ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Exit question: Did Stephanopoulos offer to take a cut to his estimated $15 million annual salary to spare any of his show’s production crew?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: If There Are Any Decent Democrats Left, They’re Awfully Quiet. “The dregs of humanity populate the upper tiers of the Democratic Party and its propaganda wing in the mainstream media. Mother Teresa would have struggled to like the bitter, confrontational idiots in the Dem upper echelon.”

WE NEED TO END COMMIE PRIVILEGE:

MIDDLE EAST: U.S. and Israel reject plan agreed by Arab states proposing alternative to Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera.’

Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to “take over” the Gaza Strip and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” sparked outrage across the region and around the world last month, with some analysts warning that his plan to see Palestinians at least temporarily and possibly permanently displaced was tantamount to ethnic cleansing.

The Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry echoed Trump’s proposal Tuesday, saying it provided an “opportunity for the Gazans to have free choice based on their free will.”

“This should be encouraged,” it added.

While Israeli officials have repeatedly suggested Trump’s plan would give Palestinians in Gaza the ability to leave the enclave freely — something they have not been able to do under Israel and Egypt’s nearly two-decade-long blockade on the territory — it has not expanded on whether they would just as easily be able to regain access to the territory.

That ought to be a big “No.”

Background: Egypt Wants to Curb-Stomp Trump’s Gaza Plan, but Who Pays for Theirs?

REMEMBER THE BORG? Just in case anybody forgot about the Borg, Democrats in Congress opted to use President Donald Trump’s Tuesday address to a joint session of Congress to remind the world what mindless vacuity looks like on national television, according to Issues & Insights.

“We have never seen a spectacle like we saw last night. Democratic women wearing pink (pink?) as a sign of protest. Various members holding up little placards as though they were at an auction bidding on who would come away the biggest loser.

“Others carried canes to, what, signify that the party is old and decrepit? The Democrats’ show-runner for the night deserves to be DOGED by his or her own party,” the I&I crew observes.

Apparently, the Democratic strategists behind Tuesday evening’s demonstration of mindlessness forgot that resistance to the Borg is anything but futile.

WELL, THAT’S DISAPPOINTING: “[NIH chair nominee Jay] Bhattacharya was also asked about how the Trump administration’s anti-DEI crusade might affect scientific research. For example, would efforts to include minorities in clinical trials be undermined? Bhattacharya said no.” Biomedical research should be focused on genetics and how that influences health risks and outcomes. The government, however, requires researchers to focus on human diversity not based on genetics, but on unscientific racial and ethnic classifications invented by the government in the 1970s for entirely different purposes. These classifications at best are weak proxies for genetic diversity, and more often are completely nonsensical. What do we learn by using data on “Hispanics,” who can be 100% European, 100% Indigenous, 100% African, or any combination? What does a study on “Hispanic” Cubans in Miami tell us about “Hispanic” Dominicans in New York? Or take the “Asian American” classification, which includes Caucasian South Asians, East Asians, and Filipino Austronesians, groups that have nothing more genetically in common with each other than any random humans. I could go on, but instead if you are interested in more you can read this piece, or an expanded version in chapter 6 of my book Classified.

WHO’S BEHIND THE LAWFARE ASSAULT ON DOGE: Nobody on the Right in the nation’s capital does a better job of tracking who’s who on the Left than the Capital Research Center (CRC).

Exhibit 1 is senior investigator Ken Braun’s multi-part series tracking who is behind the blizzard of lawsuits seeking to stop DOGE and pretty much everything else President Donald Trump is seeking to accomplish.

TWO CHINAS: China will work to firmly advance ‘reunification’ with Taiwan, premier says.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Wednesday China would “firmly advance” the push for “reunification” with Taiwan while opposing external interference, and strive to work with regular Taiwanese to realize the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite the objection of the government in Taipei, and has ramped up its military pressure against the island in recent years, including holding several rounds of major war games.

“We will firmly advance the cause of China’s reunification and work with our fellow Chinese in Taiwan to realise the glorious cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” Li wrote in his annual work report to China’s parliament.

In his work report last year, Li reiterated a call for “reunification” with Taiwan, but added emphasis that it wants to “be firm” in doing so and dropped the descriptor “peaceful”, which had been used in previous reports.

Buy drones and antiship missiles, Taipai — more than you think you need. Far more.

ROGER SIMON ON THE DEMOCRATS: Can a Political Party Have a Personality Disorder? “They are stuck in time to such a degree they are virtually embalmed, flailing about with nothing positive to say, no ideas, fresh or otherwise. They also are faced with the realization that they are no longer cool, not for a long time. In fact, the notion of cool itself is no longer cool.”

OUR SPEECH IS VIOLENCE, THEIR VIOLENCE IS SPEECH. NO MORE OF THIS DOUBLE STANDARD.

HARSH, BUT FAIR: