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Morning Brief 2025-10-16

October 16, 2025
Chris Brady

BOTTOM OF HOUR 1
GUEST: Megyn Kelly
TOPIC: Conservatives NEED to stick together in times like these.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Jack Ciattarelli
TOPIC: Will New Jersey elect its first Republican governor since 2018?

News...

Democrats panic over redistricting numbers with pivotal SCOTUS decision looming
If all states redistrict to the extent allowable, Republicans stand to gain more than Democrats.

Conservative SCOTUS justices appear skeptical about race-based redistricting
A Stacey Abrams group fears that a ruling in favor of Louisiana could cost Democrats scores of congressional seats.

Gorsuch gets NAACP lawyer to all but admit support for racial discrimination in redistricting
During Supreme Court arguments over Louisiana’s race-based congressional map, Justice Neil Gorsuch pushed attorney Janai Nelson to clarify whether states can intentionally use race in drawing districts — prompting her to acknowledge that race may be used “precisely” to remedy discrimination.

Ketanji Brown Jackson suggests black people can’t vote, compares them to the disabled
The Democrat-appointed justice suggested that race should be a consideration when drawing congressional districts because black people are systemically “disabled” and don’t have proper access to voting systems.

Teens who jumped, beat ex-DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ won't get jail time
Edward Coristine was left with a concussion and a broken nose after he and a female companion were jumped by “a group of 10 guys,” the ex-DOGE employee previously said.

Elon Must points out the obvious after 'Big Balls' attackers receive no jail time
"This was a racist verdict by a racist judge. The simple test to apply is if the races has been reversed, the White kids would be in prison. Equal justice for all!"

Wrist slaps for left-wing violence invite more attacks on conservatives
Left-wing violence receives legal cover from judges and political cover from politicians and commentators, sending one very loud message to their militants: Don’t stop.

Meet the radical lefty historian quietly influencing millions
Trump is a dictator. Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a far-right die-hard. The Supreme Court is ushering in an authoritarian takeover. If you get your news from Heather Cox Richardson, you might be nodding along in agreement.

Obama’s dour new Presidential Center is getting savaged on social media: ‘Death Star in Chicago’
Obama’s austere new presidential library is getting roasted with comparisons to the Death Star, garbage bins, and other domineering monoliths in a hilarious social media thread sparked by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

Flashback: Clinton Presidential Library mocked as looking like a giant trailer
An Arkansas writer tore into the library’s New York designers for creating what he called a “giant friggin’ trailer park that can be seen from space,” arguing that the structure insults Arkansas under the guise of high-minded architectural symbolism.

Government Shutdown...

Democrat-appointed federal judge blocks Trump’s plan for mass federal layoffs amid shutdown
Judge Susan Illston, a Clinton appointee, issued a temporary restraining order, calling the president’s move politically motivated and “illegal.”

Senate tees up defense spending vote for Thursday amid government shutdown
Senate Democrats said their support for the Pentagon bill would depend on what measures Republicans attempt to attach to it.

Trump: Schumer is a ‘loser’ using the shutdown in a bid to ‘get relevance back’
"He’s always been sort of a loser — but an intelligent one."

Dems’ shutdown presser shows how their lawfare grift machine operates
Rather than work to reopen the government, Democrats used a Capitol Hill event to promote Democracy Forward — a $21 million nonprofit run by Marc Elias and former Biden officials — highlighting how party-aligned “nonprofits” profit from lawsuits targeting Trump’s agenda.

Democrats' bill would let federal workers skip paying rent during government shutdowns
The bill would also stay eviction and foreclosure proceedings for 30 days after a shutdown ends. Anyone who tries to carry out an eviction or foreclosure of a federal worker or contractor during that time would be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fines or even jail time.

Politics...

CNN data guru says Democrat hopes of flipping House are fading
"The GOP's chances, up like a rocket ... up from 17% to now a 37% chance."

AOC leaves door open for Schumer primary challenge
Says leaders need to talk more about "having air that’s drinkable."

Kamala Harris claims that 'some people' said she was ‘most qualified candidate in history’
The former vice president told podcaster Kara Swisher that “some people” called her the most qualified person ever to run for president. The “some people” Harris referenced might be, in fact, just one person — the person who ran as her running mate: Tim Walz.

Spanberger still sells merchandise with Jay Jones’ name despite attempts to distance campaigns
A “Spanberger-Hashmi-Jones” shirt and a bumper sticker were listed on the campaign store.

Nancy Pelosi — clutching the hand of an aide to walk — snaps at reporter asking about Capitol riot: ‘Shut up’
“I did not refuse the National Guard. The president didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you are a serious journalist?” she fumed.

Economy...

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump's tariffs are causing problems for American manufacturers
The Georgia Republican said manufacturing companies have told her that while they broadly support Trump's goals, they're running into problems obtaining the goods they need from overseas.

Why ‘doorstep taxes’ are making Amazon, DoorDash deliveries more expensive
State and local governments are adding per-delivery fees to help fund big projects such as infrastructure, and at least one longtime New York City politician is hoping that under a Zohran Mamdani administration, NYC could be next.

Immigration...

Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for securing America’s border
Angel parents and families of fentanyl victims urged the Nobel Committee to award the prize to the president for bringing peace at home.

Los Angeles County declares ‘state of emergency’ over deportation raids
County leaders compared ICE operations to natural disasters, clearing the way for taxpayer aid to illegal aliens.

DOT pulls $40 million from California for ignoring English rules for truckers
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cut federal safety funds after California refused to ensure that commercial drivers can read road signs or speak with law enforcement, calling it a basic safety issue and blaming Gov. Newsom for obstructing federal law.

Family visit to Camp Pendleton ended with ICE deporting Marine’s dad
Marine Corps recruiters have long promoted enlistment as a path to stability for families without legal immigration status, but experts say those assurances have eroded as federal authorities have moved to enforce existing laws more strictly.

WAR News...

Trump admits he authorized CIA operations in Venezuela, looking at land attacks in war with cartels
The admission comes after Trump directed the Department of War earlier this month to act against drug cartels as though it was in an "armed conflict" with such organizations.

B-52 bombers just flew for hours off Venezuela’s coast
The B-52 sorties are a major show of force aimed at Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro as U.S. forces further step up operations in the Caribbean.

Cracked windscreen forces War Secretary Pete Hegseth's plane to land in UK
Less than a month ago, Trump had to transfer from Marine One to a support helicopter after a hydraulic issue forced an unscheduled landing at a local airfield in England. In February a government plane carrying Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to turn back due to a crack in the window of the cockpit.

Israel...

US denies Hamas violating deal, is aiming to set up safe zone for Gazans fleeing group
Top Trump aides say only Hamas-free areas will be rebuilt, reveal countries offering to join postwar security force, stress Gazans won’t be forced to leave Strip during reconstruction.

Egypt seeks 10,000-person Palestinian force in Gaza as talks on Trump plan enter second phase
Egypt proposed an initial deployment of 1,000 security personnel trained in Jordan or Egypt, aiming to gradually expand the effort to enforce post-ceasefire security.

Permanent settlement in Gaza is far from secured, even after success of hostage release
Hamas’ actions after the Israeli withdrawal have created tensions amid the ceasefire and warning signs that the groups may fail to uphold its commitments.

Handcuffed, caged, thrown in a pit: Hostages’ families describe two years of hell
In the days since they were released from two years in brutal captivity, freed hostages have shared, through their families, harrowing details of their time in Gaza. The accounts paint a picture of starvation, suffering, and physical and psychological abuse.

‘They demanded he convert to Islam’: Rom Braslavski's mother says son was alone for two years
She described him being shown selective footage to convince him his parents had given up on him and repeated efforts to induce him to fast during Ramadan or read the Quran in return for food and better conditions.

Greta Thunberg complains that Israeli guards stomped on her frog hat
Literally worse than Hitler.

Zohran Mamdani refuses call for Hamas to disarm as terror outfit slaughters Gazans in streets
Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani repeatedly refused to say Hamas should disarm as part of the Trump-brokered ceasefire deal in Gaza, telling Fox News he does not "have opinions about the future" of the terrorist group.

World...

Trump says Modi assured him India will stop Russian oil purchases, but timeline unclear
″[Modi] assured me today that they will not be buying oil from Russia. That’s a big stop,” Trump said at the press briefing in the Oval Office. “Now we’ve got to get China to do the same thing.”

NY Times: China played its strongest card to get Trump’s attention. Will it work?
Xi Jinping’s need to project strength before a crucial meeting of Communist Party leaders may help explain why Beijing announced new rare-earth controls.

Chinese SIM farms are radicalizing Americans and destabilizing society, intel experts say
"There’s a chatbot that can pretend to be 27 personalities and is designed to groom you."

Candace Owens loses legal fight to enter Australia
The country’s highest court backed the government’s decision to deny her a visa over concerns she could “incite discord” in the community.

Entertainment...

Whitney Cummings defends performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival, says backlash 'is just racism'
"I don’t operate under, you know, the idea that every government and their people are the same. … You think that the people of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi government all [share the same values]? So you also believe that the Chinese government and the Chinese people are exactly the same? It’s just racism."

Reporter confronts Keira Knightley about playing role written by JK Rowling. She doesn’t seem to care much.
Asked about boycotts targeting Rowling, Knightley said she hadn’t heard of them, adding that “we’ve all got very different opinions” and should figure out “how to live together.”

Media...

Federalist editors reviewed the new Pentagon media rules, say they do not restrict press freedoms
Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway said the new Department of War media access policy simply outlines procedures for credentialed reporters, stating it does not restrict coverage, require preapproval of stories, or force journalists to waive any constitutional rights — only that they acknowledge understanding the rules.

NBC News axes ‘diversity’ teams and slashes staff ahead of MSNBC split
About 150 employees are being cut as NBC ends its partnership with MSNBC, with entire race and gender “issue” teams eliminated.

Environment...

Obama judge tosses John Podesta-endorsed lawsuit claiming Trump's energy policies are killing children
Podesta's appearance as an "expert witness" was unable to salvage the case brought by 22 children against Trump.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Transgender athlete tries to dodge Supreme Court review of Idaho women’s sports case
Lindsay Hecox abruptly withdrew from competition and moved to dismiss the suit after SCOTUS agreed to hear Idaho’s defense of its women’s sports law, but Judge David Nye blocked the maneuver, calling it a manipulative attempt to avoid Supreme Court scrutiny.

California candidate manages to out-crazy Katie Porter, voices support for ‘gender-neutral’ Olympics
When asked directly why the sexes were separated in sport to begin with, Betty Yee acknowledged that there were physical differences between men and women — but did not alter her position that men should compete against women, so long as the men claim they're actually women.

AI...

Air Force bases to host AI data centers on unused land
The service has been studying potential locations to host AI data centers since early this year, following an executive order issued by President Trump in January that directed the secretary of defense to “identify suitable sites on military installations” for the infrastructure.

Pew: How people around the world view AI
More are concerned than excited about its use, and more trust their own country and the EU to regulate it than trust the U.S. or China.

Name of Nazi executioner in horrific WWII photo revealed using AI after 80 years of searching
Commonly known as the “Last Jew of Vinnitsa,” the pic remained a mystery for decades until now.

Travel...

Pro-Hamas hackers hijack airport loudspeakers across North America, spew anti-Trump, Netanyahu slurs — causing delays
Passengers at airports in Pennsylvania and British Columbia were stunned Tuesday when loudspeakers suddenly blasted pro-Hamas messages and slurs against President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Sports...

Franklin & Marshall College said it was looking for a new 'gender-neutral' mascot — and got absolutely torched
The Pennsylvania college scrapped its Ben Franklin and John Marshall mascots after students called them “cartoonish old white guys” and pushed for something “fun and gender-neutral.” Social media users suggested fitting replacements like the Snowflakes, the Sheep, or the Worms.

Oct 16, 2008 - Obama-McCain presidential debate... Joe the Plumber... Post-debate analysis from Stu... End of capitalism... Glenn talks with Steve Doocy about his new book, 'Tales from the Dad Side'... A farmer in the Oval Office...

Rage isn’t conservatism — THIS is what true patriots stand for

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Conservatism is not about rage or nostalgia. It’s about moral clarity, national renewal, and guarding the principles that built America’s freedom.

Our movement is at a crossroads, and the question before us is simple: What does it mean to be a conservative in America today?

For years, we have been told what we are against — against the left, against wokeism, against decline. But opposition alone does not define a movement, and it certainly does not define a moral vision.

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

The media, as usual, are eager to supply their own answer. The New York Times recently suggested that Nick Fuentes represents the “future” of conservatism. That’s nonsense — a distortion of both truth and tradition. Fuentes and those like him do not represent American conservatism. They represent its counterfeit.

Real conservatism is not rage. It is reverence. It does not treat the past as a museum, but as a teacher. America’s founders asked us to preserve their principles and improve upon their practice. That means understanding what we are conserving — a living covenant, not a relic.

Conservatism as stewardship

In 2025, conservatism means stewardship — of a nation, a culture, and a moral inheritance too precious to abandon. To conserve is not to freeze history. It is to stand guard over what is essential. We are custodians of an experiment in liberty that rests on the belief that rights come not from kings or Congress, but from the Creator.

That belief built this country. It will be what saves it. The Constitution is a covenant between generations. Conservatism is the duty to keep that covenant alive — to preserve what works, correct what fails, and pass on both wisdom and freedom to those who come next.

Economics, culture, and morality are inseparable. Debt is not only fiscal; it is moral. Spending what belongs to the unborn is theft. Dependence is not compassion; it is weakness parading as virtue. A society that trades responsibility for comfort teaches citizens how to live as slaves.

Freedom without virtue is not freedom; it is chaos. A culture that mocks faith cannot defend liberty, and a nation that rejects truth cannot sustain justice. Conservatism must again become the moral compass of a disoriented people, reminding America that liberty survives only when anchored to virtue.

Rebuilding what is broken

We cannot define ourselves by what we oppose. We must build families, communities, and institutions that endure. Government is broken because education is broken, and education is broken because we abandoned the formation of the mind and the soul. The work ahead is competence, not cynicism.

Conservatives should embrace innovation and technology while rejecting the chaos of Silicon Valley. Progress must not come at the expense of principle. Technology must strengthen people, not replace them. Artificial intelligence should remain a servant, never a master. The true strength of a nation is not measured by data or bureaucracy, but by the quiet webs of family, faith, and service that hold communities together. When Washington falters — and it will — those neighborhoods must stand.

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This is the real work of conservatism: to conserve what is good and true and to reform what has decayed. It is not about slogans; it is about stewardship — the patient labor of building a civilization that remembers what it stands for.

A creed for the rising generation

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

For the rising generation, conservatism cannot be nostalgia. It must be more than a memory of 9/11 or admiration for a Reagan era they never lived through. Many young Americans did not experience those moments — and they should not have to in order to grasp the lessons they taught and the truths they embodied. The next chapter is not about preserving relics but renewing purpose. It must speak to conviction, not cynicism; to moral clarity, not despair.

Young people are searching for meaning in a culture that mocks truth and empties life of purpose. Conservatism should be the moral compass that reminds them freedom is responsibility and that faith, family, and moral courage remain the surest rebellions against hopelessness.

To be a conservative in 2025 is to defend the enduring principles of American liberty while stewarding the culture, the economy, and the spirit of a free people. It is to stand for truth when truth is unfashionable and to guard moral order when the world celebrates chaos.

We are not merely holding the torch. We are relighting it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Glenn Beck: Here's what's WRONG with conservatism today

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What does it mean to be a conservative in 2025? Glenn offers guidance on what conservatives need to do to ensure the conservative movement doesn't fade into oblivion. We have to get back to PRINCIPLES, not policies.

To be a conservative in 2025 means to STAND

  • for Stewardship, protecting the wisdom of our Founders;
  • for Truth, defending objective reality in an age of illusion;
  • for Accountability, living within our means as individuals and as a nation;
  • for Neighborhood, rebuilding family, faith, and local community;
  • and for Duty, carrying freedom forward to the next generation.

A conservative doesn’t cling to the past — he stands guard over the principles that make the future possible.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: You know, I'm so tired of being against everything. Saying what we're not.

It's time that we start saying what we are. And it's hard, because we're changing. It's different to be a conservative, today, than it was, you know, years ago.

And part of that is just coming from hard knocks. School of hard knocks. We've learned a lot of lessons on things we thought we were for. No, no, no.

But conservatives. To be a conservative, it shouldn't be about policies. It's really about principles. And that's why we've lost our way. Because we've lost our principles. And it's easy. Because the world got easy. And now the world is changing so rapidly. The boundaries between truth and illusion are blurred second by second. Machines now think. Currencies falter. Families fractured. And nations, all over the world, have forgotten who they are.

So what does it mean to be a conservative now, in 2025, '26. For a lot of people, it means opposing the left. That's -- that's a reaction. That's not renewal.

That's a reaction. It can't mean also worshiping the past, as if the past were perfect. The founders never asked for that.

They asked that we would preserve the principles and perfect their practice. They knew it was imperfect. To make a more perfect nation.

Is what we're supposed to be doing.

2025, '26 being a conservative has to mean stewardship.

The stewardship of a nation, of a civilization.

Of a moral inheritance. That is too precious to abandon.

What does it mean to conserve? To conserve something doesn't mean to stand still.

It means to stand guard. It means to defend what the Founders designed. The separation of powers. The rule of law.

The belief that our rights come not from kings or from Congress, but from the creator himself.
This is a system that was not built for ease. It was built for endurance, and it will endure if we only teach it again!

The problem is, we only teach it like it's a museum piece. You know, it's not a museum piece. It's not an old dusty document. It's a living covenant between the dead, the living and the unborn.

So this chapter of -- of conservatism. Must confront reality. Economic reality.

Global reality.

And moral reality.

It's not enough just to be against something. Or chant tax cuts or free markets.

We have to ask -- we have to start with simple questions like freedom, yes. But freedom for what?

Freedom for economic sovereignty. Your right to produce and to innovate. To build without asking Beijing's permission. That's a moral issue now.

Another moral issue: Debt! It's -- it's generational theft. We're spending money from generations we won't even meet.

And dependence. Another moral issue. It's a national weakness.

People cannot stand up for themselves. They can't make it themselves. And we're encouraging them to sit down, shut up, and don't think.

And the conservative who can't connect with fiscal prudence, and connect fiscal prudence to moral duty, you're not a conservative at all.

Being a conservative today, means you have to rebuild an economy that serves liberty, not one that serves -- survives by debt, and then there's the soul of the nation.

We are living through a time period. An age of dislocation. Where our families are fractured.

Our faith is almost gone.

Meaning is evaporating so fast. Nobody knows what meaning of life is. That's why everybody is killing themselves. They have no meaning in life. And why they don't have any meaning, is truth itself is mocked and blurred and replaced by nothing, but lies and noise.

If you want to be a conservative, then you have to be to become the moral compass that reminds a lost people, liberty cannot survive without virtue.

That freedom untethered from moral order is nothing, but chaos!

And that no app, no algorithm, no ideology is ever going to fill the void, where meaning used to live!

To be a conservative, moving forward, we cannot just be about policies.

We have to defend the sacred, the unseen, the moral architecture, that gives people an identity. So how do you do that? Well, we have to rebuild competence. We have to restore institutions that actually work. Just in the last hour, this monologue on what we're facing now, because we can't open the government.

Why can't we open the government?

Because government is broken. Why does nobody care? Because education is broken.

We have to reclaim education, not as propaganda, but as the formation of the mind and the soul. Conservatives have to champion innovation.

Not to imitate Silicon Valley's chaos, but to harness technology in defense of human dignity. Don't be afraid of AI.

Know what it is. Know it's a tool. It's a tool to strengthen people. As long as you always remember it's a tool. Otherwise, you will lose your humanity to it!

That's a conservative principle. To be a conservative, we have to restore local strength. Our families are the basic building blocks, our schools, our churches, and our charities. Not some big, distant NGO that was started by the Tides Foundation, but actual local charities, where you see people working. A web of voluntary institutions that held us together at one point. Because when Washington fails, and it will, it already has, the neighborhood has to stand.

Charlie Kirk was doing one thing that people on our side were not doing. Speaking to the young.

But not in nostalgia.

Not in -- you know, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan.

In purpose. They don't remember. They don't remember who Dick Cheney was.

I was listening to Fox news this morning, talking about Dick Cheney. And there was somebody there that I know was not even born when Dick Cheney. When the World Trade Center came down.

They weren't even born. They were telling me about Dick Cheney.

And I was like, come on. Come on. Come on.

If you don't remember who Dick Cheney was, how are you going to remember 9/11. How will you remember who Reagan was.

That just says, that's an old man's creed. No, it's not.

It's the ultimate timeless rebellion against tyranny in all of its forms. Yes, and even the tyranny of despair, which is eating people alive!

We need to redefine ourselves. Because we have changed, and that's a good thing. The creed for a generation, that will decide the fate of the republic, is what we need to find.

A conservative in 2025, '26.

Is somebody who protects the enduring principles of American liberty and self-government.

While actively stewarding the institutions. The culture. The economy of this nation!

For those who are alive and yet to be unborn.

We have to be a group of people that we're not anchored in the past. Or in rage! But in reason. And morality. Realism. And hope for the future.

We're the stewards! We're the ones that have to relight the torch, not just hold it. We didn't -- we didn't build this Torch. We didn't make this Torch. We're the keepers of the flame, but we are honor-bound to pass that forward, and conservatives are viewed as people who just live in the past. We're not here to merely conserve the past, but to renew it. To sort it. What worked, what didn't work. We're the ones to say to the world, there's still such a thing as truth. There's still such a thing as virtue. You can deny it all you want.

But the pain will only get worse. There's still such a thing as America!

And if now is not the time to renew America. When is that time?

If you're not the person. If we're not the generation to actively stand and redefine and defend, then who is that person?

We are -- we are supposed to preserve what works.

That -- you know, I was writing something this morning.

I was making notes on this. A constitutionalist is for restraint. A progressive, if you will, for lack of a better term, is for more power.

Progressives want the government to have more power.

Conservatives are for more restraint.

But the -- for the American eagle to fly, we must have both wings.

And one can't be stronger than the other.

We as a conservative, are supposed to look and say, no. Don't look at that. The past teaches us this, this, and this. So don't do that.

We can't do that. But there are these things that we were doing in the past, that we have to jettison. And maybe the other side has a good idea on what should replace that. But we're the ones who are supposed to say, no, but remember the framework.

They're -- they can dream all they want.
They can come up with all these utopias and everything else, and we can go, "That's a great idea."

But how do we make it work with this framework? Because that's our job. The point of this is, it takes both. It takes both.

We have to have the customs and the moral order. And the practices that have stood the test of time, in trial.

We -- we're in an amazing, amazing time. Amazing time.

We live at a time now, where anything -- literally anything is possible!

I don't want to be against stuff. I want to be for the future. I want to be for a rich, dynamic future. One where we are part of changing the world for the better!

Where more people are lifted out of poverty, more people are given the freedom to choose, whatever it is that they want to choose, as their own government and everything.

I don't want to force it down anybody's throat.

We -- I am so excited to be a shining city on the hill again.

We have that opportunity, right in front of us!

But not in we get bogged down in hatred, in division.

Not if we get bogged down into being against something.

We must be for something!

I know what I'm for.

Do you?

From Pharaoh to Hamas: The same spirit of evil, new disguise

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The drone footage out of Gaza isn’t just war propaganda — it’s a glimpse of the same darkness that once convinced men they were righteous for killing innocents.

Evil introduces itself subtly. It doesn’t announce, “Hi, I’m here to destroy you.” It whispers. It flatters. It borrows the language of justice, empathy, and freedom, twisting them until hatred sounds righteous and violence sounds brave.

We are watching that same deception unfold again — in the streets, on college campuses, and in the rhetoric of people who should know better. It’s the oldest story in the world, retold with new slogans.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage.

A drone video surfaced this week showing Hamas terrorists staging the “discovery” of a hostage’s body. They pushed a corpse out of a window, dragged it into a hole, buried it, and then called in aid workers to “find” what they themselves had planted. It was theater — evil, disguised as victimhood. And it was caught entirely on camera.

That’s how evil operates. It never comes in through the front door. It sneaks in, often through manipulative pity. The same spirit animates the moral rot spreading through our institutions — from the halls of universities to the chambers of government.

Take Zohran Mamdani, a New York assemblyman who has praised jihadists and defended pro-Hamas agitators. His father, a Columbia University professor, wrote that America and al-Qaeda are morally equivalent — that suicide bombings shouldn’t be viewed as barbaric. Imagine thinking that way after watching 3,000 Americans die on 9/11. That’s not intellectualism. That’s indoctrination.

Often, that indoctrination comes from hostile foreign actors, peddled by complicit pawns on our own soil. The pro-Hamas protests that erupted across campuses last year, for example, were funded by Iran — a regime that murders its own citizens for speaking freely.

Ancient evil, new clothes

But the deeper danger isn’t foreign money. It’s the spiritual blindness that lets good people believe resentment is justice and envy is discernment. Scripture talks about the spirit of Amalek — the eternal enemy of God’s people, who attacks the weak from behind while the strong look away. Amalek never dies; it just changes its vocabulary and form with the times.

Today, Amalek tweets. He speaks through professors who defend terrorism as “anti-colonial resistance.” He preaches from pulpits that call violence “solidarity.” And he recruits through algorithms, whispering that the Jews control everything, that America had it coming, that chaos is freedom. Those are ancient lies wearing new clothes.

When nations embrace those lies, it’s not the Jews who perish first. It’s the nations themselves. The soul dies long before the body. The ovens of Auschwitz didn’t start with smoke; they started with silence and slogans.

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A time for choosing

So what do we do? We speak truth — calmly, firmly, without venom. Because hatred can’t kill hatred; it only feeds it. Truth, compassion, and courage starve it to death.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage. That’s how Amalek survives — by making you fight him with his own weapons. The only victory that lasts is moral clarity without malice, courage without cruelty.

The war we’re fighting isn’t new. It’s the same battle between remembrance and amnesia, covenant and chaos, humility and pride. The same spirit that whispered to Pharaoh, to Hitler, and to every mob that thought hatred could heal the world is whispering again now — on your screens, in your classrooms, in your churches.

Will you join it, or will you stand against it?

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Bill Gates ends climate fear campaign, declares AI the future ruler

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The Big Tech billionaire once said humanity must change or perish. Now he claims we’ll survive — just as elites prepare total surveillance.

For decades, Americans have been told that climate change is an imminent apocalypse — the existential threat that justifies every intrusion into our lives, from banning gas stoves to rationing energy to tracking personal “carbon scores.”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates helped lead that charge. He warned repeatedly that the “climate disaster” would be the greatest crisis humanity would ever face. He invested billions in green technology and demanded the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050 “to avoid catastrophe.”

The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch.

Now, suddenly, he wants everyone to relax: Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” after all.

Gates was making less of a scientific statement and more of a strategic pivot. When elites retire a crisis, it’s never because the threat is gone — it’s because a better one has replaced it. And something else has indeed arrived — something the ruling class finds more useful than fear of the weather.The same day Gates downshifted the doomsday rhetoric, Amazon announced it would pay warehouse workers $30 an hour — while laying off 30,000 people because artificial intelligence will soon do their jobs.

Climate panic was the warm-up. AI control is the main event.

The new currency of power

The world once revolved around oil and gas. Today, it revolves around the electricity demanded by server farms, the chips that power machine learning, and the data that can be used to manipulate or silence entire populations. The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch. Whoever controls energy now controls information. And whoever controls information controls civilization.

Climate alarmism gave elites a pretext to centralize power over energy. Artificial intelligence gives them a mechanism to centralize power over people. The future battles will not be about carbon — they will be about control.

Two futures — both ending in tyranny

Americans are already being pushed into what look like two opposing movements, but both leave the individual powerless.

The first is the technocratic empire being constructed in the name of innovation. In its vision, human work will be replaced by machines, and digital permissions will subsume personal autonomy.

Government and corporations merge into a single authority. Your identity, finances, medical decisions, and speech rights become access points monitored by biometric scanners and enforced by automated gatekeepers. Every step, purchase, and opinion is tracked under the noble banner of “efficiency.”

The second is the green de-growth utopia being marketed as “compassion.” In this vision, prosperity itself becomes immoral. You will own less because “the planet” requires it. Elites will redesign cities so life cannot extend beyond a 15-minute walking radius, restrict movement to save the Earth, and ration resources to curb “excess.” It promises community and simplicity, but ultimately delivers enforced scarcity. Freedom withers when surviving becomes a collective permission rather than an individual right.

Both futures demand that citizens become manageable — either automated out of society or tightly regulated within it. The ruling class will embrace whichever version gives them the most leverage in any given moment.

Climate panic was losing its grip. AI dependency — and the obedience it creates — is far more potent.

The forgotten way

A third path exists, but it is the one today’s elites fear most: the path laid out in our Constitution. The founders built a system that assumes human beings are not subjects to be monitored or managed, but moral agents equipped by God with rights no government — and no algorithm — can override.

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That idea remains the most “disruptive technology” in history. It shattered the belief that people need kings or experts or global committees telling them how to live. No wonder elites want it erased.

Soon, you will be told you must choose: Live in a world run by machines or in a world stripped down for planetary salvation. Digital tyranny or rationed equality. Innovation without liberty or simplicity without dignity.

Both are traps.

The only way

The only future worth choosing is the one grounded in ordered liberty — where prosperity and progress exist alongside moral responsibility and personal freedom and human beings are treated as image-bearers of God — not climate liabilities, not data profiles, not replaceable hardware components.

Bill Gates can change his tune. The media can change the script. But the agenda remains the same.

They no longer want to save the planet. They want to run it, and they expect you to obey.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.