PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE: President Trump to propose a plan to implement paper ballots, one day voting, voter ID, and proof of citizenship for all elections during his next administration.

I’d add one more item to Trump’s impressive list: ballots not counted by midnight won’t be accepted for congressional, Senate, or presidential elections. If California wants to spend five weeks stealing the election for some Democrat assemblyman or whatever, that’s their business. But the days of them stealing congressional seats in broad daylight have got to end.

IF YOU TAKE A FALL IN THE FUTURE: And your treatment includes spending some time with a Neuropsychologist, don’t be surprised if your views on race issues become a topic of analysis. Seems the American Psychology Association (APA) is seriously considering revising standards based on Critical Race Theory (CRT)/Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) agit-prop.

“The guidelines are the latest example of how DEI has captured the credentialing apparatus of American health care, transforming what once seemed like an ideological fad into a formal requirement of medical licensure,” Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon reports.

DEEP STATE MEDIA TOOL’S GOTTA BE A DEEP STATE MEDIA TOOL:

NBC is “fact checking” Trump’s interview this morning and they’re repeating the lies that crime is down.

Trump is right. Crime is not down.

Some major cities just stopped reporting it and the FBI recently quietly updated their crime statistics which was missing thousands of… pic.twitter.com/9VPjaiYA31

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 8, 2024

If the big brains at NBC News actually had brains of any size, they’d get into the business of reporting real news, real quick, to improve their credibility and value ahead of a Comcast spinoff of its network properties.

There doesn’t seem to be much danger of that, however.

SO I’M PUTTING THIS PROF DOWN AS PRO-PANTSING, I GUESS: Trans professor: House reps didn’t ‘offer any evidence’ trans colleague is really a man.

Also, why do they always look like that?

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: The Marxism in Front of You That You Can’t Unsee, Volume I: Trans Insanity. “As a former liberal who had spent most of my adult life living in or near New York City, and with plenty of gay friends, I was suspicious as to how this previously unknown group of dudettes was suddenly front and center.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of South Carolina student eats Constitution in front of TPUSA display.

MIDDLE EAST: The Lesson From Bashar Al-Assad’s Collapse.

The question now is what other countries could be vulnerable to the same dynamics that led to Assad’s fall, especially as Assad’s ouster reminds ordinary people that no dictator needs to be permanent.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is one such country. Iran maintains two militaries. A conscript army that many Iranians resent and seek to avoid, it is common for Iranian farmers to delay registering their sons’ births to keep them as labor for several extra years. Protests and uprisings in Iran have become more frequent. Should Iranian Arabs rise, for example, not only might ordinary recruits resist fighting their fellow countrymen, but the impact on the Iranian oil trade that is centered in the region could mean the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—Iran’s more elite, volunteer military—would not have access to the extra cash that incentivizes loyalty. Throw “Maximum Pressure” into the mix, and President-elect Donald Trump could be the American president who witnesses the Islamic Republic’s fall.

Egypt is another. Moral among conscripts in the Egyptian military is almost as poor as the country itself. The Egyptian Army is better known as a business than a fighting force among Egyptians. This is a double-edged sword, as the military’s monopolization and distortion of the economy worsens living standards and breeds resentment. While the Muslim Brotherhood has its own arrogance and undemocratic proclivities to blame for its rapid fall from power, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi misjudges reality if he believes that the Egyptian people’s support for him is genuine rather than a calculation that he was the lesser of two evils. If the Egyptian opposition reforms and the Egyptian military continues its corruption, Egypt will face another wave of instability.

Much more at the link.

I’m curious to see if Erdogan tries to consolidate his gains in northern Syria at Russia’s expense or if there’s a profitable deal to be made with Putin to keep Russia’s air and naval bases.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: We All Might Run Out of Popcorn on Inauguration Day. “This is pure speculation, but I think a lot of world leaders might be thrilled for Trump to get back to work and begin undoing some of the damage brought about by Joe Biden’s World War III fantasy approach to diplomacy.”

THE PROBLEM IS, TECHNOCRATS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE COMPETENT: Technocracy’s last stand: Keir Starmer is oblivious to the anger that’s building.

WATCHING HER FACIAL EXPRESSIONS WITH THE SOUND OFF IS REVEALING.

I call liberal journalists “activists,” because that’s what they are, and Welker couldn’t be clearer about that here. https://t.co/SFwTQWZzUM

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) December 9, 2024

LIMITED TIME DEAL: KitchenAid Classic Multifunction Can Opener and Bottle Opener. #CommissionEarned

THEN: OBAMACARE HAS FIXED HEALTHCARE! NOW: HEALTHCARE IS SO BAD IT JUSTIFIES ASSASSINATIONS!

"And it’s not lost on many of us that it’s being done by the same people who unilaterally overhauled the industry to their liking a decade ago."

Yeah, we noticed.
"O-care is the bestus and is going to fix everything!"
::O-care passes::
"This system and everyone in it suck." https://t.co/81nmcBh6Nh

— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) December 9, 2024

I GUESS THE BAATH PARTY IS ALL WASHED UP: Syria live updates: Putin to give Assad asylum in Russia, Kremlin says.

GREEN NUDE EEL (EUROPEAN EDITION): No bids for Danish offshore wind farms in North Sea tender.

The Danish Energy Agency announced that no bids were submitted for the first three offshore wind farms tendered in the North Sea, with a combined capacity of 3 GW. The bidding deadline for the projects, part of Denmark’s ambitious 6 GW offshore wind expansion plan, expired on December 5, 2024.

Despite initial interest from several companies during the preliminary market dialogue, the absence of bids has prompted Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities, Lars Aagaard, to call for further investigation. The Danish Energy Agency has been tasked with engaging the market to uncover the reasons behind the lack of submissions.

The tender, which offers 6 GW of offshore wind capacity with overplanting potential up to 10 GW, features innovative terms, including no subsidies, an annual concession payment, and 20% state co-ownership in each project. Sustainability and social responsibility requirements were also integrated into the tender criteria.

Co-ownership with the state, a heavy regulatory hand, and yet no takers? Maybe the Danes needed to include even stronger sustainability and social responsibility requirements.

MARK CLOSELY THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS WHO DISAGREE: Republicans want Hegseth at the Pentagon — 68% support.

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE, ALVIN BRAGG? Jimmy Lai, Guilty When Charged: The required crushing of Jimmy Lai by the C.C.P.

Related:

Daniel Penny Judge Tells Jury To Go Back And Deliberate Again Until They Come Back With The Correct Verdict https://t.co/YVmK2Rfnlx pic.twitter.com/plv2AsqyaF

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 7, 2024

IT FEELS LIKE REAGAN ’80 ALL OVER AGAIN: Trump’s Victory Sparks Breakthrough in Hamas Hostage Standoff.

SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD:  The Bulwark: Democrats should deport illegals because they’re no longer reliable illegal votes.

ICYMI: HE WAS ALWAYS TERRIBLE: Falling Out of Love with Obama: What changed?

IT’S EVERYWHERE: On journalism’s dishonesty and moral rot: Did insurance company executive Brian Thompson deserve to be murdered? The New Yorker can’t quite decide. But Jordan Neely – a violent psychotic criminal – is a “subway dancer.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: After critics decry Orion heat shield decision, NASA reviewer says agency is correct.

In an interview, Camarda said he knew two people on the IRT who dissented from its conclusions that NASA’s plan to fly the Orion heat shield, without modifications to address the charring problem, was acceptable. He also criticized the agency for not publicly releasing the independent report. “NASA did not post the results of the IRT,” he said. “Why wouldn’t they post the results of what the IRT said? If this isn’t raising red flags out there, I don’t know what will.”

Ars took these concerns to NASA on Friday, and the agency responded by offering an interview with Paul Hill, the review team’s chair. He strongly denied there were any dissenting views.

“Every one of our conclusions, every one of our recommendations, was unanimously agreed to by our team,” Hill said. “We went through a lot of effort, arguing sentence by sentence, to make sure the entire team agreed. To get there we definitely had some robust and energetic discussions.”

Hill did acknowledge that, at the outset of the review team’s discussions, two people were opposed to NASA’s plan to fly the heat shield as is. “There was, early on, definitely a difference of opinion with a couple of people who felt strongly that Orion’s heat shield was not good enough to fly as built,” he said.

However, Hill said the IRT was won over by the depth of NASA’s testing and the openness of agency engineers who worked with them. He singled out Luis Saucedo, a NASA engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center who led the agency’s internal char loss investigation.

“The work that was done by NASA, it was nothing short of eye-watering, it was incredible,” Hill said.

More: “When he worked at the agency, Hill played a leading role during the investigation into the cause of the loss of space shuttle Columbia, in 2003. He said he could understand if NASA officials ‘circled the wagons’ in response to the IRT’s work, but he said the agency could not have been more forthcoming. Every time the review team wanted more data or information, it was made available. Eventually, this made the entire IRT comfortable with NASA’s findings.”

Good to know but Artemis still needs a top-to-bottom review, starting with SLS.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Trump-47 and the Future of the Federal Judiciary.

RAY EPPS NEEDS MORE ATTENTION: You Might Have Missed It, But Ray Epps’ Lawsuit Against Tucker Went Down In Flames.

YES, HE WANTED TO HELP IRAN, AND IRAN’S SHIITE ARC IS COLLAPSING: Syria’s sudden uprising is a stark reminder of Obama’s failed foreign policy.

SLOWLY THE TRUTH COMES OUT: Ashli Babbitt’s Murderer Not All That Popular With Capitol Police Force, Either.