{"id":101863,"date":"2022-05-08T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T00:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=101863"},"modified":"2022-05-08T20:27:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T00:27:36","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-may-6th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=101863","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, May 6th 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, May 6th, 2022&#8230;and here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, consider this quote from 46* as relayed by Jim Geraghty:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"nr-heading\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8220;<a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/will-the-real-j-d-vance-please-stand-up\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220504&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To Choose to Abort a Child<\/span><\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/download.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/download.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/download.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/download-236x300.jpeg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">President Biden, yesterday: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/05\/03\/remarks-by-president-biden-before-air-force-one-departure-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">The idea that we\u2019re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on a decision by the Supreme Court<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">, I think, goes way overboard.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>I can\u2019t help but notice he used the word \u201c<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">child<\/span><\/em>.\u201d Pro-choice advocates keep telling me it <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">isn\u2019t<\/span><\/em> a child.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If<\/span><\/em> what is developing in a woman\u2019s womb <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span><\/em> a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>child<\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>human life<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> merely a blob of cells that are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>potential<\/em><\/span> life \u2014 we wouldn\u2019t accept <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">killing<\/span><\/em> that child, now <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would we<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfortunately, there are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">far<\/span><\/em> too many Progressives who literally <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worship<\/em><\/span> at the altar of abortion&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bidneschumberpelosi-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101871\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bidneschumberpelosi-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bidneschumberpelosi-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bidneschumberpelosi-copy-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;with no qualms <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whatsoever<\/em><\/span> regarding the killing of children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject, here&#8217;s one son of the Father of Lies who not only dares to suggest a &#8220;child of God&#8221; could EVER sanction the slaughter of the unborn, but totally and deliberately misrepresents the thoughts and beliefs of Robert Bork, an honorable man whose character 46* <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>continues<\/em><\/span> to assassinate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zk2yqRwjleg?start=567&amp;end=700&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>You&#8217;ll forgive us for being reminded of a classic scene from <em>Goodfellas<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDYKslnO0r0?start=37&amp;end=40&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>&#8230;every time this demented old deviant opens his mouth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, Tuesday night, The Left was out in force peacefully protesting in Los Angeles, torching the town and attacking the police.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t worry, the Disinformation Governance Board will be all over Biden&#8217;s deliberately deceptive, divisive description of his political opponents, &#8217;cause if 46*&#8217;s utterances don&#8217;t present a clear and present threat to national security, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nothing<\/span><\/em> does!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Shapiro gets to the heart of Progressives&#8217;\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actual<\/em><\/span> concern:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qNS1chtkiX4?start=364&amp;end=524&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, evidence of Liberals&#8217; accelerating descent into anarchy continues to mount, as <em>NRO<\/em> tells us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/pro-abortion-group-publicizes-conservative-supreme-court-justices-home-addresses-ahead-of-planned-protests\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=27609099\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Pro-Abortion Group Publicizes Conservative Supreme Court Justices\u2019 Home Addresses ahead of Planned Protests<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-937433270-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101855\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-937433270-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-937433270-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-937433270-copy-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>In response to the Monday night\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/05\/a-shocking-assault-on-the-supreme-court\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=homepage&amp;utm_campaign=hero&amp;utm_content=related&amp;utm_term=fifth\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">leak<\/a>\u00a0of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, a leftist group called Ruth Sent Us posted what it claims are the home addresses of the Court\u2019s six conservative justices online in preparation for an organized \u201cwalk-by protest\u201d set to take place outside the justices\u2019 homes next week.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Ruth Sent Us plans to dispatch\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/democrats-horrified-by-draft-opinion-overturning-roe-ripped-up-the-constitution\/\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">demonstrators<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0to \u201cthe homes of the six extremist justices\u201d on Wednesday, May 11, according to the group\u2019s website.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u201cANNOUNCING: Walk-by Wednesday, May 11, 2022! <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">At the homes of the six extremist justices, three in Virginia and three in Maryland.<\/span> If you\u2019d like to join or lead a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">peaceful protest<\/span><\/em>, let us know,\u201d the website states.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cOur 6-3 extremist Supreme Court routinely issues rulings that hurt women, racial minorities, LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights.<\/span> We must rise up to force accountability using a diversity of tactics,\u201d the group adds.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose legacy Ruth Sent Us claims to uphold, criticized the legal reasoning underpinning\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade\u00a0<\/em>throughout her career and predicted it would lead to political instability.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>In collaboration with Vigil for Democracy, Ruth Sent Us generated and posted a Google Maps graphic pinning the home addresses of Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Roberts, where they presumably reside with their families. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Vigil for Democracy titled the map, \u201cExtremist Justices,\u201d adding, \u201cWhere the six Christian fundamentalist Justices issue their shadow docket rulings.\u201d<\/span> The map has 3,185 views so far.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>In Virginia, where three of the six justices live, protesting outside a private home is\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title18.2\/chapter9\/section18.2-419\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">illegal<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ruthsent\/video\/7091679688761937198?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">TikTok account<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0for Ruth Sent Us seems to indicate that some marchers will silently walk by the homes of the justices wearing costumes depicted in Margaret Atwood\u2019s dystopian novel, the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-forced-birth-falsehood\/\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, an increasingly common tactic used by abortion proponents who claim that a\u00a0<em>Roe\u00a0<\/em>reversal represents the first step toward the creation of a dystopian, patriarchal theocracy<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s life once again imitating art, as Socialists employ the symbols from a fanciful tale to represent their far-fetched vision of the future.\u00a0 Sorta like Biden&#8217;s preposterous claim, if they regain power,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zk2yqRwjleg?t=672\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Republican states might pass laws to ban LBGTQRSTUVWXYZ kids from attending school<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 No&#8230;just preventing biologic boys from using the bath and locker rooms biologic girls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: Biden&#8217;s just transferring what Dimocrats did to Black children with their Jim Crow laws onto those who freed them from slavery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a second shot of the juice, as Nate Hochman notes at <em>NRO<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/05\/only-one-party-has-become-more-radical-on-abortion\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-05-05&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only ONE party has become more radical on abortion<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">In March, Maryland Democrats introduced a law that<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">effectively decriminalized letting a baby die due to neglect<\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\">through the first <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">28 days<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">after birth<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Just a few weeks later, a bill was<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/now-a-california-bill-to-permit-infant-death-by-neglect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">introduced in the California legislature legalizing death-by-neglect<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">for babies up to\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">six weeks after birth<\/span>.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Democrats today hold the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">most unequivocally, unapologetically, and grotesquely radical line on abortion of any major political party in the Western world<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">So<\/span><\/em>, President Biden, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>tell us again<\/em><\/span> \u2014 and <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">speak slowly<\/span><\/em>, so we can understand:\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Who<\/span>,\u00a0<\/em>exactly, is \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the most extreme political organization that\u2019s existed in American history<\/em><\/span>\u201d?<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reality is, as the <em>Journal<\/em>&#8216;s Kim Strassel suggests, given their refusal to recognize their unpopularity can&#8217;t be blamed on anything other than their policies, Dimocrats are desperate; For come November, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/nothing-but-roe-to-run-on-democrats-midterms-wade-leak-supreme-court-campaign-midterm-11651783715?mod=opinion_featst_pos1\"><em>they&#8217;ll have nothing BUT abortion on which to run<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Considering gas prices <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in Maryland<\/em><\/span>\u00a0which are now at a level\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Californians would view as a bargain<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_6253.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101870\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_6253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_6253.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_6253-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;forced us to pay $<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>116 and change<\/em><\/span> to fill up our RAM 1500 on Thursday, we find it hard to believe a decision effectively relegating abortion to the states is going to carry the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, the <em>Morning Jolt<\/em> calls our attention to an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actual<\/em><\/span> looming catastrophe:<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-global-crisis-youre-not-hearing-about\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220505&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">The Global Crisis You\u2019re Not Hearing About<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-global-crisis-youre-not-hearing-about\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220505&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Pay Attention to the Global Food Crisis<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/african-children-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/african-children-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/african-children-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/african-children-copy-300x283.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Keep in mind, even if the Russian invasion ended tomorrow \u2014 and it won\u2019t \u2014\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/ukraine-politics\/odesa-city-leaders-grapple-with-sea-mines-missiles-impending-start-of-resort-season.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">there\u2019s still the issue of the hundreds of anti-ship mines now floating around in the Black Sea<\/a>, a few of which have ended up drifting into the territorial waters of Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">It\u2019s not going to be safe to send cargo ships through those waters for a long time.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And in addition to a long, long list of other allegations of war crimes, the Ukrainian government says\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/buzz\/russia%E2%80%99s-alleged-theft-ukrainian-wheat-could-cause-food-security-crisis-202161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Russian soldiers have stolen \u201cseveral hundred thousand tons\u201d of wheat<\/a>\u00a0as well as agricultural equipment from areas of Ukraine that they are occupying. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">In a spectacular demonstration of the power of GPS tracking and global satellite signals,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/01\/europe\/russia-farm-vehicles-ukraine-disabled-melitopol-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">the Ukrainians remotely disabled<\/a>\u00a0at least two dozen John Deere combine harvesters, tractors, and seeders that had been taken out of the country.<\/span> But the Russians are likely to strip the stolen equipment for parts anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>For what it\u2019s worth,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2022-05-04\/worsening-global-food-security-needs-ukraine-russia-production-un-chief-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">U.N. secretary-general\u00a0Antonio Guterres said this week that there is no realistic work-around<\/a>, that until the war in Ukraine ends, the world is going to have a shortage of wheat and corn: \u201cThere is really no true solution to the problem of global food security without bringing back the agriculture production of Ukraine and the food and fertilizer production of Russia and Belarus into world markets despite the war.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>There were hopes that India could increase wheat production and make up the gap, but that country is now experiencing an\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agriculture.com\/markets\/newswire\/grains-wheat-rises-on-us-crop-ratings-india-production-prospects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">ill-timed, intense heat wave that is expected to reduce this year\u2019s crops<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">And now that India is unsure if it\u2019s going to have the surpluses it had previously anticipated,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/global-economics\/india-considers-restricting-wheat-exports-as-heat-destroys-crops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">it\u2019s considering restrictions on wheat exports<\/a>.<\/span> (More on export restrictions in a moment.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">One analyst pointed out that the problem is, at least for now, less a lack of food than a lack of ways to get it where it needs to go.<\/span> Right now,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/ukraine-grain-storage-shortage-adds-farmers-woes-2022-04-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Ukraine has 15 million tons of grain that can\u2019t fit into its existing silos<\/a>, because the grain in the silos can\u2019t get exported to any customers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But the global fertilizer shortage is likely to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">reduce crop yields<\/span><\/em> in a lot of places, which means we may be dealing with a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worse problem<\/em><\/span> in the coming months and years.<\/span> Using less fertilizer usually translates into fewer crops.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wilx.com\/2022\/05\/03\/fertilizer-shortage-could-cause-food-shortages-michigan\/https:\/www.wilx.com\/2022\/05\/03\/fertilizer-shortage-could-cause-food-shortages-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">And keep in mind that this is not just a far-off overseas problem<\/a>.<\/span> \u201cThe cost of the fertilizers farmers across Mid-Michigan use has doubled, and in some cases tripled.\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dailytrust.com\/agro-solutions-in-the-us-manure-is-hot-commodity-amid-commercial-fertilizer-shortage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">No joke<\/a>, \u201cmanure is absolutely a hot commodity.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The world probably could have done without the comments from U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Samantha Power\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/news-information\/press-releases\/may-01-2022-administrator-samantha-power-abcs-this-week-george-stephanopoulos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">on ABC News this weekend<\/a><\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Fertilizer shortages are real now because Russia is a big exporter of fertilizer.<\/span> And even though fertilizer is not sanctioned, less fertilizer is coming out of Russia. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">As a result, we\u2019re working with countries to think about natural solutions like manure and compost.<\/span> And this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually anyway. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">So never let a crisis go to waste.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Please<\/span><\/em> stop telling us what a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>great opportunity<\/em><\/span> there is in an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>oncoming famine<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">I would love to take the slogan, \u201cNever let a crisis go to waste,\u201d put it onto a rocket, and blast it into the sun.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>We&#8217;d chip in for the cost, provided Samantha Power and Biden were along for the ride.<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>At the exact time that we need to make it easier to get food from one country to another, countries such as Russia, Indonesia, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan are making it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more difficult or outright impossible<\/em><\/span> to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>export<\/em><\/span> food. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(I\u2019ll cut the Ukrainians some slack for their food-export restrictions, on account of the whole \u201cgetting invaded\u201d thing.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>This may seem mundane,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-61229607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">but India lost access to 45 percent of its palm oil overnight<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Few<\/span><\/em> of these problems are expected to be short-lived.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2022\/04\/26\/food-and-energy-price-shocks-from-ukraine-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">The numbers in the latest World Bank assessment are eye-popping<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Energy prices are expected to rise more than 50 percent in 2022 before easing in 2023 and 2024. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Non-energy prices, including agriculture and metals, are projected to increase almost 20 percent in 2022 and will also moderate in the following years.<\/span> Nevertheless, commodity prices are expected to remain well above the most recent five-year average. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">In the event of a prolonged war, or additional sanctions on Russia, prices could be even higher and more volatile than currently projected.<\/span>\u00a0Wheat prices are forecast to increase more than 40 percent, reaching an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all-time high<\/span> in nominal terms this year. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">That will put pressure on developing economies that rely on wheat imports, especially from Russia and Ukraine.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>human cost<\/em><\/span> of this is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">staggering<\/span><\/em>, with the number of people around the world at risk of famine\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indcatholicnews.com\/news\/44557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\"><strong>jumping from 45 million to anywhere from 53 million to 65 million<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not that those devoted to butchering babies would care about 65 million deaths in the Third World.\u00a0 After all, is not&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nzF-ZWRRD2g?start=33&amp;end=37&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>&#8230;a central tenet of the EnviroNazism?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All this because a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/global-politics\/commentary\/joe-bidens-minor-incursion-russia-remark-history-proves-it-was-mistake\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>demented old degenerate green-lighted Putin&#8217;s unprovoked invasion<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Atta boy, Brandon!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next we offer a sextet of specially-selected items certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Courtesy of George Lawlor,\u00a0<em>Just the News<\/em>\u00a0reports, according to a motion filed by Paul Calli, the lawyer for <em>Project Veritas<\/em> founder James O&#8217;Keefe, in March, <em>Project Veritas<\/em> was notified by Microsoft, its electronic communications service provider, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/media\/following-roe-v-wade-leak-doj-accused-wielding-double-standard-against\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">the government had been secretly seizing and reviewing the media organization&#8217;s emails and other electronic information for over a year through sweeping search warrants under non-disclosure orders<\/span><\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Wake up and smell the totalitarian tyranny, America!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). Jim Geraghty notes the Alito leak has unhinged Progressives to the point they believe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MalyndaHale\/status\/1521323147248631809\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Clarence Thomas is going to lead the effort to outlaw interracial marriage<\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bimbo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bimbo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bimbo.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/bimbo-300x137.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). The <em>Journal<\/em> Editorial Board tells us the Pope just can&#8217;t bring himself to condemn Russia&#8217;s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pope-francis-blames-nato-russia-ukraine-11651598988?mod=MorningEditorialReport&amp;mod=djemMER_h\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>choosing instead to blame NATO<\/em><\/span><\/a> for Putin&#8217;s barbarity<\/strong><strong>.\u00a0 We&#8217;d humbly suggest the Bishop of Rome should&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/syV2LkGpQB0?start=0&amp;end=3&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 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;and explore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052702304185104579437483495506904\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the history of Putin&#8217;s attacks on Ukraine<\/em><\/span><\/a> a little more thoroughly before jumping to unenlightened conclusions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). If you&#8217;re wondering how much attention the average American&#8230;the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">average<\/span><\/em> American&#8230;is paying to the probable overturning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/politics-and-public-opinion\/how-much-attention-is-the-public-paying-to-abortion\/?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAGELXzl8Qs9QlFXXy8qqqDc1vHGrXQvTZbBH-dbI51mW8F7BaEwhWgH7G-2JnmhpUoWp2is6QQxyZJQRJr0o-l6GauQZBZ1K69IYDOyQnfK_AA\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>AEI&#8217;s Karlyn Bowman suggests polling data indicates: Not much<\/em><\/span><\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). Courtesy of <em>Marie Claire<\/em> via Speed, Rachel Burchfield exposes the personal travel habits of noted climate warrior Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6ey5zk.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6ey5zk.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6ey5zk.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6ey5zk-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8230;<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/prince-charles-travel-habits\/?utm_campaign=socialflowTWMAR\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>which will undoubtedly seem relatively bizarre to the average human<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>, but highly and hypocritically carbon-intensive as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6.) Moving from the relatively bizarre to the totally incomprehensible, <em>FOX<\/em> informs , not to be outdone by the DHS creating the utterly unconstitutional Disinformation Governance Board, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/doj-unveils-new-office-environmental-justice\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the DOJ has unveiled its new Office of Environmental Justice<\/em><\/span><\/a>, which,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tNjRi5AJ53s\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as Tucker relates in Moderate Merrick&#8217;s own words<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, is intended to be the Biden clown car&#8217;s &#8220;central hub&#8221; for advancing its radical political agenda.\u00a0 In other words, NOTHING to do with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actual<\/em><\/span> justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Wow&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W_Sj8UNn0wQ?start=254\" 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>Come November, THAT oughta win the support of Americans paying $4.25\/gal <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>on average<\/em><\/span> for a gallon of gas!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Make no doubt about it: These people are completely and totally&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aTIfUnfZSrM?start=27&amp;end=29&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>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\/05\/MC-RightToChoose_web20220504100100.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC-RightToChoose_web20220504100100.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC-RightToChoose_web20220504100100.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC-RightToChoose_web20220504100100-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101821\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a-4.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a-4-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101850\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a-5.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a-5-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aria_c19009820220504120100.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101822\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aria_c19009820220504120100.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aria_c19009820220504120100.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aria_c19009820220504120100-300x179.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gv050422dAPR20220504084505.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101820\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gv050422dAPR20220504084505.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gv050422dAPR20220504084505.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gv050422dAPR20220504084505-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-3.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-3-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Image-5-4-22-at-7.30-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101824\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Image-5-4-22-at-7.30-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Image-5-4-22-at-7.30-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Image-5-4-22-at-7.30-AM-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Image-5-5-22-at-11.46-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101849\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Image-5-5-22-at-11.46-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Image-5-5-22-at-11.46-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Image-5-5-22-at-11.46-AM-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this from Speed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/speed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101847\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/speed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/speed.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/speed-277x300.png 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with these little bon mots from Balls Cotton:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101816\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101817\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image003.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image003-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image003-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image023.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image023-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101819\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls2-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls2-1-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101848\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls1-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a week with another titillating tale torn from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, as&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/maryland-squatting-suspects-identified-greenbelt-apartment-vacation\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Maryland police identify suspects squatting in woman&#8217;s apartment while she was on vacation<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Maryland-Squatters-Greenbelt-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101834\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Maryland-Squatters-Greenbelt-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Maryland-Squatters-Greenbelt-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Maryland-Squatters-Greenbelt-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Maryland police have identified the two suspects who were\u00a0<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/maryland-resident-squatters-bedroom-belongings-sold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>f<\/em><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>ilmed squatting<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0inside a Greenbelt woman&#8217;s apartment while she was on vacation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Police said they received valuable tips that have helped identify the suspects.<\/span> No arrests have yet been made, and the authorities are keeping the suspects unnamed until the investigation is complete.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The victim returned home from vacation April 5 to discover her front door damaged and her <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>possessions cleared out<\/em> <\/span>of the apartment. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Next<\/em><\/span>, she found a couple <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lying on her bed together<\/em><\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>&#8220;[The resident] located two suspects, a black male adult and a white female adult lying on one bed, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only piece of furniture still in the home<\/em><\/span>,&#8221; Greenbelt police\u00a0said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;Not only were they in my home, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>everything in my home was gone<\/em><\/span> except for my bed because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he details how he loved my bed so much<\/em><\/span>,&#8221; the victim told<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/squatters-found-inside-maryland-apartment-after-residents-return-from-vacation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox 5 DC<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">.<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8220;And I\u2019m like who are you?<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> And he says my name.<\/span> He\u2019s like you didn\u2019t pay your rent. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">I\u2019m like what are you talking about? I paid my rent.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>As the panicked resident began to ask how they got in and what they wanted, the suspects told her they &#8220;took all of their property.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #800000;\">According to police, they then &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>became aggressive<\/em><\/span> with the victims before fleeing on foot in an <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unknown direction<\/span><\/em>.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s hoping the victim remembered to change her sheets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Video of the Day<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Ingraham lends the benefit of her SCOTUS experience to what was heretofore an unimaginable breach of trust, one which proves once again there is NOTHING Progressives won&#8217;t do to further their perverted pursuit of power.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ocATrY1edpU\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Tales of The Darkside<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Stossel relates how Dimocrat Ken Siver, the first openly gay mayor of Southfield, MI has no problem whatsoever sticking it to people of color.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghCMel8Z_Z8\" 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>Witness as the seeds of truth are planted and sprout in fields filled with ignorance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kUi1w3q3voU\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, May 6th, 2022&#8230;and here&#8217;s The Gouge! First up, consider this quote from 46* as relayed by Jim Geraghty: &#8220;To Choose to Abort a Child&#8220; &nbsp; President Biden, yesterday: \u201cThe idea that we\u2019re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101922,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101863\/revisions\/101922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}