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The Broadside | Take the Money and Run

Trump is offering illegally present foreigners a gift.

The Department of Homeland Security is intensifying its efforts to persuade unauthorized immigrants to self-deport by offering a $1,000 stipend and travel assistance.

The federal agency announced Monday that those who use the CBP Home app to voluntarily leave the United States will receive assistance “to facilitate travel back to their home country” and $1,000 “paid after their return to their home country has been confirmed through the app.”

When I first saw that it struck me negatively. Why would we “reward” people who had illegally crossed into our country? Not only did millions of people commit a crime when crossing our border illegally, millions of people were given handouts when they got here. Some of them were flown to a city of their choice.

It wasn’t until I read further that I realized that there is a huge benefit for illegal aliens who self-deport, namely that they preserve the right to return to the U.S. using proper channels and processes. But the even bigger benefit is for U.S. citizens: it saves taxpayer dollars.

A single deportation costs U.S. taxpayers $17,121, according to DHS. The federal agency expects self-deportations to decrease that cost by 70%, even after factoring in the stipend.

Matt Margolis adds:

At first glance, it might sound counterintuitive that the Trump administration would offer $1,000 to illegal aliens who self-deport—but that’s exactly why the liberal media ran wild with it. They led with the cash payments, plastering them across headlines and opening paragraphs, hoping to spark outrage while conveniently glossing over the bigger picture. What they buried—on purpose—is that these stipends are part of a strategic effort to restore order at the border and save taxpayer dollars.

By encouraging voluntary departures through a streamlined process, the Trump administration is projected to slash deportation costs by up to 70%. It costs the government over $17,000 to arrest, detain, and remove someone through traditional deportation channels. Voluntary returns also sidestep the complex diplomatic negotiations typically required to get countries to accept their returning citizens. 

I don’t really care how illegals leave; just that they do. If we can bribe them with $1,000 and it saves us money, I’m all for it.

This is what I voted for.

I mentioned yesterday that my buddy Bruce Gust will be taking over the blog for the next few days as I take a break to visit the littles. He’s filled in for me several times over the last five years and I always appreciate it.

Bruce was at the center of a controversy earlier this year when he sang a unique rendition of the national anthem before a Nashville Predators v. Anaheim Ducks hockey game. Maybe you heard about it.

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Bruce Gust performed his own rendition of the anthem at the Bridgestone Arena before the Nashville Predators took on the Anaheim Ducks. He brought out bongos to help add a rhythmic beat to the song.

Ducks star Trevor Zegras joked that the unique performance affected his play at the start.

“I think the bongo anthem threw us off a little bit in the first,” Zegras said. “But once we recovered from that, we were back to our game, which was good.”

I personally thought the rhythmic rendition, while unique, was quite well done. In addition to being a musical artist, Bruce is also an author of several books. I recommend his “American Devotional Series: Part One: The Revolutionary War.” You can also check out his Muscular Christianity website, where he offers spiritual encouragement and physical fitness resources.

Thanks Bruce!

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The Broadside | ‘The Rock’ is Back as My Vote Pays Dividends

Trump orders Alcatraz maximum security prison to reopen, rebuild and expand to house ‘America’s most ruthless and violent’ criminals.

President Donald Trump is calling for the notorious prison and now historical landmark, Alcatraz, in San Francisco, California, to be rebuilt larger and reopened to house the country’s most ruthless and violent criminals.

Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post on Sunday evening.

“REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” the president said. “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering.

“When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm,” Trump continued, adding that it’s supposed to be this way. “No longer will we tolerate these Serial Offenders who spread filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets.”

Trump is all in on reversing with intensity the indulgences of the prior administration. If Brandon allowed an invasion of foreigners without structure or oversight, then we’re going to arrest, imprison and deport them, and we’ll use the most notorious supermax prison to do it.

I’m all for reclaiming and reimagining that jetty of rock off the San Francisco coast. And it’s clear why Trump wants to do so:

Trump, in his social media post, said the country can’t be held hostage by “criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals, who came into our Country illegally.”

The Republican has railed against federal judges who have slowed his effort to boot alleged gangbangers and ship them off to the infamous El Salvador megaprison.

AP wrote, “Trump, returning to the White House on Sunday night after a weekend in Florida, said he’d come up with the idea because of frustrations with “radicalized judges” who have insisted those being deported receive due process. Alcatraz, he said, has long been a “symbol of law and order. You know, it’s got quite a history.”

Fine. If activist judges want to bottleneck Trump’s executive power, he’s got to find another way to deal with the threat. Funny enough, Don Jr. floated the idea of reopening Alacatraz back in January.

After his father’s announcement of creating a facility at the military base in Cuba to hold thousands of undocumented immigrants, Don Jr. tweeted, “Maybe we should also reopen Alcatraz?”

Being 1.25-miles from shore, Alcatraz has a reputation as being inescapable, even though 36 inmates tried and failed over 14 attempts during the years it was open (1934-1963). (There may have been three who made it in 1962, but there’s no definitive proof.) It used to hold some of America’s most violent and notorious criminals including gangsters James “Whitey” Bulger, Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. It closed in 1963 after “island operations proved far more costly than mainland-based prisons.”

It’s both a symbolic and practical solution to a big problem.

Maybe Trump will hire some of El Salvador’s prison wardens to teach us how to handle the most violent offenders in our country. They’ll still get ‘due process,’ but we don’t need to make it pleasant for them.

A programming note: my buddy Bruce Gust will be filling in for me starting Wednesday as we visit with the littles. He’s always got good things to share with a Christian emphasis. My last post before break will be tomorrow.

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The Broadside | The First Shakeup of Team Trump

Mike Waltz is out as Trump’s National Security Advisor. But I’m not sure this is the coup that the Left thinks it is.

Quick Hit:

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will nominate Mike Waltz as the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Waltz, a former Green Beret, congressman, and current National Security Advisor, is expected to vacate that role immediately.

Key Details:

  • Trump praised Waltz for his military service and leadership, saying he “has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first” and will bring that same commitment to the U.N.
  • In the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor while continuing his leadership at the State Department.
  • Trump stated the appointments reflect a continued push “to Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN,” signaling a focus on national security and international diplomacy heading into the next phase of his administration.

Democrats have been trying to oust Pete Hegseth over “Signalgate” a few weeks ago when Mike Waltz inadvertently added the Atlantic’s editor to a chat where senior officials were discussing attacks against the Houthis. Waltz owned the error and apologized but the Dems pounced on the situation as leverage to get rid of America First appointees.

It may be that Trump took care of the issue by removing Waltz but keeping him involved by nominating him to be the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. That’s got to make Dem’s heads spin.

If you thought President Trump was running out of ways to troll the left, you probably weren’t counting on the ultimate bait-and-switch that is sure to send the Democrats into a collective hissy fit.

On Thursday, we learned that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, are out at the National Security Council. Democrats absolutely salivated at the news. Of course, Waltz was never their true target—that’s Pete Hegseth—but, clearly, they saw Waltz’s departure from the National Security Council as a victory, and they felt emboldened by it. 

And then Trump nominated Waltz as his new pick for UN ambassador. 

“I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first. I know he will do the same in his new role.”  

Trump can’t be accused of not acting in response to the “scandal” of the Signal chat. Waltz is out.

But Waltz is also not out.

What played out this week was not just classic Trump—it was trolling on a level that left Democrats and the media scratching their heads in disbelief. It’s the kind of move only Trump could pull off, turning a target of a faux scandal into the face America presents to the world at the United Nations.

Trump’s nomination of Mike Waltz to the UN ambassador position proves once again that he’s playing 4D chess while his opponents are stuck playing checkers. What might Trump do next to troll the left? I have some ideas. While Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be interim national security advisor, a totally boss move would be for Trump to nominate General Michael Flynn as Waltz’s replacement.

Can you imagine?

Have a great weekend.

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The Broadside | Today is the National Day of Prayer

Thanks to Linda for calling it to my attention.

Instead of writing about the latest political or cultural rot, here’s the official “2025 National Prayer.” Honestly, I’m as guilty as the next Christian when it comes to pointing out the flaws in our great nation rather than petitioning God to change hearts and minds by His Spirit.

Take a moment with me to pray this prayer on behalf of our nation today.

God of hope, fill us with all joy and peace

in believing, so that we will abound in

hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

You have caused us to be born again to

a living hope through the resurrection of

Jesus Christ from the dead; therefore,

we hope in what we do not see.

This world is not our home or reality,

but the Lord is our Rock,

our Truth, our certainty.

God of hope, we pour out our praise

and are filled with Your powerful presence.

We pour out repentance of sin and are filled

with forgiveness and righteousness.

We pour out pain from the attacks of the

enemy—anxiousness, fear, anger—and You

fill us with courage, assurance, and love.

We pour out our needs, the desires of our

hearts, and are filled with Your Kingdom

provision and purpose.

We pour out our hearts for our nation, for

the people and places, relationships and

responsibilities the Lord has established: the

Church, Family, Education, Business,

Military, Arts, Entertainment, Media, and

Government. May all who live, serve, and

steward in these be filled with Your purpose,

wisdom, strength, and truth.

Let Your lovingkindness, O LORD, be upon

us, as we have hoped in You.

In abounding hope, anchored by our hope

in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen!

See you tomorrow.

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The Broadside | Trump’s Presidency Is Going Down in Flames! (But Not Really)

The Democrats and the MSM (sorry for the redundancy) want you to think that support for Trump is in serious trouble.

Oh noes! The liberal progressive anti-Trump networks conducted some polls!

Fortunately, even if his numbers have dropped, his base remains strongly committed to his platform.

The liberal media keeps pushing its narrative about Donald Trump’s unpopularity, but the numbers tell a different story. Trump’s base is more passionate and committed than Obama’s ever was, and we’ve got the data to prove it.

Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen Reports dropped a truth bomb on X today, sharing a chart that liberals won’t want you to see. The data shows Trump’s Approval Index — the difference between those who strongly approve and strongly disapprove — consistently beating Barack Obama’s numbers. 

The key here is to not place your hopes in the polls. Instead, watch for what Trump’s strategies produce. Is he going to be perfect? Nope. (For example, some are blaming him for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals federal election victory yesterday.)

Keep a couple of things in mind. First, it’s only been 100 days and Trump has been keeping his promises to kick illegals out of the country, to rebalance trade, and to bring businesses and manufacturing back to American shores. He’s standing up to China, he’s brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine, and he’s put Iran on notice. He’s slapped down the Houthis in Yemen, he’s exerting tremendous influence on control of the Panama Canal, and he’s quietly still working on an agreement with Greenland.

In other words, he’s putting America first.

Second, remember that the MSM polls are skewed liberal. The better polls are Rasmussen, which was pretty accurate about the 2024 presidential election. The MSM is no longer favored by this White House and is being dealt with like the partisan hacks that they are.

Mitchell accused legacy polling firms and the mainstream media of working together to paint a misleading picture. 

“The mainstream media on top of that is gonna be this information gatekeeping layer,” he said, citing Quinnipiac’s poll from a month ago showing Trump at negative 12 points — a number that was heavily promoted in the media despite being completely ridiculous. 

“Well, their numbers haven’t moved, and so now it’s, um, they’re gonna use Reuters. They’re gonna use ABC Washington, you know, negative 13, negative 12, negative 14,” Mitchell added. “Those are all new. They all dropped over the weekend.”

He even joked that the pollsters might be congratulating each other behind the scenes. “I wonder if they’re, like, slapping each other on the butts and saying, ‘Good game,’ after this coordinated, like, dump of polling,” he said. “I think that’s probably what it is.”

Don’t fret when you see a negative poll about Trump. Give him time to work.

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The Broadside | The New Wave of Lawlessness Is Coming from Our Judiciary

When I was a kid, I was taught that if I ever got lost, I should find a policeman, who would help me get back to my mom and dad. There was implicit trust that law enforcement authorities were safe and would do the right thing.

How things have changed.

New Mexico Judge Joel M. Cano, Massachusetts Judge Shelley Richmond, and Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan made conscious, deliberate, and premeditated decisions to aid criminals, obstruct law enforcement, and desecrate the very system they were sworn to uphold.

In just a few days’ time, these three black-robed offenders committed what can only be described as acts of judicial treason against the American people.

And make no mistake: holding them fully accountable isn’t merely an option—it’s an absolute necessity.

It’s a necessity because if they’re allowed to get away with the alleged crimes then it confirms our system of justice is a collapsing two-tiered joke that “no one is above the law.”

Joel Cano, Shelley Richmond, and Hannah Dugan must be removed from office, disbarred, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Anything less sends a deadly message to America: that the people enforcing the law can live above it.

They must face consequences—not because they made human errors—but because they made deliberate, calculated betrayals.

When those who have power to make decisions about how laws are enforced no longer follow the rule of law, then by definition they become lawbreakers. In other words, they become criminals just like those they are supposed to judge without tipping the scales of justice in one way or another.

In these cases, they were not just accomplices, but perpetrators themselves.

Dugan’s fellow Wisconsinite, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Leftist), was incensed that a Lefty judge was arrested and charged with two felonies:

“Make no mistake, we do not have kings in this country and we are a democracy governed by laws that everyone must abide by,” Baldwin said.

Everyone, apparently, but illegal aliens and ideological judges.

My shocked face wore out in 2020 but it’s still bracing to see the knee-jerk denialism and breathless sky-is-falling catastrophizing from the Left.

What’s “not normal” Amy is that a sitting judge aided and abetted a criminal illegal alien’s escape from federal authorities. Our only response to Klobucher should be:

If Ms. Dugan wants to protect illegal aliens and help them evade ICE officials she just can’t do it in her judge’s robes. And if she can’t separate her personal activism from her official duties as an unbiased judge, then she must leave the court — voluntarily or involuntarily.

And either way she should pay the penalty for her criminal law breaking.

If you want to know why Leftist Democrats and Leftist judges want to prevent illegals from being deported, here’s all you need to see:

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The Broadside | What is This Fetish That Democrats Have With Foreigners Here Illegally?

It boggles the mind that a Maryland Democrat senator goes all out for an illegally present, MS-13 gang member and human trafficker from El Salvador accused of beating his wife who was sent back to his country of origin—while ignoring the brutal 2023 murder of a 37-year-old mother of five by a different Salvadoran illegal immigrant, without so much as a full-throated denunciation.

Why is it that Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador last week—most likely on the taxpayers’ dime—to try and win the release and return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia? Why isn’t he applauding the deportation of a foreigner who illegally crossed into the United States in 2011 and lived here for 14 years even though he was under deportation orders? And why are Democrats as a party outright opposing the efforts to repatriate the millions of foreigners who flooded our nation over the last four years during the reign of Joey Sponge-Brain and his Cast of Hannibal Lecters?

I’ll tell you why.

It’s because they’ve inhaled the toxic fumes of Marxist-based wokery and believe that the United States of America is a racist country that oppresses minorities and that it is a moral imperative to elevate the oppressed and crush the oppressor. Sen. Van Hollen sees his effort to reverse the Trump administration’s action as a noble virtue that expresses his contempt for the ruling class and identifies himself with the oppressed.

“Why is the government of El Salvador continuing to imprison a man where they have no evidence that he’s committed any crime and they have not been provided any evidence from the United States that he has committed any crime?” Van Hollen told reporters before Morin took the briefing room podium. “They should just let him go.”

Well, senator, it may be that the laws are different in El Salvador. Perhaps just being a member of MS13 is grounds for imprisonment; I hear that they’ve been rounding up gang members by the thousands under a state of emergency for the last couple of years. But you go right ahead and tell El Salvador who should and shouldn’t be in prison. Seems to be your thing.

It’s true that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration must “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return and “to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador” due to an administrative error. But it’s also true that the court didn’t require the administration to “effectuate” his return.

I’m guessing the difference is that “facilitating” his return means cooperating with El Salvadore to return him to the US once he’s made available by El Salvador, whereas “effectuating” his return means that the administration is responsible to get him back—to make it happen—whether El Salvador wants to cooperate or not. It’s the difference between waiting for the other party to act or taking the initiative yourself.

(Of course, I don’t know the legal nuances of such words. I’m an opinion writer, not a lawyer. So, take what I think with a grain of salt.)

Our immigration system is not only broken, but overwhelmed. There is no way for us to process tens of millions of foreigners in a reasonable amount of time. Thousands of them are criminals.

If they are here illegally, the only way to reduce their presence quickly is to round them up and send them back to where they came from. Even if they’ve claimed asylum.

Will some of them sincerely fear for their lives? Yes. But the responsibility for that lies with the previous administration, which illegally facilitated (there’s that word again) the worst foreign invasion on American soil in our history.

They made the mess. We need to clean it up and quickly. Kick them all out and tell them to come back through legal channels.

And if they’re angry about it, tell them to talk to Mayorkas and Biden.

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The Broadside | Make it a Good Friday

Isn’t it refreshing to have a president who at least respects the Christian faith, even if we sometimes wonder just where he himself stands with Jesus Christ? I think some of what Trump does in defending the faith is part of his MAGA agenda, since he and any historian worth their degree knows that our Founders and the early republic reflected Judeo-Christian beliefs. Our entire system of government rests on the model of biblical law.

Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!” (Matthew 20:17-19)

He has risen indeed!

Have a great weekend.

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The Broadside | Trump’s Tariff Regime Seems Chaotic But He’s a Disrupter and I Trust He Knows What He’s Doing

I’m not an economist and I don’t play one on TV, so I’m not sure what to tell you about Trump’s tariff scheme. He cranks out a list of countries using some mathematical formula that creates just the right reciprocal tariffs on each, starting with a baseline 10% tariff on everyone we trade with.

Then the markets tank, analysts panic and there’s a massive sell-off. Then Trump “pauses” the tariffs for 90 days so that he can make deals with dozens of countries that reached out to the U.S. Markets skyrocket and post one of its biggest rallies in history.

What gives?

First, the tariffs to every country was meant to cause the free world to make a choice – China or us. According to Scott Bessent on the White House lawn early this afternoon, north of 75 countries have chosen us. They are clamoring to renegotiate trade deals. Inevitably, every one of these deals will benefit the United States. It defies logic to believe that America’s position vis-a-vis trade with any individual country is going to be worse off after negotiating a new deal. With some countries, we’ll be nominally better off. With other countries, we’ll be in a much more equitable place. And because we have the commitment of 75+ countries to renegotiate trade, Trump is pausing the tariffs for 90-days in good faith in order to let the negotiators do their thing.

The bottom line is none of these pending trade deals would have been offered or committed to without the tariffs used as an attention-getter.

Second, by forcing the world to choose between the United States and China, China has become further isolated. Trump has all the leverage in the world to squeeze China, and squeezing them is exactly what he’s doing.

It’s high stakes gamesmanship and Trump knows exactly what he’s doing.

Trump knew all along the stock market, and the angst around it from the chattering class in resistance media was transient, and would rebound once he got us into a position of strength in global trade.

The bottom line to phase two is that all of it – phase 1 and phase 2, were a plan to take on China and combat them as the growing threat they are before having to deal with them anyway once they’re stronger and we’re weaker. This has been always about boxing in China. All of it. Yes, Canada, you, too.

I get a little nervous when playing chicken with a behemoth like China. We are dependent on China for pharmaceuticals, as we learned during Covid (released by China on purpose, I’m convinced, to take out Donald Trump). China supplies us with electrical machinery and TV parts, nuclear reactor parts and mechanical appliances, toys, games, sports equipment, plastics, furniture and lamps, vehicles, iron and steel, and optical and photographic parts, electronics, medical equipment, pharmaceutical ingredients, and, last but not least, rare earth minerals, which are crucial for industries like defense, renewable energy, and consumer electronics.

The U.S. imported $438 billion worth of goods from China in 2024 and only exported $144 billion. We’ve outsourced a lot of our manufacturing to China.

The tariffs are a tool to reset global trade and to begin diminishing the influence that China has on the world stage. They probably won’t be too happy about any negative impact that a reordered trade regime has on their Belt and Road strategy.

Both Apple and Porsche scrambled to get their products from India and Germany before the tariffs went into effect.

Since March, Tim Cook-led Apple has chartered at least six cargo jets, each carrying an estimated 100 tons of iPhones, to fly from India to the US, Reuters reported, citing sources familiar with the situation.

The tech giant also nudged Indian authorities to expedite the shipments through customs.

Apple “wanted to beat the tariff” with its last-minute shipments, a source familiar with its planning told Reuters.

In total, approximately 1.5 million iPhones were ferried to the US, according to Reuters calculations.

Meanwhile, the German luxury car brand Porsche warned analysts on Thursday that its first-quarter results would be impacted by “higher company-owned inventory shipped to the US to beat the tariff deadline.”

Trump imposed a 25% tariff on imported cars and car parts that went into effect April 3.

That levy remains in effect despite his 90-day pause on country-specific measures.

Trump is a disrupter, and I learned from his first term and from his second presidential campaign not to underestimate him, nor to panic when he does something that seems completely illogical. There’s a method to his madness, and I’ve decided to trust that his instincts are pretty good.

Besides, what choice do I have?

Have a great weekend.

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The Broadside | Islam Is Subduing the West, Including the U.S.

A longer one today. I encourage you to read and listen to it all.

One of the things that I am deeply concerned about is the growing presence of Islam in the United States. It is a concern that stems from what we’ve witnessed over the 24 years since 9/11, when jihadi “extremists” made their presence known to the whole world.

Since then, Islamic “extremists” have carried out thousands of attacks worldwide, including four commuter trains bombed in Madrid (191 dead); the Beslan massacre (330 dead); four suicide bombers during London rush hour (52 killed); the massacre of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo staff in Paris (17 killed); the massacre of students at a university campus in Kenya (150 dead); a rampage at a beach resort in Tunisia (37 murdered); and many others.

As bad as these assaults are, there’s something even worse happening across Europe: the fall of the West to Islamic invasion.

A world-historical societal transformation is taking place before our very eyes, and yet few have taken notice. Britain, the erstwhile leader of the Western world and the foundation and source of English-speaking civilization, is in its last days as a free society, and will soon become an Islamic state. Yet despite the mountains of evidence that this transformation is taking place, many will still deny that it is happening at all. They may not even admit it when it overtakes them personally.

The English actor-turned-political-activist Lawrence Fox recently noted what was happening: “The Mayor of London is a Muslim. The mayor of Birmingham is a Muslim. The Mayor of Leeds is Muslim. Mayor of Blackburn – Muslim. The mayor of Sheffield is a Muslim. The mayor of Oxford is a Muslim. The mayor of Luton is a Muslim. The mayor of Oldham is Muslim. The mayor of Rochdale is Muslim. All this was achieved by only 4 million Muslims out of 66 million people in England.”

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Lawrence Fox continued: “Today there are over 3,000 mosques in England. There are over 130 sharia courts. There are more than 50 Sharia Councils. 78 percent of Muslim women do not work, receive state support + free accommodation. 63 percent of Muslims do not work, receive state support + free housing. State-supported Muslim families with an average of 6 to 8 children receive free accommodation. Now every school in the UK is required to teach lessons about Islam. Has anyone ever been given an opportunity to vote for this?” 

Paul Weston agrees.

An unpleasant reality: The government accepts the fact that Britain will be an Islamic State well before 2050, and is thus guided by one operational principle alone: ensure the transition from Christian/Post-Christian Britain to Britistan is as peaceful as possible. What would this look like in practice? You are witnessing it in real time. Islam is revered, promoted and excused. Traditional Britain is persecuted smeared and jailed

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born and raised a Muslim in Mogadishu, Somalia. In her early 30s she renounced Islam and identified as an atheist. She recently underwent a conversion to Christianity (see here). She has the same concern as Spencer and Weston.

In a nine-count thread on X, Maral Salmassi also comes to the same conclusion in her final panel (all nine posts are worth reading):

“Modern civilization,” by which she means the West.

Which brings me back to the United States. We, too, are incrementally going the way of Europe. There are roughly 4 million Muslims in the U.S. According to a CNN report from 2018,

According to [Pew Research Center] data, the Muslim population is growing at an accelerated rate, and will more than double from an estimated 3.45 million in 2017 to an estimated 8.1 million in 2050. In the meantime, Muslims are expected to surpass Jews as the second-largest religious group.

We’ve had numerous terrorist attacks on us since 9/11, including the Times Square bomber (failed); the Fort Hood shooting (13 dead); the Boston Marathon bombing (3 dead); the business holiday event shooting in San Bernadino (14 killed); the Orlando nightclub shooting (49 dead); the pickup truck attack on a Manhattan bike path (8 killed); a Muslim beheading a co-worker in Oklahoma City; a Muslim trying to take over a Jet Blue cockpit (restrained); a Muslim attacker in Fargo, North Dakota (1 killed); a Muslim trying to run down a crowd of Jewish people with his car in LA (no one injured); and the jihadist who ran his truck down Bourbon street in New Orleans on New Year’s Day (15 killed). Plus, lots more (including so-called “honor killings”) that I document here.

We also have Muslim mayors.

Voters in three Detroit suburbs chose, for the first time, mayors who are both Muslim and Arab American in historic local elections on Tuesday, marking a shift in political power to a region that has the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the U.S.

Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck, all located in southeastern Michigan, have seen decades of economic growth and cultural advancement driven by Arab American immigration and investment, but have struggled with representation.

From another report,

Hamtramck, which has a population of about 28,000 people, made headlines in 2021 when it became the first US city to elect an all-Muslim City Council and a Muslim mayor.

Hamtramck is also the only city in America with a Muslim majority population, while Dearborn is said to have the country’s largest concentration of Arab Americans. The five states with the highest Muslim populations (2025) are New York (724,000), California (504,000), Illinois (474,000), New Jersey (322,000), Texas (313,000), and Michigan (242,000) [Source].

Why should we be concerned? Because as Muslims become a greater part of society, they will begin demanding accommodations. In fact, it has already started in ways that aren’t easy to see.

Stocks:

The rising Muslim population has also led to an increase in demand for Shariah-compliant stocks. These stocks are from businesses that conduct their activities in accordance with Shariah rules and refrain from gaining exposure to sectors like alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. 

Schools:

Food:

Those are just three examples. It goes much deeper and darker than just Sharia-compliant products or accommodations. It’s all about infiltration and conquering the country.

If this is all new to you, it may be a lot to take in. It may even seem far-fetched. But I’ve been watching the rise of Islam in the West and in the U.S. for about 15 years. I may not face the long-term consequences of what is growing in our country, but my children and their children most certainly will.

If you want to know what will happen here without any intervention, just watch what happens in England. It won’t be long before the Brits surrender to a fully Islamified nation, or have to literally fight their way out of submission.

I can guarantee you that in the not-too-distant future, the conflict between freedom as a way of life in a constitutional republic and the dictates of Islam will become greatly aggravated and, if nothing is done to head off that conflict, it will end in patriotic Americans having to fight for survival.

I guarantee it.