It’s Friday, August 9th, 2019…but before we begin, while the shootings last weekend in El Paso and Dayton fed the MSM’s anti-gun misinformation campaign, back in the Windy City, it was business as usual:
In other words, just another weekend in Chicago, a city with some of most restrictive gun laws on the planet and which has been ruled for over by the same political party since 1931!
Just sayin’.
Now, enjoy a somewhat shortened installment of The Gouge we unexpectedly managed to squeeze into a very busy week!
First up, let’s be clear on what’s at the heart of the vast majority of mass shootings, be it Las Vegas, Dayton, El Paso, Charleston, Sandy Hook or Columbine:
More importantly, The Left’s fanatical focus on firearms as the source of the problem isn’t helping matters, as Clayton Cramer details at NRO:
“There is much focus this week on the role of guns in mass murders. But the history of such atrocities teaches us that other methods can be just as effective.
I am currently creating an encyclopedia of mass murder in America and have catalogued 504 incidents so far. Common methods used throughout our history include axes, hatchets, blunt objects, knives, hanging, drowning, poison gas, poison, fire, and aircraft (and not just on 9/11). Some of the rarer weapons demonstrate that where there is an evil will, there is a way. Scythes.Blowtorches.
Of course, the axes and hatchets were around because they were needed in an age when people cooked over wood stoves. I can imagine axe-control fanatics in 1890 arguing that “an axe in your home is more likely to be used against you than against an intruder.” And perhaps it would have been true: The “Church of the Sacrifice” slaughtered dozens of families with their own axes in the early 20th century.
Even today, there are a lot of non-firearm mass murders in America: In USA Today’s collection of mass murders for the period 2006 to 2017, nearly a quarter were done without guns. And most of them you have probably not heard about because they do not advance the Left’s cause of disarming the peasants.
There’s the 1973 mass murder at a gay bar in New Orleans that killed 32: An ejected customer went down the street and bought a can of cigarette-lighter fluid. And the 87 murdered in New York City in 1990: A guy upset with his ex-girlfriend bought $1 worth of gasoline. In 1986 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, union officers put pressure on an employer by using camp-stove gas to murder 97. On July 5 of this year, a guy in Port Angeles, Wash., burned his trailer, killing his wife and three children. Did you see that on CNN…”
This is not to make light of the lives lost, but rather point out the deliberate deception and true intent behind attempts to blame inanimate objects incapable of self-employment.
Which brings us to our second point: the entire White Supremacist narrative being directed at Trump is, like Hands Up/Don’t Shoot before it, a divisive deception promoted for purely political purposes, as Tucker Carlson recently observed:
Note also, just as with the MSM’s deliberate misrepresentation of Trump’s comments about Charlottesville as detailed in the Prager U. video which accompanies our Quote of the Day at the top of the page, so have Socialists and their shills in the MSM sought to take Tucker’s words totally out of context.
Here’s the juice: we challenge any individual to provide a single shred of evidence of either Trump’s racism or support for White supremacists; anything texted, emailed or uttered. Again, not edited, not taken out of context. We won’t hold our breath waiting for a response.
In a related item, just when we thought The Left couldn’t get any more insane, along comes former FBI assistant director of counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi, with the bizarre conclusion…
We honestly don’t know which is scarier: the fact Figgedaboudit could have actually achieved a role of such prominence in the FBI, or that MSLSD saw fit to air his flight of fantasy.
Either way…
Coupled with the prior malfeasance of Comey, McCabe, Srtzok and Page, Figliuzzi’s conduct confirms having served in a position of prominence in the once-revered organization carries all the credibility of appearing on a CNN panel.
It also left us wondering whether Figliuzzi is among those who believe there are really alien corpses stashed at Area 51. If so, we know who he’ll be supporting in 2020:
“Climate Activist Greta Thunberg is planning to sail the North Atlantic on a boat with zero carbon emissions (though made of hydrocarbons) to attend United Nations climate summits in New York and Chile.
We’re only six weeks away from the height of the hurricane season. Relative to averages, I’ve been expecting it will be FURTHER NORTH that more tropical development than normal is expected.This makes Greta’s voyage, to put it nicely, a bold idea. Maybe that’s the plan. Draw attention to North Atlantic storms, which as we all know happen multiple times almost every year, but if it causes problems here, can be used to advance an agenda.
Now I have to be careful about any “criticisms” of this climate spokesperson, so I am not going to criticize her, but instead will ask a few questions that might get attention. If questioning is criticism, it’s only because the person claiming it has an agenda to avoid answering the question. I am well aware any and all criticism nowadays of someone like this can get me accused of being abusive to children or a misogynist. So no criticism, just some things I would like to see her address given her lofty position as a spokesperson for the climate.
I am assuming it’s still OK to question authority in pursuit of the truth. The fact I have to waste half this post on explaining this, shows how bad things are getting.
Fair enough?
First of all, is not Greta’s chosen method of transportation an INDICTMENT of the idea we can even think about gettingoff fossil fuels?Who has the resources and backing to get a fancy yacht and cross the Atlantic? And how is taking the way we cross oceans back to the time of Columbus anything but counter to progress? So only under very special circumstances, extraordinary resources, and several weeks where you can do nothing, is this even possible.
As to the Current climate emergency, I would like to know what Greta opposes in the following items:
Climate-related deaths:
Is this not a major positive?
Personal GDP and life expectancy globally in the fossil fuel era:
How is this a negative?
More food being grown:
…I have more questions, but again, I don’t want to pile on.Addressing facts directly, which run counter to the missive being pushed, would be helpful if they expect skeptics like me to get “on board” an elite racing yacht anytime soon.Though I doubt you’ll see me, or 99.9% of the population of the world…
...have any chance to travel by yacht from Europe to the USA, then Chile.“
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with three memes from Jimmy Crilley: these two…
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