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Taylor Swift just released her latest album The Life of a Showgirl and her popularity has reached every demographics—including a certain 95-year-old in a Nebraska retirement home. Frank Uryasz is a resident at the Remington Heights Retirement Community in Omaha. He was talking to a worker one day who expressed disappointment that Swift had never […] The post 95-Year-Old Man Starts Taylor Swift Fan Club in Retirement Home and Draws Nationwide Swiftie Support appeared first on Good News Network.

So-called King, Donald Trump, ran in two contested Republican primaries.He ran three times in a general election.He was elected twice, and his party recently won a Republican Congress.In contrast, in 2020, former President Joe Biden did not run a typical campaign.He avoided the public, staying ensconced in his basement. He outsourced his campaign to Democrat politicos, donors, and a sycophantic media.No red state ever sought to remove Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris from their 2024 ballots. In contrast, 25 blue states attempted to take Trump off their ballots.In 2021, Biden’s Department of Justice and FBI raided then-former President Trump’s home. They found only 102 classified documents among some 14,000 seized, but nevertheless, indicted him.There was no such SWAT raid on Biden’s multiple repositories of illegally removed classified documents.All were in less secure places than at Mar-a-Lago. Biden removed them over the course of three decades with impunity. At the time, unlike Trump, he had no presidential prerogatives to declassify them.Special counsel Robert Hur found Biden culpable for the removal of these files but declined to prosecute, claiming that he was too enfeebled to stand trial.In 2024, the same backroom donors and politicos who had conspired to ensure Biden was the 2020 nominee now, against his wishes, in coup-like fashion, removed him from his own reelection ticket.Within 48 hours and without a delegate vote, they crowned Harris as the presumed nominee. Queen Harris had not received a single delegate vote in her disastrous 2020 primary run.Trump, in 2020, did not sic his Department of Justice on his rival, Biden.Nor during his presidency did his Department of Justice indict any past or future political opponent or ex-president.In contrast, Kingly Biden’s White House helped coordinate 91 indictments of his past and future presidential rival, ex-President Trump.A mere three days after Trump announced his reelection bid on November 15, 2022, Jack Smith was coincidentally appointed special prosecutor of Trump.That same day, strangely, Nathan Wade, the Georgia county prosecutor prosecuting Trump, met with Biden’s White House counsel.On the same day, Matthew Colangelo, the former lead prosecutor in Letitia James’ case against Trump, abruptly left his DOJ post. He would soon go on to lead Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump.In the 2020 election, Biden’s surrogates rounded up 51 “intelligence authorities” to lie that Hunter Biden’s authentic and incriminating laptop—then verified but suppressed by the FBI—was the work of the Russians.The Biden-era FBI also joined Twitter, Facebook, and other social media to help smother any media story that might have verified the authenticity of the laptop. The Left portrays Trump’s constitutional right to pardon as the act of a king.In his nearly five years of governance, Trump has pardoned roughly 1,700, including about 1,500 en masse for those convicted for the Jan. 6 protests.That number so far is about 200 fewer pardons than during the Barack Obama administration.Biden, in a mere four years in office, pardoned roughly 4,245 people—the vast majority through autopen signatures and without the full knowledge of Biden himself.Under the Obama and Biden administrations, admitted left-wing government lawbreakers and White House allies were never prosecuted for felonious behavior. CIA head John Brennan admitted to lying twice to Congress.Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confessed to lying under oath to Congress as well.FBI Director James Comey claimed ignorance or amnesia 245 times while under oath to a House oversight committee.Interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe lied four times, often while under oath to government investigators.A federal judge in 2020 admonished John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser and vehement critic, that he had endangered national security by removing sensitive documents to write an anti-Trump campaign-cycle memoir.He also warned Bolton that he could be subject to civil and criminal penalties.Not one of these political grandees was ever indicted by either the Obama or Biden DOJ.Trump’s White House advisors Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were arrested in public for ignoring a congressional subpoena, convicted, and imprisoned.In contrast, top Democrat officials like former attorneys general Eric Holder and Merrick Garland both ignored congressional subpoenas and faced no such indictments.Monarchs might order assassinations of U.S. citizens abroad and surveil the phone records of Associated Press reporters. Obama did both during his tenure.Do kings monitor the phone records of their senatorial opponents?Biden’s special counsel, Jack Smith, did just that.Why then do the Democrats’ “No Kings” protests claim that Trump is a monarch?Answer: Through open and fair elections, the Left lost most of its former political power in Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court. Now in their fury and impotence, Democrats hit the streets—projecting onto their hated nemesis, Trump, their own past preferences for kingly methods. (C)2025 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Who Are the Real Kings? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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HBO’s Bill Maher quipped on Friday’s Real Time that Bernie Sanders-endorsed Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s days as a Democrat are limited and that he might have to become a Republican given his Nazi tattoo and other controversies. Maher began: In bilateral Nazi news, because there's always a lot of Nazi news these days, one Republican and one Democrat. One Republican, the nominee for the Office of Special Counsel, they found out he can't take the job because he was found to have said ‘Sometimes I have a Nazi streak.’ And then, a guy named Graham Platner, is the Democratic candidate in Maine for the Senate, he’s an oyster farmer in Maine, and he has a tattoo that's a Nazi thing. Not good.      At this point Platner, who also has a history of embracing communism, is a Democratic candidate, but he has not won the nomination. Regardless, Maher continued, “On the bright side, I think I have found my Halloween costume: Nazi oyster farmer. But this guy, maybe-Senator Platner, he apologized for his racism and his misogyny, but now there's scrutiny about anti-gay remarks. So, it seems like his days as a Democrat are numbered, and his days as a Republican are just beginning.” Far from the suggestion that Platner’s sins make him a Republican, his biggest supporters are standing by him, and, according to polls, he has a massive lead on Gov. Janet Mills in the primary despite everything Maher mentioned. Meanwhile, it is also interesting that Maher brought up Paul Ingrassia’s doomed nomination because Ingrassia’s nomination was pulled due to lack of GOP support. Couple Platner with Jay Jones in Virginia, and it becomes clear that for a lot of progressives, warnings about Nazis and political rhetoric are just ways to smear Republicans. Recent weeks Republicans have seen Democrats hold their unsavory types accountable. Why can’t Democrats? Here is a transcript for the October 24 show: HBO Real Time with Bill Maher 10/24/2025 10:08 PM ET BILL MAHER: In bilateral Nazi news, because there's always a lot of Nazi news these days, one Republican and one Democrat. One Republican, the nominee for the Office of Special Counsel, they found out he can't take the job because he was found to have said "Sometimes I have a Nazi streak." And then, a guy named Graham Platner, is the Democratic candidate in Maine for the Senate, he’s an oyster farmer in Maine, and he has a tattoo that's a Nazi thing. Not good. On the bright side, I think I have found my Halloween costume: Nazi oyster farmer. That's what I'm going as. But this guy, maybe-Senator Platner, he apologized for his racism and his misogyny, but now there’s scrutiny about anti-gay remarks. So, it seems like his days as a Democrat are numbered, and his days as a Republican are just beginning. 

Over the past decade, smartphones have taken over the lives of people across the world. People no longer work, play, or even leave the house without them — and at this point, many essentially live through them.And the consequences, Richard Ryan, co-founder of Black Rifle Coffee Company, says, may be disastrous in more ways than one.Those who live through their phones, often as content creators, base their worth off of the feedback from others through some distant screen. But your worth is then contingent on whether or not the platform you use to post agrees with your content.“You’re getting hundreds of millions of views, and then all of a sudden a social platform, because they disagree with you on the type of content you create, turns that off,” Ryan tells BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan on "Back to the People."“Your distribution is completely shut off and then all of a sudden your self-worth feels like, ‘Oh, OK,’ and you take this kind of psychological hit,” he says, noting that the youth largely makes up the content-creating portion of the population.“I think about how many younger people work on creating content for these platforms, and there’s something to be said for when you have a large audience and you lose it in any capacity. You’re trying to chase the dragon in that it’s kind of tragic and when that social capital goes away,” he explains.“Yeah, you hear of these really sad stories of social media TikTokers that have serious mental health issues. Some commit suicide, and they’re very young. And if you think about how much of their lives they’ve spent creating content,” Shanahan agrees solemnly.And it’s not just that their content is subject to censorship or criticism that can prove dangerous to their psyche, but “being present in the moment.”“You look at how many people have their phones out at every aspect of their life to record this thing,” Ryan says, noting that there “are a few studies” that broke down the way the brain stores memories.“The event of you recording something, your brain is logging it as the phone recording the thing, not the thing itself,” he says.“So say you’re watching fireworks or whatever, which nobody ever rewatches their Fourth of July fireworks videos after they share them to social media, but your brain’s logging it as remembering recording the fireworks and not the fireworks themselves,” he explains.An example he uses is driving to work via the same route every single day, which your brain will not separate into different experiences unless there is variability in your commute.“It’s the same thing with your lived experience. If your phone is always the focus of this thing, you’re kind of losing the long-term effects of storing that memory,” he says, noting that the end result could spell disaster.“The downstream effects I think we’ll find that a lot of this will have some type of implications for memory or cognitive decline, definitely emotional atrophy and different neurological processes for sure,” he says.Want more from Nicole Shanahan?To enjoy more of Nicole's compelling blend of empathy, curiosity, and enlightenment, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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