28 September—Following up on the 15 September post, King Ned’s reign to be prolonged, it now looks like Connecticut’s present and future king’s absolute power will be extended for five more months, through February of next year, even though there’s no COVID-19 emergency or novel coronavirus panic to justify the questionable abuse of authority or even rationalize it.

Not since the United States declared independence from Great Britain and King George III has our country experienced a ruler on the throne as long as King Ned Lamont, Connecticut’s former governor. Connecticut, officially and erroneously called the Constitution State since 1959, has become a pseudo-quasi-constitutional monarchy.

Yesterday, King Ned’s reign was extended for the sixth time by his loyal partisan vassals in the Connecticut House of Representatives. Today, King Ned’s loyal partisan satraps in the state Senate are certain to follow suit. God damn the king! And God save his subjects!

And what about the next time? And the next time after that? When you think about it, King Ned’s satraps and vassals may actually be ceding all that power to their liege lord not because they’re loyal to him, but rather because they don’t want the responsibility—and political fallout—of making a lot of the decisions that he’ll be making. And they don’t really give a damn about their constituents anyway.

So what the hell are we paying them for?