Carrie Underwood is speaking out after receiving backlash following the announcement that she will be performing at Trump’s inauguration. Keep watching to see what she had to say!
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The internet found out Carrie Underwood would be singing at Trump’s inauguration and it’s causing a roar of online backlash and she’s spoken out. After it hit the ‘net that Carrie would be performing “America the Beautiful” as Trump becomes president again, the most popular response was internet trolls saying now they know why he cheated, or that they hope he cheats again, referencing her Billboard hit. And that’s not it… Some fans were quick to point out they think Kelly Clarkson as the better American Idol. And even a well-known Carrie Underwood fan page rebranded to support country singer Megan Moroney.
After the frenzy, Underwood said to us in a statement: “I love our country and am honored to have been asked to sing at the inauguration and to be a small part of this historic event. I am humbled to answer the call at a time when we must all come together in the spirit of unity and looking to the future.”
Carrie Underwood Speaks Out About Performing at Trump’s Inauguration | Billboard News.
“Democrats on the Hill have been gushing . . . over their own performance regarding the certification of the outcome of the 2024 election,” notes Mike Mulvaney at The Hill, with no Dem challenging the Republican victory for the first time since 1988.
But the self-congratulation for their “grace and elegance” needs context. “Where was it during the election cycle?”
Vice President Kamala Harris certifying the results of the 2024 presidential election next to House Speaker Mike Johnson on Jan. 6, 2025. Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
Dems repeatedly called Trump a “fascist” “determined to destroy American democracy.”
“And no course on grace and elegance in American politics would be complete without the obligatory Hitler references.”
Don’t think it’s changed: “Regarding Biden’s cordial post-election meeting with Trump in the Oval Office, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured us that ‘Biden’s thoughts about democracy being under threat’ still applied.”
“Which tells me that the vote on certification was more of a political charade than anything else.
”Conservative: Biden’s No Jimmy Carter
At the Jimmy Carter service in DC, “Joe Biden’s eulogy was mainly a reminder of how different the two men were, particularly when it came to honesty and character,” snarks The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly A. Strassel.
They faced similar policy challenge
s: “inflation, energy, crime, global disorder.”
But their contrasting characters separate them — “one devoted to country and faith, one to party and self.”
“Carter was elected on a promise never to lie to the American people, and he honored it.”
“Mr. Biden promised he wouldn’t pardon his son Hunter” for serious crimes, yet he did it anyway.
Despite praising Carter’s “character” in his eulogy, it is obvious Biden hadn’t “learned something from the 39th president’s example.
”Liberal: The Unstoppable Rise of Energy Realism
Democrats are stuck on “a climate catastrophist narrative on energy policy,” observes The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira, demanding “immediate replacement of fossil fuels, including natural gas, by renewables, wind and solar.”
Yet despite vast green spending, the US “share of energy consumption from fossil fuels remains over 80 percent just as it does in the world as a whole.”
And Dems just lost to Trump, “whose priority is cheap, abundant energy — not clean energy.”
Indeed, says Teixeira, “lifting up the billions in the world who suffer from energy poverty and the stunted lives and living standards such poverty produces is or should be a moral imperative” — far more so than seeking Net Zero carbon emissions.
It “also overlaps in important ways with emerging voter sentiment about these issues,” especially working-class voters.
Dems need “their own version of energy realism — rather than pursuing the dead-end of climate catastrophism.”Thiel: A Time for Truth & Reconciliation
Donald Trump’s “return to the White House augurs” an unveiling of secrets kept hidden by “the old guard’s war on the internet,” argues Peter Thiel in the Financial Times.
Perhaps we’ll resolve questions about the deaths of Jeffrey Epstein and President John Kennedy; we must “end the lockdown on a free discussion about Covid-19.”
Anthony Fauci and his top adviser David Morens “will have the chance to share some indecent facts about our own recent plague. Did they suspect that Covid spawned from US taxpayer-funded research, or an adjacent Chinese military programme? Why did we fund the work of EcoHealth Alliance, which sent researchers into remote Chinese caves to extract novel coronaviruses?”
And “how did our government stop the spread of such questions on social media?”
Trump declassifications “need not justify vengeance — reconstruction can go hand in hand with reconciliation. But for reconciliation to take place, there must first be truth.
”Libertarian: Ortega’s War on Christianity
Since 2018, “Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians,” warns Reason’s Katarina Hall.
Initially targeting the Catholic Church, President Daniel Ortega and his wife/VP Rosario Murillo have “forcibly closed” more than “1,100 religious entities” and dissolved the “Episcopal Diocese of Nicaragua along with 92 other religious organizations.”
“Easter processions, Christmas celebrations, and even cemetery prayers have all been outlawed.”
The previous standard for seawater was 8% lower than pure water, making this a landmark achievement.
Researchers at the University of South Australia have made a major breakthrough in addressing global water scarcity, according to Tech Xplore.
Over 70% of the world may be covered in water, but the vast majority is in the ocean — which is undrinkable. Up to 36% of the global population is without freshwater for at least four months of the year, and that number is at risk of doubling in the coming decades, Tech Xplore reported
Still, the ocean blue presents an opportunity: seawater can be evaporated, stripped of the high salt content that makes it unusable, and then turned into safe, drinkable water.
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The problem with this thermal desalination method has always been the large amount of energy it needs and the slow rate of evaporation. That’s where the study’s findings, published in the Advanced Materials journal, come in.
The researchers were able to speed up the evaporation rate of seawater to be 18.8% higher than pure water. The previous standard for seawater was 8% lower than pure water, making this a landmark achievement, Tech Xplore explained.
To accomplish such a feat, researchers added a concoction of minerals into the tank where seawater was evaporating. According to Professor Haolan Xu, one of the study’s authors, the resulting chemistry involves an exchange of ions at the surface between air and water, which speeds up the evaporation, the outlet reported.
This is the Carlsbad Desalina Tion plant outside San Diego,
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On top of the boost in efficiency, the minerals themselves are readily available and inexpensive, making the entire process highly convenient and cost-effective, Professor Xu told Tech Xplore.
With about 17,000 desalination plants worldwide, this breakthrough can have an immediate impact in boosting the amount of clean water available to those who need it — although there are environmental drawbacks to consider. Researchers hope to continue pushing the speed of evaporation in the future to further secure the global water supply, Tech Xplore reported.
“This new strategy, which could be easily integrated into existing evaporation-based desalination systems, will provide additional access to massive amounts of clean water, benefiting billions of people worldwide,” said Prof Xu, per Tech Xplore.
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