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Morning Brief 2022-12-15

December 15, 2022
Chris Brady

BOTTOM OF HOUR 1
GUEST: Andrew Huff
TOPIC: COVID-19 could have been avoided.

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Dr. Joseph Ladapo
TOPIC: Florida leads the country in seeking a grand jury to investigate the potential adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.

CB, RR, JB, SK, BM

Domestic News...

Justice Department official touts prosecution of anti-abortion activists
Biden's DOJ has been relying on a 1994 law to arrest anti-abortion activists amid an influx of violent attacks at religious pregnancy centers that have gone uncharged.

Bodycam Footage Reportedly Unveils New Details In Paul Pelosi Attack
Reporters present in court while the clip played could only hear the video, because the screen faced toward the judge.

Should You Charge Your Family for Christmas Dinner?
As people gear up for the biggest festive season since the pandemic, the backdrop of rising prices is causing anxiety. Some families have even announced plans to charge as much as $20 a head.

Squeezed by inflation, families are tightening their holiday budgets
A November Quinnipiac poll found 47% of Americans have less in savings than they did just a year ago. The same poll found 42% plan to spend less on gifts this season and only 8% plan to spend more.

Small businesses brace for Christmas crisis as inflation cuts profits
The survey found 53% of small business owners named inflation their biggest problem – a 30% increase from the same poll last year – and 61% expect less holiday profit because of inflation.

Inflation raises Christmas costs, Christmas trees selling for over $100
Gifts and food are costing Americans more this holiday season. Holiday decorations are costing more, too.

1 in 3 men wait until Christmas Eve to buy their partner's present
On the other hand, 18% percent of women were guilty of the same panic purchase.

NPR: Terrible at buying Christmas presents? Peep our guide for clever gift ideas
Get them something they can use in their daily lives ... like a really good can opener.

Politics...

House Republicans cut out of spending bill talks despite winning majority, GOP conference chair says
Congressional negotiators are considering a year-long omnibus bill raising domestic spending on top of a 10% defense budget increase.

Another Poll Shows DeSantis With Commanding Lead For 2024 GOP Nomination
A new Wall Street Journal poll buttresses the claim that Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis has risen to be the clear favorite for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

Democrats Court Their Newest Voting Bloc: High Schoolers
VoteAmerica writes that because 50% of high school students take either the SAT or ACT, it’s partnering with high schools across the country to register students to vote when they sign up for standardized testing.

Trump sparks House speaker speculation with superhero cartoon tease
Trump teases major announcement on Thursday.

Trump sues Pulitzer board for defamation after it defended recipients' stories
Trump filed a defamation suit on Wednesday against the Pulitzer Prize board, pointing to a statement it made backing the reporting of the 2018 winning articles.

Did Ohio Just Elect The Next Ilhan Omar?
The Ohio legislature’s first Somali Muslim congresswoman worked for a Muslim Brotherhood proxy that is known to radicalize Muslim youth.

Economy / ESG...

Nearly 3/4 of small business owners give Biden negative performance rating in new poll
Sixty percent say economy is currently in the grip of a recession.

Powell claims 'it's not knowable' if US is headed for recession
"I don't think anyone knows whether we're going to have a recession or not, and if we do, whether it's going to be a deep one or not. It's just — it's not knowable," Jerome Powell said.

Fed raises interest rates half a point to highest level in 15 years
Along with the increase came an indication that officials expect to keep rates higher through next year, with no reductions until 2024.

What the Federal Reserve’s half-point rate hike means for you
The rates you get for a mortgage, credit card, car loan, student debt, and savings could be affected.

Immigration...

The End Of Title 42 Caps The Worst Year For Illegal Immigration In U.S. History
The Biden administration has no plan for what to do beginning next week when it loses the ability to quickly expel illegal immigrants.

Gavin Newsom says California is overwhelmed with illegal aliens
Newsom went on to say the government needs to do more to address the border crisis and claimed that the federal government is sending illegal immigrants to California because of how well the state treats them.

Washington state to provide illegal immigrants with health, dental insurance through Obamacare
The Biden administration has extended eligibility of the Affordable Care Act at the request of Washington state's government.

Eric Adams seeks $1B from Biden as NYC migrant crush swells to 30K
The migrant population is poised to further explode when a pandemic-related immigration restriction known as “Title 42” gets lifted on Dec. 21.

Abbott vows to spend 2023 building Texas border wall following long delay
Workers will begin installing a new portion of slatted wall along an unspecified portion of the border come January, the governor announced late Tuesday.

WAR News... 

Kremlin says Christmas ceasefire not on the agenda in Ukraine
Russia said on Wednesday it had not received any proposals about a "Christmas ceasefire" in Ukraine, as fighting looks set to drag on through the winter.

Pope urges ‘humble’ Christmas, with savings sent to Ukraine
“Let’s make a more humble Christmas, with more humble gifts, and let’s send what we save to the people of Ukraine who need it.”

COVID-19...

Why does Biden oppose a pandemic commission?
President Joe Biden supported a 9/11-style commission for the Jan. 6 riot, but for the pandemic that killed over a million people and destroyed small businesses and children’s educations, the New York Times tells us that “the White House is privately resisting” one.

WaPo: Experts slam Florida surgeon general’s warning on coronavirus vaccines
"If you submitted that to a peer-reviewed journal ... it would get rejected," vaccine safety expert says about study on which it is based.

House GOP report claims COVID may be linked to Chinese bioweapons program
The report conflicts with last year’s findings by the intelligence community, which judged the virus was not developed as a biological weapon.

Omicron BQ, XBB subvariants are a serious threat to boosters
Scientists found that the BQ and XBB subvariants are “barely susceptible to neutralization” by the vaccines, including the new Omicron boosters.

Entertainment...

Mariah Carey's Christmas hit tops Billboard charts yet again
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" reached the no. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart this week for the fourth year in a row.

Henry Cavill reveals he's been fired from Superman
DC Films bosses look to reboot franchise with younger lead.

Media...

Washington Post announces layoffs during tense town hall
An all-hands meeting turned chaotic after the newspaper’s publisher announced looming layoffs – and then left the room as concerned employees shouted questions.

Associated Press instructs journalists to use pro-abortion language
"Use the modifiers anti-abortion or abortion-rights; don’t use pro-life, pro-choice or pro-abortion unless they are in quotes or proper names."

Europe...

City 'devastated' that family can't afford to run famous Christmas lights display any more
"All the lights are just in the shed this year. We make it all ourselves. Everybody is absolutely devastated. It's sad – it's all quiet down our lane this year."

Food inflation hits Christmas dinner as fresh turkey prices up by 45 per cent
Brits shopping for the key groceries for their Christmas dinner are facing eye-watering price increases, as the price of fresh turkey has rocketed by as much as 45%.

Christmas decorations on your car could see you fined £5,000
You could be charged with "driving without reasonable consideration for other road users”

'Britain's most hated woman' gifts 17-year-old daughter £5K OnlyFans shoot for Xmas
Carla Bellucci lined up a £5,000 photo shoot to kick-start her adults-only career when she turns 18.

Son, 51, attacked parents over 40-year grudge for sending him to boarding school
While carrying out the attack, the court said he shouted: "You let us down." He also believed he should be "compensated" for his "suffering" after being sent as a child to a public boarding school for boys in the 1980s.

Laughing gas warning after village littered with nitrous oxide cans
The canisters are often used as a method of drug taking by inhaling the substance. Although it isn't illegal, its use is seen as a form of anti-social behaviour by many.

Middle East...

Former Israeli ambassador to the US predicts Israel will 'take its destiny into its hands' with Iran
"This situation is very similar to what existed over 50 years ago, on the eve of the Six Day War when Israel was surrounded by Arab armies," said Oren.

Environment...

Activists fail to glue themselves to road when freezing temperatures stop adhesive from working
The orders were simple: Run out onto the road, glue yourself to the tarmac and stop drivers from getting through. But for two climate activists in Germany, that plan didn't work out quite as they'd hoped.

Police are forced to dig up road to remove eco-idiot's hand
The moron stuck himself to tarmac using sand mixed with superglue during climate protest in Germany

'I Only Buy Second-Hand Gifts for Christmas'
Not only are you helping someone else declutter and earn some extra money, but you're also saving money and helping the environment.

Environment organizations urge government to “get tough” on packaging this Christmas
"Businesses shouldn’t be allowed to barrage consumers with unnecessary packaging or place badly designed single-use items on the market."

Make Sure Your Outdoor Christmas Decorations Don't Harm Wildlife
What brings you festive cheer might be a nightmare to the animals that visit your yard.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Leading American pediatric group says enabling child sex changes is 'huge priority'
The American Academy of Pediatrics says that fighting laws that seek to ban "gender-affirming care" for minors, or in other words laws that seek to ban doctors from performing experimental sex changes on children, is a “huge priority."

Oregon Gov’t Student Health Survey Asks 11-Year-Olds If They Are Trans
The sixth-grade students were given several gender identity options including two-spirit, girl/woman, boy/man, demigirl, demiboy, nonbinary, gender-fluid, agender and nogender.

Disgraced Nuclear Official’s Security Clearance Doesn’t Add Up, Professionals Say
Former officials in multiple presidential administrations are questioning how disgraced genderfluid Biden Energy Department official Sam Brinton received a high-level security clearance.

'Blades of Glory' no longer a joke after skating league goes woke
In the 2007 movie, Will Ferrell and Jon Heder play two rival ice skaters who were banned from men’s single competition. The two skaters find a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team and end up skating together in a bizarre twist on the typical rom-com.

Education...

Millions Of Student Loan Borrowers Got Emails Mistakenly Saying Their Forgiveness Applications Were Approved
The latest in a long series of screw-ups by the Biden administration.

'Apparently I'm the face of white supremacy': Indian immigrant mom tells Congress she has been targeted by 'woke army'
Nomani, who was born in India and immigrated to the U.S. as a child, said she has been called "the face of white supremacy" for her belief that teachers should be focusing on math and reading rather than promoting a "divisive ideology."

School board president who rubbed shoulders with Kamala Harris resigns...
... after inviting students to his gay adult party ... where they were plied with drinks by half-naked men in elf hats and ogled by "Dirty Santa."

Detroit school board votes to remove Dr. Ben Carson's name from public high school
The Detroit School Board voted in November to remove Dr. Ben Carson's name from the Benjamin Carson High School of Medicine and Science. This political stunt did not go unnoticed.

Twitter...

'I completely gave up': Jack Dorsey takes blame for government influence on Twitter
"The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020," Dorsey added, explaining that it was at this point he began to plan his exit.

WaPo: QAnon, adrift after Trump’s defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk’s Twitter
Twitter owner Elon Musk’s boosting of far-right memes and grievances has injected new energy into the jumbled set of conspiracy theories known as QAnon.

Elon Musk releases footage of black-masked assailant who stalked his son
"Anyone recognize this person or car?" he tweeted, along with a video showing a masked man in black inside a car.

Twitter suspends accounts that track Musk, SpaceX jets
Musk explained that "Real-time posting of someone else's location violates doxxing policy, but delayed posting of locations are ok."

Babylon Bee: Elon Musk Buys Santa's Workshop, Releases Emails Showing How Naughty And Nice Lists Were Created
"The more I learn, the worse it gets," Musk tweeted just hours after gaining access to Santa's web servers. "The world should know the truth of what has been happening at the north pole."

Technology...

SEC charges 8 social media influencers with boosting 'meme stocks' then selling their shares
The SEC said that the users promoted stocks to "hundreds of thousands of followers" and then sold their positions after the stocks increased in price, which included the sale of so-called "meme stocks."

Science...

Biden admin claims fusion energy will be ‘equitable’
Granholm noted that the Biden administration would be working to ensure it was done "with the highest safety standards, with cost-effective, equitable deployment ... and with a skilled workforce that is diverse and inclusive."

Fusion power is still decades and billions of dollars away, even after this week’s major scientific breakthrough
“The laser wasn’t designed to be efficient. The laser was designed to give us as much juice as possible to make this incredible conditions possible. So there are many, many steps that would have to be made in order to get to an inertial fusion as an energy source.”

I’m the psychic who predicted COVID — here's what's coming in 2023
“I think the royal family’s income and popularity will go down,” Nicolas Aujula said. “So they may sell their properties, or they may turn something into a hotel, or they will have to diversify.”

Sports...

Former English soccer star slams US as 'extraordinarily racist country'
"We’re off to America in four years’ time, with Canada and Mexico, but obviously America’s an extraordinarily racist country," said Gary Lineker, who has been leading the BBC's coverage of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Dec 15, 2011 - Glenn moving to Texas, will he miss New York?... Recounts how he met musician Alex Boye... Time magazine's person of the year... Glenn talks about different family traditions... Is this going to be the last Christmas ever?... Glenn's hot chocolate recipe...

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

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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.