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Morning Brief 2022-10-06

October 06, 2022
Chris Brady

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GUEST: Ian Prior
TOPIC: Citizens for Sanity's clever ad campaign and its goal.

CB, RR, JB, SK, BM, NN

Domestic News...

Federal appeals court rules Obama-era DACA program illegal, buts says 600,000 already in US can stay
A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled that while the Obama administration lacked the authority to create the immigration policy, which affects over 600,000 people, it didn't dismantle the program, and people can continue benefiting from the policy.

Firearms dealers now required to provide buyers' addresses to feds for denied transactions
Newly implemented measures also mandate that the FBI pass on the personal information to local law enforcement.

Stop the attacks against peaceful, pro-life Americans
In the past five months, hundreds of attacks have targeted churches, pro-life organizations, and pregnancy centers.

FBI charges multiple individuals for peaceful protests at abortion center
With guns drawn, the FBI raided the home of a protest leader. The event in March 2021 was reportedly peaceful, with participants lining the inside hallway of a shared general medical office building that, in one area, houses the Carafem abortion facility.

New York has more than 3 million voters lacking proof of identity: Analysis
The state of New York has more than 3 million individuals on its voter rolls missing key identifying documents to prove their identities, according to a recent analysis.

DC Council Moves to Let Noncitizens Vote
D.C.'s move toward noncitizen voting comes after New York City last year passed similar legislation to allow the city's 800,000 noncitizens to vote. That bill was overturned in June by a state court, which ruled it violated the New York Constitution.

Overwhelming majority see violent crime as 'major problem': Poll
A Politico/Morning Consult poll revealed that 77% of Americans saw violent crime as a major problem, while a further 17% saw it as a minor problem. Only 2% did not see violent crime as an issue.

Los Angeles Residents Offer New Cops Huge Rent Subsidy
The program awards new LAPD hires huge rent subsidies of up to $24,000 over two years for housing in the Los Angeles area. The money is not coming out of the LAPD budget, but from private donations.

Politics...

Ron DeSantis fans go wild as Florida gov speaks behind presidential seal
Some believed they were getting a glimpse two years into the future as DeSantis spoke while Biden stood off to the side.

Camera captures Biden trying to sniff another victim as DeSantis gives hurricane update
As DeSantis was giving an update on Hurricane Ian, Biden is seen behind him, grabbing a woman's hand and then, apparently, trying to sniff her.

Biden caught on hot mic saying, 'No one f***s with a Biden' during review of hurricane damage
"No one f**** with a Biden," he said while grinning.

SUV carrying Harris crashes in Washington tunnel
Secret Service had misreported the crash as a "mechanical failure."

Trump implores GOP to focus on crime as midterms near: 'People are afraid to walk outside'
45th president predicts black and Hispanic voters will migrate to GOP in November.

Blake Masters, Mark Kelly in statistical dead heat in Arizona Senate race
A CBS/YouGov survey found Kelly with 51% support, a narrow lead over Masters' 48%. That 3% difference is within the poll's +/- 3.8% margin of error.

Red wave alert: DeSantis up big in governor's race
DeSantis has an 11-point lead over Charlie Crist, and all three Republican candidates lead their Democratic rivals by double-digit margins, according to a Wednesday Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy poll published by Politico.

Moderator Stumps Arizona Dem Gov Candidate Katie Hobbs On One ‘Specific’ Lesson Learned From Hispanic Community
Hobbs was stumped by the question and struggled to name anything specific, but mentioned she has a sister-in-law who is Latina and also tried to say a few words in Spanish.

The Stock Market Made Nancy Pelosi Rich. Now, She Wants To Ban Her Colleagues From Trading.
House speaker's fortune has grown $140 million since 2008, thanks in part to her husband's trades

Oregon Dem Governor Candidate Wants Safe Havens for Meth Users
The Democratic candidate for Oregon governor wants to create safe havens for meth users in Portland, even as drug overdoses spike statewide.

Economy...

Louisiana Hits BlackRock With Massive Divestment For ‘Blatantly Anti-Fossil Fuel Policies’
Louisiana state Treasurer John Schroder announced his state will divest funds from BlackRock due to ESG policies.

White House Pivots On Key Oil Issue In Just About 24 hours
A White House statement released Wednesday said Biden will “continue to direct releases from the [strategic petroleum reserve] as appropriate.” Tuesday afternoon, Jean-Pierre said, “We’re not going to be considering new releases at this time.”

OPEC tells Biden to shove it, cuts oil production by 2 million barrels per day
A statement from the White House said the OPEC+ announcement served as “a reminder of why it is so critical that the United States reduce its reliance on foreign sources of fossil fuels.”

Biden's energy policies costing U.S. economy $100 billion a year: Study
A new analysis finds the U.S. would be producing significantly more oil and natural gas today if Trump policies had continued.

Lettuce at $8? Inflation in Australia is hurting everyone from restaurant owners to diners
In Sydney’s food mecca, Chinatown, menu prices at longtime restaurant Mother Chu’s have risen between 20% and 30% since the start of the pandemic.

Lebanon financial crisis: The people robbing banks to get their own money
A Lebanese Member of Parliament has held a sit-in to demand money from her frozen account. Her action comes after more than a dozen people have raided banks to get access to their own cash.

Tyson Foods joins exodus from Chicago
Tyson Foods announced it will be moving corporate staff from offices in Chicago to Arkansas.

Immigration...

NY mayor rips into Biden after dozens of migrant kids secretly flown to small town
An upstate New York mayor ripped into President Biden and his team after dozens of migrants kids were secretly flown to his small town by the feds last week, telling The Post: “This seems clandestine.”

WAR News... 

Here are the nuclear weapons Russia has in its arsenal
Putin is now threatening to use nuclear weapons to defend the Ukrainian territory that Russia has illegally annexed.

NATO warns Russia: Putin would 'regret' any use of nuclear weapons
“The response will be such that the Russians will regret what they have done,” Dutch Adm. Rob Bauer, chairman of NATO’s military committee, said Wednesday.

How Putin might use a nuke — and how we should respond
While some in the West have expressed fears of WWIII, Putin seems unlikely to take such a profound escalation at this point. This leaves open the option of using tactical nuclear weapons against cities, key facilities or choke points, or actual forces in Ukraine.

'I refuse to comply,' says Russian journalist, days after escaping house arrest
“Since our state refuses to comply with its own laws, I refuse to comply with the measure of restraint imposed on me in the form of house arrest, and I release myself from it as of September 30, 2022,” Marina Ovsyannikova posted to Telegram.

Russia Claims Front ‘Stabilized’ as Ukraine Pushes on with Counteroffensive
Russian officials sought to allay concerns Wednesday that Ukraine could achieve a major breakthrough in its ongoing counteroffensive amid reports that Kyiv’s forces were advancing in both the south and east of the country.

Putin Makes Chechnya's Kadyrov an Army General
Kadyrov, a former warlord who rules Chechnya with widespread violations of human rights, said Putin had "personally" informed him of the decision. The rank of colonel general is the third-highest command rank in the Russian military hierarchy.

US considering offering to analyze underwater audio recordings to aid Nord Stream pipeline sabotage investigations
The US Navy’s processing of the sonar signatures – the term for the unique underwater sounds – provided by Sweden and Denmark could boost the investigations by providing a more detailed picture of what was in the area at the time of the pipeline explosions and what caused them.

COVID-19...

Nobody Wants Biden’s Boosters — But He Forked Over Billions To Pfizer And Moderna For Them Anyway
Biden burned more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds on new COVID-19 shots hardly anyone wants.

Multiple Massachusetts colleges extend mask mandates indefinitely
“It is clear that the current levels of infection have taxed our campus health care system and residential services to the limit.”

California lawyer: Grassroots effort nixed bill to allow teens to get COVID shot without parents' OK
The Democrat state senator who sponsored the bill pulled it from getting a final vote when it became clear he was 41 votes short.

Entertainment...

Kylie Jenner Says She Regretted Naming Her Son Wolf Immediately After Signing His Birth Certificate
She described feeling overwhelmed when it came time “to sign the birth certificate,” noting that her son needed some kind of identification “or else they register him without a name or Social Security number.”

Work to resume on Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' film after settlement in fatal shooting suit
"The filming of Rust ... will resume with all the original principal players on board, in January 2023."

Ex-‘Scrubs’ producer Eric Weinberg faces 18 counts for alleged sex crimes
A former co-executive producer of the television show “Scrubs” was slapped with 18 felony counts in connection with the alleged sexual assault of five women he lured using his Hollywood resume.

Inside Amazon’s free video strategy
Amazon has been doubling down on original content for Freevee, its ad-supported video service, which has seen a lot of growth thanks to a deep integration with other Amazon properties.

Media...

The New York Times finds out that not everything is a conspiracy theory
The impulse among establishment media to dismiss every concern about election security as a conspiracy theory ignores the fact that fraud and other problems do exist, and it leads to some awkward reporting corrections.

The New York Times makes up its own climate science to attack Florida
The NY Times claims that Florida’s Republican leaders “don’t want to discuss the underlying problem that is making hurricanes more powerful and destructive.” In reality, hurricanes are not becoming “more powerful and destructive.” There is no evidence for that claim.

Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation primetime debut is a ratings flop: Nielsen
Cuomo fared poorly in the 25-to-54-year-old age demographic most coveted by advertisers, drawing just 8,000 viewers.

Taylor Lorenz blasts Washington Post colleague over ‘absurd, insensitive’ COVID tweet
Taylor Lorenz, the Washington Post’s controversial technology and online culture columnist, slammed one of her colleagues at the newspaper for an “absurd, insensitive” tweet about COVID — just months after a Post reporter was fired for tweeting criticism of co-workers.

Middle East...

Iran protests: Schoolgirls heckle paramilitary speaker
A girls' school in Iran brought a member of the IRGC-run Basij paramilitary to speak to students. The girls welcomed the speaker by taking off their headscarves and chanting "get lost, Basiji." Teenage girls have been at the forefront of protests for days.

South America...

Biden To Ease Sanctions On Socialist Venezuela
Biden is reportedly preparing to ease sanctions on socialist Venezuela to allow a U.S. oil company to resume production there.

LGBTQIA2S+...

JK Rowling Takes Apart ‘Genderists’ For Excusing ‘Paedophilia Apologist’ Trustee Of Children’s Charity
“You became part of an authoritarian, misogynist, homophobic movement and you didn’t even notice,” she said. “Enjoy the sense of your own righteousness while you can. It won’t last.”

'Gender affirming medicine' studies for kids draw new scrutiny with possible DOJ involvement
The University of Washington mischaracterized its own research, refused to proactively correct the resulting false reporting because of the "overwhelming amount of positive coverage."

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signs bill to prevent child sex changes at children's hospital
"It is wildly inappropriate for taxpayer dollars to be used for condoning, promoting, or performing these types of controversial procedures on healthy children," said Governor Stitt.

Wedding venue investigated for refusal to host LGBT ceremonies over Christian faith
A wedding venue in Michigan was found to have violated one of Grand Rapids' human rights ordinances after the owners refused to host LGBT ceremonies because of their religious beliefs.

Education...

NYU’s firing of Professor Maitland Jones Jr. should frighten every American
New York University fired Maitland Jones Jr. because his organic chemistry course was “too hard.” Students revolted because they feared, according to the New York Times, that “they were not given the grades that would allow them to get into medical school.”

Technology...

Vox: The White House’s AI Bill of Rights looks to curb AI bias
The White House released a “blueprint” for an AI Bill of Rights that outlines how the public should be protected from algorithmic systems and the harms they can produce — whether it’s a recruiting algorithm that favors men’s resumes over women’s or a mortgage algorithm that discriminates against Latino and African-American borrowers.

Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020
Biden administration gave millions in tax dollars to groups after election, records show. Election Integrity Partnership says it had 35% success rate getting tech platforms to label, remove, or restrict content.

Can Republicans Ever Fight Big Tech? Last Week Gave Us Our First Clue
The right must stop rushing like a battered wife to bail out the corporations that continue to wield their massive private power against ordinary Americans.

Musk, Twitter could reach deal to end court battle, close buyout soon
Elon Musk and Twitter may reach an agreement to end their litigation in coming days, clearing the way for the world’s richest person to close his $44 billion deal for the social media firm.

A Twitter Employee Exodus Could Be Just Around the Corner
Twitter could be quickly downsizing if the just-revitalized sale to Elon Musk goes through, with the New York Times reporting Twitter employees say they will quit if Musk buys the company.

Sports...

Activist who stormed NFL field alleges assault against players who stopped him
The animals rights protester was tackled, on the field, by players for the L.A. Rams. After he was released by security, he ran to the police to file a report claiming that he was assaulted.

Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times
An internal report alleges a previously unknown pattern of likely widespread cheating by Hans Moke Niemann, the player whose September victory over Magnus Carlsen has rocked the chess world.

Gisele Bündchen ditches wedding ring amid Tom Brady divorce lawyer news
Photos show the supermodel out with her kids, but without her wedding ring on Tuesday in Miami.

Animals...

Raccoons Cause 2 Power Outages In 3 Days In Texas Town
A raccoon found its way to the electrical grid substation in Seguin, Texas, on Saturday night, causing a citywide power outage.

Oct 6, 2011 - Glenn reads from pamphlets found at the Occupy Wall Street... Are universities actually re-education camps?... RIP Steve Jobs, you are our lifetime's Thomas Edison... Glenn involved in one of the lowest points in U.S. history?... Sob stories of the Wall Street protesters... The government "kill list"...

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

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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.