National League. Then John provides an on-scene account of this week’s National Conservatism conference where he was a speaker, and where he took note for the very first time of the “trad wives” movement, which really represents an implicit final rejection of immanentizing the eschaton.
From there we take up some listener requests for “explainers” about the peculiar 12th Amendment (since Trump may choose a running mate from Florida, causing confusion and uncertainty), and then the workings of the 25th Amendment, which we all agree is unlikely to work on President Biden unless he actually lapses into a coma or something. Trump can render this moot, however, if he picks Steve and Lucretia’s choices for Veep; John is going for a Florida veepnom.
Beneath the surface of all these issues is the knotty problem of KAH-mala. We ponder a few possibilities on this that so far we haven’t heard anyone else present.
Exit music this week, once against chosen for topicality: “Rift” from Phish, since some aspects of it sound like they almost could be thinking of Kamala:
Last night, in the moments my thoughts were adrift
And coasting a terrace, approaching a rift
Through which I could spy several glimpses beneath
Of the darkness the light from above could not reach
I spied wings of reason, herself taking flight
And upon yonder precipice saw her alight
And glared back at me one last look of dismay
As if she were the last one she thought I’d betray
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As it turned out , if he had gotten elected, Robert Taft died 6 months and 10 days after Inauguration Day 1953.
Bring back some light in the name of the Lord!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Mc1BV61JQ
BY the last breath of the four winds that blow
I’ll have revenge upon Fortunato
Smile in his face I’ll say “come let us go
I’ve a cask of Amontillado”
Sheltered inside from the cold of the snow
Follow me now to the vault down below
Drinking the wine as we laugh at the time
Which is passing incredibly slow
(What are these chains that are binding my arm?)
Part of you dies each passing day
(Say it’s a game and I’ll come to no harm)
You’ll feel your life slipping away
You who are rich and whose troubles are few
May come around to see my point of view
What price the Crown of a King on his throne
When you’re chained in the dark all alone
(Spare me my life only name your reward)
Part of you dies each brick I lay
(Bring back some light in the name of the Lord)
You’ll feel your mind slipping away
I spent a lot of time poring over the Doomsday Document, aka–Project 2025 from the always hyper dangerous Heritage cabal. I summed up its 4 Points (see p.3)(spread out over 900+ pages of ‘how to’ implementation details) with this handy acronym: F.A.D.S
F-–As in restoring the FAMILY
A—Dismantle the ADMINISTRATIVE State
D—DEFEND national sovereignty
S—SECURE God-given institutional Rights (you know, that Constitutional thing)
FADS…a 4 letter word to end the American Experiment as the Biden Left has warned us….OOooooHHhhh!
Run away!Run away!