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Democrats attending President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday entered the room with frowns, consulted each other with pursed lips and glares at the GOP majority, and held signs expressing their politics, which often was at odds with what the American people have chosen.

But the real test of what they are for, and significant, what they are against, came in their actions during Trump’s speech.

For example, the declined to applaud when Trump announced the capture of the terrorist who masterminded the Abbey Gate attack during Joe Biden’s ill-executed withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. It left 13 American service members dead.

They refused to applaud a young boy fighting brain cancer as he was made an honorary member of the U.S. Secret Service.

They declined to applaud a call for lower taxes for middle-class Americans.

 

The White House took note of their performance, explain, “Tonight, President Donald J. Trump delivered bold, forward-looking remarks before a joint session of Congress — highlighting the historic accomplishments already achieved in his second term and setting the course for four years of prosperity and strength.

“Unfortunately, Congressional Democrats were too consumed by their own hatred of President Trump, refusing to show support for lowering taxes, fighting childhood cancer, capturing terrorists, protecting women and girls in sports, or law and order — to name only a few.”

The White House statement noted the comment from former White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, now a network commentator, who said, “The Democratic Party still has no common sense. They have no ideas and they have no heart. They couldn’t even stand for the most inspiring moments of the speech.”

Dana Perino: “The Democratic Party still has no common sense. They have no ideas and they have no heart. They couldn’t even stand for the most inspiring moments of the speech.” pic.twitter.com/XLQUW1Q1iZ

— Alex Pfeiffer (@Pfeiffer47) March 5, 2025

The rest of the White House list of topics where Democrats, by and large in unanimity, remained silent:

• Americans joining the military in record numbers
• Law and order
• Taking down illegal revenge porn
• Protecting women’s sports
• The United States of America
• Working together to Make America Great Again
• Ending the harmful electric vehicle mandate
• Cutting regulations to unleash American prosperity
• Ending censorship and bringing back free speech
• Ending discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion”
• Recognizing only two sexes
• Defeating inflation
• Unleashing American energy
• Ending waste, fraud, and abuse in government
• Ending taxes on tips, overtime, and seniors’ Social Security
• Bringing manufacturing home to America
• Securing historic investments in American chip manufacturing
• Removing illegal alien killers, rapists, and drug dealers from our streets
• Securing our border
• Declaring the brutal Tren de Aragua gang as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
• Waging war on the deadly cartels trafficking deadly drugs into our country
• Punishing cop killers with the death penalty
• Promoting health and wellness among Americans
• Protecting our kids from radical gender ideology
• Ending the sexual mutilation of America’s youth
• The return of American Marc Fogel
• Declaring America’s youth are perfect as God made them
• Ending wokeness in the U.S. military
• Restoring American shipbuilding
• A student getting accepted to West Point
• Improving America’s defenses
• Pursuing peace in Ukraine

Social media took note:

The democrats looked MISERABLE as they continued to double down on hating American values tonight.

Communism has been REJECTED by America, and now they have no other road. pic.twitter.com/XYa3Pe9KmB

— Diligent Denizen (@DiligentDenizen) March 5, 2025

One commenter concluded the Democrats were “demons” and “gremlins.”

She Just EXPOSED the Democrat Party!

In this video, she perfectly sums up the state of today’s Democrats—acting like angry children instead of leaders.

This should’ve been a time for unity—but all they did was frown and protest.
They have nothing going for them… pic.twitter.com/9Y9FfdTqD1

— Tony Lane (@TonyLaneNV) March 5, 2025

Democrats sat on their hands Pouting and cold hearted, what a shame pic.twitter.com/TsqvsFVbr0

— RosenFlorida (@Floridagal1956) March 5, 2025

One Democrat, Al Green, was ejected by the sergeant at arms for belligerently badgering the president while he was trying to speak.

I don’t usually put much stock in these speeches, but all of this frowning and glowering by the Democrats is a very bad look.

The American people are seeing with their own eyes that the Democrats simply can’t applaud ANYTHING that is obviously good if Trump is for it.

— Archimusik (@Archimusik) March 5, 2025

Florida Democrat @DWStweets frowns and refuses to stand for a kid who survived brain cancer. What a disgrace. The Democrats hate Trump so much that they’ll even treat kids with disdain. pic.twitter.com/kYfX4w37Mi

— Florida Grand (@florida_grand) March 5, 2025

Mark Halperin, a political analyst, pointed out the especially egregious refusal by Democrats to stand when Trump honored a 13-year-old boy fighting cancer. Trump’s address noted that D.J. Daniel would be made an honorary Secret Service agent.

Halperin explained Democrats’ attacks on Trump lose credibility when they act in an “aberrant” way.

‘Get ready for an incredible future’: Trump dazzles the nation in address to Congress

WATCH: What social media decided was President Trump’s ‘best line’

WATCH: Sen. Elissa Slotkin delivers Democrat response to Trump’s address to Congress

Social media has decided on President Donald Trump’s “best line” during his address to a joint session of Congress:

“It turns out all we needed ,,, was a new president!”

Best line of Trump’s speech tonight is right here. Well done. pic.twitter.com/mvxgf0YHEl

— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 5, 2025

“The media and our friends in the Democrat party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed … was a new president,” Trump said.

He was addressing inaccurate claims by Democrats and their media supporters before the election that Joe Biden wasn’t allowed to secure the American border from the millions of illegal aliens, including murderers and rapists, who were entering under Biden’s open borders practices, until new laws were adopted by Congress.

Trump, when he took office, issued multiple executive orders that essentially closed the border in a matter of hours.

In the latter half of the 20th century, global security hinged on nuclear deterrence — now a group of leading AI experts warns that advanced artificial intelligence demands a similar national security strategy.

Just as the specter of mutual assured destruction (MAD) once kept superpowers in check, the experts argue, the threat of a runaway AI catastrophe must spur a new doctrine of mutual assured AI malfunction (MAIM). In a new paper coauthored by Dan Hendrycks, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, the authors call for treating frontier AI development as an urgent national security priority on par with the nuclear arms race.

“Whether Iran gets the bomb depends on what we do and how we strategize,” Hendrycks said in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Whether AI goes well or not also depends on how we handle these issues.”

Hendrycks, who serves as a safety advisor for Elon Musk’s xAI and leads the nonprofit Center for AI Safety, and his coauthors lay out a three-pronged framework for this new AI strategy: deterrence through MAIM, nonproliferation of dangerous AI capabilities and bolstering national competitiveness in AI. At its core, their argument is that extremely advanced AI — especially “super-intelligent” systems that could outthink humans — poses unprecedented risks that no nation can afford to ignore.

An AI that surpasses humans in virtually every intellectual domain “would amount to the most precarious technological development since the nuclear bomb,” the paper says. Like the atomic scientists of the Manhattan Project, today’s AI leaders are urging policymakers to plan for worst-case scenarios before potential catastrophe.

Pillar I: Deterrence Through MAIM

If any one state rushes to attain unchecked, superhuman AI dominance, the result could be disastrous, the authors argue. In a hasty bid to pull ahead, a country might accidentally lose control of a powerful AI and stir global chaos. Conversely, if that country succeeded in successfully monopolizing a super-AI model, it could wield destabilizing power over its rivals.

Either a rogue AI or a single nation armed with supreme AI threatens the survival of other states, the authors argue. Just as rivals plotted to sabotage nascent nuclear programs in the past, nations today may be compelled to preemptively sabotage each other’s AI projects to preserve the balance of power.

“We want to develop our ability to do cyber attacks on data centers as a deterrent,” Hendrycks said. “The ability to disrupt adversarial AI projects could be essential for maintaining stability.”

The proposed concept of MAIM echoes Cold War deterrence strategies. The goal would not be to encourage physical strikes, but rather pose a credible a threat that any attempt at an AI monopoly will be met with force. By making it clear that an unchecked AI arms-grab would invite a debilitating response, states could dissuade each other from ever trying. To keep such a fragile peace stable, the paper suggests measures reminiscent of nuclear arms labs protocols: clearly communicated “escalation ladders” so nations know the red lines, placing AI research labs and data centers far from population centers and increasing transparency (monitoring rivals’ AI compute facilities, for example) to reduce the chance of miscalculation.

Pillar II: Nonproliferation

The second pillar of the strategy focuses on preventing advanced AI capabilities from spreading to what Hendrycks described as “aggrieved individuals”: terrorists, criminal networks or “random states” that might use them recklessly.

“When AI is more capable at cyberattacks, if those skills are democratized, they can run 100,000 hacking AIs simultaneously to attack our critical infrastructure. This is a capability they do not have now,” Hendrycks continued. “They’ve maybe got, like, a handful of OK hackers — that’s not a capability we want them having. At all.”

Just as global regimes tightly control fissile materials like enriched uranium and plutonium, the authors call for strict controls on the key ingredients of powerful AI — especially high-end AI chips and the data to train top-tier models. Advanced semiconductor chips, they note, are the strategic resource fueling AI progress, and like uranium and plutonium, are physical objects that can be tracked, counted and intercepted unlike intangible software algorithms.

Controlling Access To AI’s Physical Resources

By aggressively tightening export controls and surveillance on semiconductor shipments, governments can “know where the chips are at — that way, we can detect if they’re being smuggled, and this will help us stop the bleeding much earlier,” Hendrycks said. He suggests working directly with chipmakers on counter-proliferation; for example, asking companies like Nvidia to embed security features that report a chip’s location or prevent unauthorized use, helping authorities detect if the processors as are being diverted to illicit buyers or underground labs.

The Commerce Department already moved in this direction by banning exports of advanced AI chips to China in 2022, but the country is finding workarounds. Chinese military research institutes and other buyers acquired small batches of Nvidia’s banned A100 and H100 AI chips through gray markets, despite U.S. bans, a Reuters report found in February 2024. Smuggling networks have reportedly rerouted high-performance GPUs, or graphics cards, via intermediary firms in places like Singapore.

Hendrycks and his coauthors emphasize shoring up these export controls to keep “weaponizable” AI tools out of the wrong hands. During the Cold War, rival superpowers quietly cooperated to prevent nuclear theft and terrorism — and Hendrycks suggests a similar dynamic may be possible with AI nonproliferation.

“The purpose of the nonproliferation part is not about restricting access to other superpowers. That seems harder … there’s plenty of incentives — you might even want to coordinate with China on that type of thing,” he said.

That said, the authors recognize the limits of how far AI containment can go. Trying to completely deny peer competitors like China access to advanced AI hardware or algorithms may be infeasible, and potentially dangerous.

“You might incentivize the Taiwan invasion eventually, because if they have no chips, and if AI is important, then they might want to just make it so the U.S. doesn’t have this huge advantage anymore,” Hendrycks said, arguing an attempt to strangle China’s AI progress might prompt an attempt to seize Taiwan’s semiconductor manufacturing facilities, which manufacture 44% of chips used in American technology, according to a U.S. International Trade Commission report. For the great powers, the emphasis is not on nonproliferation, but on deterrence and competition.

Pillar III: Competitiveness

The final prong of the strategy is ensuring the U.S. and its allies maintain a lead in AI capabilities and safely reap AI’s benefits.

“Successful AI adoption will be a determining factor in national strength,” the paper argues.

“Adoption” goes beyond just training the most powerful algorithms; it means integrating AI across the economy and military so the U.S. wins the contest for future power without a hot war. Hendrycks and his colleagues highlight several arenas of competition. One is the AI chip supply itself — by investing in domestic semiconducting manufacturing , the U.S. can ensure it has steady access to the resources necessary for AI’s progression.

Recent bipartisan policy moves indicate Washington’s awareness of this — the 2022 CHIPS Act authorized roughly $280 billion into U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturing and research, along with the tightening of export rules that year to slow China’s progress. For now, America holds crucial advantages: over 90% of the value-add in advanced AI chip production occurs in the U.S., its partners or Taiwan, Hendrycks said, thanks to choke points like the Netherlands’ ASML, which has a de facto monopoly on extreme lithography equipment needed to make cutting-edge chips.

Hendrycks said China is spending some $50 billion a year to catch up in chip manufacturing, but explained that “it’s very difficult to just spend your way out of this, and it will take them many years, and they may not succeed” in reaching parity.

Another competitive arena is military adoption of AI. Schmidt, the inaugural chair of the National Security Commission on AI, has long pressured the Pentagon to modernize with AI-enabled systems — deploying autonomous drone swarms, for example, rather than relying on conventional hardware like tanks or fighter jets. The new paper echoes this, arguing that adopting AI in command, control and weapons will be “increasingly essential for military strength” going forward. The authors urge the U.S. to expedite integration of technologies like uncrewed aircraft and AI-driven analysis, lest it fall behind more innovative adversaries.

“It would be extremely bad news if two years from now, there was not substantial headway in securing our drone supply chain or capacity to manufacture them,” Hendrycks warned, citing the lessons of Ukraine’s drone-heavy conflict and the pace of Chinese improvements in this area.

Competitiveness also has a domestic stability angle — the paper suggests governments invest in measures to manage AI’s disruptive impacts (like job displacement or misinformation campaigns) so that rapid automation doesn’t undermine society from within. In short, winning the AI race isn’t just about scoring higher on benchmarks — it’s about keeping the technological revolution stable.

After decades during which technology was largely seen as a commercial domain, Hendrycks and his coauthors are making a case that frontier AI development must be treated with the gravity of a defense program — and the national security establishment seems to be listening.

“They aren’t just going to hope that AI will be irrelevant,” Hendrycks observed of the national security community; he said they recognize that if AI can eventually cure cancer, it can also eventually create new plagues, and if it can write software, it can also hack systems. “I think it’s been pretty easy for them to understand that many of these capabilities are dual-use, and as a consequence, they’ve been more receptive to contemplating these sorts of risks.”

Policymakers are now grappling with questions familiar to Cold War strategists: how to verify what rival labs are doing, how to respond if an adversary breaks the rules and how to negotiate limits on a technology that could end civilization as we know it if misused. This time, though, the threat doesn’t come from warheads or missiles, but from lines of code and clusters of GPUs. Crafting agreements and norms for AI will be tricky — defense officials can’t count algorithms the way they counted warheads — but the alternative, according to Hendrycks, Schmidt and Wang, is to blunder forward blindly into an AI arms race with potentially dire consequences.

The stakes, they argue, could not be higher.

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WASHINGTON – President Donald J. Trump promised a multitude of actions and highlighted the warp-speed pace at which his administration has been working during his first joint congressional address.

Democrats tried to disrupt the speech throughout the night, starting as the president made his entrance. A sharpied sign held by a Democrat lawmaker on the left side of the aisle as Trump made his entrance read, “This isn’t normal.” But for those who support the commander in chief, being the opposite of normal is precisely the point.

The largest disruption came as the president mentioned his popularity. Liberal jeers continued loudly as Trump said Americans feel the country is back on the right track via, “An astonishing record 27-point swing since Election Day alone.”

Shortly thereafter, cameras cut to U.S. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, standing up and disrupting the meeting by shouting inaudibly at the president.

House Speaker Mike Johnson eventually had the sergeant at arms eject Green from the House chamber.

“Members are reminded to maintain decorum,” the speaker admonished.

But it seems President Trump expected this behavior from Democrats.

“I could find a cure to the most devastating disease … and these people sitting right here will not clap for these achievements. Five times I’ve stood up here and it just shouldn’t be this way.”

“Why not join us in celebrating so many wins for America?” he asked them. Trump would address Democrats directly and harshly many times throughout the night.

Trump also took the time to lambast the politicization of criminal prosecution, referencing his own conviction on 34 counts that most say would not have been prosecuted as felonies, the way New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump.

“How’d that work out?” he asked, eliciting laughs from the vice president and others in the chamber.

On his record, the president touted ending Biden-era environmental and economic restrictions, including the electric vehicle mandate. And just today, the Supreme Court struck down certain Biden-era EPA regulations.

There were a few unique firsts for Trump’s return address.

In pushing members to pass the “Take it Down” act – focused on ridding the internet of harmful deepfakes – he became the first president to mention artificial intelligence in a major congressional address. He also renamed a federal wildlife preserve in memory Jocelyn Nungary, announcing the executive action during the speech. Nungary, whose mother was present at the speech, was killed by an illegal migrant.

Ever the showman, the president spent most of the night running through his greatest hits. This joint address focused on campaign promises that Trump has kept and the biggest newsmaking executive actions he’s taken.

These included the work of DOGE, fighting immigration with mass deportation and border enforcement, peacefully ending the conflict in Ukraine, and bringing consumer prices down.

“Over the past 6 weeks, I have signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken more than 400 executive actions to restore common sense, safety, optimism, and wealth all across our wonderful land,” Trump proclaimed. “The people elected me to do the job, and I am doing it.”

He mentioned the federal government now acknowledges only two genders, hires based on merit instead of identity and biological men may no longer participate in women’s spots, saying, “Our country will be woke no longer.”

Trump also made some promises, including to invest in domestic oil- and gas-drilling and production. He boldly affirmed his pledge to balance the federal budget. The president also announced a shipbuilding program out of the White House which will oversee the strengthening of America’s maritime capabilities.

The surprises came toward the end of the night. The most heartwarming of which saw the president make a young cancer survivor named D.J. who dreams of being a cop an honorary Secret Service agent. A real badge was presented to the young man by Secret Service Director Sean Curran. The president also personally told a young West Point applicant named Jason his application had been approved. At that, Jason high-fived the young D.J.

One of the biggest applause points occurred when the president urged Congress to pass a mandatory death penalty for anyone who kills a police officer.

“They don’t wanna be killed. We’re not gonna let them be killed,” Trump said.

Trump’s speech highlighted the myriad actions already taken by this administration at a breakneck pace. It dizzies the mind to think what all the 47th president of the United States will have accomplished by the time his next congressional address rolls around next year.

“Get ready for an incredible future because the Golden Age of America has only just begun. It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before,” Trump concluded.

Democrats were walking out of the chamber as the president was asking God to bless America.

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A new study published in the Oxford Academic Journal of Sexual Medicine has confirmed the worst for subscribers to the transgender ideology, that men can become women and vice versa through the use of chemicals and surgical mutilations.

It states that the results “demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery.”

It added, “Males with surgery showed a higher prevalence of depression … and anxiety. Females exhibited similar trends, with elevated depression … and anxiety. Feminizing individuals demonstrated particularly high risk for depression … and substance use disorders.”

The results of the study have been explained in a report at RedState.

It explains that even though medical “professionals” who threaten parents that their child, if not given mutilating sex-change surgeries, will lead to suicide, the opposite is true.

“The results of the national database study, published on February 25, revealed that ‘transgender individuals face heightened psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation, partly due to stigma and lack of gender affirmation,’” the report said.

Analyzed were U.S. patients with gender dysphoria from June 2014 to June 2024.

“Mental health outcomes included depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, substance use disorder, and body dysmorphic disorder, assessed over two years post-surgery using clinician-verified ICD-10 codes,” the report explained the study confirmed. “Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) was analyzed separately and not conflated with gender dysphoria cohorts to ensure the distinction between these conditions.”

Some 107,000 patients’ cases were reviewed.

Explained RedState, “Unconscionably, the study’s conclusion didn’t recommend against ‘gender-affirming’ surgery, but rather, simply suggested mental-health therapy to attempt to ward off post-surgery mental health issues.”

.@VDHanson: Pentagon’s Partisan Letter Against Trump, Hegseth DEBUNKED

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, was fired from his post last month, along with several other high ranking military officials.

Many of the Left rushed to say that… pic.twitter.com/giId8Rv0FP

— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) March 4, 2025

One of the major targets of President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again campaign is the Panama Canal.

That asset, he pointed out, was built with American lives and American money, and turned over to Panama to operate.

However, he charged that China had embedded itself in the control functions of the canal, and he said that wouldn’t be allowed, suggesting that America could “take it back.”

Now that has happened, more or less.

An announcement has confirmed that money manager BlackRock has taken control of key canal ports in a $19 billion deal.

BLACKROCK SEIZES PANAMA CANAL PORTS IN $19B MEGA-DEAL

BlackRock, the world’s top money manager, is acquiring two key Panama Canal ports—Balboa and Cristobal—in a $19 billion deal with Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison.

The acquisition secures control over 40% of the canal’s… https://t.co/Y6sHTGWQux pic.twitter.com/vQXhhnuGFJ

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 4, 2025

The announcement said, “BlackRock, the world’s top money manager, is acquiring two key Panama Canal ports—Balboa and Cristobal—in a $19 billion deal with Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison. The acquisition secures control over 40% of the canal’s container traffic.”

It said, “Trump has long claimed China ‘runs’ the canal and vowed to ‘take it back’” Now, BlackRock’s move effectively does it for him. With two-thirds of the canal’s cargo linked to the U.S., this deal reshapes control over a critical global trade route.”

Business Insider said BlackRock’s acquisition brings ports “on both sides of the Panama Canal” under U.S. control and the move “removes them from the control of CK Hutchison Holdings.”

The report explained BlackRock is acquiring “a 90% interest in the Panama Ports Company alongside Global Infrastructure Partners and container terminal group Terminal Investment.”

Panama’s participation in China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” in which China takes control of various infrastructure around the world earlier was canceled.

CBS pointed out that the deal transfers control of “43 ports in 23 countries,” including Mexico, the Netherlands, Egypt, Australia and Pakistan.

“This agreement is a powerful illustration of BlackRock and GIP’s combined platform and our ability to deliver differentiated investments for clients. These world-class ports facilitate global growth,” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said.

The report explained, “U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Panama in early February and told President José Raúl Mulino that Panama had to reduce Chinese influence over the canal or face potential retaliation from the United States. Mulino rejected the idea that China had any control over canal operations.”