The year is 2323. In the 267th Congress (the 50th Congress of the New Union of American Republics), the neo-Republican Party dutifully chooses and then executes its nominee for Speaker of the House. This ritual has been held each October for a 100 years to mark the beginning of a new session.

it sounds like we have 200 years of interregnum ahead of us? where’s hari seldon when you need a little psychohistory?

ONLY ONE?

It’s very optimistic to imagine that the United States will survive past 2050.

An optimistic prediction @jkenny.bsky.social

Realising how long it’s been since utopian fiction was in vogue

Scoop Jackson's "The Lottery"

what terry pratchett could have done with that sentence landing us on discworld... and then skew the storyline of the last 20-40 years in his way

executed in the traditional style, thrown into the lava pit at Mar a Lago, the final resting place of our last emporer, Barron Assault-Rifle Trump III

Truly, the future our children deserve.