{"id":106422,"date":"2023-01-12T19:11:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T00:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=106422"},"modified":"2023-01-12T19:11:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T00:11:26","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-january-11th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=106422","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, January 11th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, January 11th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, we came across this quote from an episode of <em>Dr. Phil <\/em><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/dr-phil-schools-guest-reality-defunding-police-someone-end-9-1-1\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">entitled &#8220;Defunding the Police: A Failure or a Fallacy<\/span><\/a><\/em>? <\/span>in which one Mychal Denzel Smith &#8220;took a stance so controversial on policing, it provoked a heated reaction from the host himself&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>When I say, \u2018Oh I don\u2019t believe that there&#8217;s a need for police,&#8217; what I&#8217;m saying is that there has been so little investment in creating the conditions under which police would not be necessary.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>People are the creations of the society in which they live in. If you are a society that has such massive inequality, and you are a society that is based on racial and gendered hierarchies, and you are a society that deprives people of the resources that they need to live &#8211; talking about housing, clean water, food, all of these things that are part of an equitable society, you\u2019re talking about people that will do desperate things in order to survive<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though our response is an emphatic&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0xHe1zkABYo?start=87&amp;end=89&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Dr. Phil actually agreed with everything Smith said, which the exception of defunding the police <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>today<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Smith&#8217;s asinine assertions and Dr. Phil&#8217;s ignorance of the facts to the contrary notwithstanding, since 1965, the federal government has spent $<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">22 trillion<\/span><\/em>&#8230;that&#8217;s $22 with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>twelve 0s<\/em><\/span> after it&#8230;fruitlessly fighting poverty, a figure <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exclusive<\/em><\/span> of Social Security and Medicare expenditures.\u00a0 And it hasn&#8217;t made even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>minimal<\/em><\/span> impact on poverty.\u00a0 Today, America&#8217;s poor, the fattest on the planet, live in conditions many relatively well-to-do residents of the Third World would envy, having easy access to, among other programs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1. Food Assistance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>2. Health Insurance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>3. Medicaid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>4. Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>5. Housing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>6. Financial Assistance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>7. Welfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>8. Head Start (free preschool)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>9. Federal Pell Grant Program (free college tuition assistance)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>10. The Lifeline and Affordable Connectivity Programs (free broadband, hence\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/standupwireless.com\/blog-9-free-things-for-low-income-families-a-government-assistance-guide\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stand Up Wireless\u00a0as the source of our list<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And let&#8217;s not forget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obamaphone.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>free smart phones<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0with which to access their &#8220;free&#8221; internet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>As for this charlatan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_contract\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>regurgitation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau&#8217;s claptrap criminals are a creation of society<\/em><\/span><\/a>, both Dr. Phil and Smith conveniently ignore the single biggest determinant of poverty and criminal activity in America: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>single motherhood<\/em><\/span>!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: It&#8217;s yet one more example of life imitating art, in this case, Colonel Jessup&#8217;s legendary courtroom soliloquy from <em>A Few Good Men<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9FnO3igOkOk?start=78&amp;end=83&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><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>The &#8220;you&#8221; in this case being Dr. Phil and Mr. Smith, both of who undoubtedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>KNOW<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/C5IZjI_p6-Q?feature=share\"><em>single motherhood produces poverty, prison and every other kind of social ill<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span>, but to admit such would frame the problem as one of individual choices and actions rather than a systemically-racist, hierarchical, heartless society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, courtesy of the legendary KaCHING!, the <em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s Andy Kessler insightfully identifies a group to which many, if not all of us, may already unwittingly belong:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"crawler css-bsrkcm-Box e1vnmyci0\">\n<h1 class=\"css-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-voting-bloc-against-bossiness-dontell-libertarian-freedom-covid-education-language-silicon-valley-11673195159?st=nfppbhhzmxsnfzs&amp;reflink=share_mobilewebshare\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">The Voting Bloc Against Bossiness<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"css-mosdo-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-voting-bloc-against-bossiness-dontell-libertarian-freedom-covid-education-language-silicon-valley-11673195159?st=nfppbhhzmxsnfzs&amp;reflink=share_mobilewebshare\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Dontells don\u2019t want to be told what to think, what to say, or what to do<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Gadsden-flag.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Gadsden-flag.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Gadsden-flag.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Gadsden-flag-300x169.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: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Meet the Dontells, sure to be a political force in the next few elections.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Their mantra is simple: Don\u2019t tell me what to do, hence the name.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Their telltale sign is an obvious case of ODD.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">What\u2019s that?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Oppositional defiant disorder, which, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine, is a behavior disorder, often in children who \u201care uncooperative, defiant, and hostile toward peers, parents, teachers, and other authority figures.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Yeah, I\u2019ve got that.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Also add: Don\u2019t tell me what to say, to think, to pay.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Backlash was inevitable against the metastatic absurdity.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Use only paper straws.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Don\u2019t tell me what to do.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">You can\u2019t say \u201cmaster bedroom\u201d anymore.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Oh yes I can.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">That 6-foot-tall dude winning all the NCAA women\u2019s swimming meets is really a woman.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">I don\u2019t think so.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Every threat is existential.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Maybe to you.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">No abortions ever.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">What?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Your taxes pay people not to work.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Make it stop!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Tea partiers and red-hatted MAGA supporters pushed back against Obama-era bossiness.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">They didn\u2019t want high taxes to pay for open-border welfare, gun confiscation or being woke poked.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"> Heck, they even supported a blundering bloviator for president.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">That\u2019s how desperate their Dontell dedication was.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Note, there is a fine distinction between the Doncares (I don\u2019t care), the Leavmis (leave me alone), and the Dontells.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The first two groups rarely vote.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"> But Dontells <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>vote<\/em><\/span> in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>droves<\/em><\/span>, on both sides of the aisle.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Amazingly, the whole Dontell thing still comes as a huge surprise to self-important city dwellers on both coasts.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"> Yes, most big-city progressives like to be dominated and enjoy being told what to do.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Walk\/Don\u2019t Walk.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Mind the gap.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Wait in long lines.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Alternate-side-of-the-street parking regulations.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Calorie counts in doughnut shops.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Confiscatory taxes.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">New York\u2019s (unconstitutional) ban on large sodas.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">San Francisco\u2019s ban on Happy Meals.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The seemingly mandatory use of words such as \u201cpositionality\u201d and \u201cperformative\u201d in conversation.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Liberals, implied in the name, say they are for freedom, but are they?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The progressive wing is full of authoritarians telling others what to do or how to think: America is a racist country.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Wear a mask.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Limit charter schools.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Bees are fish (in California).<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cA drag queen for every school\u201d (Michigan\u2019s attorney general\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"css-1h1us5y-StyledLink exk4ewm0\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/wwmt.com\/news\/local\/drag-queens-should-be-in-every-school-michigan-ag-says-at-conference-report-claims-attorney-general-dana-nessel-pride-trans-transgender-students-kids-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" data-type=\"link\">promises<\/a><\/em><\/span>).<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">ESG.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">CRT.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">DEI.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">I could go on.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Meanwhile, Dontells are fed up with submission.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Many Dontells rally around the yellow Gadsden flag with its coiled rattlesnake and declaration \u201cDon\u2019t Tread on Me.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">In 2016 a controversy raged over whether the Gadsden flag was racist.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Really?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">There\u2019s that insulting implicit bias again.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Dontells <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hate<\/em><\/span> the thought police.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">It\u2019s about freedom.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Are Dontells libertarians?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Not necessarily.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">There is a deeper psychology of freedom that runs through society, way beyond\u00a0Ayn Rand\u00a0fanatics or Cato Institute donors or even crypto-crazies.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">This is especially true in Silicon Valley, even though its residents won\u2019t admit it.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Disruption almost by definition is not listening to what others tell you to do.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">We no longer live in a nanny state, but a bossy state.<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> You must express the prevailing opinion or face mockery.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Do this, don\u2019t do that.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Instead, let\u2019s eliminate ODD in our lifetime.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The Dontells\u2019 philosophy is simple: How about you live your life, and I\u2019ll live mine.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Don\u2019t tell me what to do, say, think or pay.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Oh yeah, and don\u2019t tread on me\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because I vote<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As we observed on our recent trip to the Lone Star State, Texas is BRIMMING with Dontells.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Charley Cook provides&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/01\/the-only-proper-response-to-a-national-gas-stove-ban\/?bypass_key=KytSNS9pSmlLc0FGSUVFcG9LUzZVZz09OjpLMkZZYmpJMU1GSkdPVmxqU2xCa2RHTjRkM0JCZHowOQ%3D%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-01-10&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">The Only Proper Response to a National Gas-Stove Ban<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/01\/the-only-proper-response-to-a-national-gas-stove-ban\/?bypass_key=KytSNS9pSmlLc0FGSUVFcG9LUzZVZz09OjpLMkZZYmpJMU1GSkdPVmxqU2xCa2RHTjRkM0JCZHowOQ%3D%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-01-10&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It falls so far outside the federal government\u2019s purview that it doesn\u2019t even merit a counterargument<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/7710f8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/7710f8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/7710f8.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/7710f8-300x175.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>One\u00a0could advance any number of compelling arguments against the Biden administration\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/09\/biden-administration-reportedly-weighing-national-ban-on-gas-stoves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">reported desire<\/a>\u00a0to institute a nationwide ban on gas stoves. <span style=\"color: #808080;\">One could note that such prohibitions are clearly not within the federal government\u2019s constitutional powers.<\/span> One could question the president\u2019s priorities in a time of inflation and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dbusiness.com\/daily-news\/survey-burnout-hits-consumer-confidence-as-financial-troubles-grow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">consumer alarm<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #808080;\">One could observe that the study that has led the administration to consider outlawing gas stoves is ridiculously \u2014\u00a0<a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aga.org\/news\/news-releases\/statement-aga-concerned-by-methodology-of-new-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">and deliberately<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 flawed.<\/span> One could even ask how such a measure \u2014 which would make many forms of ethnic cooking more difficult \u2014 could be squared with all that fashionable talk of systemic implicit racial bias. <span style=\"color: #808080;\">And yet to offer any of these objections would ultimately be counterproductive, insofar as it would signal an acceptance of the premise underlying the policy, which is that this is the sort of matter that a free people should expect their federal government to superintend.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>I do not accept this premise, and, as a result, I must offer up a response wholly different from the ones above. <span style=\"color: #808080;\">Namely:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Bugger off<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>That\u2019s right. <span style=\"color: #808080;\">The correct response here is a rather simple one, all told: Go away.<\/span> Leave us alone. <span style=\"color: #808080;\">Stick your ludicrous propositions where the sun don\u2019t shine.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong>I have come increasingly to suspect that the deepest fault line in these United States lies not between people on the \u201cleft\u201d and the \u201cright,\u201d or between the Republicans and the Democrats, or between the north and the south, but between the sort of person who spends their days wondering how many more hours they might be able to eke out if they lived in a pillow-lined concrete bunker, and the sort of person who intuits somewhere deep down in their soul that a world without any rough edges is a world that is less worth living in.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Justifying the administration\u2019s proposed move, CPSC commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. explained that \u201cproducts that can\u2019t be made safe can be banned.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What<\/em><\/span>, I wonder, would be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>excluded<\/em><\/span> from that definition?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">On second thought, forget I asked.<\/span> I wouldn\u2019t want to give him any ideas.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s worth noting Richard Trumka, Jr.&#8217;s father was the long-time president of the AFL-CIO; Guess it&#8217;s safe to say making a living feeding parasitically off the effort of hard-working Americans runs in the family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next,<em> NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Ryan Mills reports&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/seattle-public-schools-sue-social-media-platforms-for-intentionally-harming-children\/?bypass_key=NGlqK3pFMGhBc3IwYTRwMXlBV0o1Zz09OjpTbE56V1RKaGQyaHRiMUZ3VG5SbFIzQlRhRUkyUVQwOQ%3D%3D?utm_source%3Demail&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=30196683&amp;utm_source=Sailthru\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\">Seattle Public Schools Sue Social-Media Platforms for Intentionally Harming Children<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-1.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-1-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Facebook, YouTube, and other social-media giants are intentionally hooking vulnerable children on their platforms and flooding them with harmful and exploitive content, according to a new lawsuit by Seattle public-school leaders that accuses the tech companies of creating a youth mental-health crisis in the state of Washington and elsewhere.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">92-page lawsuit<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #339966;\">filed Friday in U.S. District Court alleges that Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Snapchat \u201chave successfully <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exploited the vulnerable brains of youth<\/em><\/span>, hooking tens of millions of students across the country into positive feedback loops of excessive use and abuse of Defendants\u2019 social media platforms.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>The tech giants have built features to maximize users\u2019 time on their sites, and they use complex algorithms, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to \u201cexploit the neurophysiology of the brain\u2019s reward systems to keep users coming back, coming back frequently, and staying on the respective platforms for as long as possible.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The lawsuit alleges that school districts in Seattle and across the country \u201care uniquely harmed by the current youth mental health crisis,\u201d because \u201cschools are one of the main providers for mental health services for school-aged children.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #808080;\">School districts have had to hire additional mental-health staff, develop new mental-health resources, train teachers to help students with their mental health, increase disciplinary services, and repair property damaged by students struggling with their mental health, the lawsuit states<\/span><\/span><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three thoughts immediately come to mind: (i)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zaQlAHptguM?start=47&amp;end=49&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;(ii) These issues <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>couldn&#8217;t<\/em><\/span> have had anything to do with the teachers union-backed school shutdowns during the scamdemic?!?; and (iii) This is life once again imitating art, in this case, one of our favorite scenes from <em>Animal House<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Dy2fo6E_pI?start=58&amp;end=63&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><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>They<\/em><\/span> can&#8217;t exploit the vulnerable brains of youth; Only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we<\/em><\/span> can exploit the vulnerable brains of youth!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s a sextet of special selections certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1).\u00a0House Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally kept a promise <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2023\/01\/10\/promise-kept-schiff-swalwell-and-omar-lose-powerful-committee-assignments-n1660380\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by removing Adam Schiff, Eric &#8220;Honeypot&#8221; Swalwell and Ilhan Omar from their respective committees<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 McCarthy<\/strong><strong>\u00a0confirmed to the <em>AP<\/em> Omar would be removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee and Schiff and Swalwell kicked off the Intelligence Committee, observing &#8220;Schiff has lied&#8221;&#8230;repeatedly&#8230;&#8221;to the American public&#8221; and since &#8220;Swalwell can&#8217;t get a security clearance in the private sector&#8221;, the Speaker isn&#8217;t going to grant him one in government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-reader-unique-id=\"2\"><b>Reports Omar plans to join the Extramarital and Incestuous Affairs Committee remain unconfirmed.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). After listening to Fed chairman Powell&#8217;s refusal to become embroiled in the climate change hoax&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;<em><strong>Without explicit congressional legislation, it would be inappropriate for us to use our monetary policy or supervisory tools to promote a greener economy or to achieve other climate-based goals We <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are not<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will not be<\/span>, a \u2018climate policy maker.\u2019 We should \u2018stick to our knitting\u2019 and not wander off to pursue perceived social benefits that are not tightly linked to our statutory goals and authorities.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;<em>Best of the Web<\/em> asks, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/regulator-of-the-week-11673381092?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>How often does a speech from a Beltway regulator leave you wanting more<\/em><\/span><\/a>?<\/span>&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Courtesy of the lovely Shannon, the <em>Journal<\/em>&#8216;s Jinjoo Lee explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/using-up-americas-oil-reserve-was-easy-refilling-it-wont-be-11673220972?mod=Searchresults_pos1&amp;page=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>while using up America&#8217;s oil reserve was easy, refilling it won&#8217;t be<\/em><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>ominously adding &#8220;the Strategic Petroleum Reserve\u2019s current inventory might be the new normal&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Which doesn&#8217;t bode well for our national security posture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). As <em>Townhall.com<\/em>&#8216;s Spencer Brown reports, while getting stray House Republicans to allow his election as Speaker was hard,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2023\/01\/09\/whats-in-the-house-rules-and-why-some-republicans-say-theyll-vote-no-n2618053\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Kevin McCarthy may well find herding those Capitol Hill cats even harder<\/em><\/span><\/a>, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-republicans-pass-rules-for-mccarthys-reign-with-one-gop-holdout?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;utm_content=member\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>he&#8217;s off to a pretty fair start<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). We find it criminally hypocritical Joe Biden won&#8217;t spend a dime to help those living with the horrors of his open border policies, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11616243\/Biden-building-wall-Delaware-beach-house.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>finds his family&#8217;s security worth half a million of our tax dollars<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). Though we&#8217;d no clue Rob Gronkowski holds an annual beach festival during Super Bowl weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/rob-gronkowski-reveals-biggest-pet-peeve-meeting-fans\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>we&#8217;ve since learned when he does, he&#8217;d appreciate his fans looking, but not touching<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Curious attitude for someone who invites fans to his beach festival.<\/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\/2023\/01\/a-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-4.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-4-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-2-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Biden.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Biden.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Biden.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Biden-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_0327-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_0327-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_0327-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_0327-800x0-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sk010923dAPC-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106401\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sk010923dAPC-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sk010923dAPC-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sk010923dAPC-800x0-300x238.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cb010923dAPC-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cb010923dAPC-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cb010923dAPC-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cb010923dAPC-800x0-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-2-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106399\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-3.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-3-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/No-Superlatives-For-You-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/No-Superlatives-For-You-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/No-Superlatives-For-You-1.jpeg 466w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/No-Superlatives-For-You-1-300x143.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-9-23-at-1.36-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106393\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-9-23-at-1.36-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-9-23-at-1.36-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-9-23-at-1.36-PM-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-10-23-at-3.41-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-10-23-at-3.41-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-10-23-at-3.41-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-10-23-at-3.41-PM-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Ed Hickey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hickey1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hickey1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hickey1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hickey1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hickey1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hickey2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hickey2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hickey2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hickey2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hickey2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-9-23-at-2.03-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-9-23-at-2.03-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-9-23-at-2.03-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-9-23-at-2.03-PM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Image-1-9-23-at-2.03-PM-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls1-300x298.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106407\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls3.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls3-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls4.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls4-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls2-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;whose last one is a perfect segue into this apt comparison occasioned by 46*&#8217;s token tour, courtesy of the lovely Shannon<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shannon1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shannon1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shannon1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Shannon1-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Sports Section<\/em><\/span>, and a question: Why is a player like\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Quay Walker, who has pushed not one&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQ5FaIgJ_hY\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>two<\/em><\/span> members of the opposing team&#8217;s staff&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E4fiu-T1-Uk?start=24&amp;end=142&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;still in the NFL?\u00a0 And why was #95 not also ejected, or #90 not penalized for an obvious forearm to the defenseless running back&#8217;s head?\u00a0 In the interest of fairness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/packers-quay-walker-apologizes-making-another-stupid-decision-shoving-lions-trainer\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Walker has since apologized<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, but these incidents leave us supremely confident we were correct in our decision to boycott professional football when these overpaid prima donnas first started kneeling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Video of the Day<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Stossel highlights the lies and hypocrisy of purported public health experts and their shills in the MSM. BTW, this is an edited version, as YouTube age-restricted his original video.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BPbCA5hiEfM?start=32\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Tales of The Darkside<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ami Horowitz delves deep into the demented minds of The Left. The real question isn&#8217;t if borders are racist, but rather what ISN&#8217;T racist?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/13_3N47VCLA\" 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=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>On the Lighter Side<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Maher counters the claims of Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist with no more expertise in virology or epidemiology than you, as demonstrated by both his ignorance of the crowded conditions in Third World cities and the different outcomes in non-lockdown TX and FL vs. NY and CA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DZ5lJ4tf6vk?start=224\" 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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, January 11th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, we came across this quote from an episode of Dr. Phil entitled &#8220;Defunding the Police: A Failure or a Fallacy? in which one Mychal Denzel Smith &#8220;took a stance so controversial on policing, it provoked a heated reaction from the host himself&#8221;: &#8220;When I say, \u2018Oh I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106506,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106422\/revisions\/106506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}