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“They’re coming home — they’re all coming home.”

That’s how President Donald Trump described Apple’s decision to invest $600 billion in the American economy, $100 billion more than initially expected.

For decades, corporate America packed up and left. Under President Trump, companies are coming back.

Standing alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook, President Trump declared: “These investments will directly create more than 20,000 brand-new American jobs and many thousands more at Apple suppliers like Corning, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, and Samsung.”

This is proof that the America First agenda is working.

Bringing industry back

America First isn’t just a campaign slogan. It’s a movement rooted in economic patriotism. For decades, global corporations were incentivized to offshore jobs and close American factories, leaving once-thriving towns in economic ruin.

President Trump is reversing that damage. His America First agenda creates the conditions for companies to thrive here at home — cutting taxes, slashing red tape, rebuilding infrastructure, and putting American workers first in trade deals and policy decisions.

Apple’s investment is just the latest example. From Silicon Valley to the Rust Belt, companies are responding favorably to the president’s policies, which are rewarding their investments on U.S. soil.

In the past six months alone, more than $17 trillion in new investment, factories, and infrastructure projects have been announced. From semiconductor plants in Arizona to advanced steel manufacturing in Pennsylvania, we are witnessing the rebirth of American manufacturing.

Challenging China

And America First doesn’t stop at building new factories. It also means building the capacity to win strategic fights — including the tech war with China.

One example is the Trump administration’s recent decision to heed U.S. intelligence experts and greenlight the merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks.

For years, national security experts have warned about Huawei, the Chinese tech giant with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Huawei’s global dominance in 5G and enterprise networking poses a serious threat to cybersecurity, national defense, and communications freedom. The problem wasn’t identifying the threat. The problem was that no U.S. company could match Huawei — that is, until now. Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi are helping the U.S. finally compete in this industry.

Another example is President Trump’s executive order jump-starting America’s rare-earth and critical mineral supply chains — an industry China has dominated for years. From electric vehicles to advanced weapons systems, the modern economy runs on rare-earths. Yet for too long, America depended on Chinese exports to power everything from smartphones to fighter jets.

That is changing under President Trump, who signed an executive order cutting red tape, fast-tracking permits, and directing federal agencies to prioritize American sourcing and refining of rare-earth and critical minerals. As a result, U.S. companies are now increasingly investing in domestic mining operations in America, laying the foundation for greater American economic independence.

In June, Trump even signed an agreement with China to resume exports of U.S. rare-earth minerals. The global tide on U.S. exports is now turning.

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America First is winning

America First means just that: America first. Whether it’s encouraging companies such as Apple to invest here at home or ensuring that U.S. tech companies can go toe to toe with China, President Trump is delivering real results.

For decades, corporate America packed up and left. Under President Trump, companies are coming back. They’re investing in our people, our cities, and our future. That’s not just good policy. That’s what winning looks like.

The recent federal takeover of Washington, D.C., appears to have had the intended effect of improving public safety, and the Trump administration is now on a roll, working not only to clean up the streets but to make private gun ownership great again in America’s capital.

One major step the administration has taken is to make the process of applying for concealed-carry permits easier. According to a recent report from Fox News Digital, Trump’s Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force is doing just that.

‘President Trump is not only stopping violent crime in Washington, D.C.; he is also streamlining the permitting process for law-abiding residents.’

Trump established the task force — comprising members of the Departments of the Interior, Homeland Security, and Transportation; the FBI; the ATF; area U.S. Attorney’s Offices; and other entities — in March through an executive order, directing it to, among other things, collaborate “with appropriate local government entities to provide assistance to increase the speed and lower the cost of processing concealed carry license requests in the District of Columbia.”

Since then, the average permitting process time has been reduced “from several months to just five days,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News.

“President Trump is not only stopping violent crime in Washington, D.C.; he is also streamlining the permitting process for law-abiding residents who want the ability to protect themselves and their families,” Rogers added.

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The task force appears to have helped shorten the firearm registration process in the district as well, according to Fox News. Whereas D.C. residents used to wait up to four months for a registration appointment with the Metropolitan Police Department, they may now book an appointment for the following day. Walk-in appointments are even available now too.

The Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force is also exploring other ways to expand legal access to gun ownership in D.C., which has some of the strictest gun restrictions in the country despite the Heller and Bruen decisions from the Supreme Court. One idea on the table is CCP reciprocity with other states. Another is allowing women with a CCP to carry in their purses or handbags rather than on their persons, Fox News said.

‘Imagine if DC’s government adopted crime control measures for a year or three. DC might actually become a safe and vibrant community again.’

U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro is likewise taking gun-related matters into her own hands, declining to issue felony charges against those carrying rifles and shotguns, according to the Washington Post. D.C. bans carrying rifles and shotguns except in rare cases, and first-time violators can face up to five years in prison. However, a new policy created by the DOJ and its solicitor general changes the enforcement of this local law.

While Pirro reiterated that her office will still pursue cases of violent gun offenders and those engaged in firearms trafficking, she told the Post that the general ban against carrying rifles and shotguns “is clearly a violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings.”

“Nothing in this memo from the Department of Justice and the Office of Solicitor General precludes the United States Attorney’s Office from charging a felon with the possession of a firearm, which includes a rifle, shotgun, and attendant large-capacity magazine pursuant to D.C. Code 22-4503. What it does preclude is a separate charge of possession of a registered rifle or shotgun,” Pirro told the Post.

Pirro’s office has not indicated that it will change its policies about prosecuting illegal ownership of handguns, which are used in the majority of gun-related crimes in D.C., the Post reported.

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John Boch, the executive director of the Second Amendment advocacy group Guns Save Life, is cheering these changes implemented in D.C. by the Trump administration.

“For generations, statist politicians have told us that gun control is the answer to the gang violence in our cities. In reality, crime control was all that was needed. Targeting good guys with guns doesn’t reduce violent crime. It makes it worse. Because criminals don’t care about what they see as silly laws,” Boch told Blaze News.

“President Donald Trump’s team has opted to go with crime control instead of failed gun control to address crime across America, and for the last week or so in Washington, D.C., in particular,” Boch continued, noting that these federal interventions have made progress in just a week.

“Imagine if D.C.’s government adopted crime control measures for a year or three. D.C. might actually become a safe and vibrant community again.”

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The political drama around Jeffrey Epstein is just about wrapped up. Not because of anything the White House has done. It’s over because few things last forever in an era of frantic news cycles — and because Democrats and their friends in the media have dramatically overplayed their hands.

For weeks on end, the national news and D.C.’s political press were all about Epstein. We were promised that this was the moment the MAGA coalition would finally implode and that President Donald Trump was in for it this time.

More and more, the swirl of ‘Stop distracting from the files!’ sounds more like ‘Stop winning! We want to talk about the other thing instead!’

The coverage was always more about giddy Democrat wishcasting than reality, and with some slight course correction, the White House got ahead of the mini-tempest.

On Monday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) started receiving Department of Justice files he’d subpoenaed on the case and former Attorney General Bill Barr testified in a closed-door session that the president had never been implicated by anything in the case. Alternative media reported the story but didn’t dwell upon it. The right’s focus had shifted.

Democrats, however, have not moved on. Epstein was the first body blow they landed on the president essentially since the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, so it makes sense that they’d cling desperately to it. By now, though, it sounds desperate.

More and more, the swirl of “Stop distracting from the files!” sounds more like “Stop winning! We want to talk about the other thing instead!”

The first laugh-out-loud moment might have been when a writer for New York magazine’s Intelligencer vertical suggested that one reason the president might have been spotted on the roof the first week of August was “to distract us” from the files. The tongue-in-cheek (one hopes) deep dive on theories only rested on the idea that he was touring the building with East Wing reconstruction architect James McCrery (who was with him) as part of that project. Who’d have guessed?

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), clad in black tee and sport coat, somehow went farther on CNN Saturday, suggesting that the president meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to work on a Ukraine peace deal was actually “entirely about Donald Trump refusing to release the Epstein files and putting forward this scripted counterprogramming to that.” Truly amazing stuff.

So who is he even preaching to? Certainly not independent or undecided voters. As with so many Democrat narratives since Trump’s comeback victory, he’s talking to the white liberal women with Jack Smith bumper stickers and “In this house we believe …” signs in their front yards.

Granted, guys like Swalwell represent deep-blue California. Races in less friendly states and districts are coming in less than 15 months, though, so Democrats better think of a new act — and soon. Voters just aren’t buying tickets to the Epstein Show any longer.

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In three years, an American city will host a fierce competition among diverse teams. No, not the Olympics — the Democratic National Convention. Choosing a host city that can showcase the party’s strengths and mask its weaknesses will be an Olympian challenge.

Democrats face a fundamental problem: They have lost touch with the middle of the country. They own the coasts. But the so-called “flyover states” dominate the Electoral College, and those states are moving farther out of reach.

Democrats face a true dilemma. They desperately need a stage to prove they can govern, yet no obvious city offers safe ground.

In 2024, Democrats racked up California, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington’s 105 electoral votes by an average margin of 58.2%. But across the remaining 46 states plus Washington, D.C. — worth 433 electoral votes — they managed just 121.

In the “flyover 80%” of America, Democrats won barely a quarter of the vote. That weakness is not a passing problem. If they continue to bleed support outside their coastal strongholds, they will lock themselves out of the White House for good.

Almost a year after their crushing defeat, Democrats remain adrift. Instead of rethinking their message, they cling to the same losing issues: abolishing ICE, defunding the police, hiking taxes, and promoting transgender extremism. The voters have spoken — and rejected all of it.

The numbers are brutal. A recent Wall Street Journal poll put Democrats at a 35-year low, with 63% of Americans holding an unfavorable view of the party. Other surveys tell the same story.

No place to rebrand

The problem goes deeper than branding. Democrats need more than a new message. They need new issues, new leadership, and a new standard-bearer. Before any of that, though, they need a place to sort out the wreckage.

Republicans have already picked Houston for their 2028 convention. Decision made. For Democrats, as usual, nothing comes quickly — or easily. Even choosing a city exposes the chaos inside the party.

The last 10 Democratic conventions were held in Chicago (2024), Milwaukee (2020), Philadelphia (2016), Charlotte (2012), Denver (2008), Boston (2004), Los Angeles (2000), Chicago (1996), New York (1992), and Atlanta (1988). Big cities, yes — but half were in states that Democrats already win with ease. Those venues provide a friendly reception but do little to help Democrats reconnect with the rest of America.

If Democrats want to matter in 2028, they need to focus on battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, or Nevada. Yet Milwaukee hosted just two conventions ago, and Philadelphia just three. Phoenix or Las Vegas might make sense, but neither city seems interested.

For now, the reported contenders are New Orleans, San Antonio, and Chicago.

Three cities, many problems

New Orleans, colorful as always, may be too colorful: Mayor LaToya Cantrell has been indicted for using public funds to cover up a three-year affair with a cop. The city is also in Louisiana, which Democrats lost by 22 points.

San Antonio’s mayor, Gina Ortiz Jones, is also courting the convention. In a July 1 letter, Ortiz wrote: “Our city — bold, inclusive, and emblematic of the American future — would be a fitting and inspiring home for this historic event.”

Texas Democrats’ recent walkout over redistricting may endear San Antonio to the party’s national brethren, but Republicans have already claimed Houston. Also, Democrats lost Texas by 14 points.

Chicago wants another turn, even after hosting in 2024. But the city also has an enormous crime problem, a failing city government on the verge of complete collapse (wholly owned by Democrats, of course), and “America’s worst mayor.”

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Other reports suggest that Charlotte and Nashville are also interested. Charlotte, in a swing state, at least makes some sense. But Democrats were there in 2012. And both North Carolina and Tennessee sit in Democrats’ weakest region: the South, where they only carried Virginia in 2024 and lost Tennessee by nearly 30 points.

The rebrand dilemma

Democrats face a true dilemma. They desperately need a stage to prove they can govern, yet no obvious city offers safe ground. The last thing the party wants is to spotlight its own failures — crime, illegal immigration, defunded police, transgender sanctuaries, looming bankruptcies, punishing taxes, and mass flight from blue cities.

But nearly every Democratic stronghold tells that story.

The party doesn’t just need a reintroduction. It needs a reinvention. And if choosing a convention site proves this difficult, it signals how long — and how painful — that reinvention will be.

On August 18, MSNBC announced plans to rebrand as MS NOW, which stands for My Source News Opinion World, severing ties with NBCUniversal and dropping the iconic peacock logo to emerge as an independent progressive news outlet under the new media company Versant.

According to Versant CEO Mark Lazarus, cutting the peacock’s feathers is about liberating MS NOW from NBC News’ broader journalistic brand, freeing the network to double down on its progressive preaching.

Or they’re repacking the same woke nonsense because the cable news network’s ratings are abysmal.

In either case, Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” gleefully skewers the progressive network’s desperate scramble for relevance.

In this episode, Sara plays three clips that remind us why MSNBC is a failure of epic proportions. “Let’s just reminisce; let’s bask in some of the lowlights of MSNBC,” she giggles.

‘Morning Joe’ break-time tantrum

In 2015 when President Trump was a GOP presidential candidate, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, hosts of “Morning Joe,” interviewed him on his proposal to pause Muslim immigration as a temporary security measure.

Scarborough and Trump clashed hugely over this issue, leading to a nasty back-and-forth and ultimately Scarborough threatening to cut to a commercial.

In the middle of Trump explaining the need to “get our hands around a very difficult situation,” Scarborough, clearly flustered, interjected, “You can’t just talk. No, you got to let us actually ask questions. You’re just talking.”

The comment sparked contentious sparring, with an enraged Scarborough eventually cutting to a commercial, saying, “Go to break. Go to break right now.”

“Who won that pissing contest? President Trump is now the 47th president after being the 45th president, Joe. How do you like them apples?” Sara laughs.

Maddow’s melodramatic meltdown

Earlier this month, Rachel Maddow in a segment of “The Rachel Maddow Show” titled “It’s Not Coming, It’s Here,” delivered a lie-riddled monologue about President Trump.

“We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country. And it sounds melodramatic to say it, I know,” she sighed theatrically.

“You don’t even realize what a dictator is because here’s what I can tell you. Number one, it’s definitely not somebody who was elected with an overwhelming majority — 77 million votes, won all of the swing states,” Sara says.

“And number two, it definitely doesn’t portray you as smart to be carrying water for Donald Trump’s predecessor, who of course told everyone that they weren’t allowed to earn a living, earn a paycheck, feed their families if they didn’t get an injection into their bodies.”

(Another) racist Reid rant

While Joy Reid mercifully left MSNBC in February, she’s still putting out content that proves why the network is a catastrophic failure.

Last week on Wajahat Ali’s “The Left Hook” podcast in an episode titled “How Mediocre White Men and Their Fragility Are Destroying America,” Reid snapped, “They can’t originally invent anything more than they were ever able to invent good music.”

“They” is, of course, referring to white people.

“White people have invented the light bulb, the telephone, the automobile. Seems kind of useful, right? … Newtonian physics, the sport of basketball, photography, the flushing toilet, and blue jeans. But hey, who’s counting, right?” Sara laughs.

To see the clips and hear more of Sara’s commentary, watch the episode above.

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Residents of a Los Angeles neighborhood were shocked in July when the remains of a 5-year-old boy were found near a dumpster in a parking lot, and new evidence in the case is adding to the horror.

Police were called to a parking lot on Van Nuys Boulevard in the Panorama City neighborhood after a homeless man reported finding the remains of a child, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

‘They are the neighbors of the child, and they know that that baby was neglected and abused. … People saw something and didn’t say anything.’

“This is horrific, and it impacts every single one of us that comes to these scenes, everyone at home who hears about these scenes,” LAPD Det. Meghan Aguilar said, as reported by Blaze News at the time.

A few days later, the LAPD arrested 20-year-old Brycson Malik Gaddis and charged him with murder and assault on a child causing death. Gaddis is the ex-boyfriend of the mother of the boy, who was identified as Elyjiah Hearn.

On Monday, KABC-TV obtained surveillance video from the night of the crime showing a man carrying an object that was wrapped in a blanket near the area of the crime scene.

“You can see a head and small feet dangling,” said Yousef Rabadi, who co-owns E&J Market and Liquor.

Rabadi says a security guard gave him a copy of the video.

KABC reported that a similar video is described in a search warrant for Gaddis’ residence. Police say the “victim was wrapped in a multicolored blanket” and that the same blanket was later found around the remains.

Police also found indications of blood in the man’s apartment, including the bathroom sink, a drain, backsplash, and inside a tote bag, according to the warrant.

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“Some of my customers, they are the neighbors of the child, and they know that that baby was neglected and abused,” Rabadi continued. “So it had been going on for a long time, you know? … People saw something and didn’t say anything. So that’s why I took the liberty of, like, posting that video.”

An autopsy found that the child had suffered a fractured jaw, fractured ribs, and a lacerated liver.

Bail for Gaddis was set at $2 million. A woman seen on the video next to Gaddis was identified as the boy’s mother, but she has not been charged.

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A 50-year-old woman from Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested over alleged threats to the president she made on social media, according to the Department of Justice.

Nathalie Rose Jones made the threats on her Instagram account in posts between Aug. 2 and Aug. 9, according to prosecutors. She had also attended a protest in Washington, D.C., according to NewsNation, which had interviewed her just hours before her arrest.

Jones allegedly said that she wanted to kill Trump in order to ‘avenge all the lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.’

Jones reportedly believed that Trump had been removed as president and former Rep. Liz Cheney had been appointed interim president afterward.

“I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present,” one post allegedly read on the “Nath.Jones” account.

The posts have since been deleted.

When she was interviewed by the Secret Service about the posts, Jones allegedly said that she wanted to kill Trump in order to “avenge all the lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

WPTA-TV reported that Jones had been a pharmacist until her license was suspended in January. State records said she had become unfit because of mental or physical disability.

In the interview with NewsNation, Jones says she opposes the militarization of Washington, D.C., and what she describes as the authoritarian policies of the president.

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On Saturday, she reportedly admitted to making the threats on Instagram but denied having a desire to kill the president.

“Threatening the life of the president is one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution,” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said.

“Make no mistake — justice will be served,” she added.

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A video has gone viral of a gay man explaining how he and his partner are choosing two embryos via in vitro fertilization that they will be transferring to two surrogates.

“We’re so happy that we decided to purchase as many frozen eggs as we could, 40, because that leaves us with these 10 embryos for two babies. And we’re told that the majority of journeys take two to three transfers to get pregnant,” the man explained.

“We’ve decided which embryo on both sides that we want to transfer to our two surrogates. We’ll keep you updated as we do the transfers and as we find out whether or not we’re pregnant,” he continued.

“But we’re not going to share the sex of both babies until we’re officially pregnant, just like any other expecting parents would,” he added.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace does not like what he’s hearing.

“So, that’s a homosexual man talking in depth, in detail, about essentially trying to manufacture a human life on an open market with him and his gay lover. And this video went everywhere. It was viral everywhere on social media over the weekend,” he explains.

Deace cites Katy Faust — founder and president of Them Before Us, a global children’s rights nonprofit that focuses on a child’s right to a mother and a father — who blames the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case for same-sex couples manufacturing human life.

The Obergefell v. Hodges’ Supreme Court case decided that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples.

“Her argument really is that Obergefell is the genesis of all these kinds of videos … and Katy points out, the central core of her premise, the best that I can understand it, is that since Obergefell, the paradigm of child-rearing and procreation has completely flipped,” Deace says.

“And in the past, what happened for thousands of years essentially of human existence is that children and their priorities were put ahead of the adults,” he continues. “And now what we have is that the children are assets to be acquired.”

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Modern society has made attaining the American dream almost impossible, argues BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre in an illuminating discussion with Tucker Carlson posted to X on Monday.

MacIntyre explained the historical circumstances that led to the attitudes and habits of the Boomer generation being so dismissive of younger people’s concerns about the economic and social stumbling blocks they face.

‘I’m never having children. My bloodline will end. My religion will fade because it’s no longer practiced. My community will collapse.’

Carlson began the segment by pointing out that former President Joe Biden appeared to sincerely believe the idea that fighting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine was important for the notion of defending democracy.

“He really seemed to mean it. I thought that was real, the emotion. Do you remember any of these pressers? Like, the Boomer brain always reverts to the most tired cliche,” Carlson said. “Why is that?”

“I think they came into the world at a time when America, more or less, conquered the world. And when America conquered the world, we received all the benefits of empire,” MacIntyre responded.

“We started as a country that rejected empire. Right? That’s our entire foundation. We led a revolution against an empire because we had the right to be governed by our peers, by the elites that are part of our society and not across an ocean,” he added.

“And so it’s a very hard story to tell yourself that you conquered the world in the name of freedom, right?” MacIntyre said. “And so I think there’s a lot of cognitive dissonance there, and that requires a very cartoon, Marvel movie-esque understanding of the world. ‘We’re Captain America! We fought for freedom!'”

“Exactly!” Carlson replied.

“But that’s going away with that generation,” MacIntyre said.

“It is going away. I do think there’s something about — I always beat up on the Boomers, and broad strokes here, this really was the first generation in history to have basically every part of their life dictated by popular culture. It’s the television generation really, right?” Carlson said.

“And regional differences just went away during those years, 1946 to 1964, and they kind of lost the capacity to think critically or something,” he added. “Do you know what I’m talking about?”

“The radio and the television, the train and the automobile,” MacIntyre replied, “these things collapse the space inside of America that used to be regional, had specific understandings and ways of life, and when that happened, as you say, the only way to have a singular culture was through this kind of mass media projection.”

“Yes!” Carlson agreed.

MacIntyre cited the joke about an old person screaming at a television as a sign that the older generation knows how to “absorb the wider culture” only through television.

“I saw it with Republicans with Reagan. I’m not against Reagan or anything,” Carlson said. “I don’t agree with everything, but I don’t hate Reagan. But they get so — former colleagues of mine at TV channels — they talk about him, and they just repeat the same eight phrases, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,’ or whatever.

“And they’re kind of carried away in a sincere way, like they experience life in the shallowest possible way. Does this, do you feel what I’m saying?” he asked.

“Sure, and a lot of that is the medium itself. Statesmanship doesn’t sell in sound bites. That’s not really how that works. To be thoughtful, to be deliberate, to have that level of prudence requires deliberation and time, and you can’t sell that in between ads,” MacIntyre replied. “We can hate people for that, but I don’t think we should because ultimately that’s human nature.”

“I don’t hate them. I just don’t want them in power at all, and I just want people to remember that so much of what they hear is misleading, but what they experience is the truth. That is the truth,” Carlson responded.

“And if your children are addicted to drugs, your nephew dies of an [overdose], and your kids can’t get married, and the best they can hope for is to work for some freaking bank, that’s not the life that you want for your family. That’s reality. It has nothing to do with bombing Iran or democracy or some nonsense like that,” he added. “How are your kids doing? It’s important to notice the world around you!”

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MacIntyre cited the example of the anger displayed by many that an avowed socialist like Zohran Mamdani could win the Democratic primary for the mayoral election in New York City to further explain Americans’ economic anxiety.

“‘How can a socialist win?'” he asked mockingly. “I don’t know, guys, have you looked at the fact that the average first-time homebuyer … is now 38 years old? Have you understood the fact that no one you know can get a decent job without going a hundred thousand dollars in debt for a degree that objectively taught them nothing, and they’re actually just doing any learning they do on the job anyway?”

“You’ve built a society that shows people your system doesn’t work. Now, I think there’s a much better way than communism, but you have to show though,” he continued. “You can’t just sit there and obstinately say, ‘No, this system, ride or die! We don’t care if you’re homeless. We don’t care if you can’t have children. We don’t care if you’re gonna live the rest of your life in your mom’s basement. That’s your fault! There’s nothing wrong with the system ever! There’s no reason to look at any of this!'”

He went on to say that this is the understanding that is changing conservatism for the younger generations of Americans.

“If I don’t fix this soon, then I’m never having a future. I’m never having children. My bloodline will end. My religion will fade because it’s no longer practiced. My community will collapse. I don’t have time to sit around here.”

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Denise Rucker Krepp may be a former Obama appointee and lifelong Democrat, but that’s not stopping her from calling out D.C.’s devastating crime policies.

Krepp blames the D.C. Council for redefining “juveniles” to include offenders up to age 24, undermining accountability and fueling carjackings, shootings, and lawlessness across the city.

“When I was a kid, a juvenile was somebody under the age of 18 … but according to the D.C. Council, a juvenile is somebody under the age of 24,” Krepp tells Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

“I mean, a 24-year-old man is a man, not a juvenile. And if you tell a 24-year-old that if they commit armed carjacking and they won’t be held fully accountable, then what do you think’s going to happen?” she continues.

“At the age of 24, some of my best friends were 24-year-olds. They were two years out of the Marine Corps already,” Bedford agrees.

Krepp recalls confronting the Ward 6 Councilman Charles Allen, saying, “Charles, what are you doing, dude?”

“He just blew me off and he said, ‘Denise, I know what I’m doing.’ Okay, you definitely knew what you were doing. You pretty much invited President Trump to come in and bring the National Guard in to solve your problem, which you created,” Krepp says.

“He kind of seems like the left-wing leader of the D.C. city council, or one of the most vocal champions of some of these causes,” Bedford says.

He notes that “there was enough anger” among Democrats that there was a recall petition for Allen — but it failed.

“I think it failed because people looked at the recall effort and said it was funded by Republicans. And I, you know, when people said that, I laughed. I said, ‘Are you kidding me?’ It wasn’t funded by Republicans. It was funded by Democrats. It was Democrats telling Charles Allen that what he was doing was unacceptable,” Krepp says.

“Unfortunately, the majority of Democrats did not agree with that,” she adds.

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