Blog
LatestArticlesVideos
Radio
LivePodcastSerialsStations
TV
Podcasts
The Glenn Beck ProgramThe Glenn Beck PodcastThe Beck Story
Fine Art
Real Estate
More
AboutCharityBooksSponsorsShopContact
SEARCH
Live Radio

©2024 MERCURY RADIO ARTS.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY

Live

Glenn's Show Prep

Morning Brief 2023-03-03

March 03, 2023
Chris Brady

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Donald Trump Jr.
TOPIC: PNC Bank abruptly closes conservative MxM News business account "without cause."

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Alex Stein
TOPIC: Alan Dershowitz defends receiving massage at Jeffrey Epstein's house.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Bill O'Reilly
TOPIC: Bill's top stories of the week!

CB, RR, JB, SK, BM, NN

Domestic News...

UN urged to intervene over destruction of US abortion rights
Letter from human rights groups says overturning of the constitutional right violates U.S. obligations as a U.N. member state.

Assisted Suicide Is a Threat to People with Disabilities Like Me
The top five reasons people choose to end their lives are loss of autonomy, less ability to engage in activities that make life enjoyable, loss of dignity, becoming a burden to friends/family, and the loss of control of bodily functions. Fearing these burdens, people look for an escape.

Pentagon Experts Don't Trust Young Men With Guns, Red Bull
The military is concerned with the rising rate of suicides among service members. In response, the DOD's Suicide Prevention Committee is recommending limiting their access to guns and posting warning signs about energy drinks.

Biden will visit East Palestine 'at some point'
He'll get there eventually.

New Jersey woman fighting eviction blows herself up in house full of cats
Neighbors were evacuated while police had a standoff with the woman. Multiple fire departments responded to the home but were unable to get the woman out alive.

Mysterious white dust that fell from the sky in Maryland and West Virginia is identified as pollen
A 'mysterious' dust that sparked conspiracy theories has been identified.

Georgia Senate votes against splitting Buckhead off from Atlanta
Proponents of creating the new city cited mounting crime in Atlanta and a desire to manage their own police to address the issue.

Politics...

Biden DOJ says Trump can be sued by police, Democrats over Jan. 6 riot
Biden's lackeys in the DOJ's civil rights division wrote in the filing that a president's protected speech "does not include incitement of imminent private violence."

Congressional Democrats buck White House agenda, join with Republicans in series of votes
The House of Representatives has had a busy week, holding several key votes on issues ranging from inflation to environmental investing practices.

Feinstein is 2nd Dem senator hospitalized in recent weeks
Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Thursday she's been hospitalized with shingles.

Fetterman’s Chief of Staff Won’t Tell Anyone How the Hospitalized Senator Is Introducing Legislation
“Why is the chief of staff of a United States Senator blocking people on Twitter who are asking about the Senator’s constitutional ability to vote on or introduce legislation?”

House Judiciary, Intel Committees Send Demand Letters To Officials Who Discredited Hunter Biden Story
Two House Committees investigating Biden family malarkey have sent demand letters to 29 intelligence officials who discredited the Hunter Biden laptop story and have yet to respond to previously requested interviews.

Trump leads decisively in Virginia GOP primary field: Poll
In a Roanoke College survey, Trump stood 11 points ahead of DeSantis, with 39% support to 28% respectively. No other candidate scored double-digits support, though Youngkin took third place with 6%.

Youngkin's approval rating at 57% in Virginia in new poll
Speculation grows over whether Youngkin is considering a potential presidential run in 2024.

Vast Majority Of Californians Don’t Want Gavin Newsom As President
About 70% of those surveyed said they would not like to see Newsom make a 2024 presidential bid.

Senator Josh Hawley Catches Biden Nominee Lying Under Oath
"Joe Biden's nominee to be national archivist is a fierce partisan who has lied under oath and stonewalled like I’ve never seen."

A Party for Both Joe Biden and Mitt Romney? It Could Be a Winner
Centrists are united by a basic fidelity to liberal democracy. Both versions of them believe in freedom of speech. Both are patriots but also globalists who believe in a principled version of America leading the free world. Both are capable of a sense of humor.

AOC likely violated federal law by receiving 'impermissible gifts' for Met Gala appearance
"Rep. Ocasio-Cortez received a series of goods and services which she did not pay for until the OCE opened this review," the House Office of Congressional Ethics proclaimed in its report.

AOC attempted to stiff service workers at Met Gala event
Ocasio-Cortez only fulfilled her financial obligations after she faced a legal threat from one of her slighted vendors.

Economy / ESG...

PNC Bank ends business relationship with Donald Trump Jr.'s MxM News app company 'without cause'
MxM News was created to compete with apps like Apple News, Google News.

Layoff Data: US Labor Reports Bring Their Fraud Game & Casus Belli
If the Fed stops raising rates, or even backtracks on rates, the inflation spiral will destroy incentives to work since you keep getting less and less for your money. If the Fed raises rates, those businesses aren’t going to borrow new capital to support operations.

Horowitz: South Dakota and other red states are about to ban Bitcoin as legal money
Will Governor Kristi Noem veto the bill? That is the million-dollar question.

Using Outrage: The Sophisticated Strategy for Marketing
Shock advertising is a type of advertising that uses outrage tactics to purposefully startle and offend viewers by upheaving social norms and questioning personal values. It makes us feel uncomfortable or, in some cases, even outraged!

Border...

Gaetz: ‘We Don’t Have the Votes’ to Impeach Secretary Mayorkas
A Republican-led effort to impeach the homeland security secretary may falter, despite the party’s control of the House.

Homeland Security awards $350 million to communities to deal with 'costs of noncitizen arrivals'
Major metropolitan areas across the country have said they are having difficulties dealing with the influx of illegals.

WAR News... 

US to announce new military aid package for Ukraine on Friday
The United States will announce a new military aid package for Ukraine on Friday, worth roughly $400 million.

Questioning Biden’s Ukraine Policy Doesn’t Make You An ‘Isolationist’
If the cause of Ukraine is righteous, there is no reason to chill debate.

Major Russian Victory Feared in Bakhmut as Soldier Delivers Grim Message
"... if nothing will change in our tactics … they will eventually just overwhelm us because they have a shit---d of ammo for artillery, and they have enough manpower just to send us towards our position as meat waves.”

Only NATO or Nukes Can Save Ukraine from Russia: Estonia Foreign Minister
"Honestly, the only guarantee except NATO would be to deliver nuclear weapons to Ukraine," Reinsalu said, stressing that such a move is impossible given the anti-proliferation commitments of NATO's nuclear powers.

Russian State TV Responds to Bryansk Incident: 'Provoking Nuclear War'
Ukraine has dismissed claims by Russian officials that a Ukrainian sabotage group had crossed into the Russian region of Bryansk on Thursday and fired at a moving car, killing one person and injuring a 10-year-child who was hospitalized.

US 'Doomsday Plane' Capable of Ordering World-Ending Nuclear Strikes Spotted in Europe
“A US Navy E-6B Mercury assigned to United States Strategic Command Wing One arrived in Iceland recently, while conducting operations in the EU European Command area of responsibility,” the EUCOM’s account tweeted.

NBC Reporter Goes To Crimea, Shocks Viewers By Telling The Truth
Concedes that Zelensky’s goal of retaking Crimea is unrealistic and dangerous.

Air Force relieves 6 officers at nuclear base after lapses
Were relieved of their command due to a loss of confidence in their ability to carry out their responsibilities.

Peace boat comes to Wilmington to raise awareness about nuclear war
You'll be able to smell it before you can see it.

Commie Update...

China leading US in technology race in all but a few fields, think tank finds
Year-long study finds China leads in 37 of 44 areas it tracked, with potential for a monopoly in areas such as nanoscale materials and synthetic biology.

CCP Seeks to ‘Replace’ US with ‘Tech-Powered Dystopia,’ Select Committee Hears
Gallagher noted that many powerful and monied interests within the United States had made their fortunes outsourcing U.S. jobs to China and were pushing back on American efforts to secure itself against the regime.

The US Needs to Talk About the Risk of War with China
Washington’s commitment to Taiwan hasn’t been sold to the American public.

US Approves Potential Taiwan Arms Sale Worth $619 Million Amid China Tension
The proposed sale includes missiles for F-16 jet fighters.

High Cost of Taiwan Invasion Will Dissuade China, Pentagon Official Says
China will not attempt to invade Taiwan before the end of the decade because it understands the high cost, the senior Pentagon official in charge of Indo-Pacific security said Thursday.

The CIA says Xi Jinping ordered the Chinese military to invade Taiwan within four years
CIA Director William Burns told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that Chinese President Xi Jinping has instructed the Chinese military to be ready to invade Taiwan in four years.

Nikkei: 90% of Taiwan's retired military officers provide Chinese intelligence
The report said that up to 90 percent of military retirees have spent time in China, where they provided information to Beijing in exchange for money.

COVID-19...

MacIntyre: Media acceptance of lab-leak theory is the turning of the COVID ratchet
The mainstream media is attempting to reconstitute its COVID narrative. It is clear that, for whatever reason, the regime has decided that now is the time to acknowledge the truth about the pandemic’s origin.

Top virologists who changed tune on COVID-19 lab-leak theory received millions in NIH grants
These same virologists, who later rejected the leak hypothesis, led research projects that pocketed over $25.2 million from the NIH.

Video: Mic drop. Fauci cover-up.
WIV was the source.

Five Lessons from Three Years of Authoritarianism
Three years ago, few of us knew the impending storm that was brewing.

Letter to a Mainstream Straddler
Live not by half-lies.

Entertainment...

Tim Robbins joins Woody Harrelson in denouncing COVID restrictions
Punishing people for their opinions is "a dangerous thing," Robbins said. "That’s a dangerous world that we’ve created. And I say 'we,' because I was part of that. I bought into that whole idea early on."

Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ just got an iconic redesign
Hipgnosis designed the famous Pink Floyd album cover in 1973. Fifty years on, Pentagram is reimagining it.

Media...

Inside the James O’Keefe ouster at Project Veritas
Why did the board force out the founder?

Middle East...

Biden Sets Israel on Fire
U.S. support for demonstrations in Tel Aviv isn’t about the future of Israel’s judiciary. It’s about handcuffing Israel while Iran gets the bomb.

Hundreds of girls in Iran have been hospitalized in suspected poisonings
Officials are investigating numerous instances in Iran where girls have been hospitalized with breathing problems and other symptoms after being possibly poisoned while attending school.

Asia...

‘We cannot do this alone’: Philippines wants Australia in new alliance to stand up to China
A new Quad alliance – comprising Australia, the United States, Japan, and the Philippines – is being proposed to counter a rising Beijing amid escalating tensions in the Indo-Pacific.

Japan just found 7,000 islands it didn’t know it had
Digital mapping recently found there are 14,125 islands in Japanese territory, more than double the figure of 6,852 that has been in official use since 1987.

Environment...

What’s the carbon fallout of Russia’s war on Ukraine?
While death, destruction, and war crimes dominate the headlines, some striking climate implications are now also coming into focus.

CNN's 'chief climate' reporter flies more than 6,000 miles to stand in front of melting ice
"The faster we can move away from fuels that burn, in the speediest and most equitable way possible, the less horrible this gets. That's the – that's the only way right now."

LGBTQIA2S+...

LGBTQ Activist Dem Mayor, Who Was 'Mentored' by Buttigieg, Arrested for Vile Charge
Charged with 40 counts of possession of child sexual exploitative material and 16 felony counts of distribution of child porn.

Manager in charge of wokifying Roald Dahl books is 'non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist'
The entire sane world reacted with shock and disgust when it was announced that Roald Dahl's beloved books would be wokified by a "sensitivity" team.

Christian school declared that 'we stand with the LGBTQIA+ community and believe in their holiness.'
Now it's closing after donors sent school a big message.

Education...

NY Times Opinion: My Liberal Campus Is Pushing Freethinkers to the Right
The American universities that once served as moderating finishing schools have become breeding grounds for conservative firebrands.

Condom Scavenger Hunt Part of New School Assignment Workbook
The workbook, which has been discovered in both middle and high schools, is filled with hundreds of pages of sexual assignments.

Religion...

He Gets Us, But Do We Get Him? The Case for Criticizing False Teachers
Jesus spent much of his time criticizing the false teachings and practices of the religious politicians known as the Pharisees whose hearts were far from God.

Technology...

European Prime Minister Gets ‘World’s First’ AI Government Adviser
Nicolae Ciucă, the prime minister of European Union member state Romania, is said to have caught his own cabinet off guard on Wednesday after introducing them to their new colleague and adviser — an artificial intelligence named Ion.

Experts Slam OpenAI's 'Meaningless' New Promises About AGI
"From the get-go this is just gross."

Deepfakes are Venezuela's latest disinformation tool, experts say
Hosts on Venezuelan state-owned television station VTV have been touting positive news coverage about their country from an American news agency. But the reporters in those videos aren’t real.

Human augmentation with robotic body parts is at hand, say scientists
Extra parts, from a thumb to an arm, could be designed to help boost our capabilities.

Company Lays Off 8,000 While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10 Million a Year to Sit Around
Salesforce, the cloud-based "customer relationship management" software colossus, is the latest in a slew of tech giants to lay off thousands of employees.

Science...

A manhole cover is the fastest human-made object in the universe
Somewhere out there, a manhole cover launched by a nuclear bomb test is speeding away from Earth at about 125,000 mph.

March 3, 2011 - Is Herman Cain the Tea Party candidate?... Pat apologizes to Glenn... Van Jones has his own section in NY state textbooks... When did Al Jazeera become buddy-buddy with America?... What it takes to destroy a country... Classes college students are lining up to take... Michael Moore knows how to fix America... Recapping the 2008 economic meltdown...

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?

NurPhoto / Contributor | Getty Images

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

Spencer Platt / Staff | Getty Images

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?

Bloomberg / Contributor | Getty Images

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.