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Nov 23, 2020
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On a scale of unpredictability, with 1 being “eating too many carbs on Thanksgiving” and 10 being “the turkey gets up off the carving board, channels Ethel Merman, and belts out a spot-on a capella rendition of ‘Everything’s Coming Up Roses’”:

* Joe Biden taps his longtime associate Tony Blinken to fill the Secretary of State job Joe Biden himself long eyed -- and selects Jake Sullivan as national security adviser and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as ambassador to the United Nations.

UNPREDICTABILITY SCORE: 0

* Team Biden and the Dominant Media keep framing the prospects of and need for a massive pandemic relief measure in the lame duck session or in the new year without much apparent understanding of the actual could-not-be-clearer point of view and pressure points of Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr. (As in, for instance, this New York Times story.)

UNPREDICTABILITY SCORE: 11

On Sunday, Trump spent part of the morning retweeting supportive posts by Liz Harrington, an RNC spokeswoman, among others. “I’m not tired of winning yet,” she wrote in April 2019, a post the president resurfaced Sunday.

“And neither am I!” he wrote. He soon went golfing. (Washington Post)

UNPREDICTABILITY SCORE: 0

* Despite criticism and widespread legal and counting setbacks, Team Trump keeps filing new cases, calling for recounts, and observing the heck out of the process.

UNPREDICTABILITY SCORE: 4

* Sidney Powell’s claims and conduct demonstrate that Donald Trump has a heretofore unknown line that can actually be crossed.

UNPREDICTABILITY SCORE: 12

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Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom
Late Friday evening, @JenSiebelNewsom and I learned that 3 of our children had been exposed to an officer from the California Highway Patrol who had tested positive for COVID-19.
6:03 AM ∙ Nov 23, 2020
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UNPREDICTABILITY SCORE: 2

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