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Morning Brief 2023-03-27

March 27, 2023
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Jack Carr
TOPIC: What IF the U.S. was behind the Nord Stream pipeline explosion?

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Deborah Conrad
TOPIC: This physician assistant was fired for reporting COVID-19 vaccine injuries to VAERS.

 CB, RR, JB, SK, BM, SB

Domestic News...

Prosecutor Admits DC Police Officers Acted as Provocateurs at US Capitol on Jan. 6
A federal prosecutor admitted in court papers that three D.C. Metropolitan Police Department undercover officers acted as provocateurs at the northwest steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Claim: Leaked J6 Footage 'Shows DC Metro Cop Encouraging People To Go Towards The Capitol'
Newly leaked footage shows undercover officers pushing protesters to move towards the U.S. Capitol and helping them climb the scaffolding outside the Capitol building.

Family Of Marine Killed During Afghanistan Withdrawal Stunned To Learn Snipers Could Have Taken Out Suicide Bomber
“They said nobody knew where he was at that time or what he looked like at that time,” Shana Chappell, the mother of 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, who died in the blast, told the DCNF.

Confronted by FBI abuses, Congress ready to add civil liberty protections to key surveillance law
New guardrails likely to protect Americans under FISA Section 702, House Intelligence Committee members say.

The ATF Expansion of the Gun Registry Turns Law-Abiding Gun Owners into Felons
Despite decades of warnings from crime prevention and law experts, the Biden administration has taken a page out of FDR's book to crack down on legal gun owners.

Colorado student who shot two school administrators had been on probation for a weapons charge
Classmates flagged posts about guns on Lyle’s social media, prompting police to visit his parents’ home. Officers found a rifle with a “high capacity magazine and a silencer” in his room. He was charged with a felony but the court dropped the charge and instead put him on one-year probation.

Police Make First Arrest in Recent Attacks on Buffalo Pro-Life Medical Office
Both the vandalism and firebombing fit the definition of a violation of the FACE Act. But the FBI still refuses to call pro-abortion Antifa attacks on CompassCare and other pro-life organizations domestic terror.

Matt Taibbi: People Can Win
We've been trained to think that endless rule by tiny minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of things, but that turns out to be just another lie.

Politics...

Biden says MAGA Republicans' proposals will allow fentanyl in US
His comments appear to be directed at the House Freedom Caucus budget proposal released earlier this month.

Bill Maher warns charging Trump over hush money probe would be a 'colossal mistake': 'Rocket fuel' for 2024
"... it's just gonna look to MAGA nation like, 'Oh, you know, you tried with Mueller, you tried with Ukraine, you tried with January 6. Now we go to the porn star? Really? You're down to that?!'"

DeSantis administration removes 'equity' from Florida health care priorities
The state of Florida no longer outlines health equity as its top priority, instead rating Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia as its chief health care concerns for the next five years.

GOP House passes Parents Bill of Rights Act, fulfills top priority in Commitment to America pledge
The National Education Association is among the groups opposed to the legislation.

AOC cries 'fascism' as Republicans advance parents bill of rights
"Our children need urgent and aggressive educational solutions. When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is, and that is freedom over fascism."

Democrat Senator Slams Biden admin For Withholding Info On Classified Doc Scandals
Mark Warner, chairman of the Intelligence Committee, slammed the Biden administration for continuing the obstruct the committee’s investigation into Biden’s and Trump’s handling of classified materials while not in office.

McConnell released from inpatient physical rehab
McConnell says he will not be returning to the Senate right away, but he looks forward to returning to the upper chamber in person "soon."

Not Your Grandfather’s Socialism
Senator Bernie Sanders is charging $95 for tickets to an event promoting his new book – on capitalism. Capitalism works, even for an old-time friend of socialism.

Texas Senate unanimously approved $16.5 billion in property tax relief
The House is next to consider the legislation.

Biden FAA nominee withdraws amid shaky Senate support
Denver International Airport CEO Phillip Washington, who was nominated to be FAA administrator in July, has faced unanimous opposition from Republicans.

Economy / ESG...

Accounting-Fraud Indicator Signals Coming Economic Trouble
A tool to identify corporate earnings manipulation finds the most risk in over 40 years.

The Number of ATMs Has Declined as People Rely Less on Cash
The pandemic drove digital-payment surge for many, but those who depend on cash are feeling crunch.

First Citizens Bank to buy Silicon Valley Bank
The Raleigh-based bank has assumed all deposits of SVB, estimated to be more than $119 billion.

WAR News... 

Putin says Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus
Putin said the move was triggered by Britain's decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium.

Putin says West wants to create new Nazi-era 'Axis' power alliance
Putin has often called on the global events of the 1930s when discussing his Ukrainian adversaries.

Gazprom Invited to Recover Object Found Near Nord Stream Pipeline
Denmark has invited the Russian energy giant to help recover a mystery object that was spotted near the pipeline six months after sections of it were sabotaged.

Russia Calls for UN Investigation of Nord Stream Attack
Moscow claims Germany, Denmark, and Sweden are engaged in a U.S.-backed cover-up, as the war to control the narrative — and the evidence — intensifies.

Seymour Hersh makes new Nord Stream sabotage claim
“The [U.S.] president was afraid of Chancellor Scholz not wanting to put more guns and more arms [forward for Kiev],” Hersh claimed.

6 Army bases named after Confederate leaders get dates for new names
Several U.S. Army bases will officially get their new names in the coming months as the military seeks to redesignate bases that currently honor Confederate leaders.

Commie Update...

Chinese company creates 'kissing machine' to keep people 'in touch' online
The plug-in attachment for smartphones uses silicone lips to send motion data to sensors on the device, which mimics the received kiss to the other set of lips. The lips transmit sounds that are made by the partner and warm up slightly during the kiss, as well.

Taiwan breaks ties with Honduras after it formalizes relations with Beijing
Honduras announced on Saturday that it would cut ties with Taipei, after signaling earlier this month that it sought to establish ties with Beijing.

COVID-19...

Fauci-backed research team accused of omitting key data from report linking COVID to raccoon dogs
What is not mentioned in the study's manuscript is that all of the DNA samples from raccoon dogs tested negative for COVID via PCR test.

Court blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US gov't workers
The White House is defending President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 after a federal appeals court blocked it.

How Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard Masked America
Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role in shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America. Zeynep’s role in the COVID story goes far deeper than most realize.

Claim: Australia Senator Makes Bombshell Revelation
"... the only data that accurately identifies the vaccination status of those who got COVID [...] showed quite clearly that the vaccinated are more likely to be infected, hospitalized, and die of COVID."

Entertainment...

Kanye West Says He 'Likes Jewish People Again' After Watching 21 Jump Street
“Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump street made me like Jewish people again,” he wrote. “No Christian can be labeled antisemite knowing Jesus is Jew,” he went on, adding, “Thank you Jonah Hill I love you.”

Now Agatha Christie novels are being rewritten
Author's Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have had original passages reworked or removed by publishers to avoid offending modern audiences.

Ben Affleck says he's 'kind of disturbed' by how much Jennifer Lopez loves 'Yellowstone'
He said that Lopez is "really drawn to the romance" between Rip Wheeler and Beth Dutton in the show.

Blac Chyna ditches OnlyFans for faith in life-changing transformation: ‘By the grace of God, I'm still here'
The former girlfriend of Rob Kardashian urged that "your body is a temple."

Media...

CNN: What’s ‘digital blackface’? And why is it wrong when White people use it?
Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”

Barr: Dominion’s Weak Case Against Fox
Victory for the plaintiff would severely weaken the First Amendment protection all news media enjoy.

'The View' Host Considers Leaving US
Claims she's "upset 24 hours a day" living in deep red state.

What a difference a year makes in the WaPo commentary columns
2022: A safer D.C. starts with a smaller police department ... 2023: D.C. needs hundreds more police officers ...

Canada...

Losing Canada
Canada is now so compromised that Canada’s intelligence-sharing allies, particularly in the “Five Eyes” alliance, quietly wonder if it is safe to share sensitive information with Canada.

Middle East...

Iran and Syrian regime seek to draw new red line on US-Syria policy
Biden warned on Friday that the U.S. would “act forcefully” to protect Americans. Nevertheless, Iranian-backed militias in Syria carried out more attacks on U.S. forces.

Environment...

John Kerry Defends World Leaders Who Fly Private While Pushing Climate Action
“They offset — they buy offsets, they offset, and they are working harder than most people I know to be able to try to effect this transition.”

Eminent Oxford Scientist Says Wind Power 'Fails on Every Count'
It could be argued that the basic arithmetic showing wind power is an economic and societal disaster in the making should be clear to a bright primary school child.

15 years after ESA listing as ‘threatened’ due to sea ice loss, polar bears are abundant & thriving
Polar bears turned out to be more flexible and resilient than predicted, and many subpopulations are better off than before.

Biden crackdown on gas stoves an 'invasion' of the family's 'personal space': Industry spokesman
"... and according to that 84% test, it will save people $4 a year, that's their estimate. So it's not about savings, not about health, it's about control."

LGBTQIA2S+...

Woman left sobbing in JFK airport after TSA agent hit her testicles
She says that the TSA agent “yelled at me for having a penis” and that “my balls hurt so bad.”

NPR claims there's 'limited scientific evidence' men have 'physical advantage' over women in sports
The woke article was in response to the World Athletics Council – the governing body for international track and field – barring men from competing in events against women.

The shameful persecution of Posie Parker in New Zealand
This is what it must have been like when women were marched to the stake. Yesterday in Auckland the British women’s rights campaigner Posie Parker found herself surrounded by a deranged, heaving mob.

Minnesota House passes 'Trans Refuge bill' that would reform child custody laws
If another state issues a subpoena for a person found to be violating their laws regarding gender-affirming health care, then it will not be enforced in Minnesota.

Education...

Middle School Teacher Resigns After Student Accuses Her of Taping His Mouth Shut
The 11-year-old student sent a selfie to his mom that showed him with his mouth taped shut with multiple layers of painter's tape

Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus’ ‘Rainbowland’ was banned from a first-grade spring concert
Some parents are upset they had a school board flip from woke to awake.

Religion...

Toby Young: 'To express orthodox Christian beliefs is a form of blasphemy'
"We're living in a time when free speech is increasingly under threat in the country, as evidenced by some of our cases, street preachers being arrested and people losing their jobs just for expressing what they think."

Technology...

Bill Gates warns that artificial intelligence can attack humans
While Gates acknowledges that AI has the potential to do great good, depending on government intervention, he is equally concerned by the potential harms.

The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI
In early 2018, Musk told Sam Altman, another OpenAI founder, that he believed the venture had fallen fatally behind Google.

Deepfakes Could Destroy the 2024 Election
The existence of deepfakes is also allowing dishonest figures to deny the legitimacy of genuine embarrassing video and audio, by claiming it was AI generation.

Pentagon Woos Silicon Valley to Join Ranks of Arms Makers
To keep up with China, the Defense Department is trying to lure private capital.

TikTok Is Too Popular To Ban
Not only is the app incredibly popular among Americans, especially younger Americans, but it's also become a go-to spot for digital advertising.

Levi's to use AI models to 'increase diversity and sustainability'
Should save them a ton of money.

Science...

Time traveler reveals cause of the world's next pandemic and the year it will happen
A TikTok time traveler warned that the next global pandemic will come from a virus in melting ice caps and infect 350 million people in 2027.

British region on 'UFO alert' with '42 sightings' reported in 12 months
The South East, North West, and South West still come out on top on the unearthly sightings chart for 2022, but the West Midlands is spiking after UFO researchers compiled last year's data.

There's a Massive 'Hole' in the Sun the Size of 20 Earths Right Now
The coronal hole in the Sun spurred NOAA to issue an alert for geomagnetic storms.

Asteroid the size of 33 armadillos passed Earth on Sunday: NASA
Asteroid 2023 FL2 has a diameter of 35 meters, which is as much as almost 33 nine-banded armadillos lined up tail-to-snout.

Travel...

Flight issues, not turbulence, caused jolt that killed passenger Dana Hyde
Despite early statements from officials that severe turbulence contributed to the death of a former White House official on a flight earlier this month, an investigation found a jolt to the aircraft came when pilots switched off a stabilizing system in response to alerts from the aircraft.

Sports...

UFC Fighter Holly Holm Denounces The Sexualization Of Minors During Victory Speech
"I’m not even a real political person. But there’s also just right and wrong. I feel like everybody should be on the same side on that."

March 27, 2008 - Financial news... The coming great depression... Great moments in business history... New column on CNN... Obama's anti-personal responsibility speech... Parents who pray instead of getting medical attention... Stu's swinger trial, part I...

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

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

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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.