The Patriot Post® · Friday Executive Summary

Top of the Fold

• U.S. added just 245,000 jobs in November vs. 440,000 expected (CNBC¹)

Yes, COVID is bad right now — and most headlines properly allude to that being the primary culprit for the lackluster report — but one also has to wonder if an impending Biden presidency is already hitting the economy.

Election Debrief

• Georgia governor calls for secretary of state to do a signature audit (Washington Examiner²) | Brad Raffensperger slams “dysfunction” in Fulton County recount (Fox News³)

• Wisconsin Supreme Court refuses to hear Trump campaign legal challenge (National Review⁴)

• Sidney Powell and Lin Wood stupidly urge boycott of January runoffs (Washington Examiner⁵) | Ted Cruz rips Lin Wood: “I don’t know who this clown is” (Daily Wire⁶)

• Ousted House Democrats warn party against moving too far left (Washington Examiner⁷)

Government & Politics

• Joe Biden names Brian Deese, an Obama-era henchman, as top economic ecofascist aide (NPR⁸)

• Biden set to push job-killing minimum wage hikes (Washington Examiner⁹)

• Maxine Waters’ campaign paid her daughter $240,000 over 2019-20 election cycle (Fox News¹⁰)

Apparently, this is the Democrat modus operandi. Ilhan Omar has paid her husband’s firm millions¹¹.

• Senate (very) narrowly confirms Christopher Waller to serve on Fed’s board (AP¹²)

• Supreme Court backs California ministry on “draconian and unconscionable” COVID rules (National Review¹³)

• DNI John Ratcliffe says they can’t declassify all of Russiagate’s secrets (Washington Examiner¹⁴)

Leftmedia

• A bad week for USA Today's "fact-checkers" (Washington Examiner¹⁵)

Health

• Biden to call for 100 days of masks after inauguration (Fox News¹⁶)

Memo to Biden: Most Americans already wear a mask¹⁷ and have been for a good chunk of 2020.

• Governor Gavin “French Laundry¹⁸” Newsom introduces new stay-at-home order (NBC News¹⁹) | LA County deputies won’t enforce Newsom’s diktat (Fox News²⁰)

“Theater of the Absurd” Headline Award

• One in every 800 North Dakota residents is now dead from COVID (Daily Mail²¹)

Behold, the textbook definition of manufacturing bombastic news.

Genes of Steel

• 102-year-old New Yorker who also lived through the 1918 flu pandemic and is a cancer survivor beats COVID twice (Disrn²²)

National Security

• More than 1,000 visiting researchers affiliated with the Chinese military fled the U.S. this summer (The Washington Post²³)

• U.S. imposes severe travel restrictions on Chinese Communist Party members (NPR²⁴)

“The restrictions target holders of business (B-1) and tourist (B-2) visas, reducing the travel documents’ maximum validity to one month, down from the current maximum of 10 years. … The Chinese Communist Party has more than 90 million members, effectively making the State Department visa action the Trump administration’s most sweeping and direct attack on the party.”

Business & Economy

• DOJ sues Facebook for discriminating against American workers (National Review²⁵)

• Data shows Americans couldn’t resist Thanksgiving travel (AP²⁶)

• OPEC and allies agree to gradually increase production (CNBC²⁷)

Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

• Chicago sees massive spike in police-targeted shootings (Free Beacon²⁸)

• Oppressed LGBT minority actor Ellen Page transitions to evil white male (Not the Bee²⁹)

• Ever wondered what your Privilege/Marginalization score was? There’s a worksheet for that! (Not the Bee³⁰)

Double Standards

• San Francisco to bar tobacco smoking in condos and apartments — but marijuana will remain legal (Disrn³¹)

• AOC roasted for selling “Tax the Rich” sweatshirts for $58 (The Washington Times³²)

Based on AOC’s ideology, shouldn’t this shirt be free? In any case, Jim Treacher makes a great point³³: “AOC is never going to make a shirt for jerks like me, because nobody ever became powerful by leaving people alone.” But hey, the price could be worse. At least it’s nowhere near the $10,000 it costs for a can of “Tax the Rich” caviar³⁴.

Stranger Than Fiction

• Politician named after Adolf Hitler wins election in Namibia (Daily Mail³⁵)

On a Lighter Note…

• Department of Transportation cracks down on type of emotional support animal allowed on planes (Disrn³⁶)

As the article states, “The new rule will put an end to what had become a widely-abused loophole allowing passengers to bring a wide array of different creatures aboard, including peacocks, pigs, and snakes.” Allow comedian John Crist to demonstrate³⁷.

• This poor Amazon driver got chased off by hens (Not the Bee³⁸)

• Jurassic gator devours hunters’ ducks before they can retrieve them (Not the Bee³⁹)

• This video will make you never want to drive over a bridge again (Not the Bee⁴⁰)

• Twenty-five pups that won the “Grumpy Dog Photo Challenge” paws down (InspireMore⁴¹)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Rx for America’s dysfunctional health insurance system (Manhattan Institute⁴²)

• Policy: Fiscal federalism during the COVID pandemic (AEI⁴³)

• Humor: Gretchen Whitmer casts spell on Michigan so it’s always winter and never Christmas (The Babylon Bee⁴⁴)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit Headline Report⁴⁵.

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