🇺🇸⚡️- The Senate has confirmed Jared Isaacman to lead NASA in a 67-30 vote.

“Mr. Isaacman highlighted three objectives: human space exploration of the moon, Mars and deep space; unlocking a larger space economy; and becoming a “force multiplier” for science missions, tapping into partnerships with commercial companies and academia to bring down costs.” - NYT.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Venezuelan navy escorts vessels after Trump’s blockade threat.

Several ships carrying oil byproducts from Venezuela sailed from the country’s east coast escorted by the Venezuelan Navy between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, hours after President Trump threatened to impose a “blockade” on sanctioned tankers doing business there," - The New York Times.

🇺🇸⚡️- FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is leaving the FBI.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Antiwar.com has affirmed Tucker Carlson’s claim, stating that their own source on Capitol Hill informed them that President Trump will announce war with Venezuela tonight in his address to the nation.

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- Ben Shapiro in a speech at the Heritage Foundation stated, “The conservative movement is in flux… because of the systemic failure by conservative leaders to do what any good leaders must do: define and maintain the foundations of that movement.”

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- Furthermore, Shapiro allegorizes a nation’s border to conservative ideology. Stating, “Conservatism requires ideological border control.”

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- “[Tucker Carlson] has become, by any honest assessment, an opponent of conservatism, an outsider masquerading as an insider, and destroying the character of the conservative movement in the process.” - Ben Shapiro.

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- “Tucker Carlson believes that foreign powers have hijacked our government. That conspiratorial elite, immovable and undefeatable, other than through centralized power has taken control.” - Ben Shapiro.

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- “Carlson, of course, reserves his chief foreign policy ire, unsurprisingly, for Israel. For which, he has a peculiar obsession. Unwilling to attack President Trump’s foreign policy on Israel directly, he has instead suggested nefarious Israeli influence in American government.” - Ben Shapiro.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- The Venezuela War Powers resolution has failed in a vote of 211-213, with nine members not voting.

The bill was aimed at preventing an operation or strikes inside Venezuelan territory from taking place. With the resolution failing, it gives the President a much easier legal pathway to order strikes or an operation against Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Since President Trump’s announcement of a total blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, the Venezuelan government has ordered its Navy to begin escorting oil tankers from its ports out to safer waters to defend against seizures.

🇺🇸⚡️- “For years the United States operated as a “reverse Empire,” using its military to enrich foreign nations and foreign peoples, sacrificing our wealth, security and sovereignty for the sole benefit and advancement of those beyond our borders.

All we got in return were migrants.

No more.

America’s might will secure America’s rights. America’s military will defend America’s destiny. For Americans, first and always.” - Stephen Miller.

An ominous post that may be alluding to potential US military action in Venezuela.

🇺🇸⚡️- “I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January.
I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose.
Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you.
God bless America, and all those who defend Her.” - Dan Bongino, Deputy Director of the FBI.

🇪🇨🇻🇪⚡- Ecuador's National Assembly has approved a resolution to support the detention of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro.

🇺🇸⚡- "Trump privately spoke with his former impeachment attorney Alan Dershowitz about potentially being president for a THIRD term.

Trump’s former lawyer presented him with his forthcoming book that concludes the Constitution is ambiguous on the question," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇻🇪⚡- Two Venezuelan F-16s have gone airborne, operating over the coast of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Two U.S. Navy EA-18 Growler are also airborne off the coast of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "On Dec. 17, at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. A total of four male narco-terrorists were killed, and no U.S. military forces were harmed," - SOUTHCOM.