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October 21, 2025
Chris Brady

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Peter Atwater
TOPIC: Is the current AI investment boom a bubble that could pop like the 2008 mortgage crisis?

News...

Chip Roy moves to impeach judge over ‘absurd’ sentence for attempted Kavanaugh assassin
Judge "unequivocally based this weak sentence on the attempted assassin's 'gender identity.'"

Demolition begins on part of East Wing of White House for Trump’s new $250 million ballroom
Photos show that construction crews have already ripped off the covered entrance that for decades greeted visitors going on tours or attending special events. The wing historically has housed the first lady’s offices and sits atop a bomb shelter and will be significantly lengthened as part of the expansion.

Trump administration can deploy National Guard in Portland, appeals court says
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Monday will allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in Portland, saying it is likely to succeed on its appeal of an order that blocked the deployment.

Jeanine Pirro announces charges against 2 more DC teens over ‘Big Balls’ attack
The U.S. attorney charged 19-year-old Lawrence Cotton-Powell and 18-year-old Anthony Taylor with robbery, assault, and carjacking in the beating of federal staffer Edward Coristine, criticizing judges for releasing repeat offenders who went on to attack again.

Biden DOJ subpoenaed Ted Cruz’s phone records in Trump probe
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team secretly sought the Texas senator’s call logs from Jan. 4 to 7, 2021, as part of its Trump investigations — a move Cruz blasted as “21st-century digital Watergate” and political spying by the Biden administration.

Accountant arrested for last month’s shooting at Trump supporter’s home over yard flag
Police say 38-year-old Benjamin Campbell opened fire on North Carolina resident Mark Thomas after tearing down a Trump banner outside his home. Caught on video firing from his Jeep, Campbell faces felony charges for attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.

Trump administration agrees to deliver more student loan forgiveness
The outcome is the result of an agreement between the American Federation of Teachers and the U.S. Department of Education.

Anti-ICE agitator acts hurt after being 'ran over' by LAPD — but video shows the real story
Video shows a man pretending to be hit by a police SUV during the chaotic No Kings protest outside the federal building, only to return minutes later unharmed as he continued to demonstrate after claiming he was taken to a hospital.

Police thwart possible mass shooting at Atlanta airport after gunman’s family alert
Officers arrested 49-year-old Billy Joe Cagle minutes after his family warned he was livestreaming plans to “shoot up” Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. Police found an AR-15 and 27 rounds in his truck, crediting the quick family call and coordinated response with saving more than two dozen lives.

Virginia Giuffre beaten, raped by ‘well-known prime minister’ in attack that broke Epstein spell, her memoir says
In her posthumous memoir, Giuffre recalled begging Epstein to step in after the unnamed politician forced her to beg for her life — but the pedophile coldly told her it was simply part of her job.

Government shutdown...

Congressional Democrats 'terrified of getting the guillotine' from left-wing base if they vote to end shutdown: Report
Senate Democrats "are going to get hammered" if they support a Republican-led bill to end the government shutdown, according to an anonymous Democrat senator. Centrist Democrats would have opened the government "yesterday," the senator said, but fear career-ending backlash from their base.

Poll shows Trump gaining support amid shutdown as blame shifts away from him
CNN’s Harry Enten says only 48% now blame the president for the ongoing shutdown, down from 61% in 2018–19, with Trump’s approval rising slightly instead of falling as it did during his first term.

NYC...

Beards, protests & the 'addiction of revolution': Mamdani's time in Muslim Brotherhood-ruled Egypt
Mamdani arrived in Egypt as a college student with the Muslim Brotherhood in charge and left soon after the Egyptian military took over again. His time there, in his words, taught him of the "addiction of revolution."

NYC business leaders drop $3 million over 2 days into mayoral race in bid to stop Mamdani
The last-ditch spending blitz comes as the Democratic nominee continues to dominate the mayoral race, with polls showing him holding a double-digit lead over his competitor.

Luxurious and surrounded by armed guards, Zohran Mamdani’s family rental is steeped in inequality
Just beyond the fences, the Ugandan streets teem with boda-boda drivers, market women, and day laborers — but you’d never know it inside the compound.

Zohran Mamdani’s socialist housing plan could crash New York's rickety rental market
The city has the nation’s most regulated housing sector and the largest stock of government-owned and subsidized housing, and yet progressives blame its real estate troubles on the free market.

NY Post runs hit piece on Curtis Sliwa as it tries to sway voters to pick the lesser of two evils
The Post is running an “opposition research” piece on Sliwa as its top story as it tries to pressure him to quit the race and steer Republican voters toward Cuomo.

Politics...

No Kings protesters can’t explain how Trump is a king
At the Soros-funded D.C. rally, marchers waving anti-Trump signs and chanting rehearsed slogans struggled to answer basic questions about their cause, with some claiming Trump was ending women’s right to vote and others parroting vague talking points about “checks and balances.”

Axios: Trump's AI memes testing limits between satire and misinformation
The president posted an AI-generated video of Trump dumping brown sludge over No Kings protesters on Saturday, drawing condemnation from Democrats as well as rockstar Kenny Loggins, whose song "Danger Zone" was used in the post.

Politico: Mike Johnson says Trump was ‘using satire to make a point’ with AI poop-bombing video
Trump on Saturday evening posted an AI-generated video on Truth Social showing him wearing a crown at the stick of a warplane emblazoned with “King Trump.” It is shown bombarding liberal protesters with a poop-like substance.

‘We’re going to have a vote’ on member stock trading, Chip Roy says
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said there’s still bipartisan interest in forcing a floor vote on congressional trading.

Bernie Sanders suggests Abraham Lincoln was actually a Democratic Socialist
During an appearance on "The View," Sanders claimed Lincoln’s call for “a government of the people, by the people, for the people” echoed his own socialist ideals.

Trump’s first in-person fundraiser of the 2026 cycle will be for Lindsey Graham
A golf event with the South Carolina Republican next month will mark the president's first campaign appearance of the midterms.

Karine Jean-Pierre writes she couldn’t be a Democrat anymore after party’s ‘horrible’ treatment of Biden
Former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre unleashed on the Democratic Party in an excerpt from her new memoir, explaining why she decided to become an independent after years as a party flack.

Maine Democratic Senate candidate: Accusing me of watching CNN 'even more insulting than calling me retard'
Graham Platner, who trashed cops and rural voters, says the ultimate insult is being accused of watching CNN.

Economy...

National average gas prices fall below $3 per gallon, lowest since 2020
“Gas prices have finally fallen below $3 per gallon nationally — the earliest date we’ve seen a $2.99 national average since 2020, when COVID was the primary driver of low prices,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.

Immigration...

How Trump's border crackdown has choked cartels' fentanyl flow into the US
Seizures of the synthetic opioid at the southern border are down almost 53% compared with last year. The plunge isn't because authorities are catching less fentanyl — it's because cartels simply aren't trafficking as much.

Criminal illegal alien who ran Des Moines schools registered as Maryland voter
By law, only U.S. citizens are allowed to register to vote in U.S. elections, but an election watchdog group looked into voter registration in states where Roberts previously lived and found he registered to vote as a Democrat twice, once in 2011 and again in 2016.

Trump to target San Francisco with immigration raids
“San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world, and then 15 years ago, it went wrong, it went woke,” Trump said Sunday.

Israel...

Trump: ‘We are going to eradicate Hamas’ if ceasefire doesn’t hold
“They’re violent people. Hamas has been very violent, but they don’t have the backing of Iran anymore,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “They don’t have the backing of really anybody anymore. They have to be good, and if they’re not good, they’ll be eradicated.”

Hamas resumes terror operations inside Gaza hospitals and schools
Palestinian reports say Hamas has re-established bases in hospitals and schools to interrogate and execute opponents, extort aid agencies, and rebuild its network under the cover of the ceasefire.

NY Times: US increasingly worried Netanyahu could collapse Gaza ceasefire
There is growing worry in the administration that Netanyahu could actively act against the deal, the report says, citing several unnamed U.S. officials.

Jerusalem Post editorial: Israel needs to take tough Gaza decisions, which may test bonds of US relationship
The difference in thinking between the U.S. and Israel on the ceasefire is that the U.S. sees its partners in Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar as having the ability to rein in Hamas and its nature of terrorism. Israel, however, is rightfully skeptical.

New poll finds soaring approval for Trump's handling of Israel-Hamas war
An Emerson College poll shows 47% of voters now approve of the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, up from 30% in April, with independents driving the turnaround. Meanwhile, Democrats are overwhelmingly negative on the peace deal.

Canada...

After years of woke land acknowledgments, some Canadian homeowners may soon be evicted
A British Columbia court granted aboriginal title to nearly 1,900 acres near Vancouver, ruling that government land titles are invalid and leaving private homeowners uncertain about whether they still legally own their properties.

Entertainment...

De Niro’s latest rant: Trump is an ‘alien’ who ‘wants to hurt people’
The 82-year-old on-screen tough guy made an appearance on MSNBC this past weekend to voice support for the No Kings demonstrations, which were very popular with his age demographic.

John Lennon’s killer says he murdered ‘to be a somebody’ as parole denied again
Mark David Chapman told a New York parole board his assassination of the Beatle was driven by selfish hunger for fame, not ideology or insanity. Now 70, Chapman apologized for the “devastation” he caused but was denied parole for the 14th time, with the board citing his lack of genuine remorse.

Media...

A Wake to Remember: MSNBC bids farewell to its dying audience
What we saw at the MSNBC Live '25 festival, the most enlightening and overpriced event since the Kamala Harris book tour.

Gayle King sparks Democrat outrage with selfie alongside Fox News host Jesse Watters
The CBS anchor posted a smiling photo with Watters after sitting next to him on a flight, prompting furious backlash from leftist fans who accused her of “normalizing hate” and betraying her audience.

LGBTQIA2S+...

White ex-state trooper says he was fired for being white after arresting black Philadelphia LGBTQ official
Former trooper Andrew Zaborowski claims he was fired for being white after a 2024 traffic stop in which Philadelphia LGBTQ director Celena McLean yelled, “It’s cause I’m black” and “I work for the mayor,” as she and her husband resisted arrest — charges that were later dropped by DA’s office.

Education...

Teacher's assistant arrested in connection with Turning Point USA attack ahead of Alex Stein event at Illinois State Univ.
Stein celebrated the students who stood their ground to yet another allegedly violent leftist.

Chicago elementary teacher mocks Charlie Kirk’s assassination with vile gun gesture at No Kings protest
“This is who we trust with our children & then wonder why they become radicalized as adults.”

Here’s why teachers are fed up with kids chanting ‘6 7’ in their classrooms: ‘Gonna start kicking people out’
The slang term comes from the viral song “Doot Doot (6 7)” by rapper Skrilla, which features the endlessly repeated lyric “six seven.”

Health...

Spike in childhood peanut allergies was caused by 'experts'
For years, doctors told parents to keep peanuts away from infants — advice now proven to have backfired. A new study shows that avoiding peanuts actually increased allergy risk, while early introduction helps babies build immunity and has already driven allergy rates down sharply.

AI...

Anthropic co-founder warns AI is ‘coming to life’ as experts dismiss talk of machine consciousness
Jack Clark said he’s “deeply afraid” that modern AI is showing signs of self-awareness, likening new systems to “a hammer that realizes it’s a hammer.” Meanwhile, philosophers and neuroscientists rejected the idea that machines are conscious — calling them “AI zombies” that only mimic awareness.

Elon Musk: Grok 5 now has a 10% chance of becoming world’s first AGI
In a recent post on X, Musk noted that his “estimate of the probability of Grok 5 achieving AGI is now at 10% and rising.”

British TV special 'shocks' viewers with AI 'anchor' reveal
Channel 4’s "Will AI Take My Job?" ended with the surprise admission that its host was entirely AI-generated, making it the U.K.’s first news program fronted by an artificial presenter as the network warns of AI’s power to deceive and disrupt real journalism.

Technology...

Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, 'experts' say
"Experts" have warned of the perils of relying on a small number of companies for operating the global internet after a glitch at Amazon’s cloud computing service brought down apps and websites around the world.

Science...

Transportation Secretary Duffy says SpaceX is behind on moon trip, and he will reopen contracts
“We’re not going to wait for one company,” Duffy, who is currently the acting NASA administrator, told CNBC on Monday. “We’re going to push this forward and win the second space race against the Chinese. Get back to the moon, set up a camp, a base.”

Oct. 21, 2011 - The world is going to end today... Why is CAIR joining Occupy Wall Street?... Are assassinations coming?... What didn't Steve Jobs like about Obama?... Biden to reporter: 'Don't screw with me' after questioned about rape comment...

Faith, family, and freedom—The forgotten core of conservatism

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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?

How America’s elites fell for the same lie that fueled Auschwitz

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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.