Here's a tip for everybody about tomorrow in case you miss the media announcements:
YES, IT IS A DRILL.
Wednesday, they are supposed to be testing the nationwide emergency alert system, including the cellular system in addition to the TV and radio alerts. I think I get those things on my cellphone (a flip with no texting), because I do get the tornado warnings. I'll be interested to see what the content of the message is.
I thought I'd check out Jonah's weekly L. A. Times column even before it gets posted on the Dispatch site (probably tomorrow?). It's particularly good this week, explaining and framing the speakership situation (Gaetz and McCarthy) in context for an audience of mainstream normie newspaper readers, things that maybe no other pundit is telling them. Some good, pithy lines. Maybe I'll comment on it later.
It's kind of paywalled but I have a workaround. You can just wait a day or two and look on the Dispatch site.
My favorite bit, if you can't wait: "Labeling this rump is difficult. They’d say they’re the 'conservative base' of the party, but the word 'conservative' is contestable given their radical bent and their ideological and fiscal inconstancy depending on whether Donald Trump is president."
Here's a tip for everybody about tomorrow in case you miss the media announcements:
YES, IT IS A DRILL.
Wednesday, they are supposed to be testing the nationwide emergency alert system, including the cellular system in addition to the TV and radio alerts. I think I get those things on my cellphone (a flip with no texting), because I do get the tornado warnings. I'll be interested to see what the content of the message is.
I thought I'd check out Jonah's weekly L. A. Times column even before it gets posted on the Dispatch site (probably tomorrow?). It's particularly good this week, explaining and framing the speakership situation (Gaetz and McCarthy) in context for an audience of mainstream normie newspaper readers, things that maybe no other pundit is telling them. Some good, pithy lines. Maybe I'll comment on it later.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-10-02/matt-gaetz-kevin-mccarthy-congress-house-speaker
It's kind of paywalled but I have a workaround. You can just wait a day or two and look on the Dispatch site.
My favorite bit, if you can't wait: "Labeling this rump is difficult. They’d say they’re the 'conservative base' of the party, but the word 'conservative' is contestable given their radical bent and their ideological and fiscal inconstancy depending on whether Donald Trump is president."