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Morning Brief 2025-10-22

October 22, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Max Tegmark
TOPIC: New bipartisan initiative is calling for a “prohibition on the development of superintelligence until the technology is reliably safe and controllable.”

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Kevin Freeman
TOPIC: Existential threats to Western civilization.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas)
TOPIC: Roy: Europe should be a wake-up call to America, showing what the spread of sharia law looks like.

News...

EPA tells Glenn Beck Program: Grants to progressive nonprofit that sued Diesel Brothers to end under Trump
"The Trump EPA has been combing through every penny that went out the door under its predecessor. The days of unqualified recipients receiving taxpayer dollars are over."

Trump confirms he’s seeking damages against DOJ, says ‘any money’ will go to charity
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that his legal team was seeking damages from the Department of Justice because “they rigged the election.” While noting the conflict of interest involved in the case, he said that any money he received would go to charity.

‘Not isolated’: Bombshell DHS probe reveals widespread political weaponization at Biden’s FEMA
A DHS investigation found FEMA workers tracked and at times withheld aid from Trump supporters, logging notes about “MAGA” flags, “pro-gun signs,” and anti-Biden slogans during disaster responses. The report contradicts Biden FEMA chief Deanne Criswell’s testimony and exposes years of politically motivated targeting.

House GOP seeks criminal charges against ex-CIA chief over alleged Russiagate lies
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department accusing former CIA Director John Brennan of making false statements to Congress about the Steele dossier and the CIA’s role in the discredited Trump-Russia probe.

Radical Pennsylvania bills could allow public funding of abortion up to birth
The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee votes on a package of six bills Wednesday that will make it possible for pregnant Pennsylvania women to kill their unborn babies up to birth. It will also turn Pennsylvania into an abortion tourism destination.

Trump mocks look of Obama’s presidential library
“It’s not too pretty,” said Trump. “He wanted only women and DEI to build it. Well? That’s what they got.”

Trump mocks outrage of 'unhinged leftists' as construction of ballroom begins at White House
Democrats and media allies falsely implying, and in some cases flat out claiming, that Trump is spending taxpayer money on his new White House ballroom and doing so during a government shutdown.

Babylon Bee: White House construction crew finds 1,357 more cocaine stashes
Though the investigation was technically ongoing, President Trump was not shy about who he believed to be responsible. "Hunter Biden's legacy lives on," Trump said. At publishing time, the $250 million White House ballroom renovation had been fully paid off by selling all of the stashed cocaine.

Hunter Biden admits pardon was ‘privilege,’ but then claims he's a victim
In a new interview, Hunter Biden called his 2024 pardon from his father a “gift of privilege,” saying Trump’s election “changed everything” and prompted the clemency, while he accused Trump of running a “revenge tour” driven by “an obsession” with his family.

Florida man steals car from gas station with 1-year-old in back seat — then soon returns car, apologizes to mother: Cops
You can practically hear the Hallmark pitch already: desperate mom, remorseful car thief, fate collides at pump #3. Title writes itself — "My Baby Stole My Baby."

Government shutdown...

Thune, Trump warn Democrats: Republicans are united, and it’s time to end the shutdown
"We are all here today because your Republican team in the Senate is unified."

Chip Roy suggests 'nuclear option' to end Senate stalemate
"We need to be taking a look at the 60-vote threshold. We really do," Roy said, adding that the Senate's supermajority rule has left Republicans "beholden to a broken system." Senate Majority Leader John Thune has rejected the idea, even amid rumors the White House might be pushing for the move.

Fetterman says he would support Republicans nuking filibuster to end government shutdown
"This is just bad political theater," Sen. John Fetterman said.

White House posts massive list of criminal illegal immigrants who were on Medicaid
"The first thing they put out to reopen the government actually turned that money for health care benefits for illegal aliens back on," Vance said earlier in October.

NYC...

Mamdani defends meeting radical imam by claiming it wasn't a big deal when prior mayors did so
Front-running New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is defending his decision to meet with (and praise) a radical Brooklyn imam — claiming that prior NYC mayors had also met with him and falsely asserting that they did not garner national attention.

Curtis Sliwa will not quit mayoral race despite pressure for him to let Cuomo face Mamdani alone
“So let’s be very clear: I am not dropping out, under no circumstances.”

Curtis Sliwa has a point: Voters want conviction — and it’s shaping every race across the country
In the Donald Trump era, authenticity and clarity of vision rule the day — as the races in NYC, New Jersey, and Virginia show.

Politics...

Democrats are to blame for rising health care and energy prices
With the end of Biden-era subsidies and green tax giveaways, the true cost of Democrats’ failed policies is surfacing. Obamacare and green energy schemes were never sustainable without endless taxpayer bailouts, and now Americans are paying the price for a decade of reckless spending and political favoritism.

Jay Jones proves Democrats will excuse anything for power
Democrats ignored years of vile texts, threats, and reckless behavior — all to protect one of their own.

Bernie won't drop endorsement of Maine senate candidate with Nazi tattoo
Socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is refusing to drop his endorsement of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, even after reports broke that Platner has a Nazi-linked tattoo on his chest.

Pod Save Platner: Obama bros described Hegseth tattoo as 'dog whistle' before helping Maine's Platner fend off scrutiny for Nazi tattoo
Platner, a candidate for Maine's Senate seat, admitted to keeping a Nazi tattoo on his chest for nearly two decades but said he didn't know the meaning.

Maine Dem Senate candidate said he wore 'Antifa supersoldier' label on his armor: Report
"This was a dumb joke, like most of my old Reddit posts," Platner said.

Karine Jean-Pierre says Democrats ‘forget’ black women after years of celebrating her identity
The former Biden press secretary told Stephen Colbert that black women are “forgotten” by Democrats, despite once being hailed as a “historic” first black, lesbian press secretary.

Jen Psaki mocks JD Vance’s wife, implies she needs to be ‘saved’ from the vice president
On a left-wing podcast, MSNBC host Jen Psaki joked that second lady Usha Vance should “blink four times” if she needs rescuing from her husband. Psaki called Vance “a chameleon” and “scarier in certain ways” than Trump while speculating about his 2028 presidential ambitions.

Economy...

Jon Stewart gives basic economics lesson to socialist Bernie Sanders
On "The Daily Show," Stewart explained how government subsidies inflate prices by removing cost controls, citing skyrocketing costs in health care and education. Sanders sidestepped the point, pivoting to his usual call for higher taxes on “oligarchs.”

California’s $20 minimum wage delivers job cuts, reduced hours: Report
A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research confirms what critics of California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage warned all along: Higher mandated pay is costing workers both jobs and hours.

Rent prices are ballooning in major US city following pervasive fraud by bums with low credit scores
Scammers in Atlanta are faking pay stubs, credit reports, and Social Security numbers to get approved for luxury apartments. They move in by paying the first month’s rent, then stop paying altogether — living rent-free for months while landlords struggle through costly eviction processes.

One-time penny stock Beyond Meat soars after addition to meme ETF, jumps 90% on Tuesday
It appears the ETF addition has unleashed a short squeeze with investors who bet against the stock forced to cover their position. More than 63% of the shares available for trading were sold short, per FactSet.

Immigration...

Anti-ICE nonprofit moves into office across the street from Portland ICE facility — with help from city
The Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition, a taxpayer-funded nongovernmental organization, provides guidance to illegal immigrants on the best practices to evade apprehension by federal authorities.

DHS: Illegal alien shot after ramming federal vehicle during operation
DHS blamed rising attacks on ICE on Democrat-led sanctuary policies and anti-enforcement rhetoric.

WAR news...

Trump counterterrorism program kills 370 jihadists in 9 months, official reveals
“We're actually turning most of them into red mist,” Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, said in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday.

First look at Shield AI’s new AI-piloted military fighter drone
The company is unveiling the X-Bat, an unmanned, AI-piloted fighter jet with vertical takeoff and landing capabilities, on Wednesday.

Israel...

Hamas directed Al Jazeera's coverage of Gaza, instructing outlet to avoid terms like 'massacre' after terrorist missile landed in Gazan refugee camp
Hamas conspired with Qatari-funded news network Al Jazeera to downplay dissent within Gaza and avoid coverage that could damage "the image of the resistance," according to documents recovered from the strip and released by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.

Ukraine - Russia...

Trump’s second meeting with Putin is off
Russia’s foreign minister said he made clear to Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a call on Monday that their demands in Ukraine haven’t changed.

Lack of decision on Tomahawks made Russia less keen on diplomacy, Zelenskyy says
"The greater the Ukrainian long-range capability, the greater the Russian willingness to end the war. These past few weeks have confirmed this once again."

South America...

Colombian president pushes to ‘get rid of Trump’ amid US counternarcotics campaign in Caribbean
"The easiest way may be through Trump himself. If not, get rid of Trump," the president said while snapping his fingers.

Africa...

Cruz and Stutzman push bill to punish Nigerian officials aiding Christian persecution
The Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act would sanction leaders who enable jihadist violence and Sharia enforcement, aiming to stop the mass murder and abduction of Christians by Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa.

Asia...

What the rise of Japan's new ultraconservative prime minister means for the Trump administration
Margaret Thatcher-san? In many ways, Takaichi will be a natural partner for President Trump in the region but has promised to closely guard Japan’s national interest, especially under the U.S.-Japan trade and investment deal.

NY Times: Japan has a new leader, and she’s a heavy metal drummer
Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead Japan to the right.

Entertainment...

White House slams 'fake news' TMZ report about Trump possibly setting Puff Daddy free
"There is zero truth to the TMZ report, which we would’ve gladly explained had they reached out before running their fake news. The president, not anonymous sources, is the final decider on pardons and commutations."

TMZ: We stand by our story, Trump is considering Diddy commutation this week
According to our source, the president is "vacillating" on a commutation. We're told some of the WH staff are urging Trump not to commute the sentence. But our source states the obvious — "Trump will do what he wants," and we're told Trump could set Diddy free as early as this week.

Ben Stiller decries the 'challenging' climate for comedy under Trump 2.0
Stiller, best known for his role as the mentally challenged Simple Jack in the movie "Tropic Thunder" — which gave us Robert Downey Jr. in blackface warning Stiller to “never go full retard” — I don't even remember my point. Honestly, just rewatch "Tropic Thunder" and forget Stiller ever opened his mouth about politics.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s HBO Max is raising its prices across all plans
Basic with ads now costs $10.99, Standard costs $18.49, and Premium $22.99. The move follows similar price hikes from Disney+, Apple TV, and Netflix, as WBD CEO David Zaslav says the company remains “underpriced” given its content quality.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Accused UnitedHealthcare CEO murderer got beaten up by 7 ‘ladyboys’ in Thailand months before shooting: Report
The 27-year-old bragged to friends over WhatsApp about his raucous nightlife backpacking through Asia before he returned to the U.S. in July 2024 and allegedly assassinated Brian Thompson that December, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

Religion...

Former Satanic priest among seven newly canonized saints by Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV canonized seven figures at the Vatican before a crowd of 70,000, including Bartolo Longo — a onetime Satanic priest who renounced the occult, returned to Catholicism, and founded the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii.

Science...

Musk blasts Duffy after Artemis contract spat: He ‘is trying to kill NASA!’
Musk referred to the transportation secretary as ”*Sean Dummy” and said he is “trying to kill NASA!” Musk later posted a poll asking users, “Should someone whose biggest claim to fame is climbing trees be running America’s space program?” Musk appeared to be referring to Duffy’s background as a competitive speed climber.

Travel...

A United Airlines emergency landing likely caused by collision with a weather balloon
A flight was diverted to Salt Lake City last week after the pilots discovered a crack in one of the layers of the windshield. A weather balloon may have been what caused the crack, according to the company that owns the balloon.

United flight to Tel Aviv announces its only in-flight meal is a ham sandwich
"The announcer was clearly very embarrassed when explaining to the entire flight that they were overloaded with ham. I’d say it was met with a mix of bemusement. Particularly as the announcer stated, if there’s anyone who can’t eat ham on the plane, please let me know," one passenger told the Washington Free Beacon.

Animals...

Wild black bear caught sneaking into California zoo and 'interacting' with captive bears
A young black bear climbed into Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka and observed the resident bears before being escorted back into the woods. The wild bear was calm and “just a curious guy,” according to the zoo director.

Oct. 22, 2010 - NPR CEO says Juan Williams should have keep his views with his psychiatrist… The amount of lies and distortions in the media much worse than believed… Guest Juan Williams on the show to discuss being fired from NPR…

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?

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.