Various conservative pundits have been discussing the American political landscape after the sudden death of Antonin Scalia, one of the greatest thinkers ever to sit on the Supreme Court.

In light of the precarious philosophical balance of the court, let's examine ten of the possible implications of Scalia's death.

One, we're doomed.

Two, there is no God.

Three, there is a God, but he hates us and so forth, we're doomed.

Five, the fate of the nation now depends on the courage, integrity, and moral fiber of the Republicans in the Senate, and so, of course, six.

We're doomed.

Seven, Republican scientists are working round the clock on a new kind of viagra that works on men's backbones, and would thus give Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell the stiff spine who need to stand up to the enormous pressure that will be exerted on him by the news media and other corrupt left-wing interest groups so that he can veto.

Any radical left-wing gay slash black slash female slash knucklehead that Obama tries to stuff on the court.

Eight, and just kidding about the viagra we're doomed.

Nine, even if Obama behaves with his usual sneering disregard for the people's Congress, and even if McConnell does his usual spineless surrender to pressure, the nation may yet be saved by a populist deeply invested in the American tradition of liberty, independence, and constitutional law.

Ten, yeah, doomed.

DOOM, dOOM, dOOM, dOOM, dOOM, dOOM, dOOM, dOOM, dOOM.

Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Cleven, and this is the Andrew Clevenshire.

So anything happened while I was away, boys?

I'm sorry.

I turn my back on you people for ten minutes and you lose the Supreme Court. What the hell? This election is now beginning to seem like one of those, it's scripted by one of those novelists from the 60s, like Fletcher, Nebel, or Alan Dury.

They used to write these kind of Washington DC thrillers, in which the worst possible thing was about to happen, but it was going to happen through legal means, not through guys parachuting in or gun play or anything.

It would happen just through legal means, something awful would happen. Like Donald Trump was going to be elected president.

You would read this thing on the edge of your seat going, oh my, Donald Trump might be elected president.

And now it's like, yeah, I'll vote for him. I think those guys would just be out of business if they were working today.

All right, so let's assess. Let's assess what is, I mean, this is a huge deal, but the first thing we should just say about this is this is not a tragedy.

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