You know the one, John Cleese walks into the shop to complain about the parrot he'd just been sold was dead and he wants his money back.  The shopkeeper, Michael Palin, insists it isn't.

Hilarity ensues.

The Dead Parrot sketch is one of the high points of Python's particular blend of absurdism and social commentary that transcends its time. 

Everywhere I look I see Michael Palins doing their best to convince us of the most absurd lies to hide the rank incompetence at every level of our society's power structure.

And it doesn't matter what issue we're discussing: masks, vaccines, election fraud, racism, Joe Biden's health, climate change, the sovereign bond markets, lockdowns.

No matter the issue or the question Biden's Press Secretary, the uniquely incompetent Jenn Psaki, will be happy to 'circle back to that later' but never doing so hoping to just get through the next news cycle without a revolt.