The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, April 26th, 2023

On April 27, 2023, in Uncategorized, by magoo1310

It’s Wednesday, April 26th, 2023…but before we begin, courtesy of Marcus Aurelius, here’s Jason Whitlock’s observations on Tucker’s termination:

In a related item, Jim Geraghty offers a few facts you should have in mind when attempting to make sense of Carlson’s departure.

Tucker…gone?

Now, here’s The Gouge!

We don’t normally lead off with a video, but this snippet from Jordan Peterson so perfectly epitomizes the prevailing Progressive perspective it deserves top billing:

WOW!  Watching this clip, one word came to mind:

Next, in a story some of you might not have heard of before today, the Morning Jolt relates…

The Biggest Scoop That Had the Smallest Consequence

The Immigrant-Child-Abuse Scandal That Generated Yawns

 

“A week ago, New York Times investigative reporter Hannah Dreier reported that the Biden administration had ignored and downplayed repeated signs that migrant children were being widely exploited — “working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machinery in factories — all in violation of child labor laws.” It was and is a massive, shocking scoop:

Over the past two years, more than 250,000 migrant children have come alone to the United States. Thousands of children have ended up in punishing jobs across the country — working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machinery in factories — all in violation of child labor laws, a recent Times investigation showed. After the article’s publication in February, the White House has announced policy changes and a crackdown on companies that hire children.

But all along, there were signs of the explosive growth of this labor force and warnings that the Biden administration ignored or missed, The Times has found.

Again and again, veteran government staffers and outside contractors told the Health and Human Services Department, including in reports that reached Secretary Xavier Becerra, that children appeared to be at risk. The Labor Department put out news releases noting an increase in child labor. Senior White House aides were shown evidence of exploitation, such as clusters of migrant children who had been found working with industrial equipment or caustic chemicals.

This should have been, and should be, an epic year-defining scandal. Americans have intense disagreements about illegal immigration and what should be done in the situations of unaccompanied minors who cross the border. But no one with a lick of sense, an ounce of compassion, or an iota of respect for the law would contend that exploiting those poor kids in dangerous workplaces is the right answer.

Any way you slice it, this outcome is just about the worst — much worse than a system that catches migrant teenagers and puts them on flights or other transportation, returning them to family members in their home countries.

In fact, the Times found some evidence that the Biden administration punished lower-ranking government officials who noticed and attempted to call out the problem…

…this is one of those stories that doesn’t provide any easy angle to blame Republicans. This widespread exploitation of teenagers is the result of the policies and decision-making of a Democratic administration. And I think news stories that don’t offer a “blame Republicans” angle bore a lot of people who need the dopamine rush of knowing that all problems in this world can be traced back to Donald Trump, or Ron DeSantis, or Kevin McCarthy, or Mitch McConnell.

In the end, a lot of people who say they care about the abuse of migrants really mean that they care about the abuse of migrants during a Republican presidency. Once a Democrat is in office, they just assume everything is going fine. After all, Democrats are the good guys.

Why is America witnessing this humiliating outrage? Because a lot more kids and teenagers came across the border than our border-security and immigration-enforcement systems could handle. It was not, as President Biden INITIALLY insisted, a routine seasonal pattern: “It happens every single, solitary year: There is a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter months of January, February, March. That happens every year.” With way more children and teenagers than any system could reasonably track, the U.S. government system of vetting and keeping track of who was taking custody of these migrant children broke down.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, as of February 2023, out of 108,981 “safety and well-being calls” conducted for children discharged from the Office of Refugee Resettlement, 17,926 sponsors could not be reached. Jennifer Cannistra, the deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, stated in a letter to Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona, “There are a number of reasons why a sponsor may not answer a phone call, including not recognizing the phone number or not wishing to speak with government officials.”

It seems quite likely that at least some of those 17,926 sponsors who could not be reached are among those who put these kids in these exploitative jobs.

Here’s the juice: Perhaps if 46* were to hire 80,000+ additional agents at the INS rather than the IRS, we might be able to get a handle on a REAL problem. 

Meanwhile, the hits just keep on coming, as a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Wednesday will feature the testimony from a whistleblower who will warn lawmakers the U.S. has become the “middleman” in a multi-billion dollar migrant child trafficking operation at the border.

Which brings to mind not only this scene from Eight Men Out…

…but Shoeless Joe’s legendary response: “Sorry kid, but it is.”  Here’s a second shot of the juice: Only a child-like, ignorant naiveté…or a completely corrupt, self-serving heart…could explain how anyone could still support this completely crooked, decidedly demented deviant.

And in a rare twofer, the Jolt goes on to record…

Another Biden Promise Broken

 

President Biden, August 1, 2022: “Now we have eliminated the emir of al-Qaeda. He will never again — never again allow Afghanistan to become a terrorist safe haven because he is gone, and we’re going to make sure that nothing else happens. You know, it can’t be a launching pad against the United States. We’re going to see to it that won’t happen.”

This weekend, the Washington Post revealed that once again, an assurance from this president has not panned out:

Less than two years after President Biden withdrew U.S. personnel from Afghanistan, the country has become a significant coordination site for the Islamic State as the terrorist group plans attacks across Europe and Asia, and conducts “aspirational plotting” against the United States, according to a classified Pentagon assessment that portrays the threat as a growing security concern.

The attack planning, detailed in U.S. intelligence findings leaked on the Discord messaging platform and obtained by The Washington Post, reveal specific efforts to target embassies, churches, business centers and the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, which drew more than 2 million spectators last summer in Qatar. Pentagon officials were aware in December of nine such plots coordinated by ISIS leaders in Afghanistan, and the number rose to fifteen by February, says the assessment, which has not been disclosed previously.

The lead story in the New York Times this morning discusses how many Democrats have a lot of doubts about Joe Biden but are sticking with him anyway. A better Democratic Party, with more self-respect, would look at this administration’s results and say, “This is terrible. His allegedly humane immigration policies have led to an explosion of migrant-child labor. His allegedly smart foreign-policy moves have put us right back to September 10, 2001, with the Taliban in power and hosting an anti-American terrorist group. He said he would turn Saudi Arabia into a pariah and then went over there and gave MBS a fist-bump. He keeps making big promises and delivering the opposite. We can do better than this.”

But apparently, it can’t.

Speaking of the worst occupant ever to soil the spaces of the White House, in a forward from the New York Post via Balls Cotton, Andy McCarthy avers…

Biden’s corruption is enough to disqualify him from office now

 

“A little advice to Republicans overseeing the Biden investigations: Don’t worry if he’s a criminal. It’s bad enough to be corrupt. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has been teasing details about his committee’s Biden investigation. We’re led to believe that a dozen or more Biden family members — not just the president, his ne’er-do-well son Hunter, and his smooth-operator brother Jim — will be implicated in the transfer of piles of foreign money into the family coffers. Comer suggests that the only rational explanation for this is that foreign regimes, including such hostile ones as Communist China, were buying Biden’s political influence.

This would be shocking if proved.

When the Framers gave Congress the power to remove a president from office by inserting impeachment clauses in the Constitution, nothing more animated them than fear of foreign corruption. A president whose influence and authority had been purchased through shady foreign deals, and who could thus be expected to subordinate American interests to those of anti-American powers, could profoundly damage the United States. It is among Congress’ most solemn duties to ensure that American power, especially executive power, is insulated from foreign corruption.That is why even middling executive officials who need security clearances to do their jobs must make extensive disclosure of all their foreign contacts and transactions.

People needn’t be guilty of crimes to be denied such clearances. The rational concern that they could be compromised is enough to wall them off from access to intelligence and national security functions.

With the Bidens, of course, there is a lot more than mere potential to be worried about. They undeniably reaped millions of dollars, mainly through obscure entities patently set up to make the transfers hard to trace, apparently without providing discernible value in goods or services to justify the breadth of the payments. It looks like sheer influence peddling. We are entitled to presume that it is unless and until an (unlikely) innocent explanation is posited.

Wait a minute, don’t they get a presumption of innocence? No, they don’t. This is a congressional inquiry, not a criminal case.

…Did President Biden and his family members rake in millions from foreign sources in a manner that is despicable? It sure looks that way, but Comer is publicly suggesting that they are not only sleazy but guilty of crimes. If no one is indicted, though — other than, perhaps, Hunter on comparatively minor charges — the president will claim that he has been vindicated. He will use Comer’s public claims to argue that Republicans were wrong and that he has done nothing wrong.

The problem here is that our adversaries in China, among other alien governments, have lavished millions of dollars on the president’s family to buy his influence. If that is shown to be true, then he is unfit to be president. Whether it is also a crime is beside the point.”

Here’s a third intoxicating shot of the juice: The term “corrupt” doesn’t BEGIN to describe Joe Biden.  There have been many corrupt presidents; TWW, WJH, FDR, LBJ, JFK, WJC all come to mind.  BHO was corrupt, but primarily post-presidency.  46*, on the other hand, has had well over fifty years in Washington to acuminate his skills at corruption.  Frankly, he’s only in danger of being called to account because, like so many successful criminals, he got complacent and sloppy.

Then there’s the reason why the editors at NRO believe America doesn’t want this Biden reelection bid.  Too true; Unfortunately, there’s another candidate …

…a majority of Americans support even less.  In all seriousness, how objectionably offensive must an individual be to trail a man clearly incapable of leading a book club?!?  And mark our words: if the Donald is likely to avoid debating in the Republican primaries, assuming he’s not dead or certifiably non compos mentis, there’s no way Basement Biden will be going anywhere near a debate in the run-up to the general election.

Moving on, here’s another sextet of special selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:

(1). Best of the Web asks and answers the question will electric vehicles disappoint you?  Spoiler alert: They will…unless you’re a well-off suburbanite with an in-home charging station using it for your daily commute or weekend errands around town.

(2). Oh, those zany “teenagers“!

(3). Courtesy of Nick, this is the only way retailers can survive in the Land of Fruits & Nuts:

(4). If we ever needed another reason not to move to Washington, governor Jay Inslee signed three more gun control bill on Tuesday, none of which would have prevented a single mass killing, particularly as existing law makes strawman purchases a FEDERAL crime.  Then again, so is lying on your application to purchase a firearm.

As for Inslee’s assertion “No one needs an AR-15”, we’d observe, YES, Jay, we do…against would-be dictators like you! 

(5). Dave Rubin explains why the celebration by the horrid harpies on The View, along with most every other Progressive on the planet, at the departure of Tucker Carlson is, to say the least, premature, as evidenced by this tweet forwarded by Nick:

Old Tucker is sobbing…all the way to the bank.

(6). Since we’re on the subject of premature celebrations, we have to confess we were somewhat buoyed by Leah Barkoukis’s report Bud Light sales are down a whopping 17%.

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these from Speed…

…Ed Hickey…

…the lovely Shannon…

…Balls Cotton…

…and The Patriot Post:

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, and welcome news at least Fort Worth law enforcement is willing to take on Antifa terrorists who doused peaceful anti-drag show protestors with pepper spray:

We were particularly touched by the pepper-sprayer crying for help like a baby while being arrested.

For more on what led to the arrests of these three beauties…

…catch Julio Rosas’s account at Townhall.com.  We noted these domestic terrorists were heavily armed, which leads us to believe it’s only a matter of time until they lose their heads and start shooting.  But as Inspector Callahan so sagely observed…

Magoo

Video of the Day

John Stossel questions the assertions of a Marxist educated idiot. To borrow a line from Dean Yeager in Ghostbusters, this clown’s theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, his methods are sloppy and his conclusions highly questionable; He’s a POOR professor!

Tales of The Darkside

Tucker rather presciently predicts part of the reason for his termination.

On the Lighter Side

Kvon NAILS the humorless Left!




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