{"id":102705,"date":"2022-06-12T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=102705"},"modified":"2022-06-12T19:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:07:33","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-june-10th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=102705","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, June 10th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, June 10th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, here&#8217;s a familiar clip that sums up our feelings about Chesa Boudin, George Gascon, Larry Krasner and their ill-intentioned ilk:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6I6TrGedUn8?start=224&amp;end=228&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s hoping the good citizens of Los Angeles, Philadelphia and America&#8217;s other urban centers suffering under the pro-criminal policies of George Soros&#8217;s stooges send them packing as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of crime and the Dimocrats&#8217; avid embrace of the practitioners thereof, the following, which represents the Dimocrats&#8217; vision of Amerika&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiantFood?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GiantFood<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCPoliceDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DCPoliceDept<\/a>. Security guard and cop standing out front. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kHiCKtHRI8\">pic.twitter.com\/kHiCKtHRI8<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\u2014 Nathan Kron (@KronDc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KronDc\/status\/1534222527572107264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;was the subject of a recent conversation with TLJ, precipitated by us asking what she thought it would take to end such brazen lawlessness.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll preface the exchange by noting Jenny is generally of the same political positions as us, though somewhat softer in her solutions to the problems Progressives created which plague the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>She responded she didn&#8217;t know, but then asserted, whatever the answer, the three perpetrators didn&#8217;t deserve to be shot for their crime.\u00a0 At which point we realized even our dear, sweet TLJ was the unwitting, unwilling victim of Progressive propaganda.\u00a0 For in reality, it&#8217;s the PERPS who should not put THEMSELVES in the position to lose their lives for the sake of a grocery cart full of purloined products.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: The only way the crime wave <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Progressives have promoted<\/em><\/span> will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>end<\/em><\/span> is at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>barrel of a gun<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 And any number of criminals raised to believe there are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no consequences for crime<\/em><\/span> will have to die before that lesson sinks in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to this video of the altercation between Michigan police officer Christopher Schurr and Patrick Lyoya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/michigan-police-officer-charged-with-second-degree-murder-11654803499?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">which resulted in the death of Mr. Lyoya and the indictment of Officer Schurr for 2nd-degree murder<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll leave it to a jury to determine Officer Schurr&#8217;s guilt or innocence, but after watching the video evidence&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TfyEc8O58nI\" 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;we know one thing for certain: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>None<\/em><\/span> of what transpired would have happened <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if<\/em><\/span> Mr. Lyoya had simply\u00a0<\/strong><strong>(i) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Obeyed<\/em><\/span> the officer&#8217;s instructions to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>stay in his vehicle<\/em><\/span>; (ii) Having <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ignored<\/em><\/span> the officer&#8217;s instructions and exited his vehicle, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> attempted to flee; and, (iii) Having fled, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> subsequently <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>resisted<\/em><\/span> arrest, let alone <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>attempted to gain possession of the officer&#8217;s taser<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, but were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we<\/em><\/span> on the jury, based on what we&#8217;ve seen to date, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we&#8217;d<\/em><\/span> vote to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>acquit<\/em><\/span>, if for no other reason than the photo of the Democratic Republic of Congo flag draping the coffin of a man so devoted to his home country he moved to America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, the <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>\u00a0emphasizes&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/political-incitement-has-consequences\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220609&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Political Incitement Has Consequences<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/political-incitement-has-consequences\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220609&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Pressing the Easy Buttons of Fear and Anger<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102709\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-3.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-3-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, while speaking on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building, March 4, 2020:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">I want to tell you [Justice] Gorsuch, I want to tell you [Justice] Kavanaugh, you have unleashed the whirlwind and you will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">pay the price<\/span>.<\/span> You <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">won\u2019t know what hit you<\/span> if you go forward with these awful decisions.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/wskg.org\/supreme-court-weighs-abortion-case-schumer-remarks-draw-rebuke-from-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Chief Justice John Roberts, the following day<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">threatening statements of this sort<\/span> from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">highest levels of government<\/span> are not only inappropriate, they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dangerous<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">All members of the court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>In a subsequent statement responding to Roberts, Schumer said his remarks \u201cwere a reference to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>political<\/em><\/span> price <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Senate Republicans<\/span><\/em> will pay for putting these justices on the court, and warning that the justices will unleash a major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">But that ensuing spin was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>obviously a lie<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Schumer didn\u2019t threaten that Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans would pay the price or wouldn\u2019t know what hit them; he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>specifically<\/em><\/span> directed his remarks to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The New York senator knew he had screwed up by directly threatening the justices with harm, so he pretended he had not said what everyone had heard him say.<\/span> Few people in the national news really thought much of Schumer\u2019s remarks, and they were largely forgotten.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Look at that date again \u2014 within a week or so, the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the world.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But Schumer\u2019s comment \u2014 spurred by a case involving a Louisiana law that would restrict access to abortion services \u2014 looks spectacularly reckless\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/06\/08\/kavanaugh-threat-arrest-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">in light of Wednesday\u2019s news<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>So why <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did<\/em><\/span> Chuck Schumer, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>allegedly<\/em><\/span> a smart man, use those words back in March 2020?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Schumer felt he needed to look strong and tough and emotionally aligned with the grassroots of his party. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">His audience hated Brett Kavanaugh with a passion, and he feared the consequences of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not echoing<\/em><\/span> that rage.<\/span> And he simply didn\u2019t bother to think through the potential consequences of what he was saying. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Once he did, he had enough wherewithal to recognize how bad it looked, and thus he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>implausibly pretended<\/em><\/span> he had been talking about Republican senators instead.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Just about every bit of communication that reaches your eyes or ears aims to elicit an emotional response. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Advertisers, entertainers, elected officials, political candidates, prime-time TV hosts, columnists, and even morning-newsletter writers want you to feel some emotional response to what they\u2019re telling you.<\/span> Sometimes, they want you to feel happy and laugh. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Sometimes, they share a sad story illustrating the unavoidable tragedies of life.<\/span> Sometimes, they want to spark curiosity and wonder.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>But the two <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>easiest<\/em><\/span> emotional buttons to push are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fear and anger<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>True leadership<\/em><\/span> means handling the public\u2019s fear and anger like nitroglycerin. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">You don\u2019t just toss it around willy-nilly, and a little bit goes a long way.<\/span> In a better world, every elected official in the U.S. would recognize the inherent danger in demonizing any individual or group. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Over and over again in our society, people choose to define groups by the worst actions of relatively few individuals.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Alas, we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don\u2019t have<\/em><\/span> particularly responsible leaders, and they see the fear and anger buttons as the easiest ways to build their support. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cOur political opponents are decent human beings and fellow citizens with some wrongheaded ideas and an inaccurate sense of how the world works\u201d just doesn\u2019t fire people up and get them eager to click, tune in, make donations, and vote.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>What\u2019s more, a lot of people out there are looking for someone to hate, and politics gives them a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>convenient enemy<\/em><\/span> \u2014 or perhaps more importantly, a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>socially acceptable enemy<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>curious case of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/suspect-in-kavanaugh-assassination-plot-flew-under-the-radar-described-as-socially-awkward\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=28004893\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Nicholas Roske<\/em><\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">the\u00a0armed California man, perhaps inspired by Chucky&#8217;s &#8220;intemperate&#8221; invective,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/armed-man-arrested-near-supreme-court-justice-brett-kavanaughs-maryland-home\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>arrested near the Maryland home of\u00a0SCOTUS Justice\u00a0Brett Kavanaugh Wednesday morning<\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Roske of\u00a0Simi Valley, California, was carrying a gun, knife and pepper spray when arrested and had made violent threats against Kavanaugh, sources said. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Roske was picked up on a nearby street <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>after calling police on 911 to report himself<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>He told officers that he wanted &#8220;to give his life purpose&#8221; and purchased the gun and other items for the purpose of breaking into Kavanaugh\u2019s home and killing the justice and then himself. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Roske admitted in a second interview with the FBI of his intent to kill Kavanaugh and himself, according to an affidavit in support of the criminal complaint.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Roske told detectives that &#8220;he was upset about the leak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision regarding the right to an abortion as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas,&#8221; and believed Kavanaugh &#8220;would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws,&#8221; according to the affidavit.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Shortly after, the Montgomery County Emergency Communication Center fielded a call <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>from Roske<\/em><\/span>, who identified himself and told the call taker he &#8220;was having suicidal thoughts and had a firearm in his suitcase.&#8221;<\/span> Roske <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also<\/em><\/span> told the call taker &#8220;he came from California to kill a specific United States Supreme Court Justice,&#8221; the affidavit says.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Montgomery County Police Department officers were dispatched to the location near Kavanaugh\u2019s residence, where they encountered Roske still on the phone with the emergency operator.<\/span> He was taken into custody without incident and a backpack and suitcase in his possession were seized<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two items to note: (1). <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>None<\/em><\/span> of the gun control measures Congress is considering would have prevented Mr. Roske from purchasing his handgun; and, (2). This incident\u00a0<\/strong><strong>begs the question why\u00a0protesters outside the home of Brett Kavanaugh are allowed to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>continue violating federal law<\/em><\/span>\u00a0rather than&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A small group of pro-abortion protesters are outside Justice Kavanaugh\u2019s home to demonstrate about the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade. Police formed a line in front of the home. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SdV4Rbrg44\">pic.twitter.com\/SdV4Rbrg44<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Julio_Rosas11\/status\/1534681107547017217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;being afforded the same treatment as this overzealous individual?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RkR53fpe2us\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><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>We should also remind you while Nancy the Red <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/house-to-vote-on-democrats-gun-measures-as-senate-talks-continue-11654719702?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>has no problem swiftly passing meaningless legislation<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0aimed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/house-votes-to-increase-semi-automatic-rifle-purchase-age-to-21\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=27992363\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>curbing the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens<\/em><\/span><\/a>, she&#8217;s stalled a bill unanimously passed by the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/top-senate-dem-very-much-concerned-pelosi-hasnt-passed-bill-to-protect-families-of-supreme-court-justices\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>extending added security to SCOTUS justices facing clear and present danger<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, courtesy of <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Ann Coulter calls our attention to&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/anncoulter\/2022\/06\/08\/californias-homelessness-magnates-n2608452?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">California&#8217;s Homelessness Magnates<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-1-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-1-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-1-2.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-1-2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-1-2-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<i>&#8230;<\/i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Crime is primarily a state and local issue, but there are some things the federal government can do. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">How about auditing the &#8220;homelessness&#8221; industry for fraud, graft and corruption?<\/span> (And the drug rehab industry, while you&#8217;re at it.) <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In the last decade, homeless &#8220;advocacy&#8221; seems to have displaced Hollywood as the most well-compensated and glamorous industry in California.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Michael Shellenberger&#8217;s 2021 book, &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/San-Fransicko-Progressives-Ruin-Cities\/dp\/0063093626?crid=MB7ZJSB8S8WH&amp;keywords=SAN+FRANSICKO&amp;qid=1654718936&amp;sprefix=san+fransick,aps,325&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=anncoulter-20&amp;linkId=e3e68c28af408c8a951295afe5561725&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities<\/a><\/em><\/span>,&#8221; details how progressives are foisting drug-addicted mental patients on an unsuspecting public. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The problem is less the homeless &#8212;\u00a0<em>the drug-addicted mental patients you will always have with you<\/em>\u00a0&#8212; and more the well-healed liberals getting rich off the homelessness racket.<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>He begins by quoting all manner of homeless &#8220;advocates&#8221; &#8212; i.e., <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>people who make money off of homelessness<\/em><\/span> &#8212; such as <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dr. Margot Kushel<\/span><\/em> of the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), who insists that homelessness has <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOTHING<\/span><\/em> to do with drugs or mental illness. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>always known<\/em><\/span>,&#8221; Kushel said, &#8220;that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most<\/em><\/span> homelessness is a result, pure and simple, of <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">poverty<\/span><\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>A lot of valuable information comes from sentences that begin with &#8220;we&#8217;ve always known.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Convinced of the truth of this preposterous maxim, San Francisco has been doling out <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>billions<\/em><\/span> of dollars to solve homelessness, by providing the homeless &#8212; or as we are now commanded to call them, &#8220;our unhoused neighbors&#8221; &#8212; with shelter, food and massive cash payments.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Also free needles! Because homelessness is just a matter of being poor, as &#8220;we&#8217;ve always known.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>On the other hand&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>In 2004, nearly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>5,000<\/em><\/span> homeless people were offered housing by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>then-Mayor<\/em><\/span> Gavin Newsom. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>131<\/em><\/span> accepted.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And because, as Einstein said, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of\u00a0<em>excellence<\/em>\u00a0&#8212; isn&#8217;t that the quote? &#8212; San Francisco just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>keeps trying the same thing<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Under a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>different mayor<\/em><\/span>, about 15 years later, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>150<\/em><\/span> vagrants were removed from a homeless encampment and offered free housing. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Eight<\/em><\/span> accepted.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>But that makes no sense! <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Homeless advocates <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">assured us<\/span> our unhoused neighbors are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">just like<\/span> you and me, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">except<\/span> they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can&#8217;t afford the rent<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Another possible cause of homelessness is hinted at in a recent Harvard University\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33710091\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0of chronically homeless people in Boston who were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>given permanent housing<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">After following the group for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>14 years<\/em><\/span>, last year the researchers released their results: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>86%<\/em><\/span> of their subjects were beset by the &#8220;trimorbidity&#8221; of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>mental illness, substance abuse and medical illness<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> After 10 years, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only 12% were still housed<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Forty-five percent died before the completion of the study.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Similarly, in 2019, San Francisco&#8217;s health department found that fully half of the city&#8217;s homeless population &#8212; currently housed or not &#8212; are both mentally ill <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> drug addicts. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">About 1,600 of the city&#8217;s estimated 8,035 homeless &#8220;frequently used emergency psychiatric services.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The pernicious &#8212; but profitable! &#8212; idea that homelessness is caused by poverty has led the city to lavish unimaginable aid on the &#8220;poor.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In straight cash welfare, SF offers $588 a month to the poor &#8212; and that doesn&#8217;t include $192 in food stamps.<\/span> Compare that to Los Angeles, where the maximum cash payment to the poor is $221, or New York City, where it&#8217;s $183.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>That $780 a month in cash and food stamps <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>doesn&#8217;t include<\/em><\/span> all the free stuff given to the homeless through cutout agencies, like churches and nonprofits, funded by taxpayer dollars and tax-deductible &#8220;charitable&#8221; donations.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Tom Wolf, a formerly homeless drug addict, said that, thanks to all of San Francisco&#8217;s giveaways, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he was able to spend his entire general assistance payment on heroin<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Which San Francisco also helps out with, giving away 6 million free needles to drug addicts every year.<\/span> That&#8217;s more than New York City dispenses &#8212; with a population 10 times larger.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>As a result, drug overdose is the leading cause of death among the homeless in San Francisco.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The mother of a drug-addicted, homeless young man told Shellenberger that he describes San Francisco as &#8220;Pleasure Island&#8221; in the movie &#8220;Pinocchio&#8221;:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">On one side of the street are people giving you food and clean needles.<\/span> On the other side of the street are all the drug dealers. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s like getting all the candy and treats that you think you want.<\/span> You think you&#8217;re having fun. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">But little by little it&#8217;s taking away your humanity and turning you into something you were never meant to be, like how the kids start turning into donkeys in &#8216;Pinocchio,&#8217; and then end up trapped and in cages.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>What kind of sick society would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>do this<\/em><\/span> to people?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">One possible answer: a society that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rewards<\/em><\/span> money-grubbing narcissists with no concern for their fellow man, masquerading as giants of compassion.<\/span> There&#8217;s a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ton of money<\/em><\/span> to be made in the helping-the-homeless business. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As the formerly homeless Wolf told Shellenberger, &#8220;[The homeless nonprofits&#8217;] whole intention is to keep more people in this cycle because they&#8217;re getting money for it.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Say, whatever happened with UCSF&#8217;s Kushel &#8212; of the &#8220;we&#8217;ve always known&#8221; metric? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In 2019, she was the lucky recipient of a $<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>30 million grant<\/em><\/span> from San Francisco billionaire Marc Benioff (Salesforce founder) to study homelessness.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Gosh, they&#8217;re virtuous.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah,&#8230;in the same way Mad Vlad, Yasser Arafat, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-Un have virtuously served their respective peoples&#8230;for their personal profit!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s a septet of special selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1).\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The mother of a survivor of the\u00a0mass shooting at Buffalo, New York<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/northeast\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">,<\/a>\u00a0grocery store <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/buffalo-shooting-victim-mom-america-inherently-violent-racist\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>testified before Congress Wednesday<\/em><\/span><\/a>, stating, &#8220;Domestic terrorism exists in this country for three reasons. America is inherently violent, access to guns is as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>easy as buying a piece of bubble gum<\/em><\/span> from the store, and we have an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>inadequate education system<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0America is inherently violent. This is who we are as a nation.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Buffalo-Shooting-Victim-Everhart-House-Testimony-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102677\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Buffalo-Shooting-Victim-Everhart-House-Testimony-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Buffalo-Shooting-Victim-Everhart-House-Testimony-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Buffalo-Shooting-Victim-Everhart-House-Testimony-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Sorry, Zeneta B. Everhart, Buffalo native, former TV news producer and currently the Director of Diversity &amp; Inclusion for the office of Democratic New York state Sen. Tim Kennedy, but a wounded son doesn&#8217;t convey any special status to your baseless bullsh*t.<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). Since we&#8217;re on the subject of baseless bullsh*t,\u00a0<em>The Washington Free Beacon<\/em> informs us the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority launched a campaign at stations across the D.C. area pledging to make &#8220;Metro safer&#8221; by reducing harassment of transgender passengers, despite only one such incident having occurred on the entire Metro system in the past two years. One advertisement features a white male with a man bun and beard yelling &#8220;transphobic slurs&#8221; at a gender-ambiguous person sitting on a train&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0062_736x514.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0062_736x514.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0062_736x514.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0062_736x514-300x209.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;though 99% of anti-trans incidents don&#8217;t involve White men.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3.)\u00a0<em>The Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0also tells us an FBI affidavit indicates investigators have &#8220;substantial evidence&#8221; retired Marine General J.R. Allen and Brookings president (recently named a Distinguished Graduate by the P.C. U.S. Naval Academy) and his colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/incriminating-fbi-investigates-brookings-chief-over-qatar-ties\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">intentionally violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a law that requires lobbyists to disclose their work for foreign governments<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). In a related item courtesy of <em>AEI<\/em> via Carl &#8220;The Great One&#8221; Polizzi, John Ferrari accurately assesses the <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2022\/06\/the-navy-is-broken-congress-must-launch-a-commission-to-find-the-path-forward\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>U.S. Navy is broken, and Congress needs to launch a commission to find a path forward<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Two quick thoughts come to mind: First, not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span> Congress, and second, ridding the ranks of the likes of Mike Mullen, John Casey and J.R. Allen will be a critical part of any meaningful solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). In a sign the pendulum may&#8230;may, mind you&#8230;be swinging back to the side of sanity, NRO&#8217;s Brittney Bernstein reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/washington-post-fires-felicia-sonmez\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=28005586\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0has fired national political reporter Felicia Sonmez after a week of public infighting at the paper sparked by the reporter\u2019s continued criticism of her own colleagues<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The way Sonmez went after her own in a most public way, one would think her a Republican.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). In expressing his belief <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the Dimocrats were wasting their time with Thursday night&#8217;s kabuki theater intended to once again raise the specter of The Donald<\/em><\/span>, Andy McCarthy eloquently observes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;<strong>Good luck with that. Trump derangement still seizes the media\u2013Democrat complex and some Republican pockets, but the vast majority of Americans have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>moved on<\/em><\/span> from Trump and the events of January 6. That includes Republicans who approved of much of what Trump did \u2014 those many of us who appreciate that the Trump\u00a0<em>administration<\/em>\u00a0was far better for the country than the train wreck that is the Biden administration, but who have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no use<\/em><\/span> for Trump the man and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no interest<\/em><\/span> in a reprise of Trump the president. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Can we hear an &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">amen<\/span>&#8220;, brothers and sisters?!?<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>No one approves of rioting \u2014 not the five-hour riot by Trump fanatics at the seat of our government, but also not the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">months<\/span><\/em> of lethal rioting, looting, and arson perpetrated by the radical Left after George Floyd\u2019s death in police custody. The problem for Biden and the Democrats is that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no one is fooled<\/em><\/span> by their claptrap about how the Insurrection\u2122 was different because it was an attack on democracy itself. Not when they are no longer content just to avert their eyes from the jack-booted neo-Marxists on their own side, but now go the extra mile to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/06\/the-biden-justice-departments-shameful-pandering-to-bomb-throwing-rioters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">coddle violent radical lawyers who firebomb police cars<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Down here on Earth, where <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span><\/em> political violence is to be condemned regardless of what \u201cism\u201d ignites it, we\u2019re not very interested in further hysteria about the Capitol riot. Not from people who go out of their way not to notice that our streets have been torched. Not when our cities are engulfed by crime because those people won\u2019t enforce the laws against anyone other than Trump and his myrmidons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>I really have no time for lectures about how Trump poses an unprecedented threat to American democracy. That wasn\u2019t Trump\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/06\/the-threat-on-kavanaughs-life-didnt-happen-in-a-vacuum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">plotting to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0yesterday. Trump is out of office. He has no ability to influence events. Populist Republican opportunists? Sure, he can influence them, because they\u2019re hoping to inherit \u2014 or at least to not be eaten by \u2014 his supporters. But he <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can\u2019t influence events<\/span><\/em>: not inflation, gas prices, food prices, interest rates, Putin, Xi, crime, gun laws, deficits, Ukraine, the Taliban, the Iran deal 2.0, Covid variants, Monkeypox \u2014 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">none of it<\/span><\/em><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>To which we can only add another hearty AMEN, particularly as the national average for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/tag\/gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">price of gas<\/a>\u00a0in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/national-average-gas-price-surpasses-5-per-gallon-for-first-time-ever\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=28002359\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">soared to a new record-high on Thursday, surpassing $5 per gallon for the first time EVER<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 $5\/gallon gas&#8230;Jan 6 riot&#8230;DUH!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>For more on the subject, we highly recommend <span style=\"color: #000000;\">the latest from the <em>Journal<\/em>&#8216;s Kim Strassel<\/span>\u00a0as she details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-uncredible-jan-6-committee-midterms-pelosi-cheney-schiff-miniseries-republicans-11654811166?mod=opinion_featst_pos2\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the uncredible Jan. 6 Committee<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(7). Evidently utterly unaware of who is doing most of the killing in America&#8217;s urban enclaves, the brain-dead Joy Behar stated Wednesday\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/the-view-joy-behar-gun-laws-change-black-people-guns-country\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">gun laws will change in the U.S. &#8220;once Black people get guns<\/span>.<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 &#8216;Cause then&#8230;what?&#8230;the slaves will be armed and able to revolt?!?\u00a0 Behar makes Billy Madison&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5hfYJsQAhl0\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><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;look like Albert Einstein.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MC_SeerYellen_web20220609121631.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MC_SeerYellen_web20220609121631.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MC_SeerYellen_web20220609121631.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MC_SeerYellen_web20220609121631-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/aaa-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/aaa-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/aaa-3.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/aaa-3-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/afb060822dAPR20220608064504.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/afb060822dAPR20220608064504.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/afb060822dAPR20220608064504.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/afb060822dAPR20220608064504-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cb061022dAPC20220608114513.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cb061022dAPC20220608114513.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cb061022dAPC20220608114513.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cb061022dAPC20220608114513-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MC_GunSpoon_web20220608124002.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MC_GunSpoon_web20220608124002.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MC_GunSpoon_web20220608124002.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MC_GunSpoon_web20220608124002-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/boudin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/boudin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/boudin.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/boudin-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-6-9-22-at-10.43-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-6-9-22-at-10.43-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-6-9-22-at-10.43-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-6-9-22-at-10.43-AM-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Balls&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls1-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls1-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls2-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls2-2-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls3.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls3-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102685\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls4.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls4-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102686\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls5.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/balls5-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Speed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/speed-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/speed-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/speed-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/speed-1-300x295.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and James Patrick:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/james-patrick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102681\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/james-patrick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/james-patrick.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/james-patrick-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoy your weekend.<\/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>Ronald Reagan dispels the deliberate, despicable Dimocratic distortion of Republicans being inherently racist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pvepQubGUEg\" 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>Tucker accurately identifies the greatest threat facing America&#8230;OTHER than its illegitimate misleader.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lag8WSbk5B0\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>On the Lighter Side<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are idiots, damn idiots, then there&#8217;s Dimocrats&#8230;and finally, this a*s clown!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ODulN7o-Pxw\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, June 10th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, here&#8217;s a familiar clip that sums up our feelings about Chesa Boudin, George Gascon, Larry Krasner and their ill-intentioned ilk: \ufeff Here&#8217;s hoping the good citizens of Los Angeles, Philadelphia and America&#8217;s other urban centers suffering under the pro-criminal policies of George Soros&#8217;s stooges send them packing 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