GOYA’S EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Why AOC should be next to lead the DNC.

On the other hand, she’s also making enemies on both sides of the aisle: Let them fight! Ilhan Omar torches young, healthy reps like AOC for getting COVID vaccination and we’re here for it. Some on the right also aren’t happy to see Sandy cutting to the head of the line: “All hail AOC, Death Panel Princess…”

On the gripping hand, given the large number of leftwing anti-vaccine truthers, there is something to be said for prominent leftists being photographed receiving the vaccine.

DENVER: Mayor Hancock Issues Pre-Apology for His Upcoming Christmas Travel. “To those of you who disapprove of my trip and believe it is hypocritical, I pre-apologize from the bottom of my heart for the way you’ll feel seeing me live it up with my family and friends on Christmas while you spend the holiday alone.”

Satire… or is it?

ART OF THE DEAL: Trump ‘Overturned’ Mideast Peace Assumptions, US Envoy Tells UN Security Council. “For decades, the prevailing assumption was that the world would only see normalized international relations with Israel following a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. But we have proven this assumption wrong.”

Plus: “All of us here should think long and hard about what else we may have missed or misinterpreted over the years.”

REMINDER: With U.S. Senate Runoffs Near, Georgia’s Not Prosecuting Its Unprecedented Number of Double Voters.

STRIKE A POSE, THERE’S NOTHING TO IT: Pelosi calls $600 stimulus checks ‘significant’ but said $1k tax cut bonuses were ‘crumbs’ in 2018.

PORK: The Only Thing Missing From This Absolute Cluster of a ‘COVID Relief’ Bill Is $ for Shrimp on a Treadmill. Trump Should Veto It.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Pork Apocalypse COVID Relief Package Shows Washington Is Dominated by Progressives.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What is 900 billion American dollars divided by 330 million Americans?

Answer: $2,727. But you’re still only getting $600, rube.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Meet the non-binary hardcore SJW deciding who gets the COVID vaccine
• You can trust Chris Krebs this time, honest
• Dear Santa: Andrew Cuomo has been a very good boy this year. Love, Andrew’s mom

Bonus Sanity: Unity achieved — everybody hates Washington.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

2020 IN A SINGLE SENTENCE:

As a prominent Trump supporter famously asked, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”

THE LEFT’S WAR ON ASIAN IMMIGRANTS CONTINUES: De Blasio to destroy New York’s top public schools to run an experiment in diversity.

REFILL THE SWAMP: Biden Taps Liberal Billionaire’s Acolyte for Top Econ. Job. “Incoming Biden adviser’s last project said capitalism ‘fundamentally broken’.”

DEFUND STUDENT GOVERNMENTS: Cornell student government members expel fellow senators who voted against disarming police.

ANATOMY OF NARRATIVE WARFARE: China’s Fake Photo Propaganda Attack On Australia.

A Chinese foreign ministry official recently tweeted a photo showing an Australian special operations soldier in Afghanistan holding a knife to the throat of a child.

The picture was digitally altered, a contrived visual lie spread via the internet with the linked goals of provoking shock and anger in viewers worldwide — and then politically manipulating those human emotions to the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party.

Sky News Australia anchor Rowan Dean called the propaganda a communist Chinese attack on the Australian military, one intended to destroy military morale. From an adversary’s perspective, soldier morale is always a psychological-warfare target. The vile image also targeted the Australian government, which opposes China’s territorial claims and criticizes its dismal human rights record.

Though the dateline is December 19, the column dates from December 7.

SOMEWHERE OVER SOUTHWEST ASIA: Two U.S. Air Force F-16s fly in formation with two Royal Saudi Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles. A KC-135R tanker has just refueled the planes.

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THEY’RE NOT WRONG: Columbia students go on strike, say Ivy League is ‘vampirically sucking every drop of blood.’ Students demanding a tuition cut? That’s something worth protesting for — and pretty much the only student demand that might actually strike fear in administrators’ hearts.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Will Gestapo Joe Make a Hard Run at Gun Owners Right Away? “It’s imperative to prepare for the system shock of an administration that has the potential to be such a nightmare that conservatives will be longing for the relatively happy days of the Obama administration. Biden is bringing back a lot of the flacks from the Lightbringer Era, and they all seem to be itchy to get working on unfinished business from the first go-round. In fact, you could say that a lot of them are probably looking at this as Obama’s third term. It’s not like the empty vessel Biden is possessed of any great original vision, and he is a pathological plagiarist.”

DOUBLE STANDARDS: Explosive Scene at Oregon State Capitol: Riot Declared, MRAPs and Pepper Spray Deployed. “This kind of riot line and equipment deployment seemed to be utterly missing from riots caused by antifa and Black Lives Matter throughout 2020 in multiple cities across Oregon. Yet when the people of Oregon try to exercise their constitutional rights to watch in person as their representatives do the business of the people, however, an army of police came out.”

They let Antifa do what it does because they don’t mind what it does. They go all out to stop ordinary citizens protesting because they don’t like ordinary citizens, and certainly don’t want them empowered.

BRYAN PRESTON: Is Our Government Totally Broken? COVID ‘Relief’ Bill Strongly Suggests Yes. Yes, It Is Broken.

THE BIDEN ILLEGITIMACY: Why I will not accept Joe Biden as president: Unwillingness to accept election result grows out of a level of outrage unlike anything previously experienced. The dismissal and outright censorship by press and social media only makes this worse.

BUY HIGH, SELL LOW: AT&T reportedly struggling to sell DirecTV at anything but a huge loss.

ENDORSED: Gun grab sparks ‘Defund ATF’ movement.