Source: The American Conservative
by W James Antle III

“Whatever you think of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, he has learned one thing from his first term: few Beltway truisms are truer than personnel is policy. Trump wants to make a sharp break with the status quo. … This is the no-guardrails Trump team that Vice President Kamala Harris warned you about. … The Senate is part of a separate branch of government and has its own constitutional prerogatives. This includes the advise and consent powers, which gives senators a say in the makeup of the Trump administration and the federal judiciary. Just because they have the power to do so, however, doesn’t mean it would necessarily be a good idea for the Republican Senate majority to eagerly veto Trump’s choices.” (11/20/24)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-faces-senate-test-in-second-term/

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jeffrey Reeves

“A series of events last month underscored the Indo-Pacific’s shift toward a balance shaped increasingly by the actions and priorities of regional states rather than Western intervention led by the United States. This shift reflects both Asia’s internal dynamics and Western miscalculations, which have collectively accelerated the transition. In mid-October, China and India agreed to disengage their militaries and restore patrolling rights along the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC). This move, significant for both regional stability and strategic reallocation, presents an opportunity for Beijing and New Delhi to improve bilateral relations and focus military resources on other priorities — such as China’s interest in Taiwan.” (11/20/24)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/india-china/

Source: Fox News
by Greg Gutfeld

“It’s been 14 days since the Democrats have had to face the truth. They stink worse than the Capitol’s men’s room after Jerry Nadler’s lunch of curry clam soup. Poor Jerry. We’ve talked about what the winners can do now. What about the losers? And there are losers. But it’s not the ones having public meltdowns. They’re victims, too. They’re no different than a hypochondriac being told that their pimple is a tumor. I’m talking about the party elites like Jamie Raskin, Adam Schiff or David Muir, the idiots who fueled all those lies. So, normally, we don’t give advice to people who hate us, but we’re only doing this because we want them to be as happy as we are, or at least as bubbly as Brit Hume.” (11/20/24)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-constant-demonization-backfired-made-trump-appear-appealingly-dangerous

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jeremy R Hammond

“Every politician in Washington, including all the psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists, could just go home; and we could even eliminate the unnecessary ‘Department of Government Efficiency.’ (Ain’t it funny how the government has to create yet another executive agency for the ostensible purpose of shrinking the government? Kinda like how the government had to bankrupt Spirit Airlines to save it, which is like how, during the war against the people of Vietnam, the US government had to destroy the villages to save them.)” (11/19/24)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/free-trade-facts-dont-matter-to-democrats-or-republicans/