A man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump turned his federal trial into a bizarre spectacle by invoking Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Putin, and prehistoric civilizations during opening statements that a federal judge was forced to cut short. Courtroom Chaos Unfolds in High-Stakes Trial Ryan Routh’s federal trial for attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump descended into chaos within minutes of opening statements. Representing himself, Routh launched into a rambling discourse that touched on Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Putin, Sudan’s civil war, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Judge Cannon interrupted after just four minutes, dismissed the jury, and delivered a stern warning about staying on topic. OPENING STATEMENTS | Federal Judge Aileen Cannon cut off suspect Ryan Routh twice after his rambling defense veered into Hitler references and shaky monologues. Read more: https://t.co/tMhu7H2uCP pic.twitter.com/x9dTO9WVIn — WPEC CBS12 News (@CBS12) September 11, 2025 The defendant’s erratic behavior continued when proceedings resumed. Despite the judge’s clear directive to focus on relevant matters, Routh persisted with off-topic commentary that prompted Judge Cannon to end his opening statement entirely. The prosecution then began presenting their case to a jury that had witnessed an unprecedented display of courtroom dysfunction. A Deadly Serious Plot Emerges Federal prosecutors painted a chilling picture of premeditation and intent. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Shipley revealed that Routh had concealed himself for ten hours with a rifle positioned to target Trump during a West Palm Beach golf outing. Only the alertness of a Secret Service agent prevented what prosecutors described as a “deadly serious” assassination attempt. The evidence against Routh extends beyond the physical act. His own written statements provide a window into his motivation and mental state. Prosecutors highlighted two particularly damning quotes: “Trump cannot be elected” and “I need Trump to go away.” These statements, combined with the elaborate planning required to position himself undetected for hours, suggest a calculated effort rather than an impulsive act. Self-Representation Strategy Backfires Spectacularly Routh’s decision to represent himself has created a legal minefield that exploded during opening statements. His apparent strategy of questioning the nature of intent and invoking historical parallels fell flat when delivered through disjointed references to prehistoric civilizations and modern dictators. Judge Cannon’s patience wore thin as Routh’s remarks strayed further from any coherent legal defense. Trump’s ‘would-be assassin’ invokes prehistoric man, Putin and Hitler in ‘rambling’ trial opening: reportshttps://t.co/TzSmSVyWb0 — The Independent (@Independent) September 11, 2025 The courtroom drama raises serious questions about the wisdom of allowing defendants in high-profile assassination cases to represent themselves. While the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to self-representation, Routh’s performance demonstrates how this right can undermine both the defendant’s interests and the court’s dignity. His rambling references to global conflicts and historical figures suggest either a deliberate attempt to create appealable error or a fundamental misunderstanding of legal proceedings. Security and Justice Concerns Collide This case highlights the intersection of political violence, courtroom security, and judicial procedure in an increasingly polarized America. The Secret Service’s successful intervention prevented what could have been a catastrophic event, but Routh’s trial behavior suggests the broader challenges facing our justice system when dealing with politically motivated defendants. Judge Cannon’s firm handling of Routh’s disruptions demonstrates the judiciary’s commitment to maintaining order and dignity, even in cases that attract intense public scrutiny. Her decision to cut short his opening statement, while potentially controversial, appears necessary to preserve the integrity of the proceedings and ensure a fair trial focused on evidence rather than political theater. Sources: Ryan Routh chastised during opening statements in federal trial for ‘making a mockery’ of the court – Fox News

Merging in traffic can be a problem on any busy roadway. Frustrations are high, tempers are short, and everyone is grumpy. Drivers usually don’t want to give an inch to allow someone to merge in front of them. Bus companies in Hawaii have come up with a solution to many of those problems with the implementation of one simple courtesy. When you permit a Hawaii bus to merge in front of you, the driver can flash a lighted sign that shows the “shaka” hand sign. The shaka is the official Hawaiian hand gesture. The gesture has come to convey several different meanings. Among the meanings are “Hang loose,” “Thank you,” “Take it easy,” and “Right on.” If you think of any happy missive, you can convey it while displaying the shaka hand gesture. @lilbeeee_ Honestly anytime I get a Shaka my road rage disappears #hawaiibusshaka #shaka #hawaii #drivers #loveisland #reunion ♬ original sound – Ez In addition to displaying the shaka to a friendly driver, the bus driver can flash a display with the word “Mahalo.” In Hawaiian, Mahalo translates to thank you. When you allow a bus to merge in front of you in Hawaii, you get a friendly thank you from the driver. We could probably use some of that good, old-fashioned, common courtesy here on the mainland! In an age where road rage and foul tempers are the norm, seeing this bit of bright well-wishing is a refreshing change of pace. When you’re stuck in traffic, almost anything can uplift your feelings. However, the message from each Hawaii bus is the best picker-upper on the roadways. We can take a lesson from Hawaii and treat other drivers with courtesy and respect. Give a friendly wave if someone lets you merge in heavy traffic. Instead of raging, offer a smile. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Buses In Hawaii Have A Special Perk When You Let Them Merge… appeared first on InspireMore.

In the Indian city of Ambikapur, several Garbage Cafes will give a person an entire four-course meal if they bring 1 kilo of plastic waste with them. Feeding on average 20 people a day, it’s a clever and distinctly Indian way of clearing two hurdles in one jump: that of hunger among the lower classes, […] The post These Indian Cafes Let You Pay with Garbage: 1 Kilo of Plastic Gets You Rice, Two Curries and Dal appeared first on Good News Network.

One year ago, Ken and Chad embarked on their podcast journey with their debut episode talking about their favorite Nintendo Entertainment System games. Through 23 episodes, they’ve reminisced about the good ole days that has CONTINUE READING... The post The Retro Resurgence Podcast – Episode 24 | The One Year Anniversary Show! appeared first on The Retro Network.

This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, to death on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light-rail commuter train. The video of the incident is absolutely horrifying: Brown, clad in a red hoodie, sits behind Zarutska; then, he rises, removing a knife from his pocket; he quickly leans forward and plunges the knife into Zarutska’s jugular vein repeatedly and then calmly walks away, blood dripping from the murder weapon; Zarutska, stunned and confused and terrified and in shock, raises her hands to her face and cries; she then gradually slumps over onto the floor, where her blood leaks into a pool at the door of the car; five people in the camera shot do absolutely nothing, as do many others in the carriage. As Zarutska bleeds out, nobody moves to help her for one minute and 35 seconds. Certain incidents in American life prompt serious change. This should be one of them. First, the media. The incident happened on Aug. 22 but only broke into the news two weeks later—and even then, only became a subject of public furor thanks to the presence of social media: not a single legacy media outlet reported the story. It is obviously true that had the victim been black and the perpetrator white, the media would have turned the murder into the basis for yet another racial pseudo-reckoning over America’s supposed white supremacy. This incident remained anonymous for weeks because the legacy media believes that covering black-on-white violent crime—which is, statistically, far more common on a Per-capita basis than the opposite—somehow evidences racism. The opposite is true: Treating violent crime as a symptom of racial injustice is itself truly racist. Decarlos Brown did not murder Iryna Zarutska because of America’s history of racial injustice—and it does nothing but perpetuate racial injustice to suggest that he did. It wrongly suggests the inevitability of black-on-white crime and shifts guilt from criminals to the innocent. In truth, violent crime in America has little to do with racism and everything to do with how our society coddles criminals and abandons the mentally ill. Brown was allowed to walk free because of the pathetic viewpoint, expressed originally by the mayor of Charlotte, that “We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health.” But, of course, we can involuntarily commit our way out of violent schizophrenics threatening law-abiding citizens with deadly weapons, and we can ensure that repeat offenders spend the rest of their lives away from those law-abiding citizens. Only the misplaced empathy of the suicidal allows monsters like Brown to walk free. And then, finally, there is the issue of the bystanders. In 1964, 28-year-old bartender Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed to death outside her apartment building in Queens; The New York Times reported that 37 witnesses observed or heard what had happened and did virtually nothing. While that reporting was exaggerated, it led to serious research on the so-called “bystander effect,” the phenomenon whereby people tend to stand by and do nothing about acts of evil when in the presence of others. Perhaps that can help explain why nobody did anything about Brown’s violent actions, but it doesn’t explain why nobody tried to help Zarutska as she bled out. Instead, the attitude of most in the car seemed to be “mind my own business.” Many of those onboard simply kept scrolling on their phones. And herein lies perhaps the deepest problem with American society as a whole: Many Americans are so alienated from each another that the simple sight of a young woman bleeding to death doesn’t draw action. And that is a soul-sickness. When, on the tape, one young black man rushes to help Zarutska, removing his shirt to try to stanch the bleeding, it’s a reminder that all of us can and should act in the face of evil—and that, in the absence of a state ready to protect its citizens, we must be prepared at all times. If the Zarutska slaying means anything, it means this: From the state level to the individual level, it’s time to come together to stop predators and protect the innocent. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post A Society Paralyzed by the Presence of Evil appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Forget about the riots, censorship, and the gradual transition into full-blown anarcho-tyranny. If the pub dies, England will truly lose its soul.Let me explain. We like to drink. A lot. English culture revolves around alcohol, like electrons around a nucleus. Drinking is in our blood. There’s nothing we won’t drink to, no place we won’t pop open a beer. Elsewhere, an angry Muslim man is suing the Saracen’s Head in Buckinghamshire for its alleged ’Islamophobic’ name and sign.When commercial air travel became affordable to the working class, the airplane evolved into a flying bar. I once boarded the same plane as a bunch of inebriated women on a hen party to Spain. A drunken woman punching a man on an economy flight to Ibiza is something of a British rite of passage.Drinking it inOurs is a country steeped in history, tradition, and strong drink. Like the Irish, we can boast of many an ale-quaffing literary heavyweight. It was Chaucer who made reference to the Tabard Inn almost 700 years ago in "The Canterbury Tales." Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare drank in the George Inn just a few yards away. The Tabard was demolished in 1873. The George still exists but only as a museum — an apt symbol for our current crisis.A few days ago, I walked past a place I regularly used to drink. It was like seeing a ghost. A poster case housing thousands of papered-over concert flyers half an inch thick has been ripped down, leaving the exposed brickwork cracked, discolored, and casting an ominous shadow. From a broken window, I saw that the chairs were stacked on tables, the oak bar counter was gone, and the copper foot rail had been removed from its bolts. The doors were locked, and the loud neon sign that had once welcomed me in like an old friend now sat silently on the ground, gathering dirt.Poignant pintsStanding there, aghast, my heart sank, and I felt the pangs of nostalgia. You see, It was more than just a pub. It was a repository of memories. Imagine if bricks could tell stories: a place that my friend took me after my first break up. As a young man, it was where I came to know my father as he slipped a pint across the table without saying anything. On late nights, it was where co-workers danced while the jukebox played the Pogues and everyone sang along. I remember the beer garden where I chatted up a future girlfriend, asking her for a light, and that dimly lit back room where I jumped off a speaker stack into the sticky, beer-soaked floor at my first ever live gig. It’s where my best friend shared his heart-wrenching news that he only had a few weeks left and the place where locals came together to raise a glass in his memory when he was gone.What ales usWe are losing an average of one pub per day. Since 2020, more than 2,000 have shut their doors for good. Economic factors have played a big part in the decline of the industry. Escalating business rates, VAT, and alcohol duties are causing many pubs to close — one-third of the cost of a pint now goes toward taxes. Landlords have been forced to increase prices due to the escalating expenses. It's predicted that the price of a pint could double in less than a decade. In some parts of London, it has reached 10 pounds. As a result, many people now buy alcohol from the off license (liquor store) and drink it at home.The culture wars have also played a part. Pubs with names like the Black Bitch, the Black Boy, and the Blacks Head have all been changed due to racial identitarians spouting nonsense about systemic/structural/institutional racism. Head caseElsewhere, an angry Muslim man is suing the Saracen’s Head in Buckinghamshire for its alleged "Islamophobic" name and sign. Every time Khalid Baqa walks past the pub in Amersham, he is "shocked and deeply offended" seeing the name Saracen — the name for Arabs and Muslims in the Middle Ages. The 61-year-old Baqa claims that the pub sign "incites violence" and glorifies "decapitating/beheading Muslims." He wants the landlord to pay him £1,800 for the offense. If successful, he plans to target the other 30 British pubs with the same name.The plaintiff turns out to be a convicted terrorist. In 2018, he was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for creating and distributing jihadi propaganda. No need to worry; in an interview with the Sun newspaper, he claims to have "stopped all the terrorism stuff now."RELATED: Why the English flag now terrifies the regime Blaze Media IllustrationOurs to saveDefending our culture goes far beyond stopping a mad Muslim pensioner from declaring jihad on a 500-year-old bar. We must fight a true culture war. In order to save pubs, taxes must be cut, grants and subsidies allocated to community-owned pubs, and new planning laws enacted to prevent developers from tearing down historic buildings such as pubs and churches, which serve as important social hubs. Pubs are where the English laugh, cry, and argue. They bring people together. As a result, they act as an antidote to loneliness and isolation, two of the most insidious and pervasive threats in our time. As I sat in my new local pub, I noticed a young woman and her father befriending an elderly man. Three strangers, two generations bonded over fries and Guinness. That’s what community means. And we are losing it.

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota ridiculed admirers of Charlie Kirk while trying to express sadness at his assassination.Omar was speaking with former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan on his show when she criticized Kirk and his allies for many of their politically incorrect positions and called them "full of s**t."'It's important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness and have, you know, empathy.' Omar expressed sadness for Kirk's wife and children before going through a litany of her objections to Kirk's political positions. Among those positions were that guns save lives and that Juneteenth should not exist as a holiday.She also claimed that he downplayed slavery and the controversy over George Floyd, as well as what black people have gone through in the U.S."I think, you know, there are a lot of people who are out there talking about him just wanting to have a civil debate," she said."A complete rewriting of history!" Hasan interrupted.She then grouped those people in with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and President Donald Trump before dismissing them all."You have people like Nancy Mace, who constantly harass, you know, people that she finds inferior and wants them not to exist in this country or ever," she said. "You know, you have people like Trump, who has incited violence against people like me."These people are full of s**t, and it's important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness and have, you know, empathy," she added.Omar went on to criticize Kirk for a common mischaracterization of his comments against empathy. "My heart does break for those babies," she said of Kirk's children. "I have empathy for his kids and his wife and what they're going through because I do not want that.""No one should go through that, and we hold ourselves, I hope, to higher standards," replied Hasan.Hasan then said that their Islamic faith commands them to have empathy for others.RELATED: 'It's the death of free speech!' Jay Leno expresses his shock at killing of Charlie Kirk Video of the entire interview with Omar can be viewed on YouTube.Omar is not the only member of "the Squad" in Congress who has gone out of her way to criticize those aggrieved by the assassination of Kirk. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York excoriated Trump for blaming the left for the shooting before any suspect had been apprehended. "When a politician tries to blame words for an action, they need to look at their action and their record. Enough of this! This is horrific," Ocasio-Cortez said to CNN's Manu Raju. "This is awful, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk risks an uncorking of political chaos and violence that we cannot risk in America."Law enforcement authorities are searching for a person of interest who has been captured on footage in security video related to the shooting. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!