{"id":102093,"date":"2022-05-19T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T22:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=102093"},"modified":"2022-05-19T18:45:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T22:45:50","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-may-18th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=102093","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, May 18th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, May 18th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, <em>Townhall.com<\/em>&#8216;s Leah Barkoukis records, while&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/leahbarkoukis\/2022\/05\/16\/biden-headed-to-buffalo-but-never-went-to-waukesha-n2607291\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Biden Races to Buffalo, He Never Went to Waukesha<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DOOCY: &#8220;How come the President is visiting Buffalo after a senseless tragedy there, but he couldn&#8217;t visit Waukesha&#8230;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KJP: &#8220;He&#8217;s visited many communities&#8230;that&#8217;s not the first one, so, he&#8217;s been to many others.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vx0S0HPOJe\">pic.twitter.com\/vx0S0HPOJe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1526290193023746049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the time of the Waukesha massacre, Little Red Lying Hood falsely stated Biden wasn&#8217;t going so as to\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>protect local resources:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Any President going to visit a community requires a lot of assets, requires taking their resources, and it&#8217;s not something that I have a trip previewed at this plan, point in time, but we remain in touch with local officials,&#8221; Psaki said on November 29, 2021.<\/span> &#8220;And certainly, our hearts are with the community as they&#8217;ve gone through such a difficult time.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As if the city of Buffalo has any resources to spare.\u00a0 Tucker puts the faux outrage of the professionally shocked into proper perspective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HOab0eMgyJE\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice, and the reality of Progressives&#8217; position on the proper place for firearms:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102104\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-10.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-10-300x232.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s brilliant Kevin Williamson echoes Tucker&#8217;s thoughts as he recounts the rules of&#8230;<\/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-tuesday\/the-buffalo-blame-game\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=TUE_20220517&amp;utm_term=Tuesday-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">The Buffalo Blame Game<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-tuesday\/the-buffalo-blame-game\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=TUE_20220517&amp;utm_term=Tuesday-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Who Is to Blame for Buffalo<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #ff0000;\">?<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC_Directions_web20220517121501.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102098\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC_Directions_web20220517121501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC_Directions_web20220517121501.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC_Directions_web20220517121501-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Before the blood was even dry in Buffalo, Democrats were asking the most important question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cHow can we well-heeled white progressives most effectively use the murders of all these black people to our personal and political advantage?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The murderer in Buffalo didn\u2019t kill anybody you\u2019ve ever heard of, and so the first thing to do if you want to exploit the deaths of all these people \u2014 and that is what Democrats intend to do \u2014 is to connect the crime to some famous name or prominent institution. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It doesn\u2019t matter if there isn\u2019t any actual connection: Just assert it, and that\u2019s good enough for the newspapers and the cable-news cretins and the impotent rage-monkeys on Twitter.<\/span> And so New York governor Kathy Hochul blames social-media platforms.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Amanda Marcotte <\/span><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2022\/05\/15\/mass-in-buffalo-tucker-carlson-and-other-right-wing-conspiracy-theorists-share-the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">blames Tucker Carlson<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/span> Other hack Democrats blamed Donald Trump, the Republican Party, Fox News, the National Rifle Association, etc. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>usual suspects<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Democrats are looking for <em>something<\/em> \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 to cling to politically at the moment, because they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>terrified<\/em><\/span> that they are going to get wiped out in the midterm elections. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And they probably are going to take a beating: Never mind that the Republican Party doesn\u2019t deserve to win \u2014 the Democrats deserve to lose, and that\u2019s what matters at the polls.<\/span> What can Democrats do about that besides pray that Marjorie Taylor Greene has an extra shot of espresso in her moonbat latte this morning? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">There are options, but they are tough, and apparently it has never crossed Governor Hochul\u2019s mind (such as it is) to try a different approach: Rather than cheap demagoguery and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/04\/paying-buffalos-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">shunting great streams of public money into her husband\u2019s company<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, she might try <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>competent governance<\/em><\/span> and see how <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> works out.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Apparently, that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span> occurred to her. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Apparently, it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never will<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Apparently, it never occurred to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anybody<\/em><\/span>\u00a0in New York to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">keep an eye<\/span><\/em> on the lunatic who showed up at school wearing a full hazmat suit. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The kid who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already<\/em><\/span> was on the radar of the state police and the mental-health bureaucracy.<\/span> The kid who was asked about his post-graduation plans and answered: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>murder-suicide<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so<\/em><\/span> many shootings of this kind, the massacre in Buffalo didn\u2019t exactly come out of nowhere.<\/span> The same is true for the less dramatic kinds of shootings, too: There were at least <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>33 shootings<\/em><\/span> in Chicago over the weekend, and, when the data are in, we\u2019ll almost certainly find that the victims were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>almost all black<\/em><\/span> and that the shooters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>almost all had extensive prior criminal records<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including prior weapons violations<\/em><\/span> in many cases. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This stuff doesn\u2019t just fall out of the sky.<\/span> It is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>predictable as the change of seasons<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">You won\u2019t see a lot of headlines about those 33 shootings, and that is, in one horrifying sense, entirely appropriate: They <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>aren\u2019t really news<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> News is something <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unusual<\/em><\/span>, something <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unexpected<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We talk a great deal about crime in Chicago, because it is a big, dangerous city, and it is one of the five U.S. cities that the national media ordinarily pay attention to.<\/span> Buffalo is a smaller, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more dangerous<\/em><\/span> city, with a homicide rate just slightly above Chicago\u2019s: 18.38 per 100,000 vs. 18.26 per 100,000.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>vast majority<\/em><\/span> of murders in these United States are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no surprise at all<\/span><\/em> \u2014 we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>know<\/em><\/span> with actuarial precision <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">who<\/span><\/em> is going to do the killing, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who<\/em><\/span> is going to do the dying, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>when<\/em><\/span> the crimes are going to be committed, etc.<\/span> We <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even know<\/em><\/span> what policies would likely be effective in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>preventing<\/em><\/span> these crimes \u2014 for example, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>enforcing<\/em><\/span> the gun laws at the state and federal level, particularly the straw-buyer laws \u2014 but we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don\u2019t do that<\/em><\/span>, because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that would be hard work<\/em><\/span> and take up a lot of resources that could be used for more important things, like\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/florida-police-officers-paid-drink-alcohol-eat-doritos-164922342.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">paying cops to eat Doritos and shoot Jim Beam<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0on the taxpayers\u2019 time and dime, paying cops to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland19.com\/2020\/03\/11\/cleveland-police-officers-paid-guard-open-garage-west-side-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">impersonate garage doors<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/technical.ly\/civic-news\/highest-paid-city-employees-overtime-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">paying Philadelphia homicide detectives in excess of $300,000 a year<\/a><\/em><\/span>, and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kgou.org\/oklahoma-news\/2016-10-15\/norman-city-council-reconsidering-purchase-of-bearcat-armored-vehicle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">buying armored attack trucks to patrol the mean streets of Norman, Okla<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>There is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much<\/em><\/span> that could be done, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if<\/em><\/span> anyone were willing to do it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Here\u2019s something <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I am not<\/em><\/span> willing to do: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I am not<\/em><\/span> willing to renegotiate the Bill of Rights every time some sexually frustrated loser with a 5.56mm death-boner has a homicidal temper tantrum.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Set aside, for the moment, the inevitable attack on the Second Amendment: Governor Hochul is targeting the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>First<\/em><\/span>\u00a0Amendment.<\/span> Never mind enforcing New York gun laws or funding more proactive policing measures or maybe asking some more pointed questions about the kid who showed up to school in a full hazmat suit, Governor Hochul intends to focus on an area in which she has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no authority, expertise, or influence<\/em><\/span>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>policing speech online<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As a matter of constitutional law in the United States, there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no such thing<\/em><\/span> as \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/span> It is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> a legal term at all \u2014 the words have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no legal meaning<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As such, there certainly is no exception to the First Amendment for \u201chate speech,\u201d a fact that is well understood and attested to by boatloads of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2015\/05\/07\/no-theres-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">constitutional scholars<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0holding many different political points of view.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/06\/19\/supreme-court-unanimously-reaffirms-there-is-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">It is the unanimous position of the Supreme Court<\/a><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/395\/444\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">This is not new<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span> Governor Hochul, who has a law degree on her sad little r\u00e9sum\u00e9 (Erie County clerk and bank lobbyist) ought to know better. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Perhaps she has forgotten.<\/span> Perhaps she missed that day in law school. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Perhaps<\/em><\/span> she is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>cheap demagogue<\/em><\/span> who ought to be ashamed of herself and of whom New York ought to be ashamed.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>There is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no such thing<\/em><\/span> as \u201chate speech\u201d as a matter of constitutional law in the United States, and the sort of thing that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> classified as \u201chate speech\u201d in countries that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>do<\/em><\/span> have such laws is \u2014 pay attention, now \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exactly<\/em>\u00a0<em>the kind of speech the First Amendment is designed to protect<\/em><\/span>: offensive, unpopular, detestable, the kind of speech that most people consider immoral and indefensible. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The kind of speech nobody likes or wants is the kind of speech the First Amendment is there for \u2014 the other kind of speech doesn\u2019t need any protection.<\/span> Here is a useful heuristic: If you immediately want to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>suppress<\/em><\/span> somebody\u2019s speech, then that is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>probably<\/em><\/span> the kind of speech the First Amendment was made for. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We write down our laws for a reason, and that reason is because your gut instincts can\u2019t be trusted and because we don\u2019t want our civil rights to depend on whatever kind of daffy electrochemical misfire is happening inside that three-pound ball of meat Kathy Hochul calls a brain on any given Monday morning.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Like \u201chate speech,\u201d \u201cassault weapon\u201d is a term without meaning. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(\u201cAssault rifle\u201d is a term with a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/technology\/assault-rifle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">formal military sense<\/a><\/em><\/span>, and if you think that we should not ordinarily sell them to civilians, then, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rejoice<\/em><\/span>: We <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don\u2019t<\/em><\/span>.)<\/span> The shooter in Buffalo was armed with an ordinary modern sporting firearm, a 5.56mm semiautomatic rifle \u2014 the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most common rifle in the United States<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span>, contra the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>, \u201cmodified.\u201d<\/span> The\u00a0<em>Post<\/em>\u00a0headline reads: \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2022\/05\/15\/buffalo-shooting-gun-bought-bushmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">Suspect in Buffalo shooting modified Bushmaster so it could hold more ammunition<\/a><\/em><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But as far as I can tell it was only \u201cmodified\u201d by putting\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span>\u00a0magazine instead of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span>\u00a0magazine into the rifle.<\/span> (Magazines holding more than 10 rounds are illegal in New York State, but the law is effectively unenforceable, and it wouldn\u2019t make any difference in these cases even if it weren\u2019t. EDIT: He would have had to break the lock that keeps the fixed magazine in place, a simple task taking about two minutes, which is what he did. So I suppose the rifle was modified in the sense that a locked-up bicycle is modified when a thief breaks the lock to steal it.) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The killer seems to have chosen the Bushmaster brand because it has been associated with similar shootings.<\/span> This is a reminder that there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no major daily newspaper in the United States of America<\/em><\/span> that is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>capable of writing about firearms competently<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Kathy Hochul is an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unserious politician<\/em><\/span> representing an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unserious party<\/em><\/span> in an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unserious state<\/em><\/span> in a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>largely unserious country<\/em><\/span> that is kept on the road mostly by sturdy guardrails inscribed in an 18th-century document that\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ldJQc5mkuHU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">some guy wrote with a feather<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Events such as the one in Buffalo require a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>serious response<\/em><\/span>, but there is nobody around to provide one, at least <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not in elected office<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">What we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>have<\/em><\/span> is mediocrities, demagogues, and grandstanding ghouls happy to climb atop any pile of dead Americans, no matter how high or how mangled, to do a little TikTok dance in the blood and sing a verse of \u201cHappy Days Are Here Again.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>But, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really<\/em><\/span>, I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>am<\/em><\/span> sure this is all <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">somehow<\/span><\/em> Tucker Carlson\u2019s fault.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item also from <em>NRO<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/what-theyre-not-telling-you-about-the-buffalo-shooter\/?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;\">Kyle Smith records the Buffalo shooter has far more in common with Ted Kaczynski than either Lenin or Randy Weaver<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, noting, &#8220;Whoever your ideological boogeyman of today\u2019s discourse is, this person doesn\u2019t link up to him very easily.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in today&#8217;s installment of the <em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">EnvironMental Moment<\/span><\/em>, courtesy of&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>gasp<\/em><\/span>!!!&#8230;<em>Time<\/em> via our environmental consultant Jeff Foutch,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Vaclav Smil,\u00a0Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, disperses the rainbow unicorn farts which is a green energy future, as he tells us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline heading-content margin-8-top\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6175734\/reliance-on-fossil-fuels\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Modern World Can&#8217;t Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/social.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/social.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/social.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/social-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"dropcap\" role=\"presentation\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>M<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>odern societies would be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>impossible<\/em><\/span> without mass-scale production of many man-made materials. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">We <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could<\/em><\/span> have an affluent civilization that provides plenty of food, material comforts, and access to good education and health care <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>without<\/em><\/span> any <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>microchips or personal computers<\/em><\/span>: we had one until the 1970s, and we managed, until the 1990s, to expand economies, build requisite infrastructures and connect the world by jetliners <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>without<\/em><\/span> any <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>smartphones and social media<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> But we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could not enjoy<\/em><\/span> our quality of life without the provision of many materials <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>required to embody the myriad of our inventions<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Four materials rank highest on the scale of necessity, forming what I have called the four pillars of modern civilization: cement, steel, plastics, and ammonia are needed in larger quantities than are other essential inputs.<\/span> The world now produces annually about 4.5 billion tons of cement, 1.8 billion tons of steel, nearly 400 million tons of plastics, and 180 million tons of ammonia. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">But it is ammonia that deserves the top position as our most important material: its synthesis is the basis of all nitrogen fertilizers, and without their applications it would be impossible to feed, at current levels, nearly half of today\u2019s nearly 8 billion people.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The dependence is even higher in the world\u2019s most populous country: feeding three out of five Chinese depends on the synthesis of this compound. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">This dependence easily justifies calling ammonia synthesis the most momentous technical advance in history: other inventions provide our comforts, convenience or wealth or prolong our lives\u2014but without the synthesis of ammonia, we could not ensure the very survival of billions of people alive today and yet to be born.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>And these four materials, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so unlike<\/em><\/span> in their properties and qualities, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>share three common traits<\/em><\/span>: they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not readily replaceable<\/em><\/span> by other materials (certainly not in the near future or on a global scale); we will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>need much more of them<\/em><\/span> in the future; and their mass-scale production <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>depends heavily on the combustion of fossil fuels<\/em><\/span>, making them <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>major sources<\/em><\/span> of greenhouse gas emissions. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Organic<\/em><\/span> fertilizers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>cannot replace<\/em><\/span> synthetic ammonia: their low nitrogen content and their worldwide mass are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not enough even if<\/em><\/span> all manures and crop residues were recycled.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No other materials<\/em><\/span> offer such advantages for many lightweight yet durable uses as plastics. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No other metal<\/em><\/span> is as affordably strong as steel.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No other mass-produced material<\/em><\/span> is as suitable for building strong infrastructure as concrete (often reinforced with steel).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">As for the future needs, high-income countries could reduce their fertilizer use (eating less meat, wasting less), and China and India, the two heavy users, could also reduce their excessive fertilizer applications, but Africa, the continent with the fastest-growing population, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>remains deprived<\/em><\/span> of fertilizers even as it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already<\/em><\/span> a substantial <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>food importer<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Any hope<\/em><\/span> for its greater food self-sufficiency rests on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>increased use<\/em><\/span> of nitrogen: after all, the continent\u2019s recent usage of ammonia has been less than a third of the European mean. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>More plastics<\/em><\/span> will be needed for expanding medical (aging populations) and infrastructural (pipes) uses and in transportation (see the interior of airplanes and high-speed trains).<\/span> As is the case with ammonia, steel consumption <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has to rise<\/em><\/span> in all low-income countries with underdeveloped infrastructures and transportation. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much more cement<\/em><\/span> will be needed to make concrete: affluent countries to fix decaying infrastructures (in the US all sectors where concrete dominates, including dams, roads, and aviation get a D grade in nationwide engineering assessments), in low-income countries to expand cities, sewers and transportation.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Moreover, the unfolding transition to renewable energies will demand <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>huge<\/em><\/span> amounts of steel, concrete and plastics. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">No structures are more obvious symbols of \u201cgreen\u201d electricity generation than large wind turbines\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but their foundations are reinforced concrete, their towers, nacelles, and rotors are steel, and their massive blades are energy-intensive<\/em><\/span>\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> difficult to recycle\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>plastic resins<\/em><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> of these giant parts must be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>brought<\/em><\/span> to the installation sites by outsized trucks (or ships) and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>erected<\/em><\/span> by large steel cranes, and turbine gearboxes must be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>repeatedly<\/em><\/span> lubricated with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>oil<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> These turbines would generate truly green electricity <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only if<\/em><\/span> all of these materials were made <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>without<\/em><\/span> any fossil fuels.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Fossil fuels remain <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indispensable<\/em><\/span> for producing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> of these materials.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>Modern economies will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>always<\/em><\/span> be tied to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>massive<\/em><\/span> material flows, whether those of ammonia-based fertilizers to feed the still-growing global population; plastics, steel, and cement needed for new tools, machines, structures, and infrastructures; or new inputs required to produce solar cells, wind turbines, electric cars, and storage batteries. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>until all<\/em><\/span> energies used to extract and process these materials come from renewable conversions, modern civilization will remain f<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>undamentally dependent on the fossil fuels<\/em><\/span> used in the production of these <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">indispensable<\/span><\/em> materials.<\/span> No artificial intelligence designs, no apps, no claims of coming \u201cdematerialization\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will change that<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, when it comes to a green energy future&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sIJBUZm1HoY?start=72&amp;end=75&amp;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>At least, not in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>our<\/em><\/span> lifetime, the lifetime of our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>children<\/em><\/span>, of for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> matter, our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>grandchildren<\/em><\/span>&#8230;assuming we ever <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>get<\/em><\/span> any!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, we offer a septet of items specially selected for inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the implausibility of green energy goals, just when we&#8217;d thought Greens couldn&#8217;t become any more detached from reality, Ryan Mills writes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/california-environmentalists-move-to-kill-massive-reservoir-project-as-state-faces-record-drought\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=27729499\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>in the midst of a record drought,\u00a0California environmentalists are moving to kill a massive reservoir project<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 You know,&#8230;because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>stored<\/em><\/span> water is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bad<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). In a forward from Balls Cotton, the great VDH warns <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/victordavishanson\/2022\/05\/12\/imagine-the-unimaginable-n2607124\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory, and we may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable<\/em><\/span><\/a>, for&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;<strong>When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the people, and face looming disaster at the polls, it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>then<\/em><\/span> they prove <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most dangerous<\/em><\/span> &#8211; as we shall see <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>over the next few months<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>So&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yKHUGvde7KU?start=4&amp;end=8&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>Not to mention maintain a plentiful supply of emergency rations, supplies, and most importantly, weapons and ammo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Jim Geraghty explains why the record-high cost of diesel fuel is making certain goods, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including baby formula<\/em><\/span>, quite literally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/why-diesel-fuel-costs-are-really-rising\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220517&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>too expensive to transport<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/biden-gas-sticker-03.14.22-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/biden-gas-sticker-03.14.22-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/biden-gas-sticker-03.14.22-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/biden-gas-sticker-03.14.22-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Charlie Cooke sagely suggests\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/05\/democrats-cant-fix-whats-wrong-with-joe-biden\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=top-stories&amp;utm_term=third\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Democrats can\u2019t fix what\u2019s wrong with Joe Biden<\/em><\/span><\/a>, citing a<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em>\u00a0piece which totally misses the point: 46*&#8217;s primary problem has nothing to do with intransigent opposition <\/strong><strong>or the death of congressional collegiality he himself pioneered, but the man himself, &#8220;who, no matter his means, chooses the wrong ends as a matter of unlovely routine.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). The <em>Morning Jolt<\/em> brings us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-mysterious-case-of-kathy-barnette\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220513&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the mysterious case of Kathy Barnette<\/em><\/span><\/a>, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>purportedly<\/em><\/span> Conservative Black female Senate candidate from Pennsylvania who can&#8217;t remember when she moved to the state or when she was in OCS, and has thus far declined to provide such basic background information as the name of her hometown and what college she attended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>We&#8217;d be willing to bet, if asked, the secretive Barnette would be unwilling to offer here definition of\u00a0 &#8220;woman&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). Speaking of those unwilling to define what a woman is, Andy McCarthy documents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/judge-jackson-wont-say-dobbs-leak-is-wrong-and-wont-object-to-protests-at-her-soon-to-be-colleagues-homes\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=top-stories&amp;utm_term=third\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the next SCOTUS justice&#8217;s inability to answer two very simple questions<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0related to the leak of Sam Alito&#8217;s draft opinion striking down <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and the resultant incontrovertibly illegal protests outside the homes of her future fellows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Q:\u00a0<em>Do you think it was a good thing or a bad thing?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>A:\u00a0I can\u2019t answer that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Q:\u00a0<em>What do you think about peaceful protests outside of Supreme Court justices\u2019 homes?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>A:\u00a0I don\u2019t have any comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s a second shot of the juice, which you can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>take to the bank<\/em><\/span>: You can DEPEND on the fact Ketanji Brown Jackson will have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>plenty<\/em><\/span> of VERY one-sided answers, comments <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span>\u00a0opinions once she is undeservedly elevated to the highest court in the land. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(7). Since we&#8217;re on the subject of women incapable of providing straight answers to simple questions, <em>Best of the Web<\/em> recommends, given the dismal state of the 46* clown car, Kommielaa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/working-together-hasnt-worked-for-kamala-harris-11652815919?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>best course of action would be to leave the White House and focus on working together with senators of both parties<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>While we the concept, the very idea brings to mind&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6gjsxf.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6gjsxf.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6gjsxf.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6gjsxf-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/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\/afb051622dAPR20220516024508.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102081\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/afb051622dAPR20220516024508.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/afb051622dAPR20220516024508.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/afb051622dAPR20220516024508-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102076\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-9.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aaa-9-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aa-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aa-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aa-5.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aa-5-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC_FlyingMonkeys_web20220516121100.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102078\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC_FlyingMonkeys_web20220516121100.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC_FlyingMonkeys_web20220516121100.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MC_FlyingMonkeys_web20220516121100-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sk051522dAPR20220513084518.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sk051522dAPR20220513084518.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sk051522dAPR20220513084518.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sk051522dAPR20220513084518-300x241.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sbr051522dAPC20220514034502.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102082\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sbr051522dAPC20220514034502.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sbr051522dAPC20220514034502.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sbr051522dAPC20220514034502-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these purely political memes from Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls2-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102068\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls2-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls2-2-300x285.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls4-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls4-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls4-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls4-1-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls1-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102069\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls1-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls1-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls1-2-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a9e5f23bf9ae3923669f23b31c04dc3561ac76aad764349fb147fb5bf181ad79.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102072\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a9e5f23bf9ae3923669f23b31c04dc3561ac76aad764349fb147fb5bf181ad79.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a9e5f23bf9ae3923669f23b31c04dc3561ac76aad764349fb147fb5bf181ad79.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a9e5f23bf9ae3923669f23b31c04dc3561ac76aad764349fb147fb5bf181ad79-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a9e5f23bf9ae3923669f23b31c04dc3561ac76aad764349fb147fb5bf181ad79-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/406a2fb3287e8290cc628221aad4063fb5e24f33d4344f2f4f1e16b52d8a2cc3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102073\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/406a2fb3287e8290cc628221aad4063fb5e24f33d4344f2f4f1e16b52d8a2cc3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/406a2fb3287e8290cc628221aad4063fb5e24f33d4344f2f4f1e16b52d8a2cc3.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/406a2fb3287e8290cc628221aad4063fb5e24f33d4344f2f4f1e16b52d8a2cc3-240x300.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280739502_959610901390733_6180384060934412985_n.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102071\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280739502_959610901390733_6180384060934412985_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280739502_959610901390733_6180384060934412985_n.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280739502_959610901390733_6180384060934412985_n-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/280739502_959610901390733_6180384060934412985_n-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with four lighter bon mots:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image016.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image016-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image016-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/balls-1-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image003-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102115\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image003-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image003-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image003-2-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102116\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image017.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image017-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image017-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with one more titillating tale torn from the pages of <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Crime Blotter<\/span><\/em>, courtesy today of <em>The Blaze<\/em>, which relates the sordid story of the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/tuscon-high-school-counselor-sexual-drag-show#toggle-gdpr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Woke Arizona high school counselor, who helped organize drag show for students, arrested and accused of having sex with 15-year-old girl<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/depravity.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/depravity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/depravity.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/depravity-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8220;On May 4th, 2022, detectives from the Tucson Police Department Sexual Assault Unit informed the administration of Tucson High Magnet School of an ongoing investigation into one of its counselors, Zobella Brazil Vinik,&#8221; read a\u00a0statement\u00a0from Tucson Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Gabriel Trujillo. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8220;The administration was informed of an alleged inappropriate relationship between the counselor and a 15-year-old student from Tucson High.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>On May 11, Vinik turned herself in to the police for the alleged charges of an inappropriate sexual relationship that occurred off-campus. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Vinik was charged with one count of sexual conduct with a minor, and was booked into the Pima County Jail<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/but-wait-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/but-wait-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/but-wait-1.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/but-wait-1-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;&#8230;<\/span><strong>Zobella was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>previously<\/em><\/span> a &#8220;community advocate&#8221; for the ScholarshipsA-Z organization \u2013 a self-described &#8220;Tucson-based immigrant youth-led organization that works to make higher education accessible to all students regardless of immigration status.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">It appears that her very woke profile on Scholarships-Z has been wiped from the website.<\/span> However, an\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:W0yxpg0BB6IJ:https:\/\/scholarshipsaz.org\/who-we-are\/meet-the-team\/zobella\/+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archived version<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0states that Zobella majored in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Peace and Justice Studies<\/em><\/span> with a minor in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Latinx Studies<\/em><\/span> at Tufts University. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">While in college, she &#8220;<a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/tuftsdaily.com\/features\/2015\/04\/13\/tufts-welcomes-policy-change-admit-undocumented-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">co-organized<\/a>\u00a0a campaign to make Tufts University accessible for undocumented students.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8220;Zobella joined the movement for immigrant justice during college where she co-organized a campaign to make Tufts University accessible for Undocumented students,&#8221; the since-deleted profile reads. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Zobella is &#8220;working to unlearn practices maintained by white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy and recommits daily to prioritize mental health, community care, and visions for freedom offered by Queer BIPOC organizers.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Zobella&#8217;s preferred pronouns are &#8220;She\/Her\/Ella.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peace and Justice Studies and Latinx Studies&#8230;at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=what+is+the+tuition+at+Tuft%27s%3F&amp;oq=what+is+the+tuition+at+Tuft%27s%3F&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.8738j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Tufts<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s $240,000+ for two meaningless degrees conferred upon a useless, unproductive individual.\u00a0 In other words, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>perfect poster child<\/em><\/span> for Biden&#8217;s unconstitutional college loan forgiveness program.<\/strong><\/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>Brit Hume lays the blame for the WuFlu fiasco squarely on the shoulders of those who leaped before they looked&#8230;without considering any sort of facts or using the least bit of common sense.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwqBudCzDrQ\" 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>Florida Representative Kat Cammack&#8217;s investigation confirms how Liberals lie but once, and that continually.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bmFwj8LdsX4\" 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 Free Market Side<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>John Stossel highlights how free market performance is always superior to the results of centralized Socialist planning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IndA0kPTDPI\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, May 18th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, Townhall.com&#8216;s Leah Barkoukis records, while&#8230; Biden Races to Buffalo, He Never Went to Waukesha &nbsp; DOOCY: &#8220;How come the President is visiting Buffalo after a senseless tragedy there, but he couldn&#8217;t visit Waukesha&#8230;?&#8221; KJP: &#8220;He&#8217;s visited many communities&#8230;that&#8217;s not the first one, so, he&#8217;s been to many 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