I used to think the Republican Party had at least some self-preservation instinct but no, they're going to ride this shitty orange train until it derails and they get wiped out in November.

Ah well.

LYRICS:

He had a premonition. He said: that something's wrong! And by his own admission... He knew it all along

LYRICS:

The captain's crazy but he doesn't let them know it. He'll take us with Him if we don't do something soon to slow it!

LYRICS:

So we went to the captain And told him to turn around! But He laughs in our faces. Says we are mistaken!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vDVZNOFMEM
Despite Repeated Warnings
Sir Paul McCartney

Maybe the absence is caused by past involvement?

Or in other words, maybe they thought: “he can't shut his fucking flab, so we need him to not know details about things we want to actually work as planned”