Daughter of Godcast, Episode 066, Impossible. More fun than a flu should be, thanks to belated Wim Hof restart. The USA’s 2016 democracy simulation inspires a silly video, another precursor to this podcast.

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Hi and welcome to Daughter of Godcast, Episode 066, as in that romantic American Highway, Route 66 and two thirds of the mark of the beast.

Last week in episode 065 we took a 48 hour hiatus from DOG and attempted the ridiculous,  slamming together a music video for Dede and Josh’s new song, Strange Lullaby.  Even with production help from James Weston Schaberg and a couple hours of child care by Sharon Jones, this was a far fetched objective, pretty much impossible.

To maintain peak spiritual fitness, I recommend attempting the impossible at least 3 times a week. Arthur C Clarke even wrote a law about this, “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

Discovering limits is not like discovering a rogue asteroid or discovering how to substitute bananas for eggs when baking vegan cornbread. Limits are transient, fickle. Next time we venture into the impossible, they might not even be there. Even if they are, eventually, like tongues licking lollypops, desire dissolves limits. Limits are as candy to desire.

Once we know what we want, we’re gonna find a way to be, have or do that, even if generations come and go in the process. The point of venturing into the impossible is to figure out which delicious limits we want to lick.

We’re back in 2016 in this episode, that year so full of fun, not just for me but for the whole of the United States! Smack dab into the impossible, America plunged headlong. Donald Trump became president. Gak!

Yet here we are, a year later and pretty much business as usual. What did we learn? Replace a crafty, suave and charming black guy with smarmy, befuddled, white, whiner – the poles apart – and America is still pretty much the same. Endless war, Christmas shopping, binging on Netflix. Smack dab in the impossible… notice anything?

The president doesn’t matter. Who Americans elect has zero effect on the overall trajectory of their nation because the United States isn’t a democracy at the moment. Maybe hasn’t been for the better part of a century. A democracy consists of citizens… not consumers.

Not only has there NOT been a nuclear war but the economy is humming along. Which is all about consumption, so there you go.

That’s what’s excellent about Trumpy as president! This last year proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that American democracy doesn’t exist. If having a incompetent, groping, dope in the nation’s highest office was really a problem, the world would be way worse off. We’re pretty much where we were with Mr Fabulous, Obama, the drone wizard. So thank you Trump for plucking the mote from our eyes.

We could revisit the other unspeakable horrors of 2016 including Hillary Clinton and the DNC, when Bernie stopped the role call. He looked so tasty in his giant carrot costume, dangled before us during the democratic primaries. “Look at me! I’m smart, I’m a socialist!” 2016 was brilliant theater.

After the primaries I made a little video from the bathtub to try and get America to vote 3rd party. Because, America.

Because, America

Silly really,  pointless… but you know what’s cool? Along with my science fiction narrati