North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as well as several members of Kim’s family and inner circle received an experimental Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine, according to a report from Business Insider.

Japanese intelligence sources told Washington, DC-based Korea expert Harry Kazianis, the senior director of the Center for the National Interest think tank.

China reportedly has five vaccines in the final stages of clinical trials.  Kim and the other North Koreans reportedly received on of these trial drugs.

The 36-year-old dictator would be at high risk given his history of obesity and heavy smoking.

The 2020 NFL football season has been as impacted as any business in the United States thanks to the coronavirus.

The San Francisco 49ers will relocate to Arizona for the next three weeks because its home county, Santa Clara County in California, has banned contact sports in an effort to curtail the spread of the coronavirus.  Arizona has no significant coronavirus protocols in place even through the state is experiencing record highs in its seven-day moving average of new cases.

According to the Associated Press, the 49ers will host two games at State Farm Stadium, the home of the Arizona Cardinals:  a game against the Buffalo Bills next Monday and a December 13th game against Washington.

“Josh Hawley has had a pretty good year. The Republican senator from Missouri has carved out a national profile with his smooth blend of theocratic quasi-authoritarianism combined with populist-inflected rhetoric that’s substantively barren enough to avoid threatening the party’s donor base. But Hawley has a weakness: he’s not content to simply be an oily demagogue competing for a niche role as Trump successor. As a prep school kid with degrees from Stanford and Yale, he still craves the respect of elites, and wishes to be seen as a serious intellectual, rather than just a crafty huckster with a nose for hot-button slogans that play on Fox News.”

“Over the summer, Hawley warned Tucker Carlson that Joe Biden and his entire party are ‘in thrall’ to ‘the Marxist left.’ Monday afternoon he criticized Biden’s nomination of Janet Yellen on the grounds that ‘the people who he wants to be in his cabinet are all a bunch of corporate liberals and warmongers.’ The Bulwark’s Tim Miller pointed out the undeniable contradiction. Hawley could have ignored the criticism – after all, it’s not like his target audience is going to complain that he attacked the Democrats in two mutually exclusive ways. But Hawley felt compelled to show that he is not just a glib demagogue mouthing slogans, that his talking points have actual meaning” – Jonathan Chait.

“Dr. Scott Atlas, President Trump’s special adviser on the coronavirus pandemic, formally resigned from his post on Monday, Fox News has learned. Atlas, who spoke with the president on Monday, joined the administration in August, and was considered a Special Government Employee (SGE), serving a 130-day detail. Atlas’ role is set to expire this week. Fox News exclusively obtained Atlas’s resignation letter Monday, which was dated Dec. 1.”

“In it, Atlas touted the Trump administration’s work on the coronavirus pandemic, while wishing ‘all the best’ to the incoming Biden administration. ‘I am writing to resign from my position as Special Advisor to the President of the United States,’ Atlas said, thanking him for ‘the honor and privilege to serve on behalf of the American people'” – Fox News.

The Bulwark: “On Monday President Trump’s campaign lawyer and former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova said that fired Trump cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs should be executed for saying that the election was the ‘most secure in United States history.’ DiGenova, appearing on the Howie Carr show, which simulcasts on Newsmax, took aim at Krebs as an aside during a wheels-off segment full of false claims about how the United States election had been rigged.”

“‘Anybody who thinks the election went well, like that idiot Krebs who used to be the head of cybersecurity [for Trump]. That guy is a class A moron. He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot’ diGenova said. This is not just a random Parler troll trying to get attention. This is an attorney speaking on behalf of the President of the United States’ re-election campaign. And while it may read like a macabre joke, the direct nature of diGenova’s comments make it impossible to interpret as anything other than a real wish/threat against a public servant for offering truthful testimony.”

Why is he rushing to put a Democrat in office, especially when so many horrible things concerning voter fraud are being revealed at the hearing going on right now. @OANN What is going on with @dougducey? Republicans will long remember! https://t.co/XILGaHcyw7

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2020

Cleveland 19: “A total of 12 Articles of Impeachment have officially been filed against Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. Those articles were filed by State Rep. John Becker (R-Union Township) and were joined by Representatives Keller, Vitale and Zeltwanger. The representatives argue that the governor has abused his power during the coronavirus pandemic and cites his veto of Senate Bill 55, along with threatened vetoes against other General Assembly legislation, including Senate Bill 311, which aims to severely limit the powers of the governor during a pandemic.”

“In a release sent to the media, Rep. Becker’s office said, ‘Governor DeWine’s mismanagement, malfeasance, misfeasance, abuse of power, and other crimes include, but are not limited to, meddling in the conduct of a presidential primary election, arbitrarily closing and placing curfews on certain businesses, while allowing other businesses to remain open. He weaponized the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to bully and harass businesses and the people; to enforce a statewide mask mandate and other controversial measures of dubious ‘value,’ making Ohio a hostile work environment.’ The statement goes on to mention the governor’s inclusion of places of worship during shutdown orders and the mask mandate.”

“Back in July, Gov. Ducey said he changed his White House ringtone to ‘Hail to The Chief’ so he wouldn’t miss a call from Trump/Pence. Guess who called while Ducey was certifying Arizona’s election?” says NBC 12 Reporter Brahm Resnik. Listen semi-closely at 0:07.

“The head of the Wisconsin Elections Commission has officially confirmed the statewide results. Ann Jacobs completed the state-level determination Monday afternoon via teleconference. ‘This is a very different process than for the other contests on the Nov. 3 ballot where the WEC Chair does determine the winner and issues certificates of election,’ WEC Executive Director Meagan Wolfe said. ‘There is no certificate of election in a presidential contest.’ The move comes a day before Wisconsin’s full bipartisan Elections Commission will vote to certify the results. The deadline for that is noon Tuesday. The determination is then sent to Gov. Tony Evers, who will decide whether to approve the results” – WISN.

Washington Examiner: “The Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives announced late Saturday that they will not be returning to session this year, a move that would appear to preclude any possibility of lawmakers interceding in the 2020 election. House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Quarryville, and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, R-Bellefonte, released a joint statement saying that they would not be calling their chamber to Harrisburg on Monday, the final possible day for the 2019-20 session of the Legislature to meet.”

“After Monday, there can be no further meetings of the Legislature this year. Article II, Section 4, decrees that the 2021-22 session of the Legislature will begin on the first Tuesday of January, which will be Jan. 5, 2021. Given that the House won’t meet before the Electoral College gathers to pick the next president Dec. 14, President Donald Trump’s hopes that state lawmakers in Pennsylvania would step in and choose electors appear to be dashed.”

Nine Senators–five Democrats and four Republicans–worked through the Thanksgiving recess to try to work out a deal on continuation of coronavirus relief, hoping to have a compromise bill to present to the Senate before the end of the year when many aid programs expire, NBC News reports.

The nine Senators, hampered by coronavirus restrictions, held a series of individual calls and group discussions to see if a compromise bill can be crafted.  The House passed the $2.2 trillion HEROES Act in May, but the Senate, led by Republican House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to take up the legislation and instead introduced a $500 billion bill that went nowhere.  Since the election, lame duck president Trump and the White House have been inactive in negotiations, perhaps because they want problems to amass for Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.

Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner said on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Report” that “people of good faith are working together to see if we can get a meaningful package.”

NOTE: This analysis originally ran 11/9/20, re-running with revised text and final vote tallies, plus corrections to the Kanye West/Howie Hawkins ballot situations

The numbers have been finalized in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. In 2020 these three states were somewhat analogous to what the former-now-again Blue Wall of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were to Trump in 2016, a triple tipping point on the electoral college map that were decided by painfully close shoulda-woulda-coulda type margins. It’s been obsessed over by many these last four years, but it’ll be a little less painful now to post it up again for readers, I would think.

Yeah, that sucked because as we all know it came down to a combined 77,744 votes in three states to make Trump the leader of the free world. Stein’s vote eclipsed Trump’s margin in all three of those states delivering a 306 to 232 electoral college win – which underscores the pretty obvious reasons why Republicans were trying all sorts of scams to get Kanye West and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins on the ballot this year. They knew vote-splitting mattered for Hillary then, and it matters all the more for Trump now after the election.

Obviously, no one appreciates Joel Hayden Schrimsher or his edginess.

Nineteen-year-old Schrimsher was found guilty on charges of making terroristic threats for a series of tweets posted in 2019, which he claimed he posted trying to be “edgy.”

What was so edgy?  Well, blowing up a Federal Reserve building, burning down a mosque and shooting up a synagogue.

Today, however, his threatening tweet to blow up a Federal Reserve building got him 24 months behind bars, according to the Valley Morning Star News.

In June 2019, Schrimsher tweeted threats to torch a mosque, shoot up a synagogue and bomb the Fed.  After detailing a family discussion about government, Schrimsher lamented the lack of action by saying “Me: I’m gonna mail a bomb to the Federal Reserve.”

Stephen and I are elated to announce the arrival of our beautiful daughter Mackenzie Jay Miller who was born on November 19, 2020. She has already captured our hearts, enraptured our souls, and filled us joy beyond measure. pic.twitter.com/mPfZwZCRgh

— Katie Miller (@katierosemiller) November 30, 2020

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Arizona Republic: “Arizona officials certified the results of the state’s election on Monday, confirming Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state and clearing the way for Mark Kelly to take his seat in the U.S. Senate this week. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs touted high turnout that neared 80%, better than the last presidential election.”

“‘This was a historic election for a several reasons. Preparing for any election is an immense undertaking, even in normal circumstances. The complexity this year has been compounded by the pandemic. In spite of this, we had an extremely well-run election and saw historically high voter participation,’ Hobbs said. Hobbs, a Democrat, signed the official election results in the old state Capitol in Phoenix along with the state’s Republican governor and attorney general, Doug Ducey and Mark Brnovich, and Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Brutinel. Ducey expressed confidence in the election process. ‘We do elections well here in Arizona. The system is strong and that’s why I bragged on it so much,’ he said.”

TruNews founder, ersatz pastor and far-right conspiracy theorist Rick Wiles said the Trump administration’s push to approve executions by firing squad means that Trump intends to “line [opponents] up against a wall and start shooting them.”

https://youtu.be/IoZJ_BmWSPA

Wiles sat around a table with three other white men, none wearing masks, during a weekend broadcast on TruNews and speculated why Trump would announce the reintroduction of executions by firing squad during a pre-Thanksgiving news dump.

House Democrats are considering eliminating or substantially limiting a procedure in the House that would provide Republicans the ability to alter legislation, kneecapping one of the few powers of the minority party, Roll Call reports.

Call a “motion to recommit,” the procedure allows the minority party to insert language into legislation prior to a vote which would then be adopted with the larger bill.  MTRs, as they’re called, have traditionally been used to push legislation back to committee as a way to delay or kill legislation, but recently, House Republicans have used it to corner moderate Democrats on specific political positions.

“It’s turned into a joke,” Michigan Democratic Congressman Dan Kildee said. “It’s something that both sides use for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to play gotcha for the elections.”

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Gov. Brian Kemp’s office responded Monday to President Donald Trump’s demands to help him overturn Georgia’s election results with a reminder that state law ‘prohibits the governor from interfering in the election.’ The Georgia Republican has become a favorite target of Trump, who said Sunday he was ‘ashamed’ that he endorsed him in 2018 and tweeted Monday that the ‘hapless’ governor should use non-existent ’emergency powers.’ ‘Georgia law prohibits the governor from interfering in elections. The Secretary of State, who is an elected constitutional officer, has oversight over elections that cannot be overridden by executive order,’ said Kemp spokesman Cody Hall.”

“‘As the governor has said repeatedly, he will continue to follow the law and encourage the Secretary of State to take reasonable steps – including a sample audit of signatures – to restore trust and address serious issues that have been raised.’ The governor has been largely silent for weeks over Trump’s attacks, which have escalated after he became the first Republican to lose Georgia in a presidential vote in nearly 30 years. He said in a previous interview that he understands Trump’s ‘frustration’ but that the law clearly sets out his duties. The criticism could haunt Kemp through the 2022 midterms, when he is gearing up to face Stacey Abrams in a likely rematch. It appears increasingly possible that he might first have to survive a primary challenge from a Trump-backed adversary — perhaps Doug Collins, a four-term congressman now leading the president’s Georgia recount effort.”

The Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated Friday in Tehran was targeted by a remote-controlled machine gun mounted in a car which later exploded, Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency said Sunday, according to CNN.

As Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was traveling through Tehran in a four-car motorcade, with Fakhrizadeh riding in a bullet-proof car, he heard a number of popping sounds on the vehicle.  He exited the car and was struck by at least three bullets from a Nissan parked about 150 yards away.  A security guard was also wounded.

The attack lasted approximately three minutes, with gunfire continuing to hit the vehicles.  As other security agents neared the Nissan, the car exploded, the news service reports.  It is unclear if gunfire was coming from other sources.