The decision was made in light of the country’s ongoing drought.

Good luck to anything that gets in its way.

When Jimmy Kimmel eventually retires, maybe MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle could take his place. On Friday, Ruhle was not happy with young Republicans who are unpersuaded by Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris because they care more about economic issues than social one because she could not “remember the last time I heard Kamala Harris talk about anything like that.” Meanwhile, RiskReversal Media co-founder Dan Nathan unironically replied by hyping that Harris is supposedly “destroying” Donald Trump on abortion. Ruhle was set up by NBC internet culture reporter Kalhan Rosenblatt, who recalled that she “spent a week talking to young Republicans who, after the Taylor Swift endorsement, I know we'll talk about that later, but they were telling me, ‘You know, she cares about social issues because of LGBTQ people, but us common folk, we can't afford food, we can't afford housing. It's a terrible economy.’”     At the same time, they view Trump as “a, like, home-based guy and they see her as, like, wanting to work on all these social issues, and they feel like we don't have the ability to work on social issues.” Sure, Democrats and their media allies have been trying to make abortion the election’s top issue, and Republicans are just resisting their attempts to redefine gender, but Ruhle still portrayed Republicans as the culture war aggressors, “Can I counter that, too, Dan? Do you know who really talks about social issues and culture issues and LGBTQ issues the most? Republicans. Right, I don't actually see Democrats, I don't remember the last time I heard Kamala Harris talk about anything like that, but I hear JD Vance talk about it all the time.” Harris's abortion debate fearmongering is not even a week old, but for Nathan, the young people Rosenblatt references are just aggrieved, “Right, and that's the politics of grievance. I'll just say one thing about the young males, they're really an unreliable-- just go back and look at the history of a voting bloc, if you will, right? And so, they like to actually, kind of, get involved in these culture wars a little bit.” If promoting abortion is the media’s favorite pastime, hyping the wisdom and power of young voters is a close second. However, conservative young voters, apparently, don’t count as Nathan continued, “I don't know how, if you are a young person and you're watching two nights of the DNC, when they are up in Milwaukee, and then when she spoke, I think it was on the Thursday night, and not really create some sort of separation between Joe Biden and what a lot of folks pink about as the last three-and-a-half years and the stewardship that he had. She's done a great job of tacking back towards the center, right?” As he typed Harris’s alleged move to the center, Nathan undermined not only himself, but Ruhle’s earlier assessment as he praised her left-wing abortion stance, “Now she has to tell us, what is her plan on immigration, what is your plan for the economy? She's destroying him right now on female reproductive rights.” An additional layer of irony is that Trump's federalist abortion stance is more in the center than Harris's, but MSNBC has a narrative to sell. Here is a transcript for the September 13 show: MSNBC The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle 9/13/2024 11:15 PM ET KALHAN ROSENBLATT: And I say also, I spent a week talking to young Republicans who, after the Taylor Swift endorsement, I know we'll talk about that later, but they were telling me, "You know, she cares about social issues because of LGBTQ people, but us common folk, we can't afford food, we can't afford housing. It's a terrible economy." And these are young people who I don't know if they've had to deal with these issues, with the full brunt of these issues, but they see him as a, like, home-based guy and they see her as, like, wanting to work on all these social issues, and they feel like we don't have the ability to work on social issues. STEPHANIE RUHLE: Can I counter that, too, Dan?  DAN NATHAN: Sure. RUHLE: Do you know who really talks about social issues and culture issues and LGBTQ issues the most? Republicans. Right, I don't actually see Democrats, I don't remember the last time I heard Kamala Harris talk about anything like that, but I hear JD Vance talk about it all the time. NATHAN: Right, and that's the politics of grievance. I'll just say one thing about the young males, they're really an unreliable-- just go back and look at the history of a voting bloc, if you will, right? And so, they like to actually, kind of, get involved in these culture wars a little bit, but I don't know how, if you are a young person and you're watching two nights of the DNC, when they are up in Milwaukee, and then when she spoke, I think it was on the Thursday night, and not really create some sort of separation between Joe Biden and what a lot of folks pink about as the last three-and-a-half years and the stewardship that he had. She's done a great job of tacking back towards the center, right? Now, she has to articulate why she's not really progressive. Because it's interesting that Biden had to tack to a more progressive stance and now she has the opportunity. I just think she's very obviously -- she's articulate. Now she has to tell us, what is her plan on immigration, what is your plan for the economy? She's destroying him right now on female reproductive rights.

Between her highly publicized relationship with NFL tight end Travis Kelce and her skyrocketing career, Taylor Swift has been dominating the headlines — and now, she is again for an entirely new reason. In an Instagram post following the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Swift endorsed Harris and urged voters to do their own research. She signed her statement “Childless cat lady,” as a dig at comments made by JD Vance. While she is a celebrity — and many of those invested in the country's future don’t care what pop star elites' opinions are — Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” believes that her statement has the power to “shape the worldviews, the perspectives, and the definitions for moral truths for a lot of young women.” In her statement, Swift wrote that she’s “really heartened by Tim Walz as a vice presidential pick” and that “he has a long history of standing up for LGBTQ rights, IVF, and a woman’s right to her own body.” “That is the euphemism that she is employing for dismembering and poisoning and starving living babies inside the womb,” Stuckey comments, adding, “It does seem like this is what she is at least implying, that we should all endorse and support someone like Harris who is as radical on things like abortion as it comes.” While Swift made her support for Kamala known, WNBA star Caitlin Clark — who many young women also look up to — hinted that she felt the same way. Not only did she like Swift’s post, but when asked who she would endorse for president, she mentioned Swift’s post and told reporters that endorsing someone would be “the biggest thing” she can do with the platform she has. “That’s the same thing Taylor did,” she said. “I think continue to educate yourself with the candidates that we have, the policies that they’re supporting. I think that’s the biggest thing you can do.” Stuckey is disappointed, as she believes this means Clark is voting for Kamala. “I think that she’s Catholic. You can’t vote for a pro-abortion candidate girl, come on, girl,” Stuckey says. “Take your own advice, educate yourself on the policies, and ask yourself, ‘Is this going to create more order, or less order? More peace, or less peace? Is this going to create a better, safer, more prosperous future for my kids and grandkids, or a less safe, more dangerous, less prosperous future?'” Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

In a letter dated August 26, Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for succumbing to White House pressure to delete posts and comments that displeased the Democratic administration. Zuckerberg admitted he had unwisely yielded to political pressure by removing tweets that criticized Biden’s response to the COVID epidemic. He may have also withheld other statements from public view to avoid offending the government.But he was wrong, Zuckerberg said, to practice such censorship. Henceforth, he and his team would not interfere with Facebook content because of their ideological preferences or because they were knuckling under to political officials.Despite Zuckerberg’s reassurances to Jim Jordan, it appears that the old double standard persists among Zuckerberg’s employees.Zuckerberg seemed to suggest that, in his professional role, he would move away from being a left-wing Democratic Party activist. Instead, his letter implied that he was aligning more with Elon Musk by allowing a wider range of political views on his platform.This may not reflect Zuckerberg’s true intentions, however. Chronicles, a magazine with which I’m associated, has evidence that Zuckerberg might be reverting to his old ways.On September 2, our magazine’s executive editor attempted to post on Facebook a commentary titled “A Fighting Chance for Normalcy” by our longtime columnist Tom Piatak. While this is a common practice, something unexpected and troubling occurred: The content was deleted, and we were reprimanded for attempting to post “misleading content.”Although no one is claiming that Piatak’s exhortation to vote for the Trump-Vance ticket exemplifies objective science, it is by no means more biased than what passes for news interpretation on CNN, MSNBC, and network television. Piatak offers his political opinions and cites reasons for why he thinks those opinions are sound. He contends that as late as the recent past, candidates for national office who held the views of Trump and Vance would not have been seen as “weirdos” or “extremists.” Most Americans probably would have agreed with their views.Piatak points to the alarm generated by these candidates as evidence of where our power elites have been pushing the United States. At least half the country — including me — would agree with Piatak’s picture of our political radicalization, and there is at least some justification for holding his understanding of the present age.It’s hard to believe that other political statements approved by Zuckerberg’s censors are more “objective.” Most of the posts I’ve seen on Facebook are partisan opinions or emotional outbursts presented as coherent thoughts. For example, some comments about a recent anti-Israeli, pro-Hamas demonstration on an American campus were deemed acceptable by Facebook.As the New York Post points out, these posts are often filled with anti-Semitic remarks and innuendos. It seems that because the creators of these posts are politically left-leaning, Facebook’s censors did not remove them. Despite Zuckerberg’s reassurances to Jim Jordan on August 26, it appears that the old double standard persists among Zuckerberg’s employees.Fortunately, we at Chronicles are not dependent on Zuckerberg’s operation. We rely much more heavily on distributing our writings on X (formerly Twitter), which, unlike Facebook and to the dismay of the corporate media, permits open discussion. We have transferred more and more of our writings to that honest website, especially after Intellectual Takeout, a web publication with which we were long associated, was removed from Facebook for revealing government lies about COVID.Intellectual Takeout lost lots of its Facebook readers because of Zuckerberg’s servile relationship with the Democratic Party and because of his now-admitted decision to censor those who didn’t follow the White House party line. After our recent experience with Facebook’s censorship, we’re delighted not to have to rely too heavily on this compromised website for publicizing our work.Chronicles' situation has not sparked noticeable concern among larger right-leaning enterprises, despite our attempts to inform them. We are a small publication compared to National Review, the Wall Street Journal, or our friends here at Blaze Media. Zuckerberg may have chosen to target smaller publications while leaving the larger ones untouched. However, I suspect a more significant shift may be underway. It seems that Zuckerberg or his employees are moving from censoring small conservative magazines to targeting larger, more widely read publications. If they can arbitrarily remove politically disagreeable content from smaller outlets, they might extend this practice to bigger ones.To counter this potential strategy, we need to highlight Facebook’s censorship before it spreads further.

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