{"id":106994,"date":"2023-01-31T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T22:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=106994"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:39:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T22:39:07","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-january-30th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=106994","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, January 30th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, January 30th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, though one cannot render judgment without all the evidence, after viewing the Tyre Nichols body cam footage&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/video-api.wsj.com\/api-video\/player\/v3\/iframe.html?guid=A8527C8B-5764-405C-BE77-9271DF89A27F\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;we were struck by the fact the uninhibited violence and rage the five Black police officers acted out against Mr. Nichols is simply a symptom of a larger problem.\u00a0 However, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/rick-moran\/2023\/01\/28\/tyre-nichols-killing-forces-black-activists-to-change-the-narrative-on-police-racism-n1665893\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Van Jones&#8217; ridiculous claims to the contrary notwithstanding<\/em><\/span><\/a>, it has nothing to do with the effects of racism, Black or White, but rather the culture of Black-on-Black violence which characterizes contemporary urban communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a note <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/congressional-black-caucus-requests-meeting-biden-police-memphis-killing\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>requesting a meeting with 46* to discuss policing and justice &#8220;reforms<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8220;, the Congressional Black Caucus wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<em><strong>No one in our nation should fear interacting with the police officers who serve our diverse communities, large and small. We all want to be safe. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Many Black and brown people<\/span>, however, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">many young people in general<\/span>, are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">justifiably afraid<\/span> to interact with law enforcement officials.<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: Many, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>many<\/em><\/span>\u00a0people of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every<\/em><\/span> age and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every<\/em><\/span> skin color, Black, Brown, Red, Yellow <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> White, are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>justifiably afraid<\/em><\/span> to interact with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>young Black people<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 And it has nothing to do with racism, rather an honest understanding of an unfortunate reality: The disproportionate source of the majority of violent crime in America, even if those in positions of authority refuse to admit such.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s to justice being served in the death of Tyre Nichols.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, courtesy of <em>NRO<\/em>, Wilfred Reilly offers Progressives another exposure to the deadly green radiation of facts and figures, as&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/01\/blms-bloody-bill-comes-due\/?bypass_key=djJObVkxQy9ZQ3Zza1VjK3U2SEtTZz09OjplRE40WlhkVFFqZ3ZTRTFuVFRJM1kyWllTRVUzVVQwOQ%3D%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-01-27&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">BLM\u2019s Bloody Bill Comes Due<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"section-content--article-content\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<h3 class=\"article-header__subtitle\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/01\/blms-bloody-bill-comes-due\/?bypass_key=djJObVkxQy9ZQ3Zza1VjK3U2SEtTZz09OjplRE40WlhkVFFqZ3ZTRTFuVFRJM1kyWllTRVUzVVQwOQ%3D%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-01-27&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The movement failed in a way that got lots of people hurt and killed because its core premise is wrong \u2014 but there is a better way to help our countrymen<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106962\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-7.jpeg 377w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-7-269x300.jpeg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>L<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span class=\"small_caps\">ess\u00a0<\/span>than a decade back, Black Lives Matter arrived on the national scene with a two-part message: A near-genocidal campaign is being waged against black Americans, and virtually all contemporary problems in the black community are the fault of white people.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">This is no exaggeration.<\/span> BLM spokesman Cherno Biko\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/11\/06\/black-lives-matters-numbers-are-bogus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">appeared on prime-time Fox News<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0to argue that a totally innocent, presumably unarmed black person is \u201cmurdered\u201d (his words) roughly once per day. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ben Crump, perhaps the nation\u2019s most prominent attorney, published a best-selling 2019 book actually titled\u00a0<em>Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People<\/em>.<\/span> At one point,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Taboo-Facts-Cant-Talk-About\/dp\/162157928X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">as I noted in my own book\u00a0Taboo<\/a><\/em><\/span>, the Black Lives Matter website called for \u201cre-payment to Blacks of all wealth ever extracted from a majority-Black community\u201d by means of \u201cracism, slavery, food apartheid, housing discrimination . . . and capitalism.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">And so forth.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Now, the receipts for the effect of this movement are in. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">And what they show is the remarkably complete failure of a Narrative.<\/span> As crime-data resources like\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.disastercenter.com\/crime\/uscrime.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Disaster Center<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0and the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/le.fbi.gov\/cjis-division-resources\/cjis-link\/fbi-releases-data-on-crime-in-the-nation-for-2021#:~:text=The%20analysis%20used%20NIBRS%20estimation%20data%20of%20violent,The%20increase%20of%20murders%20constitutes%20a%204.3%25%20increase.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0make clear, murders in the United States increased from a low of 14,164 in 2014 \u2014 the year Black Lives Matter truly kicked off \u2014 to at least 22,900 in 2021, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>just seven years later<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">This surge can be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>directly tied<\/em><\/span> to the BLM-linked \u201cFerguson Effect\u201d and \u201cFloyd Effect.\u201d<\/span> In 2021, University of Massachusetts\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3767097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">researcher Travis Campbell<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0found that cities that experienced Black Lives Matter protests and riots \u2014 and surely often attempted to accommodate the demands of the marchers \u2014\u00a0<em>did<\/em>\u00a0see some decrease in police homicides . . . but also experienced \u201ca huge overall increase in murders.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The resulting murder surge was at least 10 percent overall, \u201cequaling 1,000 to 6,000 additional murders\u201d when expanded to the nationwide level.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Using more prosaic but equally effective methods, Jason Johnson of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/policing\/2021\/04\/09\/violent-crime-surged-across-america-after-police-retreated-column\/7137565002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">found exactly the same thing<\/a><\/em><\/span>: a direct and statistically significant correlation between declines in the kind of proactive policing hated by BLM and surges in homicide. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">In New York City, arrests of criminal suspects dropped by 38 percent while murders rose by 58 percent \u2014 increasing by more than 100.<\/span> In my hometown of Chicago, arrests declined by 53 percent, while the corresponding surge in homicides was 65 percent.<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> In the metroplex city of my new Kentucky home, Louisville, arrests plunged by 42 percent and stops overall by 35 percent; murders rose by a staggering 87 percent.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Even more remarkable than the existence of what is sometimes just called the \u201ccrime wave\u201d was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>how targeted its effects actually were<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">While I have seen few mainstream pundits bold enough to discuss specific trends here \u2014 perhaps because very heterodox writers like Steve Sailer\u00a0<em>have<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 the United States has not in fact seen a rise in total crime since the last decade.<\/span> Per the report \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/bjs.ojp.gov\/library\/publications\/criminal-victimization-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Criminal Victimization, 2021<\/a><\/em><\/span>,\u201d based on the victim-reported Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey (the BJS-NCVS), which is widely considered the gold standard of American crime data, crime overall did not increase significantly that year.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">As presented in Table 14 of the authoritative report, 2,734,700 Americans were victims of serious (\u201cindex\u201d) violent crimes \u2014 as compared with 2,599,620 in the Covid-19 lockdown year of 2020, 3,059,060 in 2019, 3,254,250 in 2018, and 3,106,346 back in 2017.<\/span> Felony property crime also did not increase across this set of years, and neither did white-on-black or black-on-white crime (with this analysis beginning in 2018). <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Even black crime overall, heavily concentrated in the South, wasn\u2019t really up: Contra internet memes of the \u201c13\/50\u201d variety, identified blacks committed 974,378 \u2014 or just about 25 percent \u2014 of the 3,995,668 total violent crimes that took place in 2021.<\/span> All of this data, which is totally noncontroversial, can be read in the report.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">What\u00a0<em>did<\/em>\u00a0increase was hyper-violent, specifically black-on-black crime \u2014 murders, public shootings \u2014 concentrated in large and mostly blue cities that basically gave up on the idea of enforcing the law (\u201cwhite\u201d cities that did the same, such as Portland, Ore.,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2022\/01\/15\/2021-was-a-record-year-for-homicides-in-portland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">saw similar results<\/a><\/em><\/span>).<\/span> Between the late 2010s and 2022, black Americans went from being responsible for less than 50 percent of 14,000\u201317,000 murders annually to being responsible for 60.4 percent of the 22,900 annual murders sourced above. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Per easily available FBI data, the black homicide rate increased by roughly 50 percent in just the few years since the death of George Floyd.<\/span> This is, notably, a purely \u201cculturalist\u201d result that has nothing to do with genetics or racism.<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> It is, also, one of the most significant legacies of BLM.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>I present all this statistical wonkery because I am a statistical wonk, but it shines light on a deeper point. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Black Lives Matter\u2019s solutions (\u201cpull back the cops in dangerous neighborhoods\u201d) failed in an obviously predictable way that got lots of people hurt and killed because BLM\u2019s core premise is wrong.<\/span> In 2023, contemporary racism is simply not the main barrier holding back black folks, or any other groups of Americans \u2014 whether Chinese, Italians, Jews, Mexicans, Indians, Nigerians, or anything else.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Evidence of this is all around us.<\/span> We would see it if we stopped slap-fighting our countrymen, who are often wearing the same designer shirts and shades as we are, long enough to look for it. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Today, either seven or eight \u2014 depending on how you decide to count South Africans \u2014 of the ten\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income#:~:text=Median%20Household%20Income%20by%20detailed%20ancestry%20%282019%20American,8%3A%20Macedonian%20Americans%3A%2087%2C803%209%3A%20Pakistani%20Americans%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">richest ethnic groups in the U.S. are nonwhite<\/a><\/em><\/span>, including some of the populations I just listed.<\/span> For that matter, East and South Asians \u2014 and probably Jewish Americans and West Africans, who are harder to break out of broader racial categories \u2014 outperform Anglos on today\u2019s meritocratic SAT,\u00a0averaging close to 1200\u00a0as versus an 1118 for \u201cwhites overall.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Over on the physical side of things, high-dollar professional sports are among the most integrated enterprises on the planet, with Major League Baseball and the NFL being diverse in the literal sense and the\u00a0NBA clocking in at around 72 percent black.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Of course, none of this changes the brutal reality of history. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u201cSystemic minority barriers to college admission,\u201d and the like, obviously don\u2019t exist these days \u2014 rather the opposite for that one \u2014 and in the United States of 2023, most people can make it.<\/span> People sail here on bedroom doors to try. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">But it empirically\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>harder to achieve financial or social success if you start out poor.<\/span> And owing to past conflict and race war and oppression, many\u00a0<em>more<\/em>\u00a0black kids, proportionately, are poor than is the case for white kids.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">But here\u2019s the thing: That\u2019s also accurate almost verbatim for immigrants from Ukraine or Bosnia, or\u00a0<em>g\u00fcero<\/em>\u00a0Mexicans, or plain Appalachian folks (trust me!) \u2014 and the actual non-secret path to achieving success is identical for all of these countrymen.<\/span> It\u2019s easy to mock the hokey old Success Sequence that almost every single \u201980s or \u201970s kid heard from a coach or priest\/rabbi or (coughs) their father, but it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really is true<\/em><\/span> that you have a 1\u20132 percent chance of ever ending up poor if you do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>just four things<\/em><\/span> at the start of life.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Those are: Take any job and work until you get a better one, wait until marriage (or age 25, for the cynics) to have children, avoid getting convicted of a felony, and graduate high school with any marks that make that possible.<\/span> It\u2019s also literally true that the biggest group-level predictor of success in school \u2014 again, contra both racialists and hereditarians, and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/brown-center-chalkboard\/2017\/08\/10\/analyzing-the-homework-gap-among-high-school-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">per the Brookings Institution<\/a><\/em><\/span>, of all places \u2014 seems to simply be how much kids study for class. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Who knew<\/em><\/span>?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Banter aside, the answer is that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every sane person knew that<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">In Reality World, much of what the critical Left insists on calling \u201cwhiteness\u201d \u2014 like showing up for business meetings on time \u2014 is prevalent in Japan and Nigeria, and in every minority-owned business I have ever worked at, and in what could more efficiently be called \u201ccivilization.\u201d<\/span> It would be a mitzvah indeed to start teaching this reality instead of fake oppression narratives, which lead nowhere or to chaos, to all of our kids and fellow citizens. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Looking at the results BLM actually produced, let\u2019s start . . . now.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tucker&#8217;s interview of Michael Shellenberger is on point:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cIPP1tdQhrs\" 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>In a related item,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/tyre-nichols-death-2-memphis-officers-involved-in-stop-joined-department-after-it-lowered-hiring-standards\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FOX\u00a0News is reporting two of the five officers involved in Tyre Nichols death were hired after Memphis authorities lowered the standards for new recruits<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, reducing both education and prior work requirements.\u00a0 Again, a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>direct consequence<\/em><\/span>\u00a0of <em>Black Lies Matter<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, for those still needing proof no amount of money will ever satisfy the insatiable, speaking at the latest meeting of California&#8217;s reparations task force&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;<a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/activist-california-slavery-reparations-meeting-denounces-proposed-payment-223000-not-enough\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Reverend&#8221; Tony Pierce insists on no residency requirement and denounces the proposed payment of $223,000 as &#8220;Not enough!<\/span><\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/793p7d.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106968\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/793p7d.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/793p7d.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/793p7d-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>California\u2019s reparations task force met again on Friday in San Diego with public comment from speakers who urged bold action and for the state to go forward with payments to African Americans as repayment for slavery. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">After comments by Dr. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State, one speaker blasted the\u00a0suggested amount of $223,000\u00a0per resident as insufficient.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Reverend Tony Pierce came to the microphone and slammed the idea of limiting the cash payouts to California residents: &#8220;There should be no residency requirements for California! <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We have to encourage our people to come back to California!<\/span> What better way to encourage our people to come back to California if we have no requirements?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;How will reparations be paid?&#8221; he added.<\/span> &#8220;Immediately!&#8221; <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">After being told that his time is up, Pierce \u00a0yelled at the audience, &#8220;And $200,000 is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not enough<\/em><\/span>! $223,000 is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not enough<\/em><\/span>!&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Actually, enough <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> enough, &#8220;Reverend&#8221;.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a second shot of the juice: Reparations could be the most patently pandering, utterly unworkable idea to come down the Progressive pike since LBJ started paying people not to work and have babies out of wedlock.\u00a0 More importantly, it would provide compensation to those who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>weren&#8217;t ever<\/em><\/span>\u00a0slaves from those who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span> enslaved.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the <em>Pot Calling the Kettle Black<\/em> segment, <em>Best of the Web<\/em> records&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"style=&quot;padding-left:\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/is-the-republican-agenda-more-popular-than-republicans-11674849904?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong class=\"data-type=&quot;emphasis&quot;\">The Ever-Changing Language of the Left<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/images-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/images-1.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/images-1-300x265.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>It\u2019s amazing how quickly words on the political left can go from trendy to dirty. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The signature progressive phrase of 2020 is now so discredited that even Democratic politicians are using the label to smear intraparty rivals.<\/span> Alice Yin, Gregory Pratt and A.D. Quig\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><a class=\"css-1h1us5y-StyledLink exk4ewm0\" style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/politics\/elections\/ct-mayor-race-candidates-early-voting-starts-20230126-o2ipv2ad5zfiflprklapggxrly-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" data-type=\"link\">report<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0for the Chicago Tribune:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"css-oqk0mc-Blockquote et9s80n0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"blockquote\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>An often-combative Mayor\u00a0Lori Lightfoot\u00a0once again took the offensive against her leading challengers, repeatedly interrupting rival candidates and even the moderator during a forum Thursday as she defended her mayoral record.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"css-oqk0mc-Blockquote et9s80n0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"blockquote\"><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>As it has during much of the mayoral election, crime became a main focus of the discussion as Lightfoot attempted to portray herself as the one person actually addressing the issue while her opponents were coming at the topic from different sides of the political spectrum.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"css-oqk0mc-Blockquote et9s80n0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"blockquote\"><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Turning to U.S. Rep. Jesus \u201cChuy\u201d Garc\u00eda, a progressive congressman from the Southwest Side, Lightfoot labeled him <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as a supporter of the defund the police movement<\/span>, declaring: \u201cThis man is a (police) defunder, pure and simple.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Don\u2019t let him fool you<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Desperate times call for desperate measures, and there&#8217;s no one as desperate as a politician faced with the possibility of losing their office and having to get a real job.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s another septet of special selections certain to pique the curiosity of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Apparently the jumbotron at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans honored Tyre Nichols prior to an NBA game on Saturday, January 28th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AP23029094083501-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AP23029094083501-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AP23029094083501-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/AP23029094083501-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>No word on whether professional basketball will make the effort to remember the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thousands<\/em><\/span> of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other<\/em><\/span> innocent Blacks killed by other Blacks just in 2022, likely because there aren&#8217;t enough total NBA games in a season to keep up with the number of victims.\u00a0 Hells bells, they could barely keep up with Chicago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Andrew Follett informs us the Nuclear Regulatory Commission&#8230;the body tasked with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>facilitating<\/em><\/span>\u00a0the availability of nuclear power to benefit the country&#8230;is proposing changes to the way it assesses risks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/01\/new-red-tape-makes-new-nuclear-reactors-impossible\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202023-01-29&amp;utm_term=WIR-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>which will turn the already arduous approval process for new reactors into an unnavigable, Kafkaesque nightmare<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Rick Lowry recounts <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/01\/the-infinite-elasticity-of-white-supremacy\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=river&amp;utm_content=top-bar-latest&amp;utm_term=first\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the infinite elasticity of &#8220;White Supremacy<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8220;<\/span>: from Memphis to DeSantis, it&#8217;s Progressives&#8217; all-purpose smear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). If you think The Donald is the only prominent political figure clinging to claims of stolen elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/top-biden-legal-adviser-says-election-was-stolen\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=river&amp;utm_content=most-popular&amp;utm_term=first\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>this account from NRO&#8217;s Dan McLaughlin should lead you to think again<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 As Dan so accurately observes, &#8220;None of this stuff bothers Democrats when their own side does it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5).\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Writing at his <em>Weekend Jolt<\/em>, Judson Berger declares, when it comes to anything emanating from Joe Biden&#8217;s mouth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-weekend-jolt\/its-all-malarkey\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20230128_Weekend_Jolt&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>it&#8217;s all malarkey<\/em><\/span><\/a>, as the truth is truly not in him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). Since we&#8217;re on the subject of this career prevaricator,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-says-people-think-stupid-getting-congressmans-name-wrong\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Biden recently observed some people think he&#8217;s &#8220;stupid<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>&#8220;&#8230;immediately after which he called out for &#8220;Doug the congressman&#8221;, though in fact searching for Rep. Don Beyer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Joe, people don&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>think<\/em><\/span> you&#8217;re stupid.\u00a0 Your amazing display of ignorance and narcissism brings to mind this line from William Devane in <em>Payback<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/swQBNasvwk4?start=367&amp;end=370&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;\"><b>(7). The equally reprehensible Ilhan Omar claimed Sunday during an appearance on CNN <\/b><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rep-ilhan-omar-pressed-old-comments-wasnt-aware-tropes-jews-money\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>she &#8220;wasn&#8217;t aware&#8221; there were &#8220;tropes about Jews and money&#8221; in response to questions about her previous, numerous antisemitic comments<\/em><\/span><\/a><b>.\u00a0 Omar went on to admit she <i><u>did know<\/u><\/i>\u00a0Jews have big noses because air is free and a Jewish wife&#8217;s dream home has 20 rooms, with no kitchen or master bedroom.<\/b><\/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\/sk012723dAPR-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sk012723dAPR-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sk012723dAPR-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sk012723dAPR-800x0-300x242.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106966\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-17.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-17-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mc_bidenww3_web-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mc_bidenww3_web-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mc_bidenww3_web-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mc_bidenww3_web-800x0-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106951\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-9.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-9-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106952\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-16.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/a-16-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cb012723dAPC-800x0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cb012723dAPC-800x0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cb012723dAPC-800x0.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cb012723dAPC-800x0-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/epatechy2webcr-1-27-23_orig.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/epatechy2webcr-1-27-23_orig.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/epatechy2webcr-1-27-23_orig.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/epatechy2webcr-1-27-23_orig-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Balls-1-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Major Jon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/327789315_909276237159463_29299293960724681_n.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/327789315_909276237159463_29299293960724681_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/327789315_909276237159463_29299293960724681_n.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/327789315_909276237159463_29299293960724681_n-251x300.jpeg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Speed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-10.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aa-10-168x300.png 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though unlikely to inflict as much damage as its M-1A counterpart, if nothing else, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>those<\/em><\/span>\u00a031 Abrams would certainly eat Putin out of house and home!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with this week&#8217;s nominee for the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Elizabeth Warren &#8220;Song of Lieawatha&#8221; Award<\/em><\/span>\u00a0for <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">actual<\/span><\/em> cultural appropriation, courtesy today of <em>NRO<\/em>, as Dan McLaughlin notes a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/woman-faked-native-american-heritage-awarded-university-residency\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Woman who faked Native American heritage resigns from Wisconsin university residency<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/woman-faked-native-american-heritage-awarded-university-residency\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008080;\">Kay LeClaire reportedly claimed M\u00e9tis, Oneida, Ojibwe and Cuban heritage<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/WI-Native-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/WI-Native-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/WI-Native-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/WI-Native-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded a $5,000, 10-week residency to an art scholar who pretended to be of Native American descent, so the scholar could develop a &#8220;toolkit and curriculum around\u00a0cultural appropriation,&#8221; before she resigned.<\/span> Kay LeClaire, who uses they\/them pronouns, labeled themselves as &#8220;two spirit,&#8221; an indigenous term used to describe those who identify with both masculine and feminine qualities.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">LeClaire had, for years, falsely claimed &#8220;M\u00e9tis, Oneida, Ojibwe and Cuban heritage&#8221; and had even adopted an Ojibwe name, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.<\/span> LeClaire also co-owned an Indigenous and queer art and tattoo parlor and occupied a space on the Missing and Murdered indigenous Women Task Force and garnered recognition as a prominent\u00a0Native American\u00a0voice before the controversy emerged.<picture><\/picture><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Aside from being awarded the paid residency, LeClaire got involved in other topics concerning the indigenous community on\u00a0UW Madison&#8217;s\u00a0campus, including criticizing the university for flying the Ho Chunk flag, which, according to the institution, aimed to &#8220;educate the campus about Ho Chunk culture and First Nation&#8217;s history.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>LeClaire, pretending to adopt an indigenous lens, criticized the university for flying the tribal flag often displayed during Native American heritage month or on Indigenous People&#8217;s Day, alleging the move was performative. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">LeClaire had also previously criticized a nearby music venue formerly known as Winnebago, slamming the venue&#8217;s White owners for allegedly profiting from Native American identities<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>That such complete and utter woke bullsh*t could go unchallenged indicates just how far American academia has fallen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Video of the Day<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ami Horowitz and Dennis Prager highlight how The Left is every bit as crazy and twisted as it sounds and seems.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Oz1WDnnZ9s\" 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>Tales of The Darkside<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>With the help of Rebel News, Dave Rubin puts the lies of hypocrisy of Progressives into proper perspective.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ry-bRYhN1Xs?start=0&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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">On the Lighter Side<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick forwarded this humorous look at the travails of Southwest Airlines and the perils of 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