The weekly ranking of the most influential people over 80 whose health is vital to the Democratic Party's agenda, the Surge, welcome back! The Surges royal we represent Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate news blogger), who is currently on vacation or in prison. We forgot to send you the newsletter earlier than usual because we were supposed to fill in for Jim on Thursday night, when we entered what medical professionals call a "garlic knot coma". It was delicious.Political Land had some interesting news. The most important was about something that didn't happen (a Supreme Court Retirement), while the second-most featured something that will probably happen (Donald Trump going into jail). Much of the rest focused on something that did happen (the Riot at the Capitol), but it wasn't because of something else (Chinese or Democratic ballot fraud and voter machine reprogramming). There was also a huge story about Kyrsten Silena's thoughts that, as usual, managed to be provocative while not getting anyone closer to the answer to the question of Kyrsten sinema's beliefs. Finally, it was proved that Joe Biden was not the one who killed everyone.Let's begin with the Supreme Court justice who is, at this writing, still a Supreme Court judge and not soon-to-be ex-Supreme Court justice.
