{"id":100161,"date":"2022-02-20T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=100161"},"modified":"2022-02-20T18:39:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T23:39:17","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-february-18th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=100161","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, February 18th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, February 18th, 2022&#8230;and this didn&#8217;t take long:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-media-covering-different-prism-because-black\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\">NYC Mayor Eric Adams says media covering him through different &#8216;prism&#8217; because he&#8217;s Black<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-media-covering-different-prism-because-black\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Adams says his story is being interpreted by &#8216;people who don&#8217;t look like me<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/65dlmn.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/65dlmn.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/65dlmn.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/65dlmn-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>I&#8221;m a Black man that\u2019s the mayor but my story is being interpreted by people who don\u2019t look like me,&#8221; Adams\u00a0<a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uNM0kuW5eY0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>said<\/u>\u00a0<\/a>during a press conference on Tuesday. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;We got to be honest about that.<\/span> How many Blacks are in the editorial boards? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">How many Blacks determine how these stories are being written?<\/span> How many Asians? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">How many east Indians?<\/span> How many south Asians? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Everyone talks about my government being diversified.<\/span> What\u2019s the diversification in the newsrooms?<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Think about: a Black mayor whose only been in office since January 1st in a city completely dominated by Liberals, is accusing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the most<\/em><\/span>\u00a0left-leaning group of individuals ever assembled in one industry of bias in their coverage of him based on his skin color.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item courtesy of <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Matt Vespa reports a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2022\/02\/15\/gun-control-activist-and-blm-supporter-tried-to-assassinate-a-louisville-mayoral-candidate-n2603306\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Gun Control Activist and BLM Supporter Tried to Assassinate a Louisville Mayoral Candidate<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Untitled.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Untitled-300x292.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real shocker<\/em><\/span>, not only was Brown granted bail, but it <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/juliorosas\/2022\/02\/16\/problm-activist-accused-of-trying-to-shoot-mayoral-candidate-bailed-out-of-jail-b-n2603406\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>was posted by a pro-Black Lies Matter fund<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Not that there&#8217;s a two-tiered justice system or anything, but can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anyone <\/em><em>remotely imagine<\/em><\/span>\u00a0a White supremacist who tried to bust a cap into candidate Eric Adams&#8217;s a*s being granted bail?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1otTZq6UzLM?start=192\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>F<\/strong><strong>irst up, here&#8217;s the <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> article we mentioned earlier entitled&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ ContentHeaderTitleBlockWrapper-jqwWfR eTiIvU cdRcBK\" data-testid=\"ContentHeaderTitleBlockWrapper\" data-event-boundary=\"click\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;pattern&quot;:&quot;TitleBlock&quot;}\" data-in-view=\"{&quot;pattern&quot;:&quot;TitleBlock&quot;}\" data-include-experiments=\"true\">\n<h1 class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ BaseText-fFzBQt ContentHeaderHed-kpvpFG eTiIvU EgLwQ HVMsA\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/02\/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-white-house-spying\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">You&#8217;ll Never Believe it But Hillary Clinton did not, in fact, Spy on Trump&#8217;s White House<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ BaseText-fFzBQt ContentHeaderHed-kpvpFG eTiIvU EgLwQ HVMsA\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/02\/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-white-house-spying\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In less breaking news, Donald Trump remains a moron<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">*<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">* <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editor&#8217;s Note<\/span><\/em>: In the interest of fairness, the author got at least one thing right.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1clykz.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100148\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1clykz.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1clykz.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1clykz-300x168.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We won&#8217;t bore you with all of the incorrect assertions and subtle misdirections contained in the article, but suffice it to say, as we stated in our <em>Quote of the Day<\/em>, it misses the forest&#8230;the fact the Clinton campaign undeniably spied on candidate Trump in an effort to dig up dirt, then fabricated what they couldn&#8217;t find and then peddled their lies to the FBI and CIA&#8230;for the trees&#8230;The Donald&#8217;s standard bombast, hyperbole and exaggeration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s also easy to prove\u00a0<em>FOX<\/em> and Trump are hardly the only sources which have reported the story, as evidenced by these two editorials from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/donald-trump-really-was-spied-on-2016-clinton-campaign-john-durham-court-filing-11644878973?mod=opinion_lead_pos1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the Journal<\/em><\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/02\/durhams-jaw-dropping-revelation\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-02-15&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>NRO<\/em><\/span><\/a> previously featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=100114\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Gouge<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;d also recommend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/2022\/02\/17\/checkered_past_of_fbi_cyber_contractor_who_spied_on_trump_817234.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>this from RealClear Investigations<\/em><\/span><\/a> forwarded by Speed, along with the latest from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/who-are-those-techies-who-spied-on-trump-clinton-2016-election-durham-data-fusion-gps-joffe-11645139606?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the\u00a0Journal&#8217;s Kim Srassel<\/em><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0in which she concludes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>The defenders of Mr. Steele\u2019s dossier also spent years insisting that the oppo researcher was nonpartisan and his work beyond reproach\u2014only to be humiliated. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The media is stepping out again at its peril.<\/span> There\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">plenty<\/span> to show an ugly tale <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">already<\/span>\u2014and Mr. Durham will likely have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">plenty more to come<\/span>.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next,\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Charlie Cooke astutely observes while&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/02\/justin-trudeau-has-disgraced-his-office\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-02-16&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Justin Trudeau Has Disgraced His Office<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/02\/justin-trudeau-has-disgraced-his-office\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-02-16&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">He\u2019s also exposed a massive flaw in Canada\u2019s constitutional order<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ballless.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100129\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ballless.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ballless.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ballless-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The first draft of the Emergencies Act defined an \u201cemergency\u201d as \u201can urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that imperils the well-being of Canada as a whole or that is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Upon further consideration, this language was removed, on the grounds that it was too broad, and that \u201curgent,\u201d \u201ccritical,\u201d or \u201ctemporary\u201d could be applied to a whole host of situations that, while serious, did not provide sufficient reason for the invocation of powers as sweeping as those contained in the act.<\/span> In the old language\u2019s place, the Canadian parliament established an either\/or threshold, by which the act could be used in such a situation as \u201cseriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span>\u00a0such a situation as \u201cseriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada and that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">At <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no point<\/em><\/span> in the last 34 years has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span> that happened in Canada <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>met either<\/em><\/span> of these standards.<\/span> By declaring that a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>medium-sized irritation<\/em><\/span> \u2014 a group of truckers protesting in Ottawa \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is severe enough to buck the trend<\/em><\/span> (mostly, it seems, because the truckers happen to be his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>political enemies<\/em><\/span>), Justin Trudeau has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>disgraced himself and his office<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Criticizing the Emergencies Act in 1991, Peter Rosenthal warned in the\u00a0<em>Manitoba Law Journal<\/em>\u00a0that the law as it had been passed was ripe for abuse.<\/span> \u201cThe Act,\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/commentary\/doc\/1991CanLIIDocs129#!fragment\/zoupio-_Tocpdf_bk_11\/BQCwhgziBcwMYgK4DsDWszIQewE4BUBTADwBdoAvbRABwEtsBaAfX2zhoBMAzZgI1TMAjEICUAGmTZShCAEVEhXAE9oAcjXiIhMLgQKlqjVp16QAZTykAQqoBKAUQAyDgGoBBAHIBhB+NJgfNCk7KKiQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Rosenthal wrote<\/a><\/em><\/span>, \u201ccreates the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very real possibility<\/em><\/span> that declarations of emergencies will be used to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>suppress demonstrations<\/em><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Imagining an anti-nuclear protest that caused disruptions in a major city, Rosenthal suggested that a future prime minister \u201cmight say that such a demonstration seriously endangered the health of Canadians by threatening the supply of food and medicines, and exceeded the authority of a province since the demonstrations affected trade and commerce and property throughout Canada, not just within a province.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Who<\/em><\/span>, other than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>everyone with eyes<\/em><\/span>, could have seen <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span> coming?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Naturally, the Canadian government is not obliged to remain idle while protesters\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/police-move-to-clear-trucker-protesters-from-key-u-s-canada-crossing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">block bridges<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0or violate other laws.<\/span> Here, as elsewhere, there is a bright line <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>between protesting and impeding the rights of others<\/em><\/span>, and, insofar as the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>truckers\u2019 protest<\/em><\/span> has veered <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>over<\/em><\/span> that line, the government <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has<\/em><\/span> the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>legal authority to respond<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">There is, and has been since the colonial era, such a thing as an\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Adams\/05-03-02-0001-0004-0016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal assembly<\/a><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>But to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>acknowledge<\/em><\/span> that the Canadian government has a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right<\/em><\/span> to clear a domestic blockade is by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no means to suggest<\/em><\/span> that it should do so <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>under the auspices of a piece of emergency legislation that was quite obviously intended for a much different purpose<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This week, Joanna Baron, of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, concluded that the pretext for Trudeau\u2019s invocation of the act is \u201cextremely thin.\u201d<\/span> She is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>correct<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When one imagines a set of circumstances that \u201cseriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians\u201d or that \u201cseriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada,\u201d one imagines a 9\/11 or a Pearl Harbor or a well-organized coup.<\/span> Whatever excesses we may have seen from the truckers \u2014 and, while they have been mostly peaceful, they have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not been perfect<\/em><\/span> \u2014 do not come\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">close<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>to clearing this bar.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Justifying his move, Trudeau told the world that he intended to do \u201cwhatever is necessary to reinforce the principles, values, and institutions that keep all Canadians free \u2013 and that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing with the Emergencies Act.\u201d<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This is Orwellian nonsense<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">By \u201cwhatever,\u201d Trudeau means his having instructed private banks that they must freeze the accounts of Canadian citizens <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>without a court order<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> As for the \u201cprinciples, values, and institutions that keep all Canadians free\u201d . . . well, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>where are they<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Principles<\/em><\/span> are the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reflexes one maintains under sustained pressure<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Values<\/em><\/span> are the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rules by which one seeks to live as a matter of habit<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Institutions<\/em><\/span> are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>designed to stand strong as the world changes around them<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>If<\/em><\/span>, as seems to be the case, Canada\u2019s constitutional order <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has an escape hatch of this size and frivolity built into it<\/em><\/span>, then it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t much of a constitutional order at all<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We can&#8217;t speak for the average Canadian, but we find it hard to believe, based on those we know, they agree with Trudeau.\u00a0 This mamby-pamby\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/watch-tucker-carlson-says-for-sure-fidel-castro-is-justin-trudeaus-father\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>probable love child of Fidel Castro<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>is proof positive of the accuracy of the old adage, if you scratch a Liberal, you&#8217;ll find a Fascist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And if one of Charlie Cooke&#8217;s columns is good, two is even better, particularly when the second poses the question&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/02\/what-in-the-hell-is-kamala-harris-doing\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-02-17&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What in the Hell Is Kamala Harris Doing<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/02\/what-in-the-hell-is-kamala-harris-doing\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-02-17&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If they wish, American citizens may be neutral on the virtues of their country. The vice president doesn\u2019t have that luxury<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100166\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-5.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/download-5-300x158.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span class=\"drop\">I\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"small_caps\">could<\/span>\u00a0never have imagined that I would come to long in earnest for the return of the insipid, aimless, and irrelevant version of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 the one who believes that she is being profound when she suggests that \u201cit is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day.\u201d <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Yet here we are.<\/span> Yesterday, the vice president of the United States\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USABehFarsi\/status\/1493979257093169159?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">put out a statement in Farsi<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0that read, \u201cThe truth is: There is segregation in America. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Xenophobia exists in America.<\/span> Antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, all exist. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Wherever injustice is dealt with, there is activity ahead.\u201d<\/span> As a reward for her efforts, the Biden administration has decided to send Harris to represent the United States at a summit in Munich, during which she will\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/17\/1081329302\/vice-president-harris-is-meeting-leaders-in-munich-to-talk-about-russia-and-ukra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take part in<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u201ca series of high-stakes, high-level diplomatic talks\u201d designed to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Thankfully, we have no alarming historical examples of the regrettable consequences that flow from our sending the wrong peace negotiators to Munich<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>We are told that Harris hopes to gain some foreign-policy experience ahead of a potential run for \u2014 or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>takeover<\/em><\/span> of \u2014 the presidency. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">If so, the first step will be to understand that speaking for one\u2019s country on the global stage differs profoundly from making the keynote address at this year\u2019s Netroots Nation.<\/span> Alas, it is unclear whether the Biden administration writ large understands this. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">At his disastrous January press conference, President Biden was asked bluntly whether he thought that Russia would go into Ukraine, and \u2014\u00a0<em>twice<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 he reacted as if he were on a late-afternoon panel at a D.C. think-tank symposium.<\/span> \u201cI think,\u201d Biden said, \u201cwhat you\u2019re going to see is that Russia will be held accountable if it invades.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">And it depends on what it does.<\/span>\u00a0It\u2019s one thing if it\u2019s a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do. . . .\u201d <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Accurate or not, this was the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wrong answer<\/em><\/span> for an American president to proffer.<\/span> The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right answer<\/em><\/span> was, \u201cRussia <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>must not<\/em><\/span> invade Ukraine, and if <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it does<\/em><\/span> there <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will be consequences<\/em><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #800000;\">If they wish, American citizens may be neutral on the virtues of their country.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The executive branch doesn\u2019t have that luxury<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Astonishingly, this does not seem to be obvious to the U.S. State Department, which has\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/16\/blinken-us-human-rights-499833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">adopted a policy<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0designed to \u201cdisarm critics and skeptics\u201d by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>coupling<\/em><\/span> demands for international change <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>with a recitation of what the Democratic Party believes is wrong with the United States<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> This is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>extraordinarily<\/em><\/span> foolish. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Because they read the news<\/em><\/span>, America\u2019s adversaries <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>recognize<\/em><\/span> that American progressives <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>neither admire the U.S. nor believe it to be exceptional<\/em><\/span>, and they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>understand<\/em><\/span> that they can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exploit<\/em><\/span> that under-confidence <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for their own geopolitical ends<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> President Ronald Reagan <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really did believe<\/em><\/span> that the United States was a \u201cshining city on a hill.\u201d <span style=\"color: #800000;\">But he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also<\/em><\/span> grasped that, alongside military strength, civilizational self-assurance represented an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>enormous<\/em><\/span> diplomatic asset.<\/span> \u201cY\u2019know, when you think about it, we\u2019re not that great either\u201d? <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Not so much<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Which is all another way of asking: What in the ever-loving hell <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>does Kamala Harris think she is doing<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Leave aside for a moment her grotesque false equivalence.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>How<\/em><\/span>, I would like to know, did this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ever happen<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Why<\/em><\/span> did Harris decide to engage in such self-flagellation <u>in the first instance<\/u>?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Who<\/em><\/span> translated the attempt for her? <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Who<\/em><\/span> decided to put it out on an official account whose bio reads, \u201cThe US Department of State\u2019s Persian Twitter posts the views of the US government\u201d?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Why<\/em><\/span> did the U.S. Embassy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in Iran<\/em><\/span> choose to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>share it<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Did<\/em><\/span> the president know?<\/span> The Biden-Harris ticket ran in 2020 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>promising a return to honor<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Instead, it has set about continuing the tendency toward relativism and self-critique that began\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB124044156269345357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under Barack Obama<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0and continued under Donald Trump.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>After Bill O\u2019Reilly suggested to him in 2017 that Vladimir Putin was a \u201ckiller,\u201d Trump responded, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>disgracefully<\/em><\/span>, \u201cThere are a lot of killers. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>You think our country\u2019s so innocent<\/em><\/span>?\u201d<\/span> Well, actually, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I do<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>yes<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">I think that it\u2019s open and free and fair and stable and kind and hopeful, and that, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>when compared with every other country that has ever existed<\/em><\/span>, it looks <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>extraordinarily good<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> I think that there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no comparison to be drawn<\/em><\/span> between the United States and tyrannies such as Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>America is a beacon<\/em><\/span>, an exemplar, and a refuge; those other nations belong in what Churchill called the \u201cdark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.\u201d<\/span> If Kamala Harris does not agree, that is her right. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">But she might have the decency to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>step down from the executive branch before saying so aloud from the front of the international stage<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kommielaa: truly a Progressive bird of putrid plumage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subjects of complete and utter&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/horsesasslg.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/horsesasslg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/horsesasslg.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/horsesasslg-300x117.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/the-view-joy-behar-mask-indefinitely-public-places\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Joy Behar just confirmed her status<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0as one of the most loud-mouthed, ignorant and obnoxious we&#8217;ve ever heard.\u00a0 We&#8217;d rather have ice picks driven through our ears than have to listen to this harpy<\/strong><strong>\u00a0who makes The Donald seem normal by comparison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cb021622dAPR20220216024505.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cb021622dAPR20220216024505.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cb021622dAPR20220216024505.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cb021622dAPR20220216024505-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-1-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb021722dAPR20220217054504.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb021722dAPR20220217054504.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb021722dAPR20220217054504.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afb021722dAPR20220217054504-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MC_Durham_web20220216125946.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MC_Durham_web20220216125946.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MC_Durham_web20220216125946.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MC_Durham_web20220216125946-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaaa-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bbb.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bbb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bbb.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bbb-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/aaa-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-16-22-at-10.27-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-16-22-at-10.27-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-16-22-at-10.27-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-16-22-at-10.27-AM-300x173.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-17-22-at-11.37-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-17-22-at-11.37-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-17-22-at-11.37-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-17-22-at-11.37-AM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Image-2-17-22-at-11.37-AM-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with an especially sordid story straight from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, courtesy today of as depraved a couple as we&#8217;ve encountered:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/louisiana-cynthia-perkins-pleads-guilty\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Louisiana teacher pleads guilty to lacing student&#8217;s cupcakes with ex-husband&#8217;s sperm, other child sex crimes<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/58787323-ae40-4a6e-9179-3f6b5fce4109-large16x9_1d76a4704b92487d926692025eeceb03jumbo16x9_laarrest.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/58787323-ae40-4a6e-9179-3f6b5fce4109-large16x9_1d76a4704b92487d926692025eeceb03jumbo16x9_laarrest.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/58787323-ae40-4a6e-9179-3f6b5fce4109-large16x9_1d76a4704b92487d926692025eeceb03jumbo16x9_laarrest.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/58787323-ae40-4a6e-9179-3f6b5fce4109-large16x9_1d76a4704b92487d926692025eeceb03jumbo16x9_laarrest-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>A disgraced\u00a0Louisiana\u00a0teache<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/education\/teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">r<\/a>\u00a0has pleaded guilty to &#8220;horrific crimes&#8221; against children and admitted to serving her students cupcakes that contained sperm from her ex-husband, who is awaiting his own trial on child\u00a0sex crime\u00a0charges, according to authorities.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Cynthia Perkins, 36, agreed to plead guilty and testify against her ex, 44-year-old former Livingston Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office SWAT member Dennis Perkins, who is also charged with dozens of child sex crimes, according to prosecutors<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Perkins was a junior high English teacher until she resigned after police raided the couple\u2019s home. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">The Livingston Parish Sheriff&#8217;s Office immediately fired Dennis Perkins, who had been a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>special operations lieutenant<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Investigators said they received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about the Denham Springs couple in 2019. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Police seized photographs of the couple posing nude with a child, as well as other evidence while serving a search warrant in October of that year.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Court documents reported by\u00a0WBRZ\u00a0in May revealed that police also found pictures of Perkins\u2019 students eating the semen-laced cupcakes and that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the couple allegedly raped a child between the ages of 9 and 10<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Investigators allegedly found hidden cameras in their attic and bathroom and said they uncovered more pictures on an iPhone<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idausa.org\/campaign\/justice-for-animals\/latest-news\/demand-justice-for-dog-and-kids-sexually-abused-by-police-officer-and-teacher\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Mr. Perkins was\u00a0also charged with animal cruelty for sexually abusing a dog and videotaping the act<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wow&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2fnfAzeNzvs?start=2\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>No need to wish the Perkins the warmest seats Satan has to offer, &#8216;cuz they&#8217;re both kiddie rapers.\u00a0 And as Russell Crowe observed in <em>L.A. 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