Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris ruffled a lot of feathers. Not because your average conservative cares what Swift thinks — but because her platform has the power to sway many young, impressionable minds. However, an ABC News/Ipsos poll shows that Swift’s support actually won’t matter much — as 81% of voters say it won’t influence them, and only 6% are now more likely to vote for Harris. And 13% said they’re now less likely to vote for Kamala after Swift’s endorsement, which is why former president Donald Trump’s response to it probably wasn’t his best move. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” “What is the point of that?” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments. “After the story was breaking in his favor, the support was going his way, not Kamala’s way after Taylor Swift’s endorsement,” Keith Malinak agrees. Gray believes there’s also “so much Kamala policy that is vulnerable” that there’s a never-ending stream of damaging material for Trump to highlight, rather than the political opinion of a pop star. “You don’t have to do that; there’s no reason for it,” Gray says. Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

President Donald Trump may have lost part of his ear in the first of the two recent attempts on his life, but he hasn't lost his sense of humor. Cable talk show host Greg Gutfeld asked the president Wednesday, "Mr. T, how's your golf game?" Trump responded, "Well, I haven't been thinking about it too much lately. I always said golf was a very dangerous game." Just days earlier, a Democratic donor with an unhealthy interest in Ukraine's war effort reportedly camped out with a rifle for 12 hours at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, with the apparent objective of murdering Kamala Harris' opponent. 'Do I have a choice?' Extra to lauding the work of the U.S. Secret Service agent who spotted the gunman, Trump emphasized the heroism of the woman who chased after suspected would-be assassin Ryan Routh and provided the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office with what they needed to track him down. "How smart! Who would do this? She sees somebody running, and she didn't like the way he looked — very suspicious — and followed him and took the car, parked it right behind his, and started taking pictures of the license plate," said Trump. "She's very much a heroine." Gutfeld asked the president how he's been able to process these attacks, especially without being overcome by anger. "Do I have a choice?" said Trump. "What am I going to do, right?" Trump acknowledged that his is a dangerous job, made even more dangerous by his relative impact. "I was thinking a lot about it over the last period of time — since Butler," said Trump, referencing the fatal shooting at his July 13 rally in Pennsylvania. "Being president is a very dangerous job because with a race car driver, it's a dangerous job. It's like 1/10 of 1% die. With a bull rider — I think bull riding looks pretty scary, right? — it's a little bit more than that die. With a president, what is it, 6% or 7%? It's the most dangerous profession there is." Of the 46 presidents who have so far taken the oath of office, eight have died while in power. Four of the eight were assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. Other presidents, including Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan, were targeted for assassination but survived. Theodore Roosevelt was injured in an assassination attempt but after leaving office. Trump suggested that if there was a silver lining to his attacks, it's that they put him in good company: "It's always a consequential president that gets shot at." Once again, the president credited God with his continued existence, noting the recent attacks have him spending more time thinking about the Almighty. 'I don't know if this country is ready for it.' Although the interview was front-loaded with humor, including about the falsehoods and inciting rhetoric advanced by Democrats and their media allies, Trump did, however, get deadly serious on the subject of drug traffickers. Gutfeld panelist George "Tyrus" Murdoch hit Trump with a heavy question deep in the segment: "If you're in office, would you consider taking importation of fentanyl as a terrorist act? Because if you count it under terrorism, then our Department of Defense can get involved. We can give our law enforcement a break. ... I mean, you could send pictures of the mansions of certain generals in Mexico." Murdoch was referencing the account of how Trump showed a Taliban official a satellite image of his home during the withdrawal negotiations and told him he would kill him if he harmed a single American. Trump indicated he's tired of well-meaning but altogether useless committees tasked with discussing the issue of fentanyl trafficking. "It's ridiculous," said Trump. "They don't even want to talk about it. They talk about it for two minutes then they start talking about society." "The only way you're going to stop this is the death penalty for drug dealers," continued Trump. "I don't know if this country is ready for it, but if you think about it, each drug dealer, on average, kills 500 people." Trump has recommended this policy for years, prickling leftists who claim that doing so would violate international human rights laws. It is now baked into his 2024 agenda, which states: President Trump will take down the drug cartels just as he took down ISIS. He will impose a total naval embargo on cartels, order the Department of Defense to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership and operations, designate cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and choke off their access to the global financial system. ... He will ask Congress to ensure that drug smugglers and traffickers can receive the Death Penalty. When President Trump is back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Who is the happiest person you know? What are their character and lifestyle like? Is anyone actually happy?The idea of “happiness” in contemporary culture is often a misguided notion, a vague concept meaning something like “unadulterated contentedness devoid of suffering” that tends to leave people endlessly unsatisfied whenever they use it a a guiding principle around which to structure their lives. Under this framework, any amount of dissatisfaction is unacceptable, any hardship an attack on the elusive search for “happiness.” A life devoid of any pain or discomfort at all is an impossible standard for anyone. In that sense, no one can be “happy” all the time. Unless they have an e-course to sell you.A more meaningful metric to orient life satisfaction around is something like whether someone is at peace with the overall trajectory of his or her life. The good news is that there are plenty of people who fit this description. The bad (or also good, depending on how you see things) news is that their lives generally look similar. They have a sense of purpose that gives their lives meaning, whether that’s from work or family life; they have close relationships, usually both in the form of family and friendships; they are in good health; and they generally have a sense of gratitude and a glass-half-full outlook toward whatever comes their way. And it goes without saying that none of them are Slavic.For additional insights into the importance of purpose in life over everything else, I highly recommend reading Viktor Frankl’s "Man’s Search for Meaning." It is a useful antidote to the rhetoric of of “happiness” that pervades our culture.What are your thoughts on dating people with different class backgrounds? I'm a second-generation immigrant who grew up in an East Asian household. Despite a late start in life, I now live in San Francisco, am successful and fit, and have been getting a lot of attention from the ladies, many of whom come from very different class backgrounds and run in different friend circles. I want to marry based on love and mutual trust, so these superficialities don’t bother me much, but I worry there may be misunderstandings due to the differences. What are your thoughts?First of all, congratulations on being the only man in San Francisco capable of getting not only one but multiple dates. This is a true accomplishment.Many studies have backed the hypothesis of “assortative mating,” which is the idea that people tend to pair off with people like themselves, including the same level of attractiveness and socio-economic status.I think there is probably something of a disconnect between how your perceive yourself (outsider, immigrant) and how the women you are dating perceive you. One of the unique elements of American society rarely found anywhere else is that of social mobility. Maybe you were born into one type of social class, but you have moved into a different class by virtue of your own merit. Water seeks its own level, and whether you are aware of it or not, the dating marketplace has probably been matching you appropriately.It is true that different family backgrounds could present unique challenges to a relationship, as could different cultural backgrounds, but rarely are these insurmountable. Now, if you were living in an Amish community and trying to marry into the Kardashian family, that would probably cause serious consternation. But a tech bro marrying the daughter of a tech bro? That’s just San Francisco.Will autistic men ever find love?Richard Feynman had three wives, so the answer is: absolutely! (If you don’t agree with this diagnosis of the great physicist, you have not read his memoirs.) Many, many autistic men have found love. I have a dear friend who, once he embraced his eccentric personality and became more confident in himself, has found himself faced with more interest from the fairer sex than he knows how to manage.There are certain difficulties autistic men will have to navigate, of course, but they are not impossible. If the hit show "Love on the Spectrum" has taught us anything, it’s that even on the far end of the spectrum, there is a lid for every pot.Autistic men have two advantages in the dating world. The first is that they have an array of special interests about which they can speak passionately. Contrary to what feminist lore tells us, women love mansplaining. It signals competence and intelligence, two qualities women often look for in a man. The second advantage is that the occasional disregard for social norms that autistic men often demonstrate can be very charming in its display of naïveté. It comes off as genuine and earnest — both of which are hard to find in a dating market full of disingenuous would-be Don Juans.Of course, not every woman will be taken with the idiosyncrasies of the autistic man, but there are plenty who will be, and you’re only looking for one.Are traditional religious injunctions against pride and vanity a necessary means of restraining narcissism, or do they prevent gifted individuals from having the confidence necessary to achieve their potential?Discovering Nietzsche and its consequences have been a disaster for teenage boys everywhere. Leaving aside theological debates about the cardinal sins, one could argue from a pragmatic standpoint that major religions have evolved as successful social technologies that have allowed civilization to function by minimizing friction between individuals. Curtailing pride is one means of indirectly curtailing the downstream effects of other cardinal sins like envy, greed, or wrath. Few, if any, sins exist in a vacuum.That being said, I would argue that no truly gifted individual with a strong will has ever let any injunction against pride and vanity, religious or otherwise, hold him or her back. Just like that “gifted” program in school did not make anyone a burnout. Barring extreme circumstances, the only person holding you back is you.Why would I take advice from a minor goddess who was exiled to a remote island by her own father?Because I have had thousands of years of observation of the human condition and its various iterations to draw upon. And because no one else will tell you the truth.

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There's been a lot of talk about YouTube ads in the past few years, as Google has made an aggressive move against YouTube ad blockers. Google's stance is understandable. Commercials are what make services like YouTube available for free. They also help creators make money. Google's aggressive stance has seen some backlash, and the company will soon upset YouTube users even more by increasing the number of ads in videos. The company will bring advertisements to paused videos, which sounds annoying when you first hear about it. But the more I think about it, the more sense it makes, assuming Google is willing to tone down other YouTube ads in exchange. Continue reading... The post YouTube will start showing even more ads soon appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $375+ free Today’s deals: $20 Amazon credit, 23% off Galaxy Z Flip 6, $50 Ninja blender, $48 Anker ANC earbuds, more Today’s deals: First Apple Watch Series 10 discount, $20 waterproof speaker, $17 myQ garage controller, more Today’s deals: $189 AirPods Pro, $50 DASH air fryer, $4.50 iPhone chargers, $99 DEWALT drill bundle, more

There is a remarkable tombstone installed in a church in Jamestown, Virginia, the site of the first English settlement in North America in 1607. The tombstone dates to 1627, and is covered with carved depressions (once filled with brass inlays) that depict the outline of an English knight with a sword and shield. But while the exact location of the first burial site has been lost, researchers have uncovered a fascinating piece of information about this 400-year-old memorial. They have determined that the limestone used to make the tombstone was quarried overseas in Belgium, before being shipped to London for later transport to the New World. Did the Conquest of the New World Save the Spanish Empire? Journey to Knighthood: The Hidden Steps of Becoming a Medieval Knight 300-Million-Year-Old Fossils Reveal Existence of a Colonial Era Trade Route In their new study, Dr. Marcus Key, a professor of natural philosophy from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, and Dr. Rebecca Rossi from the California Geological Survey analyzed some chips of rock that came from the knight’s tombstone. They were searching for the remnants of ancient fossils, which are easily preserved in limestone.  "Due to the evolutionary process, biological species are much more unique through time and space than chemical elements or isotopic ratios," Dr. Key explained in an interview published by Phys.org. Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyAncient PlacesAmericasRead Later 

Donald Trump asked if Vice President Kamala Harris will "resign in disgrace" from politics after the FBI said Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden's campaign in information stolen from the former president's campaign.

Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centered in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary appears to local people, the Vatican said Thursday.