It's

Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Some drink champagne.

Some die of birds.

The way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best.

Expect the worst. It's Wednesday, oh, for the best and spend the worst.

Oh, for the bad.

It's Wednesday, June 24th, and welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Shiva.

I am your primary mourner, commentary editor John Podhoritz, with me, with mirrors covered sitting on low chairs. We have senior editor

Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. Good to be here on sackcloth Wednesday. Yes, we have

contributing editor and host of the Breaking History podcast, Eli Lake. Hi, Eli. Hi, John, to invert the line from the

Big Lebowski. Um, the, uh, your, your republic is over. The Bums won.

Anyway. And contributing editor Jonathan Shanzer Puba at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Hi, Jonathan.

May you find comfort among the mourners of New York and Jerusalem.

Thank you very much.

Now, we are referring here to the process of what is known as Shiva.

That is the morning period, seven-day as Shiva, that is the morning period,

seven-day morning period that follows the funeral of someone who has passed. And I'm not

quite sure who has passed. We know who lost last and we know that two sitting congressmen in New York, Adriano Espayat, and Dan Goldman

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