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Morning Brief 2023-08-15

August 15, 2023
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Steve Baker
TOPIC: Were the U.S. Capitol Police left to fend for themselves on January 6?

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Alex Clark
TOPIC: Why music and movies should NOT be labeled "conservative."

John 16:33

Banana Republic...

Trump and others indicted in connection with Georgia 2020 election probe
Donald Trump and a more than a dozen other individuals have been indicted in connection with a Georgia 2020 election-related probe. Aside from Trump, some of the other figures named in the indictment include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Jenna Ellis.

Fani Willis fails to answer why identical indictment appeared, then was deleted before grand jury voted
On Monday, charges against Trump and co-defendants was leaked online and reported by Reuters. Moments later, those charges were disappeared from Twitter, and the DA's office said the document was "fictitious." This document was leaked prior to the grand jury having voted — meaning that the charges were filed prior to the indictment.

Fani Willis gives Trump and co-defendants deadline to turn themselves in
"I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on Friday the 25th day of August 2023," the Democrat hack said.

UPDATED Timeline: Hunter Bombshell Precedes New Trump Charges Yet Again
8/11: DOJ designates special counsel for Hunter Biden | Next business day: Trump indicted.

Judge Tanya Chutkan once took issue with Trump being 'free' man after Jan. 6
“I see the footage of the flags and the signs that people were carrying and the hats they were wearing and the garb, and the people who mobbed that Capitol were there in fealty, in loyalty, to one man — not to the Constitution. ... It's a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day,” Chutkan told a J6 defendant.

Congressional Republicans respond to 'bogus' charges against Trump
"Justice should be blind, but Biden has weaponized government against his leading political opponent to interfere in the 2024 election," McCarthy said in a statement. "Now a radical DA in Georgia is following Biden’s lead by attacking President Trump and using it to fundraise her political career."

MacIntyre: From the rule of law to the total state
As the regime jails political opponents, meme makers, and protesters while letting violent criminals roam the streets, it becomes increasingly difficult to pretend that we are a nation ruled by laws, not men.

Hunter Biden's lawyers insist diversion agreement for felony gun charge is 'binding' despite plea deal collapse
Attorneys for Hunter Biden argued in a court filing on Sunday that a pretrial diversion agreement signed by federal prosecutors remains binding despite the first son's sweetheart plea deal falling apart.

NY Times: A Timeline of Hunter Biden’s Life and Legal Troubles
Here’s a look at key dates in the life of the president’s son.

Washington Post flip-flops on Hunter Biden plea
What was once “a reasonable resolution” for Hunter Biden’s “tax and gun crimes” has suddenly become “suspect” and an indication that “Mr. Biden was being given special treatment,” according to the Washington Post editorial board.

Domestic News...

Survey finds 30 million Americans see violence as justified to block or ensure Trump presidency
A disturbing new survey reveals nearly 12% of U.S. population believes using force is warranted to either prevent or ensure Trump returns to the White House.

Sam Bankman-Fried charged with using over $100 million in customer funds to donate to Democrat campaigns
"He leveraged this influence, in turn, to lobby Congress and regulatory agencies to support legislation and regulation he believed would make it easier for FTX to continue to accept customer deposits and grow."

The IRS Misplaced Millions of Taxpayer Records. Again.
The only effective means of keeping tax collectors from misusing data is keeping it from them.

FBI Says 75-Year-Old Utah Man Pointed Gun At Feds, Leading To His Death During Raid
“Robertson resisted arrest and as agents attempted to take him into custody he pointed a .357 revolver at them,” the statement read.

Judicial Watch: Hearing Set in Lawsuit against US Capitol Police Seeking Videos and Emails from January 6 Protest at the U.S. Capitol
"US Capitol Police considering labeling all 14,000 hours of Jan 6 video footage as 'security information' in order to prevent their public disclosure."

Philadelphia teen plotted terror attack with Al-Qaeda affiliate, authorities say
The teen had access to firearms, was building a bomb, and had begun coordinating a terrorist attack with an Al-Qaeda affiliate organization.

San Fran federal employees advised to work remotely for ‘foreseeable future’
Due to rampant crime near Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.

Robotaxis Block Traffic Just Days After Expanding Operations
Concert-goers left San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music Festival Friday bracing for bad traffic, not knowing a gaggle of Cruise robotaxis would make the mess much, much worse.

San Franciscans Are Having Sex in Robotaxis, and Nobody Is Talking About It
As autonomous vehicles become increasingly popular in San Francisco, some riders are wondering just how far they can push the vehicles’ limits.

Politics...

Will Hawaii wildfires become president’s Katrina moment?
You might be tempted to dismiss President Biden’s latest press mishap as just another desperation story in the dog days of summer. But the story is actually a perfect encapsulation of his presidency.

Salena Zito: Biden's pattern of behavior lacks the empathy he promised
Biden's lack of empathy for Hawaii victims echoes his past failures to show compassion after Afghanistan, East Palestine, and more, contradicting his image as an empathetic leader.

FEMA Boss Stresses Need For ‘Culturally Responsive’ Outreach In Fire-Stricken Maui
"... we are working with our state and local partners to ensure that our outreach and our messaging is also culturally responsive."

Biden Campaign Manager Bails On MSNBC Interview To Avoid Hunter Questions: Report
Biden also kept his distance upon returning to the White House on Monday, again refusing to answer any questions from the press.

McCarthy 'expects' a short-term funding bill will be necessary to avoid shutdown
The government is set to run out of funding on Oct. 1, giving the House only 12 working days to pass their 11 remaining appropriations bills, negotiate with the Senate in conference committee, and keep the government funded.

Vivek Ramaswamy breaks with GOP on decriminalization of hard drugs: 'I'm in that direction'
"I'm not a war on drugs person," Vivek Ramaswamy has said.

RFK Jr. Confirms He Supports Abortions Up to Birth with No Limits
The candidate confused voters over the weekend with conflicting statements about abortion, but ultimately confirmed he supports abortions up to birth with no limits.

RFK Jr.'s long, slow slide
Kennedy's highest level of support was 20%, in late April. Then, in late May, it slipped to 16.8%. By June 22, it fell to 14%. It is now at 13.6%.

Economy / ESG...

AI will be at the center of the next financial crisis, SEC chair warns
The most obvious risk from AI in financial markets is that AI-powered "black box" trading algorithms run amok, and all end up selling the same thing at the same time, causing a market crash.

Yellen says ‘Bidenomics’ has the US economy on track for stable growth
The term emerged on the political landscape in the past year, used to describe high inflation and the interest rate hikes. But as economic indicators improved, Democrats saw an opening to flip the GOP attack line and embrace “Bidenomics.”

California cities adopt rent control as policies lead housing production to fall
Under these new rent control programs, critics believe housing production will decline even further, as such measures will disincentivize housing production.

Border...

The Bill Comes Due for Blue Sanctuary Cities
The seemingly low-cost virtue signaling of declaring your non-border city or state a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants has now revealed its hefty price tag.

Democrats cling to sanctuary policies despite 'emergency' immigration declarations
"This has nothing to do with sanctuary cities despite how many lies Gov. Abbott tells," the Adams aide said. "These individuals have been paroled into the U.S. by Customs and Border Protection, so they are not undocumented immigrants. They literally have documents."

Border agents seize enough lethal drugs this fiscal year to kill more than 6 billion people
These amounts are greater than what was seized in all of fiscal 2022.

WAR News... 

US to send Ukraine new security aid worth $200 million, State Dept. says
Two U.S. officials told Reuters last Monday that Washington would begin to dole out $6.2 billion of funds discovered after a Pentagon accounting error that overvalued billions of dollars of Ukraine aid.

Politico: ‘Unprecedented’ and ‘unsafe’: Navy chief retires as Tuberville hold drags on
Monday was meant to be a historic day, one in which a woman for the first time ascended to the ranks of the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. Instead, the Defense Department will mark a more sober milestone.

When Trade War Threatens Real War
Biden is blurring the lines between economic policy and military action.

Entertainment...

Disney Disappears Its Own Audience After A Decade Of Disappearing Princesses
Welcome to the dystopian, child-unfriendly world Disney helped create. It made this childless bed, and now we all have to lie in it.

Whitlock: The ‘Rich Men’ of the music industry will seek to destroy Oliver Anthony
We better pray for Oliver Anthony, the hard-living factory worker turned Bob Dylan wannabe.

Axios: Farmville singer's blue-collar anthem 'Rich Men North of Richmond' goes viral
Formerly unknown singer Oliver Anthony has gone viral among the right for his angry ballad "Rich Men North of Richmond," which criticizes high taxes and welfare programs.

'Fast and Furious' actor Tyrese Gibson sues Home Depot over alleged racial discrimination
While in the check-out line, the actor told the cashier that his two companions would finish the purchase with his credit card while he waited in the car in order to avoid creating a scene. The cashier said he had to return to complete the transaction. Wants $1 million in damages.

Media...

MSNBC: Trump lovers rage over Fox’s debate restrictions ... from 2016
On social media, right-wingers attacked Fox News over its rules for how other outlets will be able to use clips from next week’s presidential primary debate — but the rules are from 2016.

Alex Jones says Maui wildfires are 'staged,' blames 'globalists' and Antifa
"When the winds get high and it's dry, out come the Extinction Rebellion leftists."

Media Matters: Trump leads the 2024 Fox primary, is dominating coverage on OAN and Newsmax
The dopes at Media Matters would be shocked to learn that Trump is also dominating the coverage on CNN and MSNBC.

Small Kansas newspaper says co-owner, 98, collapsed and died after police raid
Joan Meyer had been "stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief," the Record said, calling the raids illegal.

Europe...

To protect democracy, Germany is considering banning a major political party
The German president warned in a speech to the country’s domestic intelligence agency that “we all have it in our hands to put those who despise our democracy in their place.”

Environment...

Judge Rules in Favor of Montana Youths in Landmark Climate Case
The court found that young people have a constitutional right to a healthful environment and that regulators must be allowed to consider climate impact.

Widely relied-on estimate of plastic dumped yearly in oceans off by 'magnitudes,' new study says
A 2015 study, now apparently shown as inaccurate, has been cited frequently by media, government officials and environmental organizations over the years as the "conventional wisdom"

To Fight Climate Change, Unleash American Innovation
For tens of thousands of years our ancestors were at the whim of advancing and retreating glaciers and rising and falling seas, with little recourse but to move.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Researchers Dismantle The Left’s False Claim That No One Regrets Trans Surgeries
The study, touted by outlets such as CNN, claims to show that biological females who underwent mastectomies to appear male experienced extremely low levels of regret.

With The ‘Suicide Card,’ Transgender Activists Weaponize Kindness
When public school counselors meet with parents to discuss cases of gender identity confusion, they often warn that a transgender child is better than a dead child. This is not just a weaponization of kindness and sympathy. It is extortion.

CNN publishes 'guide to neopronouns' in latest woke effort, draws widespread ridicule
CNN's post explaining limitless made-up pronouns like "leafself" for the gender-confused was mocked as absurd, but reflects a disturbing cultural trend of rejecting reality.

Religion...

NJ top court sides with Catholic school that fired pregnant unmarried teacher
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled a Catholic school was within its rights to fire a teacher for getting pregnant out of wedlock, violating church doctrine she agreed to uphold.

Technology...

6 Takeaways From The Biden Admin’s Court Quest To Keep Censoring Americans Online
In this major case likely to hit the U.S. Supreme Court, the Biden administration is fighting to stop American citizens from sharing messages government officials don’t like.

Mark Levin says Facebook and Instagram have blocked ads for his book, 'The Democrat Party Hates America,' because of its title
"Facebook and Instagram have blocked my book from being advertised on their sites because of the title. Just another example of their censorship," Levin wrote.

Worldcoin Draws Attention Due to Privacy Concerns
Weeks after its international launch, Worldcoin is drawing the attention of officials around the world. Kenya’s government has gone so far as to shut down the service.

Flashback: Worldcoin Promised Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs With 'The Orb.' Now They Feel Robbed.
The Sam Altman–founded company Worldcoin says it aims to alleviate global poverty, but so far it has angered the very people it claims to be helping.

Science...

Scientists discover new alien-like species with 20 'arms' near Antarctica
A team of researchers have discovered a new species while trawling the ocean near Antarctica, and at first, it appears alien-like.

Sports...

'The Blind Side's' Michael Oher claims Tuohy family never adopted him in lawsuit
The movie made around $309 million, and allegedly none of the profits went to Oher. The filing emphasized that if Oher had been legally adopted, he would have control of his financial situation, but instead, the Tuohys' conservatorship allowed the family to earn money off his name.

Musk calls Zuckerberg a 'chicken'
"While I think it is very unlikely, given our size difference, perhaps you are a modern day Bruce Lee and will somehow win," Musk taunted.

August 15, 2011 - Greetings from Israel!... Why is the Smithsonian going after Thomas Jefferson?... The Fogel family massacre... Glenn makes a correct prediction... The White House doesn't know what country Jerusalem is in... Chris Christie to run for president?... Why are fitted sheets being outlawed?...

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.