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We're gonna get a bunch more of those all-caps tweets where Trump tells people to start watching OANN instead of Fox

It probably doesn't matter, because lol nothing matters, but conservative media is pretty out of step with the White House on this, going hog wild with DEEP STATE POST OFFICE CONSPIRACY while the official White House response is basically, "Steve who?"

Very normal

I don't really like Branaugh as Poirot compared to David Suchet or Albert Finney from the 70s Orient Express. I'll see this, though. It's one of the better Poirot books that I've read. I've probably read seven or eight of them.

Oh for fuck's sake

Seems bad!

We'll see where this leads...

Well, so yeah, that was one issue, but my understanding is that these statements from state governments are saying that they just can't implement the plan in any form. Because this is technically not an extension of the existing program, this is supposed to be like some sort of emergency fund from FEMA, they have to build something new from the ground up rather than just changing the variable from 600 to 300 in the existing UI system. And states absolutely do not have the capability of doing that on short notice.

The extra three-hundo for UI benefits is complete vaporware

christ

Might be time to take the ol' cognition test again

lol

From what I've read today, it's honestly hard to tell if any of these are actually actionable in any way. 3 of the 4 are merely "memorandum" and not executive orders. The one actual executive order is the eviction one, and apparently the actual text of it just kinda says something like, "Hey, somebody should probably look into doing something about all of these evictions."

The current projections for this year's hurricane season are that there'll be more storms than there are assigned names and that they'll start going into the greek alphabet

Was just driving back from somewhere, and CBS radio just aired Trump's entire press conference from Bedminster because they'd announced that it was going to be about the COVID relief executive orders. It was like 20 minutes of his usual campaign rally schtick before he said anything about what he was signing. You could hear the country club dipshits laughing in the background. It's incredible how effortlessly they completely play the media like a fiddle time and again.

It seems like there's plenty of evidence now that they really are just trying to straight-up rig the mail-in vote. The one thing I still don't get is that tweet from some time last week where he was like, "Uh... it turns out that mail-in voting in Florida is fine, actually! Definitely vote for me by mail if you're in Florida!" Is this just one of those things where different people in his orbit think that either they can get away with rigging the mail-in vote or that it's gonna backfire by suppressing elderly Republican votes, and he's just changing his mind day-to-day depending on the last person he's talked to?

Normal country

I wouldn't read anything into that other than it's the same kinda thing as when he has to make a statement ahead of a hurricane hitting and he'll actually sort of half-brag about the strength of the hurricane, like, "It's a category 5, I'm not sure anyone's ever even heard of a category this high, actually." When he's just kind of rambling and doesn't really know what he's talking about one of his go-to moves is to just talk about how big some numbers are, and it doesn't really matter if they're numbers that indicate something good.

Two Republicans from Montana signed on to a letter asking for the Post Office to reverse the mail collection changes. That might be the best course of action here--trying to get rural Republicans to sign on to opposing this . Keep collecting stories of people in rural areas not getting their meds on time. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-both-parties-want-postal-service-undo-changes-are-slowing-n1236086

Wilbur Ross confirmed developing his own team FPS

So 82-year old Wilbur Ross is going to going to determine which tech properties are affected by this? Yeah, that'll go well.