Around the country, protests on college campuses this spring spiraled out of control, disrupting commencements and exposing the rot within higher education. How the encampments arose may not be Joe Biden’s fault. They are in keeping with life under his administration, however. The Biden presidential brand is life beyond his control, and that does not bode well for his re-election prospects. Throughout history, people have preferred their leaders to be strong. Winston Churchill was strong-willed during World War II. It was said that the virile Alexander the Great never lost a battle on the way to establishing one of the world’s largest empires by age 30. Just a few months before the 2024 election, events appear to be out of control for Biden. In American history, George Washington was a model of ethics and strong resolve who took on Great Britain, the world’s superpower at the time. Abraham Lincoln’s determination and strength saved the union, while Americans elected Franklin Roosevelt four times believing he could best guide the country through the Great Depression and then World War II. Strength and resolve were their brands. Weakness, on the other hand, does not play well with American voters. In the 1980 presidential election, the voters had a choice between the incumbent Jimmy Carter and the challenger Ronald Reagan. At the time, voters did not view Carter as a strong leader. Americans had been held hostage by Iran for a year by the time of the 1980 election. According to the State Department’s official history, “The crisis dominated the headlines and news broadcasts and made the Administration look weak and ineffectual.” Carter’s economic record was no better. The Federal Reserve reports that by the summer of 1980, inflation approached 14.5% and unemployment topped 7.5%. Meanwhile, 30-year fixed mortgage rates hit 12.9%. As a result, voters turned to Reagan for a new direction. In time, the results of Reagan’s programs and the fact that he stared down the Soviet Union made a strong contrast to the weakness of President Carter. All of which brings us to Biden. Just a few months before the 2024 election, events appear to be out of control for this president. Inflation continues to bedevil the American people. Prices are as much as 20% higher than when Biden took office. There was much hopeful talk of cuts in interest rates, but the persistence of inflation has dashed those hopes. In American cities, crime has made the streets unsafe and filled the airways. Homelessness has added to a sense that life in American cities is not only unsafe but utterly lacking a sense of order. Of course, America’s borders are out of control as well. Rather visibly to Americans on their TVs and phones each night, millions of people have crossed the border almost unabated, including hundreds designated as terrorists. Meanwhile, the related fentanyl deaths are a scourge — a crisis also looking for leadership to end it. Abroad, Americans once again are held hostage in the Middle East. Two wars endanger the world without a sense that either of them can be resolved any time soon. Russia invaded Ukraine on Biden’s watch, and there is no evidence that American influence will decide the issue as it did in World War I and World War II. In the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, Houthi rebels — who hardly constitute a superpower — regularly attack U.S. and allied ships and freighters, also without an end in sight. Those problems have beset the Biden administration practically from the beginning. In poll after poll, Americans see Biden as a weak leader. His age-related problems add significantly to that perception. Then along came the college protests earlier this spring. Many are asking how they could be happening in America. Most want them brought under control as the summer holds the promise of a repeat of the 2020 riots. Those protests started in an atmosphere of a crime wave under which people are not being held accountable. The longer the protests continue, the more they convince the American public that they are part of a larger problem in America — a society spiraling out of control. For Biden, it is a dynamic consistent with the perception that he is a president not in control of events. He is subject to events without a plan to resolve them. The college protests reinforce the Biden brand of weak leadership. We’ll know soon enough whether Biden, because of that brand, will be subject to the same fate as Jimmy Carter. Brands like that, however, are rarely undone in short order — especially when all the events that are defining his brand continue without a plan to end them.

Imagine if Americans awoke to the news that 40,000 fellow citizens were slaughtered by an unprovoked, sinister terrorist attack and 8,000 others were taken hostage. Video evidence confirms the barbaric attacks were unspeakable acts of evil. Innocent people were slaughtered in the streets, babies beheaded or burned alive, women savagely raped, people dragged from their beds to be executed, and families decimated. The horror of that day begins to set in. Our enemy proudly claims responsibility, dancing in the streets, yelling “death to America” as they burn our flag. The blood of the victims flows in the streets while the chilling accounts of survivors describe an evil beyond comprehension. If we continue to ignore the truth, we will find ourselves consigned to the trash heap of history. Just imagine that. Based on the population of the United States compared with Israel’s, that is the equivalent of what Hamas did on October 7, 2023, the day of the worst attack on that country in its storied history. Naturally, these heinous acts committed by Hamas brought back vivid memories of the Holocaust. The world has not witnessed evil like that since the Nazi regime, which was committed to actual genocide of the Jewish people. We saw the worst of humanity then and right before our eyes. History is repeating itself. The propaganda machine is in full force, just as it was during the war. The world has been told Israel is not only the aggressor but is responsible for committing genocide against the Palestinian people and Hamas, the monsters who orchestrated one of the most barbaric acts in recent history. Just as Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels said, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” Now, to find the line between good and evil, we’re told we must consider “the context.” The United States led the way during World War II in the fight against tyranny. The Greatest Generation sent its best to extinguish an evil regime. Most of them had come to this country fleeing those very tyrants. We promised the world, “Never again!” We had moral clarity and understood our role as the defenders of liberty and freedom. How could the same nation be divided now over the right and wrongs of October 7? We allowed this to happen. The Marxist “Progressive” movement has permeated our culture and become a cancer to our collective national conscience. We are a mere reflection of what we stood for. We bowed to the woke mob, watching as our national monuments were toppled in the name of “tolerance.” We sat back as these entitled, delusional children “sanitized” our history through the lens of victimhood and ignorance. Simultaneously, we surrendered our founding principles and our national identity. An entire generation has been indoctrinated by the media and their professors to believe America is not exceptional but evil and imperialistic. They were told the founders were not heroes and men of courage but greedy white men who owned slaves. They march against “oppression” in the United States, idolizing brutal dictators like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, while wearing T-shirts glorifying them as revolutionary heroes. Members of the generation coming of age were too coddled, too often told they were special and given far too many participation trophies. Their sense of entitlement permeates their thoughts and actions. They believe they are owed everything but responsible for nothing. To them, facts are just inconvenient truths. They preach tolerance and acceptance of all viewpoints yet viciously attack anyone whose opinion differs from their own. They feel morally superior under the veil of ignorance. Since the brutal attack by Hamas, anti-Semitic attacks are up over 400% in the United States. Paul Kessler, an elderly Jewish man, was bludgeoned to death by a Palestinian professor. In February, a crazed man hunted down two Jewish men and tried to kill them as they left their synagogue. An IDF soldier, who was a medic on the front lines, came face to face with the evils of Hamas. She was brutally attacked in New York City during a peaceful demonstration that became violent when terrorist sympathizers saw the Israeli flag. The NYPD told her there was nothing they could do. Across the globe the incidents are staggering, and the reaction from progressives is either indifference or encouragement. College campuses have turned into Palestinian encampments, a national disgrace that lives at the intersection of ignorance and arrogance. The chaos on our campuses and our streets can be traced directly to the schizophrenic leadership of the Biden administration. We have imposed economic sanctions and withheld delivery of essential weapons while Israel, our closest ally, fights for its very survival. Biden even floated the idea of accepting Palestinian “refugees” while the fate of American hostages in Gaza remains unknown. Those calling for a ceasefire conveniently overlook the ceasefire in place on October 6 and broken so heinously the next day. In love with their victimhood, our campus warriors embrace Hamas’ claim that they are the oppressed and that it’s Israel that is hell-bent on genocide by fighting a war it never started. Our Greatest Generation stormed the beaches of Normandy to stop the Nazis. They had the fortitude and courage to liberate the world. I can promise you that generation did not mourn or send condolences when Hitler met his demise. They called evil by its name because they had seen its face. There is no distinction between the terror of the Nazis and the terrorist regime of Iran, which backs Hamas. Iran is the largest sponsor of terrorism in the world and celebrated the diabolical acts of October 7 because they were orchestrated from Tehran. And yet when Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — known as the Butcher of Tehran — was killed in a helicopter crash on May 19, the United States sent condolences and the United Nations honored him with a moment of silence. Our national soul has been poisoned. We have surrendered our moral compass to those who hate us. America’s founders built this country on Judeo-Christian principles, providing the glue that has held us together and allowed us to survive and thrive. But the light from the “shining city on the hill” is in danger of being extinguished. If we continue to ignore the truth, we will find ourselves consigned to the trash heap of history. That isn’t hard to imagine at all.

The moment Ken Baldwin jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge one August morning in 1985, he was consumed with regret. "I instantly realized that everything in my life that I'd thought was unfixable was totally fixable — except for having just jumped," he later told the New Yorker. Miraculously, Baldwin survived; the vast majority of those who jump — some 1,500 since the bridge opened in 1937 — do not. It takes four seconds to reach the surface of the Golden Gate strait below, by which time, a person is falling at 75 miles per hour. Hitting the water's surface is like hitting concrete. Those who don't die on impact find themselves unable to stay afloat or eventually perish from hypothermia. California Highway Patrol officer Kevin Briggs knows all too well the kind of damage the jump can inflict on the human body. He's also familiar with the darkness that can lead someone to take the fatal plunge. The Army infantry veteran and former San Quentin prison guard has himself sought treatment for severe depression.Perhaps this is what's given him the necessary perspective to help people like Kevin Berthia. In 2005, the then 22-year-old found himself hugging the bridge's railing, inches away from certain death. That's when he heard Briggs' voice. He didn't try to argue Berthia out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead, he simply let him talk. “Somehow, the compassion in your voice is what allowed me to kinda let my guard down enough for us to have a conversation,” Berthia later told Briggs. After 90 minutes, Berthia came down off the railing.In his 23-year career (he retired in 2013 and now works in suicide prevention), Briggs kept more than 200 people from jumping to their deaths. His typical opening was to ask, “What's your plan for tomorrow?” If they didn't have one, he would respond, “Well, let's make one. If it doesn't work out, you can always come back here later.” That so many took his advice is a testament both to Briggs' skill and to the power of offering someone our full, focused attention.

The House and Senate return to work Monday in a very different town from the one they left before the long Memorial Day weekend. Over the congressional recess, Democrats reached the Rubicon, convicting the Republican presidential nominee on multiple trumped-up felonies with the help of a Constitution-bending partisan judge and district attorney. While Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tweeted his passive expectation that it will all sort itself out in the appeals process, others are setting about the smart work of resisting. In a Friday letter, a group of senators promised to block, stop, and derail nearly all Democrat legislation and confirmations for the remainder of the year. “We will not,” the letter reads: 1) allow any increase to non-security related funding for this administration, or any appropriations bill which funds partisan lawfare; 2) vote to confirm this administration's political or judicial appointees; and 3) allow expedited consideration and passage of Democrat legislation or authorities that are not directly relevant to the safety of the American people. The initial letter was signed by Republican Senators Mike Lee (Utah), J.D. Vance (Ohio), Tommy Tuberville (Ala.), Eric Schmitt (Mo.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Rick Scott (Fla.), Roger Marshall (Kan.), and Marco Rubio (Fla.). By Friday evening, Republicans Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.) had added their signatures. The move is a welcome shift for a Congress that has largely continued about business as usual, buying the FBI a shiny new headquarters despite its spying on former President Donald Trump, reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act despite its use to ensnare Trump, and continuing to fund a Department of Justice long weaponized against conservatives big and small. “After cheerleading the unprecedented politicization of our judicial system in a desperate attempt to save Joe Biden, congressional Democrats cannot come back to work on Monday expecting any bipartisan cooperation on their agenda,” Lee told Blaze News. “Actions have consequences.” “Republicans," Vance told Blaze News, “simply cannot sit back and allow the weaponization of our justice system against our presidential nominee. We need to show the Democrats that there will be severe consequences for this grotesque abuse of power. If they think the normal spirit of bipartisanship can be maintained while their party leadership orchestrates a plan to throw Donald Trump in prison, they’ve got another thing coming.” It’s a good start. When your constituents ask what you did when your party’s nominee was convicted in a kangaroo court, the answer can’t be, "Did you see the TV hit I did?” and “I held a hearing on it” simply won’t suffice. Still, much will depend on how much hell the GOP is willing to raise. If the 10 senators commit to blocking all consents (for routine things as basic as setting up tomorrow’s schedule or allowing debate), they can shut down the U.S. Senate. Though there is good enough reason they should go that far, the pressure would be immense, and it’s unlikely they will. More likely, they’ll block all political and judicial nominations by consent, forcing a vote (like Tuberville did, before he was betrayed by weak Republican colleagues). To do anything beyond this, they’ll need the support of another 31 colleagues. With 41 united senators, you can stop appropriations. Then you’re talking business. While the original group of 10 should grow this week, it will take pressure to push other Republicans into supporting it. If Trump starts talking about it, the situation might change. It’s no secret that Trump isn’t popular on Capitol Hill. When he was banned from Twitter in 2020, only a single Republican senator reached out to the company to protest. Most of the rest think of him as a blundering wrecking ball, inconvenient to the kind of uniparty spending D.C. prefers (colored by peripheral but meaningless TV fights). That doesn’t mean they’ll say anything publicly against him. Republican voters back Trump to the hilt, so most know to keep their mouths shut. The Republican National Committee more than doubled its previous one-day fundraising haul, raising $52.8 million in the 24 hours after the conviction despite the fundraising portal crashing multiple times. All Trump’s lack of popularity in D.C. means is that few are eager to jump to the ramparts when he’s under attack. State Republicans need not let D.C. have all the fun. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is just one of many hard-left prosecutors funded by George Soros and Co. What about those DAs in Republican-controlled states? Investigations and impeachments are in order. Time to clean house. As with the culture wars, there can be no calling for a truce on this one. Democrats have crossed the northern border and are marching south. Republican politicians who continue to rubber-stamp so much as a postage stamp design are simply collaborating. Glenn Beck: Don’t cower to the bullies who convicted Trump CNN contributor Elie Honig in New York magazine: Prosecutors got Trump — but they contorted the law Blaze News: Trump's 'banana republic' conviction won't be Democrats' last — unless there is 'retaliation in kind': UC Berkeley law prof Blaze News: How red states should respond to Trump’s conviction Sign up for the Christopher Bedford newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter. IN OTHER NEWS Fauci dragged back to DC to answer for cover-ups For a guy who loves going on TV more than anything, the doctor has been scarce of late. But on Monday, retired American Overlord Dr. Anthony Fauci will be back on camera, this time in front of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. May was a bad month for the former Democrat hero. Congress uncovered that he and his friends had routinely and intentionally dodged oversight by using his private email and personal communications and even misspelling names to hide from record searches in official emails. In one series of released communications, Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens talked openly about a series of methods for dodging public oversight of their COVID communications. “PS,” he wrote in an email to COVID China collaborator and serial gaslighter Dr. Peter Daszak, “i forgot to say there is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.” In another, Morens wrote: “I learned from our NIH FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA but before the search starts so I think we’re all safe. Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail." In a particularly ironic email, Morens added: “We are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns, and if we did we wouldn’t put them in emails and if we found them we’d delete them.” Monday will be the first chance for lawmakers to question him since closed-door testimony on the origins of COVID-19 in January. It will be his first public testimony since retiring as the highest-paid person in the federal government, with the highest government pension in American history. The hearing comes just in time for catching up on the extent of the 2020 cover-up with BlazeTV’s new docuseries. For months, BlazeTV host Matt Kibbe and his team at Free the People investigated the lies and cover-ups of 2020, building an incredible multi-part docuseries. “The Coverup,” episode one, is live now. Watch it here. Blaze Media Original: 'The Coverup' exposes Fauci and his whole cabal The fire rises: Unherd: ‘I was offered assisted dying over cancer treatment’ Canada’s assisted suicide system was sold as a mercy package for the terminally ill. In the years since it began, it has extended its reach to the depressed, the homeless, and even those patients desperate for a cure. Allison Ducluzeau was one of the latter. She survived through perseverance, but her story is a warning to all those in the United States starting down the same path. Ian Birrell reports: Two years ago, over the Thanksgiving holiday, Allison Ducluzeau started to feel pain in her stomach. At first, she assumed she had eaten too much turkey, but the pain persisted. A couple of weeks later, she saw her family doctor who requested CT scans, although none were sorted. Soon after, as the agony worsened, her partner insisted she went to the emergency unit at their local hospital on Vancouver Island. Finally, doctors confirmed the couple’s worst fears: she was almost certainly suffering from advanced abdominal cancer. Allison, then 56, later learned that she had stage 4 peritoneal carcinomatosis, an aggressive condition. By the time she saw a specialist early last year, he warned that she might only live a few months longer: chemotherapy tended to be ineffective for her cancer, buying a bit more time at best, and she was inoperable. Instead, she was told to go home, sort out her papers, and decide if she wanted medical assistance in dying...

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