SarahPalin.com: “Carone is speaking out despite being unemployed and constantly mocked. Unlike the Doug Duceys and Brian Kemps of the world, Carone is a fighter. ‘Those governors are fake sellouts,’ Carone said. ‘They are RINOs. They need to get out. Get them the hell out.’ When it comes to her feelings on politics or just about anything, Carone doesn’t mince words. While she’s been called ‘a drunk’ and ‘stupid’ by the basement dwellers, this mother of a four-year old and a four-month old keeps telling her story with a smile.

“‘This is what they do to Trump,’ Carone said. ‘It’s not going to work with me. I won’t back down because I am very religious and I know God is watching over me. This started with COVID. The Obamas funded that Wuhan lab to make COVID. Then the impeachment process. They’ve used every avenue possible to cheat, they used Dominion. Dominion software was created to cheat. I have a binder from Dominion that proves this. There’s so much more that will be exposed.'”

This was not my case as has been so incorrectly reported. The case that everyone has been waiting for is the State’s case with Texas and numerous others joining. It is very strong, ALL CRITERIA MET. How can you have a presidency when a vast majority think the election was RIGGED? https://t.co/ZKu9sNVz2U

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2020

New York Times: “Last week, allies of President Trump accused Republican leaders in Pennsylvania of being ‘cowards’ and ‘liars’ and of letting America down. Mr. Trump himself called top Republicans in the General Assembly in his crusade to twist the arms of officials in several states and reverse an election he lost. The Pennsylvania lawmakers told the president they had no power to convene a special session to address his grievances. But they also rewarded his efforts: On Friday, the State House speaker and majority leader joined hard-right colleagues – whom they had earlier resisted – and called on Congress to reject Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 81,000-vote victory in Pennsylvania.”

“The extraordinary intervention by the president, and the willingness of some top party leaders to abet his effort to subvert an election, demonstrates how Mr. Trump’s sway over elected Republicans is likely to endure after he leaves office and how his false claims of a ‘rigged’ 2020 vote may inflame the party base for years to come. Courts across the country have summarily thrown out Mr. Trump’s claims of a stolen election. But 64 Republicans in the General Assembly signed a letter last week urging Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to reject the state’s Electoral College votes for Mr. Biden. Kim Ward, the Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, said the president had called her to declare there was fraud in the voting. But she said she had not been shown the letter to Congress, which was pulled together hastily, before its release. Asked if she would have signed it, she indicated that the Republican base expected party leaders to back up Mr. Trump’s claims – or to face its wrath. ‘If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’’ she said about signing the letter, ‘I’d get my house bombed tonight.’“

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Arkansas joins Texas in suing Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin & Georgia over election irregularities!

@AGRutledge: “The integrity of our elections is a critical part of our nation and it must be upheld.” ⬇️ https://t.co/48ENjuuijN

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) December 9, 2020

CNN: “The only questions now are how many more times President Donald Trump wants to lose the election to President-elect Joe Biden and whether his Republican acolytes on Capitol Hill will wake up and recognize reality. Trump’s dangerous delusions about a stolen election represent the most overt attempt in modern history by a President to overthrow the will of the voters. But they have reached the point of no return after the conservative-majority Supreme Court largely crushed what remaining hallucinatory hopes Trump harbored of reversing his defeat.”

“The Court’s devastating first response to the post-election fray sent a clear signal that the top bench disdains frivolous and long-shot cases already witheringly rejected by lower courts. The denial of Pennsylvania Republicans’ request to block the certification of their state’s results, for which there were no noted dissents, was a humiliating repudiation of Trump’s fundamental misunderstanding that three justices that he installed on the Court would swing him a disputed election. It also showed that evidence-free conspiracy theories might thrill the President’s base and his media propagandists, but they don’t cut it in court. ‘The jig is up. The President of the United States has no other recourse,’ said Laura Coates, a former federal prosecutor and CNN’s senior legal analyst. Biden’s spokesman Mike Gwin said: ‘This election is over. Joe Biden won and he will be sworn in as President in January.'”

“The Nevada Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday night to reject an appeal from President Trump’s campaign to overturn the state’s election results, the latest loss in the president’s ongoing legal efforts to have states he did not win declare him victorious. The 6-to-0 decision from Nevada’s high court came after a lower court gave a full-scale ruling against the Trump campaign’s efforts in the state last week. Judge James T. Russell of the Nevada District Court ruled Friday that there was no evidence supporting the claims of fraud and wrongdoing made by the campaign in a state that President-elect Joe Biden won by more than 33,000 votes. In a 40-page order from the Nevada Supreme Court late Tuesday, the justices ‘affirmed’ the decision from Russell and said the court would take no action. The court found that the Trump campaign failed to identify ‘any unsupported factual findings’ in Russell’s decision, with the state’s high court concluding that it had also ‘identified none'” – Washington Post.

“Any judge that ruled or upheld that there was no fraud need to be charged and hung for conspiracy to commit treason.”

– The current top comment on The Gateway Pundit article “Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Ruling Affirms Joe Biden’s Victory in Arizona“, posted Tuesday night.

“A large majority of Republicans and independents have faith President Donald Trump will follow through on his musings about running for president again in 2024, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday. Among Republicans, 76 percent believed a 2024 run to be likely, along with 60 percent of independents. Democrats were less certain, with only 47 percent believing a run to be likely. Trump has flirted with running again in four years as his unfounded claims of a stolen victory this year increasingly fall apart in court. Still, a majority of Republicans in Congress refuse to recognize President-elect Joe Biden as the electoral victor and Trump continues to enjoy wide support within his party” – Politico.

The Atlantic: “Joe Biden has a set of decisions to make about the record of the Trump era. The record needs to be discovered – in part so that damage can be undone, and in part to ensure that the country faces its failures squarely and through a common lens. To which efforts should Biden personally, as the new president, devote his limited time and political influence? Which efforts should he place in the hands of others? Trump will likely be consumed by criminal and civil litigation for the rest of his life. That is his problem; it should not be Joe Biden’s.”

“For Biden personally, as president, the best thing he can do for most of the needed inquiries is simply get out of the way. He has too many other things to contend with. Criminal proceedings require neither his instigation nor his help. There are two tasks, however, where his involvement is essential. One is stemming, and then beginning to reverse, the corrosion of the executive branch. The methodical destruction of the government’s competence and integrity has been nearly invisible but is one of Trump’s most consequential legacies. The second task is launching-but not running or controlling-independent investigations into three national catastrophes: the mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic, whose toll continues to rise; border policies under which U.S. officials intentionally separated children from their parents, and in more than 600 cases have not been able to reunite them; and purposeful or negligent destruction of the norms of government, the most important being the electoral process, pushing a diverse democracy close to the breaking point.”

“When Laura Ingraham is amazed by something Donald Trump has said, and tries to save him from himself? Donald Trump has jumped the shark. But of course Trump often jumps the shark. And here we still are. And perhaps one shouldn’t, after all, be too alarmed by a politician claiming his opponent is being manipulated by men operating in the dark shadows. Politicians exaggerate and even make up things. It’s life in a democracy. But this wasn’t just any politician. It was the president. And this isn’t just any president. It’s one who’s not been afraid to encourage, or at least excuse, violence by his supporters. And it’s one who has shown himself willing to weaponize the executive branch of the federal government against his opponents. And it’s one who feels utterly unconstrained by norms and even laws when he can find a way around them. Or can get away with ignoring them. And it’s a president who has found many, many willing accomplices, enablers and rationalizers willing to work with him in the executive branch, protect him in Congress, support him from outside with money and influence, and – like Ingraham – defend him in the media. Russian state media – a reliable barometer of the mood at the Kremlin – remains fixated on election-related events in America. Affectionately referring to Donald Trump as ‘our Donald,’ ‘Trumpusha’ and ‘Comrade Trump,’ Russian lawmakers, experts and pundits repeatedly have expressed their concerns about the future of Moscow’s all-time favorite U.S. president.”

“Co-host of Russian state TV news talk show 60 Minutes Olga Skabeeva brought up the possibility that President Trump would end up seeking asylum in Russia to escape any prosecutions in the United States following the conclusion of his sole presidential term. Skabeeva emphasized that this was by no means a joking matter: ‘It’s all very serious,’ she said, as she pondered out loud about the nature of criminal charges Trump might soon be facing. Experts in the studio enthusiastically discussed the likelihood of Trump being charged with a bevy of offenses from tax evasion to fraud and sexual assault” – Daily Beast.

According to the Idaho Statemen, the meeting of the Central District Health board of directors had to be canceled because of protesters being disruptive.  The difference in this one:  most of the board members were participating remotely over Zoom, and the protestors were showing up at their homes.

While some of the Board members were in a room at the CDH offices, which serve Ada, Boise, Elmore and Valley Counties, more of the were calling in to the meeting from their homes.

Commissioner Diana Lachiondo tearfully left the virtual meeting, which she was attending from her office, after learning anti-mask and anti-regulation protesters were in front of her house, yelling and banging trash cans, as her teenage son was alone inside.

After five weeks of staying silent on coronavirus relief since lame duck president Donald Trump lost the November election, the White House is suddenly proposing a greatly reduced aid package that will be dead on arrival in both the Senate and the House, the Washington Post reports.

At one point prior to the election, Trump promised that he would pass a coronavirus relief package that was more than expensive than what the Democrats were offering.  “Go big or go home!” Trump tweeted on October 13th, in obvious election year pandering.

The new proposal from the White House would cut the federal unemployment subsidy fund from the $180 billion in a bipartisan Senate plan to just $40 billion.  It would include a $600 per person one-time stimulus check, along with an allotment for $600 per child.  This is less than the $1,200 check supported by Democrats and many Republicans.

President-elect Biden continues to fill out his Cabinet positions, selecting former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack to lead the Department of Agriculture, Politico reports.

Vilsack served in the same role as the Secretary of Agriculture for all eight years of the Obama Administration.  He was the governor of Iowa from 1999 to 2007.

Biden’s pick of Vilsack is key because Vilsack is expected to lead the effort to expand climate change policy to include incentives to farmers to implement carbon capture programs.

On Tuesday, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced that his state will be joining Texas’ lawsuit against Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin apparently because – much like his wacky next-door neighbor Attorney General Ken Paxton – he doesn’t like that more people in those states voted for Joe Biden than voted for Donald Trump. The announcement is the standard legal-ish sounding MAGA bullshit, but it’s the end that sticks out.

“Louisiana citizens are damaged if elections in other states were conducted outside the confines of the Constitution while we obeyed the rules“, which is kind of funny considering that if the Republican Party really thought that any one state’s laws were unconstitutional prior to the election – and actually unconstitutional, as in something the Supreme Court was likely to take up – we sure as hell would’ve known about it.

Roughly the equivalent of the population of Des Moines, Iowa tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday, as the US recorded 213,000 new cases and more than 2,600 fatalities, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

Current hospitalizations increased by 2%, with more than 104,000 people in-patient for coronavirus in the US, a new high.

On the Worldometers aggregator, California led the nation with 26,000 new cases.  Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas all exceeded 10,000 new cases reported Tuesday.  California and Michigan topped 200 fatalities, with eight other states over 100.

The seven-day running average for both new cases and fatalities in the US set new records.

… and he apparently also doesn’t understand that the World Health Organization doesn’t have any law enforcement power.

The WHO now recommends against hugging over the holidays.

Like we said last week, pretty soon you won’t be able to say Merry Christmas.

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) December 8, 2020

CBS5 Arizona: “Arizona’s highest court has agreed with the lower courts that Democrat President-elect Joe Biden won Arizona’s 11 electoral votes. In court documents released on Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court said Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward requested more time to review duplicate ballots aside from the 1,626-ballot sample that was already done. The results found an audit of those ballots was 99.45% accurate, with only nine errors. The high court said Ward ‘offered no evidence’ to show that the sample was inadequate or that there was any widespread fraud that could be proven with more samples. The Supreme Court said even if the error rate stayed the same for all 27,869 duplicate ballots, there would only be 153 votes with errors, which would not be enough to call the election results into questions.”

In a first, Newsmax beat a competing Fox News program in the key 25-54 age demographic on Monday, the first time Newsmax has ever beaten Fox News in a ratings measure, CNN reports.

“Greg Kelly Reports” on Newsmax beat the competing 7 p.m. ET program on Fox News, “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” by 229,000 to 203,000.  Both programs were beat out by CNN’s Erin Burnett (423,000) and MSNBC’s Joy Reid (280,000).

Joy Reid’s MSNBC show, “The ReidOut,” won the timeslot in overall viewers with more than 1.9 million viewers.

Fox News has taken a beating in the ratings as Trumpublicans abandon the network for being insufficiently loyal to outgoing president Donald Trump.

Flying in the face of lame duck president Donald Trump’s threats of a veto, the House of Representatives passed the $741 billion defense authorization bill with a 335 to 78 majority, the Washington Post reports.

Trump has threatened to block the bill because it contains provisions to remove the names of Confederate leaders from military bases and equipment.  Trump, a supporter of Confederate history who has never served in the military, believes the Confederacy–a secessionist movement–should be honored by the US military that defeated it.

Trump’s threat to veto the bill will jeopardize ongoing military projects as well as raises and compensation needed for the military to retain highly specialized personnel.