And, now, for something completely different! Although the foregoing opening is from Monty Python, the video accompanying this description is not a comedy, but, nonetheless, seeks to draw the audience's attention to some important issues just as the Monty Python sketches tried to do -- sometimes quite successfully and sometimes less successfully, and which of those two, foregoing possibilities might apply to the accompanying play will be up to you to decide. The production costs for the play were about $37.00 dollars. Notwithstanding such a budget, the play has been years in the making (a lifetime really) and required considerable time to put together by a team of one. The video gives expression to a complete play concerning the issue of sovereignty. The play runs for 3 hours and 20 minutes, with the first and third acts lasting about an hour each, while the second act comes in at about an hour and a quarter. There are twelve characters, plus a moderator, who are featured in the play. Although I did not have access to human actors to play the different roles, I did attempt -- notwithstanding an extremely limited production budget and a cranky director -- to creatively improvise as best I could. As the beginning of the video points out, the visual aspect of the video is quite static (moreover, just as the video indicates, I am working on adding a more dynamic dimension to the visual aspect of things for a later edition of the play), but, hopefully, this current defect will be compensated for by the quality of the issues that will be discussed during the course of the play ... issues that are relevant to what is transpiring in the world today. I suppose – given its limitations -- one might consider the current offering a far off-Broadway production. Try to keep in mind that the setting for the play is just a vehicle for transporting ideas to an audience. That setting does not necessarily have to be realistic in order to have a potential for some degree of effectiveness. If you like, you can download the video and engage it at your leisure. Alternatively, you can just attend to the play via my channel on Odysee. In either case, just close your eyes, sit back, relax with your favorite form of libation and/or snack nearby, and listen to the tale that is being spun during the play. However, don’t forget to critically reflect on the ideas that will be cast before you during the course of the play. I don't think there are many plays that are on Odysee, so, in that sense, the current presentation will be something that is, indeed, completely different. Despite such differences, I hope you will enjoy the production ... as well as, hopefully, cut me some slack for trying to do a lot with very little money and limited resources.

This is a video which compares Trump and Biden across 32 issues which, when critically reflected upon, seem to indicate that there are no essential differences between the two individuals when considered in terms of the metric of sovereignty. They each speak, in their own way, about the ideas of "freedom", "rights", "democracy", "justice", and so on, but, when one examines the things that they do, or don't do, then, whatever differences exist between the two individuals tend to be superficial in character – that is differences based on style, taste, and personality rather than being a function of essential, substantive, guiding principles. As indigenous people might say, the two aforementioned men seem to speak with forked tongues. In other words, they both are committed to speaking about political and economic ideologies rather than being committed to the principles of republicanism – the kind of principles to which Presidents (as well as members of Congress and the Judiciary) should be committed and the sorts of principles that are being guaranteed in Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution. Nothing in the Constitution will work unless it is engaged through the qualities at the heart of republicanism, which is a moral philosophy that arose during the Enlightenment, and, consequently, emerged at a time that was not all that long before the transition took place which transformed people, states, and colonies into a country. Republicanism is not a political ideology but, rather, it gives expression to a way of treating people as human beings who matter – both individually and collectively -- rather than serving as a set of political techniques for treating people – both individually and collectively -- as political pawns who are to be manipulated into serving the vested interests of the overlords who are seeking to control money, resources, property, and the live of people. Furthermore, the apparent absence of the principles of republicanism in the actions and lives of Trump and Biden go a long way to explaining why both of their presidencies (along with virtually any other president one might wish to cite) were, and are, disasters for "We the People."