{"id":108017,"date":"2023-03-12T19:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T23:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=108017"},"modified":"2023-03-12T19:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T23:07:06","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-march-10th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=108017","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, March 10th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, March 10th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, if you want to know why there&#8217;s increasing violence on airline flights, here&#8217;s Exhibit &#8220;A&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/southwest-airlines-brawl-breaks-dallas-phoenix-flight\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Brawl breaks out on Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas to Phoenix: &#8216;That&#8217;s why I beat your a&#8211;<\/span><\/a>&#8216;<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/southwest-airlines-brawl-breaks-dallas-phoenix-flight\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Passengers tried to break up fight after man says other man bumped into his wife<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kcpky1ARTrQ\" 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;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>In a second video, the man in the blazer is seen telling onlookers\u00a0on board the plane\u00a0that the tattooed man approached his family &#8220;aggressively&#8221; and orders him to tell the others &#8220;what happened.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;He approached me aggressively with my family&#8221;, the man with the sports jacket is seen yelling at passengers and a Southwest Airlines flight attendant.<\/span> &#8220;I will sit down in jail for you approaching my family. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I will die for my family.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>&#8220;That&#8217;s why I beat your a&#8211;,&#8221; he continued.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">Witnesses said both men were taken off the plane.<\/span><b style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> The Dallas Police Department said no one was arrested<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>So they have not only video of the assault, but a confession to the crime.\u00a0 Yet no one was arrested, let alone suffered any penalty or punishment.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the airborne equivalent of the broken windows theory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, writing at <em>NRO<\/em>, Ari Blaff, recounts how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/ranking-dem-derails-covid-origins-hearing-by-smearing-witness-as-racist\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=30771613\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ranking Dem Derails Covid-Origins Hearing by Smearing Witness as Racist<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7dunnm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7dunnm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7dunnm.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7dunnm-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Rather than trying to get to the bottom of how the pandemic began, Representative Raul Ruiz (D., N.M.) spent his allotted time during Wednesday morning\u2019s hearing on Covid\u2019s origins berating one of the witnesses over a book he wrote ten years earlier on the human genome, implying that the book was motivated by racism.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Ruiz, the ranking Democrat on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, used his opening statement and much of his first round of questioning to argue that his Republican colleagues had compromised the panel\u2019s efforts to investigate Covid\u2019s origins by calling Nicholas Wade as a witness.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cToday\u2019s hearing marks a concerning step down the path of letting extremism get in the way of an inquiry that should be led by science and facts,\u201d Ruiz said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">As the Republican chairman of the committee pointed out when introducing him, Wade has edited the two most prominent science journals in the world,\u00a0<em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Science<\/em>, and led the\u00a0<em>New York Times\u2019\u00a0<\/em>science coverage for years.<\/span> In his current role as an independent journalist, Wade established himself as one of the foremost authorities publicly examining the possibility of a lab leak and calling for a thorough and transparent investigation into Covid\u2019s origins.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Wade also authored the 2014 book\u00a0<em>A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History<\/em>, which examines the genetic basis of race and how varying environments shape human development.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Wade\u2019s work on that book should disqualify him from being called as a witness in the hearing, despite his decades-long career and expertise, Ruiz argued.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cWhen House Republicans announced this hearing with their slate of hand-picked witnesses, I was alarmed to see someone who wrote a book <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">applauded by white supremacists<\/span><\/em>,\u201d Ruiz said, explaining that he sent a letter to his Republican colleagues insisting that they disinvite Wade, \u201cso as not to give legitimacy to a man of such discredited, unscientific and harmful views.<\/span> These views are dangerous and have no place in a hearing examining the origins of a pandemic that has disproportionately and overwhelmingly communities of color in the United States.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Wade used the beginning of his opening statement to counter Ruiz\u2019s characterization of his book, accusing him of parroting \u201cuntrue\u201d claims about the book popularized by academics seeking to discredit him.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u201cThis was a determinedly non-racist book, it has no scientific errors that I\u2019m aware of, it has no racist statements and it stresses the theme of unity that we are all variations on the same human genome,\u201d Wade said. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cMy book was vigorously attacked by obscurantist academics who want everyone else to believe that there is no biological basis to race.<\/span> And my book was as welcome to them as pictures of the earth from space are to flat-earthers.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cI have nothing to be ashamed of in my book.<\/span> It\u2019s the only place you can now read about what the genome says about human races and I hope that Mr. Ruiz if he reads it will be pleasantly surprised to find it says none of the things he says it says,\u201d he concluded.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Asked by Ruiz whether Wade was a valuable witness, Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was unequivocal in his praise for the veteran science journalist.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u201cI do think that Nicholas Wade \u2014 and I\u2019ve followed his work over thirty years \u2014 is an outstanding science reporter and contributed substantially both in natural science and, of course, leading the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Representative Kweisi Mfume joined Ruiz in smearing Wade as a racist, claiming that Wade\u2019s theory about Covid\u2019s origins are \u201csteeped\u201d in racism. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cI\u2019m a bit appalled that this hearing now gets layered over with the issue of race in a very strong way with the presence of Mr. Wade.<\/span> And Mr. Wade I have read your book and I\u2019m appalled by it,\u201d Mfume said. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got an opinion, which is fine, but it\u2019s steeped in this theory that minorities are so genetically different that they are culpable in some sort of way and I don\u2019t like that at all,\u201d he added<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can&#8217;t you just see White Supremacists &#8220;wading&#8221; through Nicholas Wade&#8217;s tome on the human genome!?!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7drdlc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7drdlc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7drdlc.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7drdlc-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And with all due respect to Katie Pavlich, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">no, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2023\/03\/08\/top-scientist-fires-back-at-democrat-smears-of-white-supremacy-n2620348\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wade did not win a Nobel Prize<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>; He <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicholas_Wade\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wrote a book<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a> about two individuals who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Progressives in general, and Ruiz and Mfume in particular, are perfect examples of the people Socrates referenced:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.55-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.55-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.55-PM.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.55-PM-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, in an entry which deserves inclusion in its entirety, Andy McCarthy assists us in&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/03\/making-sense-of-the-capitol-riot-tapes\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=top-stories&amp;utm_term=second\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Making Sense of the Capitol Riot Tapes<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__subtitle\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/03\/making-sense-of-the-capitol-riot-tapes\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=top-stories&amp;utm_term=second\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tucker Carlson and the January 6 committee have pushed very different narratives of the riot. Neither one is accurate<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107967\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls2.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls2-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>I\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span class=\"small_caps\">am<\/span>\u00a0a paid contributor to Fox News, so I\u2019m hesitant to comment on whether it was prudent for Speaker Kevin McCarthy to make available to Tucker Carlson, for selective airing on his nightly program, thousands of hours of Capitol-riot video, much of it never publicly broadcast before. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I would note that no one at Fox has ever asked me to bend my opinions one way or the other, even when I\u2019ve been critical (<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/06\/the-capitol-riot-indictments-do-not-suggest-an-fbi-entrapment-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">as I was<\/a>, for example, when Tucker raised the specter of entrapment in connection with the Capitol riot).<\/span> But being a contributor nevertheless presents a conflict for obvious reasons. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Although I have reached the unfortunate age and am in the fortunate circumstances that enable me to say what I think without much worry about the grief it may cause, ethics always counsel avoiding the appearance of impropriety.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>To the extent that the media\u2013Democrat critique is that Carlson is an opinion journalist who is apt to present a skewed picture, this is the price they must have known they\u2019d have to pay for the January 6 committee. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That panel was a blatantly partisan, monochromatically anti-Trump political exhibition that presented the country with a skewed picture, eschewing cross-examination and perspectives that deviated from its relentless theme: \u201cTrump\u2019s incitement to insurrection had our democracy hanging by a thread.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>For myself, as I said about a zillion times during the committee\u2019s proceedings, I\u2019d have preferred for the committee to have been bipartisan; to have conducted traditional, adversarial hearings; and to have released full transcripts and videos of the witness testimony that it sliced and diced in its public presentations. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That way, we could have judged for ourselves whether those presentations were fair and accurate.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>But that\u2019s not the way Democrats roll. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">To the extent this led to distortions that should be corrected, I\u2019d have similarly preferred that McCarthy turn the video cache over to news reporters \u2014 there are plenty of outstanding ones at Fox News and elsewhere on the center-right \u2014 rather than to an opinion journalist who has as many ardent detractors as devoted fans.<\/span> (I personally like and respect Tucker, even when I disagree with him.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> My point here is not to comment on a particular opinion journalist, but to state the obvious: The broad public is likely to view a body of evidence reported on by an opinion journalist more skeptically than the same body of evidence reported on by truly objective news journalists.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Anyway, as we have lots of occasion to observe, the first rule of politics is: What goes around comes around. If Democrats and their notetakers don\u2019t like this, they should have rethought the January 6 committee, as many of us implored them to do.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tuck.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tuck.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tuck.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tuck-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>As for the videos thus far published, which focus on Jacob Chansley, the so-called \u201cQAnon shaman,\u201d we should be thinking of them in terms of two different things: the case against Chansley himself, and the overarching January 6 political narrative promoted by Democrats and the January 6 committee.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>In Chansley\u2019s case, we should be mindful that what is new to us is not necessarily new to him. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Knowing what the proof against him showed, Chansley, represented by experienced defense counsel, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>voluntarily<\/em><\/span> pled guilty to obstructing a congressional proceeding (namely, the January 6 joint session of Congress at which the state-certified electoral votes were counted and then-candidate Biden\u2019s Electoral College victory was affirmed).<\/span> His lawyers would have insisted on being shown any potentially exculpatory evidence prior to the guilty plea, and the prosecutors would have been obliged to produce it. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>presume<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Presume<\/span>?!?<\/em>)<\/span> Chansley knew about this video <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Maybe, maybe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span>, as you&#8217;ll learn later.<\/em>)<\/span>, or at least images just like it; after all, he was in the Capitol and knew what he experienced there, including his interactions with the police.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>And he pled guilty <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anyway<\/em><\/span>, because\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">there is nothing exculpatory on the video clips<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>that Carlson has published.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Understand: As a matter of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>law<\/em><\/span>, what is exculpatory or incriminating is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> assessed based on a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>media narrative<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> It is assessed based on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>specific charges in the case<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Here, the charge was that Chansley <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>obstructed Congress<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> One <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>need not<\/em><\/span> engage in an insurrection, or even a riot, to obstruct Congress. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">One need only be in a place one has no lawful right to be in, and willfully engage in action that prevents Congress from conducting its proceedings.<\/span> In that sense, the just-released video is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>antithesis<\/em><\/span> of exculpatory evidence; it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shows<\/em><\/span> Chansley <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>committing the crime charged<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Carlson and others who sympathize with the rioters and nonviolent demonstrators make much of Chansley\u2019s being \u201cescorted\u201d by police in the video images.<\/span>\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Escorted<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>is the benign word being used to describe police who walked alongside one of the most visible intruders in the Capitol, observed what he was doing, and at a certain point allowed him to enter the congressional chamber. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It\u2019s been noted that this all seemed downright amicable: The police did not treat Chansley as if he were a threat, and they didn\u2019t place him under arrest or otherwise attempt to subdue him.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>What\u2019s curious is that, from this commentary, you\u2019d almost think Chansley was the only demonstrator wandering around the Capitol. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Of course, we know he was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one<\/em><\/span> of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hundreds<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Police are trained to de-escalate violent or potentially violent situations when doing so is practicable. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When they are grossly outnumbered in powder-keg situations, they are trained not to provoke people who are not menacing them, lest they needlessly ignite mob violence.<\/span> No, Chansley shouldn\u2019t have been inside the Capitol, but he wasn\u2019t physically threatening the police, so why would they have manhandled him in a way that might have attracted attention and sparked a forcible reaction from him and other demonstrators? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That would have been dangerous for the police (many of whom suffered injuries during the uprising) and for the demonstrators (one of whom was killed by an officer, and others of whom died during that afternoon\u2019s frenzy).<\/span> The police objective, in those moments, was to stabilize an already bad situation so that it did not become a bloodletting.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">All that said, the media\u2013Democrat narrative about January 6 is not so dry as ho-hum obstruction of Congress.<\/span> It is startling, horrifying:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>White-supremacist domestic terrorists engaged in an insurrection, besieging the Capitol at the exhortation of an out-of-control president and leaving our democracy hanging by a thread<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This narrative has always been hyperbolic. Chansley \u2014 one of the highest-profile members of the mob \u2014 was sentenced, quite appropriately, to 41 months\u2019 imprisonment.\u00a0<\/span><em>Forty-one months<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> 41 years or 410 years (i.e., not the kind of sentence meted out to terrorists, such as the 1993 World Trade Center bombers who got sentences of 240 years). <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Chansley willfully impeded a significant congressional session, and he thus deserved every bit of the less-than-three-and-a-half-year term he got.<\/span> But \u201cdemocracy hanging by a thread\u201d? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Get a grip<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>This was a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>riot<\/em><\/span>. It was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> an\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>insurrection<\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 the word Abraham Lincoln applied to the Civil War, and the word for a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/2383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">federal crime<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>none<\/em><\/span> of the 900 defendants has been charged with. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The riot was condemnable but utterly ineffectual.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The mindlessly repeated refrain that the riot \u201cprevented the peaceful transition of power\u201d is overwrought.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> The transition of power was never in doubt.<\/span> Was the peace disturbed? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Yes . . . that\u2019s why so many people have been prosecuted, some for serious offenses, and many others for trivial crimes that the Justice Department would normally decline to charge.<\/span> But there was so little damage done to the Capitol that Congress was able to reconvene a few hours after order was restored.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> It promptly affirmed Biden\u2019s victory, as it was always certain to do.<\/span> No one tried to blow up the Capitol. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">No one tried to mass-kill the security forces.<\/span> Our Constitution held firm, and there was never any reason to suspect it wouldn\u2019t. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Our democracy was not realistically imperiled, much less at the precipice of annihilation.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The video we are now seeing does not establish anyone\u2019s innocence. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It does, however, bolster the conclusion that the Democrats\u2019 political messaging about the day has been a duplicitous exercise in mythmaking.<\/span> Is Tucker Carlson presenting a depiction of January 6 that is overly sympathetic to a violent mob? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Probably so . . . but then, the Democrat-dominated January 6 committee put its thumb on the scale as it presented\u00a0<em>G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Neither<\/em><\/span> version is accurate, as we already knew from having watched the televised goings-on in real time. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">What happened on January 6 was a riot.<\/span> It was as surreal as the QAnon shaman\u2019s getup. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It was a disgrace.<\/span> It has resulted in scores of worthy prosecutions.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Though Donald Trump <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not\u00a0incite<\/em><\/span>\u00a0it in the strict criminal-law meaning of that term, it is an indelible, disqualifying stain on his record as president.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>But it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wasn\u2019t<\/em><\/span> the end of domestic tranquility and republican democracy, much less the end of the world.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tucker highlights the most important aspect of this entire, sordid affair:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HPg9N_HiLMg?start=113&amp;end=566&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>Yes, they lie&#8230;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">continually<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 Unfortunately, so does Tucker, though in this case by omission, as in the following clip (you can watch it or take our word for it) he fails to mention Chansley PLED GUILTY to the crime of obstructing Congress, which as McCarthy pointed out requires only that &#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">One need only be in a place one has no lawful right to be in, and willfully engage in action that prevents Congress from conducting its proceedings.<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HPg9N_HiLMg?start=568&amp;end=900&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>That being said, Chansley&#8217;s lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WTdL5VtjbtY\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>has stated for the record he was NOT provided the footage<\/em><\/span><\/a>, which may or may not have influenced the defendant to change his plea.\u00a0 And while we trust Andy McCarthy&#8217;s analysis of whether the video is exculpatory or incriminating over Tucker&#8217;s, we&#8217;ll be curious to see if that changes when McCarthy learns the evidence was apparently withheld, as Jonathan Turley suggests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I wrote a column raising the question of whether this evidence was known to or shared with the Chansley\u2019s defense. After all, he was portrayed as a violent offender by the Justice Department at his sentencing. It now appears that the answer is no. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oRp9oibbTc\">https:\/\/t.co\/oRp9oibbTc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1633484694950952963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the incriminating, Mollie Hemingway informs us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In stunning admission, the chairman of the J6 committee now confesses he never analyzed any footage before running the made-for-TV show trial with Liz Cheney. Absolutely insane. Even worse than we thought. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/55Cnfo7HMh\">https:\/\/t.co\/55Cnfo7HMh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1633648284110671872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>C&#8217;mon, Mollie, they&#8217;re important people with lots of important things to do and can&#8217;t be bothered with little details.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of little details, the <em>Morning Jolt\u00a0<\/em>reminds us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-people-arguing-that-the-origin-of-covid-doesnt-matter-are-fools\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20230309&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Why the Origin of Covid Matters<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fauc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fauc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fauc.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fauc-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u201cDoes it matter where Covid-19 comes from?\u201d asks a recent\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/covid-lab-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">headline at\u00a0FiveThirtyEight<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Yes.<\/span> Hell yes.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Insert-bad-word-here yes.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Because if the virus has a zoonotic origin and the whole global pandemic started because some poacher, animal smuggler, or wet-market vendor caught the virus, then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> the lab-safety improvements in the world aren\u2019t going to do a darn thing to prevent another pandemic.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And if the pandemic really did start because some researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology wasn\u2019t careful one day, then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> the efforts to crack down on poachers and animal smugglers and to clean up wet markets aren\u2019t going to do a darn thing to prevent another pandemic.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>And if there\u2019s some scenario in the middle, like\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ovnUyTRMERI&amp;t=223s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">some virologist went into caves to collect bats for research<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0and caught the virus and started spreading it among Wuhan residents before returning to a laboratory, then <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">neither<\/span><\/em> lab-safety improvements <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nor<\/em><\/span> cracking down on poachers and traffickers will prevent another pandemic.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Chinese government sure isn\u2019t acting like it\u2019s worried about wet markets setting off another terrible pandemic.<\/span> Yes, the Huanan Seafood Market closed the last day of 2019 and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/health-coronavirus-wuhan-market-idINKBN28L0J1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">never reopened<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/span> But the vendors just moved to other wet markets; the other wet markets in Wuhan were\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wuhans-called-wet-markets-back-business\/story?id=70119116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">reopened by April 2020<\/a><\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Chinese government was reopening them\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/04\/03\/anthony-fauci-foreign-wet-markets-shutdown-162975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">as Dr. Fauci was saying<\/a><\/em><\/span>, \u201cI think we should shut down those things right away. . . . It boggles my mind how when we have so many diseases that emanate out of that unusual human-animal interface, that we don\u2019t just shut it down. . . . I don\u2019t know what else has to happen to get us to appreciate that.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Either<\/em> <\/span>the Chinese government is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>spectacularly reckless<\/em><\/span> (a possibility that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shouldn\u2019t be dismissed<\/em><\/span>), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span> some figures within the Wuhan or national Chinese government felt <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>strangely confident<\/em><\/span> that Covid-19 hadn\u2019t come from a wet market, and there was little risk of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another<\/em><\/span> virus that was highly contagious among humans emerging from the local wet markets.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>If the Covid pandemic can be traced back to someone not being careful at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the ramifications are vast and long-term.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8230;<strong>It will probably not surprise you to hear that I don\u2019t like the Chinese government very much, and never have. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Consider\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-one-thing-that-americans-understand-most-about-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">Tiananmen Square<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/bitter-allies-china-and-north-korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">keeping the insane and cruel regime in North Korea going<\/a><\/em><\/span>, its treatment of Uyghurs, etc.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It would have been nice if the economic liberalization that China pursued in the 1990s and 2000s had led to genuine political liberation, or at minimum, a softening of aggressive impulses.<\/span> But it appears that economic liberalization traded in a poor, autocratic, and brutal regime for a wealthier, autocratic, and brutal regime. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That\u2019s not much of an improvement for us.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That headline at\u00a0<em>FiveThirtyEight<\/em>\u00a0reminds me of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton\u2019s exclamation at a hearing about the attack in Benghazi: \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TW8Vq6xM-fw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">What difference, at this point, does it make<\/a><\/em><\/span>?\u201d<\/span> If you don\u2019t understand how a problem started, you cannot prevent it from happening again.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/61eb7748cc5ee.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/61eb7748cc5ee.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/61eb7748cc5ee.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/61eb7748cc5ee-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/61eb7748cc5ee-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A lot of Americans would prefer to ignore problems \u201cover there.\u201d<\/span> But the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates that sometimes those problems \u201cover there\u201d can turn your life upside down for a year or more.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It is a harsh and undeniable truth that this world has big and powerful regimes ruled by madmen, or men who seem mad by our standards.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Terrorists<\/em><\/span> are dangerous. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Cartels<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>international crime rings<\/em><\/span> are dangerous.<\/span> But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>regimes run by madmen<\/em><\/span> are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exceptionally<\/em><\/span> dangerous.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In autocratic regimes, wars start because the guy at the top wants one and believes it will lead him to glory, a greater grip on power, distract his country\u2019s citizens from other problems, address historical grievances, or gain additional resources through territorial conquest.<\/span> Autocratic regimes are almost inherently destabilizing to their regions, because when the leader gets a bad idea in his head, there\u2019s no one around who is powerful enough to say, \u201cNo, that\u2019s a bad idea. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We shouldn\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/span> By stomping out dissent, the dictator has ensured that no one can hit the brakes on a disastrous plan.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>That\u2019s what happened with Russia in Ukraine, and we must wonder what Xi Jinping is hearing when the topic turns to Taiwan.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>That\u00a0<em>Financial Times<\/em>\u00a0article also included this detail about the Western response to the Russian annexation of Crimea: \u201cWhen the west, fearful of escalating tensions to a point of no return and jeopardizing Europe\u2019s economic ties with Russia, responded with only a slap on the wrist, Putin was convinced he had made the right decision, according to several people who know the president.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Insufficient consequences for aggression left Putin with the impression that he could get away with anything.<\/span> What consequences has China suffered for not cooperating with the WHO\u2019s investigation into how the Covid-19 pandemic started?<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these two videos which explain why Faux Chi got while the getting was good:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ha8bHR35iE4\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><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;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YWzMGOXNUQo?start=50&amp;end=239&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>Laura Ingraham is right when she says there must be accountability, but there won&#8217;t be&#8230;unless some enterprising attorney comes up with a way to file a civil suit seeking damages that will beggar this charlatan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s another sextet of special selections guaranteed to sate the curiosity of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). We&#8217;re shocked&#8230;SHOCKED&#8230;to learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/bidens-budget-includes-5-5-trillion-in-tax-hikes\/?bypass_key=bEhwenozd3djNUdUQ2NEN3NBSDdDZz09OjpUbEJ0V1ZVeVVYWjZTVmxVT1hkSVYzRnFlbnA0ZHowOQ%3D%3D?utm_source%3Demail&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=30783796&amp;utm_source=Sailthru\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Biden&#8217;s budget contains an incredible $5.5 TRILLION in tax hikes<\/em><\/span><\/a> while doing nothing to reduce the annual deficit, let alone our untenable national debt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). Writing at <em>The Patriot Post<\/em>, Nate Jackson relates <a href=\"https:\/\/patriotpost.us\/articles\/95587-how-fox-news-soured-on-trump-2023-03-09?mailing_id=7335&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=pp.email.7335&amp;utm_campaign=digest&amp;utm_content=body\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>how FOX News soured on The Donald<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Just when we thought Colin Kaepernick couldn&#8217;t sink any lower, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/colin-kaepernick-accuses-white-adoptive-parents-problematic-upbringing-perpetuating-racism\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>he forces us to recalibrate our<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7dx9pr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108030\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7dx9pr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7dx9pr.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7dx9pr-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>How desperate for attention <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span>\u00a0this clown?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). <em>FOX<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/real-estate\/black-california-couples-home-appraises-500k-more-when-white-friend-poses-owner\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>falsely convicts a California appraiser for settling out of court<\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<em><strong>Miller\u2019s attorneys initially hit back at racism claims, writing in a rejoinder to the suit which stated: &#8220;There is nothing inherently racist about choosing comparable properties that are located in the same city as the Subject Property, Without any direct (or indirect) evidence of actual racial discrimination, Miller\u2019s choice of comparable properties cannot support Plaintiff\u2019s claim of discrimination.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><strong>However, the\u00a0San Francisco property appraiser\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">eventually agreed to the out-of-court settlement<\/span>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><strong>&#8220;I think everybody involved with the case was ready to move on,&#8221; Caroline Peattie, the executive director of Fair Housing, told San Jose Mercury News.\u00a0&#8220;Obviously we felt we had a strong case or else we wouldn\u2019t have pursued it in the first place,&#8221; she added. &#8220;[But] Filing a lawsuit on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">strength of the evidence<\/span> is one thing and\u00a0how a judge <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will rule<\/span>\u00a0is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">separate question<\/span>. You\u2019re never assured of a particular outcome.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Given the fact a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/usa-powerlifting-must-allow-male-athletes-to-compete-against-females-minnesota-court-rules\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Minnesota court recently insanely ruled mentally-ill male powerlifters should be allowed to compete against biological females<\/em><\/span><\/a>, it&#8217;s no wonder Mr. Miller settled.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). As Arkansas&#8217;s first woman governor noted&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s International Women\u2019s Day \u2013 a good time to remember that Democrats can\u2019t even tell you what a woman is. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BPJ1fHhl5u\">https:\/\/t.co\/BPJ1fHhl5u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahHuckabee\/status\/1633596552521318404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Which just confirms there&#8217;s no limit to Dimocratic depravity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). In a related item, a<\/strong><strong>\u00a0recently discovered <em>Politico<\/em>\u00a0banned-word list\u00a0sent to staffers in 2022 revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/politicos-banned-word-list-revealed-shows-outlet-urged-writers-avoid-terms-mankind-biological-male\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the outlet has been policing what language its writers may publish especially concerning transgender issues<\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>The outlet has instructed its editors and writers to avoid words such as &#8220;mankind,&#8221; &#8220;manhunt,&#8221; and even terms like &#8220;biological male&#8221; and &#8220;biological female&#8221; in order to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">avoid &#8220;elevating transphobic voices.<\/span>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><em>The list, which was proposed in an internal memo in January 2022, also banned other words that could be deemed politically incorrect, such as &#8220;Anchor baby,&#8221; and &#8220;Peanut gallery&#8221; \u2013 the latter being offensive because it was originally a reference to &#8220;the cheapest seats often occupied by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Black people and people with low incomes<\/span>.&#8221;<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Then&#8230;how could they afford peanuts?<\/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\/03\/afb030723dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afb030723dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afb030723dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afb030723dAPR-800x0-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aa-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107975\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aa-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aa-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aa-2-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb030823dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb030823dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb030823dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb030823dAPR-800x0-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sk030923dAPC-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sk030923dAPC-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sk030923dAPC-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sk030923dAPC-800x0-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/biden-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/biden-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/biden-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/biden-1-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/mexico.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/mexico.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/mexico.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/mexico-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/a-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/a-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/a-4.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/a-4-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hypocrite.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hypocrite.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hypocrite.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hypocrite-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0426-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0426-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0426-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0426-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MC_Whale_web-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MC_Whale_web-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MC_Whale_web-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MC_Whale_web-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-9.07-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-9.07-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-9.07-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-9.07-AM-300x236.jpg 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\/03\/Balls1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107971\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107973\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls4.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls4-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/balls-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/balls-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/balls-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/balls-1-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image000001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image000001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image000001.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image000001-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image000000-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image000000-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image000000-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image000000-1-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Rick Page&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.56-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.56-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.56-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.56-PM-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.54-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108023\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.54-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.54-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.54-PM-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-4.54-PM-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Ed Hickey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image003.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image003-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108025\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image002.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image002-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image001.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image001-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;as well a few from <em>The Patriot Post<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01GV101C6RDRJ5JXW0RJDW5XWM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01GV101C6RDRJ5JXW0RJDW5XWM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01GV101C6RDRJ5JXW0RJDW5XWM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01GV101C6RDRJ5JXW0RJDW5XWM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01GV101C6RDRJ5JXW0RJDW5XWM-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01GV3JZ5PZRHW6GNWR1YZXZ3C2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01GV3JZ5PZRHW6GNWR1YZXZ3C2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01GV3JZ5PZRHW6GNWR1YZXZ3C2.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01GV3JZ5PZRHW6GNWR1YZXZ3C2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/01GV3JZ5PZRHW6GNWR1YZXZ3C2-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-12.04-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-12.04-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-12.04-PM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-9-23-at-12.04-PM-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Texas mother accused of abandoning her two young children for weeks arrested in Alabama<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008080;\">Raven Yates&#8217;s 12-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son were abandoned for nearly 7 weeks before anyone realized they were home alone<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/yates_arrest-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/yates_arrest-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/yates_arrest-copy.png 295w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/yates_arrest-copy-211x300.png 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Roman Forest Police Department\u00a0in Texas said Raven Yates was found at an apartment complex in Mobile, Alabama, around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday after the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Violent Offender Fugitive Task Force was tipped off to her location.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Yates was reportedly staying with a man at the complex.<\/span> Police noted that he cooperated with entry into the apartment and her arrest.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">According to a November 2022 report from\u00a0FOX 26 Houston<a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/mother-accused-of-abandoning-her-children-in-houston-area-for-7-weeks-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">,<\/a>\u00a0officials said a concerned father contacted law enforcement to report that his 12-year-old daughter and her 3-year-old brother had been home alone since Sept. 28 without consistent access to food or medical supplies.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"color: #800000;\">The father of the 12-year-old learned the children were home alone after his ex-mother-in-law told him Yates was in Mobile without her kids. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">He put two and two together after his daughter asked him to send food regularly because Yates was &#8220;working,&#8221;\u00a0FOX 10 reported.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>He immediately flew to Texas from California, where he had been working at the time.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The children\u00a0had been left alone from Sept. 28 to Nov. 14 before he arrived in Texas.<\/span> They were also not registered in school, FOX 26 revealed<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The fact this creature is sporting a sh*t-eatin&#8217; grin while handcuffed in the back of the police vehicle tells us her kids will be better off with her behind bars.<\/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>OF COURSE you&#8217;re seizing record amounts of fentanyl crossing the border&#8230;because record amounts of the deadly drug from CHINA are coming INTO THE COUNTRY!!! Which begs the question why Peter Doocy didn&#8217;t immediately follow up with that fact?!? You can bet your a*s Ron DeSantis would have.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SfHzRrp6S2c?start=133&amp;end=173&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Tales of The Darkside<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Walsh introduces us to the mad, mad world of asexual furries. And when we say &#8220;mad&#8221;, we mean &#8220;mad&#8221;, as in psychologically ill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wFR0DD08mgs\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>On the Dimmer Side<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chase Allan may have been the gracious, loving soul his family claims, but he was also obviously an idiot, carrying in an unregistered vehicle and then initiating a confrontation with the cops. The officer called it early on when he told the young man, &#8220;The direction this encounter goes is 100% in your hands.&#8221; Chase chose to take it decidedly south.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6322221939112&#038;w=420&#038;h=235\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\" class=\"broken_link\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, March 10th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, if you want to know why there&#8217;s increasing violence on airline flights, here&#8217;s Exhibit &#8220;A&#8221;: Brawl breaks out on Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas to Phoenix: &#8216;That&#8217;s why I beat your a&#8211;&#8216; Passengers tried to break up fight after man says other man bumped into his wife [&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-108017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108017","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=108017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108069,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108017\/revisions\/108069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}