FLASHBACK: Millions Signed Petition Urging Electors to Vote for Hillary After Trump Won in 2016.

WOULD THE PARTY OF MORAL AUTHORITARIANISM CHEAT? Of course they would, all day, any day. And don’t think they aren’t deadly serious about their Trump Accountability Projects and “reconciliation” commissions.

As Issues & Insights puts it in an excellent editorial: “The belief in one’s own moral superiority eventually erases the conscience. After all, if one is morally superior to others, then no conscience is needed. All actions and behaviors are acceptable because they’re done in an effort to make the world a better place.”

I CAN’T SAY I’M SURPRISED: The 2020 Bentley Flying Spur Always Feels Confident. That’s pretty much its job.

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GRIFTERS GOTTA GRIFT: The Lincoln Project Geniuses Vow to Resurrect the GOP.

SCHRODINGER’S COVID: Are We in a Pandemic or Not?

NOT THE BEE: ‘Bigot’ has been given a new dictionary definition and it TOTALLY isn’t aimed at you.

NOT MY FAVORITE ASPECT OF THE 21ST CENTURY: A Swarm of Cyborg Cockroaches That Lives in Your House.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: The Democrats’ civil war begins.

Insert obligatory Kissinger quote about the Iran-Iraq War here.

CITY SLICKERS: Wolf introduction narrowly approved; urban vote decides for rural Colorado.

SPACE: Astronauts head to launch site for SpaceX’s 2nd crew flight.

#METOO: Army, Marines Want New Machine Guns.

IT’S COME TO THIS: AOC says she might quit politics because the Democrat Party is not guano-crazy enough for her.

Narrator voice: Sandy has no plans to abandon her personal struggle.

WEIRD HOW THE PRESS WON’T CALL HIM ON IT: Dr. Fauci Told the Truth About COVID-19 Tests in July and Has Been Misleading the Public Ever Since.

HEROES WALK AMONG US: Idaho man in hot water after group found cooking chickens in Yellowstone hot spring.

MEET ‘HIS FRAUDULENCY,’ JOE BIDEN: Presidents sometimes get unflattering nicknames. John Adams was known to some as “His Rotundity” and John Tyler, who only succeeded to the presidency upon the death of William Henry Harrison, inevitably became “His Accidency.” I just heard “His Fraudulency” suggested for Joe Biden.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG ASIDE FROM LITERALLY EVERYTHING? Mideast heads for policy revamp under Biden. “Contrary to Donald Trump’s impulsive policies in the Middle East, Joe Biden is expected to shift back to a more conventional US stance and re-engage with Iran, redrawing regional geopolitics.”

“Impulsive.”

Me, back in August on “Trump and the Art of the Middle East Peace Deal”:

That’s not to say that peace and love and happiness will break out throughout the Middle East, or that the peace will last forever. Trump is a dealmaker, not a miracle worker.

But the theater we just witnessed — which will create genuine benefits for Arabs and Israelis alike — was a very stable genius bit of kabuki:

• Launch a peace initiative designed to induce the Palestinian leadership to indulge in their usual bad behavior

• Give Israel the backing it needed to ostensibly take dramatic action in the Jordan River Valley

• Watch as Israel and Arab governments practically fall over themselves to “give up” the land Israel never annexed in exchange for the peace the Arabs need in order to face Iran

Nobody actually gave up anything, and everybody is getting what they wanted.

Well, except for the Palestinians, but yet again, they have only themselves to blame for that.

Maybe Trump just lucked out, somehow bumbling his stupid way into peace.

Maybe the Bolshoi Ballet is just an infinite number of hyperactive spider monkeys in leotards.

Nothing this well-orchestrated happens by happenstance.

I hope you have plenty of fresh unexpectedlies ready in case Biden lets Iran back out of the box Trump put them in, as he seems inclined to do.

ALSO: Biden has been on wrong side of foreign policy issues for decades.

IS THIS GUY PRO-COVID? Gov. Cuomo Threatens to Stop Vaccine Distribution.

Cuomo tells fellow Democrat George Stephanopoulos that “it’s ‘bad news’ Pfizer’s Covid vaccine came during the Trump Admin; says he’s going to work w/ other governors to ‘stop’ distribution ‘before it does damage.’”

And of course, crickets from the DNC-MSM. Karol Markowicz has some thoughts why:

(Classical reference in headline.)

ANALYSIS: TRUE. COVID-19 Didn’t Break the Public School System. It Was Already Broken. Families are leaving traditional schools in record numbers for pods, homeschooling, charters, and more.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Too many prestigious graduate degrees and not enough jobs make for bad politics. My daughter has already noticed that the folks in her circle who are most into “activism” of various sorts are mostly the ones whose careers and lives seem to be going the worst.

BUYER’S REMORSE:

So much of our credentialed class is so malignantly underinformed.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Biden’s Pick for Coronavirus Task Force: ‘Living Too Long Is Also a  Loss.’

This morning, President-elect Biden announced that his coronavirus task force would include Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

In a 2014 essay in The Atlantic, Emanuel, explained why he hoped to die at age 75, and why he finds the idea of living past that date to be morally problematic:

As Jim Geraghty writes, it’s curious choice by Biden, considering the virus is “particularly dangerous to the elderly.”

Later in that above Atlantic article, as PJM’s Tyler O’Neil spotted, Emanuel wrote that in his opinion, for someone over 75, “Flu shots are out:”

What about simple stuff? Flu shots are out. Certainly if there were to be a flu pandemic, a younger person who has yet to live a complete life ought to get the vaccine or any antiviral drugs. A big challenge is antibiotics for pneumonia or skin and urinary infections. Antibiotics are cheap and largely effective in curing infections. It is really hard for us to say no. Indeed, even people who are sure they don’t want life-extending treatments find it hard to refuse antibiotics. But, as Osler reminds us, unlike the decays associated with chronic conditions, death from these infections is quick and relatively painless. So, no to antibiotics.

Obviously, a do-not-resuscitate order and a complete advance directive indicating no ventilators, dialysis, surgery, antibiotics, or any other medication—nothing except palliative care even if I am conscious but not mentally competent—have been written and recorded. In short, no life-sustaining interventions. I will die when whatever comes first takes me.

Incidentally, Siri, how old is the presumptive president-elect? (No, not her, the other one.)

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Election Fraud Update for November 9, 2020.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why does Siri say Kamala Harris is President when you ask how old the president is?

Answer: Because we’ve found the one Republican who works for Apple – and he has quite a sense of humor.

(Hey, it’s one possibility. Sadly, Apple has since corrected Siri’s response to say that “Donald Trump is 74 years old” when now you ask how old the president is.)