Viral News: President-elect Joe Biden says that he will ask Americans to wear masks for his first 100 days in office to drastically reduce spread of the coronavirus.

  He told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “Just 100 days to mask, not forever. One hundred days. And I think we’ll see a significant reduction.” Biden said he thinks the pandemic may be even worse in this country by the time he takes office.

  With as many as 100,000 people in hospitals across the country being treated for the coronavirus, California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to issue stay-at-home orders in regions where beds are scarce.

  Another 2554 Americans died of the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 276,401.

The Long Count: In another first-inning loss for the Trump campaign, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the state’s results in the presidential election. They said the Trump team should have started by filing in a lower court rather than going straight to the top.

  Jo Biden leads by 20,000 votes in Wisconsin, but the Trump petition argued that more than 220,000 ballots cast in the state’s two most Democratic counties should be thrown out because they were improperly accepted by election officials. He’s never embarrassed about what he says.

  Also yesterday, Trump tweeted about Georgia that, “Wow! Blockbuster testimony taking place right now in Georgia. Ballot stuffing by Dems when Republicans were forced to leave the large counting room. Plenty more coming, but this alone leads to an easy win of the State!”

  Reality is only beginning to set in for Trump staffers. Yesterday the President’s communications director Alyssa Farah resigned to form a consulting firm.

The Electoral College is scheduled to vote December 14^th. When they do, it’s over. 

The Writer’s Room: In a performance sure to be fodder for a skit on Saturday Night Live, a woman named Melissa Carone, an IT worker with Dominion voting systems, was tapped by the Trump campaign to be a witness to voter fraud before the Michigan legislature. She said she saw ballots being counted nine or ten times each. “I observed it thousands of times,” she said.  She claimed there were more votes cast than registered voters.

  “I know what I saw,” Carone told state a Republican legislator, “And I signed something saying if I’m wrong, I can go to prison. Did you?”

  Carone testified that, “I know for a fact there was illegal activity going on there. People have pictures of people carrying ballots out of that place. There is pictures of vans full of ballots coming out of that place.”

 Carone said the poll book of registered voters, was off by 30,000, but the legislators said that wasn’t so. 

  Carone said, “It’s wildly off, and dead people voted, and illegals voted.” 

  No one has backed up her story. 

The Bulletin Board: An anti-gay ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has resigned after having been caught fleeing the Covid-restriction bust of a 25-man orgy. Jozsef Szajer crawled out through a window. Szajer was instrumental in the government’s crackdown on gay rights in Hungary. — A volunteer at one of the Tiger sanctuaries featured in the Netflix series “Tiger King” nearly had her arm ripped off at the shoulder by a big cat. Candy Crouser, 69, a volunteer at Big Cat Rescue run by the cat-like Carol Baskin, said she made a mistake reaching into a cage. Baskin is the one whose husband mysteriously disappeared in 1997.

The Obit Page: Betsy Wade, the first woman copy editor at The New York Times and lead plaintiff in a sex discrimination lawsuit against her own newspaper, died in Manhattan at age 91. She had colon cancer.

  Back in the age of the dinosaurs, Wade had been fired by The New York Herald Tribune for being pregnant. Four years later she went to the Times, breaking into the 105-year-old male club on the copy desk. She said they removed the cuspidors her first week on the job.

  Wade was known as a fastidious editor who improved every writer’s work.

  In the mid 1970s, when women were under-represented on the reporting staff and they discovered that they were paid less than men, she was the title plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the paper. The lawsuit was settled when the Times agreed to create what amounted to an affirmative action program to escalate women in the organization, but they didn’t give the women raises.

Entry Exam: The Trump administration has made the citizenship test slightly harder, raising the passing grade from six out of 10 correct to 12 out of 20.

  A sample question: “The Nation’s first motto was “E Pluribus Unum.” What does that mean?”

-We the people

-Self-government 

-Out of Many, One 

-One Nation, Indivisible

  We’ve added two questions for bonus points: 

-Could President Trump answer that question?

-Could most natural-born Americans pass the exam?

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