republican party won t let a democratic president have ambassadors any more and the peaceful transfer of power doesn t happen because we have hand-to-hand combat and violence and death at our national capitol if a republican candidate lose ds and we have given up on the 21st century challenge of knowing how to mail things to large islands. we can t do that anymore, so we are no longer trying. other than that, trust democracies to get it done-ish. that said, there is some good news that president biden will be able to bear to the g20 summit when he leaves tomorrow. and this is legitimate good news. this is something that got some headlines today. i think it deserves a little more attention than it s getting because something like this has not happened before and it ought to happen a lot more and it potentially could make the difference in terms of millions of lives. and this is that good news.