{"id":108248,"date":"2023-03-21T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T23:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=108248"},"modified":"2023-03-21T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T23:11:15","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-march-20th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=108248","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, March 20th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, March 20th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, even as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/progressive-democrat-braggs-motivation-in-nakedly-political-indictment-of-trump\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=top-stories&amp;utm_term=first\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>patently partisan, unprovable prosecution<\/em><\/span><\/a> is apparently proceeding against Trump in what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/imminent-trump-indictment-and-the-statute-of-limitations\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=river&amp;utm_content=more-in-tag&amp;utm_term=second\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Rich Lowry describes as Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg preparing to torch his credibility for a mug shot<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meanwhile Biden denies actual bank documents outlining his corrupt family\u2019s business dealings. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r79mIBykVx\">https:\/\/t.co\/r79mIBykVx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Big Fish (@BigFish3000) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigFish3000\/status\/1637110496267567109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hey, when you&#8217;ve got Keith Olbermann in your corner&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/idiot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/idiot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/idiot.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/idiot-300x65.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>know<\/em><\/span> you&#8217;re on the wrong side of history.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/trumps-claim-of-tuesday-arrest-is-highly-unlikely\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=top-stories&amp;utm_term=second\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Andy McCarthy highlights why<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0the odds of a dream Trump likely shares with Olbermann being realized are remote in the extreme.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And as Jonathan Turley relates, though it certainly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should<\/em><\/span> be,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>what the Biden cartel has done is as much an actual crime under existing law&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5eGT0slCVTg\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;as anything The Donald did.\u00a0 But this isn&#8217;t about Alvin Bragg&#8217;s credibility, or anything else connected to Stormygate.\u00a0 Neither is it about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>preventing<\/em><\/span> Trump from running.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: As Matt Walsh notes&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaaa-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaaa-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaaa-2.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaaa-2-300x137.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If Trump&#8217;s indicted, they&#8217;re hoping for another January 6th; And, knowing the charges won&#8217;t stick, using any dismissal as a means to energize their base in the run-up to 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a second shot of the juice: The indictment and arrest of an ex-President on&#8230;if you&#8217;ll forgive the phrase&#8230;<em>trumped-up<\/em> charges is as great a threat to the Constitution as was the January 6th riot, meaning none whatsoever&#8230;unlike the conspicuous corruption of the Biden crime family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, writing at\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>, Becket Adams details how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/03\/right-on-schedule-the-media-decide-desantis-is-worse-than-trump\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202023-03-19&amp;utm_term=WIR-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">Right on Schedule, the Media Decide DeSantis Is \u2018Worse\u2019 Than Trump<\/span><button class=\"listen-to-article button\" type=\"button\"><\/button><\/a><\/h1>\n<section class=\"section-content--article-content\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<h3 class=\"article-header__subtitle\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/03\/right-on-schedule-the-media-decide-desantis-is-worse-than-trump\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202023-03-19&amp;utm_term=WIR-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That wouldn\u2019t have anything to do with his growing popularity among conservatives, would it<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/desantis-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/desantis-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/desantis-1.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/desantis-1-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<strong>O<\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"small_caps\">ne\u00a0<\/span>of the funnier quirks of the Trump era is how closely the former president and his critics in the press mirror one another. From indulging in absolute gutter rhetoric to embracing rank illiberalism to promoting unhinged conspiracy theories, Trump and his press critics tend to have more in common than not.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>And right now, Trump and his media counterparts agree (albeit for slightly different reasons): Ron DeSantis is the worst.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Amusingly enough, the shared animosity for Florida\u2019s Republican governor has become increasingly deranged in proportion to DeSantis\u2019s growing popularity with the conservative base. Curious! Another especially amusing aspect of the press\u2019s growing anti-DeSantis chorus is this simple fact: They are trying in earnest \u2014 in the Year of Our Lord 2023 \u2014 to convince the public that the Florida executive poses a\u00a0<em>greater<\/em>\u00a0threat to our core democracy than even Trump does. Yes, the same people who spent four years trying to convince you that Trump posed a unique, once-in-a-lifetime threat to the republic are trying now to convince you that an even greater threat to the republic is now upon us. Just ignore the part where they do this bit every four years. Remember, it wasn\u2019t so long ago that Mitt Romney, the sweetest, most wholesome presidential candidate you ever saw, was out there being accused of manslaughtering a woman diagnosed with cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<strong>Trump is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>clearly terrified<\/em><\/span> that DeSantis will beat him in the 2024 GOP primary. Call it a matter of personal pride. Members of the press are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">likewise terrified<\/span><\/em> DeSantis will defeat Trump, not least of all because Donald Trump is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>guaranteed ratings and subscription gold mine<\/em><\/span>. Oh, come on, don\u2019t feign ignorance or indignation. Everyone knows former CBS chief executive officer Les Moonves said the quiet part out loud in 2015 when he enthused about Trump\u2019s political ascendancy, the 2016 GOP primary, and all the associated campaign spending: \u201cThe more they spend, the better it is for us. And go Donald! Keep getting out there! Let them spend money on us, and we love having them in there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>But there is also a nonfinancial reason some in the media are sounding the alarm over DeSantis: It\u2019s called force of habit. The governor may be the next president, and, as far as the commentariat is concerned, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every new GOP president is worse than the last<\/em><\/span>. It doesn\u2019t matter who the person is, but should he make his way into the White House, he\u2019s Hitler. Or Mussolini. Maybe both. It\u2019s not until the Republican <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no longer poses a risk as a serious candidate for higher office<\/em><\/span> that the people warning about \u201cthreats to our democracy\u201d develop what is commonly known in conservative circles as \u201cstrange new respect.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Which is to say, now that there\u2019s a chance Trump <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may not<\/em><\/span>, in fact, be the 2024 nominee, some in the press have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already<\/em><\/span> moved on to the rehabilitation portion of the post-Trump presidency, but only insofar as it can be used to convince voters that a possible new Republican contender is even worse than the last guy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cRon DeSantis Would Kill Democracy Methodically and Slowly,\u201d warns\u00a0<em>New York<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u2019s Jonathan Chait. \u201cTrump poses a greater danger of triggering an immediate constitutional crisis, while DeSantis is more likely to methodically strangle democracy through a series of illiberal Orbanist steps like he has modeled in Florida.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>For what it\u2019s worth, Chait argued <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this exact position in 2015<\/em><\/span>, claiming Trump would be a safer nominee than Senators Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz. Chait went on to spend the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>entire<\/em><\/span> Trump administration peddling Russian-collusion theories, including an exceptionally wild-eyed article arguing that Trump has been acting as a Russian asset since as far back as 1987<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, the <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>\u00a0accurately asserts&#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\/the-morning-jolt\/if-barney-frank-were-a-republican-hed-be-the-medias-banking-crisis-villain\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20230317&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">If Barney Frank Were a Republican, He\u2019d Be the Media\u2019s Banking-Crisis Villain<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><a style=\"color: #ff00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/if-barney-frank-were-a-republican-hed-be-the-medias-banking-crisis-villain\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20230317&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Whose Signature Is on the Banking Crisis<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/barney.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108234\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/barney.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/barney.png 385w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/barney-275x300.png 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<strong>Picture, if you will, a 16-term congressman who plays a major role in overhauling the nation\u2019s regulation of banks. He then retires and joins the board of directors of a New York-based national bank traded on NASDAQ, a bank with assets of about $50 billion. As a former congressman and member of the bank\u2019s board, he lobbies Congress to loosen the rules for banks like his, making the not-insane argument that the rules for a bank with about $50 billion in assets shouldn\u2019t be the same as the rules for a bank with $1 trillion or more in assets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Imagine that while this congressman was still serving in the legislature, he\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/barney-frank-permanently_n_521740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">denounced two of his former staffers who had gone to work as lobbyists for banks<\/a><\/em><\/span>, saying of one of them, \u201cIt never occurred to me that he would jump so quickly from the committee staff to an industry that was being affected by the committee\u2019s legislation. When he called me to tell me that he was in conversations with them, I told him that I was disappointed.\u201d The congressman\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews\/idUSN1615357320090916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">instructed his current staffers not to talk with former staffers who had gone to work for banks<\/a><\/em><\/span>. But this congressman sees nothing wrong with himself going to work for a bank, and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/03\/01\/barney-frank-why-i-would-vote-no-on-senate-bill-to-amend-dodd-frank-commentary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">urging his colleagues to vote a particularly way on additional bank-regulation reforms<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Imagine that two years after the congressman joined the bank\u2019s board, the New York state attorney general put\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neweconomynyc.org\/2017\/08\/nyc-public-advocate-pa-james-unveils-money-behind-new-yorks-worst-landlords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">the congressman\u2019s bank atop her list of banks that loaned the most money to the landlords on the state\u2019s Worst Landlords Watchlist<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Imagine that the bank\u2019s former director \u2014 a former senator from New York \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-03-14\/why-did-signature-bank-fail-inside-the-old-school-new-york-bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">warned that the bank was getting too heavily involved in cryptocurrency<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0and taking its \u201ceyes off of that small entrepreneur.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Imagine that the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-03-15\/signature-bank-faced-criminal-probe-ahead-of-firm-s-collapse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">congressman\u2019s bank came under the scrutiny of the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission<\/a><\/em><\/span>, over concerns that the bank didn\u2019t take sufficient steps to detect potential money laundering by clients, such as scrutinizing people opening accounts and monitoring transactions for signs of criminality.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Imagine that a former executive claimed that employees at the congressman\u2019s bank kept their jobs\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/national\/2023\/03\/16\/lawsuit-claims-signature-bank-employees-kept-jobs-after-fraud-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">despite being accused of a $1 million wire-fraud scheme<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Imagine that the New York State Department of Financial Services suddenly took possession of the congressman\u2019s bank, making it\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/signature-bank-lawsuit-new-york-finance\/12953350\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">the third-largest bank to fall into financial failure in U.S. history<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Then, imagine that in an\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/090e081f-35b3-484b-8095-c42a3c5e4259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">interview with the\u00a0Financial Times<\/a><\/span>,<\/em>\u00a0the congressman explained why he joined the failed bank\u2019s board of directors: \u201cI need to make some money.\u201d The<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/rationalwalk.substack.com\/p\/barney-franks-signature-bank-compensation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">congressman received nearly $2 million in cash for serving on the bank\u2019s board over the past eight years<\/a><\/em><\/span>, for what is characterized as \u201ca (very) part time gig.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>But you don\u2019t have to imagine anything in that scenario, because all of that really occurred with Barney Frank, the former Democratic congressman from Massachusetts and co-architect of the Dodd-Frank Act, who went on to serve on the board of the now-shuttered Signature Bank.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>If Barney Frank were a Republican, he would be the face of the current banking crisis. He would already be on the covers of magazines and the front pages of major newspapers, on television all the time, and the subject of condemning profile pieces. If Frank were on the right, he would be the villain of this story already, and ipso facto evidence of the greed, incompetence, malevolence, and recklessness of the GOP<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now imagine this same former congressman<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-one-thing-no-one-is-mentioning-in-their-barney-frank-tributes-the-prostitutes-2011-11\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">had used the power of his office to &#8220;fix&#8221; 33 tickets for his live-in boyfriend, a former male prostitute who had run a gay brothel out of the congressman&#8217;s apartment, and for who he knowingly wrote a misleading letter to a Virginia probation officer<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Any chance a Republican would have merely been reprimanded?\u00a0 Truth be told, were Barney Frank a Republican, he&#8217;d likely be in prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of those deserving of prison, courtesy of <em>AEI<\/em>, Max Eden reveals&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/op-eds\/the-trans-parent-core-of-gender-identity-in-schools\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\">The Trans-Parent Core of Gender Identity in Schools<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/biden-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/biden-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/biden-1-1.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/biden-1-1-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<strong>If you thought it would just be about biological boys in girls\u2019 bathrooms, you were na\u00efve. If you think it\u2019s primarily about biological boys playing girls\u2019 sports, you\u2019re still not getting it. The core of the debate over gender identity in schools is this: Should school staff have the power to rename and re-sex children without parental notification or consent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>With virtually no public discussion or debate, the default answer to this question is rapidly becoming, \u201cyes.\u201d Due partly to the effects of an Obama-era federal \u201cDear Colleague\u201d letter, partly due to the efforts of the LGBTQIA+ lobby, and partly due to the pervasive influence of teachers\u2019 unions, so-called \u201cgender support plans\u201d have become de rigueur in American public schools. These plans require staff and students to conform to a child\u2019s requests for \u201csocial transition\u201d\u2014typically entailing a new name, new pronouns, bathroom access, and locker room access. These plans then leave it up to the student to determine whether his or her parents are clued in. Teachers can thus be required to call Harry \u201cSally\u201d in school and punish students who don\u2019t refer to Harry as \u201cher,\u201d even as they call Harry \u201cHarry\u201d when talking to parents about his grades.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A recent report by Parents Defending Education, a parental rights watchdog nonprofit,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/investigations\/list-of-school-district-transgender-gender-nonconforming-student-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0that nearly 6,000 schools have these policies on the books. But it must be stressed that this study was non-exhaustive, and thus almost certainly dramatically understates the true extent of the policies\u2019 proliferation. Entire states, such as California, have adopted secret social transition requirements, and countless school districts have adopted these policies sub rosa. What\u2019s more, reading\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/community-family\/title-ixs-anti-parent-secret-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">between the lines<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0of its proposed Title IX regulation, the Biden administration appears intent on finishing what the Obama administration started: Every school district taking federal funds will be pressured to implement secret social transition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Why? The dubious rationale of the LGBTQIA+ lobby is: If we don\u2019t \u201csocially affirm\u201d kids, they will kill themselves. And if we clue parents in, we\u2019d be putting these children in potentially grave danger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Critics point out that there is actually no reliable, externally valid evidence whatsoever to support the LGBTQIA+ lobby\u2019s \u201caffirm or kids will die\u201d narrative. The critics also point out that if school officials have any genuine reason to believe that a child is in danger or at risk for abuse, they are mandated to report that to the authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<strong>But schools are not merely implementing an experimental medical intervention without parental consent (something that they don\u2019t have the authority to do with even a proven, low-risk medical intervention such as Tylenol). They are also formally endorsing a metaphysical catechism: that there is a gendered soul, separate and apart from a physical body, and which properly compels the moral deference of others. Put more simply: that men can become women and you\u2019re a bigot if you don\u2019t nod along approvingly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>According to this catechism,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2022\/06\/28\/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0Americans are bigots. Secret \u201csocial transition,\u201d therefore, also drives a profound moral wedge between non-dysphoric children and their parents, whom school officials indirectly invite children to view as \u201ctransphobes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>What can be done? There is a simple, elegant, and sure-to-be overwhelmingly popular solution at hand: State legislatures could adopt \u201cGiven Name Acts.\u201d As per the design of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/the-given-name-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">model legislation<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0produced by The Heritage Foundation, Given Name Acts would simply require school staff to refer to children by the names or pronouns provided on their birth certificates\u2014unless they receive an explicit written request from a parent asking for another name or pronoun to be used. If Harry\u2019s parents want Harry to be called Sally at school, then the parents can affirmatively ask and the school can accommodate. But no matter what, the school and the parents will be on the same page. The child will not be encouraged by school policy to live a double life, going by Sally at school and Harry at home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>This is not a 50-50 political wedge issue. It\u2019s not even a 90-10 split. It doesn\u2019t matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat\u2014if you\u2019re a parent, you\u2019re sure to be unsettled by the idea that the school could rename and re-sex your child without your notification or consent. No one aside from the LGBTQIA+ lobby and its core partisan allies within the\u00a0Democratic Party\u00a0activist base earnestly supports secret social transition. Unfortunately, ideology and politics being what it is, there is probably no hope of \u201cGiven Name Acts\u201d passing in blue states. But there\u2019s no reason they should not pass in every red state, as soon as legislators realize that the core of the debate about gender identity in schools isn\u2019t about bathrooms or sports. Rather, it is: Who has the power to name a child?<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Such is merely a symptom of a much larger, far more serious problem, one which causes the Great VDH to wonder\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/are-we-the-byzantines\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>are we the Byzantines<\/em><\/span><\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two cases in point, both courtesy of Nick:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">*Today In <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Portland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Portland<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p>Man Smokes Fentanyl in front of Children and Blows it in Elderly People&#8217;s Faces.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly why you should never consider visiting this city or bringing your families Downtown.<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Measure110?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Measure110<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedwheeler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TedWheeler<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TinaKotek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TinaKotek<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/77ppQgHdRz\">pic.twitter.com\/77ppQgHdRz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brandon Farley (Portland Journalist) (@TheRealFarley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealFarley\/status\/1637248329506488325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">5 black men dressed as women complaining about \u201ccultural appropriation\u201d is peak Woke insanity. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dm4SqWRZ2o\">pic.twitter.com\/Dm4SqWRZ2o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MythinformedMKE\/status\/1637133078127673344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can Sodom and Gomorrah been that much worse than the destination Dimocrats intend for America?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s another sextet of special selections certain to sate the curiosity of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). The <em>Daily Mail<\/em> reports <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11870455\/NY-State-lowers-minimum-scores-student-proficiency-says-post-Covid-scores-new-normal.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>New York state education authorities are lowering minimum scores for proficiency in math and English<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>, admitting they won&#8217;t push students beyond the &#8220;new normal&#8221; of post-pandemic performance.\u00a0 Thus does New York abandon its motto <em>excelsior<\/em>, &#8220;ever upward&#8221;, in favor of <em>inferior<\/em>, &#8220;lower, farther down&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/hunter-biden-sues-delaware-laptop-repairman-over-leaked-files\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=30869718\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Biden&#8217;s degenerate son has filed a legal action against Delaware computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac<\/em><\/span><\/a> in retaliation for Mac Isaac serving Hunter with lawsuit seeking $1.5M in damages earlier this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/north-korea-claims-800000-join-army-single-day-fight-us\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Kim Jong Un&#8217;s lackeys claim 800,000 students and workers enlisted in the North Korean armed forces on Friday<\/em><\/span><\/a>, one day after Trump&#8217;s buddy the Rocket Man launched a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan during joint U.S.\/South Korean military exercises.\u00a0 Officials attributed this amazing display of support for the NoKo dictator to &#8220;the unshakable will of the younger generation to mercilessly wipe out the war maniacs making last-ditch efforts to eliminate our precious socialist country, and achieve the great cause of national reunification without fail and a clear manifestation of their ardent patriotism.&#8221;\u00a0 Yeah,&#8230;whatever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). Mexico&#8217;s president claims <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/saraharnold\/2023\/03\/19\/mexican-president-blames-american-families-for-fentanyl-crisis-lack-of-love-hugs-n2620861\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the reason fentanyl is such a problem in this country is American parents don\u2019t hug their children enough<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 We respectfully suggest given the frequency with which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>his<\/em><\/span> dad hugs young children&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-drudge-report.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-drudge-report.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-drudge-report.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-drudge-report-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;were El Presidente Se\u00f1or AMLO right, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Hunter<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hunter-pipe-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hunter-pipe-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hunter-pipe-copy.png 236w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hunter-pipe-copy-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;should have turned out quite differently.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). What kind of people, other than utterly amoral deviants&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7f36nz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7f36nz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7f36nz.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/7f36nz-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>could mutilate a 13-year-old girl<\/em><\/span>, let alone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f3g5wZYmdmE\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>advocate for such an abominable practice<\/em><\/span><\/a>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). And in a tweet which truly speaks for itself, Aaron Sibarium informs us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/balls-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108187\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/balls-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/balls-2.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/balls-2-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KHwPwnforZ8?start=2\" 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>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\/cb031823dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031823dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031823dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031823dAPR-800x0-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/a-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/a-12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/a-12.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/a-12-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afb031723dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afb031723dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afb031723dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afb031723dAPR-800x0-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaa-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaa-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaa-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaa-2-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaaa-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaaa-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaaa-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaaa-1-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0436-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108209\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0436-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0436-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0436-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031723dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031723dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031723dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031723dAPR-800x0-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sk031623dAPC-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sk031623dAPC-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sk031623dAPC-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sk031623dAPC-800x0-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031623dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031623dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031623dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cb031623dAPR-800x0-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bbb-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108206\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bbb-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bbb-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bbb-1-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bb.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bb.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bb-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aa-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aa-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aa-5.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aa-5-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-18-23-at-8.27-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-18-23-at-8.27-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-18-23-at-8.27-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Image-3-18-23-at-8.27-AM-218x300.jpeg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these bits of St. Paddy&#8217;s Day humor from the incomparable Stilton Jarlsberg&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Green-and-Beer-It-2023-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Green-and-Beer-It-2023-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Green-and-Beer-It-2023-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Green-and-Beer-It-2023-1-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MichelleStoutsm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MichelleStoutsm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MichelleStoutsm.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MichelleStoutsm-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/stilton.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/stilton.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/stilton.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/stilton-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stilton2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stilton2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stilton2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Stilton2-300x144.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with a few bon mots from Ed Hickey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hickey3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hickey3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hickey3.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hickey3-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/HIckey4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/HIckey4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/HIckey4.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/HIckey4-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hickey2.jpjg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hickey2.jpjg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hickey2.jpjg_.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hickey2.jpjg_-246x300.png 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hickey1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hickey1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hickey1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hickey1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hickey1-297x300.png 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;as well as several more from both Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108230\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls1-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls1-1-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls2-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Balls2-1-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/banks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108232\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/banks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/banks.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/banks-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Rick Page:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00175.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00175-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00172.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00172.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00172-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00172-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00169.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ATT00169-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/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>Listen as this retired Green Beret LT COL describes what may well prove to be the Biden clown car&#8217;s most fickle moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1qEhMQ2ijd8\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Tales of The Darkside<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ami Horowitz recorded these displays of utter ignorance some five years ago; Any chance even one of these dimwits has wised up in the interim? To quote the Duke, &#8220;Not hardly&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EQa9ltb0OKE\" 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 Lighter Side<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Walsh highlights, particularly when it comes to radical transgenderism, how the more things change, the more they stay the same.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pGu898iD30s\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, March 20th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, even as a patently partisan, unprovable prosecution is apparently proceeding against Trump in what Rich Lowry describes as Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg preparing to torch his credibility for a mug shot&#8230; Meanwhile Biden denies actual bank documents outlining his corrupt family\u2019s business dealings. https:\/\/t.co\/r79mIBykVx \u2014 Big Fish [&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-108248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108248","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=108248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108293,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108248\/revisions\/108293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}