Morning Brief 2023-10-11

BOTTOM OF HOUR 1
GUEST: Amb. Samuel Brownback
TOPIC: What is going on in Armenia?

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: JP Decker
TOPIC: What the Nazarene Fund is doing to help Israel.

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Carol Roth
TOPIC: What happens to our debt if we go to war, and how can Americans prepare for that?

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News...

The White House and lawmakers weigh linking Ukraine and Israel aid
The Biden administration and key lawmakers in Congress are actively discussing whether aid to Israel could be linked to more funding for Ukraine as a strategy to pass both spending priorities.

Black Lives Matter group posts image of paratrooper and says it 'stands with Palestine'
The Black Lives Matter chapter in Chicago publicly backed the Palestinian terrorists who killed some 1,200 Israelis over the weekend with a post that read "I Stand with Palestine."

Imagine If Our Intel Agencies Targeted More Actual Terrorists Instead Of Conservative Americans
Imagine if all those counterterror resources were redirected away from targeting Americans for their political views and aimed at stopping real terrorists.

California just created the 'Ebony Alert' to find missing black children
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 673 into law on Sunday.

Experts say LA homeless-in-hotels measure could drive industry out of business
If passed, it would require hotels to tell the city how many vacant rooms they have by 2:00 p.m. each day so the city can send homeless individuals to the hotels for a “fair market rate.”

Far-left Philly DA says looters who are 'fundamentally law-abiding people' will be prosecuted differently than 'criminals'
Also says, "We’re gonna prosecute people in an even-handed way. We're not going to let any judge who thinks there is a caste system ... disturb the peace of this city."

The War On Men Is A War On Civilization
A generation of men ghosting their loved ones, leaving the workforce, and even committing suicide is a sign of dark and evil times.

Politics...

As VP, Joe Biden Emailed His Brother And Son About Foreign Business More Than 29,000 Times
Biden denied long before he was inaugurated that he ever discussed business with his son. That was a flat-out lie.

Testimony Of DC US Attorney Who Declined To Prosecute Hunter Biden Raises Huge Red Flag
Why did Weiss not pursue charges in D.C., and why did he speak to department officials about obtaining special attorney authority?

No clear front-runner for House speaker after GOP candidate forum, lawmakers say
Votes are on hold in the House until a new speaker assumes office.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan host 2024 candidates at influential donor summit
Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Mike Pence, and Doug Burgum will address potential backers in closed-door sessions.

Kari Lake launches bid for US Senate: 'I am not going to retreat'
Lake is the second Republican to declare her bid.

Senator Tommy Tuberville reports former CIA director to police for saying Tuberville should be 'removed from the human race'
"If we still have a nonpolitical justice system in this country, then General Hayden will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

Economy / ESG...

One auto incident illustrates shocking collapse in dollar's purchasing power
An account of just one fender bender reveals the staggering erosion of the dollar's buying power in stark terms through soaring used car prices, exorbitant rental and repair costs, and spiking insurance premiums, showing how deeply entrenched inflation has become across every corner of the economy.

Federal budget deficit reached $1.7 trillion for fiscal year 2023
The deficit was $166 billion in September alone.

Wall Street Professionals Increasingly 'Nervous' About 'Yield-Led Global Accidents'
A new market survey of Deutsche Bank clients finds smart money anticipates economic trouble ahead as extreme hawkish policy by central banks could trigger a "bigger financial accident" and/or "serious financial stress."

Bank of England warns US tech stock valuations may be too high
The U.K. central bank’s comments come at a time when many popular technology stocks trade at a sharp premium to the S&P 500 on a price-to-earnings basis.

Immigration...

Thousands of 'special interest aliens' from Middle East countries stopped at southern border since 2021
Border Patrol sources tell Fox they have extreme concerns about the people coming across from special interest countries, given they have little to no way to vet them.

Texas has sent over 50,000 illegal aliens to Democrat-run cities
According to the governor's office, the state has sent over 12K to D.C., 18K to NYC, 13K to Chicago, 3K to Philly, 3K to Denver, and nearly a thousand to LA.

Denver asks border officials to hand out flyers discouraging illegal aliens from seeking shelter in sanctuary city
“Denver’s resources have been exhausted,” the city’s flyer states. “Asylum seekers without children in city shelters have been given a 14-day stay limit in shelter.”

Israel at War: Latest News...

‘At least 40 babies killed’: Foreign reporters taken to massacre site in Kfar Aza
A reporter from i24 News said that an IDF commander told her that they had found the bodies of some 40 babies, some of whom had been beheaded.

10,000 Assault Rifles Being Distributed to Israeli Civilian Security Teams
Guns, helmets, and body armor to be distributed to hundreds of residents of border regions, mixed Jewish-Arab cities, West Bank settlements

Israel masses troops on Gaza border as it exchanges fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon
Tensions spiked around Israel on two fronts Tuesday, as the country’s military continued to mass troops ahead of an expected ground invasion of the Gaza Strip and exchanges of fire continued across the northern border with Lebanon.

Israeli and Jewish schools urge parents to tell their kids to delete Instagram and TikTok
Their concern is that Hamas may use social media to broadcast disturbing images, such as hostages begging for their lives.

Hamas Seeds Violent Videos on Sites with Little Moderation
The strategy mirrors efforts by extremist groups like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in years past.

Senior Iraqi political figure threatens to target US interests if it backs Israel
"If they intervene, we would intervene ... if the Americans intervened openly in this conflict ... we will consider all American targets legitimate," Iraqi politician Hadi Al-Amiri said.

Putin blames US for ongoing Israel-Palestine crisis, urges two-state solution
Vladimir Putin's remarks came during a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani in Moscow.

Israel responds to Iranian leader threats on X, 'You and your Hamas friends will regret your barbaric actions'
"Heads of the Zionist regime and their backers should know that the massacre and mass murder of the people of #Gaza will cause a larger calamity to come upon them," a post on Khamenei's account declared.

EU's Borrell: Israeli moves in Gaza break international law
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell accused the Israeli government on Tuesday of breaking international law by imposing a total blockade of Gaza.

EU gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war 'misinformation'
Failure to comply with the European regulations around illegal content could result in fines worth 6% of a company’s annual revenue.

Israel at War: What Happened...

Hamas’ Rave Massacre Was Better-Planned Than You Know: ‘We Are on the Way’
Festival staff describe Hamas tapping radio transmissions, descending in motorized paragliders, wearing stolen Israeli uniforms, and slaughtering festival-goers hiding in a refrigerator.

What We Know About the Americans Who Were Missing or Killed
Officials confirmed that 14 U.S. citizens were among at least 1,000 people killed during an attack on Israel and said “20 or more” Americans were missing.

The man Biden picked to be his special envoy to Iran wants America to know Hamas does a lot of good things too
“It’s a mistake to only think of them in terms of their terrorist violence dimension,” Malley said in 2008. “It has a charity organization, a social branch; it’s not something you can defeat militarily either and people need to understand that.”

Bennett: This is 100 times worse than Yom Kippur War. We’re facing equivalent of Nazis
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett calls the current conflict “the harshest event since the War of Independence.”

Grandmother outsmarts Hamas terrorists in her home
Thinking quickly, the grandmother offered the terrorists refreshments and later a meal, engaging them in small talk, playing for time.

Soros funded a radical pro-Hamas group
A radical pro-Hamas group funded by leftist billionaire George Soros offered a statement of support for the abhorrent, genocidal terrorist attacks on Israel.

Israel at War: Opinion / Media...

Hamas atrocities expose peril of liberals’ long embrace of Palestinians and Iran
Biden’s denunciation of grisly terror attacks can’t mask the left's years of coddling of Tehran and Gaza, experts say.

NY Times Opinion: The Anti-Israel Left Needs to Take a Hard Look at Itself
I went to a pro-Palestinian rally in NYC on Sunday to see things for myself. ... What I saw was giddiness and gloating, as if someone’s team had won the World Cup. Hamas had perpetrated the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and the crowd was euphoric.

CNN’s Tapper: Last Few Days Really Eye-Opening to ‘Anti-Semitism on the Left’
"A lot of people who seemed more shocked at dehumanizing language to describe Hamas than what Hamas actually perpetrated on Saturday.”

Rashida Tlaib Refuses To Condemn Beheadings Of Israeli Babies When Confronted By Media
“Congresswoman, Hamas terrorists have cut off babies’ heads and burned children alive; do you support Israel’s right to defend themselves against this brutality?” the reporter asked. Tlaib would not answer.

WaPo opinion: The lesson from the Hamas attack: The US should recognize a Palestinian state
What happened in Israel on Saturday should not have surprised anyone. Palestinian officials had repeatedly spoken of an explosion if there was no political progress on alleviating their people’s suffering.

This Washington Post correction on Hamas is a doozy
Hamas just wants a Palestinian state so they can live peacefully alongside Israel ... oh wait.

Hostin Finds Israeli ‘Anger’ ‘Terrifying,’ Behar Ties Hamas Attack to Trump/Putin Alliance
Just in case you wanted to know what the idiots on "The View" had to say.

Playboy fires Mia Khalifa after porn star expressed support for Hamas
“Mia has made disgusting and reprehensible comments celebrating Hamas’ attacks on Israel and the murder of innocent men, women and children,” an email to subscribers said.

Tehran Times: 'Irreparable defeat' for the Zionist regime, says Ayatollah who denies involvement
“From the military and intelligence aspects, this defeat is irreparable. It is a devastating earthquake."

Arab News (Saudi Arabia): Conflict inevitable in the absence of a Palestinian state
This conflict can only be resolved through deriving some lessons. The first is acknowledging the Palestinians’ right to have their own independent state. Any other option means merely biding time until another, even fiercer, war claims more lives, especially among civilians, and causes massive economic losses.

Arab News (Saudi Arabia): Arab Peace Initiative the only way to end the bloodshed
Now is the time to relaunch the Arab Peace Initiative, under the leadership of Saudi Arabia.

Russia... 

War in Israel Could Push Russia and Iran Together
European officials and experts are concerned that Russia could exploit the chaos surrounding the Hamas attack on Israel, pushing the Kremlin even closer to Iran, which is allied with the Palestinian militant group.

Finland investigates suspected sabotage of Baltic-connector gas pipeline
Finnish sources have told the BBC the suspicion falls on Russian sabotage as "retribution" for Finland joining NATO in April this year.

Russia to consider testing nuclear weapons if US does it first, despite nuclear test ban
The U.S. has made it known that it is preparing to test its nuclear arsenal without setting off any explosions.

Russia is defeated in its bid to regain a seat on the UN's top human rights body
Russia was competing against Albania and Bulgaria for two seats on the Geneva-based Human Rights Council representing the East European regional group.

COVID-19...

Hydroxychloroquine Reduced COVID-19 Mortality, Study Finds
A new study that used information from 2020 shows that people who were given low-dosage hydroxychloroquine had a 36.5% lower risk of death. The study argues the dose may be key, since clinical trials using 4x higher doses did not show benefit. (Full study.)

LGBTQIA2S+...

US Gives More Than $4.1 Billion in Grants for LGBT and Transgender Initiatives Worldwide
Among other things, grants infuse schools with gender ideology and sexual orientation topics, despite polls that show 70% of Americans don't want that.

Rashida Tlaib is flying a Palestinian flag alongside a Pride flag outside her office
She's gotta be trolling us, right?

Palestinians: LGBTQ+ not welcome here: Opinion
Despite the dark reality for gay Palestinians, some left-wing and LGBTQ+ groups in the West still insist on supporting the Free Palestine camp.

High School Pep Rally Features Bondage, Lap Dances, and Twerking Drag Queens
Oak Grove High School is a public high school in Midway, North Carolina, and apparently for pep rallies they have cat-people lap dances and drag queen strip-teases.

Education...

Campus Anti-Semites Plot ‘Day Of Resistance’ In Support Of Hamas
The largest network of campus anti-Israel groups is organizing a “Day of Resistance” on Thursday to rally support for the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.

John Oliver Calls For States To Crack Down On Homeschooling
Oliver claimed state intervention is necessary because homeschooling parents regularly exploit their freedoms to abuse and neglect kids.

AI...

‘Godfather of AI’ issues another stark warning
Geoffrey Hinton believes that AI will do enormous good, but he warns that AI systems may be more intelligent than we know and there's a chance the machines could take over.

AI companions are about to be absolutely everywhere
Eager but dumb AI assistants will soon be a thing of the past. Computers are about to become smarter, friendlier, and infinitely more useful to your everyday life.

Autonomous truck program to begin in Pittsburgh
"They see what drivers cannot. They're better in bad weather. They would make shipping faster – no breaks for sleeping and eating."

Disney’s 'Loki' faces backlash over reported use of generative AI
A poster for Loki has sparked controversy among professional designers following claims that it was at least partially created using generative AI.

Science...

Could a new law of physics support the idea that we're living in a computer simulation?
The simulated universe hypothesis proposes that what humans experience is actually an artificial reality, much like a computer simulation, in which they themselves are constructs.

Sports...

NHL reportedly bans rainbow Pride tape
Outraged sports "journalists" are signaling their virtue.

Oct 11, 2001 - One month since 9/11... America is united, patriotism like we haven't seen in years... Listener email from a Muslim-American... Glenn Beck's most wanted... Glenn announces campaign to have American children write letters to children in Afghanistan... Madison school board votes to remove Pledge of Allegiance from classes...

Trump's proposal explained: Ukraine's path to peace without NATO expansion

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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.