It’s Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022…but before we begin, we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for a late-breaking development in the Paul Pelosi trial. We take you now to Jesse Watters with for the latest confirmation we’re living under a two-tiered system of justice:
And it has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the color of your skin.
Now, back to The Gouge!
First up, her personal reasons (as further explored by Jesse in our Video of the Day, accessible through link #2 immediately below the Quote of the Day at the top of the page) notwithstanding, writing at his Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty offers congratulations as…
“…But once the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives says she’s going to Taiwan, and the Chinese government demands that she cancel the visit, the speaker must go to Taiwan. Otherwise, backing down communicates to China that if it rattle the saber enough, it can veto what our political leaders do. What happens when China demands that no other American officials travel to Taiwan? What happens when Beijing demands that the U.S. shut down our de facto embassy, the American Institute in Taiwan, or demands an end to commercial air travel between the U.S. and Taiwan? At what point do we say, “Sorry, pal, but we’re a sovereign country and we make our own decisions”?
If Pelosi doesn’t go, then the United States will have backed down from a bully, and bullies are rarely satiated by one victory…”
As regards bullies and those disposed to submitting to their never-ending demands, Geraghty goes into greater detail on the subject:
“…Many people in politics like to think of themselves as the noble, brave, and righteous types who are willing to stand up to a bully — and obviously, few people in politics think of themselves as bullies. But there’s the key question of which bully a person chooses to oppose.Some of the forces on the globe that seem most indisputable bullies are not always treated as such.
The Chinese government is obviously a bully, but not every American wants to stand up to Xi Jinping, because a lot of economically and socially powerful Americans have a lot of money at stake in a continued partnership with China. Corporate America’s quick, sweeping moves in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine offered a strange contrast to the way corporate America rarely if ever uttered a critical word about the government of China, despite its ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs, its human-rights abuses, its oppression of Hong Kong, its threats toward Taiwan, etc.
We’re all anti-bullying . . . unless we’ve got a few billion dollars at stake in the bully’s consumer market. Then, all of a sudden, standing up to a bully gets complicated.
I mentioned Russia a few paragraphs ago. The Biden administration would argue that right now, it’s standing up to Vladimir Putin. The problem is that one of the reasons Putin is the threat that he is today is because there was no sufficiently consequential U.S. response to the occupation of Crimea, the aggression in the Donbas, Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 being shot down by Russian-backed forces, and other acts of belligerence. Sure, Biden says he wants to stand up to the bully now. But if he and Barack Obama and their teams had done so around, say, spring 2014, the world might not be in the mess it is in today.
Does anyone want to dispute that the Iranian regime is a bully, both to its own citizens and dissidents, and to its neighbors in the region? And yet, the Biden administration has spent a year and a half begging it to come back to the negotiating table. This administration has also sent out social-media messages in Farsi declaring, “Racism exists in America. Xenophobia exists in America. Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia.” (Because if there’s any group of people on Earth who vehemently oppose antisemitism, it’s the Iranian mullahs, right?) If we’re standing up to the bully, why are we also trying to make a deal with him?
Really…immediately prior to Pelosi deplaning in Taipei? Why not just hang a PRC flag from the White House; Or better yet, fly a white flag?!?
But here’s the real question: Why kowtow to China at all; Why on earth does the United States continue to be bound by a policy put in place by Richard Nixon, a President Progressives despise, and who resigned his office before he was removed from it?!? Why continue to punish Taiwan while rewarding the Communist regime, particularly when the Nixon/Kissinger policy of normalizing relations with the ChiComs has proven an abject failure?!?
The answer should be obvious: Only if the arrangement is to the financial advantage of those perpetuating a policy completely at odds with our nation’s security and the well-being of its citizens.
Since we’re on the subject of those reaping personal profit by perpetuating policies completely at odds with our nation’s security and the well-being of its citizens, writing at Townhall.com, Derek Hunter asks and answers…
“If you were alive in the 1990s you saw the fight against HIV and AIDS morph from a serious one to a clown show. Why? Because Democrats wanted to “avoid stigmatizing” people not only most at risk, but those most as risk by a longshot. The left didn’t want to point out that promiscuous, unprotected sex between men was the most common and easiest way to get HIV. Few heterosexuals contracted HIV through sex, and those who did could either trace it back to a man engaging in gay sex or an IV drug user. In other words, HIV was not an easy virus to catch. Still, Democrats lied about it. Why? Pretty much the same reason they lie about everything.
By changing the narrative to one that “anyone can get HIV” – something true, but really only technically – Democrats actually downplayed the danger gay men faced from the virus.If anyone can get it there is no reason to take any special precautions or ever really be careful at all.
MTV was inundated with public service announcements feature all the bands of the day insisting HIV was basically out there stalking you. In reality, it wasn’t. While not impossible, the odds of transmission through heterosexual sex were infinitesimal compared to gay sex. Transmission among lesbians was the rarest of all. But you weren’t allowed to say that, you had to live in fear to avoid the “stigma!”
How many people died because Democrats prevented people from speaking the truth? Now we have the monkeypox outbreak. If you didn’t know any better you swear it was a virus out there stalking everyone, just waiting for its chance to pounce. But the facts tell a different story.
NBC News reported on a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that, “The global monkeypox outbreak is primarily being driven by sex between men, according to the first major peer-reviewed paper to analyze a large set of cases of the virus.” In fact, 95 percent of cases were traced to back to gay sex, and the other 5 percent featured someone who lied. OK, I have no basis for that last part other than a sneaking suspicion.
But you can’t say either of those points without being declared a bigot by leftists and libertarians alike. On Fox Business, this truth was denounced as homophobic because the host and the other guests simply didn’t like it. Sorry, but reality is not dependent upon your belief in it.
The idea that some kind of “stigma” would harm gay people is antiquated thinking. It’s a byproduct of the white liberal savior complex – the idea that certain people “need protection” because they simply can’t handle life on their own. Gay people, like everyone else the left claims domain over protecting, aren’t a fragile group of snowflakes. And if some of them are, tough. If you want people to stop transmitting monkeypox, and people should, you have to be honest about who is most likely to get it.
But progressives are committed to the lie, and when they commit to a lie they are more committed than they are to a marriage.
Monkeypox is a threat to everyone. Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth does not mean a recession. Joe Biden isn’t a creepy pervert suffering from dementia who profited off his government positions and was a horrible father who raised degenerates. You know, irrefutable facts denied because they are inconvenient to the left.
You can’t really expect much else from people who attempt to deify violent criminals and junkies, to the point of enabling riots that ruin cities, simply to score some cheap political points. Generations of the people Democrats claim domain over the guardianship of have been irrevocably harmed by the “help” Democrats offer, what’s one more go-round?
Democrats didn’t care enough to be honest about HIV when AIDS was a death sentence, why would the give a damn about something that is only extremely painful and temporary?
I’m not gay and am married, so monkeypox isn’t an issue in my life. But I care about human beings and don’t want to see them suffer. Plus, I have a little thing I like to call “affection for the truth.” That makes it impossible to sit by silently as people lie for political gain. As I’ve said before, it means I’d make a horrible Democrat.“
Here’s the juice: We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again. Lies are all Liberals have; And they are truly the offspring of the father of lies.
To wit, the Progressive misleaders of both New York State and New York City have declared a state of emergency in their respective jurisdictions because of a virus which is not only almost exclusively spread by men having prolonged contact with other men during homosexual activities, but, while painful, is rarely fatal. Still, the same health experts who assured us of the efficacy of masks and vaccines, as well as the necessity to close schools and destroy the country’s economy, “emphasize that the virus can infect anyone“. Yes…and a rogue bull elephant can burst through our front door and skewer TLJ on its tusks…but we won’t put money on it happening.
Another case in point, courtesy of the Dimocrat-dominated city of Houston:
✅ About 150 vouchers provided for individuals turned away due to line cut off. They will be utilized as priority for future events. pic.twitter.com/FcvSszQFf8
But what should one expect from a body composed of members such as Virginia Rep. Elaine Luria, who voted for the CHIPS and Science Act while owning some $25 million of the same Nvidia stock of which the Pelosi’s were forced to divest themselves. Still, Luria’s thoughts on the subject put even the Obamas, Clintons and Bidens to shame for their pure hubris and chutzpah:
“So my thoughts on it, you know, I think this whole concept is bulls**t. Because I think that, why would you assume that members of Congress are going to be inherently bad or corrupt? We already have the STOCK Act that requires people to report stock trades. Why would you assume – I mean, the people that you’re electing to represent you, it makes no sense that you’re going to automatically assume that they’re going to use their position for some nefarious means or to benefit themselves. So I’m very strongly opposed to any legislation like that.”
Talk about a ready-made campaign ad for her Republican opponent.
Still on the topic of perpetual patent Progressive prevarication, as Townhall.com‘s Katie Pavlich notes, since that drone took Ayman al-Zawahiri out in Kabul…
(2). In a related item demonstrating a total detachment from reality…or a willingness to whore herself out for personal popularity…Jennifer Rubin, the WaPo‘s resident faux-Conservative, suggests Republicans, Trump are turning US into a “banana republic“. Then again…there is the whole Monkeypox outbreak.
(4). Those who know us or have read The Gouge for any length of time know we’re no fan of The Donald, but in an article from Fortune forward by James Patrick suggesting Trump buried Ivana at his New Jersey golf course for tax purposes, the author conflates tax evasion with tax avoidance. The latter is taking advantage of legal loopholes, while the former is a criminal act. Sorry, but only an idiot pays a penny more in taxes than absolutely necessary.
(6). NRO‘s Abigail Anthony offers an ode to the office, noting, “no matter how closely remote work might simulate the real thing, something is missing.” Yeah, close-quarters camaraderie and personal interaction.
…correctly concluding it was digitally edited. Now THAT’s some hard-hitting, cutting-edge investigative journalism. If only they’d put that much effort into confirming the authenticity of the Russian collusion narrative.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from the Great Geffoir…
…the lovely Shannon…
…Speed…
…Breeze…
…Balls…
…and last but not least, two little bon mots from Ed Hickey:
Finally, since we’re on the subject of capital punishment, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, the subject of which truly deserving of the chair, as…
“…Witnesses said they saw Longmire, who was driving for Uber in his black Honda sedan with peeled window tint, arguing with Mouton, who was driving a white BMW, at a stoplight on the Gulf Freeway frontage road. Neither driver exited the vehicle at the time of the argument, investigators said.
Witnesses told police that, when both vehicles started moving, Longmire “stretched his arm out of the driver window with a pistol in his hand” and allegedly shot Mouton. Longmire then took off…”
A young Black male committing an utterly unnecessary, thoroughly heinous homicide with a firearm, the victim of which was another Black man. Obviously a direct result of the legacy of chattel slavery, Jim Crow and systemic racism…and the existence of the 2nd Amendment.
Magoo
Video of the Day
We could be wrong, but it’s our humble opinion Jesse Watters has hit upon the reason for Nancy’s otherwise inexplicable trip to Taiwan, as well as why the Biden crime family is so opposed to it.
Tales of The Darkside
Courtesy of the Nickel, Mark Levin offers a bit of historical insight into the January 6 committee charade. For more on the subject, check out this link forwarded by Balls Cotton: https://canadafreepress.com/article/january-6-the-jig-is-up
On the Lighter Side
Courtesy of our old friend and classmate Don McReavy, enjoy this video of the sinking of the U.S.S. Denver, LPD-9, on which we spent much of the summer of 1974 during Youngster Cruise whilst at the Naval Academy. The Denver holds a special place in our heart, as we made many special friends and many fond memories during our time on her.
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