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Morning Brief 2022-09-27

September 27, 2022
Chris Brady

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Peter Breen
TOPIC: FBI raids home of pro-life Catholic advocate over alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Richard Grenell
TOPIC: The FBI won't stop at Trump; they will go after everybody.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Richard Paul Evans
TOPIC: The Michael Vey series returns today with the release of "Michael Vey 8: The Parasite"!

CB, RR, JB, SK, BM

Biden's Brown Shirts...

The Biden administration has launched its war on pro-lifers
The White House and the Democratic Party on the state and federal levels have declared a legal war on pro-lifers, while vigilante abortion defenders wage a parallel war of arson, vandalism, and harassment.

Pro-Life Advocate Mark Houck Offered to Talk to FBI 3 Months Ago, It Raided His Family Anyway
“Rather than accepting Mark Houck’s offer to appear voluntarily, the Biden Department of Justice chose to make an unnecessary show of potentially deadly force, sending twenty heavily armed federal agents to the Houck residence at dawn this past Friday ..."

Is FBI using security clearances to muzzle critics? Whistleblower's lawyer says yes
"Rather than just suspending the person on a claim that they didn't do their job, or that they engaged in some misconduct, they'll simply suspend their clearance, which means that they can't do the work that they would normally do, then they can take them off the payroll, take their badge and gun, sideline them."

NYT Columnist Blasts The FBI Over Matt Gaetz Investigation
“The investigation of Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, which looks like it’s about to fall apart, is an FBI disgrace of the ages. It should force heads to roll,” Stephens wrote. “And Congress needs to appoint a Church-style committee or commission to reform the bureau."

Senior Biden advisor says ‘MAGA Republican agenda’ is to ‘destroy the United States of America’
Replace MAGA Republican agenda with Jewish agenda, or black agenda, or Muslim agenda, and see how it reads then.

Domestic News...

Lawsuit claims FBI seized $86 million in assets by misleading judge on warrant
"This was the largest armed robbery in United States history, and it was committed by the FBI."

Facing officer shortage after the 'defund police' movement, New Orleans to dispatch civilians to crime scenes
Democrat Mayor LaToya Cantrell's New Orleans, now America's murder capital, not only faces skyrocketing crime rates but a dearth of police officers to bring the corresponding chaos under control.

Los Angeles deputy district attorney: Gascon 'tried to humiliate us' for recall
The Soros-backed L.A. DA George Gascon has demoted numerous veteran prosecutors who supported his recall effort this year, Fox News reported.

Florida armed robber claims ‘I’m from Chicago, bro,’ leaves when clerk displays gun
A man casually carrying a shotgun and claiming to be from Chicago walked into a Florida convenience store during an attempted robbery but walked out when a clerk displayed his own weapon, authorities said.

Low-lying and flood-prone, Tampa Bay area braces for first major storm in 101 years
The region, with nearly 700 miles of shoreline and more than 3 million residents, is one of the most vulnerable places in the U.S. to severe flooding if a major hurricane were to score a direct hit. A World Bank study called Tampa Bay one of the 10 most at-risk metropolitan areas on the globe.

Waffle House Index: How it measures the severity of a hurricane
FEMA has been using the Waffle House Indicator to measure the severity of a storm since Hurricane Charley in 2004.

Beyond Meat Sales Plummet, Considered Too ‘Woke’ For Consumers
Deloitte, a large consulting firm, found that consumers are no longer choosing to buy meat substitutes because they are considered far too “woke,” even among individuals who are looking to eat less red meat, according to Bloomberg.

Politics...

White House downplays CBO report on $400 billion cost of student loan forgiveness plan
The White House pushed back on a report by the CBO, arguing that 90% of federal student loan borrowers are unlikely to take advantage of Biden’s forgiveness plan.

Biden’s Position On Abortion Is So Extreme, The White House Won’t Even Say It Out Loud
Biden might think that ignoring the truth about abortion will be all the ammunition he needs to justify his administration’s radical abortion goals, but it won’t. Not only does Biden’s reluctance to support abortion restrictions betray his Catholic faith, but it also betrays voters.

Biden's press secretary fails to answer question: 'Does President Biden think America's big cities are safe?'
Doocy asked, "Does President Biden think America’s big cities are safe?" to which Jean-Pierre said, "It’s not a yes or no question" and that "crime is complicated and multifaceted."

Fetterman Gave Nod to Crips Street Gang During Mayoral Campaign
During his first mayoral run in 2005, Fetterman adopted the slogan "Vote John Mayor of Braddocc," a nod to the spelling that local Crips gang members used for the town.

Another Dem Incumbent Is In Big Trouble: POLL
A new poll shows Democrat incumbent Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington losing ground to Republican challenger Tiffany Smiley.

Sinema deals major blow to Dems by backing McConnell over own party
Sinema defended her support for the filibuster on Monday despite near-unified opposition from the rest of her party.

Manchin attacks 'extreme' Sanders over opposition to energy permitting plan
He told reporters that he had "never seen stranger bedfellows than Bernie Sanders and the extreme liberal left siding up with Republican leadership" in opposition to his energy plan.

MSNBC, CNN Ignore Sex Assault Allegations Against Dem Senate Candidate
Mike Franken is accused of having "1950s interactions" with "several" women.

Obama's Secret Service detail parks in handicapped spot for two hours while he enjoys upscale LA dinner
The black SUV (not a Prius) stayed in a spot marked for handicap parking as it waited for the Obamas to finish eating at the pricey Hamasaku restaurant, where eight-piece sushi rolls cost $50 and specialty rolls go for more than $20 each.

Democrat rips police after they arrested man she lives with for assaulting protester
California Democrat Rep. Katie Porter reportedly slammed the Irvine Police Department after officers arrested a man she lives with for his alleged involvement in a fight that broke out at her town hall event last year.

New Mexico Congressional Hopeful Uses Fake Name To Trash Cops, Deletes Evidence
Democrat Gabe Vasquez called to defund police in interview he gave under fake name, investigation shows.

Economy...

Dow officially enters bear market
A bear market is traditionally defined as a 20% decline from a recent high.

A Natural Gas Shortage Is Looming For The US
A hotter-than-expected summer and a lack of alternative energy sources have left U.S. inventories below the seasonal average.

Gas Prices Go Up In California
The national average prices of gas, as of September 26, was $3.73 across the country, according to AAA. In California, it was at $5.80.

Border...

Most voters back busing illegals to liberal cities: CBS-YouGov Poll
Some 51% of registered voters surveyed support the transporting of illegals, eclipsing the 49% who disapprove. A total of 88% of respondents agreed the move was effective at generating attention to the issue.

Black gun rights activists demand ‘closed borders’ in Austin protest
One woman attempted to start a “build the wall” chant. However, her attempt didn’t go over well. “Yeah, let’s not do that,” one person replied.

WAR News... 

Government funding bill to include over $12 billion in new Ukraine aid
If passed, total Ukraine funding approved by Congress will come to about $65 billion.

US faces bleak options as Putin turns bellicose on nukes
Remember when Putin was threatening to use nukes when Trump was in office? Oh right.

Air Force Academy Holds ‘Transgender Visibility’ Seminar
The first 40 cadets to attend the seminar received a free lunch.

Houston Took In Thousands Of Afghan Refugees. Now It Can’t Take Care Of Them
While the city has housed thousands of refugees, it was not equipped to handle so many at once; resettlement agencies are overstretched, leaving the task of caring for refugee families, many of whom have few belongings and don’t speak English.

Putin Grants Russian Citizenship To Edward Snowden
Putin signed a decree Monday granting Snowden citizenship nearly two years after the NSA whistleblower petitioned for it along with his wife.

Marking 75 years, the CIA opens a new museum and launches a podcast
What the world needs is ANOTHER podcast and MORE government propaganda.

COVID-19...

Idaho Mom Arrested In 2020 For Letting Kids Play At A Public Park Is Still Being Prosecuted By Republican AG’s Office
While the arrest of the Idaho mother of two was outrageous to begin with, what’s even more abhorrent is that Brady is still currently being prosecuted by the office of the state’s Republican attorney general, Lawrence Wasden.

The Dystopian Vision of the Health-Information Police
Assembly Bill 2098 would empower California to go after the licenses of physicians who disseminate “misinformation.” The bill defines misinformation as “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.”

New Study Reveals Trace Amounts Of COVID-19 Vaccine mRNAs Found In Breast Milk
“Caution is warranted regarding breastfeeding infants younger than six months in the first two days after maternal COVID-19 vaccination,” the journal said in a tweet.

Expert warns healthy young people not to get COVID-19 booster
"There's not clear evidence of benefit" versus risk.

CDC no longer recommends universal masking in health facilities
The agency quietly issued the updates as part of an overhaul to its infection control guidance for health workers published late Friday afternoon.

Commie Update...

GOP Rep. James Comer Says Hunter Biden Had 'Eric Swalwell Situation'
“Swalwell wasn’t the only person to have a Fang Fang in D.C. Turns out Hunter Biden may have dabbled with a Chinese spy, too. Her name is JiaQi Bao.”

Entertainment...

Democrats Praise ‘Global Citizens’ At The Global Citizen Festival: ‘You Are The Wind Beneath Our Wings!
The festival was started in 2012 and is sponsored by some of the largest corporations in the world. It aims to alleviate “extreme poverty” through global collectivist efforts.

Alec Baldwin may face criminal charges over fatal on-set shooting
A filing from a district attorney indicated that actor Alec Baldwin may face criminal charges.

Michael Moore predicts 'landslide' against 'Republican traitors' in November
Bill Maher replies, "We are for all Americans on this show."

Ex-Scientology officer claims he saw John Travolta kiss male masseur
Mike Rinder, who is pushing a book, claims he was assigned to help Travolta with “some public relations issues.” He was meeting him in a hotel suite when Travolta’s masseur, clad in a bathrobe, walked into the room and kissed the actor on the mouth.

Sandra Bullock lists California avocado farm for $6M
After unloading a Hollywood Hills home in 2018 and a West Hollywood condo earlier this year, the actress is now listing her 91-acre hilltop avocado farm outside San Diego.

Media...

WaPo: There’s always demand for a Trump smoking gun. So there’s always supply.
Those who dislike Trump don’t want to believe that there isn’t some discoverable string tying Trump to obvious illegality — despite how often such strings have been announced and then shown to be frayed.

Politico Founding Editor Wants to Rewrite Constitution Because of Trump
"Trump may be an enemy of the Constitution but he is also the president who most zealously exploited its defects."

Chris Wallace Show Tanks On CNN, Loses Big To His Former Network
Wallace’s much-touted interview show racked up only 401,000 total viewers during his show.

Europe...

Is Italy’s Next Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, A ‘Fascist’? Hardly
Trying to decipher European elections through the prism of American politics is a frustrating endeavor. But here is a cataloging, as best as I can pull together, of the claims used to portray Meloni as fascist ...

European Voters Are Rejecting The Failed Policies Of Globalism From Italy To Sweden
Several ruling, pro-globalist European coalitions lost control of their nations’ respective governments in elections over the past several weeks, marking a major victory for some of the continent’s more right-of-center political parties.

Environment...

Biden administration launches 'environmental justice' office
The Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights will merge three existing EPA programs to oversee a portion of Democrats’ $60 billion investment in environmental justice initiatives created by the Inflation Reduction Act.

Dems Stuffed Billions In Reparations For Black Farmers In ‘Inflation Reduction Act’
White men need not apply.

UN secretary general wants West to pay reparations for third-world weather crises
António Guterres told the UN general assembly that "[p]olluters must pay." He insisted that the international body must "hold fossil fuel companies and their enablers to account."

LGBTQIA2S+...

Spanish official reportedly claims: 'children ... can love or have sexual relations with whomever they want'
"All girls, boys, childrenx in this country have the right to know their own body, to know that no adult can touch their body if they don't want to and that is a form of violence, they have the right to know that they can love or have sexual relations with whoever they want, based on consent."

TransTape, Chest Binders And Packers: The ‘Gender-Affirming’ Gear Public Schools Are Stocking Up On
In a push to create a “safer and more inclusive” environment, school districts are creating gender-affirming closets, giving students access to chest binders, stand-to-pee devices and makeup.

Technology...

Facebook ‘silencing’ activity related to FBI whistleblower Steve Friend
More evidence of how vindictive, obsessive, and downright sinister Facebook is: Now it appears to be monitoring private messages and suppressing material related to the whistleblower complaint of heroic FBI special agent Steve Friend.

Science...

NASA strikes asteroid with spacecraft in historic planetary defense mission
It’s the first time humanity has ever purposefully struck an object in space.

Sports...

UFC's Dana White rips 'do-nothing' media attacking him during COVID: My employees had to feed their families
Dana White rips media coverage during COVID: "Nobody depends on [media] for a paycheck. But all they do is sit back and criticize."

Biden likens Braves' come-from-behind championship run to 2020 election
Biden hosted the 2021 World Series champion Atlanta Braves at the White House, during which he cracked several jokes about his come-from-behind victory in the 2020 election.

Buccaneers could be forced to play 'home game' in Minnesota this week
Hurricane Ian could force the Brady vs. Mahomes Sunday Night Football matchup to move from Tampa to ... Minnesota.

Sept 27, 2011 - 'Obamaphone' goes viral... Does Glenn feel obligated to seek office... O'Reilly's new book, 'Killing Lincoln'...

Sept 27, 2012 - How social justice uses the word "democracy"... Polls... How Obamacare is changing our health care today...

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.

Barbara Davidson / Contributor | Getty Images

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

Andrew Harnik / Staff | Getty Images

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.