It’s Friday, January 1st, 2021…and we begin with an apology and excuse for our tardiness taken from our favorite Christmas movie:

Now, here‘s the first 2021 The Gouge!

We lead off the New Year with two headlines courtesy of highly questionable sources:

Electoral College action by Congress should be a formality, Psaki says

 

Fauci sees U.S. gaining control over pandemic by next autumn

 

Jen Psaki and Dr. Faux Chi: Professional purveyors of prevarication whose words we trust about as far as we can throw Hillary.  We believe them like we believe in the Easter Bunny.

Okay, less than the latter.  Our sincere appreciation to the incomparable Stilton Jarlsberg for the artwork.

Having touched on the continuing COVID crisis, mainly manufactured though it be, consider the example of Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who, unlike Kamala Harris, Marco Rubio, AOC and every other politician who’ve so far put their own health well above that of their constituents, demonstrates the proper perspective for public servants:

Next, courtesy of Jeff Foutch, FOX News informs us the Deep State is alive and well, as the…

Census Bureau to miss deadline, threatening Trump’s attempt to exclude illegal migrants from census

The Census Bureau did not confirm that the figures would be submitted prior to Biden entering office

 

“…Under the Census Act, the law states that House seats should be based on the “whole number of persons in each state.”

The President then sends Congress a report of each state’s population along with their allotted number of House districts. Although if the figures are not submitted by the Census Bureau until after Jan. 20, then President-elect Joe Biden would gain control over the numbers and how they are interpreted.

“We continue to process the data collected and plan to deliver a complete and accurate state population count for apportionment in early 2021, as close to the statutory deadline as possible,” the Bureau said Wednesday.

Yeah,…

Particularly as it was the Census Bureau itself which objected to the insertion of a citizenship question in the first place.

Since we’re on the subject of double talk, in his final column for NRO, the great Victor Davis Hanson offers us…

A Guide to Wokespeak

Notes on the ascendant Left’s new terminology.

 

With the rise of the Left inevitable over the next two years, the public should become acquainted with the Left’s strange language of Wokespeak. Failure to do so could result in job termination and career cancellation. It is certainly a fluid tongue. Words often change their meanings as the political context demands. And what was yesterday’s orthodoxy is today’s heterodoxy and tomorrow’s heresy. So here is some of the vocabulary of the woke lexicon.

“Systemic racism.” “Systemic” belongs to this newer family of intensifying adjectival epithets (e.g., “micro,” “implicit,” etc.) that are necessary to posit a pathology that otherwise is hard to see, hear, or experience.

When one cannot point to actual evidence of “racism,” one can simply say that it is nowhere precisely because it is everywhere — sort of like the air we breathe that we count on, but often can’t see or feel.

“Theme house.” Theme houses are university dorms or sponsored off-campus student housing segregated by race. “Theme” is a useful euphemism for segregation, given that in theory there can be dorms for those of all races who share musical, artistic, or scholarly interests — or “themes,” e.g., an opera dorm or History House. But, in fact, “theme” today refers usually to race, gender, and ethnicity.

In Wokespeak, everyone is for theme houses; no one is for racially desegregating them. Being against the racial segregation of college dorms can become racist; being for them is never racist. Picking a future college roommate on the basis of race can be allowed — if neither the selector nor the selected is so-called “white.”

“Unearned white privilege”— as opposed to mere “white privilege.” The intensifier “unearned” is usually an added-on confessional by middle-aged white people in administrative or elite professional and coveted billets who wish to express their utmost penance for their high salaries, titles, and influence.

Unearned,” however, is not to be confused with “undeserved.” Instead, it suggests certain white elites who wish to publicly confess their guilt for doing so well but without having to resign and to give back what they admittedly claim they did not earn.

Thus a college president is allowed to confess to having enjoyed “unearned” white privilege that nonetheless does not mean his present position is “undeserved.

In sum, despite the fact that he was unfairly catapulted into the presidency, the college president’s manifest genius displayed after obtaining the job means he is now woke and clearly deserves to remain in the post. In other words, what explicit “unearned” was then, implicit “deserved” is now.

In a related item also courtesy of NRO, Isaac Schorr records the shameful story of…

How a Vindictive Classmate and a Cowardly University Ruined a Girl’s Life

And how the New York Times helped justify it.

 

The young lady’s crime?  Some four years ago, at ripe old age of 15, she used the “N” word in a Snapchat post:

Joe Morris puts Mimi’s effective lynching at the hands of the twisted Jimmy Galligan, the University of Tennessee and The New York Times in proper perspective: 

Until then, anyone happening upon Jimmy should feel free to give him our best…

…or, should you prefer, two behind the ear.  Trust us, he won’t be missed.

Speaking of unspeakably shameful behavior, courtesy of James Nichols and the Daily Caller… 

Here Are The Companies Linked To Forced Uighur Slave Labor

 

Meanwhile, NRO‘s Madeleine Kearns details…

The Appalling Hypocrisy of Woke Corporations

In light of the enslavement of Uyghurs, the words ‘Made in China’ ought to make us shudder.

 

And in the latest edition of the EnvironMental Moment, courtesy today of Jeff Foutch, Science Under Attack presents…

New Evidence That the Ancient Climate Was Warmer than Today’s

 

Further proof, along with the lockdowns, none of the policies Progressives promote are about “science”, rather they’re all about control!

Which brings us to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s this string of humor forwarded from Balls Cotton:

…along with these from our sister-in-law Amy…

…as well as this kernel of truth from G. Trevor:

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap the MSM bias…WHAT Bias?!? segment, and this from two of the more blatantly biased boobs on the tube: 

CNN’s Acosta, Tapper say media coverage will change under Biden

 

“…“If being at the White House is not an experience that might merit hazard pay,” Mr. Acosta said, “then perhaps it is going to be approached differently.”

Meanwhile, Mr. Tapper, CNN‘s chief Washington correspondent, told CNN host Brian Stelter during “Reliable Sources” Sunday night that he doesn’t expect to have to dedicate as much time aggressively fact-checking the Biden administration as he did for Mr. Trump.

Because…you know…Groper Joe’s so honest and transparent:

And far be it from either Acosta or Tapper to smell a possible story, let alone seek the truth behind Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegations, Burisma, China, Hunter’s laptop, Corn Pop or any of the hundreds of other lies, scandals and acts of corruption involving this scumbag.

And here’s one final suggestion for starting the New Year off right: if you haven’t already, you need to read Stilton Jarlsberg’s three-part 2020 – The Year in Rebuke.

It serves as a vivid reminder not only how incredibly abominable Joe Biden and Kamalaa Harris actually are, but how the MSM forfeited what little credibility was left to them in helping get them elected.

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