Don't even plan on that $600, America-with-COVID, and a near-Depression going on. UPDATED!

UPDATE:

Not sure what it all means yet, but I am $600 worth of pleased (not $2k worth of pleased) to report that this post did not age well. With no real explanations, (but trust me, it will almost certainly amount to "right decision, wrong reasons,") El Drumpfo did indeed sign the pared down, smaller stimulus bill Sunday evening. So I am somewhat pleased to say the rest of this post turns out mostly wrong.

For that $600 to hit your direct deposit account, it would require Trump and Moscow Mitch McConnell, two national leaders of the same party, to come together for the betterment of the country. In any other government this would be an absolute no-brainer, but this the rotting husk of what was once called the GOP, we're talking about. So, no, you can't even have $600, or a moratorium on evictions, or anything like that. Trump is at war with McConnell, with impossible demands that even Moscow Mitch himself couldn't confer on *resident Trump, no matter HOW badly he might wish he could (i.e. - make my "lost the election" problem go away). McConnell can't do it. So therefore, Trump must go to war with all of him. Moscow Mitch is the public enemy of President F**face, and that is what matters now, not whether you can eat next month, or have a roof.

Any 2nd round may not even be coming until February or March now, or maybe never if the GOP holds the Senate. As it stands, nothing will be coming down the pipeline at all, until Mitch finds some way to placate Trump. A recent analysis I read suggests that El Drumpfo really does believe there is some "one weird trick" The SCOTUS, or the GOP Senate, or some swing state Governor or Secretary of State, or legislature or the military could try to pull to eliminate his (as it was humorously put): "nagging problem of having lost the election." McConnell can't fix it. Pence can't do it. The military can't do it. The judiciary couldn't AND wouldn't do it. GOP Governors and Secretaries of State in swing states couldn't do it, and wouldn't! The state legislatures couldn't do it. There is essentially nothing any of these people can do without risking serious jail time, and they're not risking jail time for Trump, and even if they did, it still likely wouldn't work. But El Drumpfo's mind doesn't operate on that plane of reality. "They're not trying hard enough! They're holding out on him! Surely there is *SOMETHING* they can do!" Actually there really isn't, so how is McConnell gonna get Trump on board to sign something? I'm not sure I see it happening.