{"id":108569,"date":"2023-04-06T20:55:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T00:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=108569"},"modified":"2023-04-06T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T00:56:10","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-april-4th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=108569","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, April 4th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, April 4th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, t<\/strong><strong>he following got us thinking:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hate.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hate-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hate2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hate2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hate2.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hate2-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Talk about an incredibly irresponsible, over-the-top solution to a problem which doesn&#8217;t even exist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s another example from <em>The Rubin Report<\/em>, courtesy of Douglas Murray:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vlPhAFixBL4?start=1222&amp;end=1332&amp;\" 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><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>Now consider this recent posting from the incomparable\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stiltonsplace.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Stilton Jarlsberg<\/em><\/span><\/a> which warns:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;AI is a funny thing, which is perhaps why Elon Musk and other high-tech types are currently\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/elon-musk-steve-ai-chatgpt-8533967\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">warning the world to put further development on immediate hold<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0before it destroys us all. Which is a real possibility, albeit probably not in the way that most of us would have expected. Social media and the (ahem) &#8220;news&#8221; are all guided by algorithms now. Algorithms designed to ramp up our fears and anger against others and addict us to getting more and more upsetting information. Which is why our country is so divided and angry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But AI puts those algorithms on steroids (currently growing in what has been called a\u00a0<i>double<\/i>-exponential curve) and will be able to tell each and every one of us\u00a0<i>exactly<\/i>\u00a0the most convincing arguments to embrace full-fledged paranoia and enmity of others while developing a heroin-level dependence on whatever the computers (or whoever&#8217;s running the computers) wants to tell us.\u00a0 <strong>Bonus:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i>any<\/i><\/span>\u00a0information &#8211; audio, video, photo, document, or text &#8211; that can be transmitted electronically <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can be faked easily, instantly<\/em><\/span>, and (quite soon) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>perfectly<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So slowing things down on AI development is probably a very good idea&#8230;and also the definition of the genie already being out of the cybernetic bottle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If Progressives can promote non-existent crises <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>without<\/em><\/span> the benefit of AI, think what they can do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>with<\/em><\/span> it!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/columbia-law-students-claim-schools-kavanaugh-event-normalizes-white-supremacist-patriarchal-violence\/?bypass_key=SWg1amF6cHdPUDR4c2VucHo5MVM3dz09OjpPRll4VTNoRE9XbHZWV1JrT0RaRGFYQk1aVmQ2VVQwOQ%3D%3D?utm_source%3Demail&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=31048340&amp;utm_source=Sailthru\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Columbia Law Students Claim School\u2019s Kavanaugh Event Normalizes \u2018White Supremacist, Patriarchal Violence<\/span><\/a>\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy8lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy8lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy8lg.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy8lg-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The student activists alleged that the law school is complicit in these injustices by giving\u00a0Kavanaugh, as well as other \u201cguest speakers\u201d supposedly tied to racist and white supremacist groups, a platform. CLS and the Federalist Society \u201c<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>disguise this violence under pretenses of apoliticism, objectivity, and neutrality<\/em><\/span><\/strong>,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In 2018, Kavanaugh was subject to a vicious, partisan confirmation process that wreaked havoc on his family and reputation. Democrats took Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>uncorroborated 30-year-old allegation<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of sexual assault and treated it <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>as though it were uncontested fact<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. Student leaders from the National Lawyers Guild parroted the Democrats\u2019 <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unsubstantiated conclusion<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Blasey Ford in their statement. \u201cIt is patriarchy that elevates men like Brett Kavanaugh to the nation\u2019s highest court despite multiple survivors credibly speaking out against his history of sexual assault,\u201d they wrote. \u201cIt is patriarchy that allows CLS to think it is acceptable to highlight and celebrate Kavanaugh as normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;The Empowering Women of Color group similarly said it would skip future CLS recruiting events because of the law school\u2019s post. \u201cWe cannot condone complicity with a man who is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>credibly accused<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of sexual assault,\u201d it said. \u201cThe insinuation from the Communications Office that the post was neutral and just the Law School\u2019s way of highlighting activities students are participating in is laughable and untrue. A post of this kind, with its caption, is a terrifying stamp of approval.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus do lies become truth, proving the prescience of Nazi general lost to history whom Alan Clark quoted in <em>Barbarossa<\/em>: &#8220;It matters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> what is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>true or false<\/em><\/span>, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exclusively<\/em><\/span> what is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>believed<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;\u00a0 Tell us again who are the fascists <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>now<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, ICYMI,\u00a0<em>FOX<\/em> informs us the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nashville-shooter-felt-no-other-effective-way-seen-radical-trans-group-says\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Nashville shooter<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">felt &#8216;no other<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\"> effective way<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\"> to be seen,<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">&#8216; radical trans<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"> group says<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;<a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nashville-shooter-felt-no-other-effective-way-seen-radical-trans-group-says\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hate has consequences,&#8217; the radical trans &#8216;collective&#8217; said<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ya8Ab-xYig0\" 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 class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;A radical transgender group said the\u00a0transgender Nashville shooter\u00a0felt &#8220;no other effective way to be seen&#8221; than killing six people at a private Presbyterian school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Trans Resistance Network (TRN), a far-left transgender &#8220;collective,&#8221; released an inflammatory statement on Monday in the wake of the\u00a0Covenant School\u00a0shooting by transgender woman Audrey Hale in Nashville that killed three 9-year-olds and three adults.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Calling the mass murder a dual &#8220;tragedy,&#8221; the group wrote the first was the deaths of the children and adults in the school and extended their &#8220;deepest sympathies and heartfelt prayers to those families dealing with the loss of loved ones.&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since when did &#8220;being seen&#8221; become a &#8220;right&#8221; which trumped the unalienable ones detailed in the Declaration of Independence: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Life<\/em><\/span>, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the way NBC covers the massacre&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fear pervades Tennessee&#8217;s trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter&#8217;s gender identity: \u201cWe were already fearing for our lives. Now, it\u2019s even worse.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dftpoDE5C2\">https:\/\/t.co\/dftpoDE5C2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1640861593209536515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;you&#8217;d think a God-fearing Christian had shot their way into a transgender convention, a Bible in one hand, an &#8220;assault rifle&#8221; or two in the other.\u00a0 And precisely <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>WHO<\/em><\/span> is focused on the killer&#8217;s gender identity other than The Left?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice in meme form:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gxv4p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108537\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gxv4p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gxv4p.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gxv4p-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gxv4p-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Until, that is, you attempt to use violence to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>force<\/em><\/span> us to care&#8230;at which point our caring will take a decidedly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>un<\/em><\/span>caring turn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Noah Rothman catalogues the numerous times the MSM has gone truly over the top in&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/03\/humanizing-mass-killers-to-vindicate-progressivism\/?bypass_key=OEtsRXU5R1grcDJTc0xjb3V3eTJWQT09OjpZa2RzVFhkMlUxRldVREpyVmtKUVozRk1hR0pvUVQwOQ%3D%3D&amp;lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-03-29&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Humanizing Mass Killers to Vindicate Progressivism<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"section-content--article-content\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<h3 class=\"article-header__subtitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/03\/humanizing-mass-killers-to-vindicate-progressivism\/?bypass_key=OEtsRXU5R1grcDJTc0xjb3V3eTJWQT09OjpZa2RzVFhkMlUxRldVREpyVmtKUVozRk1hR0pvUVQwOQ%3D%3D&amp;lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-03-29&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">The Left\u2019s impulse to reduce disturbed attackers to categories and force them awkwardly into a preexisting ideological framework insults their victims<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy98s-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy98s-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy98s-1.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy98s-1-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;T<\/span><span class=\"small_caps\">he<\/span>\u00a0trauma of mass gun violence \u2014 at least in places where mass gun violence has not become\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/data-show-chicago-has-seen-the-greatest-number-of-mass-shootings-in-the-u-s-this-year-to-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">a terrible feature of daily life<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 is compounded today by the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commentary.org\/noah-rothman\/the-definition-of-insanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">perfunctory ritual<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0through which the arbiters of American discourse drag the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There are the reflexive calls for stricter gun-control laws without any understanding of whether those proposals\u00a0<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/07\/when-gun-laws-dont-prevent-gun-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">would have had any effect<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on the course of the events that inspired them (and sometimes in\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/01\/bidens-gun-control-misdirection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">the face of evidence<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/strong>that they\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/what-might-actually-help-stop-mass-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">would have no effect<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>). There\u2019s the\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/uvalde-school-shooting-government-and-politics-shootings-texas-conspiracy-theories-8d9ac3b61420c6542b11d0da3f0b3a16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">mockery of the religiously observant<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/mar\/29\/nashville-school-shooting-senate-chaplain-thoughts-and-prayers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">great institutional heights<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>. And there\u2019s the effort to tether, however tenuously, the shooter to\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2022-11-20\/colorado-springs-club-q-shooting-republican-anti-gay-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Republican rhetoric<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0or a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/politics\/world\/news\/congressman-who-represents-the-nashville-district-involved-in-deadly-school-shooting-posted-a-gun-toting-family-photo-for-christmas-in-2021\/articleshow\/99043420.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">right-wing aesthetic<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At least, that\u2019s the routine when the shooter fits a demographic profile with which we\u2019ve become woefully familiar: white and male. But recent episodes of mass violence perpetrated by shooters who do not fit the part has compelled cultural observers and the press to innovate new ways of talking about mass violence. These new methods rob the victims of these attacks of their sacrifice and transfer their victimization onto their killers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Commentary around Monday\u2019s horrific mass shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., followed a familiar trajectory right until the perpetrator was revealed to be a biological woman who identified as a man. This priors-scrambling detail sent media outlets off on the frenzied pursuit of something that would justify the preconception that those who assume a trans identity are never victimizers, only victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">First, there was the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/legacy-media-struggles-to-characterize-trans-shooters-sex-apologize-for-initial-misgendering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">mad dash to indict<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Nashville police for failing to use the pronouns preferred by the person who shot and killed three teachers and three nine-year-old students. That was followed by an attempt from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/tennessee-republicans-ban-drag-shows-mocked-after-mass-shooting-1790677?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1679953916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">media outlets and politicians<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to allege \u2014 the lack of substantive evidence to back them up notwithstanding \u2014 that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/therefore-what\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">the shooter had been incited in some way<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0by local legislation restricting \u201cadult cabaret performances\u201d in the presence of children and the provision of hormone-blocking therapies to minors. The application of a moment\u2019s reasoning to the suggestion that any of this explains, much less justifies, the murder of children must have proven unsatisfying, because the press soon moved on to crafting a narrative of victimization for the deceased killer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The humiliation and rejection that serve as the shooter\u2019s supposed origin story stretch back into early childhood. \u201cTwenty years later, after being rejected by her Christian family when she came out to them as gay,\u201d the\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11912163\/Nashville-school-shooter-Audrey-Hales-parents-accept-gay-trans.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus&amp;ito=social-twitter_dailymailus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em>\u2019s report on the shooter\u2019s psychological trauma concluded, the shooter \u201chad turned into a killer.\u201d The tragedy of mass murder is, in fact, \u201cnot one tragedy but two,\u201d according to a statement release by the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/hate-has-consequences-trans-group-mourns-death-of-nashville-trans-mass-killer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Trans Resistance Network<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>. The killer \u201cfelt he had no other effective way to be seen other than to lash out by taking the life of others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7h2i9i.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7h2i9i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7h2i9i.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7h2i9i-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-news\/fear-pervades-tennessees-trans-community-focus-nashville-shooters-gend-rcna77066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NBC News reporters<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Matt Lavietes and Jo Yurcaba alleged that the killer\u2019s victims tangentially include Tennessee\u2019s trans community, who could now expect to face increased discrimination. That extraordinary claim rests on the existence of a provocative hashtag on Twitter and the media outlets that accurately reported on the shooter\u2019s identity and actions within the same sentence. \u201cWe were already fearing for our lives,\u201d acting president of Tri-Cities Transgender, Aislinn Bailey, told NBC\u2019s reporters. \u201cNow, it\u2019s even worse.\u201d The actual victims of violence in this case were replaced by the hypothetical victims of conjectural violence \u2014 the less disorienting sort that fits within a familiar rubric.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The pattern we\u2019ve been forced to witness this week has been in development for some time, because the perpetrators of mass violence increasingly fail to meet the expectations set for them in the mainstream press.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Chinese citizen who shot and killed seven of his colleagues in\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/01\/26\/half-moon-bay-shooting-massacre-fueled-by-simmering-tensions-among-farmworkers-sources-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Half Moon Bay, Calif<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/em>, last year experienced \u201cmounting frustrations with his job conditions and simmering tensions\u201d at the farm where he worked, according to local media outlets. The \u201cfinal straw\u201d was thought to be an \u201cinsult\u201d about his \u201cdiminutive\u201d size. That trauma was reportedly exacerbated by the ghastly conditions endured by America\u2019s agricultural workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cViewed the crime scenes today in Half Moon Bay,\u201d San Mateo County supervisor\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ray_Mueller_\/status\/1618694092506152960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Ray Mueller<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0reported. \u201cDeplorable, heartbreaking living conditions. As I said on the campaign trail, we must raise the quality of life of farm workers, NOW.\u201d California governor Gavin Newsom agreed. \u201cCalifornia is investigating the farms involved in the Half Moon Bay shooting to ensure workers are treated fairly and with the compassion they deserve,\u201d Newsom said. The killer\u2019s victims were soon displaced by\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-farm-worker-living-conditions-ca-terra-garden-supervisor-ray-mueller\/12741485\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">local farm workers and their activist<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0allies,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/half-moon-bay-shooting-multiple-shot-san-mateo-county-sheriff-highway-92\/12734398\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">who demanded<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u201cbetter pay\u201d and higher standards of living.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A similar pattern emerged when a 72-year-old Asian man shot and killed ten people at a dance studio in Monterey Park, Calif., earlier this year. \u201cWith the significant amount of anti-Asian hate, there\u2019s been this feeling of a lack of safety and being under threat,\u201d the founder of Stop AAPI Hate told\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jan\/23\/california-monterey-park-shooting-compounds-fear-asian-american-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0in the wake of the Monterey Park killer\u2019s murder spree. \u201cIt really perpetuates this fear that they are not safe,\u201d a local community organizer agreed, citing the rise of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/mar\/20\/asian-americans-gun-control-violence-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">anti-Asian hate<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in America since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. \u201cWe need more acknowledgment on how important it is to address this lack of support for immigrant, refugee and monolingual populations, and we need more resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Once again, the actual victims of violence were generalized, transformed into abstract avatars of the demographic to which they belong. The \u201c<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/monterey-park-mass-shooting-suspect-possible-motive-investigation\/12725931\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">jealousy<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u201d arising from a domestic dispute that served as the shooter\u2019s motive, according to the dance studio\u2019s owner, had become irrelevant. The \u201c<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/the-spectre-of-anti-asian-violence-in-the-monterey-park-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">specter of anti-Asian hate<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u201d and the \u201ctragic saga in Asian-American history\u201d took center stage. After all, the AAPI-centric outlet\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/theyappie.com\/asian-americans-monterey-park-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">The Yappie\u00a0warned<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, just because \u201cthe gunman has been identified as an Asian person doesn\u2019t exclude the possibility of hate, misogyny, or ethnic discrimination as a motive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Even the last time America had to witness a terrible act of mass violence in a school, the shooter\u2019s identity confused observers to the point that they felt compelled to humanize him. \u201cWhen I see photos of\u201d the gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, \u201cI also see Latinos I know,\u201d\u00a0<em>LA Times<\/em>\u00a0columnist\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-05-25\/uvalde-texas-mass-school-shooting-latinos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Gustavo Arellano<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0mourned. He agonized over the \u201cmerciless ridicule\u201d the shooter \u201csuffered,\u201d seeing himself in the killer and his experience with the cultural milieu in which young \u201cLatino males\u201d incubate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Uvalde killer\u2019s act \u201ccertainly feels like another kind of performance of young masculinity,\u201d psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl told the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/06\/03\/why-so-many-mass-shooters-young-angry-men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">Washington Post<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in an article that transformed the killer into a theoretical construct. In cases like his, \u201cWe are talking about boys who have been emasculated over a period of time,\u201d criminal-justice professor Eric Madfis added. \u201cThey were bullied, or ignored, or didn\u2019t have the dating life or popularity they wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In all the above cases, something approaching sympathy pervades the analysis of these heinous actions in the left-wing press. Mass shooters are motivated in part by the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5296697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">notoriety their predecessors attain<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0through violence, which renders these contortions shockingly derelict. The impulse to reduce these disturbed individuals to categories and to force their actions to comport with a preferred ideological framework serves no purpose other than to preserve a fragile worldview. But it is not a harmless exercise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also ICYMI, Jim Geraghty relates how the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/nashville-shooters-gun-purchases-could-have-been-blocked-and-werent\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20230329&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nashville shooter\u2019s gun purchases COULD and SHOULD have been blocked, but WEREN&#8217;T<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>absolutely must-read<\/em><\/span>\u00a0history lesson from\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Dan McLaughlin, as he recalls&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/04\/when-a-democratic-president-was-above-the-law\/?bypass_key=bnkzUUFzK0dtdCtNZ1IrOXdUTDNmQT09OjplWFk0WkhSUlZpdHhaRTUyYTNaNWNVUkNURXN5VVQwOQ%3D%3D&amp;lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-04-03&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">When a Democratic President Was above the Law<button class=\"listen-to-article button\" type=\"button\"><\/button><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__subtitle\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/04\/when-a-democratic-president-was-above-the-law\/?bypass_key=bnkzUUFzK0dtdCtNZ1IrOXdUTDNmQT09OjplWFk0WkhSUlZpdHhaRTUyYTNaNWNVUkNURXN5VVQwOQ%3D%3D&amp;lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-04-03&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If you told us that perjury should go unpunished because it was \u2018just about sex,\u2019 you should sit out the \u2018nobody is above the law\u2019 argument<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gxupb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108536\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gxupb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gxupb.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gxupb-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;One\u00a0of the mantras of Democrats and their media voices in response to Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s indictment of Donald Trump has been that \u201cno one is above the law.\u201d That\u2019s a fine sentiment, but there are <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>three very big problems with Democrats making this argument<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: They <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don\u2019t<\/em><\/span><\/strong> believe it, they <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don\u2019t<\/em><\/span><\/strong> mean the same thing by \u201claw\u201d as the rest of us, and Alvin Bragg is about the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SbwEf6asuIo?t=173\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worst<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a> possible representative for the theory that violations of the law will <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span><\/strong> be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In particular, I never want to hear another word \u2014 <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not another syllable<\/span><\/em><\/strong> \u2014 about how \u201cnobody is above the law\u201d from people <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who spent years on end telling us that perjury and obstruction of justice by the president should not lead to consequences because it was \u201cjust about a blow job<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.\u201d I never want to hear this from people who <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>professed to be horrified by \u201clock her up\u201d chants<\/em><\/span><\/strong> on the theory that one should <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never call for jailing political opponents even when they have violated specific federal criminal statutes regarding the handling of sensitive information<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2014 <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>least of all<\/em><\/span><\/strong> in defense of a prosecutor <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who ran for office publicly promising to go after this particular political opponent<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of his. I never want to hear it from people who said that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the vice president could break a federal law without consequence so long as there was \u201cno controlling legal authority\u201d interpreting the law<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. I <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>certainly<\/em><\/span><\/strong> do not want to hear this from people who are, even today, arguing that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the president can get away with breaking the law and seizing the powers of Congress<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to give away half a trillion dollars of our money to his supporters <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so long as he can argue that nobody has standing to sue him in federal court<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;This is not how Democrats talk about the law when one of their own is in the crosshairs. The most obvious and glaring parallel is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Bill Clinton\u2019s perjury<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. At the time, the all-but-uniform argument among Democrats was that the Clinton impeachment was \u201cjust about sex,\u201d <em><strong>as if covering up a sexual affair is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">somehow\u00a0a defense to breaking the law<\/span><\/strong><\/em>. On the simplest charge against Clinton, perjury in his civil deposition, there really was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no question that Clinton lied under oath<\/em><\/span><\/strong> about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. He <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did so again<\/em><\/span><\/strong> in the grand jury. And yet, we were told that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he should be neither prosecuted nor impeached<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, and that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even investigating him<\/em><\/span><\/strong> for this was a terrible affront <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because he was the president<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Democrats were united in treating Clinton as being <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>above the law<\/em><\/span><\/strong> against perjury, even though federal judges had previously been removed from office for committing perjury and filing false documents such as income-tax returns. <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Two hundred of the 205 House Democrats voted against impeachment<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<em>Every single Democrat in the Senate<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every last one<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2014 voted for acquittal <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>on all charges<\/em><\/span>. That includes six Senate Democrats who are still there (Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Patty Murray, Dianne Feinstein, Jack Reed, and Ron Wyden); it includes prominent Democrats who were in the House then, including Pelosi, Neal, Lee, Schumer (who voted against impeachment before joining the Senate and voting for acquittal), and Ed Markey; and it <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>includes Joe Biden<\/em><\/span><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of those who believe they&#8217;re above the law, the editors at <em>NRO<\/em> confirm it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/03\/democrats-vs-parents\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-03-27&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Democrats vs. Parents<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/attachment-MI-Dem-Party-Parents-have-no-say-in-education.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108556\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/attachment-MI-Dem-Party-Parents-have-no-say-in-education.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/attachment-MI-Dem-Party-Parents-have-no-say-in-education.jpg 335w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/attachment-MI-Dem-Party-Parents-have-no-say-in-education-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;L<\/span><span class=\"small_caps\">ast<\/span>\u00a0week, Republicans in Congress\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/house-republicans-pass-parents-bill-of-rights-to-increase-school-transparency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">passed<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0the Parents Bill of Rights, 213\u2013208. Critics will dismiss it as a messaging bill, but <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the message it sends about Democrats\u2019 priorities is unsettling in the extreme<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Consider: The bill <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>requires schools in receipt of federal funding<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>publish their curricula<\/em><\/span><\/strong> and to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>provide parents with a list of books and materials accessible at the school library<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. It also contains provisions that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>require schools to notify parents of any planned elimination of gifted-and-talented programs<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>alert parents to any violent activity that took place at school<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, to provide parents <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a forum to speak at school-board meetings<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, and to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>offer two in-person meetings between parents and teachers in each school year<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. It requires <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>parental consent for any medical exams or mental-health and substance-use screenings<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Crucially<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, it establishes for parents \u201c<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the right to know if a school employee or contractor acts to . . . change a minor child\u2019s gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name; or . . . allow a child to change the child\u2019s sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy5ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy5ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy5ap.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7gy5ap-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As you can guess, each one of these provisions relates to the rash of controversies swirling around public schools in the news the past few years, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including the introduction of critical race theory and sexually explicit material for young readers and the treacherous subterfuge of school districts\u2019 making major psychological-health decisions for students while deliberately keeping parents in the dark<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There is legitimate debate about whether the federal government ought to assert itself this way upon locally controlled school districts. But <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span><\/strong> was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the substance of objections from Democrats. Progressives tended toward hysterical fictions. \u201cExtreme MAGA Republicans don\u2019t want the children of America to learn about the Holocaust,\u201d alleged Hakeem Jeffries, absent any evidence. Or they outright took the side of the state usurping the proper role of parents. \u201cThis Republican bill is asking the government to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>force the outing of LGBT people before they are ready<\/em><\/span><\/strong>,\u201d Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on the House floor. \u201cWhen we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is, and that is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>freedom over fascism<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Who didn&#8217;t see <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">THAT<\/span> coming?!?<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Here we must reassert a truth <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so primordial it predates conservatism<\/em><\/span><\/strong> as a political philosophy: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Parents<\/em><\/span><\/strong> are the primary educators of their children. Taxes are raised (or fees collected) and schools are established <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only to assist them<\/em><\/span><\/strong> in this task, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to take it over. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Civilized nations<\/em><\/span><\/strong> deprive parents of this role or limit it <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only<\/em><\/span><\/strong> when there is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>established criminal neglect<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Democrats, by their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>universal opposition<\/em><\/span> to this bill in the House, in the Senate, and from the White House, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are the ones sending a message<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. They are the party that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wants to treat normal parental oversight and curiosity as a conspiracy against the state<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, as <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>presumptively seditious<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, and as <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dangerous for children<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. It is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the<\/em><\/span><\/strong> most noxious Marxist conviction that the American Left <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>cannot shake<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>normal family life itself ideologically deforms children<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, and that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only the strong checking and supervisory role of the state can save them from the baleful influence of Mommy and Daddy<\/em><\/span><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which provides the same clarity resulting from what was essentially another self-inflicted nut kick courtesy of\u00a0<em>Jack Reacher<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h9woMb5tC2I?start=95&amp;end=122&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>Then there&#8217;s this follow-up on our earlier assertion that while we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>firmly<\/em><\/span> believe in miracles, we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don&#8217;t<\/em><\/span> believe in coincidences with odds lower than winning the lottery:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iVqWzNE2eL4?start=0&amp;end=99&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>Had it been Tommy DeSimone grilling Yellen rather than Utah&#8217;s Chris Stewart, he&#8217;d have quipped:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3j_XWwSSfgw?start=1\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s another sterling septet of special selections certain to sate the curiosity of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Writing at <em>The Epoch Times<\/em>, <em>AEI<\/em>&#8216;s Benjamin Zycher notes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/the-energy-transition-is-a-delusion-indeed_5164116.html?utm_source=Opinion&amp;src_src=Opinion&amp;utm_campaign=opinion-2023-04-03&amp;src_cmp=opinion-2023-04-03&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=lAWSg8YmR6kbJ3qtDgtZ1c2mtzbeD4ko2SeFHP27yklkRtDaJwyqa8YiUHwY4KhLTg%3D%3D\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>what green energy proponents term growing pains are actually fundamental obstacles impossible to overcome<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 As our expert energy correspondent Jeff Foutch observed, this isn&#8217;t an energy transition, it&#8217;s a lifestyle upheaval.\u00a0 And a utterly unnecessary, completely counterproductive one at that&#8230;as are any policies purposed for the increase of Progressives&#8217; personal political power and wealth.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). In a case we&#8217;ll be watching closely, Ryan Mills reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/oregon-woman-sues-state-for-rejecting-adoption-application-over-opposition-to-child-gender-transition\/?bypass_key=cFlFTTBIRUEzYkMzazBGdzVldFpJUT09OjplWFJ5S3pNMGJETXZha00yTTNsVlpFWlBjRTlyUVQwOQ%3D%3D?utm_source%3Demail&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=31050382&amp;utm_source=Sailthru\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the Oregon woman suing the state for rejecting her adoption application over her opposition to child gender transition and the use of state-sanctioned pronouns<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Turning from the light to the darkness, we learn how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libsoftiktok.com\/p\/watch-drag-queen-appears-to-perform?sd=pf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>a Winston-Salem, NC high school hosted a Pride event in which you can<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">WATCH: Drag queen performs lap dance on student at Pride event with high schoolers in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In a statement to LoTT, the administration defended the event<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Full story here:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Dzcwq3Mac\">https:\/\/t.co\/9Dzcwq3Mac<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1640794276442542080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s the highlight for us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5efe3e47-35ae-45af-a5c6-ef5daa652508_538x470.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5efe3e47-35ae-45af-a5c6-ef5daa652508_538x470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5efe3e47-35ae-45af-a5c6-ef5daa652508_538x470.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5efe3e47-35ae-45af-a5c6-ef5daa652508_538x470-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Yes, those are Winston-Salem <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>faith leaders<\/em><\/span> shepherding their flocks down the same path pioneered by Sodom-Gomorrah.\u00a0 These are the folks we are warned about in 1 Timothy 6:20-21, John 8:44, 2 Timothy 3:5 and many other verses in Scripture.\u00a0 They and what they represent are the living embodiment of Romans 1:21-24.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). Noah Rothman records <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/04\/the-questions-biden-still-hasnt-answered-about-the-chinese-spy-balloon\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-04-03&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the questions Biden STILL hasn&#8217;t answered about the Chinese spy balloon<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;CNN&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cnns-jim-sciutto-blasted-chinese-spy-balloon-tweet-aged-like-cheese\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>idiocy to the contrary notwithstanding<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the most destructive President the nation&#8217;s ever had to endure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/bidens-dangerous-debt-ploy-739b227b?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Jim Freeman details Biden&#8217;s dangerous debt ploy<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). Here are some Conservatives&#8217; reactions to Asa Hutchinson announcing&#8230;YAWN&#8230;he&#8217;s accepting the mantle of Missiah:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/asahole2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/asahole2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/asahole2.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/asahole2-300x289.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Asahole1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Asahole1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Asahole1.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Asahole1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Asahole1-300x298.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(7). Anheuser-Busch gave us another reason to skip the Final Four besides the presence of the obnoxious, overweening Jim Nance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BoycottAnheuserBusch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BoycottAnheuserBusch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoWokeGoBrokeBudLight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoWokeGoBrokeBudLight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gQf7SUMfDF\">pic.twitter.com\/gQf7SUMfDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josey Biden (@ZUZUPETALS9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZUZUPETALS9\/status\/1643057868176863232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 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>For those of a mind to do so, use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>the link here<\/em><\/span> to let the brewers of Budweiser&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image000000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image000000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image000000.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image000000-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;know your mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaa-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aa-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaaaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaaaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaaaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaaaa-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108547\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aaaa-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sk040223dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sk040223dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sk040223dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sk040223dAPR-800x0-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_Blindfold_web-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_Blindfold_web-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_Blindfold_web-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_Blindfold_web-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_CrimeScene_web-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_CrimeScene_web-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_CrimeScene_web-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_CrimeScene_web-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sk033123dAPC-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sk033123dAPC-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sk033123dAPC-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sk033123dAPC-800x0-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_Library_web-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_Library_web-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_Library_web-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MC_Library_web-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-3-30-23-at-9.03-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-3-30-23-at-9.03-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-3-30-23-at-9.03-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-3-30-23-at-9.03-AM-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-3-31-23-at-10.14-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-3-31-23-at-10.14-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-3-31-23-at-10.14-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-3-31-23-at-10.14-AM-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-4-4-23-at-9.33-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-4-4-23-at-9.33-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-4-4-23-at-9.33-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image-4-4-23-at-9.33-AM-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Andy Meyers&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Andy-Meyers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Andy-Meyers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Andy-Meyers.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Andy-Meyers-266x300.png 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;the lovely Shannon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shannon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shannon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shannon.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Shannon-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Balls Cotton:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Balls1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Balls1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Balls1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Balls1-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Balls2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Balls2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Balls2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Balls2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Balls2-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with an update on a previous story straight from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, as <em>FOX<\/em> informs us the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/dna-half-eaten-burrito-ties-wisconsin-doctoral-student-pro-life-center-firebombing-attack\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DNA from a half-eaten burrito ties ex-Wisconsin doctoral student to pro-life center firebombing attack<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/dna-half-eaten-burrito-ties-wisconsin-doctoral-student-pro-life-center-firebombing-attack\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, charged in an attack on Wisconsin Family Action, was arrested in Boston while trying to flee the country<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AP23087700936824-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AP23087700936824-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AP23087700936824-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AP23087700936824-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;DNA found in a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>half-eaten burrito<\/em><\/span><\/strong> helped exposed a former Wisconsin university research assistant now accused of firebombing a pro-life center last Mother&#8217;s Day.\u00a0<\/span>The attack on the headquarters of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/wisconsin-anti-abortion-group-molotov-cocktail-arson-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Wisconsin Family Action<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in Madison, Wisconsin, came about a week after the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would later overturn Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">About 10 months after a Molotov cocktail was tossed inside the office and the message, &#8220;If abortions aren\u2019t safe then you aren\u2019t either,&#8221; was scrawled on the building&#8217;s side<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/wisconsin-man-charged-firebombing-offices-pro-life-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">, <\/a>Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/wisconsin-man-charged-firebombing-offices-pro-life-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">,<\/a>\u00a029, of Madison, was arrested in Boston on Tuesday and charged with one count of attempting to cause damage by means of fire or an explosive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Justice Department said he traveled from Madison to Portland, Maine, and he purchased a one-way ticket from Boston to Guatemala City, Guatemala, departing Tuesday morning.\u00a0Law enforcement arrested Roychowdhury at Boston Logan International Airport&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We have to wonder, if Republicans hadn&#8217;t taken the House and started investigating the DOJ\/FBI&#8217;s curious lack of any meaningful progress with the pro-life center bombings if Mister&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ZUw8LYOQ-g?start=4&amp;end=10&amp;\" 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><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;would have been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>identified<\/em><\/span>, let alone <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>apprehended<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 And call us a conspiracy theorist, but we also have to question the fact he waited until now to flee the country; It couldn&#8217;t be someone involved in the investigation tipped him or others in his terror cell an arrest was imminent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More importantly, who eats only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>half<\/em><\/span> a burrito?!?<\/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>Jordan Peterson at his most passionate&#8230;and if you&#8217;ll forgive his French, perhaps his finest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_-cQ4YZDojc\" 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>The money quote is Douglas Murray&#8217;s response to the question posed at the 2:13 mark concerning why Progressives focus on our differences rather than our commonalities: &#8220;What if that&#8217;s the point?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ntX0xWvjGrI\" 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>Courtesy of Balls Cotton, we present part of the reason why, on average, women live longer than men.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-w-mWhIWEM\" 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 Wednesday, April 4th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, the following got us thinking: Talk about an incredibly irresponsible, over-the-top solution to a problem which doesn&#8217;t even exist. Here&#8217;s another example from The Rubin Report, courtesy of Douglas Murray: \ufeff\ufeff Now consider this recent posting from the incomparable\u00a0Stilton Jarlsberg which warns: &#8220;AI is a funny thing, [&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-108569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108569","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=108569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108636,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108569\/revisions\/108636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}