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Morning Brief 2024-10-11

October 11, 2024
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Isabel Brown
TOPIC: The news stories that have Gen Z talking.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Sheriff Bill Waybourn
TOPIC: Do YOU know who is running for sheriff in your county?


Hurricanes...

At least 4 dead, millions without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton
Milton made landfall as a Category 3 storm late Wednesday along Florida’s Gulf Coast and is still continuing as of Thursday. Around 3.5 million Floridians are without power. Gov. DeSantis says officials are still assessing the damage.

Milton moves off Florida's coast after lashing state with torrential downpours, deadly tornadoes
Milton has moved off into the Atlantic and is expected to dissipate. Several tornadoes were spawned as a result of its powerful winds, and the roof of Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, was ripped off during the hurricane.

Viral Florida Man ‘Lt. Dan' Is Safe After Riding Out Hurricane Milton In His Boat
A Florida man, nicknamed “Lieutenant Dan,” is going viral after riding out Hurricane Milton on his 20-foot sailboat.

Sheriff rescues 14-year-old stranded on floating hurricane debris
Sheriff Chad Chronister found a 14-year-old boy clinging to floating debris among the wreckage left by Hurricane Milton.

Biden tells Trump 'get a life' over hurricane misinformation
President Biden said that Trump should “get a life” when asked about Trump’s “misinformation” regarding FEMA’s response to hurricane victims. President Biden, who was speaking on Hurricane Milton at the White House, stated he had no plans to speak with Trump.

One-legged Joseph Malinowski, nicknamed 'Lieutenant Dan,' who went viral for facing hurricane in his sailboat, has lengthy criminal history
A GoFundMe account has raised more than $43k for Malinowski, who said "God told me" to ride out the storm in his small sailboat, despite being charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, drug possession, and attempted breaking and entering, including one accusation of trying to light a woman on fire after getting into an argument.

DeSantis again castigates Harris for trying to politicize hurricane disaster response: 'She has no role in this process'
DeSantis made the comments when asked by a CBS News reporter about Harris' accusations that he had not taken her phone call about helping the affected residents: “I didn’t even know she was trying to reach me, but she has no role in this process. And I’ve been dealing with these storms in Florida under both [former President] Trump and Biden. Neither of them ever politicized it."

News...

Boris Johnson blows up Trump-Russia narrative, silencing CNN's Jake Tapper
The Trump-Russia narrative emerged from Watergate journalist Bob Woodward, claiming Trump has spoken with Putin seven times since leaving office. Johnson defends Trump’s record, saying he did more to keep Putin in check than the Biden-Harris administration ever did.

Ethel Kennedy, passionate supporter of the family legacy, dies at 96 from a stroke
Ethel Kennedy, widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and mother of RFK Jr., passed away on Thursday, October 10. She never remarried after the assassination of her husband, and she devoted herself to working on behalf of his causes and raising their 11 children.

Seattle-based school safety activist arrested for allegedly running a massive fentanyl ring out of her home even as she was the executive director of an organization in charge of $1 million of taxpayer money
Prosecutors say 49-year-old Matelita "Marty" Jackson and several of her family members distributed 800,000 fentanyl pills across numerous states. Jackson made headlines as an activist after a shooting in Seattle, which led to her receiving money from the local government in support of her youth restorative justice nonprofit, called the SE Network SafetyNet Program, which is connected to the Boys and Girls Clubs of King County.

Parents accuse teachers within Texas' Spring Independent School District of giving their preschool-age children 'sleepy stickers,' body-worn patches that release melatonin and other substances
One parent, Lisa Luviano, said her daughter first brought the sleep patches to her attention last month: "The sticker makes me fall asleep."

Trump - Vance...

Trump leads Harris by 4 points in Florida, according to a new poll
The poll indicates that black and Latino voters are shifting away from the Democratic Party and are more open to backing Trump. Trump recently surpassed Harris in other key swing states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

FCC chair denounces Trump’s calls for CBS to ‘lose its license’ over Harris’ ‘60 Minutes’ interview
Jessica Rosenworcel, the chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, denounced former President Trump’s call to revoke CBS’s “license” after they edited an answer given by Kamala Harris during a recent “60 Minutes” interview.

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed to unseal additional filings from special counsel Jack Smith laying out his election interference case against Trump
Trump’s attorneys signaled they plan to challenge the move to unseal the documents: "There should be no further disclosures at this time of the so-called ‘evidence’ that the Special Counsel’s Office has unlawfully cherry-picked and mischaracterized — during early voting in the 2024 Presidential election.”

Obama campaigned for Vice President Harris in Pennsylvania
In an effort to move the needle toward Harris in the key swing state, Obama criticized Trump on health care, abortion access, immigration, and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and even compared him to Fidel Castro.

Union workers are increasingly leaving the Democratic Party and voting for Trump
Scott Sauritch, the president of United Steelworkers Local 2227, made headlines recently for endorsing Trump as a lifelong Democrat: “I don’t care what you see on TV. The grunts in the lunchroom love Trump.”

Harris - Walz...

Kamala Harris agrees to CNN town hall
Kamala Harris agreed to participate in a town hall on Oct. 23 and hosted by CNN. In a statement, Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon claimed that Kamala “welcomes the opportunity to share her vision for a New Way Forward” and accused Trump of hiding from voters.

Harris tops Trump by 4 points in new national poll
However, while Harris has 38% of the Independent vote, Trump edges Harris with winning 40% of this critical demographic.

Arab support for Harris plummets, a horrible sign for the candidate's chances at winning Michigan
A new poll conducted for the Arab American Institute found Trump winning the Arab American vote 42% to 41% over Harris. This catastrophic downturn is apparent when compared to the 60% of Arab Americans who voted for Joe Biden in 2020.

Ex-CBS staffers call for outside probe of the network's ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris amid editing scandal
Former staffers are demanding an independent investigation after "60 Minutes" released what seemed to be a highly edited version of the interview to cover up Kamala's "word salad" answers. The network still refuses to release the full, unedited transcript despite growing demand.

Politics...

Gretchen Whitmer drops bizarre video seductively feeding Doritos chip to left-wing podcaster Liz Plank on her knees
To publicize her interview with the Michigan governor, Plank is shown eating a Dorito on her knees fed to her by Whitmer, who then stares at the camera. Doritos are the favorite junk food of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Viewers interpreted the bizarre video as a blasphemy of the eucharist and a plug for Harris.

ABC airs anti-abortion ad with graphic images during 'The View' broadcast, comparing show co-hosts, Taylor Swift, Oprah, and other celebs to Nazis
The video was funded by and featured Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who said during the video, "These are dead human beings, murdered by abortion that you promote. If history even remembers you, you'll be remembered like Leni Riefenstahl and Joseph Goebbels." The ad was preceded by a warning message that ABC put on the screen, reading, "The following is a paid political advertisement, and the ABC Television Network is required to carry it by federal law."

Free Speech...

New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal issues a demand that Madison Square Garden cancel Trump's upcoming rally, equating the campaign event to a Nazi rally
Hoylman-Sigal insinuated further that on the basis of imagined threats that it was necessary to compel a private institution to cancel a contract, thereby aiding the state in running roughshod over Americans' freedom of association and the freedom of speech.

Technology...

Inspired by Spider-Man, researchers recreate web-slinging technology
Researchers at Tufts University have created a liquid from silk moth cocoons that solidifies into webbing when exposed to air. The researchers can shoot this fluid from a needle and use it to pick up objects.

Ford and GM introduce technology that would enable cars to 'snitch' on their drivers
Ford filed a patent for new technology that would use vehicles' cameras and sensors to detect speeding motorists and report them to authorities. Regarding GM, Texas AG Ken Paxton filed suit on behalf of the state against the carmaker for installing technology on more than 14 million vehicles to collect data about drivers, which it then sold to insurers and other companies without drivers’ consent.

Elon Musk unveils driverless 'robotaxi' priced under $30,000
Tesla also unveiled a second vehicle, a Robovan, designed to shuttle up to 20 people at a time.

Economy...

Toronto-based TD Bank charged by the US for allegedly failing to stop hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money laundering
Three money laundering networks took advantage of TD Bank’s alleged oversight failures, moving more than $670 million through TD accounts between 2019 and 2023. The bank agreed to pay various U.S. agencies $3 billion in penalties.

Annual inflation falls to 2.4%, its slowest pace since early 2021. But is it already too late for Kamala?
Democratic pollster Carly Cooperman says, "Voters still feel that day-to-day costs are expensive," which may limit how voters react to the perceived economic lift following the disastrous era of Bidenomics.

Immigration...

NYC Mayor Adams to close a violent immigrant shelter and house immigrants with tourists in hotels instead
The tent shelter, which is slated to close down at the end of February, has become a hotbed for violence since it opened last August, which has poured into the surrounding area. Adams credits its closure to "reduced capacity."

Medicaid records for illegal aliens compared to voter rolls show noncitizens voting in Maine's elections since 2016
Whistleblower records show both legal and illegal noncitizen Medicaid recipients being registered to vote and participating in previous elections. When the identities of the 18 legal and illegal aliens named in the records were cross-referenced with voting records from the Maine secretary of state, six of the individuals were registered to vote, five had voted in elections since 2016, and all were registered Democrats. Maine has somewhere between 70,000-100,000 noncitizens.

Taliban-linked Afghan entered US this month from Turkey on a US visa
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken informing him that Emran Rahimim, whose YouTube account is filled with videos of his travels and meetings with Taliban officials, arrived in Virginia's Dulles Airport and has since traveled to North Carolina.

Afghan accused of plotting terror attack worked as CIA guard, officials say
An Afghani man who had previously worked for the CIA was arrested on Monday in Oklahoma. He stands accused of plotting an attack on Election Day on behalf of ISIS. Some suspect he was one of the many unvetted Afghans with U.S. ties let into the country after the Biden admin’s withdrawal in 2021.

Israel - Iran...

A quarter of Lebanese under evacuation orders as Israel expands its offensive against Hezbollah
Israeli military says its evacuation orders are meant to minimize harm to civilians in areas where Hezbollah operates, covering over 100 villages and urban neighborhoods across southern Lebanon

Tehran is threatening in secret diplomatic backchannels to target the oil-rich Arab Gulf states and other American allies in the Middle East if their territories or airspace are used for an attack on Iran
The Arab officials said the countries that Iran has threatened include Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, all of which host U.S. troops.

Ukraine - Russia...

Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna dies in Russian captivity
The freelance journalist had gone missing in Russian-occupied territories since August 2023. The circumstances surrounding her death are still unclear.

China...

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te calls for calm amid military threats from China
In a public address, Lai Ching-te reaffirmed the island nation's independence and condemned China's antagonizing claims of sovereignty and threats of invasion, asserting Beijing has no right to represent them.

Entertainment...

CAIR suggests pro-Trump owner of Jets fired Muslim head coach over his support of Lebanon and demands 'thorough' explanation
The 45-year-old Robert Saleh was fired Tuesday over a slow start to the team's season, which saw only two wins and three losses, as well as perceived animosity between him and Jets star quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. The left, however, was quick to speculate that Saleh's firing was connected to wearing a Lebanese flag patch amid Israel's ongoing fight with Hezbollah.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Comb’s sex trafficking trial to begin in May
The hip-hop mogul is accused of directing a huge criminal enterprise involving the assault and trafficking of women with the aid of his various businesses from at least 2008. He faces a sentence of up to life in prison and a minimum of 15 years if convicted of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.

Emmanuel Macron says France ‘will fight hard’ to keep hit Netflix show 'Emily In Paris' ... in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron vows to keep the hit Netflix show “Emily in Paris” in Paris after the season finale revealed that the lead character would be moving to Rome.

Environment...

THROWBACK: French national security and water expert calls for regulation of 'artificial rainfall techniques via cloud seeding,' points out China's use of the technology
"It's important to focus on techniques aimed at making it rain or, conversely, stopping it. These techniques are no longer science fiction."

Health...

Nearly 10 million pounds of ready-to-eat beef and chicken recalled due to listeria outbreak
Oklahoma-based meatpacker BrucePac, whose brand names include Urban Bruse and City Grillers, is recalling 9,986,245 pounds of meat products after the USDA discovered listeria present in poultry products.

Oct. 11, 2001 - It's been one month since 9/11... America is united, feels patriotism like it hasn't in many years... Isolated incidents... 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.