Im very happy about that. So where are we going to go . Lets talk quickly about the lincoln conspiracy. We all know john wilkes booths store, how he ended abraham agains life and his presidency and this is the first secret plot to kill Abraham Lincoln is at the start of the presidency, before it begins. Why does it happen . When abraham i can is going to raise his right hand and become the sixteenth president of the United States the only way he can do that is take a train from his home in springfield and go to washington dc. He goes to washington dc and the only way to get from illinois to dc is on any train, you have to go through baltimore and baltimore was a slave state. The plot of the book is very simple. A secret society is planning to kill Abraham Lincoln, and ambition when he comes to baltimore in and his friend is presidency before it begins. That is the setup but what i think is interesting is the action, just where it begins. We open on this train and it is speeding through
Before. And as always with trump, there was the use of race as a prop yesterday. The only black people visible in the rose garden being judge barretts adopted children. And while they were, indeed, off limits, remember that the president famously denigrated their birth country, haiti, as a, quote, shole just two years ago. But also remember that by the time he is done or reelected, donald trump may not have installed not one, not two, but three Supreme Court justices in one term. Leaving a generational mark on the nations highest bench. And now we have a date. Senate judiciary chair Lindsey Graham announcing just hours after barretts nomination that her nomination hearings will begin on october 12th. Hours ago, joe biden addressed the stakes of it all. This is about your health care. This is about whether or not the aca will exist. This is about whether or not preexisting conditions will be continued to be covered. This is about whether or not a woman can be charged more for the same p