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June 19, 2023
Chris Brady

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Domestic News...

FBI Undercover Agent Groomed Teenager to Join ISIS
An undercover FBI agent befriended the teenager online. When he turned 18, he was arrested for supporting ISIS.

'Soviet style intimidation': Armed IRS agents raid, close gun shop, US lawmaker says
Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale is demanding answers after he says a group of armed IRS agents raided and temporarily closed a Montana gun shop in Great Falls.

IRS used false name to obtain entry into taxpayer's Ohio home to demand payment
The Judiciary Committee revealed that an IRS agent visited an Ohio taxpayer's residence under a fake name in order to gain entry to the home on April 25, 2023.

Poll: What did listeners think would happen while Glenn was on vacation?
Do aliens visit Earth? Will Joe Biden fall down? Will Bud Light go out of business?

Supreme Court enters the second half of June with 23 cases left to decide
Here are brief summaries of the as-yet-undecided cases.

A Manifesto on Friendship
To change the world and to live a full life, get some friends.

Courage Is a New Birth
"I don’t want to die without any scars."

Harvard Morgue Manager And Associates Charged With Trafficking Human Remains
Sold parts via Facebook and PayPal.

1 dead, 20 shot during Juneteenth celebration in Chicago suburb
There were reportedly "at least 200 teens and young adults" gathered in a parking lot for a Juneteenth celebration when as many as 30 shots were fired.

San Francisco thieves break into Shelby Steele's car as he shoots documentary, steal thousands in camera gear
"I've worked dangerous neighborhoods for years and nothing like this," Eli Steele added.

Sriracha stolen from San Francisco restaurants as condiment’s prices skyrocket to $30
Sriracha lovers are swiping bottles of the once-cheap condiment from local restaurants as a last resort amid the national chili pepper shortage.

Squatter teacher, family who took over lavish Texas home finally leave after months-long eviction battle
Amberlyn Prather and her family members moved themselves into a Houston residence in January and lived there until this month, purportedly faking a lease agreement.

Biden Crime Family...

Hunter Biden's Maltese Bank Account Opened by Burisma Amid FBI Allegations of $10 Million Bribe
Emails from the Biden laptop reveal a newly discovered Maltese bank account that coincides with the bribery allegations involving Biden and Burisma, as reported by an FBI source.

Comer Plans To Bring In ‘Key Witnesses’ In Biden Family Probe
Congressional investigators will have “key figures” appear for depositions in an investigation into allegations of influence peddling levied against Joe Biden and his family, according to a top Republican lawmaker.

Joe Biden referred to as 'big guy' in dealings with Ukraine, FBI record reportedly reveals
President Biden was referred to as the “big guy” by the Ukrainian oligarch who owned the Hunter Biden-employing energy giant Burisma, sources say an FBI record reveals.

Biden won't acknowledge Iran deal explicitly to skirt Congress
If Iran is violating the JCPOA – which it has been, for years – then Congress can fast-track a bill to reinstate sanctions.

Joe Biden: Stabilizer Braces Make Pistols Shoot ‘Higher Caliber’ Bullets
“[The brace] makes it where you can have a higher caliber bullet coming out of that gun.”

Biden ends gun control speech saying, 'God save the queen'
Also repeats an insult from his 2020 campaign, saying "as that scene in the John Wayne movie, 'Don’t make me a dog-faced, lying pony soldier.'"

National Review: Could I Have Cracked the Biden Brain Code?
An exploration/investigation of John Wayne’s filmography concludes: A patchwork of scenes from two Wayne movies has likely melded together in the Biden brain clutter and produced the nonsensical, contrived line.

Elon Musk issues challenge to Biden
"Please give him the password so he can do his own tweets. Please, I'm begging you!"

Politics...

Trump Indictment a Violation of Federal Law
Since Jack Smith and his prosecutors dropped a multi-count federal indictment against Trump, multiple grounds have surfaced warranting dismissal of the embarrassing prosecutorial sideshow in South Florida.

Can a president pardon himself?
The first-ever federal and state indictments of a former president — and one who is running for the office again — have raised legal questions around whether a president may pardon himself.

Karine Jean-Pierre calls herself a 'historic figure,' who 'cannot fail'
"I'm a historic figure, and I certainly walk in history every day."

Fetterman struggles with words, wears hoodie, shorts to I-95 rebuilding event with Biden
"That bridge was built in less than a year, well well in front of time. This is a president that is committed to infrucsure [sic], yeah, and then on then top of that the jewel kind of uh, uh law."

Economy / ESG...

Carol Roth: De-dollarization may be a conspiracy, but it’s not a theory
Janet Yellen has made a new statement for us to be concerned about. As reality tends to directly oppose her words, there should be more concern about her recent congressional testimony, in which she stated that she expects the dollar to remain dominant.

Treasury secretary concedes she was wrong on ‘path that inflation would take’
June 1: Yellen admitted that she had failed to anticipate how long high inflation would continue to plague American consumers as the Biden administration works to contain a mounting political liability.

NPR: The US dollar conquered the world. Is it at risk of losing its top spot?
There are challengers emerging, and history shows that countries whose currency dominated the globe can fall from that top spot pretty fast ... even over the course of a few days.

NY Times: Why It Seems Everything We Knew About the Global Economy Is No Longer True
When the world’s business and political leaders gathered in 2018 at the annual economic forum in Davos, the mood was jubilant. Growth in every major country was on an upswing. Five years later, the outlook has decidedly soured.

The World Economic Forum Is Coming for Your Cars
How about the Davos crowd first give up their private jets?

Fed, SEC Probing Goldman Sachs’ Role in SVB’s Final Days
Justice Department has subpoenaed Goldman over Silicon Valley Bank matter.

Video: RedBalloon.Work Anti-Woke Commercial
No kid dreams of working for a woke company that censors their speech, tells them how to think, and judges them by race or gender.

WAR News... 

Putin says Russia put nuclear bombs in Belarus as warning to West
Putin said his deployment of tactical nuclear weapons was a reminder to the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.

Russian State TV Host Says Nuclear Weapons 'Must' Be Used to Strike NATO Countries
"I think tactical nuclear weapons will be used, and it is inevitable."

Milley Predicts Long, 'Very Violent' Ukrainian Counteroffensive
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley predicted Thursday that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will be long and "very violent" following a meeting of military officials in Brussels.

The Tale the West Tells Itself About Ukraine
When NATO weighs Ukraine’s prospects for membership at its summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, next month, it must recognize that the war has more complex causes than this popular narrative suggests.

COVID-19...

Potential COVID Patient Zero Linked to US-Funded Research in Wuhan
New reporting, attributed to U.S. government sources, identified a coronavirus researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who fell ill in November 2019.

Media...

USA Today forgets to interview any of those Nazis protesting outside Disney World
When the protest is real, the media will report the names of the protesters or ask readers to identify them. When the protest is fake, they will not.

The Media Lied About Trump Not Picking Up the Check in A Miami Cafe
The media falsely accused Trump of breaking a promise to get “food for everyone” at a Cuban restaurant and had to quietly correct their reports on the subject.

Canada...

Toronto is getting a restaurant where all the food is made by chefs living with HIV
The HIV+ Eatery wants to fight back against negative stigma surrounding HIV+ people.

Europe...

Hate Speech Law to ‘Restrict Freedom’ for the ‘Common Good,’ Claims Irish Senator
Appearing before the Irish Senate, Green Party chairwoman Pauline O’Reilly admitted that the intention of proposed legislation is to curtail speech.

Middle East...

Saudi Arabia and China are part of a multipolar world order, and their mutual interests are ‘strong and rising,’ minister says
“I don’t see our relationship with the U.S., with China as being mutually exclusive,” Saudi Minister of Investment Khalid Al-Falih told CNBC.

Bank of China to start operations in Riyadh this year, says official
In yet another sign of increasing cooperation between the world’s second-largest economy and the Arab world, the Bank of China is set to open its first branch in Riyadh.

Environment...

2022: King Charles' Terra Carta
The Terra Carta, part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, was created by His Royal Highness Prince Charles, now soon to be crowned His Royal Majesty King Charles, in order to push forward zero-carbon agendas in companies around the world.

2021: Prince Charles urges businesses to sign Terra Carta pledge to put planet first
Magna Carta-style project aims to "bring prosperity into harmony with nature."

2020: ‘Absolute Zero’
‘Absolute Zero’ details how we can deliver net-zero emissions by 2050 using today’s tech + lifestyle changes.

Man charged with setting massive Yosemite park fire initially blamed on climate change
An elderly California man was busted on suspicion of arson for allegedly igniting the Oak Fire in July 2022.

Spike in ocean heat stuns scientists: Have we breached a climate tipping point?
Global oceans are so hot right now that scientists all around the world are struggling to explain the phenomenon.

Comments From The UN Water Conference
"Water is a dealmaker for the Sustainable Development Goals, and for the health and prosperity of people and planet. But our progress on water related goals and targets remains alarmingly off track, jeopardizing the entire sustainable development agenda."

Pumping groundwater has caused the Earth's rotation to shift: Study
The distribution of water on the planet affects how mass is distributed. Like adding a tiny bit of weight to a spinning top, the Earth spins a little differently as water is moved around.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Girl Sues Hospital for Removing Her Breasts at Age 13
Lawyers said the hospital carried out “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse” when doctors prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones and, later, performed a double mastectomy.

All-Muslim council bans LGBTQ+ flags from Michigan city property
Jesse Kelly says, "American Christians should be ashamed as they watch Muslims, with a tiny fraction of their numbers, actually take aggressive steps to stop cultural rot."

Realtor compares LGBTQ people fleeing red states to slaves escaping slavery
"We're calling it ... the rainbow Underground Railroad."

The 'Infinite Gender Cube'
"Gender is a spectrum" is so 2022. In the #CurrentYear, we're going three-dimensional!

Jameela Jamil Proposes Non-Binary People Get Own Category At Award Shows
So Hollywood doesn’t “completely shut out women.”

Health...

Shocking CDC statistics reveal extent of mental health crisis among children in US
Dismal numbers released Tuesday by the CDC indicate 15% of America’s children ages 5 to 17 received treatment for mental health conditions in 2021, raising concerns about the depth of the country’s ever-expanding mental health crisis.

American Medical Association says BMI metric caused 'historical harm' by being used for 'racist exclusion'
Also vowed to protect "gender-affirming care" for transgenders.

AI...

AI: The worst-case scenario
Artificial intelligence’s architects warn it could cause human "extinction." How might that happen?

Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
The AI era promises a flood of disinformation, deepfakes, and hallucinated “facts.” Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications.

Bloomberg: Generative AI Takes Stereotypes and Bias from Bad to Worse
The world according to Stable Diffusion is run by white male CEOs. Women are rarely doctors, lawyers, or judges. Men with dark skin commit crimes, while women with dark skin flip burgers.

Thought Cloning: Learning to Think while Acting by Imitating Human Thinking
With more research, Thought Cloning has the potential to create more powerful and safer AI agents in the future.

Can AI communicate with us telepathically?
AI technology is already being used with “semantic decoders” to interpret brainwaves as text, effectively mind-reading. If there is also the possibility to receive information with the mind, then the advantages are astounding.

AI-Run Lettuce Farm Goes Under in Latest Vertical Farming Flop
The hype around AI-powered vertical farming has come crashing down as profitability remains elusive and funding dries up, pushing several start-ups into bankruptcy or restructuring.

Technology...

Pentagon’s Secret Service Trawls Social Media for Mean Tweets About Generals
A document shows the Protective Services Battalion uses sophisticated surveillance tools that can pinpoint anyone’s location.

Twitter to focus on video, commerce in major business revamp
The company is in early conversations with political and entertainment figures, payments services, and news and media publishers.

Science...

Las Vegas police place cameras in back yard where aliens supposedly landed earlier this month
A Vegas family called the police after aliens supposedly crashed in their back yard. Family members were recorded saying they saw an "eight-foot person" with "big eyes" that is "not human." Police body camera footage also showed something falling from the sky.

Aliens have killed humans, says whistleblower who assures Vatican's involvement in UFO cover-up
Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch revealed that aliens on Earth have acted with malevolence and have resulted in the death of human beings.

Sports...

Thousands of protesters gather outside Dodger Stadium to oppose anti-Christian drag queen group
Protesters of various religious faiths gathered together to demonstrate against the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team's decision to honor an anti-Christian hate group.

Animals...

Elizabeth Warren Donor Arrested for Dog Sex
"I do it to blow off steam," alleged liberal pervert told park rangers.

Penn State professor arrested for having sex with his dog is a Hillary Clinton donor
Matsoukas was a regular contributor to the left-wing PAC ActBlue, donating over $1,000 between 2010 and 2020.

Loving Animals: Historical Reflections on Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love
It is only in very recent years that some people have begun to undermine the absolute prohibition on zoosexuality.

June 19, 2007 - The border fence isn't going to be built... Politicians have no idea of the anger in the US over immigration... UN says Darfur heralds era of wars triggered by climate change... 80% against amnesty bill... Does there have to be a crash to reboot the system?... Interview with Toby Keith... Spending time with the family... Trent Lott's attack on talk radio...

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

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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.