ADP projects private payrolls beat expectations, growing by 534,000 in November, per CNBC.

Florida Trump fan Joan Halstead, 72, of The Villages, was arrested Monday for casting two ballots in an unspecified election, Villages-News.com reports. Halstead, described as a retired teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania, moved to the sprawling retirement community in April 2020, registered as a Republican to vote in Florida in June 2020, and briefly filed to run for a seat on the Sumter County School Board before withdrawing her candidacy in October. “Her social media activity suggests she is a supporter of former President Donald Trump” says the Villages-News article, which is probably some sort of journalistic understatement.

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows writes in his new book that Former President Trump knowingly lied to the Presidential debate commission when he was aware that he was required “to test negative for the virus within seventy two hours of the start time” and “Nothing was going to stop [Trump] from going out there”, per a copy of the book obtained by the Guardian. Trump tested positive for the virus on Sept 26th, 2020, fully three days before the debate, and six days before he announced he had been infected and was admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, though he did also receive a false negative in the intervening days, Meadows writes.

Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, the bald guy whose previous career tracks included for a scam “patent your invention” service that got shut down by the FTC, allegedly lobbied the Trump Administration in its final weeks to secure presidential pardons for clients of the dark money group FreedomWorks, the Daily Beast reports. Whitaker never registered as a lobbyist and FreedomWorks never specified clemency as a scope in its lobbying disclosure forms, yet Whitaker’s name comes up as an advocate in official announcements for the pardons of money launderer Daniela Gozes-Wagner and bank fraudster Stephen Odzer. Ethics experts quoted by the Beast are unsure if there were any clear breaches of law by Whitaker in these efforts given that statutes governing pardon lobbying are untested in court, but added that other lobbyists seeking pardons from the Trump Administration played it safe and fully disclosed their status.

“In order for our democratic process to work, Americans must have confidence that our elections are free, fair, and transparent.”https://t.co/MFfJr12LwA

— GOP (@GOP) December 1, 2021

Conservative members of Congress in both the House and Senate are plotting to shut down the federal government on Friday over Biden’s vaccine mandate, Politico Playbook reports.

“I’m sure we would all like to simplify the process for resolving the CR, but I can’t facilitate that without addressing the vaccine mandates. Given that federal courts across the country have raised serious issues with these mandates, it’s not unreasonable for my Democratic colleagues to delay enforcement of the mandates for at least the length of the continuing resolution” Utah Senator Mike Lee told Playbook, confirming he’s pro-Coronavirus and anti-America.

On her Non-Apology Tour 2021, Congresswoman (and girl who believes she would have been prom queen if she only stayed in school) Lauren Boebert (Q-Colo.) took to the Laura Ingraham show to paint a new scenario about her repeated hate-filled rhetoric toward other members of Congress.

“It was like it was drafted even before the phone call had took [sic] place,” Boebert said about Democratic Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s response to her non-apology for insulting Muslims.  “Omar and the Left don’t want an apology.  They want public humiliation.  They want to cancel me, but that’s not going to happen.  Laura, I want to say this to you and the millions of Americans who watch this show:  I will not be canceled.”

The city of Tucson, Arizona fired police officer Ryan Remington after Remington shot a 61-year-old man confined to a wheelchair nine times when the man brandished a knife, stating Remington had violated the police department use-of-force guidelines, the Associated Press reports.

Saying he was “deeply disturbed and troubled” after viewing the bodycam footage of Remington’s actions, Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus said, “His use of deadly force in this incident is a clear violation of department policy and directly contradicts multiple aspects of our use of force and training.”

On a security detail at a local Walmart, Remington was informed by a store employee that Richard Lee Richards was trying to steal a toolbox.  After Richards rolled out of the store, Remington and the store employee confronted the man and asked to see a receipt.

Shocking, I know, but Fox News contributor (and guy at the bar who talks three times louder than anyone else) Dan Bongino got into a shouting match with Geraldo Rivera on Hannity’s show about the Biden Administration’s travel ban from certain African countries that have high coronavirus rates, including those with the omicron strain.

“Geraldo, I wouldn’t [put in a ban].  It’s not working,” Bongino overanimates.  “Listen, have you thought about the externalities here?  The travel restrictions clearly have not worked.  Can we acknowledge that?”

Now flashback to an episode of the Hannity Show from last March, when Bongino defended Trump’s travel ban that Hannity was vocally supporting… in a debate with the very same Geraldo Rivera:

A concerned citizen shared a video with me of a @VBSO Deputy at the Capitol on January 6. I have been a target to some of these extremist, so I let our Sheriff @kenstolle know hoping he would help. Did Stolle do anything? Yes! He fired my husband this morning. #detoxVB pic.twitter.com/vxg038y2JU

— Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler (@DelegateFowler) November 30, 2021

Per the Virginian-Pilot, Convirs-Fowler and Republican Virginia Beach Sheriff Ken Stolle went back and forth for a while on Tuesday, with Stolle denying that Sgt. W.D. Fowler had been fired, explaining that, as an appointee, W.D. Fowler would not be staying on as Stolle begins his fourth four-year term in office on January 1st. That reasoning is technically valid, as political appointees are at-will employees who can dropped at any time from executive offices in the United States but Stolle did not actually say why he declined to pick up Fowler for another term, or why Fowler was placed on paid administrative leave for the remainder of the term. Stolle also offered contradictory information about W.D. Fowler’s job performance over his 15 year career. Stolle deleted at least one tweet of the exchange, in which Convirs-Fowler specified she believes the unnamed deputy is a member of the 3%ers, a far-right MAGA militia known for its law-enforcement heavy membership.

A review going back about the last 18 months of Stolle’s personal Twitter feed reveals it is fairly light on political imagery, aside from conspicuous placement of the Back the Blue flag in a number of his pics and an endorsement of cheating weasel former GOP Congressman Scott Taylor. Taylor lost his 2020 comeback bid after first losing his seat in 2018 to Dem Elaine Luria following a scandal in which three local Republican operatives were charged in a scheme to place a third party candidate on the ballot using fake petition signatures. Besides those indiscretions, Stolle is clearly pro-vax and does not appear to be another David Clarke, Christopher Schmaling, or Joe Arpaio.

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Two hours after Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (Q-Colo.) posted a video in which she whined that Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar would not accept her non-apology for a false, racist story, Omar received the following message on her Congressional office’s voicemail:

We see you, you [indecipherable] nigger bitch.  We know what you’re up to.  We know what you’re doing to our country.  Don’t worry, there are plenty who [?] would love the opportunity to take you off the face of this fucking Earth.  Come get me, you fucking Muslim piece of shit, you jihadist.  We know what you are.  You’re a fucking traitor.  You will not live much longer, bitch.  I can almost guarantee you that.  We the people are rising up and you will be tried before a military tribunal, and you will be found guilty.

A state representative who led protests against the state’s efforts to control coronavirus in Maine resigned his seat in the legislature, saying he must go take care of the family farm now that his wife is dead from COVID, Maine public news service Maine Public reports.

Chris Johansen sent a letter of resignation on November 19th to Democratic House Speaker Ryan Fecteau stating he resigned effective immediately.  Johansen said he was able to serve in the state house due to his wife’s dedication to take care of the farm.  His wife, Cindy, who also fought against mask and vaccine mandates, died in mid-August of COVID, and now, Johansen must take care of the farm himself.  Both Johansen and his wife contracted COVID in July.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recently met with staff from the House January 6th Select committee, CNN reports, confirming the scope of the investigation goes beyond events directly related to the attack on the Capitol to disrupt the Congressional joint session to count the electoral votes and into looking at Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election as a whole.

America is back baby! And only 11 days after the supply chain crisis hit the supply of Fast and Furious movie collection discs at the Fulton Street Target in Brooklyn, New York. USA! USA! USA!

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) reportedly stomped out of a meeting House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy arranged with Republican South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace after Marge insulted Mace for voting for the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

While Donald Trump is shilling his first post-presidential book, a picture book, for $74.99 (or $229.99 for a signed copy), he and his allies are planning to publish the tome through a new publishing house, Winning Team Publishing, run by a campaign aide and his son, Junior.

According to Politico, Trump has not yet signed an expected eight-figure deal with established publishers, even though Barack and Michelle Obama signed a joint $65 million deal with Penguin and George W. Bush got a $7 million deal with Crown Publishing.  Trump’s opponent in the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton, signed an $8 million deal with Simon & Schuster, while her husband got $21 million from Knopf for his memoir.

The Big Five publishers–Penguin/Random House, Hachette, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, and MacMillan–have shied away from courting Trump even as some of them contracted with members of Trump’s administration like Jared Kushner and Kellyanne Conway. 

CNN has suspended host Chris Cuomo from the air indefinitely after his actions during his brother’s, former Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s, involvement in a sexual harassment scandal that forced him to resign. Chris Cuomo reportedly offered to help his brother formulate a legal and public relations response to the accusations.

According to a CNN spokesperson, “The New York Attorney General’s office released transcripts and exhibits Monday that shed new light on Chris Cuomo’s involvement in his brother’s defense. The documents, which we were not privy to before their public release, raise serious questions.”

“When Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother’s staff, he broke our rules and we acknowledged that publicly,” the spokesperson continued. “But we also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put family first and job second.”

“However, these documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother’s efforts than we previously knew,” the spokesperson added. “As a result, we have suspended Chris indefinitely, pending further evaluation.”

Anyone entering the United States from a foreign country, including returning Americans, will be required to have a negative coronavirus test one day prior to their journey back into the US, the Biden Administration will announce Thursday in the face of the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, the Washington Post reports.

The test will be required regardless of the traveler’s vaccination status or country of origin.  Administration officials are also considering a provision to require travelers arriving from foreign countries to be retested three to five days after arrival.

Another provision under consideration would require travelers, regardless of if they test positive or negative, to self-quarantine up to seven days after arrival in the US, with people who violate the quarantine subject to fines.  It would mark the first time the federal government would assess penalties to individuals violating quarantine requirements. 

A federal judge asked if members of the Sackler family used bankruptcy laws to protect family assets as part of the settlement with the government over their company’s role in the explosion of opioid epidemic, Reuters reports.

Senior Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York, a Clinton appointee, specifically sought information about $10 billion the Sacklers removed from Purdue Pharma between 2008 and 2018.  The Sacklers left the Purdue board of directors in 2018, and the company declared bankruptcy in 2019.

As part of the settlement, the Sackler family agreed to pay $3.5 billion into a fund for victims; the balance of the fund’s $8.5 billion would come from the company, which had an earlier settlement in a similar case in 2007 when it settled a lawsuit accusing it of mislabeling OxyContin and other products to downplay the addictiveness of the drugs.  Around half a million Americans have died of opioid overdoses since 1999.

The CEO of the Daystar Television Network and prominent anti-vax MAGAchurch pastor Marcus Lamb has passed away from what his son Jonathan described as a “spiritual attack from enemies” – presumably meaning that Communists, Jews, gays, rap music fans, feminists, et cetera prayed to Moloch to infect Lamb with COVID-19 – his wife announced on a Tuesday morning broadcast, Religion News Service reports. Lamb reportedly had been sick for weeks but did not make one of those deathbed conversions to science, staying faithful to his true beliefs to the bitter, painful end.

On a November 23rd edition of the Ministry Now program, Jonathan Lamb said of his father’s struggle: “There’s no doubt in my mind that this is a spiritual attack from the enemy. As much as my parents have gone on here to kind of inform everyone about everything going on to the pandemic and some of the ways to treat COVID – there’s no doubt that the enemy is not happy about that. And he’s doing everything he can to take down my Dad” and we’ll just let that speak for itself.