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Morning Brief 2024-09-06

September 06, 2024
Chris Brady

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Mario Nawfal
TOPIC: The fight between X and Brazil is part of the global battle for free speech.

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Bret Weinstein
TOPIC: Are YOU red-pilled?

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Frank Ordaz
TOPIC: The impact of history on culture.


News...

Hunter Biden’s plea proves IRS and DOJ helped tilt the 2020 election for Joe
The coverup of Hunter’s tax crimes probably changed the result of the 2020 presidential election and perhaps tampered with 2022 congressional election results.

Hunter Biden pleads guilty to 9 tax charges and faces years in prison
Judge Mark Scarsi warned Biden that he could face up to 17 years in prison and up to $1.3 million in fines after the first son made the last-minute decision to enter an “open plea,” which involves pleading guilty without negotiating a deal with prosecutors.

Turley: Hunter Biden ruined himself every step of the way — now he’s betting it all on pardon from dad
Hunter Biden just showed the perils of playing the game of chicken with yourself. For months, many of us have marveled at the sight of Hunter careening toward a cliff while declaring publicly that he was prepared to go all the way.

Biden administration is busy 'Trump-proofing' the DOJ, independent watchdog warns
The warning about the DOJ mirrors other efforts by the Biden administration to ensure friendly civil service employees are appointed at other agencies and cementing into place progressive agency rules.

Mayor Eric Adams Faces Crisis as US Investigations Reach Inner Circle
After federal agents seized the phones of the mayor’s top aides, multiplying inquiries threatened to destabilize Mr. Adams’ ability to run New York City.

Dad of alleged Ga. school shooter Colt Gray arrested, hit with murder and manslaughter charges: Officials
The charges come after it was revealed that Colin Gray purchased the AR-15-style rifle Colt allegedly used in the massacre as a Christmas gift last December.

Police Say Woman Stole Casket, Dumped Body Outside Funeral Home And Then Fled
Nevada police said a 47-year-old female was arrested for allegedly dumping human remains in front of a funeral home after breaking in and stealing a casket late last month.

Trump - Vance...

Chutkan Laughs Off Supreme Court Immunity Ruling In DC Trump Trial
The partisan Obama-appointed judge overseeing Trump’s criminal trial in Washington, D.C., scoffed at the Supreme Court’s decision this summer that recognized presidential immunity for official acts in office.

Trump Pledges To Create Elon Musk-Led ‘Government Efficiency Commission’ In Major Economic Address
This commission will be “tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms,” the 2024 GOP presidential nominee said during his address to the Economic Club of New York.

Trump Campaign Raises $130M In August As Race Enters Final Months
About 98% of the donations were less than $200, with an average gift of $56, the Trump campaign said.

JD Vance calls Liz Cheney, John McCain’s son Jimmy ‘rejects of the Republican Party’
“The fact that Kamala Harris has gotten a couple of rejects from the Republican Party who have no sway in our party anymore to endorse her, I think, speaks low of them and doesn’t say anything great about her campaign."

Pope Francis compared to JD Vance after warning about declining birth rates: 'Law of death'
He called babies "the greatest richness that a nation can have" and slammed countries that effectively imposed "a law of death ... by limiting births."

Harris - Walz...

Putin Supports Kamala Harris and Her 'Infectious Laugh'
"Trump imposed more restrictions and sanctions on Russia than any president before. If Ms. Harris is doing well, maybe she'll avoid actions like that."

Kamala insults Americans with her dishonest flip-flops
On Wednesday, Axios’ Alex Thompson reported on a “lengthy ‘fact-check’” forwarded by the Harris team to its allies in the press revising the unpopular policy positions she articulated just a few years ago.

Kamala Wanted To Give Drug Dealers Three Arrests Before Charging Them — Cops Shut Her Down
The revelation comes as Harris attempts to campaign as a tough-on-crime, law-and-order prosecutor.

CNN Scorches Kamala For Using Trump’s Border Wall In Campaign Videos
A CNN report slammed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris for her criticism on sections of the border wall built by Trump.

Harris Woos US Steel After Pushing Policies That Torpedoed The Steel Industry
Kamala’s opposition to the foreign takeover of U.S. Steel in a bid to appeal to working-class voters is a cynical ploy.

Harris to meet with Teamsters leaders as endorsement hangs in the balance
Teamsters leaders have held back making an endorsement so far.

Mark Cuban says Kamala will kill the stock market
"Based off the unrealized gains, I would have had to borrow money and I effectively would have been in hot just to pay my tax bill instead of trying to run my company."

Politics...

Millions Could Miss Trump, Harris Debate As ABC Feuds With Major TV Provider
The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, pulled its channels from DirecTV’s 11.3 million subscribers nationwide after its contract expired on September 1.

Harris will beat Trump, says election prediction legend Allan Lichtman
It’s the latest election prophecy from Allan Lichtman, an American University distinguished professor who boasts of having successfully predicted the results of every U.S. presidential race since 1984.

Nate Silver's model shows Trump widening lead over Harris as state support drops
According to the model, Trump is pulling away from Kamala and now has a 58.3% chance of winning, as her state poll numbers slip and the campaign struggles to find momentum after a short-lived post-Biden bump.

New national poll shows Trump up by 2 in two-way race
A new McLaughlin & Associates survey shows Trump with a two-point national lead, but when third parties are included, Harris leads by one point. A Big Data Poll, with over 3,000 voters, shows the race as a tie, with Trump leading by a single vote (1,524-1,523).

Key state polls: Another mess in the making?
Who is leading the presidential race in the seven states considered most critical to victory in 2024: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada? The answer is we don’t really know.

Tester trails by 8 points in Montana Senate race: Poll
Montana's Democrat Sen. Jon Tester is trailing Republican challenger Tim Sheehy by 8 percentage points, 49%- 41%, according to a new AARP poll.

Lindsey Graham Demands Answers On Alexa’s Pro-Harris Bias In Letter To Amazon
“There’s a widespread belief among conservatives that companies like yours have a distinct bias in favor of liberal causes."

Economy...

August private payrolls rose by 99,000, smallest gain since 2021 and far below estimates, ADP says
Additionally, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday that this was the worst August for layoffs since 2009 and the slowest year for hiring since the firm started tracking the metric in 2005.

Friday’s jobs report for August is going to be huge
Wall Street is gearing up for one of the most important economic releases of the year Friday. The consensus is for the nonfarm payrolls report to show growth of 161,000 for August and a slight decline in the unemployment rate to 4.2%.

The Government's Permitting Regime Is Choking the Economy
Housing costs, job availability, energy prices, and technological advancement all hinge on a web of red tape that is leaving Americans poorer and less free.

Viruses...

With Tim Walz subpoena, Congress demands the answers on COVID fraud that the media won’t ask
The COVID scam was public and appalling — it literally stole food from the mouths of hungry kids — and he was the man in charge of the state where it happened. Yet in general, Americans heard only the most muted response to this Walz scandal from the press.

War...

US arms advantage over Russia and China threatens stability, 'experts' warn
The U.S. and its allies are capable of threatening and destroying all of Russia and China’s nuclear launch sites in about two hours just using conventional weapons, creating what two "experts" describe as a potentially unstable geopolitical situation.

US and South Korea Double Down Against North's Nuclear Weapons and WMD
The United States and South Korea would end the North Korean regime if it used nuclear weapons against either of them, a joint statement by the allies said on Wednesday.

Israel...

Anti-Israel group funded by Soros gains influence with 60 Biden White House visits
Officials at Emgage, a group that has promoted the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, have hobnobbed at the White House on at least 60 occasions combined since 2021.

Trump to Republican Jews: Tell Other Jewish Voters Israel and America Are on the Line
“Only an evil and inhuman, really inhuman ideology, kidnaps, tortures and murders innocent men, women and children. Likewise, only a deeply sick political party here in America would make common cause with those who sympathize with such evil and they are.”

RJC anticipates Trump pocketing 50% of Jewish votes in battleground states, above 30% nationwide
The Republican Jewish Coalition has begun building a new profile for Jewish voters who might be persuaded to vote for Donald Trump.

Ukraine-Russia...

Biden-Harris administration races to save billions in Ukraine aid as deadline looms
Sources close to the negotiations told Reuters that the State Department hopes to attach an extension of the Presidential Drawdown Authority to a continuing resolution.

US, allied nations accuse Russia of cyberattacks against Ukraine and NATO
Hacking efforts as part of this campaign began in 2020 and included attacks on Ukrainian groups ahead of Russia’s invasion, along with critical infrastructure organizations in NATO member states.

World...

Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About World War II
In a recent and now widely seen Tucker Carlson interview, a guest historian named Darryl Cooper casually presented a surprising number of flawed theories about World War II.

The Netherlands' Rent Control Disaster
The Dutch government's radical expansion of rent control is displacing tenants and aggravating a pre-existing housing shortage.

‘Economic refugees’ flee from New Zealand as cost-of-living crisis deepens
Amid high prices, steep interest rates, and unemployment worries, the New Zealand government estimates that a record 131,200 of its citizens have moved overseas in the past 12 months.

Harvey Weinstein won’t face indecent assault charges in Britain
U.K. prosecutors say conviction of disgraced Hollywood producer would have been unlikely, though he may face fresh indictments in New York.

Entertainment...

Babylon Bee presents the trailer for, 'January 6: The Most Deadliest Day'
Get ready to laugh, cry, and cower in terror as the Babylon Bee uncovers the truth about the day that almost ended democracy. Coming October 11.

‘Reagan’ Biopic Reminds Us Of The Moral Clarity It Took To Defeat The Soviet Union
The genius of "Reagan," the film and the man, is that both grasp the nature of evil and the courage and clarity required to confront it.

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Eyes Near-Record $100M-$110M September Opening
The original "Beetlejuice" grossed $74 million at the box office, or more than $195 when adjusted for inflation.

Ben Affleck ‘never liked’ the $68 million marital home he shared with Jennifer Lopez
The soon-to-be-divorced couple bought the Beverly Hills 12-bedroom, 24-bathroom spread for a reported $60.8 million in May 2023, only to put it up for sale in July 2024 for about $7 million more amid rumors their marriage was over.

Media...

Fake News: Associated Press Warps What Vance Said About Georgia School Shooting
The Associated Press ignited massive backlash on Thursday when it blatantly misquoted vice presidential pick JD Vance on school shootings.

Flailing CNN Rehires Stelter In Bid To Save Network By Matching MSNBC Extremism
For decades, the network had been viewed as a typical leftist media outlet, but it became the very embodiment of fake news in the last decade.

Environment...

This Activist Push To Destroy Dams Won't Save Fish — But It Will Waste Resources
Some politicians and environmentalists want to tear down Snake River dams in Washington state, even though they generate tons of electricity.

LGBTQIA2S+...

'Persons with childbearing potential': American, European medical groups erase women in new guidance
Doctors already struggling to consistently use their patients' preferred gender pronouns and account for sex-based differences in treatment for those who present as the opposite sex are facing potentially greater confusion courtesy of American and European medical groups.

Walz’s admin handed nearly $500K to far-left legal group that demanded trans inmate move to women’s prison
In 2023, the Democratic vice presidential nominee’s office shelled out $448,904 to St. Paul-based Gender Justice, one year after the nonprofit filed a sex discrimination complaint against Minnesota’s Department of Corrections.

Science...

Boeing Starliner Set to Leave Space Station Without Its Crew
If the landing goes smoothly, what happens next with the Starliner program remains somewhat uncertain.

You could be a witch and not even know it
A new study suggests that individuals born at night, or with the planet Uranus prominently positioned in their birth charts, exhibit a predisposition to witchcraft, including heightened intuition, rebellious tendencies, and a connection to unseen forces.

Sports...

Rising NFL valuations mean massive returns for owners
The average NFL franchise is worth $6.5 billion, a number boosted by the scarcity value. There are only 32 teams in the league, and they rarely sell, with only four sold in the past 12 years. The average NFL ownership tenure is 41 years.

Chiefs superfan gets 17.5 years for string of bank robberies
Prosecutors cited a statement from one robbery victim, who wrote, "My team didn't deserve to be held at gunpoint twice so a man in a wolf suit could travel the country watching football and placing extravagant bets."

September 6, 2012 - Recapping the second night of the 2012 DNC... What Democrats really think about choice... Jon Stewart points out the radicals on the left for a change... DNC platform continues to cause controversy... Did Bill Clinton do a good job at DNC?...

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.