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The extra three-hundo for UI benefits is complete vaporware

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Might be time to take the ol' cognition test again

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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.

Some specific numbers on that Tencent $ Maybe Trump just unknowingly mobilized an army of previously apolitical gen-Z Valorant players against him

It sounded like Mnuchin had talked Trump out of this as of a couple of days ago, so I wonder who Trump's talked to since then. Honestly, just brazenly taking a bribe from Facebook probably makes the most sense out of anything.

lol, Trump still doesn't know the names of all the Republican senators. Imagine devoting 4+ years of your life to defending this asshole and he doesn't even know who you are.

Yeah, I was gonna say, I think local news is at least as big a role as overtly conservative media, and maybe bigger. My parents vote Democrat and absolutely will not watch Fox News, but will watch the local news regularly, and I absolutely cannot convince them that there are way fewer shootings in Chicago now then there were 20 or 30 years ago. I'll show them the stats and then they'll pivot to something like, "Well.... I don't remember shootings like THIS," where "THIS" is whatever the worst or most brazen shooting that had been in the news a couple of days beforehand.

uhhhhhhh....

So if they push out an unproven vaccine to the general public and reputable doctors tell people not to take it yet, will anti-vaxxers suddenly pivot to saying, "actually, people should get 12 does of the vaccine for 12 times the immunity!"?

And my understand is that they just bought a used Chinese-built machine after originally saying they were going to design their own. Is that right?

"AI is taking over for humanity soon" I say as I take my hands off the steering wheel with my Tesla autopilot on and it immediately steers me into a semi-truck