Things have changed a lot since HARDY got his start in Nashville. The genre-bending country rock artist got his first #1 single not as an artist but as a songwriter with “Up Down,” which was a hit for Morgan Wallen and Florida Georgia Line back in 2018. He would go on to have hits with songs like “I Don’t Know About You” by Chris Lane, FGL’s “Simple,” “God’s Country” by Blake Shelton, and quite a few Morgan Wallen tracks before breaking out as an artist himself with his 2020 debut album A Rock. Obviously things have changed a lot in country music since HARDY broke into the music industry writing “bro country” hits for other artists. The sound has swung back towards traditional country music and storytelling, and away from the bonfires and dirt roads and Fireball and girls riding shotgun in cutoff jeans and the hundreds of other worn out tropes that we had to deal with ad nauseum back in those days. Now, bro country definitely isn’t “dead.” There are still a few artists out there desperately clinging to it like a Nashville bachelorette clings to their vape and their High Noons. But I can’t think of anybody who’s still making “bro country” and having more than a moderate degree of success. (And I can already hear the comments: No, Morgan Wallen is not still making “bro country.” Just because it’s pop country or rap doesn’t mean it’s bro country). But anyway, all that to say, HARDY has no doubt picked up on the changes in country music since he got his start. And he just teased a new song that he wrote that addresses the shift in sound that he’s seen during his time as a songwriter and an artist. “A lot of you may not know this, but I started my career in Nashville as a songwriter, and my first hits were with Morgan Wallen, Chris Lane, Florida Georgia Line, and needless to say, I was a part of the bro country era. But right now there’s a shift happening in Nashville, and there’s a lot of new music out there that is just a big shift and a new change, and I wrote a song about it, so this song’s called Bro Country.” The song, appropriately enough, called “Bro Country,” mentions several of those common elements that we heard in all the bro country songs of the mid-2010s, while acknowledging that those are no longer the predominant themes in country music: “Bro country, you damn sure could paint A Friday night picture full of bombshells and drinks You turned left of center Into people like Hank, Haggard, and Cash and Jones But don’t good dogs always come home? No disrespect, yeah don’t get me wrong I’ve been that drunk redneck singing your songs But whiskey and bandits Outlaws with long hair Yeah, we’re back with a vengeance With a fist in the air It’s so bittersweet, shutting that Fireball And cut-offs, and jacked up truck door But bro, country Don’t sound like you anymore” @hardy Some of y’all may not know this, but I started my career in Nashville as a songwriter, writing my first hits for my buddies like FGL, Morgan Wallen, Cole Swindell, Chris Lane, etc. I know my way around a bro country song and I owe a lot to that era. But the vibe in country music has shifted lately, and I wrote a song about it. This one’s called BroCountry. #NewMusic #Unreleased #CountryMusic #CountryCountry ♬ original sound – HARDY I’ve got to give him credit for the “bro, country” wordplay in the chorus there. It makes for an interesting reflection on the way country music has changed over the past few years, and it’s all the more interesting that it came from one of the biggest players in the bro country era. Now, do I think that bro country will eventually come back? Sure. Country music always goes through shifts, and eventually that party sound is going to become popular again. But right now, I’m glad that we’ve gone the other direction – and even HARDY recognizes it.The post HARDY Teases New Song About The Death Of “Bro Country” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

California State Senator Christopher Cabaldon admitted this week why the state really wants to redistrict and it’s all about protecting the illegal aliens being in the census and keeping their Democrat seats . . .

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As Daniel Flynn shows in his new book, Frank S. Meyer, The Man Who Invented Conservatism, first had to grapple with Communism. That murderous ideology was all the rage in the mid-1940s when the USA allied with the USSR to take down Hitler’s National Socialists. Josef Stalin became the benevolent “Uncle Joe,” and White House resident Harry Hopkins urged FDR to give the Soviet dictator everything he wanted. (RELATED: The Organizer of Victory: Frank S. Meyer) Harry Truman at Potsdam — As Naïve As FDR) In these conditions, Frank Meyer encountered Friedrich A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944. Still a Communist, but with surging doubts, Meyer reviews the book in The New Masses, the flagship of the left: The appeal of his argument to decent, democratic people lies in the contention that government economic planning demands the accumulation of immense power in central organs and that therefore, so long as production is not unlimited, what men shall have and do will have to be decided by the arbitrary decision of other men. To the immediately obvious answer that this all depends upon whether the planning authorities are democratically chosen and controlled, he rebuts that the kind of decisions which have to be taken by such authorities are not the kind upon which a majority can ever agree. Such decisions, he says, necessitate an independent choice by governing authorities, even though they are democratic, between the claims of minorities. This necessity will in the end amount to the choice being arbitrarily made by those who exercise the power. He claims further that because agreement on such questions cannot be arrived at democratically, those who govern, no matter how democratically they are chosen, no matter how good their intentions, will then have continually to increase their use of sheer power to enforce those decisions. The net result will be a completely regimented society in which the individual would have no freedom and no real voice. The conditions Hayek described — arbitrary state power, individuals with no freedom or voice — already existed in Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s National Socialist (Nazi) Germany, which Hayek contended were basically the same. That was also recognized by Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi, author of Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany. “In their many bloody clashes for dominance in Germany,” Massaquoi wrote, “the Nazis and Commies were virtually indistinguishable. Both were totalitarians, ever ready to brutalize to crush resistance to their respective ideologies.” Frank Meyer had some distance to travel before he finally ditched Communism and invented conservatism. His encounter with Hayek is on page 126 of Flynn’s book, with hundreds more to come, based on the cache of papers Flynn discovered in a warehouse. This writer has yet to reach the end, but Flynn has already provided good service on Communism in the USA, a subject largely unknown to many Americans. (RELATED: Finding the Lost Papers of the Conservative Movement) Readers meet William Z. Foster, author of Toward Soviet America, the outcast Jay Lovestone, Communist Party USA boss Earl Browder, Stalinist writer Howard Fast, and many others. Through Meyer, readers learn of the Popular Front and the Nazi-Soviet Pact. As Flynn shows, Stalin’s alliance with Hitler drove many out of the Communist Party. Meyer remained as the CPUSA rebranded as the Communist Political Association, and the Communist International, better known as the Comintern, became the Cominform. Stalin ended that accommodation through the Duclos letter, a signal to launch the war against the West and hide Soviet control of national Communist parties. As Flynn notes, after his review of The Road to Serfdom, Meyer never wrote another article for The New Masses. At the time Hayek’s book got a frosty reception, and so did George Orwell’s anti-Stalinist Animal Farm, rejected by several publishers, including T.S. Eliot on behalf of Faber and Faber. American politicians show little if any familiarity with these classics. For example, Minnesota governor and Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, who has spent time in Communist China, describes socialism as “neighborliness.” New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani claims socialism means only that the state “provides whatever is necessary for its people to live a dignified life.” So the government should take over apartment buildings, open grocery stores, and so forth. Refugees from Cuba and the Eastern Bloc could testify that such measures don’t work. Friedrich Hayek and ex-communist Frank Meyer could explain how the free market always outperforms a command economy, and it’s not even close. Here’s hoping that The Man Who Invented Conservatism gets the readership it deserves. READ MORE from Lloyd Billingsley: To Harvard and Back with Julie Su COVID Comeback Con Ninth Circuit Shoots Down California’s Background Checks for Ammunition Purchases Lloyd Billingsley is a policy fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif.

September is shaping up to be such a pivotal month, and right now major powers all over the globe are positioning themselves for what is to come. Just when we thought that global peace may be breaking out, it appears that a lot more war is on the horizon. In fact, I just added yet another potential military conflict to the list of stuff that I am going to talk about in this article. Ominously, the signs that things could really start breaking loose next month just continue to pile up. Let me start with the “standoff” between the United States and Venezuela.  The following comes from a Time Magazine article entitled “4,000 Troops and 4,500,000 Militiamen: What to Know About the U.S.-Venezuela Standoff”… The U.S. and Venezuela appear to be heading towards a standoff with neither country indicating a willingness to back down. The Venezuelan government on Monday mobilized more than four million militia troops seemingly in response to reports of U.S. naval movements in the region. President Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro really do not like one another. This goes all the way back to the early days of Trump’s first term in office. But would Trump really be willing to go to war with Venezuela? Let’s hope not, but this week three U.S. Navy missile destroyers and approximately 4,000 U.S. military personnel were deployed “to the edge of Venezuela’s territorial waters”… On Monday, the U.S. government ordered three U.S. Navy missile destroyers—USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham and USS Sampson—and around 4,000 military personnel to the edge of Venezuela’s territorial waters, according to Reuters. The Administration confirmed to CNN last week that it had ordered naval movements as part of an effort to stymie drug trafficking. The Trump Administration is also committing additional military assets in the broader region within international airspace and waters, including several P-8 spy planes, warships, and an attack submarine, an official told Reuters. Personally, I think that it is likely that we will see U.S. military action in Mexico before we see it in Venezuela. According to Ken Klippenstein, “lethal strikes against cartel targets inside Mexico” are being prepared, and we are looking at a potential timeframe of “mid-September”… The Trump administration has directed the military to prepare for lethal strikes against cartel targets inside Mexico, three military sources tell us. The Top Secret planning order, issued in late Spring, directs Northern Command (NORTHCOM) to manage the attacks, which are to be ready by mid-September. Though U.S.-Mexico military relations are broad and cooperative, any military action south of the border is considered extremely sensitive for both Washington and the Mexican federal government and is rarely discussed in public. “Not only is Donald Trump uniquely focused on TCOs [transnational criminal organizations, the official name for cartels], having designated them terrorists in one of his first Executive Orders, but he has shown himself to be willing to take unilateral action despite potentially negative political ramifications,” says one senior intelligence official. He and the other sources say that military action could be unilateral — that is, without the involvement or approval of the Mexican government. The Mexican government has already told the Trump administration that it will not sanction such attacks. So we would be conducting military attacks on Mexican soil without their permission. That is an act of war. Meanwhile, the IDF is preparing to launch a major military operation in Gaza… Israel’s military is moving forward with plans to take over Gaza City, officials said Wednesday, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighs a Hamas cease-fire proposal that would anger hard-liners in his government but, potentially, ensure the safe release of some hostages. Troops had reached the city’s outskirts and tents were being moved into southern Gaza for people who would be displaced from their homes once the operation begins, an Israeli military official who requested anonymity in line with military protocol, said at a briefing for journalists. According to the Times of Israel, approximately 60,000 reservists are being called up, and most of them will be reporting for duty on September 2nd… Some 60,000 Israeli reservists were set to receive call-up orders that the military will issue starting Wednesday for an offensive against Hamas in Gaza City, after Defense Minister Israel Katz approved the army’s plans, according to the Israel Defense Forces and security officials. The orders were not immediate, but rather were slated to take place in several waves. The majority — around 40,000-50,000 — would be ordered to show up for duty on September 2. There it is again. We keep seeing references to the month of September over and over again. Why is that? Of course we could see the conflict between Israel and Iran flare up again very soon as well. In fact, a top Iranian official just publicly stated that Iran is “not in a ceasefire, we are in a stage of war”… “We are not in a ceasefire, we are in a stage of war,” Yahya Rahim Safavi, a senior military adviser to Iran’s Supreme LeaderAli Khamenei, told Iranian media. “I think another war may happen, and after that, there may be no more wars.” Uh, what did he mean when he said “after that, there may be no more wars”? Can someone please ask him to clarify that? Iran may have taken a beating during the 12 day conflict that we witnessed in June, but they are certainly not backing down. In fact, the Iranians are warning us that they have just developed brand new missiles with even greater capabilities… Iran warned on Wednesday that it was prepared for any new Israeli attack, announcing it had developed missiles with greater capabilities than those used during the recent war. “The missiles used in the 12-day war were manufactured… a few years ago,” Defense Minister Aziz Nassirzadeh said, quoted by the official IRNA news agency. “Today, we have manufactured and possess missiles with far greater capabilities than previous missiles, and if the Zionist enemy embarks on the adventure again, we will undoubtedly use them.” Will the Iranians show these missiles off during the missile drills that begin on Thursday?… Iran is set to begin a two-day missile drill on Thursday in the northern Indian Ocean and Sea of Oman, signaling military strength after June’s 12-day war with Israel and the United States. The exercise will include missile launches and drone and electronic warfare operations, underlining Tehran’s determination to demonstrate readiness for any new phase of confrontation. Let me switch gears and talk about the conflict in Ukraine. We have just learned that a total of 1.7 million Ukrainians have lost their lives up to this point in the war… “The digital records from the Ukrainian General Staff show staggering numbers: over the course of three years, Ukraine’s military has lost 1.7 million personnel. The breakdown includes 118,500 deaths in 2022, 405,400 in 2023, 595,000 in 2024, and a record 621,000 in 2025. This data was obtained through a large-scale hack of the computers and local network of the General Staff’s employees by hacking groups including Killnet, Palach Pro, User Sec, and Beregini. The cyberattack utilized a malware known as ‘Nuance’, which is designed to function only within Ukraine’s borders. This malicious software infects victims’ devices, downloads sensitive information, and locks the devices, rendering them unrecoverable.” An entire generation of Ukrainian men is being wiped out. This war needs to stop. Unfortunately, officials in Moscow are playing down talk that there could be a bilateral summit between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine any time soon… The Kremlin has played down talk of an imminent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, as Donald Trump renewed his call for the two leaders to meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. The push for a bilateral meeting comes after the US president met Putin in Alaska last week, and welcomed seven European leaders and Zelensky to the White House on Monday. Needless to say, the Trump administration is not going to wait around for something to happen indefinitely. Even now, war hawks such as U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham are salivating at the prospect of slapping harsh new sanctions on Russia… Graham, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, spoke with Trump Tuesday morning, and has for months been pushing a major bipartisan sanctions bill targeting Moscow – which if passed would impose heavy tariffs on countries that help fund Russia’s military in Ukraine by purchasing its oil, gas, uranium, and other exports. Trump has yet to endorse it, leaving time for breakthrough negotiations toward final peace settlement, though it reportedly has the support of 85 senators at this point. “If we don’t have this thing moving in the right direction by the time we get back, then I think that plan B needs to kick in,” Graham told The Associated Press. Pressure continues building on the Republican president: “Trump believes that if Putin doesn’t do his part, that he’s going to have to crush his economy. Because you’ve got to mean what you say,” Graham said. We have one last chance for peace with the Russians. We must not blow it. And we need to be very careful with China too. This week, the Chinese are very upset that Taiwanese soldiers just participated in military training exercises here in the United States… United States-Taiwan military cooperation raises the risk of a Taiwan Strait conflict, the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., told Newsweek. The warning was in response to reports that hundreds of Taiwanese troops joined an annual National Guard exercise that ended on Saturday, as part of Taipei’s efforts to prepare for a potential Chinese invasion. I know that I went through a lot of stuff very rapidly in this article. The bottom line is that we really are living in a period of history when there is endless talk of wars and rumors of wars. Decisions that are being made right now could dramatically alter the course of human history, and it appears that the month of September is likely to be a time when global events really start to accelerate in a major way. Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com. About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today. 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by Mike LaChance, The Gateway Pundit: CBS has settled the lawsuit brought by President Trump over the creative editing they did with their Kamala Harris interview during the 2024 election. It’s widely believed that the network settled because they did not want Trump’s lawyers to be able to start digging through their internal documents and […]

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