This is not the strangest loop, because it’s familiar. We were here two years ago, almost to the day. The jokes around it are sad because they’re based on long-pending systemic failures. To confuse it with any honest, principled choice is to miss its intended impacts and effects.

An Acer flat screen computer monitor streaming a YouTube video of a PBS NewsHour broadcast Wednesday, January 4th 2023 of the day's House of Representatives vote to choose a speaker at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

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