{"id":104833,"date":"2022-10-18T13:32:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T17:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=104833"},"modified":"2022-10-18T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T17:32:37","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-october-17th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=104833","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, October 17th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, October 17th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, ICYMI, <em>NRO<\/em> reveals what would heretofore have been an unbelievable story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/dhs-secretary-mayorkas-was-informed-whipping-incident-was-bogus-hours-before-he-condemned-border-patrol-agents\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=29348681\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #339966; text-decoration: underline;\">DHS Secretary Mayorkas Was Informed \u2018Whipping\u2019 Incident Was Bogus HOURS BEFORE He Condemned Border Patrol Agents<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/serialliar.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/serialliar.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/serialliar.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/serialliar-300x217.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let that sink in: The Secretary of Homeland Security, the cabinet-level leader of the very people <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>falsely accused of a heinous act<\/em><\/span>, chose to advance <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>his Progressive political goals<\/em><\/span> at the expense of the reputation and well-being of his completely innocent subordinates.\u00a0 As Robert Redford stated in <em>Three Days of the Condor<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vZNnDiDSUiI?start=198&amp;end=203&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>Were we running the Border Patrol, we&#8217;d be urging our people to threaten mass resignation if Biden didn&#8217;t immediately remove Mayorkis from office.\u00a0 And were we the Republican House leadership, we&#8217;d be preparing articles of impeachment in the event Biden refuses to act.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge,\u00a0<\/em>which may well be appearing to you in italics, though we&#8217;ve idea why!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of high government officials acting on allegations they <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">KNEW<\/span><\/em> to be bogus, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Andy McCarthy lends his unparalleled expertise to the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/10\/durham-witness-drops-trial-bombshell-fbi-offered-steele-1m-to-prove-dossier-claims\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-10-12&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Danchenko Trial Bombshell: FBI Offered Steele $1M to Prove Dossier Claims<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fbi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104801\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fbi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fbi.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fbi-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span class=\"small_caps\">n<\/span>\u00a0my posts Tuesday on the start of the Igor Danchenko trial (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/10\/durhams-danchenko-trial-looks-a-lot-like-his-sussmann-trial\/?itm_campaign=headline-testing-durhams-danchenko-trial-looks-a-lot-like-his-sussmann-trial&amp;itm_medium=headline&amp;itm_source=nationalreview&amp;itm_content=Durham%E2%80%99s%20New%20Case%20Features%20a%20Familiar%20and%20Possibly%20Fatal%20Flaw&amp;itm_term=Durham%E2%80%99s%20New%20Case%20Features%20a%20Familiar%20and%20Possibly%20Fatal%20Flaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">here<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/as-danchenko-trial-steams-ahead-dont-expect-the-defendant-to-testify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">here<\/a><\/em><\/span>), I observed that \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no matter how<\/em><\/span> the case plays out, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most notable<\/em><\/span> evidence will be about the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>behavior of the FBI<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> the defendant.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Just one day in, we are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">already<\/span><\/em> seeing why.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The FBI offered former British spy Christopher Steele $1 million if he could corroborate the claims in the now-infamous anti-Trump dossier.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/john-durham-witness-fbi-offer-proof-christopher-steele-dossier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">As reported by the\u00a0Washington Examiner\u2019s Jerry Dunleavy<\/a><\/em><\/span>, the admission about the offer was made by Brian Auten, an FBI senior intelligence analyst who was the first witness called by special counsel John Durham in Danchenko\u2019s false-statements trial.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The Steele dossier, for which Steele\u2019s associate Danchenko was the \u201cprincipal source,\u201d portrayed then\u2013GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump as enmeshed in a corrupt \u201cconspiracy of cooperation\u201d with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The dossier further claimed that Trump was compromised by, among other things, a recording of lewd sexual behavior that was supposedly in the Kremlin\u2019s possession.<\/span> Neither Steele nor Danchenko was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ever able<\/em><\/span> to corroborate the dossier allegations. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Moreover,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/durham-steele-dossier-source-claims-evidence-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Durham\u2019s court filings in the Danchenko case<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0indicate that the \u201cpee tape\u201d claim was a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>complete fabrication<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Because proceedings before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court are classified and ex parte \u2014 meaning only the FBI and Justice Department appear before FISC judges, and there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no notice or discovery ever provided<\/em><\/span> to Americans who are monitored under the court\u2019s warrants \u2014 the government has a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>higher legal obligation<\/em><\/span> than in normal criminal proceedings to ensure that the information presented to the court <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has been verified<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It is thus <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>breathtaking<\/em><\/span> that the FBI would offer an informant $1 million to corroborate his allegations \u2014 which is tantamount to an admission that the information is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not even supported<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much less verified<\/em><\/span> \u2014 and yet\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rely on that unverified and likely false information, not once but four separate times over the course of a year, under oath in applications to the FISC<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Just as remarkable<\/em><\/span>: Danchenko was Steele\u2019s principal source for the dossier, yet the FBI did not interview him until late January 2017. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">By that time, the bureau had relied on the dossier information twice (in October 2016 and January 2017) in sworn applications to the FISC that limned Trump \u2014 the GOP candidate for the presidency, and then the sitting president \u2014 as a tool of the Russian government.<\/span> The purpose of interviewing Danchenko was to determine whether the Steele allegations were true or false. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Obviously, the FBI is supposed to determine that the information has been verified\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">before<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>making an application to the FISC in the first place.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Moreover, the FBI rationalizes that it needed to turn to Danchenko because it had a falling-out with Steele over his leaking to the media around the time of the 2020 election. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Put aside that Steele was giving the press information well before that, and that the FBI had every reason to know it.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Steele was a paid FBI informant<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The bureau had every right to ask Steele <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">exactly<\/span><\/em> who his sources were, and Steele would have had an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>obligation<\/em><\/span> to provide that information.<\/span> Yet the FBI relied on Steele even though it was well aware that he was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> an eyewitness to anything he was reporting \u2014 he was relying on second- and third-hand accounts from a supposed \u201cnetwork\u201d of sources.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That is, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the FBI did not seek to interview these sources before portraying the president of the United States as a Russian asset<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> The bureau depended <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>solely on Steele<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>notwithstanding<\/em><\/span> that agents knew his anti-Trump bias was virulent and his information was uncorroborated \u2014 hence, the $1 million offer, which the FBI <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>knew it hadn\u2019t had to pay<\/em><\/span> because Steele was unable to support his claims.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It turned out, furthermore, that Steele\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>network<\/em><\/span> was, in essence, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Danchenko<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/not-for-a-million-dollars-11665604276?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Best of the Web notes<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>For anyone who thought that\u00a0James Comey\u2019s FBI <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could not have been any more irresponsible<\/em><\/span> in peddling the false claims included in the infamous Steele dossier, the latest revelations are bound to trigger a reassessment.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Not even a million dollars dangled in front of a questionable source could pry corroborating evidence out of him\u2014yet FBI officials still insisted on promoting his story?<\/span> Remember, a million dollars went a lot further in 2016 than in the Biden era.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The fact that even a million dollars hadn\u2019t been able to shake any verification out of Mr. Steele in 2016 makes the 2017 actions of the FBI\u2019s then director James Comey <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even more appalling<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>This week\u2019s court testimony shows that the conduct of the FBI was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even worse than previously reported<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But one thing hasn\u2019t changed.<\/span> There\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>still no real accountability<\/em><\/span> for the FBI officials who abused their power and poisoned our politics.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The depth of the corruption in Washington is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>truly<\/em><\/span> staggering!\u00a0 There are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>banana republics<\/em><\/span> with less corruption than what currently infests the federal bureaucracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yet Progressives continue to increase their funding at every opportunity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, writing at\u00a0<em>The Epoch Times<\/em>, Jeff Tucker warns us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/the-paypal-fiasco-was-no-accident_4786458.html?utm_source=Opinion&amp;src_src=Opinion&amp;utm_campaign=opinion-2022-10-12&amp;src_cmp=opinion-2022-10-12&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=QB0VNEo1IsRw5JCIzMcgLVkzgeca3AbamDuHVf6lPsXQXhYFxVcgsntfGLNCTLWXCw%3D%3D\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">The PayPal Fiasco Was No Accident<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x51hj.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x51hj.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x51hj.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x51hj-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We know by now exactly what\u00a0Big Tech\u00a0companies mean by \u201cmisinformation.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">They mean information that belies regime priorities.<\/span> It began with COVID and extended to vaccines. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Now it includes climate change.<\/span> Indeed, every bit of opining or evidence that seems to go against the prevailing agenda of the Gates Foundation, the Biden administration, or the World Economic Forum is being systematically deprecated by Big Tech. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That applies to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and now PayPal.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The war on information freedom is intensifying by the day. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This little victory over PayPal is sweet, but everyone knows it\u2019s a temporary concession.<\/span> They didn\u2019t like the bad public relations messaging. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Since the release of the policy, the company has likely experienced a record number of account cancellations.<\/span> They changed the policy to stop the bleeding.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In that sense, we have seen what works.<\/span> At the very least, these people have to obey market signals because they have a customer base and must deal with the basic demands of bookkeeping.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> They not only have to please government interests, but also the public insofar as they still depend on willing users.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Still, the trajectory here is very clear. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It\u2019s the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most frightening step in the ongoing rise of tyranny in the world today<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>your very ability to move money or even to earn an income will be officially declared as contingent upon the opinions you express<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It\u2019s next-level despotism that hasn\u2019t yet happened in any systematic way in the United States. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In China, this has become institutionalized.<\/span> The past year has shown us many examples of how the Chinese Communist Party uses digital apps to turn on or off people\u2019s ability to speak, associate, travel, and move money. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Compliance is everything.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>To some extent in Canada, this is already happening, as the government invaded the bank accounts of protesting truckers and those who supported them with donations.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">How much does it matter that PayPal reversed course?<\/span> It isn\u2019t entirely clear. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">They showed their hand and revealed a much deeper and scarier plan that relates to the Biden administration\u2019s intention to create a new central bank digital currency.<\/span> This will be programmable money, one that would allow a ruling elite to cut off your means to live if they so choose.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It\u2019s all too tragic.<\/span> PayPal was set up initially as a means of obtaining financial independence from government-controlled banks. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It even hoped to become an independent form of money.<\/span> All these years later, it has been captured by interests that have the very opposite ambition. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In truth, many people out there cheer the prospect.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>That\u2019s how intense the political war has become in this country. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We used to debate.<\/span> We used to talk. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We reveled in the freedom that was guaranteed by a constitutional republic.<\/span> Today, many interest groups\u2014many of them associated, for now, mainly with the left\u2014no longer want to play that game. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">They want you deplatformed, canceled, and even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>left bereft of your ability to earn a living or feed your family<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It\u2019s a new age of brutalism, and the technologies that were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>supposed to prevent<\/em><\/span> it are now being deployed to usher it in and entrench it.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: PayPal just provided you a glimpse of a future in which currency is fully digitized and the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">government controls<\/span><\/em> your accounts through <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>its control<\/em><\/span> over the companies which hold them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a future we&#8217;ll go into willingly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile,<em> Yahoo<\/em> reports, in an interview with Jake Tapper&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-test-locator=\"headline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/joe-biden-says-proud-hunter-141113754.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Joe Biden Says He\u2019s Proud of Hunter Biden Amid Legal Troubles, Fox News Ridicule: \u2018I Have Great Confidence in My Son<\/span><\/a>\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x5atn.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104839\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x5atn.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x5atn.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x5atn-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Addressing the accusations that he made a false statement while purchasing a gun, President Biden said it\u2019s already been addressed in that same memoir.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u201cHe came along and said, \u2018By the way, this thing about a gun, I didn\u2019t know anything about it.\u2019<\/span> But it turns out that when he made an application to purchase a gun, what happened was, you get asked the question, \u2018Are you on drugs or do you use drugs?\u2019 and he said no,\u201d Biden explained. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u201cHe wrote about saying no in his book.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cSo I have great confidence in my son,\u201d President Biden concluded. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u201cI love him, and he\u2019s on a straight and narrow and he has been for a couple years now.<\/span> I\u2019m just so proud of him.\u201d<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>deliberately lied<\/em><\/span> on his application to purchase a gun&#8230;a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>federal felony<\/em><\/span>&#8230;but &#8216;cuz he wrote about it in his book, it&#8217;s somehow&#8230;what&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>okay<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 Thus does Biden demonstrate the same complete contempt for truth regarding his son as he does the state of the nation&#8217;s economy&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden while eating ice cream: \u201cThe economy is strong as hell\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xbiZNy5UOG\">pic.twitter.com\/xbiZNy5UOG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1581435499331301376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;or any other subject he&#8217;s ever addressed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this sextet of selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). In a memorable and courageous display of truth and common sense in the face of woke insanity&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bucs coach Todd Bowles has no time for Leftist lies on race<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5bVspj5prE\" class=\"broken_link\">pic.twitter.com\/5bVspj5prE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitizenFreePres\/status\/1580937008067022849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). Speaking of woke insanity, we challenge you to view this clip from Tucker and reach any conclusion other than&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ljimp0eI0Fs\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;these people are stark, <em>raving<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>mad<\/em><\/span>, the very embodiment of Romans 1:22.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). In a related item, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Madeleine Kearns asks readers to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/10\/catholic-hospitals-under-fire-from-abortion-activists-they-should-not-be-in-business\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202022-10-16&amp;utm_term=WIR-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em> imagine being so singularly committed to progressive dogma and the literal worship of the unholy sacrament of abortion you would prefer a hospital close than continue being Catholic<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). In what we can only assume is a rhetorical question, Derek Hunter asks and answers, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2022\/10\/16\/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-democrats-n2614579\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>What the Hell is WRONG with Dimocrats<\/em><\/span><\/a>?!?&#8221;\u00a0 We offer a hint in the form of a tweet he cites which requires no added explanation or commentary whatsoever:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1\/<br \/>\nThis woman&#8217;s speech at a school board meeting\u2013after a school sent emails advertising a &#8220;family friendly&#8221; drag show for kids (sponsored by a 21+ gay bar)\u2013is so good I&#8217;m going to transcribe it and explain why it&#8217;s so effective.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the whole thing, and let&#8217;s go through it<br \/>\n\ud83e\uddf5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AVgLAPe43M\" class=\"broken_link\">https:\/\/t.co\/AVgLAPe43M<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7cJRy6clAa\">pic.twitter.com\/7cJRy6clAa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1580421155663450112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). Jim Geraghty examines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-medias-misguided-love-affair-with-john-fetterman\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20221012&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the media\u2019s misguided love affair with John Fetterman<\/em><\/span><\/a>, delving deep beneath the hype and unearthing the facts regarding the man who&#8217;s perhaps the most unqualified candidate for the Senate&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104820\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-1.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-1-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;since Barack Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). Since we&#8217;re on the subject of manifestly unqualified candidates. upon reading this headline&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/marjorie-taylor-greenes-presence-trump-rallies-sparks-talk-2024-ticket\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s presence at Trump rallies sparks talk of 2024 ticket<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/marjorie-taylor-greenes-presence-trump-rallies-sparks-talk-2024-ticket\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Election strategists say Greene could boost turnout in 2024 for Trump<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>&#8230;we could only think, &#8220;No&#8230;no&#8230;PLEASE NO!!!&#8221;\u00a0 This would be going from bad&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/download-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104825\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/download-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/download-2.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/download-2-300x163.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;to much, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much<\/em><\/span> worse:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/download-1-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104824\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/download-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/download-1-1.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/download-1-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/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\/10\/Picture1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104802\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Picture1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Picture1-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/nothing-to-worry.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/nothing-to-worry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/nothing-to-worry.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/nothing-to-worry-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/doomsayer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/doomsayer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/doomsayer.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/doomsayer-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cb101222dAPC-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cb101222dAPC-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cb101222dAPC-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cb101222dAPC-800x0-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/afb101422dAPR-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/afb101422dAPR-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/afb101422dAPR-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/afb101422dAPR-800x0-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/masks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/masks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/masks.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/masks-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mc_moolah_web-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mc_moolah_web-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mc_moolah_web-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mc_moolah_web-800x0-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/MC_runaway_web-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104809\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/MC_runaway_web-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/MC_runaway_web-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/MC_runaway_web-800x0-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/overcorrection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/overcorrection.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/overcorrection.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/overcorrection-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jones.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jones.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jones.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jones-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Image-10-13-22-at-1.33-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Image-10-13-22-at-1.33-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Image-10-13-22-at-1.33-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Image-10-13-22-at-1.33-PM-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Image-10-14-22-at-8.29-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Image-10-14-22-at-8.29-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Image-10-14-22-at-8.29-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Image-10-14-22-at-8.29-AM-291x300.jpeg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104794\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls4-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls4-1-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls2-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls1-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls1-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104797\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls3.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Balls3-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Speed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Speed1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Speed1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Speed1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Speed1-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with a cross betwixt <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>News of the Bizarre<\/em><\/span> and another sordid story straight from the pages of<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em> The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, as <em>Daytona Beach News-Journal<\/em>\u00a0informs us a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gnt_ar_hl\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news-journalonline.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2022\/10\/11\/port-orange-man-leaves-granddaughter-back-rental-car-he-returned\/10465632002\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Port Orange man drops off rental car with granddaughter in back seat<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/towner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-104817\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/towner-297x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/towner-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/towner.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>A Port Orange man\u00a0was charged with child neglect on Monday after dropping off a rental car and apparently forgetting his one-year-old granddaughter was in the back seat. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">David Towner, 62,\u00a0had been babysitting his granddaughter for the day.<\/span> He dropped off the car at the\u00a0Daytona Beach International Airport and was picked up by his daughter. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">The child was in the car for almost an hour before being found by a worker at the Hertz rental car facility, Volusia County sheriff&#8217;s investigators said.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>On their way back to Towner&#8217;s home, his daughter asked about the baby and he told her the child was at his home with his roommate, according to his arrest report. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Meanwhile, an employee with the rental company checked the car and found the girl in the back seat\u00a0of the 2019 Chevy Equinox, sheriff&#8217;s investigators said.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>&#8220;The child was scared and hot, but thankfully in good health when checked by paramedics,&#8221; Gant said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Deputies and airport staff initially could not make contact with Towner but were\u00a0alerted by 9-1-1 dispatchers that the child&#8217;s mother was on her way to the airport, officials said.<\/span>The woman told investigators her father told her he left the child at home but when she got to the house she did not see her daughter.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008080;\">She then learned her father had left her daughter in the rental car instead<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>When deputies made contact with Towner, he was\u00a0remorseful and cooperative with deputies<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x5dpz.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104842\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x5dpz.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x5dpz.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6x5dpz-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We can only imagine Towner&#8217;s conversation with his daughter resembled this scene from one of our favorite episodes of <em>The Three Stooges<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bP0R2f2JHXw?start=1031&amp;end=1044&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>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Video of the Day<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a must-view installment of his <em>YouTube<\/em> series, Matt Walsh examines Progressives efforts to rip apart the moral fabric of the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" 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