{"id":105747,"date":"2022-12-11T17:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T22:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=105747"},"modified":"2022-12-11T17:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T22:37:56","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-december-9th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=105747","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, December 9th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, December 9th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-8-22-at-10.25-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-8-22-at-10.25-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-8-22-at-10.25-AM.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-8-22-at-10.25-AM-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faux Chi&#8217;s avoidance brings to mind the interrogation scene from L.A. Confidential:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-opqUSOUDQY?start=56&amp;end=59&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 this lying, self-important pr*ck responsible for the deaths of many and the impoverishment of many more gets his comeuppance, if not in this life than most certainly in the next.<\/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>\u00a0does yeoman&#8217;s work&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/sorting-out-the-tripledemic\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20221208&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sorting Out the \u2018Tripledemic<\/span><\/a>\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/YB8ET-mzhX5kWGvNXBavYDaaN82bZlU3N2-xzJaby2M-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/YB8ET-mzhX5kWGvNXBavYDaaN82bZlU3N2-xzJaby2M-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/YB8ET-mzhX5kWGvNXBavYDaaN82bZlU3N2-xzJaby2M-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/YB8ET-mzhX5kWGvNXBavYDaaN82bZlU3N2-xzJaby2M-copy-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Why is this year\u2019s cold-and-flu season so rough? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">One theory is that we spent almost all of one year (2020) and portions of another year (2021) taking all those precautions against Covid-19, which meant that our bodies encountered fewer viruses of any kind.<\/span> The CDC\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/season\/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">concluded that the 2020\u20132021 flu season<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0had \u201cdramatically fewer flu illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths\u201d than previous years, and then characterized the 2021\u20132022 flu season\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/about\/burden\/2021-2022.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">as \u201cmild\u201d or \u201clow<\/a><\/em><\/span>.\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Our bodies have had a nearly three-year vacation from fighting off influenza viruses, which means that they\u2019re out of practice.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>And with our lives still being shaped by the decisions made during the pandemic, it\u2019s a good time to reexamine those decisions. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Heck, even the Chinese government is finally giving up on the always-unworkable \u201cZero Covid \u201d philosophy.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>I don\u2019t agree with everything in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/07\/opinion\/environment\/covid-19-pandemic-elderly-deaths.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">this David Wallace Wells\u00a0New York Times\u00a0column<\/a><\/em><\/span>, particularly the contention that Ben Shapiro was \u201cblithe\u201d about the deaths of the elderly from Covid-19. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a fair characterization of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/originalspin\/status\/1255604501169356801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Shapiro\u2019s comment that<\/a><\/em><\/span>, \u201cIf somebody who is 81 dies of COVID-19, that is not the same thing as somebody who is 30 dying of COVID-19.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>But Wells brings up two points that a lot of powerful voices didn\u2019t want to acknowledge during the pandemic. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">First, vaccination dramatically reduced the risk of death in the elderly and immunocompromised, but it did not eliminate it, which is why\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/policy-watch\/why-do-vaccinated-people-represent-most-covid-19-deaths-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">vaccinated people are now a larger percentage of Covid deaths than unvaccinated people<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Wells writes:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Vaccines are not as effective among older adults because the immune system weakens with age.<\/span> It\u2019s much harder to train older immune systems, and that training diminishes more quickly. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">In Americans between the ages of 65 and 79, for instance, vaccination reduced mortality risk about eightfold, compared to the unvaccinated. . . .<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><em>Given the underlying age skew, a twice-boosted 87-year-old shares a similar risk of Covid death as a never-vaccinated 70-year-old. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Which is to say, some <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">real<\/span> risk. <\/span>If it was ever comfortable to say that the unconscionable levels of American deaths were a \u201cpandemic of the unvaccinated,\u201d it is surely now accurate to describe the ongoing toll as a \u201cpandemic of the old.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Second, the desire to get as many Americans vaccinated as possible spurred many influential voices to ignore or dispute that different people had different levels of risk from a Covid-19 infection. <\/span>The typical 30-year-old faced <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much<\/em><\/span> less risk of serious consequences from a Covid-19 infection than the typical 70-year-old, and the typical ten-year-old faced <em>much<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much<\/em><\/span> less risk from a Covid-19 infection than adults. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">But openly discussing those facts might make some 30-year-olds blow off getting vaccinated and might make some parents conclude that getting their kids vaccinated wasn\u2019t that important.<\/span> In light of that fear, a lot of public-health experts chose to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pretend<\/em><\/span> that Covid was equally dangerous to everyone.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Hey,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/lo-and-behold-you-cant-just-shut-down-a-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">remember monkeypox<\/a>?<\/span> Remember how the overwhelming majority of cases were among sexually active gay men \u2014 and that\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/monkeypox-cases-reach-7500-us-99-cases-males\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">by August, 99 percent of cases were in males<\/a><\/em><\/span>, and 94 percent of cases were in men who reported having sex with other men? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Remember how even though monkeypox wasn\u2019t technically a sexually transmitted disease, because it spread through close contact, it was spreading in a manner similar to a sexually transmitted disease?<\/span> Remember how President Biden\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/22\/world\/asia\/monkeypox-biden-concern.html#:~:text=President%20Biden%20raised%20the%20alarm,everybody%20should%20be%20concerned%20about.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">chose to characterize monkeypox<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0as \u201csomething that everybody should be concerned about\u201d? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Have you noticed that many of our public-health officials <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really have difficulty being honest<\/em><\/span> about who is most at risk from certain maladies?)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Wells continues:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Vaccination and natural immunity had indeed dramatically reduced the country\u2019s overall mortality risk.<\/span> But while it\u2019s comforting to believe that protection is a choice, for some populations it isn\u2019t. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">And in moving pretty swiftly from treating everyone as high-risk to treating everyone as low-risk, we neglected to pay much attention to the differential of risk: that even if the average American had reduced his or her chances of dying by a factor of five or 10, 300 or more Americans might still be dying each day for many months, and there were probably some targeted things to do about that.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>I think you have a much better chance of persuading someone if you level with them and tell them the whole story. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">But what do I know.<\/span> I\u2019m not a doctor.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For that matter, neither is Faux Chi, regardless of what his diplomas claim.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of retrospection, now that the final race of the 2022 election has been decided, Jim Geraghty wonders&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/are-we-ready-to-learn-our-lessons-now-republicans\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20221207&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Are We Ready to Learn Our Lessons Now, Republicans<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/donald-effect.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105744\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/donald-effect.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/donald-effect.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/donald-effect-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>And with that,\u00a0the 2022 midterm-election cycle is now completely over: \u201cGeorgia\u2019s Democratic senator Raphael Warnock was re-elected Tuesday night, winning his second runoff in less than two years by\u00a0besting Herschel Walker, a scandal-ridden football star <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whom former president Donald Trump had once called \u2018unstoppable<\/em><\/span>.\u2019\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Warnock finished with 51.28 percent and Walker finished with 48.72 percent.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Yesterday, I noted that Republicans had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>won every other statewide office in Georgia in 2022<\/em><\/span>, but I forgot to mention an important point: that every other Republican running statewide had won with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more than 50 percent<\/em><\/span>, which was the threshold to avoid a runoff election. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Besides Walker, the Republican with the lowest percentage was lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Burt Jones, who finished with 51.39 percent.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>In every other race on the ballot, this was a good year for Georgia Republicans.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> There\u2019s no getting around it: Last night\u2019s loss was on Herschel Walker.<\/span> We don\u2019t know how much the allegations of paying for abortions in the past, and the allegations of Walker\u2019s own son, caused otherwise Republican-leaning Georgians to not vote for him. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">But it\u2019s hard to believe that Walker\u2019s scandalous past <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wasn\u2019t<\/em><\/span> a big factor, if not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the decisive factor<\/em><\/span>, in the race.<\/span> Yes, Warnock outspent the former NFL running back by a considerable margin in the most expensive Senate race in U.S. history. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">But in the governor\u2019s race,\u00a0Stacey Abrams outspent Brian Kemp, $46 million to $28 million. Kemp won by about 7.5 percentage points.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/personal-foul-on-herschel-walker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Back in October, when the Walker news broke, I wrote<\/em><\/span><\/a>, \u201cThe abortion accusation \u2014 coupled with the candidate\u2019s son, Christian Walker, accusing his father of running around with other women, threatening to kill members of his family, and being violent \u2014 will be exceptionally hard to overcome.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">A lot of people gave me grief for acknowledging that obvious consequence.<\/span> The fact that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you don\u2019t want<\/em><\/span> some accusation to be consequential does not mean that it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t<\/em><\/span> going to be consequential.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>I also wrote back then:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>The Walker news will leave a lot of Republicans depressed, and it should leave them depressed. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">In this kind of political environment,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/hey-wasnt-biden-supposed-to-be-the-democrats-top-campaigner-right-about-now\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=homepage&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=featured-writers&amp;utm_term=thirdhttps:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/hey-wasnt-biden-supposed-to-be-the-democrats-top-campaigner-right-about-now\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=homepage&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=featured-writers&amp;utm_term=third\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">with Biden\u2019s approval rating being lousy in just about all of the key states<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">, a bunch of nice,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-triumph-of-the-boring-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">boring<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timpawlenty?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">generic Republicans<\/a><\/span>\u00a0would likely be enjoying solid leads over Raphael Warnock, Mark Kelly, Maggie Hassan, and maybe even John Fetterman.<\/span> All Republicans needed to do to win big this midterm cycle was to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">be normal<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Apparently, that was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">too much to ask<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>I noticed that in the general election in November, a bit more than 1.9 million Georgians voted for Walker. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">In yesterday\u2019s runoff, a bit more than 1.7 million Georgians voted for Walker.<\/span> It seems reasonable to surmise that roughly 194,000 Georgians were willing to vote for Walker and overlook his flaws if control of the U.S. Senate was at stake, but were less motivated to vote for him once Democratic control of the Senate was assured<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, the <em>Journal<\/em>&#8216;s Kim Strassel highlights one significant aspect of the Republican&#8217;s lackluster performance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"crawler css-bsrkcm-Box e1vnmyci0\">\n<h1 class=\"css-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-gops-lost-vote-harvest-georgia-midterms-election-voter-turnout-gop-trump-candidates-mail-in-absentee-early-11670536141\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Herschel Walker\u2019s Defeat and the GOP\u2019s Lost Vote Harvest<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"css-mosdo-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-gops-lost-vote-harvest-georgia-midterms-election-voter-turnout-gop-trump-candidates-mail-in-absentee-early-11670536141\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Republican leaders begin to see the folly of ignoring early and mail-in voting<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mc-SuppressThis_web-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105756\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mc-SuppressThis_web-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mc-SuppressThis_web-800x0.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mc-SuppressThis_web-800x0-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>If there was a sense of doom among smart Republicans in the runup to\u00a0Herschel Walker\u2019s Georgia Senate defeat on Tuesday, it\u2019s because they understood he\u2019d already been beaten.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> The evidence sat in a towering pile of mail-in ballots.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The GOP did plenty wrong in this midterm, and any honest autopsy would reckon with its decisions to saddle itself again with subpar Senate candidates (remember 2010?) and to tie its fortunes again to\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0(remember 2020?). <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But the other big takeaway: Republicans got whupped by Democrats\u2019 early-voting game and may be years behind in a major shift in turnout tactics.<\/span> The party spent more time grousing over Democrats\u2019 2020 voting changes than it did asking itself why its opponents were so laser-focused on making mail-in and early voting easier.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It turns out that 720 hours (the month Democrats use to mobilize early voters) is more than 72 hours (the three days Republicans use to mobilize their Election Day voters).<\/span> Top Republicans have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>finally discovered arithmetic<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cOur voters need to vote early,\u201d Republican National Committee Chairman\u00a0Ronna McDaniel\u00a0said this week on Fox News.<\/span> \u201cThere were many in 2020 saying, \u2018Don\u2019t vote by mail, don\u2019t vote early,\u2019 and we have to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>stop that<\/em><\/span> and understand that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if Democrats are getting ballots in for a month, we can\u2019t expect to get it all done in day<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Georgia Senate results sum it up.<\/span> This week\u2019s runoff saw all-time midterm records in both early and absentee voting in a midterm. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Some 1.9 million people cast their ballot prior to Tuesday, and Democrat\u00a0Raphael Warnock\u00a0won 64% of those voting absentee and 58% of those voting early.<\/span> Yes, Mr. Walker had a good election day, winning 57% of votes cast Tuesday. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But turnout for the day was 1.6 million, or 46% of the total vote.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Some will note that a failed GOP early game didn\u2019t stop Gov.\u00a0Brian Kemp\u00a0or other statewide Republicans from winning decisive victories in November. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But Mr. Walker\u2019s troubled candidacy was the shining example of the need for a more sophisticated early-voting plan.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Candidates who don\u2019t excite voters shouldn\u2019t count on their flocking to the polls on Election Day<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Better to track them down and lock their votes in.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Which is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exactly<\/em><\/span> what Democrats have been doing<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve said it before and we&#8217;d say it again, but we&#8217;ll let Liz Peek&#8217;s thoughts expressed at <em>FOX<\/em> speak for us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Having suffered the rare humiliation of failing to win a second term in the Oval Office, and having cost his party a majority in the senate \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>three times<\/em><\/span> \u2013 it is time for Donald Trump to step away from politics. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">It is the right thing to do for his party, for the country, and for himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Mr. Trump will not win another election. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">His most glaring political strength today is his ability to energize Democrats, causing not only historic turnout but attracting gushers of campaign cash \u2013 for the opposition.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, courtesy of\u00a0<em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Julio Rosas informs us an&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/juliorosas\/2022\/12\/07\/investigation-reveals-where-processed-and-released-illegal-immigrants-have-gone-in-the-us-n2616880\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Investigation Reveals Where Released Immigrants Have Gone in the U.S<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/38826bff-d525-4e2f-908e-0b3b166c1a30.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/38826bff-d525-4e2f-908e-0b3b166c1a30.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/38826bff-d525-4e2f-908e-0b3b166c1a30.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/38826bff-d525-4e2f-908e-0b3b166c1a30-300x166.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cOur investigation is the first ever to document the physical movement of illegal aliens into the interior of the country. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What we uncovered is a mass resettlement program in which the Biden administration works hand-in-hand with NGOs.<\/span> It affects the entirety of the United States. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Every fire dies out unless someone fans the flames.<\/span> Now we know the Biden administration has help in keeping the flames at the border burning,&#8221; said Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The investigation confirmed that a host of NGOs <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>principally Catholic Charities<\/em>)<\/span> are actively facilitating the Biden border crisis.<\/span> Overflow from Customs and Border Protection is being transferred to these organizations so that Border Patrol avoids overcrowded facilities. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">These organizations apply for, and receive, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>taxpayer money<\/em><\/span> to provide processing and transportation services and infrastructure to facilitate the migration of illegal aliens into the interior of the country<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Here&#8217;s the juice: We&#8217;ll never work with, let alone contribute to, Catholic Charities ever again.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s a quintet of special selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). We must confess this one truly has us scratching our head:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2IsA_FpR4ZM?start=1&amp;end=297&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><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>Forget the Barney Fife-like police chief, t<\/strong><strong>he Joint Base <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>confirmed<\/em><\/span> to <em>FOX<\/em> it notified local law\u00a0enforcement about the Facebook posting, &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>which is\u00a0common information-sharing\u00a0practice among law\u00a0enforcement entities<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>REALLY?\u00a0 The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>U.S. Army<\/em><\/span> is now a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>law enforcement entity<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 Soooo&#8230;when the ChiComs invade Taiwan, the Army is going to&#8230;what&#8230;arrest them for crimes against humanity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s a second shot of the juice: To the best our knowledge, like the CIA, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Posse_Comitatus_Act#:~:text=The%20Posse%20Comitatus%20Act%20is,policies%20within%20the%20United%20States.\"><em>every branch of the U.S. Military is barred by statute<\/em><em> from enforcing domestic policies within the United States<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span>, so why WOULD the command of one of our military bases be &#8220;working with multiple state and local law enforcement agencies to monitor the situation to ensure the continued safety of the entire community&#8221;?\u00a0 And if LTCOL Schilling is just some rogue actor, why would he still have a job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). We frankly don&#8217;t which is worse: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Bowe_Bergdahl_exchange\"><em>Obama swapping five Taliban killers for an Army turncoat<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span>, or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2022\/12\/08\/deeply-disturbing-biden-admin-officials-and-democrats-criticize-griner-prisoner-swap-n2616926\"><em>Biden trading the Merchant of Death for an anti-American Black lesbian basketball player<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span> no one had ever heard of before she decided to bring weed along on her trip to Russia?\u00a0 Meanwhile, Randi Weingarten&#8217;s utterly idiotic tweet notwithstanding&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WHAT. I guess Paul Whelan should try being a lesbian next time? This is unhinged. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ryf5qYsqX7\">https:\/\/t.co\/ryf5qYsqX7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Angela Morabito (@AngelaLMorabito) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngelaLMorabito\/status\/1600899729323429891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 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>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i1StK9gu7fk\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>what ABOUT Paul Whelan<\/em><\/span><\/a>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). <em>NRO<\/em>\u00a0relates a<\/strong><strong>\u00a0new report raises the possibility <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/12\/overlooked-chinese-chip-makers-military-industrial-ties-revealed\/?bypass_key=Rm5UdGJmWVhhQ011cmJPclF5YTlidz09OjpXU3RUUjJvME4ydHBWbVZFTm5OeGJubDRRMGQ0UVQwOQ%3D%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-12-08&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">America\u2019s industrial base could come to rely on a\u00a0<span class=\"small_caps\">critical<\/span>\u00a0yet little-known chipmaker that supplies several big-name Chinese military companies<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 It will shock no one to learn the report&#8217;s release comes in the wake of Congress watering down a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act which would have specifically addressed the threat.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). Those following the continuing saga of the &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; know t<\/strong><strong>he next installment was supposed to be released this past weekend weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-twitter-files-compromised-after-lawyer-involved-in-the-controversy-was-behind-vetting-the-files?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;utm_content=member\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>but became delayed for a reason that was unknown at the time<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Turns out the delay came when it was discovered the individual responsible for vetting the files was none other than disgraced former FBI general counsel Jim Baker, who was immediately terminated when Elon Musk learned of his involvement, with Musk tweeting \u201cIn light of concerns about Baker\u2019s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). Demonstrating either ignorance, narcissism or both,\u00a0Jennifer Lawrence recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/jennifer-lawrence-flamed-claiming-first-ever-female-action-movie-lead\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>claimed she was the first female action hero in cinema<\/em><\/span><\/a> when she starred in <em>The Hunger Games<\/em>, which no doubt came as a surprise to one of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>first<\/em><\/span>\u00a0female action heroes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sMJCorShtSc?start=102&amp;end=107&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Yo, J-Law: Pam Grier was kickin&#8217; ass and takin&#8217; names 16 year <em>before you was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BORN<\/span><\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105765\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-5.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-5-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb120822dAPC-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105767\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb120822dAPC-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb120822dAPC-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb120822dAPC-800x0-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/afb120822dAPC-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/afb120822dAPC-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/afb120822dAPC-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/afb120822dAPC-800x0-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mc-CakeToo_web-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mc-CakeToo_web-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mc-CakeToo_web-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mc-CakeToo_web-800x0-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aa-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aa-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aa-4.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aa-4-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-4.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/a-4-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaa-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105724\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaa-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaa-3.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaa-3-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105725\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/aaaa-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb120622dBP-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105726\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb120622dBP-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb120622dBP-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cb120622dBP-800x0-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-7-22-at-11.05-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-7-22-at-11.05-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-7-22-at-11.05-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image-12-7-22-at-11.05-AM-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these Breeze&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105762\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled-300x205.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image008.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105763\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image008.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image008-300x269.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105764\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Balls&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105760\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000003.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000003-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105761\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000004.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000004-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000004-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;the latter of which confirms the only thing generally Conservative about the <em>Journal<\/em>\u00a0is its Editorial Page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a week with <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">News of the Bizarre<\/span><\/em>, and this story just in from the land of Cheeseheads&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/dog-accidentally-sent-through-wisconsin-airport-x-ray-machine-tsa-says?dicbo=v2-bcc065c8f2872887405e4baefa590b6f\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dog accidentally sent through Wisconsin airport X-ray machine<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled-2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled-2-1.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled-2-1-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;or in this case, Cheese<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>d*cks<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S. As a 1975 graduate of the Air Force Academy reminded us, a fortnight is two weeks, not twenty days.\u00a0 We stand corrected!<\/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>Make sure you watch this &#8217;til the end, as Tom Cotton not only reams Kroger&#8217;s CEO a new one, but his conclusion is one of the greatest we&#8217;ve ever heard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/50JG4Iv9Z78\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Tales of The Darkside<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Any questions?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eT0s6dBGK_A?start=0&amp;end=7&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>On the Lighter Side<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Club Pro Guy at the top of his game! Where WAS little Caleb?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9gciedNMFZM\" 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, December 9th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin&#8230; Faux Chi&#8217;s avoidance brings to mind the interrogation scene from L.A. Confidential: \ufeff Here&#8217;s hoping this lying, self-important pr*ck responsible for the deaths of many and the impoverishment of many more gets his comeuppance, if not in this life than most certainly in the next. 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