{"id":100792,"date":"2022-03-15T19:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T23:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=100792"},"modified":"2022-03-15T19:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T23:50:56","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-march-14th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=100792","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, March 14th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, March 14th, 2022&#8230;but before beginning we offer additional proof, as if any were needed, whenever Joe Biden&#8217;s lips move&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden: &#8220;I&#8217;m sick of this stuff &#8230; the American people think the reason for inflation is government spending more money. Simply not true!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xak7CKTjFs\">pic.twitter.com\/Xak7CKTjFs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1502352045550014464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;you know he&#8217;s lying, perhaps more than any other individual we&#8217;ve ever had the misfortune to encounter&#8230;with the possible exception of Tommy Flanagan:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hV85E2S-Idw?start=46&amp;end=174&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>For those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/washington-post-jennifer-rubin-voters-stupid-blaming-biden\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>still dissimulating as to when and why the price of gas started skyrocketing<\/em><\/span><\/a>, we offer into evidence in rebuttal the graphic from the March 11th edition forwarded by Jeff Foutch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/balls5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100679\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/balls5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/balls5.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/balls5-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silly Jennifer: Just because people are okay with paying marginally more at the pump to oppose Putin doesn&#8217;t mean they agree with Progressive efforts to reduce and eventually eliminate domestic fossil fuel production, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">a flight of pure Progressive fantasy if there ever was one, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/ukraine-war-and-the-new-shale-revolution?mc_cid=331d4fe061\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as this article from City Journal<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0also forwarded by Jeff Foutch confirms.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve said it before, we&#8217;ll say it again: simply put&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sIJBUZm1HoY?start=72&amp;end=75&amp;\" 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>So why impoverish billions while at the same time wasting untold trillions attempting what would amount to economic suicide?!?\u00a0 Unless, of course, the death of free-market Capitalism was your goal in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, since we&#8217;re the on subject, the <em>Morning Jolt<\/em> relates how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/putin-flirts-with-economic-suicide\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220311&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">Putin is Flirting with Economic Suicide<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/putin-flirts-with-economic-suicide\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220311&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Vladimir Putin, Making Russia Soviet Again<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/68g8dp.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100783\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/68g8dp.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/68g8dp.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/68g8dp-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It sounds absurd, but it\u2019s true \u2014 Vladimir Putin is now running the Communist revolutionaries\u2019 playbook on foreign investment, foreign assets, and foreign debts.<\/span> History tells us this is a quick path to a massive economic calamity, but Putin appears willing to commit economic suicide in order to bring his vision of a conquered Ukraine to fruition.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In February 1918, the Communist revolutionaries who had taken over Russia announced that they no longer recognized the debts owed by the previous government under the czar.<\/span> The new Soviet government declared that it had a clean slate, and anyone who was owed money by the previous Russian government was out of luck.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cadtm.org\/Russia-Origin-and-consequences-of-the-debt-repudiation-of-February-10-1918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">The Russian government owed about $4.4 million at the time<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a>, which is about $97 million today.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Simultaneously, the new Soviet government \u201cdecided to confiscate all the assets of foreign capitalists in Russia and restore them to the national estate.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The new Soviet Union knew that this would outrage foreign powers, but did it anyway, voluntarily cutting itself off from the world.<\/span> The economic consequences \u2014 exacerbated by famine, disease, and the continuing strife of regime change \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/voxeu.org\/article\/russia-s-national-income-war-and-revolution-1913-1928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">were off the charts<\/a><\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>When a government declares that it will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>confiscate<\/em><\/span> the assets of foreign companies and foreign investors and that it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>won\u2019t<\/em><\/span> pay its debts, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>severe and lasting<\/em><\/span> economic calamity follows.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>This may seem like long-forgotten history, but it is particularly relevant now that Putin has announced Russia will confiscate the assets of foreign companies and foreign investors and strongly hinted that it won\u2019t pay its debts.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Usually, the consequence of a government\u2019s default is that it becomes much more difficult, and much more expensive, for that government to borrow money in the future.<\/span> But a default may not be as momentous in these circumstances; even if Russia paid off its debts, Western banks and investors would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>still<\/em><\/span> be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>extremely<\/em><\/span> wary of loaning money into the blood-soaked hands of the Russian government \u2014 even if they themselves didn\u2019t have moral objections, most big financial institutions would recognize the public-relations damage those loans would inflict.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Nonetheless, it will probably be a <em>long<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>long<\/em><\/span> time before international investors feel safe putting any money in Russia in any form<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>There was another interesting section in the <em>Jolt<\/em>\u00a0detailing why your average Ivan likely hasn&#8217;t the faintest inkling what&#8217;s actually going down and why:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Eight days ago, Russian finance professor Maxim Mironov, who is based in Spain, warned that the Russian government was\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/russia-deploys-thermobaric-weapons-in-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">severely underestimating the consequences of the Western economic sanctions<\/a><\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Now,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/russia-fsu\/2022-03-11\/why-strangling-russias-economy-could-backfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mironov writes in\u00a0Foreign Policy<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0that the West may inadvertently be doing Putin a favor \u2014 effectively turning Russia into a bigger, badder North Korea:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>If Western countries continue to tighten the economic screws on the Russian economy as a whole, instead of targeting specific figures in the regime with more tailored sanctions, they will risk turning Russia into something like a larger, more unstable, and more dangerous North Korea&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Russians are not the only ones who are unprepared for what is about to happen.<\/span> The Western countries that have imposed these sanctions have not fully thought through their likely consequences. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Measures that make life miserable for ordinary Russians might have the opposite of their intended effect: they might <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rally<\/span> the public <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">behind<\/span> Putin.<\/span> Over the last 20 years, the Russian leader has built a powerful\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/united-states\/2021-09-27\/kremlins-strange-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">propaganda machine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 one that has been working <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">overtime<\/span> since the Ukrainian invasion began. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Right now, about half of Russians support the war.<\/span> (Among them, initially, was my mother-in-law. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">She has a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">university degree<\/span> but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">believed<\/span> Putin\u2019s claim that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ukraine and NATO had attacked Russia<\/span> and that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Russia was just defending itself<\/span>.<\/span> It took some time for my wife to convince her that Putin had attacked Ukraine and not the other way around.)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Mironov may well be right, but I\u2019m not sure how many Western leaders want to hear that argument when they\u2019re watching Russian forces <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shell cities and bomb hospitals<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to mention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/photos-ukraine-claims-russia-launched-deadly-strike-on-evacuee-train-carrying-100-children\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>trains transporting refugees, including some 100 children<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item we felt deserving of inclusion in its entirety, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Kevin Williamson discusses the issues surrounding the question&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/03\/are-we-at-war\/#slide-1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Are We at War<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/03\/are-we-at-war\/#slide-1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That question is not ours to answer but Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u2014 and we should be damn sure we\u2019re ready for whatever he decides<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/putin-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100772\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/putin-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/putin-1.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/putin-1-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span class=\"small_caps\">bout<\/span>\u00a0the war in Ukraine: Is the United States a belligerent?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Russians think so.<\/span> Kremlin spokesreptile Dmitry Peskov says that the United States \u201cdefinitely has declared economic war against Russia\u201d and promises that the Russian response will be .\u00a0.\u00a0. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>something<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>We should assume that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in this<\/em><\/span> if nothing else the Kremlin <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is telling the truth<\/em><\/span>, and we should <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>prepare ourselves<\/em><\/span> for what that response <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>might be<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What the Russians currently are perpetrating in Ukraine is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>less a war than a mass murder<\/em><\/span>, with Putin\u2019s forces targeting residential buildings and a maternity hospital, among other civilian sites. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The world has recoiled in disgust and contempt from Russia \u2014 from the Putin regime and the people who enable it \u2014 and though the Biden administration has <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not exactly exercised inspiring leadership<\/span><\/em> in this, the actions of the country with the world\u2019s largest economy and most powerful military inevitably stand out.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>In practical terms, the U.S. (and U.K.) prohibition of Russian oil imports probably <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will not have much of an economic effect<\/em><\/span> \u2014 certainly not in comparison to the other measures that have been taken \u2014 but even largely symbolic gestures can have a powerful effect, and the Kremlin <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>seems<\/em><em> to be very much agitated by the boycott<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Biden administration\u2019s bumbling on the matter of sending MiG-29 fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine is the result of both nations\u2019 fears that the action would drag them directly into the war in Ukraine.<\/span> Poland wanted to send the jets to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and Washington shied away from the prospect of having fighter jets fly out of a U.S. base in a NATO country into the war zone in Ukraine. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The thinking was that this would look <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>too much like<\/em><\/span> the United States and NATO carrying out a military operation against Russian forces in Ukraine.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>In truth<\/em><\/span>, the United States <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is a belligerent<\/em><\/span> if <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Vladimir Putin says<\/em><\/span> the United States is a belligerent. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">He is perfectly capable of making up a pretext, however absurd, to justify whatever action he wants to take \u2014 that is why Russians are in Ukraine in the first place.<\/span> His subjects in Russia are largely pliant and inclined to accept the propaganda they are fed, and those who aren\u2019t can be <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">jailed, terrorized into silence, or murdered<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Putin can do what he chooses \u2014 it is not like he is worried about an upcoming election.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The MiG fiasco underlined the Biden administration\u2019s <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">predictable fecklessness and disorganization<\/span><\/em> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>America needed a Keystone pipeline but we got the Keystone Cops<\/em><\/span> \u2014 and if there <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> any <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>serious thinking<\/em><\/span> going on in the White House about what Putin\u2019s response to our \u201cdeclaration of economic war\u201d is likely to be, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>there isn\u2019t any obvious evidence of it<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The posture of the Biden administration by all appearances is one of wishful thinking: that while the United States and the world have rightly taken a side in this conflict, the fighting is going to stay in Ukraine.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What<\/em><\/span> if it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>doesn\u2019t<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>direct military attack<\/em><\/span> by Russian forces on the United States is, of course, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unlikely<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But<\/em><\/span> a Russian attack on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Moldova<\/em><\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>far from unthinkable<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>entirely possible<\/em><\/span> that Putin will attack a NATO member such as Lithuania, Latvia, or even Poland, whose people have gone to such extraordinary lengths to assist the Ukrainians.<\/span> There are already Americans fighting in Ukraine, as private volunteers rather than as part of our armed forces. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If Putin <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em> <em>looking<\/em><\/span> for a pretext, he will have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no trouble finding one<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The United States is keenly interested in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>keeping<\/em><\/span> the fighting in Ukraine. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But the fighting will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>stay<\/em><\/span> in Ukraine for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only as long as Putin believes it is in his interest to keep it there<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> That may not be much longer. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Putin already has failed to achieve his main political objective in Ukraine and will not achieve it no matter how long the conflict drags on; what was intended as a show of awesome military might has instead been a display of weakness and incompetence.<\/span> A wider war \u2014 a glorious crusade \u2014 might soon suit Putin\u2019s purposes better than does a quagmire in Ukraine, where the Russian army has been reduced to trying to substitute atrocities for victories.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">President Joe Biden has said that U.S. forces will defend \u201cevery inch\u201d of NATO territory.<\/span> But Biden was there when the Obama administration <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>offered a lot of big talk about \u201cred lines<\/em><\/span>\u201d in Syria and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>then did nothing<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Biden\u2019s people right now are engaging in counterproductive (to say the least) negotiations with Tehran that serve no obvious U.S. interest, and going through Moscow to do so.<\/span> Vladimir Putin calculates and, as he has just demonstrated, he sometimes miscalculates. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Putin might be inclined to take an inch and put Biden to the test.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>A test Joe would be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">destined to fail<\/span>, much to America&#8217;s detriment!<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>President Biden has promised in very direct language: \u201cI will not send American servicemen to fight in Ukraine.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whether<\/em><\/span> the United States finds itself at war with Russia is not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Biden\u2019s<\/em><\/span> decision \u2014 it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Putin\u2019s<\/em><\/span> decision.<\/span> Washington\u2019s part <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is to be ready for whatever he decides<\/em><\/span>, and to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not be caught by surprise<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If by \u201cevery inch\u201d President Biden means \u201cevery inch,\u201d then we had better be prepared to do what it takes to make good on that.<\/span> It will involve more than high gas prices.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which begs the same question of Biden Jimmy Malone asked with his dying breath of Elliot Ness:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7gOePOBgmHY?start=276&amp;end=280&amp;\" 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>Unfortunately for the country, the only things Joe Biden appears prepared, or even able to do is eat ice cream and take naps.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of Xi Jinping&#8217;s personal puppet president,\u00a0<em>Just the News<\/em>\u00a0informs us the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"js-quickedit-page-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/security\/intel-community-warns-chinese-espionage-after-doj-kills-program-combat-chinese\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Intel community warns of Chinese espionage after Biden&#8217;s DOJ kills program to combat Chinese espionage<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/security\/intel-community-warns-chinese-espionage-after-doj-kills-program-combat-chinese\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">Biden administration was under intense pressure to end Trump&#8217;s China Initiative, despite Beijing&#8217;s extensive spying efforts on U.S. soil<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-2.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-2-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Just two weeks after the Justice Department <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ended its program to thwart Chinese spies<\/span><\/em>, the U.S. intelligence community warned Congress that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>China&#8217;s espionage efforts pose a major threat<\/em><\/span> to America&#8217;s economy and national security.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines on Tuesday submitted the intelligence community&#8217;s annual\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/index.php\/newsroom\/reports-publications\/reports-publications-2022\/item\/2279-2022-annual-threat-assessment-of-the-u-s-intelligence-community\" class=\"broken_link\">assessment<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0of worldwide threats to the House Intelligence Committee, which held open and closed hearings on the report.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;China will remain the top threat to U.S. technological competitiveness as Beijing targets key sectors and proprietary commercial and military technology from U.S. and allied companies and institutions,&#8221; the assessment states.<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"> &#8220;Beijing uses a variety of tools, from public investment to espionage, to advance its technological capabilities.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The document adds that China&#8217;s &#8220;willingness to use espionage, subsidies, and trade policy to give its firms a competitive advantage represents not just an ongoing challenge for the U.S. economy and its workers, but also advances Beijing&#8217;s ability to assume leadership of the world&#8217;s technological advancement and standards.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Haines\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hvPE4iMV6o0&amp;t=7s\">told<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0lawmakers that China &#8220;remains an unparalleled priority&#8221; for the intelligence community, challenging the U.S. for supremacy across a range of economic, military, and technological domains<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, at the same time 46* personally prohibited shipping Polish MiG-29s to Ukraine based on his fear it could initiate WWIII, <em>FOX News<\/em> has confirmed Mad Vlad had no such concerns, having already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/russia-asked-china-for-military-economic-aid-in-ukraine-conflict-following-invasion\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">requested military and economic aid from the ChiComs shortly after his unprovoked invasion<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Unlike a broken clock, Joe Biden is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span> right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, a sextet of specially-selected items certain to stimulate inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Courtesy of the Nickel,\u00a0<em>The Daily Signal lists\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/03\/10\/6-examples-of-woke-pork-spending-in-omnibus-spending-bill\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>6 examples of woke pork projects in Omnibus Spending Bill<\/em><\/span><\/a>, none of which benefit anyone but Dimocratic donors and constituencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). Jim Geraghty suspects one day 46*&#8217;s current Secretary of State will author one of those &#8220;if only they had listened to me&#8221; memoirs, wondering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/secretary-of-state-blinken-sure-gets-overruled-a-lot-in-this-administration\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>how satisfied can Winken Blinken be serving a president who rarely seems to accept his advice<\/em><\/span><\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Writing at <em>The Epoch Times<\/em>, Jeff Tucker astutely observes, despite deaths attributed to the WuFlu nationwide being higher now than they were in the summer of 2020 when the whole country was locked down, as well as during the November 2020 election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/forget-about-covid-they-say_4331205.html?utm_source=Opinion&amp;utm_campaign=opinion-2022-03-13&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=xbMgDAJmwUd3D1%2FFP8MDEc3aAkqgHSGvdPBdLwyEPkkxB%2F2nvTLFtB5mZgF38Tsbfg%3D%3D\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>today we&#8217;re supposed to treat it for what it is: a seasonal virus with a disparate impact on the aged and frail<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Couldn&#8217;t be<\/em><\/span> that it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another<\/em><\/span> election year, and a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>different<\/em><\/span> political party&#8217;s in power.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/banned-film-exposes-the-real-reason-for-the-covid-pandemic_4333569.html?utm_source=Opinion&amp;utm_campaign=opinion-2022-03-12&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=uuFBbEs3OtIia8das30abm%2FKwDm2Ih3h9qpEUtiwQDq8Pi2TfhX52Jgac6jwylx7mA%3D%3D\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Joe Mercola&#8217;s offering on the same subject at the same source<\/em><\/span><\/a> is well worth a look.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). In what surely has Vlad quivering in his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valenki#:~:text=Valenki%20(Russian%3A%20%D0%B2%D0%B0%CC%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C%20IPA,are%20made%20of%20wool%20felt.\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>valenki<\/em><\/span><\/a>, Jen &#8220;Little Red Lying Hood&#8221; Psaki recently tweeted any lawless actions by Russia against U.S. corporate interests or employees therein would result in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even more<\/em><\/span> economic pain, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>might<\/em><\/span> invite <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>legal action<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J8_5Isb-hd4\" 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 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). Is it just us, or does anyone else find the fact the 46* clown car is desperately trying to conclude a nuclear agreement to benefit a country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/missiles-from-iran-struck-in-vicinity-of-u-s-consulate-in-northern-iraq-officials-say-11647138802?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>which just launched a missile strike in the vicinity of the new American consulate in an adjacent sovereign nation<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>utterly incomprehensible?!?\u00a0 In other words, like anything Joe, Kommielaa or Nancy says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6).\u00a0<\/strong><strong>In what should come as a shock to no one with half a brain or an ounce of common sense, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/ice-arrests-deportations-down-sharply-under-biden-annual-report-shows\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=26996229\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released its report for the 2021 fiscal year on Friday<\/em><\/span><\/a>, showing a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sharp decrease<\/em><\/span> in the number of arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants from previous years.\u00a0 How sharp, inquiring minds might ask?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>ICE agents arrested 74,082 non-citizens from October 2020 through September 2021,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ice-fy-2021-report-drop-arrests-deportations-biden-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">down from<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0103,603 arrests in the 2020 fiscal year and 143,099 arrests in the 2019 fiscal year.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><em>Deportations were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">also lower<\/span> than previous years. The agency deported 59,011 non-citizens in the 2021 fiscal year, compared with 185,884 deportations in the 2020 fiscal year and 267,258 deportations during the 2019 fiscal year<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Gee&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/asshole1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100760\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/asshole1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/asshole1.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/asshole1-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/R3C3IQ6DQJDFFBJR3F6JPVQP2E.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100759\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/R3C3IQ6DQJDFFBJR3F6JPVQP2E.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/R3C3IQ6DQJDFFBJR3F6JPVQP2E.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/R3C3IQ6DQJDFFBJR3F6JPVQP2E-300x185.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;we <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can&#8217;t imagine why<\/span><\/em>?!?<\/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\/03\/bbb-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bbb-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bbb-4.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bbb-4-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ccc-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100774\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ccc-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ccc-4.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ccc-4-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/mc_putindidit_web20220311122919.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100776\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/mc_putindidit_web20220311122919.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/mc_putindidit_web20220311122919.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/mc_putindidit_web20220311122919-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaa-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100775\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaa-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaa-5.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaa-5-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sk031122dAPR20220310084505.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sk031122dAPR20220310084505.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sk031122dAPR20220310084505.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sk031122dAPR20220310084505-300x236.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cb031122dAPR20220311024505.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cb031122dAPR20220311024505.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cb031122dAPR20220311024505.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cb031122dAPR20220311024505-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ddd-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100779\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ddd-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ddd-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ddd-2-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-12-22-at-1.30-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-12-22-at-1.30-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-12-22-at-1.30-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-12-22-at-1.30-PM-300x203.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Speed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/speed-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100761\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/speed-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/speed-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/speed-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/speed-2-300x298.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Fielding&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fielding.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100763\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fielding.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fielding.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fielding-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Major Jon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Major-Jon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100764\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Major-Jon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Major-Jon.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Major-Jon-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Ed Hickey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image005.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image005-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image005-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image004-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image001.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100765\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image001.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image001.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image001-203x300.jpeg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and last, but never least, our old (and we DO mean OLD!) buddy Bill:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bill.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100762\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bill.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bill.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bill-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Sports Section<\/em><\/span>, and Jim Freeman&#8217;s heart-warming tale of&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/bear-hugs-for-a-basketball-coach-11647031405?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\">Bear Hugs for a Basketball Coach<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/bear-hugs-for-a-basketball-coach-11647031405?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A former law partner and private equity executive takes a team to the NCAA tournament<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/im-503103.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/im-503103.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/im-503103.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/im-503103-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A coach who assisted in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">perhaps the greatest college basketball upset of all time<\/span> is now creating another underdog story. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Specifically, a man who has overcome both cancer and the decision to become an attorney is now leading his unheralded team into next week\u2019s NCAA tournament.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>On Sunday the athletics department at Virginia\u2019s Longwood University\u00a0announced:\u00a0\u201cYes it\u2019s a dream, and yes it\u2019s real. Longwood is headed to March Madness.\u201d <span style=\"color: #800000;\">The joyous release from the school followed a win in the Big South conference tournament.<\/span> The Longwood Lancers had never had a winning record in conference play until Griff Aldrich arrived to coach four years ago. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Mr. Aldrich has described the school\u2019s decision to hire him as \u201ca hare-brained notion\u201d but he has certainly vindicated its judgment<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As Carl Spackler would undoubtedly have observed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bCYs8v0Xji4?start=0&amp;end=2&amp;\" 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>Here&#8217;s wishing the long-shot Longwood Lancers continued success.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By the way, UMBC didn&#8217;t just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>upset<\/em><\/span> Virginia, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\"><em>they dominated them<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pIoVgJTOx5Y\" 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>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Video of the Day<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our favorite part of this Jesse Watters expos\u00e9 has to be Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Lois Frankel buying fossil fuel stocks in anticipation of Russia&#8217;s unprovoked invasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/va5g5KhOi0o\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Tales of The Darkside<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Stossel offers proof there&#8217;s no depth Progressive politicians won&#8217;t plumb to preserve their personal power.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SXWeO6kgSHY\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>On the Lighter Side<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relive what is perhaps the greatest performance in Olympic history, an absolutely amazing event we were fortunate enough to view live.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_0VrDnlPhTI\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, March 14th, 2022&#8230;but before beginning we offer additional proof, as if any were needed, whenever Joe Biden&#8217;s lips move&#8230; Biden: &#8220;I&#8217;m sick of this stuff &#8230; the American people think the reason for inflation is government spending more money. 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