{"id":101261,"date":"2022-04-17T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=101261"},"modified":"2022-04-17T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:23:32","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-april-1st-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=101261","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, April 1st, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, April 1st, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, in what is unfortunately NOT an April Fool&#8217;s prank, Susan Collins, a<\/strong><strong>fter holding a second personal meeting with Ketanji Jackson Tuesday afternoon<\/strong>, <strong>said she&#8217;s decided to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">support<\/span><\/em> President Biden\u2019s nominee,<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/susan-collins-to-vote-yes-on-jacksons-confirmation-giving-supreme-court-nominee-gop-support\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=27197618\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> feeling reassured Jackson would not be \u201cbending the law to meet a personal preference<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6aphdy.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6aphdy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6aphdy.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6aphdy-300x175.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How Collins could trust the word of a woman who couldn&#8217;t&#8230;or <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wouldn&#8217;t<\/span><\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/idiot-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/idiot-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/idiot-2.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/idiot-2-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;provide the definition of &#8220;woman&#8221;, a person whose only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real qualifications<\/em><\/span> for the court are her gender and skin color, is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">totally<\/span><\/em> beyond us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: Collins no more believes Jackson won&#8217;t bend the law in favor of her personal preferences than the Route 1 bridge over the Kennebec River in Bath, ME is available for purchase.\u00a0 But Collins, just like every other Progressive politician, will do or say <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whatever&#8217;s required<\/em><\/span> to maintain their power <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> the corresponding opportunity <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to accumulate personal wealth<\/span><\/em>, without a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>single iota<\/em><\/span> of concern as to the impact on the rights and freedoms of average Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a second shot of the juice, Susie:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PpwJ1n7g1pM?start=12\" 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>First up, you&#8217;ll notice we&#8217;ve introduced a new poll, the genesis of which was a question posed to us by Daniel Francis: Do you believe Ron DeSantis can beat The Donald in the Republican presidential primary? We responded by canvassing two individuals we knew to be diehard Trumpeteers, and their respective reactions prompted the survey you&#8217;ll find immediately to the right of this column.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though we were nonplussed both individuals still supported Trump, we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were a bit shocked<\/em><\/span> they did so <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">even while<\/span><\/em> acknowledging <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>DeSantis<\/em><\/span> had the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>better chance of winning<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101249\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-6.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-6-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As the great Winston Churchill observed of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty, &#8220;It&#8217;s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma&#8221;: To support the draft-dodging, self-absorbed, intemperate Donald, a man to who English is a second language, over the Ronald, a man possessed of Trump&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only<\/em><\/span> strength (combativeness), but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>none<\/em><\/span> of his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>weaknesses<\/em><\/span>, being smart, articulate, self-controlled and possessed of a detailed knowledge of whatever issue is at hand; A counterpuncher who actually <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lands<\/em><\/span> hard, fact-filled blows rather than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>simply flailing<\/em><\/span> while filling the air with meaningless hyperbole. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a triple shot of the juice: The Donald&#8217;s served his purpose and outlived his day.\u00a0 His <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only<\/em><\/span> role in the 2024 election MUST be on the sidelines as a cheerleader.\u00a0 Had he assumed this role in the wake of the 2020 election, the Senate wouldn&#8217;t soon be confirming Ketanji (Kiswahili for &#8220;She who is full of sh*t&#8221;) Jackson to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, every time we think the Biden clown car couldn&#8217;t sink any lower in its craven political pandering, they proceed to plumb ever deeper depths of deviancy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-administration-transgender-agenda-youth-sex-change-hormone-therapy\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Biden administration endorses transgender youth sex-change operations, &#8216;top surgery,&#8217; hormone therapy<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-administration-transgender-agenda-youth-sex-change-hormone-therapy\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WH encourages gender reassignment surgery, puberty blockers, hormone therapy for transgender minors<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axq3t.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axq3t.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axq3t.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axq3t-300x270.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>The Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; Office of Population Affairs released a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/opa.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-03\/gender-affirming-care-young-people-march-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document<\/a>\u00a0Thursday titled &#8220;Gender Affirming Care and Young People.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The same day, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration&#8217;s National Child Traumatic Stress Network \u2013 another subset of the HHS \u2013 released a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nctsn.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/fact-sheet\/gender-affirming-care-is-trauma-informed-care.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">parallel document<\/a>\u00a0titled, &#8220;Gender-Affirming Care Is Trauma-Informed Care.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>The HHS documents describe what it calls appropriate treatments for transgender adolescents, including: &#8220;&#8216;Top&#8217; surgery \u2013 to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts;&#8221; and &#8220;&#8216;Bottom&#8217; surgery \u2013 surgery on genitals or reproductive organs, facial feminization or other procedures.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The NCTSN document goes out of its way to assure the public that the use of gender-affirming methods such as surgery and hormone replacement are not child abuse \u2013 most likely in response to recent policy decision in Texas that made such treatments illegal<\/strong><\/span><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Think about it: With <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">war raging<\/span><\/em><\/span> in Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/key-inflation-gauge-reaches-40-year-high-as-fuel-food-prices-skyrocket\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=27210953\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">inflation soaring to new record heights<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, and illegal aliens crossing our southern border at will, the 46* clown car deems now as the appropriate time to advocate for the irreversible surgical mutilation of minors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re tempted to say kill them all and let God sort them out.\u00a0 But now, being a Christian man, like Auntie Em&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AldxVQ8z5FQ?start=132&amp;end=133&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>In a related item, <em>FOX<\/em> reveals&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/disney-officials-leaked-videos-pushing-lgbt-agenda-saying-desantis-erase-gay-kids\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Leaked videos show Disney officials pushing LGBT agenda, saying DeSantis wants to &#8216;erase&#8217; gay theme park employees<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/disney-officials-leaked-videos-pushing-lgbt-agenda-saying-desantis-erase-gay-kids\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The company has openly criticized Florida&#8217;s controversial parental rights law<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6asugw.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101271\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6asugw.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6asugw.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6asugw-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In videos posted by journalist Christopher F. Rufo, Disney officials can be seen talking to employees at an &#8220;all-hands&#8221; meeting about the Florida bill, recently signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, and saying some teams at Disney have implemented an openly &#8220;gay agenda.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>In another video, Disney\u2019s Diversity and Inclusion Manager Vivian Ware explains to employees that the company is ditching the words ladies, gentlemen, boys, and girls in its theme parks <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in order to not alienate transgender children<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In a third video, an LGBT activist accuses Florida\u2019s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and his press secretary Christina Pushaw of <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">trying to &#8220;erase&#8221; LGBT employees at Disney<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">One of the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1508934581092765700?s=20&amp;t=g92OQKbsHE8kOuyJeQTb7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">videos<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0shows a Disney official explaining that the company is committed to pushing &#8220;queer stories&#8221; and putting in place procedures to ensure that the company is creating enough &#8220;gender-nonconforming characters.&#8221;<\/span><u><\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Disney corporate president Karey Burke said in another\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1508926408332034049?s=20&amp;t=g92OQKbsHE8kOuyJeQTb7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0that she would like to see at least 50% of Disney\u2019s characters in the future identify as LGBT or a racial minority. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Which is only equitable, considering gays, transgenders Blacks and Hispanics <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">combined<\/span> constitute less than 34% of the population<\/em>.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The Walt Disney Company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox Business<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s be clear on this: A law which prohibits exposure of children grades K-3 to sexual deviancy seeks to &#8220;erase&#8221; adult LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ employees at Disneyworld.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dr.-Evil.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dr.-Evil.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dr.-Evil.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dr.-Evil-300x204.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In <em>another<\/em> related item&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-highlights-florida-teacher-concerned-no-longer-discuss-personal-life\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\">MSNBC highlights a Florida teacher is concerned he can no longer discuss his personal life due to new education law<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axro0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axro0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axro0.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axro0-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>While Bernaert insisted that sexual identity is not in his curriculum, he argued that Florida should allow conversations regarding sexual identity to occur in school. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;We should be able to have discussions, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re encouraged to do in kindergarten.<\/span> Personally because my kids do have questions. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">They want to know who my partner is in pictures outside the classroom, and I should be able to speak to them,&#8221; Bernaert said.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Vossoughian asked whether Bernaert was concerned about whether he could discuss his home life. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bernaert admitted his concerns and said discussion about his home life is part of his role as an educator.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>&#8220;That\u2019s what we do as educators, we build relationships with our kids.<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And in order to build relationships, you talk about your home life, you talk about what you do on the weekends.<\/span> That\u2019s building community. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">It scares me that I am not going to be able to have these conversations with my children because they\u2019re going to ask about what I did on the weekend.<\/span> I don\u2019t want to have to hide that my partner and I went paddle-boarding this weekend because then they will ask, &#8216;What does partner mean, Mr. Bernaert?\u2019 <span style=\"color: #800080;\">I\u2019m worried, can I tell them what it means?&#8221; Bernaert asked<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even clearer<\/em><\/span> on this: A law which prohibits exposure of children K-3 to sexual deviancy means a gay teacher can no longer, if you&#8217;ll forgive our graphic French, discuss oral and anal sex with kids who haven&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the faintest clue what sex is<\/em><\/span>!!!\u00a0 Wow: What an infringement on his civil liberties!!!\u00a0 We&#8217;ll REALLY go out on a limb and affirmatively state a teacher&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>personal life<\/em><\/span> has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no place whatsoever<\/em><\/span> in the classroom <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at any level<\/em><\/span>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, <em>FOX News<\/em> has just lost another viewer who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/caitlyn-jenner-joins-fox-news\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unwilling to underwrite the network&#8217;s celebration and promotion of mentally illness and immorality<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, Jim Geraghty questions whether&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-rare-gift-of-truth\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220330&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Does Vladimir Putin Care About Casualties on Either Side<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axqsa.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axqsa.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axqsa.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6axqsa-300x198.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Sometimes it is worthwhile to encounter and consider a truly contrarian take, and the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019 Bret Stephens, the right-of-center columnist who outrages <em>Times<\/em> readers with metronomic regularity, offers a big one this morning. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">As bad as the war seems to be going, Stephens asks,<\/span> <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/29\/opinion\/ukraine-war-putin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">what if Vladimir Putin didn\u2019t actually miscalculate<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>Suppose for a moment that Putin never intended to conquer all of Ukraine: that, from the beginning, his real targets were the energy riches of Ukraine\u2019s east, which contain Europe\u2019s second-largest known reserves of natural gas (after Norway\u2019s).<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Combine that with Russia\u2019s previous territorial seizures in Crimea (which has huge offshore energy fields) and the eastern provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk (which contain part of an enormous shale-gas field), as well as Putin\u2019s bid to control most or all of Ukraine\u2019s coastline, and the shape of Putin\u2019s ambitions become clear.<\/span> He\u2019s less interested in reuniting the Russian-speaking world than he is in securing Russia\u2019s energy dominance.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Stephens notes that as bad as the self-imposed exile of so many Russians is, causing a \u201cbrain drain\u201d that is harming their economy, it is also removing the people in Russia most opposed to Putin\u2019s reign and most likely to push for change.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/03\/is-biden-setting-us-up-to-lose-a-war-we-never-really-joined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Our Michael Brendan Dougherty is of a similar mind<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">, contending that our perception of Ukrainian success is driven, at least in part, by only knowing their version of events: \u201cNobody writing reports about Ukraine\u2019s \u2018defeat\u2019 of the initial invasion knows or has access to Russia\u2019s actual war plan, without which it\u2019s impossible to know for sure whether Russia really has already failed.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>With all of that said, it is extremely difficult to believe that what we\u2019re seeing now was the Russian war plan all along.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">What if Putin doesn\u2019t really care if he finishes the war with a smaller conventional army?<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/bidens-ad-libbing-becomes-more-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Think back to that Russian military<\/a><\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">cathedral; in some minds, including Putin\u2019s, the purpose of the Russian soldier is to fight and die for the glory of the Russian state.<\/span> If the era of conventional army warfare is coming to an end, Putin is ensuring that the Russian army goes out with a bang, with one last grand war of conquest against the so-called Nazis and drug dealers and so on. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Sure, Russia will have a smaller army when the invasion war is done, but swaths of Ukrainian territory will be returned to <em>svyataya Rus <\/em>(Holy Russia), and the Ukrainian territory that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">isn\u2019t<\/span><\/em> Russian will be <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">devastated<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> If conventional armies are less and less cost-effective, Russia will have maximized its territorial gains before warfare evolved and those armies went out of style. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">And the Russian Orthodox Church will remember Putin as \u201cVladimir the Great.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call it a feeling, but something leads us to believe Jim&#8217;s headline was rhetorical in nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s another sextet of special selections certain to cater to inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). You have to love an article trumpeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/crude-oil-prices-drop-as-biden-plans-to-tap-strategic-oil-reserves-11648738097?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Biden&#8217;s order to release 180 million barrels of oil over six months from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve<\/em><\/span><\/a> which doesn&#8217;t bother to put what is pure political theater into proper perspective, as our Energy Editor Jeff Foutch explains:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;<strong>Good news everybody.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Oil price worries are a thing of the past. No, Joe isn&#8217;t about to authorize <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">domestic drilling<\/span><\/strong><strong>. But he&#8217;s going to release 1 million barrels of oil. That&#8217;s right, I said 1 million barrels, as <em>The<\/em><\/strong><em><strong> New York Times <\/strong><\/em><strong>tells us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><em><strong>Biden Plan Would Release a Million Barrels of Oil a Day From Reserve<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Sounds exciting. <em>The Times<\/em> tells us more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><em><strong>President Biden is considering a plan to release one million barrels of oil a day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for as long as 180 days, a move that would add a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">large amount of oil<\/span> to the global market\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>A <\/strong><em><strong>&#8220;large amount of oil&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><strong>?\u00a0<\/strong><strong>This comes after Biden&#8217;s 50 million barrels of oil release last year. Anyone remember how that worked out?\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What does a million barrels a day\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/tools\/faqs\/faq.php?id=33&amp;t=6\">come out to<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>In<\/strong><em><strong> 2020, the United States consumed an average of about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">18.19 million barrels<\/span> <\/strong><\/em><strong>of petroleum<\/strong><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">per day<\/span><\/strong><\/em><strong>, or a total of about <\/strong><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">6.66 billion barrels<\/span><\/em> of petroleum per year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>So that&#8217;s about enough oil for <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">an hour and a half<\/span><\/em>. It&#8217;s <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">something<\/span><\/em>, but <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mostly<\/span><\/em> it&#8217;s a hollow political charade. We need to<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> increase domestic supply<\/span><\/em> instead of moving around what we already have. Biden <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">doesn&#8217;t want to increase<\/span><\/em> the supply so he&#8217;s playing musical oil chairs.and hoping people don&#8217;t notice <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how useless<\/span><\/em> this latest version of the stunt is.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2).\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Writing at <em>NRO<\/em>, Joel Kotkin warns us of the rise of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/03\/the-most-dangerous-class\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-03-29&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\">THE most dangerous class<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/03\/the-most-dangerous-class\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-03-29&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the coming revenge of the disappointed<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Spoiler alert<\/span><\/em>: It&#8217;s the same set of circumstances which led to the success of the Bolshevik Revolution.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). The Journal&#8217;s Kim Strassel records how, despite Washington, under the cry of \u201cemergency,\u201d spending $6.6 trillion in fiscal 2020 and $6.8 trillion more in 2021, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>we&#8217;re essentially Covid broke, with the 46* clown car claiming without $22.5 billion in emergency dollars now, we again face Covid apocalypse<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Where<\/span> did all the money <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">go<\/span>? Everywhere <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but<\/span> to Covid. The Rescue Plan handed $350 billion in \u201crelief\u201d money to the states, and the Associated Press recently described its uses. Some $<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">140 million<\/span> is going to a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">high-end hotel<\/span> in Broward County, Fla. Colorado Springs, Colo., is dumping $<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">6.6 million<\/span> into <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">golf-course irrigation systems<\/span>. An Iowa county is using $<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2 million<\/span> to purchase a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">privately owned ski area<\/span>. Massachusetts is ladling $<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">5 million<\/span> to cover the debts of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Massachusetts would have done better to honor the memory of the dishonorable Teddy by devoting the $5M to the fight against drunk driving&#8230;particularly\u00a0<\/strong><strong>across <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>narrow bridges<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/f361adf3-247b-4504-8a4b-9ba096d36816-medium16x9_CHAPPAQUIDDICK_frame_1400.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/f361adf3-247b-4504-8a4b-9ba096d36816-medium16x9_CHAPPAQUIDDICK_frame_1400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/f361adf3-247b-4504-8a4b-9ba096d36816-medium16x9_CHAPPAQUIDDICK_frame_1400.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/f361adf3-247b-4504-8a4b-9ba096d36816-medium16x9_CHAPPAQUIDDICK_frame_1400-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no guardrails<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at night<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chappaquiddick-ted-kennedy-5-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chappaquiddick-ted-kennedy-5-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chappaquiddick-ted-kennedy-5-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chappaquiddick-ted-kennedy-5-copy-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). In a commentary highlighting Chris Wallace&#8217;s hypocrisy, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s David Harsanyi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/03\/give-me-a-break-chris-wallace\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=top-stories&amp;utm_term=second\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tells the former anchor of FOX News Sunday to give him a break<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, accurately observing &#8220;<em>Wallace is obviously more comfortable living in a media culture that allows liberal conspiracies and biases but not conservative ones<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Put another way, Wallace needs to remove the log from CNN&#8217;s eye before claiming FOX needs to extract the speck from its.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). If you&#8217;ve a choice in hiring an attorney, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/scary-for-the-legal-profession-georgetown-upends-traditional-law-school-lessons-in-new-woke-curriculum\/\"><em>based on this report from The Washington Free Beacon<\/em><\/a><\/span>, we&#8217;d suggest opting for anyone other than a Georgetown grad.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a hint why from a mandatory first-year course on property law:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-07-at-11.36.30-AM-1024x593.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-07-at-11.36.30-AM-1024x593.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-07-at-11.36.30-AM-1024x593.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-07-at-11.36.30-AM-1024x593-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). In a forward from the Nickel, <em>The Babylon Bee<\/em> reports <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/chris-rock-smooths-things-over-with-will-smith-by-sleeping-with-his-wife\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chris Rock has smoothed things over with Will Smith by sleeping with his wife<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image000000-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image000000-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image000000-7.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image000000-7-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>No reports yet of Smith bitch-slapping anyone at <em>The Bee<\/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\/desantis-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/desantis-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/desantis-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/desantis-1-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cb033122dAPR20220330114505.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cb033122dAPR20220330114505.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cb033122dAPR20220330114505.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cb033122dAPR20220330114505-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaa-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaa-14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaa-14.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaa-14-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aaaa-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BBB.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BBB.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BBB.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BBB-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aria_c18936520220329120100.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/aria_c18936520220329120100-300x179.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MC_Negotiation_web20220331114000.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MC_Negotiation_web20220331114000.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MC_Negotiation_web20220331114000.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MC_Negotiation_web20220331114000-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Special-_-Johnny-Classic-_-Lou-of-Flowers-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Special-_-Johnny-Classic-_-Lou-of-Flowers-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Special-_-Johnny-Classic-_-Lou-of-Flowers-1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Special-_-Johnny-Classic-_-Lou-of-Flowers-1-300x144.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-30-22-at-8.23-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-30-22-at-8.23-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-30-22-at-8.23-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-30-22-at-8.23-AM-300x208.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-31-22-at-8.42-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-31-22-at-8.42-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-31-22-at-8.42-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Image-3-31-22-at-8.42-AM-300x215.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from George Lawlor&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lawlor.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lawlor.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lawlor.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Lawlor-300x181.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;the lovely Shannon (with a slight assist from Yours Truly)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-7.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-7-266x300.jpeg 266w\" 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\/image0100000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image0100000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image0100000.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image0100000-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image0100000-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image000000-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image000000-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image000000-8.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image000000-8-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Larry Hoffman:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/msm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/msm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/msm.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/msm-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in a follow-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/landonmion\/2022\/03\/29\/nfl-will-require-every-team-to-hire-minority-offensive-coach-for-upcoming-season-n2605228\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Wednesday&#8217;s<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #b80d0d;\">Sports Section<\/span><\/em>, it&#8217;s been reported&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #b80d0d;\"><a style=\"color: #b80d0d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/bruce-arians-stepping-down-buccaneers-head-coach-front-office-position-report\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bruce Arians is stepping down as Buccaneers head coach, taking front office position<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/bruce-arians-stepping-down-buccaneers-head-coach-front-office-position-report\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tampa Bay is hiring defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, as the new head coach<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/364010-620x310.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/364010-620x310.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/364010-620x310.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/364010-620x310-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #b80d0d;\"><strong>Bruce Arians is stepping down as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to take a front office position with the team, according to a report. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #b80d0d;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The move comes less than 14 months after Arians, 69, led the Buccaneers to a victory in Super Bowl LV over the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/span> Arians said his new role \u2013 which starts during draft prep for the team this year \u2013 would be &#8220;senior consultant for football,&#8221; NBC Sports reported. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #b80d0d;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">&#8220;Bruce Arians is transitioning to the front office as our Senior Football Consultant,&#8221; the Buccaneers wrote on its official Twitter account. <\/span>&#8220;Todd Bowles has been named head coach.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Color us conspiratorial, but coming as this does immediately in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/landonmion\/2022\/03\/29\/nfl-will-require-every-team-to-hire-minority-offensive-coach-for-upcoming-season-n2605228\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the NFL&#8217;s latest craven capitulation to political correctness<\/em><\/span><\/a>, it cannot be mere coincidence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, though we&#8217;ll do our best to broadcast, owing to a mission trip down to Mexico followed by a visit to our sister, we&#8217;ll likely be radio silent through the weekend of April 16.\u00a0 So until possibly Monday, April 18th (yes, Tax Day 2022!)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GLUNypEfrFQ?start=86&amp;end=87&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\"><\/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>Courtesy of the lovely Shannon, Jesse Watters hits the nail squarely on the head as uses cold, hard facts to refute Progressive-promoted perceptions!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkwH3RPtgQI\" 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>Charlie Kirk offers clear, convincing 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