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September 02, 2022
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The Great Uniter...

Biden calls Trump ‘threat to country’ in MAGA-bash speech ignored by networks
“There’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.”

Joe Biden Crosses Lines in Grotesque National Address
Lines were crossed that can’t be uncrossed, from the use of the military as props in a blatantly political speech to Biden suggesting that nearly half the country is a “danger” to the republic. This was a speech that went far beyond anything seen in the modern era of presidential addresses.

The ‘Soul’ Of Joe Biden’s America Is Dark As Hell
Thursday evening, Biden delivered a supposedly non-political speech in which he demonized half the country as “threats” who represent “a clear and present danger” to our nation. The entire speech was evidence that the “soul” of Biden’s America is dark as hell.

Biden Calls on Americans to ‘Stop’ MAGA Republicans
“We are not powerless in the face of these threats. We are not bystanders in this ongoing attack on democracy ... it’s within our power, within OUR HANDS, yours and mine, to stop the assault on democracy,” he continued.

Trump blasts Biden MAGA speech, accuses him of being 'insane' and having 'dementia'
"If you look at the words and meaning of the awkward and angry Biden speech tonight, he threatened America, including with the possible use of military force. He must be insane, or suffering from late stage dementia!"

Heckler chants ‘F–k Joe Biden’ throughout prime-time speech
The anti-Biden activist bellowed his profane message with such clarity that it was audible not only to Biden but to anyone listening on the official White House video feed.

Biden's speech looks like something from 1938 Germany
Or maybe he's going for dystopian 1984. ... Also, #PedoHitler was trending during Biden's speech, and overnight.

Replace 'MAGA Republican' with 'Jews'...
"Listen to Biden's speech again, and replace the term 'MAGA Republican' with 'Jew', 'Muslim', 'Black', 'Japanese', or any other ethic, racial or religious group, and you’ll truly appreciate the tenor and terror of what you just heard."

CNN anchor hits Biden for having Marines behind him at anti-MAGA speech: Military is supposed to be apolitical
"There’s nothing unusual or wrong with a President delivering a political speech — it’s inherent in the job description — but doing it against a backdrop of two Marines standing at attention and the Marine Band is a break with White House traditions."

Biden Says ‘Democracy’ 31 Times in Speech Targeting Trump Voters
"...and that democracy, democracy, must be defended for democracy makes all these things possible." Biden’s final words before stepping away from the podium were, “Democracy. Thank you.” However, the U.S. is not a democracy. It's a Republic.

Team Joe Biden Desperately Tries to Spin Dark, Partisan Speech
Biden’s staffers worked furiously Thursday night to combat accusations that his speech at Independence Hall was too partisan against “extreme” MAGA Republicans.

White House defends slamming half of America as 'semi-fascist,' 'terrorists' despite Biden's unity pledge
"We’re talking about MAGA office holders who have put forth an agenda that is extreme." By "extreme," Jean-Pierre clarified that she meant cutting taxes and calling for a national abortion ban.

Fact Check: Biden Claims Republican Leaders ‘All But Calling’ For Violence
“There are public figures today, yesterday, and the day before, predicting and all but calling for mass violence and rioting in the streets,” Biden falsely claimed.

Kevin McCarthy Lambasts Biden Over Decision To ‘Divide, Demean, And Disparage’ Americans
McCarthy slammed Biden for pitting Americans against each other while also ignoring the crises that have erupted during his first two years in office.

CNN's Don Lemon defends Biden's 'semi-fascism' smear of MAGA base: 'No lies detected'
Lemon defended Biden's use of the term "semi-fascism" to describe "MAGA Republicans," arguing the president's comments were "unifying" because some believe they are "true."

Domestic News...

Where’s California’s ‘freedom’ now?
It was less than 60 days ago that California Gov. Gavin Newsom had the audacity to spend money on an ad in Florida asking Floridians to move to California because “freedom is under attack in your state.”

First homicides, now shoplifting plagues Philadelphia thanks to radical DA
Instead of holding all criminals accountable, the district attorney's office shifted to prioritizing criminals' welfare over the innocent.

Man allowed out by judge after child sex crime conviction allegedly commits murder just days later
Ernest Terrell Blakney allegedly shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and set his home on fire just 10 days after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Mini-croissant cereal sells for $50 a box
A bowl of the Petite Croissant Cereale. A box sells for $50. The bakery releases a limited number of boxes each day, which typically sell out before 8:30 in the morning.

Politics...

Bloomberg: DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges
Federal prosecutors are likely to wait until after the November election to announce any charges against Donald Trump, if they determine he broke laws, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Hunter Biden secured dinner for client at Chinese embassy following luncheon hosted by VP Biden, emails show
The investors dinner at the Chinese embassy was promoted on China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.

Trump considers 'full pardons' of J6 defendants
"I’m looking at it very carefully … I’ve studied cases," Trump said. "We have to do it, because they have some good lawyers but even [with] the good lawyers … you get some of these judges that are so, so nasty and so angry and mean."

Rick Scott Savages Mitch McConnell For Trying To Sabotage GOP Senate Races
In a opinion editorial, Scott lambasted the “many of the very people responsible for losing the Senate last cycle” who are “now trying to stop us from winning the majority this time by trash-talking our Republican candidates” as “fools.”

Dr. Oz helps passenger on recent flight
A man had collapsed while trying to get into the bathroom.

Fetterman has two convicted murderers on his campaign staff
"If John Fetterman cared about Pennsylvania’s crime problem, he’d prove it by firing the convicted murderers he employs on his campaign," am Oz spokesperson said.

Sarah Palin Should Blame Lisa Murkowski For Her Special Election Loss
Over 60% voted for a Republican, but Palin still lost because of Alaska’s adoption of ranked-choice voting, an electoral system Murkowski was instrumental in pushing through. If not for ranked-choice voting, Murkowski likely would have lost in a traditional primary.

Disgraced Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum’s Top Aides Behind Multimillion-Dollar Weed Initiative
In March 2020, Gillum — who lost to DeSantis by 0.4% — was found unconscious along with two men, including a gay escort who overdosed, in a drug-filled hotel room, which contained crystal meth, Xanax, and a drug commonly injected into the penis by men suffering from erectile dysfunction.

Progressive NY politician complains about living in a 'war zone' -- because he saw a Cadillac Escalade
"Genuinely cannot believe this is a car on my idyllic west village street. It is a f***ing TANK, and I don't want to live in a war zone," tweeted Ryder Kessler.

Economy / ESG...

How to Build an Antiracist Housing Bubble
When the housing bubble of the first decade of the twenty-first century burst, there was widespread agreement that one of the culprits was mortgages that required little or no money down.

Amazon Faces Suit Over $10K Offer Made Exclusively to ‘Black, Latinx, and Native American Entrepreneurs’
Whites and Asians need not apply.

Portland workers say making them go back to offices is 'racist, sexist, ableist,' and anti-climate
The coalition added that while working from home, employees had encountered "fewer microaggressions and fewer instances of overt racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, etc., in the workplace or during their commute."

Border...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot slams Texas Gov. Abbott as a 'man without any morals' after he sent buses of illegals
"Gov. Abbott's racist and xenophobic practices of expulsion have only amplified the challenges many of these migrants have experienced on their journey to find a safe place. The governor's actions are not just inhumane, they are unpatriotic."

WAR News... 

US Naval Academy creates new woke 'Diversity Peer Educator' program
DPEs are to serve "as a walking safe space for peers" and "as a resource for peers who need to seek help in all matters of diversity and inclusion."

COVID-19...

White House Blames Republican 'Mismanagement' for Pandemic School Closures, Low Test Scores
Jean-Pierre blames the "mismanagement of the Trump administration" for schools not opening sooner and says that "nearly all schools opened in less than 6 months [after Biden took office]. That was the work of this president and Democrats in spite of Republicans."

Time to name names: Joe Biden campaigned in 2020 against opening schools
In 2020, Biden literally campaigned ran attack ads saying Trump as “desperate to open schools” only because he was “ignoring how the virus spreads, risking teachers’ and parents’ lives, going against the advice of experts.”

Biden admin held weekly censorship meetings with social media giants to suppress COVID and vaccine speech
The federal government, under the Biden administration, "has exerted tremendous pressure on social-media companies—pressure to which companies have repeatedly bowed."

Professor demands students mask up, indicates that failure to so reflects racism and ableism
The professor's syllabus warns that those who do not comply "will be asked to leave."

Commie Update...

Chengdu locks down 21.2 million people as Chinese cities battle COVID-19
Chengdu’s lockdown sparked panic buying of essentials among residents.

Chinese stocks could plunge by 20% if real estate troubles get much worse, Morgan Stanley says
China’s struggling real estate sector could significantly drag down the economy and the stock market if authorities don’t provide enough support.

Entertainment...

Glenn Beck brings LIZZO lyrics to life with analysis
Glenn joined "Stu Does America" and performed a dramatic interpretation of Lizzo's "Where Da Hell My Phone."

Claim: Nickelodeon Producer Asked for 'Skimpier' Clothes on Teen Stars, Massages from Female Staff
Not long after iCarly star Jennette McCurdy published a memoir that included references to “the creator,” sparking renewed conversation about Dan Schneider’s Nickelodeon tenure, Insider launched an investigation; and the results are, predictably, pretty bleak.

Kanye West: I have ‘addiction’ to porn and it ‘destroyed my family’
“Don’t let Kris make you do playboy like she made [Kylie] and Kim do,” he began in an Instagram post to Kylie Jenner’s former assistant. “Hollywood is a giant brothel Pornography destroyed my family I deal with the addiction instagram promotes it."

Media...

Trump Was Right About the Washington Post
He's the best thing that ever happened to the Bezos-owned paper (and CNN).

Time magazine ridiculed for using 'absurd' woke pronouns for controversial 'Gender Queer' author
"TIME spoke to 'Gender Queer' author and illustrator Maia Kobabe on about eir work, the efforts to restrict access to eir writing, and what ey make of the current cultural moment."

Canada...

Justin Trudeau's anti-racist program flops after top proponent exposed as an anti-Semite
Trudeau has a long history of dressing up in blackface, in addition to giving money to anti-Semitic organizations.

Middle East...

Bipartisan letter urges Biden: No Iran deal before consulting Congress
A bipartisan group of 50 House members – 34 of them Democrats – sent a letter to Biden, expressing deep concern over the deal and urging the administration to consult with Congress before signing it.

Iran deal bashed in letter to Biden from 5,000 Israeli security experts
With the lifting of economic sanctions, Tehran will be able to not only increase the work on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs but continue with its plans of regional hegemony.

Environment...

Amazon took all US solar rooftops offline last year after flurry of fires, electrical explosions
Between April 2020 and June 2021, solar panels atop Amazon fulfillment centers caught fire or experienced electrical explosions at least six different times.

Amid A Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis, California Gives Its Last Nuclear Power Plant A Five-Year Extension
Senate Bill 846 made it through on the last day of the assembly’s legislative session, offering the plant a five-year lifeline beyond its initial decommission date set for 2025. Thirty-one senators voted in favor compared to just one who voted against.

Thousands locked out of smart thermostats during 'energy emergency'
"Let's remember that this is something that customers choose to be a part of based on the incentives." Xcel incentivizes the program by offering customers a one-time enrollment credit of $100 and an annual credit of $25 for joining the program.

Climate Alarmists Hardest Hit After Summer Months Pass Without Named Hurricanes
It wasn’t supposed to be this way...

LGBTQIA2S+...

Biden admin to demand that foreign nations ban 'conversion therapy' of trans youth
A leaked memo from Antony Blinken shows the Biden administration's intention of turning American embassies into "global 'gender-affirming' spies."

Education...

Project Veritas exposes NYC private school teacher turning students into activists
"I just keep trying to disrupt wherever I can," Norris said. "And now that I’m in this position, I have so many opportunities to do that."

'I’m a teacher, who cares if I’m dressed sexy': 'Bullied' educators clap back at critics
“I am an artist & an influencer as well as a teacher.”

Texas Board Of Education Pauses Plan To Wokify Public School History Instruction
Before its pivot, the state Board of Education was looking at a massive overhaul that would have changed how young Texans learn social studies.

Health...

72% of America’s Top Medical Schools Use Racial Politics to Eliminate Applicants
According to the review, 72 percent of the nation’s top 50 schools and 80 percent of the top ten ask “probing questions to elicit responses from the applicant about his or her views on diversity, equity, and inclusion topics.”

Religion...

Satanists’ Prayer Stunt Isn’t About Free Speech. It’s About Silencing Christians
The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Boston flag case does not support the Satanic Temple’s free speech claim.

Sports...

NY Post Gossip Column: Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen in epic fight
According to Page Six, Gisele has left their family compound in Tampa for Costa Rica following a series of heated arguments over Brady’s shock decision to un-retire from the NFL, while he has remained behind for team training.

Sep 2, 2002 - Best of GB... Caller compares Glenn to Satan for his dislike of cats... Democracy is destined to fail in America... Who is responsible for...

Sep 2, 2010 - WaPo says Glenn is creating a theocracy... 500,000 people at 8/28 and not a single arrest... Universities as effective as Hezbollah at indoctrination...

Trump's proposal explained: Ukraine's path to peace without NATO expansion

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Contributor | Getty Images

Strategic compromise, not absolute victory, often ensures lasting stability.

When has any country been asked to give up land it won in a war? Even if a nation is at fault, the punishment must be measured.

After World War I, Germany, the main aggressor, faced harsh penalties under the Treaty of Versailles. Germans resented the restrictions, and that resentment fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler, ultimately leading to World War II. History teaches that justice for transgressions must avoid creating conditions for future conflict.

Ukraine and Russia must choose to either continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

Russia and Ukraine now stand at a similar crossroads. They can cling to disputed land and prolong a devastating war, or they can make concessions that might secure a lasting peace. The stakes could not be higher: Tens of thousands die each month, and the choice between endless bloodshed and negotiated stability hinges on each side’s willingness to yield.

History offers a guide. In 1967, Israel faced annihilation. Surrounded by hostile armies, the nation fought back and seized large swaths of territory from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. Yet Israel did not seek an empire. It held only the buffer zones needed for survival and returned most of the land. Security and peace, not conquest, drove its decisions.

Peace requires concessions

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine will need to “get something” from a peace deal. He’s right. Israel proved that survival outweighs pride. By giving up land in exchange for recognition and an end to hostilities, it stopped the cycle of war. Egypt and Israel have not fought in more than 50 years.

Russia and Ukraine now press opposing security demands. Moscow wants a buffer to block NATO. Kyiv, scarred by invasion, seeks NATO membership — a pledge that any attack would trigger collective defense by the United States and Europe.

President Donald Trump and his allies have floated a middle path: an Article 5-style guarantee without full NATO membership. Article 5, the core of NATO’s charter, declares that an attack on one is an attack on all. For Ukraine, such a pledge would act as a powerful deterrent. For Russia, it might be more palatable than NATO expansion to its border

Andrew Harnik / Staff | Getty Images

Peace requires concessions. The human cost is staggering: U.S. estimates indicate 20,000 Russian soldiers died in a single month — nearly half the total U.S. casualties in Vietnam — and the toll on Ukrainians is also severe. To stop this bloodshed, both sides need to recognize reality on the ground, make difficult choices, and anchor negotiations in security and peace rather than pride.

Peace or bloodshed?

Both Russia and Ukraine claim deep historical grievances. Ukraine arguably has a stronger claim of injustice. But the question is not whose parchment is older or whose deed is more valid. The question is whether either side is willing to trade some land for the lives of thousands of innocent people. True security, not historical vindication, must guide the path forward.

History shows that punitive measures or rigid insistence on territorial claims can perpetuate cycles of war. Germany’s punishment after World War I contributed directly to World War II. By contrast, Israel’s willingness to cede land for security and recognition created enduring peace. Ukraine and Russia now face the same choice: Continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The loneliness epidemic: Are machines replacing human connection?

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Seniors, children, and the isolated increasingly rely on machines for conversation, risking real relationships and the emotional depth that only humans provide.

Jill Smola is 75 years old. She’s a retiree from Orlando, Florida, and she spent her life caring for the elderly. She played games, assembled puzzles, and offered company to those who otherwise would have sat alone.

Now, she sits alone herself. Her husband has died. She has a lung condition. She can’t drive. She can’t leave her home. Weeks can pass without human interaction.

Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

But CBS News reports that she has a new companion. And she likes this companion more than her own daughter.

The companion? Artificial intelligence.

She spends five hours a day talking to her AI friend. They play games, do trivia, and just talk. She says she even prefers it to real people.

My first thought was simple: Stop this. We are losing our humanity.

But as I sat with the story, I realized something uncomfortable. Maybe we’ve already lost some of our humanity — not to AI, but to ourselves.

Outsourcing presence

How often do we know the right thing to do yet fail to act? We know we should visit the lonely. We know we should sit with someone in pain. We know what Jesus would do: Notice the forgotten, touch the untouchable, offer time and attention without outsourcing compassion.

Yet how often do we just … talk about it? On the radio, online, in lectures, in posts. We pontificate, and then we retreat.

I asked myself: What am I actually doing to close the distance between knowing and doing?

Human connection is messy. It’s inconvenient. It takes patience, humility, and endurance. AI doesn’t challenge you. It doesn’t interrupt your day. It doesn’t ask anything of you. Real people do. Real people make us confront our pride, our discomfort, our loneliness.

We’ve built an economy of convenience. We can have groceries delivered, movies streamed, answers instantly. But friendships — real relationships — are slow, inefficient, unpredictable. They happen in the blank spaces of life that we’ve been trained to ignore.

And now we’re replacing that inefficiency with machines.

AI provides comfort without challenge. It eliminates the risk of real intimacy. It’s an elegant coping mechanism for loneliness, but a poor substitute for life. If we’re not careful, the lonely won’t just be alone — they’ll be alone with an anesthetic, a shadow that never asks for anything, never interrupts, never makes them grow.

Reclaiming our humanity

We need to reclaim our humanity. Presence matters. Not theory. Not outrage. Action.

It starts small. Pull up a chair for someone who eats alone. Call a neighbor you haven’t spoken to in months. Visit a nursing home once a month — then once a week. Ask their names, hear their stories. Teach your children how to be present, to sit with someone in grief, without rushing to fix it.

Turn phones off at dinner. Make Sunday afternoons human time. Listen. Ask questions. Don’t post about it afterward. Make the act itself sacred.

Humility is central. We prefer machines because we can control them. Real people are inconvenient. They interrupt our narratives. They demand patience, forgiveness, and endurance. They make us confront ourselves.

A friend will challenge your self-image. A chatbot won’t.

Our homes are quieter. Our streets are emptier. Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

Before we worry about how AI will reshape humanity, we must first practice humanity. It can start with 15 minutes a day of undivided attention, presence, and listening.

Change usually comes when pain finally wins. Let’s not wait for that. Let’s start now. Because real connection restores faster than any machine ever will.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Exposed: The radical Left's bloody rampage against America

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For years, the media warned of right-wing terror. But the bullets, bombs, and body bags are piling up on the left — with support from Democrat leaders and voters.

For decades, the media and federal agencies have warned Americans that the greatest threat to our homeland is the political right — gun-owning veterans, conservative Christians, anyone who ever voted for President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden once declared that white supremacy is “the single most dangerous terrorist threat” in the nation.

Since Trump’s re-election, the rhetoric has only escalated. Outlets like the Washington Post and the Guardian warned that his second term would trigger a wave of far-right violence.

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing.

They were wrong.

The real domestic threat isn’t coming from MAGA grandmas or rifle-toting red-staters. It’s coming from the radical left — the anarchists, the Marxists, the pro-Palestinian militants, and the anti-American agitators who have declared war on law enforcement, elected officials, and civil society.

Willful blindness

On July 4, a group of black-clad terrorists ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Alvarado, Texas. They hurled fireworks at the building, spray-painted graffiti, and then opened fire on responding law enforcement, shooting a local officer in the neck. Journalist Andy Ngo has linked the attackers to an Antifa cell in the Dallas area.

Authorities have so far charged 14 people in the plot and recovered AR-style rifles, body armor, Kevlar vests, helmets, tactical gloves, and radios. According to the Department of Justice, this was a “planned ambush with intent to kill.”

And it wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a growing pattern of continuous violent left-wing incidents since December last year.

Monthly attacks

Most notably, in December 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. Mangione reportedly left a manifesto raging against the American health care system and was glorified by some on social media as a kind of modern Robin Hood.

One Emerson College poll found that 41% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 said the murder was “acceptable” or “somewhat acceptable.”

The next month, a man carrying Molotov cocktails was arrested near the U.S. Capitol. He allegedly planned to assassinate Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

In February, the “Tesla Takedown” attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships started picking up traction.

In March, a self-described “queer scientist” was arrested after allegedly firebombing the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graffiti on the burned building read “ICE = KKK.”

In April, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-Pa.) official residence was firebombed on Passover night. The suspect allegedly set the governor’s mansion on fire because of what Shapiro, who is Jewish, “wants to do to the Palestinian people.”

In May, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Witnesses said the shooter shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested. The suspect told police he acted “for Gaza” and was reportedly linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In June, an Egyptian national who had entered the U.S. illegally allegedly threw a firebomb at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado. Eight people were hospitalized, and an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor later died from her injuries.

That same month, a pro-Palestinian rioter in New York was arrested for allegedly setting fire to 11 police vehicles. In Los Angeles, anti-ICE rioters smashed cars, set fires, and hurled rocks at law enforcement. House Democrats refused to condemn the violence.

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In Portland, Oregon, rioters tried to burn down another ICE facility and assaulted police officers before being dispersed with tear gas. Graffiti left behind read: “Kill your masters.”

On July 7, a Michigan man opened fire on a Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and an agent. Border agents returned fire, killing the suspect.

Days later in California, ICE officers conducting a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Ventura County were attacked by left-wing activists. One protester appeared to fire at federal agents.

This is not a series of isolated incidents. It’s a timeline of escalation. Political assassinations, firebombings, arson, ambushes — all carried out in the name of radical leftist ideology.

Democrats are radicalizing

This isn’t just the work of fringe agitators. It’s being enabled — and in many cases encouraged — by elected Democrats.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz routinely calls ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attempted to block an ICE operation in her city. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson referred to them as “secret police terrorizing our communities.”

Apparently, other Democratic lawmakers, according to Axios, are privately troubled by their own base. One unnamed House Democrat admitted that supporters were urging members to escalate further: “Some of them have suggested what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Others were demanding blood in the streets to get the media’s attention.

A study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that 55% of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that murdering Donald Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing. They don’t want the chaos to stop. They want to harness it, normalize it, and weaponize it.

The truth is, this isn’t just about ICE. It’s not even about Trump. It’s about whether a republic can survive when one major party decides that our institutions no longer apply.

Truth still matters. Law and order still matter. And if the left refuses to defend them, then we must be the ones who do.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

America's comeback: Trump is crushing crime in the Capitol

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Trump’s DC crackdown is about more than controlling crime — it’s about restoring America’s strength and credibility on the world stage.

Donald Trump on Monday invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and deploying the National Guard to restore law and order. This move is long overdue.

D.C.’s crime problem has been spiraling for years as local authorities and Democratic leadership have abandoned the nation’s capital to the consequences of their own failed policies. The city’s murder rate is about three times higher than that of Islamabad, Pakistan, and 18 times higher than that of communist-led Havana, Cuba.

When DC is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak.

Theft, assaults, and carjackings have transformed many of its streets into war zones. D.C. saw a 32% increase in homicides from 2022 to 2023, marking the highest number in two decades and surpassing both New York and Los Angeles. Even if crime rates dropped to 2019 levels, that wouldn’t be good enough.

Local leaders have downplayed the crisis, manipulating crime stats to preserve their image. Felony assault, for example, is no longer considered a “violent crime” in their crime stats. Same with carjacking. But the reality on the streets is different. People in D.C. are living in constant fear.

Trump isn’t waiting for the crime rate to improve on its own. He’s taking action.

Broken windows theory in action

Trump’s takeover of D.C. puts the “broken windows theory” into action — the idea that ignoring minor crimes invites bigger ones. When authorities look the other way on turnstile-jumping or graffiti, they signal that lawbreaking carries no real consequence.

Rudy Giuliani used this approach in the 1990s to clean up New York, cracking down on small offenses before they escalated. Trump is doing the same in the capital, drawing a hard line and declaring enough is enough. Letting crime fester in Washington tells the world that the seat of American power tolerates lawlessness.

What Trump is doing for D.C. isn’t just about law enforcement — it’s about national identity. When D.C. is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak. The capital city represents the soul of the country. If we can’t even keep our own capital safe, how can we expect anyone to take us seriously?

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Reversing the decline

Anyone who has visited D.C. regularly over the past several years has witnessed its rapid decline. Homeless people bathe in the fountains outside Union Station. People are tripping out in Dupont Circle. The left’s negligence is a disgrace, enabling drug use and homelessness to explode on our capital’s streets while depriving these individuals of desperately needed care and help.

Restoring law and order to D.C. is not about politics or scoring points. It’s about doing what’s right for the people. It’s about protecting communities, taking the vulnerable off the streets, and sending the message to both law-abiding and law-breaking citizens alike that the rule of law matters.

D.C. should be a lesson to the rest of America. If we want to take our cities back, we need leadership willing to take bold action. Trump is showing how to do it.

Now, it’s time for other cities to step up and follow his lead. We can restore law and order. We can make our cities something to be proud of again.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.