Georgia incumbent Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler recently made financial donations to anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion groups, BuzzFeed News reports.

The wealthiest member of Congress with more than $800 million in assets, Loeffler vowed to donate her $174,000 Congressional salary to charity.  She chose to make some of those donations to Covenant Care Adoptions and other “pregnancy crisis” centers, which masquerade as women’s health clinics in order to trap pregnant women seeking abortions into giving birth.

Covenant Care Adoptions also refuses to arrange adoptions for LGBTQ couples, demanding that applying couples be a “husband and wife” and requiring them to vow “homosexual behavior, bisexual conduct and … use of pornography is sinful and offensive to God.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the most-trusted representative of the Trump Administration concerning the coronavirus pandemic, will have his first meeting with members of President-elect Biden’s transition team at some point Thursday, NBC News reports.

In a virtual meeting, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will update the entire Biden team on the status of the government’s plans for dealing with the coronavirus, as well insights into communicating better public health practices with Americans.

According to sources close to him, Fauci intends to remain in his position when the new Administration takes over January 20th.

BBC: “The German newspaper Bild has been speaking to a man called Adolf Hitler Uunona who has been elected as a local councillor for Namibia’s governing Swapo party. The politician, who normally goes by the name Adolf Uunona, got 85% of the votes in last month’s election in Ompundja, a small town in the far north of the country. Namibia is a former German colony and there are still reminders of that time in some placenames. There is also a small German-speaking minority.” ‘My father named me after this man. He probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for,’ Mr Uunona said. ‘It was not until I was growing up that I realised that this man wanted to subjugate the whole world. I have nothing to do with any of these things.'”

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— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) December 3, 2020

“Biden faces immediate pressure when he enters the White House in January to fulfill a pledge to stop border wall construction. But he also will confront tough choices left behind by President Donald Trump, whose administration has ramped up construction efforts across the Southwest in its final weeks, as well as skepticism about his own record on border walls.”

“Biden will inherit a massive wall-building effort that accelerated in Trump’s final year. Work crews are blasting through mountains and destroying tree-like cactus and other habitat in Arizona and New Mexico. Almost all of the construction under Trump has taken place in wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory that already belongs to the U.S. government. While the work is considered ‘replacement’ of older barriers, crews are removing small vehicle barriers and installing towering steel posts and lighting that are far more restrictive. The Trump administration says it has completed 400 miles (644 kilometers) and pledged to reach 450 miles (725 kilometers) by the end of the year. And it has locked in contracts to build hundreds of miles more. More than two dozen projects are underway and contracts are signed with at least five construction companies, totaling $7 billion, according to government figures” – AP.

The Atlantic: “President Donald Trump has made one thing painfully clear: After he grudgingly leaves the White House, he will keep doing what he can to stay in the news. He will tweet insults and conspiracy theories. He may start his own television channel. And according to members of his inner circle, he may even run for president in 2024.”

“After half a decade under his spell, many pundits and political observers assume that Trump will succeed in keeping the nation’s attention. I can see why. A sizable minority of Americans believe that the election was stolen and remain deeply devoted to the outgoing president. Even now that Trump’s loss has liberated the GOP from its captor, elected Republicans seem to be suffering from a bad case of Stockholm syndrome. And the 45th president has proved, again and again, that he has a real talent for staying in the limelight. Trump could prove to have as dominant an influence on politics in the 2020s as he did in the 2010s. The obstacles he must overcome to do so, however, are very daunting. He lost his bid for reelection, and staged the most incompetent coup attempt since Woody Allen’s Bananas. He can rant and rave about what happened in November, but he can’t keep his followers from seeing Joe Biden inaugurated in January. Fear of what he might attempt next is giving way to laughter. He looks weaker and more scared by the day.”

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SurveyUSA: “In the regularly scheduled runoff between Perdue and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, the candidates run effectively even; Ossoff, at 50%, nominally 2 points ahead of Perdue, at 48%. This lead is within the survey’s wiggle room and should not be viewed as anything more than validation that every vote will be critical when on 01/05/2021 Georgia starts counting ballots.”

“In the simultaneous special runoff to fill the Senate seat vacated by Republican Johnny Isakson, Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock has a small but measurable advantage over Loeffler, 52% to 45%. Warnock’s slight advantage comes almost entirely from Democrats who refuse to consider Loeffler as an acceptable alternative to Warnock. Among Democrats who tell SurveyUSA they are likely to return a ballot in the runoff election, just 1% cross-over for Loeffler. 97% of Democrats stick with Democrat Warnock.”

Lin Wood and Sidney Powell are totally destructive. Every Georgia conservative who cares about America MUST vote in the runoff. Their dont vote strategy will cripple America

— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) December 3, 2020

“Trump and Barr had a ‘contentious’ meeting Tuesday after the attorney general told the AP the Justice Department uncovered no evidence of fraud that would change the election outcome, which led Trump to erupt. It was angry, but a person familiar says Trump wasn’t screaming” – CNN White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins.

“Former Trump adviser Roger Stone claimed on Wednesday that North Korea had interfered in the U.S. presidential election. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump continued to assert that fraudulent activity was prevalent during the November election. Stone, who has previously spoken of his respect for some members of the QAnon conspiracy theory movement, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to investigators in connection with the Mueller probe into Russian election meddling during Trump’s 2016 campaign. Trump commuted Stone’s sentence in July.”

“With the Electoral College expected to meet on December 14, Trump has intensified his claims of widespread election fraud. Democrat President-elect Joe Biden was widely projected to be the winner of the election despite Trump’s protestations. During an interview on The Alex Jones Show, Stone said he had received further proof of election fraud. ‘I just learned of absolute incontrovertible evidence of North Korean boats delivering ballots through a harbor in Maine, the state of Maine,’ Stone said. ‘If this checks out, if law enforcement looked into that and it turned out to be true, it would be proof of foreign involvement in the election'” – Newsweek.

Politico: “Georgia Republicans are excited that Donald Trump is coming Saturday to Valdosta to help save Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. They’re also a little scared. They’re not entirely certain what to expect from the president’s first postelection rally. Or how much he understands that the event is about helping the two endangered GOP incumbents get across the finish line in the Jan. 5 runoff, not advancing his own political interests or settling scores. ‘It’s important that Trump comes and focuses on the Senate election and not the other peripheral sideshow of whining and complaining and making baseless accusations,’ said Allen Peake, a former state legislator and self-described ‘mainstream Republican.’ ‘But that’s kind of been his mode for the past four years. I don’t think he will change. So I’m very concerned about this on Saturday.'”

“Though Trump will tell his supporters to head to the polls for Loeffler and Perdue, he’s also likely to spread false conspiracy theories about a stolen election that could depress turnout — something he’s done nearly every day since being denied a second term. And he’s sure to bash a couple of fellow Republicans, Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both of whom are up for reelection in 2022, for their roles in overseeing elections in a state Trump narrowly lost. ‘If all he does is whine and complain and talk bad about Kemp and the secretary of state, then the trip will be a disaster and he might as well not even come,’ Peake said. ‘This is a crazy time in Georgia politics, that’s for sure.'”

“Georgia officials tell Fox News they are investigating a Florida attorney for attempting to vote illegally in the state’s Jan. 5 Senate runoff, after a video emerged of him stating his intent to move to Georgia temporarily and encouraging others to use his relative’s address to do the same. In a speech on Nov. 7 to the Bay County Florida Republican Party, Florida attorney Bill Price announced he was ‘moving’ to Georgia to vote for Republican Senate candidates in order in to help Republicans keep the Senate majority” Fox News reports.

“‘If we lose the Senate on Jan. 5 in Georgia, we will become Venezuela,’ he told the crowd inside the county headquarters in a video posted to their Facebook page, ‘and I will invite each and every one of you to be my roommate in Georgia… I’m changing my voter registration right now, and I’m inviting two million people to be my roommate.’ Moving to Georgia temporarily only to vote is a crime in the state, according to Georgia’s office of Secretary of State. ‘Registering without the intention of permanent residency is a felony,’ the office said in a statement to Fox News from spokesman Walter Jones. ‘Only permanent residents are eligible to vote in Georgia.'”

Daily Beast: “Truck driver Jesse Morgan thrust himself into the middle of the post-2020 election drama on Tuesday when he claimed at a press conference that he had unwittingly driven a truck full of suspicious mail-in ballots from New York to Pennsylvania ahead of Election Day. ‘I know I saw ballots with return addresses filled out,’ said Morgan, who claims to work for a Postal Service contractor. ‘Thousands of them, thousands.’ The appearance at a voter fraud event hosted by the right-wing Thomas More Center turned Morgan into the latest viral star on the Trumpist right. And, soon enough, his claims were being amplified by the president, his legal team, conservative groups unaffiliated with the campaign, and Trump supporters themselves all of whom have argued that nearly 300,000 bogus mail-in ballots were used in Pennsylvania to put Joe Biden over the top.”

“Video of Morgan’s speech on Twitter has been viewed more than 3 million times—helped along by a Trump tweet—while the president and his campaign have racked up more than 60,000 retweets on just their own posts about Morgan. Sean Hannity dutifully put Morgan on his show. Left unsaid in it all is a biographical detail that prompts questions about the validity of Morgan’s already dubious claims. In addition to witnessing supposed voter fraud, the man believes his family has been stalked cross-country by ghosts. Before he became a hero in MAGAworld, Morgan was an amateur ghost-hunter. Morgan’s first success came with a 2016 video about a ‘shadow person’ living in his basement, from where he claimed to hear strange noises. ‘I will not raise my daughters in a place that is haunted,” Morgan declares in the video, dubbed ‘Shadow person caught on camera.'”

A Frito-Lay chip factory in Vancouver, Washington has been closed due to a coronavirus outbreak that has sickened 17 people at the snack food factory, Oregon Live reported.

“We can confirm that a limited number of employees at our Vancouver, Wash., Frito-Lay facility have tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 14 days,” the company wrote in an emailed statement.

The plant will close while it is being sterilized, and should reopen over the week, but don’t worry:  there are plenty of chips already in the distribution line from more than 30 production facilities in the nation. It’s famed products are Fritos, Cheetos, Doritos and Rold Gold pretzels.

Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Mike Kelly has withdrawn his request for an emergency injunction from the US Supreme Court to stay the certification of Pennsylvania’s votes, ElectionLawBlog reports.

Kelly will instead pursue a remedy through the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and should that fail, he can then appeal to the US Supreme Court.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, supposedly an electoral law expert, urged the US Supreme Court to hear the case, saying in a statement, “Hearing this case now – on an emergency expedited basis – would be an important step in helping rebuild confidence in the integrity of our democratic system.”

Cruz went on to cite the results of a Reuters/Ipsos poll that found 39% of Americans think the election was “rigged,” because as a Constitutional scholar, he still doesn’t understand that public polls have very little impact on judicial outcomes.

One of the witnesses the Trump campaign legal team presented during the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee was so outlandish, even Rudy Giuliani tried to control her outlandish behavior.

During questioning by Republican State Senator Steven Johnson, the witness, reportedly a poll watcher named Melissa Carone, claimed that the poll books did not contain listing for a single registered voter; that they were off by more than 100,000; and that dead people and “illegals” voted.  She insinuated, while arching her eyebrows, “what’d you guys do?  Take it [the poll book] and do somethin’ crazy to it.”

Angelina Friedman, a 102-year-old New Yorker born in the midst of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, has now survived two bouts of coronavirus, the current pandemic sweeping the globe, CNN reports.

A resident at the North Westchester Restorative Therapy & Nursing Center in Mohegan Lake, New York, about 40 miles north of New York City, Friedman was recently cleared after testing positive for the coronavirus a second time.

In March, Friedman tested positive for the virus after being hospitalized for a minor procedure, so she isolated upon her return to the nursing home.  She experienced a periodic fever, but tested negative for the virus on April 20th.

In late October, the nursing home’s medical staff called her to tell her she had tested positive again after she experienced a fever and a dry cough.  She was put into a wing of the nursing home with other COVID-positive residents.  Thankfully, she tested negative November 17th.  A follow-up test confirmed she was free of the virus.

“President Trump remained livid at Attorney General William P. Barr on Wednesday, with one senior administration official indicating there was a chance Barr could be fired – not just for his public comments undercutting Trump’s unfounded claims of election-shifting fraud, but also for steps he did not take on a probe of the FBI’s 2016 investigation into Trump’s campaign.”

“A day after Barr told the Associated Press that he had ‘not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,’ Trump continued to complain about his attorney general, people familiar with the matter said. One senior administration official said there was a chance Trump would fire his attorney general and asserted that the president was not merely frustrated over Barr’s fraud-related assertions. The person said that several people are trying to persuade Trump not to do so. Like others, this official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations” – Washington Post.