{"id":106674,"date":"2023-01-19T19:19:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=106674"},"modified":"2023-01-19T19:19:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:19:38","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-january-18th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=106674","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, January 18th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Wednesday, January 18th, 2023…but before we begin, try keeping a straight face while reading…<\/strong><\/p>\n

San Fran’s reparations committee proposes $5 million to each Black longtime resident, total debt forgiveness<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

San Francisco’s reparations committee also proposes supplementing lower-income recipients\u2019 income for 250 years<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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“San Francisco\u2019s\u00a0reparations committee has proposed paying each Black longtime resident $5 million and granting total debt forgiveness due to the decades of “systematic repression” faced by the local Black community.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a plan for reparations for Black residents, released its draft report last month to address reparations \u2013 not for slavery,\u00a0since California\u00a0was not technically a slave state, but “to address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally adopted the institution of chattel slavery, the tenets of segregation, white supremacy and systematic repression and exclusion of Black people were codified through legal and extralegal actions, social codes, and judicial enforcement,” the\u00a0draft states.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The draft plan includes a long list of financial recommendations for Black San Francisco residents, including a one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to each eligible individual.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population for the decades of harms that they have experienced, and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy,” the draft states.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

To be eligible for the program, the applicant must be 18 years old\u00a0and have identified as Black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years.<\/span> They must also prove at least two of eight additional criteria, choosing from a list that includes, “Born in San Francisco between\u00a01940 and 1996 and\u00a0has proof of residency in San Francisco for\u00a0at least 13 years,”\u00a0and\/or, “Personally, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated by the failed War on Drugs.”<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

So many thoughts immediately come to mind, including but not limited to:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why not $50 million instead of merely $5 million?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why not the descendants of Blacks born prior to 1940, and why the 1996 cutoff?\u00a0 After all, shouldn’t racism have been ushered out in 1964 with the last Republican mayor?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What about the <\/strong>Rachel Dolezals…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…who identify as Black?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What about the likes of Obama?\u00a0 Do they get $2.5 million for being half<\/em><\/span>-Black?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What about the descendants of the Chinese who were literally used as slave labor<\/em><\/span> building the Central Pacific Railroad?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What about the homeless who cannot prove residency?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So many questions prompted by such incredible imbecility.\u00a0 San Francisco: Too small to be a country, just the right size for an insane asylum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, such lunacy continues to spread<\/em><\/span><\/a> beyond the borders of the once-Golden State.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up, in what should come as a surprise to no one…<\/strong><\/p>\n

No Visitor Logs Exist for Biden Home Where Classified Docs Were Kept, White House Reveals<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“House Republicans are demanding to know who visited President Biden\u2019s Wilmington, Del., home over the roughly five-year period in which classified documents were sitting in the garage<\/em><\/span> \u2014 but no records detailing comings and goings at the property exist, according to the White House counsel\u2019s office.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Representative James Comer (R., Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Sunday demanding visitor logs for Biden\u2019s private residence in light of the news that a trove of Obama administration classified documents were discovered in the garage.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cGiven the serious national security implications, the White House must provide the Wilmington residence\u2019s visitor log,\u201d Comer argued. \u201cWithout a list of individuals who have visited his residence, the American people will never know who had access to these highly sensitive documents.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The White House counsel\u2019s office pushed back on Comer\u2019s request in a Monday statement, pointing out that it\u2019s not standard practice to keep visitor logs for private residences<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/span> (Neither is it standard practice to keep highly classified documents in unsecured private residences; And locked garages don’t count<\/span>, no matter what<\/span> vehicle is parked next to them!<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

…\u201cThey knew this happened to President Biden before the election, but they kept it secret from the American public,\u201d McCarthy\u00a0told\u00a0a scrum of reporters on Capitol Hill.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s attorneys discovered classified documents in the president\u2019s former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. days before the midterms.<\/span> Weeks later, on December 20, Biden\u2019s personal attorney notified the White House that additional documents had been found in the garage of his Wilmington home. But the White House didn\u2019t reveal either of those discoveries until January 9.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Some<\/em><\/span> of the documents found at Biden\u2019s former office were marked top secret<\/em><\/span>, sources familiar with the matter\u00a0told the\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Washington Post<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/em><\/p>\n

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None of which, as Jonathan Turley tweets, plays well for Biden:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The White House is saying that no visitor logs exist for his personal residence in Delaware. https:\/\/t.co\/vk2wAkDsPk<\/a> That will not end the headache for the Bidens. Indeed, it may make it worse…<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n