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Morning Brief 2023-05-04

May 04, 2023
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Kelsey Cooke & Chris Guerra
TOPIC: The hilarious story of a theatre company attempting to "re-open" in the middle of a pandemic.

Proverbs 3:19-20

Domestic News...

Whistleblower alleges FBI, DOJ have document revealing criminal scheme involving Biden, foreign national
A whistleblower is alleging that the FBI and the DOJ are in possession of a document that describes a criminal scheme involving then-VP Joe Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.

Whistleblower’s claims against Biden could be biggest US scandal ever
These allegations are far more serious than anything involved in the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon. If the president of the United States was or is in hock to foreign nationals, the nation is at risk.

The FBI's Catholicism Memo Is No Laughing Matter
The congressional hearings, ignored almost entirely save for a handful of conservative news outlets, were looking into the leaked FBI memo alleging some kind of tie between what it called "radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology" and "violent extremism."

Records related to Nashville Christian school shooting will be kept under wraps due to lawsuits, police announce
"Due to pending litigation filed this week, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has been advised by counsel to hold in abeyance the release of records related to the shooting at The Covenant School pending orders or direction of the court," the department declared in a statement.

Soros-backed district attorney caught 'pursuing other careers' as Missouri AG takes action for her removal
"I want her to have a meeting with every victim's family for every court case she missed or every case she dismissed because she was busy at nursing school instead of taking care of her job," AG Andrew Bailey said.

Ransomware Comes for the City of Dallas
The city says it is “actively working to isolate the ransomware to prevent its spread,” and that “the impact on the delivery of City services to its residents is limited.”

In the Last 3 Years Alone, IRS Has Dropped $10 Million on Weapons, Ammo, and Tactical Gear
The report from Open the Books comes in the wake of President Joe Biden’s multibillion-dollar Inflation Reduction Act — which would divert billions to the IRS to hire more agents.

Unraveling the Epstein-Chomsky Relationship
Recent revelations that the renowned linguist and political activist met with Jeffrey Epstein several times have surprised and confused many.

Billionaire Stephen Deckoff buys Jeffrey Epstein’s private islands
Deckoff, the founder of the private equity firm Black Diamond Capital Management, purchased the two islands for $60 million.

Politics...

House leak tries to pin Biden classified docs on ex-aide Kathy Chung
House Oversight Committee Democrats leaked a passage Wednesday from closed-door testimony by Kathy Chung — a former aide to Biden who helped pack up his vice presidential office — suggesting she was responsible for mishandling classified documents.

NY Times: Meet the House Republicans Who Democrats Hope Will Defect on the Debt Limit
A long-shot Democratic effort to force a debt-limit increase to the floor hinges on at least five GOP defections. These are considered the likeliest.

Lawmakers Dumped Their Shares In First Republic Bank Before The Company Collapsed
Multiple lawmakers sold their shares in First Republic Bank in the weeks before the firm collapsed and was sold to JPMorgan Chase by financial regulators.

Sotomayor Took $3M From Book Publisher, Didn’t Recuse From Its Cases
Random House was her main source of earned income, but she voted on key decision where publisher stood to lose money, even as similarly positioned colleague recused.

Cruz Shreds Democrats’ Smear Campaign Against Justice Clarence Thomas
They are “engaged in the same despicable tactics” that then Sen. Joe Biden used back in the early '90s to smear Thomas.

Who's the boss? The regulators or the elected representatives of the people?
“Believe in Science” or “Trust the Experts” has come to mean that the executive branch can make its own law.

Economy / ESG...

Former Dallas Fed head warns the US regional banking crisis is 'more serious than we currently understand'
There have been three major bank failures so far this year, and some experts claim the carnage may not yet be at an end.

The market is looking for the next ‘domino’ to fall, keeping banks under pressure
Steep declines in PacWest and Western Alliance shares Tuesday amid a lack of new news had banking experts trying to figure out what was happening.

PacWest Bank shares fall more than 50% on report that it could be the next regional bank to collapse
Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, said the bank has been looking to sell itself, but bidders aren’t coming out of the woodwork.

After the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, it’s time to audit the Fed
The Federal Reserve Wednesday raised interest rates for the 10th time in just over a year, its latest cudgel against the economy in reaction to recession and inflation from massive government binge spending.

Border...

Kyrsten Sinema ‘takes offense’ to border comments from White House: ‘Factually not true’
The senator said she “takes offense” to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s claim that illegal immigration is “down by more than 90%.”

WAR News... 

Putin 'Assassination' Attempt Could Be Turning Point in War
No matter who was behind the assignation attempt, which could have been fabricated by the Kremlin, Putin could use the incident to justify future military action against Ukraine.

Videos: Drone Attack On The Kremlin In Moscow
Video has emerged showing what appears to be a drone striking at the dome of the Senatsky Dvorets in the Kremlin in Moscow.

Russia Says US Backs Ukraine Cross-Border Ops After Drone Hits Kremlin
"The world remembers how, in 2001, the Russian President was the first to lend a helping hand to the American people, who were then subjected to the terrorist attack," Antonov said. "Everything is forgotten. Today the United States is whitewashing the Kiev criminals."

RT: Ukrainian counteroffensive has started – Wagner boss
The head of the private military company Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian forces had begun their counterattack in Bakhmut and are threatening to overwhelm his undersupplied troops.

Follow-up: Russian Vessels Photographed at Nord Stream Site Days Before Blast
Story from the WSJ provides more details and photos.

Biden ships another $300 million in military aid to Ukraine
The new aid will come from existing U.S. military stockpiles.

Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Blasts Pentagon For Using Drag Queen for Recruiting
O’Neill responded to the report on Twitter, saying he “can’t believe [he] fought for this bullsh-t.”

Lockheed, Raytheon to develop ground systems for nuclear-hardened satellite communications
The U.S. Space Force selected Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to develop competing ground systems for a next-generation space communications network that can survive a nuclear attack.

MQ-9 Reaper Has Operated From A Highway For The First Time
The MQ-9 Reaper drone is the latest aircraft to join the Air Force’s drive toward operations from highways and austere airstrips.

COVID-19...

Twitter Users Set The Record Straight After Politifact Says Randi Weingarten ‘Advocated For Reopening Schools’
“Teachers union President Randi Weingarten advocated for reopening schools with pandemic safety measures,” Politifact wrote. “She criticized the Trump administration’s 2020 calls to reopen schools fully, but it’s misleading to claim that she opposed reopening at all.”

15 Days Finally Ends After 1,141 Days
On Monday, the White House announced its COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal employees, federal contractors, and international air travelers will expire on May 11, coinciding with the end of the COVID public health emergency.

Commie Update...

China Is Selling Mexican Drug Cartels ‘Industrial Pill Press Equipment’ To Manufacture Fentanyl, DHS Official Says
Over 70,000 people died of drug overdoses involving fentanyl in the United States in 2021.

TikTok Suspends a Film on Hong Kong newspaperman Jimmy Lai
Its CEO told Congress in March it doesn’t do Communist bidding.

Konnech withdraws defamation lawsuit against watchdog group that accused it of subverting US elections with Chinese communists
An election software company based in Michigan sued an election integrity watchdog group and its leaders last year for defamation over claims it had conspired with the Chinese Communist Party and subverted American elections.

Entertainment...

The 'Re-Opening' movie premiere is tonight on BlazeTV
"Re-Opening" is a brilliant work of satire that uses humor to poke fun at the insanity that gripped our nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. This mockumentary film follows the cast and crew of a local community theater as they struggle to re-open in the heart of the pandemic.

Jamie Foxx Remains Hospitalized As Latest Status of Actor's Condition Released
Family and friends have urged the public to "pray for Jamie."

Media...

Poll: 36% Would Watch Carlson Online
Oddsmaker Bovada has Glenn Beck's online network, Blaze TV, as the 3-2 favorite in landing Carlson; Newsmax is next at 5-2.

World On Cusp Of Woke Totalitarianism As Governments Act To End Freedom Of Speech
Media blackout as politicians in EU, U.S., U.K., Brazil, Ireland, Canada, and Australia seek to jail citizens for wrongthink under the cover of a Big Lie about "hate speech."

Tucker Carlson May Become Alex Jones — but Worse
I didn't think Fox would get rid of one of their biggest moneymakers. I was excited at first but then filled with dread. My next thought was, "He'll just get worse."

Former BuzzFeed top editor says Facebook had 'explicit goal' to elect Barack Obama
Ben Smith admitted Tuesday that Facebook was basically a "Democratic institution" bent on electing Barack Obama.

Middle East...

The End of the American Century Begins in the Middle East
Chinese official communications often echo a phrase of President Xi Jinping's about "great changes unseen in a century." Increasingly that line seems less like propaganda and more like a simple statement of a vast transformation in the world order.

Africa...

How Biden's Efforts to Guide Sudan to Democracy Ended in War
The violence in Sudan is creating exactly the kind of power vacuum that Mr. Biden’s aides had hoped to avoid. Russian mercenaries of the Wagner Group are among the players already trying to fill the gap, current and former U.S. officials say.

Environment...

Biden proposes 30% climate change tax on cryptocurrency mining
The White House is trying to persuade Congress to pass a 30% tax on the electricity used in cryptocurrency mining in the next federal budget in order to minimize the nascent industry’s impact on climate change.

World Bank approves new leader
The new pick is a Biden stooge, and the White House says he’ll focus on climate change.

Ford Is Losing Roughly $60,000 For Every Electric Vehicle Sold
Ford’s electric vehicle division lost $722 million in the first three months of 2023, while selling just 12,000 units.

The Incredible Story of Motorola’s Top Secret Chevy Corvette EV Prototype From 1993
No record of the Motorola Corvette exists anywhere online. It was a ghost — until now.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Anheuser-Busch walks back Mulvaney partnership as 'one single can': Report
"... the Bud Light can posted by a social media influencer that sparked all the conversation was provided by an outside agency without Anheuser-Busch management awareness or approval. ... Since that time, the lack of oversight and control over marketing decisions has been addressed and a new VP of Bud Light marketing has been announced."

Yes, The Trans Movement Is Coming For Your Kids
An attempt by Minnesota Democrats to tinker with a statute defining sexual orientation is part of a broader attempt to normalize pedophilia.

Taxpayer-Funded Planned Parenthood LGBTQ Youth Club Promotes ‘National Masturbation Month’
The Rainbow Room in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is a program for LGBTQ youth ages 14-21 to learn about “age-appropriate sexuality education” while connecting with others.

Biden offers $500K grant for English teachers in Pakistan that focus on transgender youth
Grant recipients will implement the program for transgender youth ages 13-25.

Transgender lifeguard candidate rejected by city after removing top at the pool
A woman who claims she's a man exposed her bare breasts in front of several dozen children at a pool in Jacksonville, Florida.

Girl scorches school district for allowing male student to use female bathroom
"Why are we affirming the mental confusion of this boy and putting the safety of women in jeopardy?"

Transgender child of second-ranking House Democrat sentenced for assaulting Boston cop
The child of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark was sentenced to one year of probation Wednesday for role in a violent protest in Boston earlier this year.

Education...

Florida legislature takes aim at college DEI
Florida lawmakers have passed a bill aimed at preventing university programs focused on diversity.

US history scores hit all-time low among 8th-graders
Only 1 percent of "advanced" students could manage better than a 65.4 percent score.

Health...

World’s first RSV vaccine approved by FDA — breakthrough 60 years in the making
Manufactured by pharmaceutical giant GSK, the single-dose shot aims to prevent lower respiratory tract disease, caused by RSV, in people 60 years and older.

FDA commissioner praises Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s treatment results
Patients demonstrated a 35% slower decline in memory, in thinking, and in their ability to conduct daily activities.

Technology...

NY Times: When AI Chatbots Hallucinate
When did The New York Times first report on “artificial intelligence”? According to ChatGPT, it was July 10, 1956, in an article titled “Machines Will Be Capable of Learning, Solving Problems, Scientists Predict” about a seminal conference at Dartmouth College. But there is no such article.

Musk slashes Twitter down to about 1,000 employees: Report
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said job cuts were necessary to keep company afloat.

Apple expected to announce $90 billion in buybacks and dividends when it reports earnings
It’s another way of telling the world how profitable its business is and how much cash it throws off every quarter.

Science...

Astronomers observe star swallowing planet for first time – and it’s the size of Jupiter
While astronomers have previously seen planets just before and just after being engulfed by a star, this is the first time that a planetary demise has been observed.

Sports...

Boxing star Deontay Wilder arrested on gun charge in Los Angeles: 'I'd rather be safe than sorry'
Wilder was reportedly cooperative with police throughout the traffic stop.

Animals...

WaPo: What to do if you get attacked by bees? First, run away.
Run in a straight line, find an enclosed space, and don’t jump into water. Here’s how to stay safe when a swarm of bees attacks.

May 4, 2010 - Mayor Bloomberg has things under control… Terrorist told his rights… Glenn attending TIME 100… American Revival… PA Tax Amnesty TV Ad… Predator drones… 'Fascist' T-shirts… $5 gas coming?… Obama’s war over terror… What is happening to our country?… Glenn’s new painting… Fire boom used to contain Deepwater Horizon spill...

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.