As the delta variant rages across the country, South Korea is re-implementing severe quarantine requirements, including limiting the number of people who can gather in public or private setting to five, the Associated Press reports.

Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said Thursday that the move, called a “standstill,” was required because the delta variant has spread through the country and caused overcrowding at hospitals, stretching the available resources.  “During this period of standstill, the government will reinforce the stability of our medical response capabilities,” said Kim. “We ask our people to respond to these efforts by actively getting vaccinated.”

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency reported 7,622 new cases on Thursday, close to the daily record of 7,850 set a day earlier.  By comparison, the United States has recorded more than 125,000 new cases for each of the last two days.  South Korea has recorded about 4,500 COVID fatalities since the start of the pandemic; the United States just recorded its 800,000 COVID death.

Asked by Fox bro (and the short friend who acts obnoxious to get attention) Greg Gutfeld! if he hangs out with The Squad, y’know, “behind the scenes,” Congressman (and the bud who *totally* knows how to talk the cops) Madison Cawthorn (Q-NC) said no… but it was totally his call, dude.

As many as 19 different tornadoes formed in a severe weather event that stretched from New Mexico to Michigan, with winds exceeding 100 m.p.h. blowing roofs off buildings and tumbling tractor trailers on highways, the Washington Post reports.

Eight states recorded winds in excess of 90 m.p.h. as a derecho–a high-velocity wind storm–spread from Colorado to Iowa.  From New Mexico to Michigan, more than 36 million were or currently still are under high wind warnings.

“The Central U.S. has never seen a December storm like this,” tweeted Bill Karins, a meteorologist for MSNBC. “Multi-hazard, life-threatening weather today.”

“… These people know, whether it’s Adam Schiff, whether it’s Liz Cheney, whether it’s Kinzinger, they all know that Donald Trump didn’t orchestrate this whole thing,” Stunt wife and little else Lara Trump states emphatically.  “He didn’t tell people to go to the Capitol and break in.  He said let’s peacefully, patriotically make our voices heard, but he tried to warn them.  So many people tried to warn Nancy Pelosi, so why didn’t they have the adequate security there?”

So… I added the clip of Trump urging the crowd to march to the Capitol and “not be cheering too much” for the people who are voting to uphold the Constitution.

“Mitch McConnell has given away the Unfrastructure Bill and will soon be giving away the Build Back Worse Bill, which will change the very fabric of our society. This was all made possible by the two-month extension he gave the Democrats, the separation of the two Bills, and, most importantly, his lack of courage in playing the Debt Ceiling Card. He has grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory! How this guy can stay as Leader is beyond comprehension – this is coming not only from me, but from virtually everyone in the Republican Party. He is a disaster and should be replaced as ‘Leader’ ASAP!” says the Orange God Emperor in another stupid statement.

Apparently upset that the school district voted to remove a Native American from a local high school, an unnamed man assaulted a school board member in Glastonbury, Connecticut, punching him in the face and knocking him to the ground, the Hartford Courant reports.

Glastonbury High School retired its Tomahawk mascot after the 2020 school year, but some members of the community want the school board to revisit their decision, and the school board was holding a special meeting to get public comment on the possibility.

After wrapping the public session to the meeting, the board recessed for a short break before starting the private board session.  As the crowd dispersed, one of the members of the public reportedly blocked Ray McFall in the aisle of the school auditorium.

The monthly payments to families for children under the age of 17–payments that have lifted 3.6 million American children out of poverty–will expire at the end of the year, making the $16 billion in payments sent out last week the final distribution unless Congress takes action, Reuters reports.

Sixty-one million children qualified for the monthly payments of $300 per child under age 6 and $250 per child age 6-17.  The program was put in place by the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better program.  Unlike programs of the previous administration which favored political supporters of the office holder, states that favored Donald Trump in the 2020 election got the highest average payments.

“The lives of tens of millions of children across the country have improved because families have received tax relief when they need it most,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.

This is like watching a third grade teacher trying and failing to get the kid playing the snowman in the Christmas pageant to remember his lines while the whole audience is watching.

The federal agency responsible for managing and overseeing the Trump Organization’s lease for the brand’s hotel at the federally-owned Old Post Office Building in Washington, DC didn’t conduct a single review or investigation into the ethical or legal consequences of the President of the United States running a profit-making operation on federal grounds, NBC News reports in an exclusive.

A report for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure found the General Services Administration also did not track foreign payments to the property.  Donald Trump claimed that he would remit to the Treasury all revenue generated from foreigners at his properties; there was no way to confirm the numbers claimed.  The GSA also did not investigate the sources of the loans Trump obtained to secure the renovation of the site, which Trump unloaded last month for a reported $375 million. 

After going on about Elon Musk’s “mean tweet” calling Elizabeth Warren “Senator Karen,” a Fox panel declared that Hillary Clinton will run for president again–although there’s absolutely no iota of evidence that she’s planning on doing it and she’s said she’s retired from politics.

“And so, y’know, between [Elizabeth Warren] being in the news, and Hillary Clinton being in the news this week, it’s like old times,” Dana Perino declared.

What do you get when you combine a political troll for governor, a piece of legislation that allows parents to sue public schools for something they don’t understand, and a group of frothed-up parents looking to make some quick bucks?  You get Florida’s new Stop WOKE Act, that will open up the floodgates for frivolous lawsuits brought by parents of teachers who don’t understand or like topics in their child’s curriculum.

As Politico reports, DeSantis introduced the Stop WOKE Act at the Villages–perhaps the scene of the most election fraud cases in the last election–saying “Nobody wants this crap,” without noting if the “crap” he was referring to was the legislation passed by the Republican led state legislature or Critical Race Theory, which isn’t actually taught in elementary or high schools.

“This is an elite-driven phenomenon being driven by bureaucratic elites, elites in universities and elites in corporate America. And they’re trying to shove it down the throats of the American people. You’re not doing that in the state of Florida,” the Harvard and Yale alumnus said.  Again, I note that CRT not taught in Florida elementary or high schools. 

The Capitol Police now have authority to call in assistance from the DC National Guard or other federal law enforcement agencies if faced with a situation like on January 6th, when senior administration officials refuse to authorize the release of National Guard troops to protect the Capitol, the Associated Press reports.

As hundreds of domestic terrorist attacked Congress in the Capitol on January 6th, Donald Trump, the then-president, refused to deploy federal law enforcement agents and National Guard troops to assist the Capitol Police and DC Metropolitan Police who were under siege from the rioters.  One officer died in the immediate aftermath of the attack, and at least four took their own lives in the weeks after.

The bill, which passed both chambers of Congress on voice votes, allows the chief of the Capitol Police to request assistance in certain situations without having to get the approval of the force’s governing board or leaders in Congress.

In a bold move that could drive QAnon believers into the Dem column for the 2022 Midterms, President Joe Biden has nominated Caroline Kennedy, the older sister of QAnon leader-in-hiding John F Kennedy Jr, to be United States Ambassador to Australia, Bloomberg’s Jennifer Epstein reports. JFK Jr, who hasn’t shown up in Dallas yet after six-plus weeks of vigil by the Q sub-cult surrounding Michael Protzkoff aka “Negative 48” was not available for comment on the nomination, as he has been dead for 22 years, a condition that no amount of prayer will change.

In related news, Biden also named former US Olympic silver medalist figure skater Michelle Kwan to be ambassador to Belize, a small Central American country that probably doesn’t have any ice rinks. Belize, which like Canada and Australia is a monarchy ruled by British Queen Elizabeth II, was where a UK nobleman’s daughter-in-law recently fatally shot a cop in the head while giving him a massage on a boat dock. She was high on coke too. Anyway, congrats to Caroline and Michelle!

As we have told @FoxNews numerous times, casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up longstanding antisemitic tropes about Jewish power + contributes to the normalization of antisemitism. This needs to be removed. pic.twitter.com/gyWTrSvNtR

— ADL (@ADL) December 15, 2021

CNN’s Oliver D’Arcy confirms Fox News has deleted an anti-Soros cartoon from Instagram after being bullied into submission by the vicious, woke, cancel mob Anti-Defamation League.

Former Houston police captain Anthony Aguirre, arrested exactly one year ago over a bizarre October 19th, 2020 incident in which he held an HVAC repairman at gunpoint, accusing him of driving a truck full of fraudulent ballots around, was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on charges of aggravated assault, KHOU reports. Aguirre, who on the day after the incident received a wire transfer of $211,400 for his “services” from a group called Liberty Center for God and Country, had surveilled the unnamed victim for days prior to the incident, but it is unclear why the repairman had aroused their suspicions of being part of some master plot to steal the election from Trump (It’s also unclear why Aguirre is being indicted by a grand jury for the very same charges he was arrested and booked on a year ago, or why it took nearly two months for police to arrest him).

Spandex-onesie wearing Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan on Wednesday confirmed he was the unnamed lawmaker whom on the night of January 5th sent a text message to former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reading: “On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all – in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence. ‘No legislative act,’ wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, ‘contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.’ The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: ‘That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.’ 226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916).”

During debate in the House chamber on Tuesday, California Dem Congressman Adam Schiff presented on screen only the section of the text message preceding the dash, something the fanboys are now going apeshit over, claiming Schiff “doctored it” by omitting the rest for brevity.

Evangelical former reality TV star and dad to 19 children (including a recently convicted pedophile and another suspected child abuser) Jim Bob Duggar came in third in Tuesday’s Arkansas state Senate District 7 Republican primary with 456 votes, or 15%, of the total, the Associated Press reports. The top two of the four candidates (Colby Fulfer, 46% and Steve Unger, 36%) who ran will face each other in a January 11th primary runoff that National Zero won’t be reporting on, so this is likely the last you’ll read about the 2021-2022 Arkansas state Senate District 7 special election.

So now would be the time to mention that the 4th place candidate (188 votes, or 6%) is named Edge Nowlin. All four were running to fill the seat left empty by former state Senator Lance Eads, who resigned to take a job in the private sector. He’s probably enjoying his holidays, not worrying about having his son facing decades in federal prison for possession of child pornography.

NBC News reports Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is pushing the chamber’s Build Back Better vote until next year and will instead bring up voting rights legislation ahead of the Christmas break. This could possibly be for fucking real as it comes hours after Manchin sat with centrist Dem senators to work on a filibuster carveout for a major election overhaul bill.

1. We must remove Adam Schiff from Congress.

It’s not enough to take him off committees.

He has heinously abused power & LIED repeatedly to the American people to weaponize the government to attack his political enemies.

He’s a Communists.

All Communists must be expelled.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 15, 2021

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights as well as violating the rights of a 14-year-old boy in a different case from 2017, the Associated Press reports.

Chauvin received a 22½ year sentence for the murder of Floyd, which means he will be eligible for parole in 15 years.  The federal charges–for kneeling on Floyd after he was handcuffed and for failing to seek medical care for Floyd–could add as much as 300 months to his sentence, which can be run consecutively, after his murder sentence.

As part of the plea deal, Chauvin also acknowledged violating the rights of a 14-year-old boy in a 2017 incident where he held the boy by the throat, hit him in the head with a flashlight and held his knee on the boy’s neck and upper back while he was prone, handcuffed and not resisting.