{"id":109801,"date":"2023-05-23T18:41:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T22:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=109801"},"modified":"2023-05-23T18:41:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T22:41:28","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-may-22nd-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=109801","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, May 22nd, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, May 22nd, 2023&#8230;but before beginning, at the risk of seeming judgmental, we&#8217;ve a statement to make: No, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>by definition<\/em><\/span>, this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ISN&#8217;T<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/protestors-condemn-christian-church-hosting-family-friendly-drag-night-defend-purity-reject-perversion\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Christian church hosts &#8220;family friendly&#8221; drag night<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aa-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109758\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aa-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aa-8.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/aa-8-177x300.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;a &#8220;Christian&#8221; church!\u00a0 It&#8217;s as Phil Hoffman averred in <em>Moneyball<\/em>, in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this particular case<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CUwMLyMh6TE?start=102&amp;end=105&amp;\" width=\"462\" height=\"258\" 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>We&#8217;re not condemning, only pointing out an undeniable&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mlob8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mlob8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mlob8.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mlob8-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;immutable truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, Andy McCarthy details how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/05\/democrats-cook-the-fbis-books-on-domestic-terrorism\/?bypass_key=RHpOc294dDJydTdaN3h3OHF0MTlpdz09OjpSREJSY0VKQk5WbFBkQzlMVm1KS1luaGxUM05WVVQwOQ%3D%3D&amp;lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-05-19&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Democrats Cook the FBI\u2019s Books on Domestic Terrorism<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhxg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhxg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhxg1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhxg1-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;E<\/span><span class=\"small_caps\">ven<\/span>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>before<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, congressional Democrats had formulated a plan to project the illusion that the most perilous threat to American national security \u2014 not just in our time but in our history \u2014 was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>domestic terrorism fueled by white supremacists<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. This was, and remains, a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>political narrative through and through<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. Democrats are not even subtle in signaling to the public that they should think of Trump supporters \u2014 not just the unabashed MAGA faction but <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of the over 70 million Americans who found Trump preferable to Democrats \u2014 <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as<\/span><\/em><\/strong> white supremacists, or at least <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sympathizers<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of white supremacists, and ergo <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">abettors<\/span><\/em><\/strong> of domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/01\/democrats-domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-shields-jihadists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">I laid this plan bare in January 2021<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>. Again, even before the Capitol riot, House Democrats were proposing their so-called \u201cDomestic Terrorism Prevention Act.\u201d They haven\u2019t gotten it enacted yet, but they\u2019re trying hard, calculating that they can demagogue the Republicans they need to get it across the finish line by masquerading their political project as pro\u2013law enforcement and pro\u2013national security. And, of course, by inveighing that anyone who opposes the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act must necessarily be <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in favor<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of domestic terrorism, right? That\u2019s why House Democrats, while they had a slim majority, reintroduced and passed the legislation in\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">2022<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>. That\u2019s why, just a few days ago, Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/press\/dem\/releases\/05\/15\/2023\/durbin-reintroduces-legislation-to-combat-rising-domestic-terrorist-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">rolled out his symmetrical version<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>objective<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of this proposal is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to improve national security. As I explained in 2021, and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/05\/the-domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-is-sheer-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">as NR later editorialized<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>, if <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span><\/strong> were the aim, Democrats would not engage in the subterfuge of attempting to change federal law\u2019s perfectly serviceable definition of domestic terrorism \u2014 for the purpose of <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>insulating<\/em><\/span><\/strong> jihadists and left-wing radicals while <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>targeting<\/em><\/span><\/strong> their phantom white supremacists (i.e., Republicans, pro-life activists, parents who object to woke-progressive indoctrination in the schools, et al.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real<\/em><\/span><\/strong> purpose of this legislation is twofold: (1) stigmatize as terrorism policies that progressives oppose; (2) establish in law requirements that induce the FBI and other federal agencies to inflate the number of domestic-terrorism investigations, the better to insist that \u2014 though you\u2019d never know it given the absence of, you know,\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actual terrorist attacks<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 the country is under a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>white-supremacist siege<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Exposing this demagogic scheme is an important purpose of House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan\u2019s subcommittee on the weaponization of government.\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\/fbi-retaliated-against-employees-who-voiced-concern-about-politicization-house-panels-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">As our Brittany Bernstein has reported<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>, that subcommittee held a hearing on Thursday at which three FBI agents testified as whistleblowers, relating both how the bureau has been politicized into serving this Democratic political gambit, and how they have been retaliated against for reporting the situation to Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Jordan\u2019s subcommittee issued a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2023-05-17-fbi-whistleblower-testimony-highlights-government-abuse-misallocation-of-resources-and-retaliation-sm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">report<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>startling<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Brittany noted that Thursday\u2019s hearing focused, in part, on testimony from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/21\/fbi-hero-paying-the-price-for-exposing-unjust-persecution-of-conservative-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Agent Steve Friend, a twelve-year veteran and SWAT-team member<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>, who has detailed how the FBI labors to inflate the number of terrorism cases and uses SWAT resources unnecessarily in arrest scenarios to create the impression that it is apprehending dangerous terrorists:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>Friend said the FBI\u2019s handling of the January 6 Capitol riot-related investigations \u201cdeviated from standard practice and created a false impression with respect to the threat of DVE [i.e., domestic violent extremism] nationwide.\u201d. . . He testified that the FBI is in need of reform in several areas: \u201cthe integrated program management system incentivizes the use of inappropriate investigatory processes and tools to achieve arbitrary statistical accomplishments\u201d and there is \u201cmission creep within the national security branch [that] has refocused counterterrorism from legitimate foreign actors to political opponents within our borders. . . . The FBI weaponizes process crimes and reinterprets laws to initiate pretextual prosecutions and persecute its political enemies[.]\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Jordan\u2019s report excerpts portions of a subcommittee interview with Friend, in which he explains that the bureau is deviating from its normal case-opening and accounting practices in order to make it appear that there are more domestic-terrorism cases and that the suspected terrorists are making mayhem throughout the country. As you\u2019d expect, these shenanigans are woven out of the events of January 6.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That should tell you much of what you need to know. The operating premise of congressional Democrats, the Biden administration, and \u2014 therefore \u2014 the FBI is that the Capitol riot was a terrorist attack. That is absurd,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/05\/playing-politics-with-terrorism-merrick-garlands-absurd-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">for reasons I explicated<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0when Attorney General Merrick Garland, putting his office in the service of this narrative, preposterously claimed that the Capitol riot was the most dangerous threat to American democracy he had ever seen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As a Clinton Justice Department official, Garland <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">supervised<\/span><\/em><\/strong> the prosecution of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing \u2014 a terrorist attack in which a U.S. courthouse was destroyed, 168 people were murdered, and another 759 people were wounded. The Capitol riot was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nothing<\/em><\/span><\/strong> like that, just like it was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span><\/strong> like that era\u2019s other jihadist attacks and plots \u2014 the World Trade Center bombing, the (unsuccessful) plot to bomb New York City landmarks, the \u201cBojinka\u201d plot to blow U.S. airliners out of the sky (in which a tourist was killed and a plane nearly downed in a dry-run explosion), the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (destroying buildings and killing 224 people), the Khobar Towers bombing (destroying a building and killing 19 U.S. Air Force members), the bombing of the U.S.S.\u00a0<em>Cole<\/em>\u00a0(killing 17 U.S. Navy members and nearly sinking a destroyer), and the 9\/11 atrocities (killing nearly 3,000 Americans, annihilating the World Trade Center, badly damaging the Pentagon, and resulting in a missile-like explosion when Flight 93 crash-landed in Shanksville, Pa.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What happened at the Capitol on January 6 was a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>protest that turned violent, devolving into a riot<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. But <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no one<\/span><\/em><\/strong> tried to destroy the Capitol (it sustained property damage that was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>trivial<\/em><\/span><\/strong> compared with the destructive force of a terrorist attack).\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/03\/no-cops-died-in-the-line-of-duty-during-the-capitol-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">No police and other security personnel were killed<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(though over a hundred were assaulted and some sustained serious injuries; three rioters died, two of natural causes trigged by the frenzy, one killed by a Capitol police officer). The worst of the violence was over quickly, the Capitol was cleared in a few hours, and so little damage was done \u2014 compared with a terrorist attack \u2014 that lawmakers were able to reconvene in the Capitol that evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It does not <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>diminish<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the egregiousness of a riot to observe the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>incontestable fact<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that it was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span><\/strong> an act of domestic terrorism \u2014 just like a murder, horrible as it is, is not a terrorist attack. And bad as the Capitol riot was, it <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not approach in duration or lethality<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>radical left-wing rioting<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that beset this country <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for months<\/em><\/span><\/strong> after George Floyd\u2019s death in police custody \u2014 rioting that Democrats take pain to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exclude<\/em><\/span><\/strong> from their \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d bookkeeping because, <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sympathetic to the radicals\u2019 ends, progressives turn a blind eye to their means<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span><\/strong> January 6. You\u2019re to see that <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span><\/em><\/strong> as a riot, but as <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>domestic terrorism<\/em><\/span><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further evidence there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nothing<\/em><\/span> The Left will not say or do in pursuit of ever-increasing power and personal wealth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Case in point, courtesy of <em>The Daily Signal<\/em>, as the great VDH details the long, sordid history of&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"post-title entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/05\/18\/joe-biden-habitual-racialist-demagogue\/?utm_source=TDS_Email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningBell\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Joe Biden, Habitual Racialist Demagogue<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/EeGj9F7U8AAQtQG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109775\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/EeGj9F7U8AAQtQG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/EeGj9F7U8AAQtQG.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/EeGj9F7U8AAQtQG-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The most recent liberal ABC News\/Washington Post poll showed\u00a0President Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0approval rating at 36%\u2014the lowest in history for a president at this point in his first term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Biden\u2019s low popularity is no mystery. He <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>inherited<\/em><\/span><\/strong> energy independence,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/03\/11\/fact-checking-3-biden-claims-on-gas-prices\/\" class=\"broken_link\">affordable gas prices<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>, historically low interest rates, low inflation, calm overseas, a low crime rate, and a largely closed border with legal-only immigration. And then Biden <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>destroyed<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that inheritance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Biden promised \u201cunity.\u201d <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Instead<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, he habitually smears half the country as \u201csemi-fascists\u201d and \u201cultra-MAGA\u201d extremists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Biden is cognitively challenged and often incoherent. And he is now losing support in the polls from African Americans, once his most loyal constituency. In response, Biden does what he has <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>always<\/em><\/span><\/strong> done for some 40 years: <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mouth wild, racist demagoguery<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This graduation season, Biden deliberately chose Howard University to scare its black graduates into believing the greatest threat to their aspirations is \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d\u2014but that he, Biden, has been their protector in fighting it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Note the existential threats Biden deliberately omits. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Tens of thousands<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of illegal immigrants are flooding over a border Biden deliberately destroyed. Millions of incoming poor will vie for limited federal and state support with Americans who are in need. Since Biden was elected, there have been nearly <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>7 million<\/em><\/span><\/strong> illegal entries. Some <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>100,000<\/em><\/span><\/strong> Americans now die each year from <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Mexican-produced fentanyl<\/em><\/span><\/strong> and other opioids shipped across a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wide-open border<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhrz9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109776\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhrz9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhrz9.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhrz9-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Biden <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did not mention<\/span><\/em><\/strong> that nearly <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>10,000 African Americans<\/em><\/span><\/strong> are slain each year, more than <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>90%<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of them killed by <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other African Americans<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Biden first should heal his own racism before he fabricates it in others. He fueled his early Senate career with homages to southern Democratic segregationists, such as Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss. Biden even bragged that Eastland \u201cnever called me \u2018boy.\u2019\u201d Biden gave eulogies for former Dixiecrat Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., and former Klansman Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. Of school busing, a younger Sen. Biden thundered, \u201cMy children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Biden in 2008 patronized President-to-be Barack Obama in racist terms as \u201cthe first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.\u201d In 2012, Biden condescended to a group of accomplished black professionals that the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, would \u201cput y\u2019all back in chains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As a presidential candidate in 2020, he dismissed two black journalists, respectively, with the putdowns \u201cyou ain\u2019t black\u201d and \u201cjunkie.\u201d His fabricated \u201cCorn Pop\u201d he-man autobiographical tales are utterly racist. As president he has referred to two prominent people of color as \u201cboy.\u201d He still uses the term \u201cNegro\u201d to refer to blacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Biden <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">never cites data to support<\/span><\/em><\/strong> his wild accusations that white supremacy poses the nation\u2019s greatest threat. The 2020 riots, the lengthiest in our history, left up to 40 people dead, destroyed $2 billion in property, led to 14,000 arrests, spanned 120 days of mass looting and arson, and saw mobs torching police precincts, federal courthouses, and a historic church. That violence was engineered by radicals in Antifa and Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the Jan. 6 Capitol protests, the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only<\/em><\/span><\/strong> person confirmed to have been killed at that event was an <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unarmed<\/em><\/span><\/strong> military veteran and Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt. She was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lethally shot by a Capitol Police officer<\/em><\/span><\/strong> for the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>misdemeanor<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of attempting to enter through a broken window.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>If<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span><\/strong> our \u201cgreatest\u201d terrorist threat, <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">surely<\/span><\/em><\/strong> crime statistics would <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reveal<\/em><\/span><\/strong> such an existential peril. Yet federal hate and interracial crime data show that so-called whites are <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>considerably unrepresented demographically<\/em><\/span><\/strong> in such racially motivated violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Far from galvanizing the public, Biden\u2019s monotonous racial demagoguery is turning it off. The military suffers a vast drop in enlistments that began once Biden\u2019s Pentagon brass, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>without evidence<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, likewise began demagoguing about supposed \u201cwhite rage\u201d in the ranks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Only 37% of independents in a recent poll now support Biden. Some 70% of the public in other polls opposes a second Biden run.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So on spec, a panicked Biden now turns to what he has done for decades\u2014<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>inflammatory racial demagoguery<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Though we&#8217;d challenge Joe to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pronounce<\/em><\/span> &#8220;demagoguery&#8221;, let alone <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>spell<\/em><\/span> it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the worst president in American history, Jim Geraghty wonders why&#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\/the-morning-jolt\/a-doddering-old-man-insists-he-knows-whats-best-for-ukraines-defense\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20230519&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">A Doddering Old Man Insists He Knows What\u2019s Best for Ukraine\u2019s Defense<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/a-doddering-old-man-insists-he-knows-whats-best-for-ukraines-defense\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20230519&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Give the Ukrainians the Jets They Need<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhu7y.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhu7y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhu7y.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7mhu7y-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Why is Joe Biden so convinced that he knows what Ukraine needs to win the war better than President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian military do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If the Biden administration is\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/18\/politics\/us-allies-f-16-jets-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">fine with other NATO allies sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>, why does it oppose sending\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>U.S.<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0fighter jets to Ukraine? It <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can\u2019t be<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that it sees sending U.S. fighter jets to Ukraine as inherently too escalatory or provocative, because if it did, it would <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">oppose allies<\/span><\/em><\/strong> sending the <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">same kinds of jets<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can\u2019t be<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that the Biden administration genuinely believes it would take too long to train Ukrainian pilots on the F-16s for them to make a difference. The Ukrainian government admitted it would take six months for its pilots to train for combat in a Western-made jet like the F-16 . . .\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-says-pilots-would-need-six-months-f-16-combat-training-2023-01-27\/#:~:text=KYIV%2C%20Jan%2027%20(Reuters),of%20Russia's%20invasion%20last%20February.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">three and a half months ago<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>. If we had started training those pilots then, they would be more than <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>halfway done<\/em><\/span><\/strong> by now!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/exclusive-us-could-train-ukrainian-pilots-to-fly-f-16s-in-4-months-184136820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">In fact<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>, there\u2019s evidence that Ukrainian pilots are <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>particularly fast learners<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: \u201cYahoo News has exclusively obtained an internal U.S. Air Force assessment that concludes it would take only four months to train Ukrainian pilots to operate American-made F-16 fighter jets, a far shorter time frame than what has been repeatedly cited by Pentagon officials.\u201d When your country\u2019s civilians are being bombed by the Russians every day, you\u2019re a highly motivated student.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KpsZSU\/status\/1509619197290156032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Ukrainian Air Force requested F-15s and\/or F-16s back in March 2022<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>. If we had started training the Ukrainian pilots back then, and supplied Ukraine with the jets once their pilots were ready, the Ukrainian skies would be full of F-16s winning air superiority by now. Put another way, six months from now, the war will almost certainly <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>still<\/em><\/span><\/strong> be going on. We can decide whether that ongoing war six months from now features Ukrainian pilots in U.S.-made F-16s, or whether it does not. Which one do we want?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/05\/17\/biden-ukraine-f-16-pressure-campaign-00097525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">A recent\u00a0Politico\u00a0article offered this absurd sentence<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cThe Biden team has suggested that discussions over sending F-16s <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should wait until after the war is concluded<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.\u201d Yes, that\u2019s <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>brilliant<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, fellas. Let\u2019s give them what they say they need to win the war, but only <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>after they\u2019ve lost<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span><\/em><\/strong> one legitimate reason for the U.S. to not send F-16s to Ukraine, but if the Biden administration discusses it publicly, it would mean <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">admitting<\/span><\/em><\/strong> that the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>entire<\/em><\/span><\/strong> U.S. industrial base is in <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unnervingly weak condition<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that the problem has gotten <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">worse<\/span><\/em><\/strong> on <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>their watch<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. That reason is that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/taiwan-says-f-16-deliveries-delayed-working-minimise-damage-2023-05-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">the U.S. is way behind in supplying Taiwan with the jets that it needs to help deter a Chinese invasion<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If<\/span><\/em><\/strong> the Biden administration is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indeed<\/em><\/span><\/strong> hesitant to send F-16s to Ukraine because it\u2019s way behind in sending Taiwan the F-16s it needs, then former Pentagon strategist and all-around China wonk\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElbridgeColby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Elbridge Colby<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0is entitled to a few rounds of \u201cI told you so,\u201d as he has been arguing for months that the U.S. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>cannot give both<\/em><\/span><\/strong> Ukraine and Taiwan what they want, and will be forced to prioritize one over the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Whether or not Taiwan is a factor, the fact remains that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Joe Biden is an old man who gets easily confused<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, and who, on the issue of Ukraine, is gripped by contradictory impulses that turn his policies into a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>jumbled, paradoxical mess<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. Biden wants Ukraine to win the war, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span><\/strong> Biden wants the war to end. Biden wants to punish Vladimir Putin, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span><\/strong> he\u2019s terrified that strikes in Russian territory would enrage the bear. Biden wants to see himself as the second coming of Winston Churchill, leading the Western alliance and standing by Ukraine for \u201cas long as it takes,\u201d <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span><\/strong> also the conciliatory peacemaker who\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/surprise-bidens-treaty-extension-with-putin-was-worthless-all-along\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"dynamic-link\">spent his first year seeking a \u201cstable relationship\u201d with Vladimir Putin<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>. Biden stumbles around in a happy little fog,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimgeraghty\/status\/1496856044093460490?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">apparently having genuinely believed<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>, \u201cPutin <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>knows<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that when I am president of the United States his days of tyranny, and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern Europe <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are over<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biden <em>vs<\/em>. Putin: There hasn&#8217;t been a greater mismatch on the world stage since Chamberlain took on Hitler.<\/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).\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m looking at the 14th Amendment as to whether or not we have the authority \u2014 I think we have the authority.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/biden-says-he-has-authority-to-invoke-14th-amendment-as-debt-ceiling-negotiations-stumble\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=31551890\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>So says the liar<\/em><\/span><\/a> who finished 76th in a class of 85 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/best-graduate-schools\/top-law-schools\/syracuse-university-03114\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>less-than-prestigious Syracuse University School of Law<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0as he considers another extraconstitutional executive edict.\u00a0 Should Biden precipitate what would amount to a full-blown constitutional crisis, we hope and pray Kevin McCarthy won&#8217;t hesitate a nanosecond to seek redress via an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2).\u00a0<\/strong><strong>As <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatholicVote\/status\/1658822846666227714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1658822846666227714%7Ctwgr%5Ec844c29e03e32d9eca1d6fd1091f89b082959be0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fmadelineleesman%2F2023%2F05%2F20%2Fkarine-jean-pierre-trans-kids-backlash-n2623385\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CatholicVote notes on Twitter<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, &#8220;Wrong. These kids belong to their parents \u2014 not you. From schools, to ballot proposals, to gender counseling, the Biden admin is working to destroy the role of parents at every turn.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PressSec<\/a> \u201cThese are kids. These are our kids. They belong to all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Once again the left says the quiet part out loud: they want to take away your parental rights because they think government can do a better job.<\/p>\n<p>And we know that\u2019s not true. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/njeAJbieyM\">pic.twitter.com\/njeAJbieyM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Protect Women Ohio (@ProtectWomenOH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProtectWomenOH\/status\/1658820579187650561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 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>Ponder that for which &#8220;the first female Black lesbian White House Press Secretary who can&#8217;t define what a woman is&#8221; is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actually advocating<\/em><\/span>: The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>genital mutilation of minors<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Then consider the one undeniable result such procedures have: the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in<\/em><\/span>ability of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> of these children to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ever<\/em><\/span> have kids of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>their own<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Just when you thought Progressives couldn&#8217;t go any softer on crime&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NYC Mayor Eric Adams just unveiled his new plan to combat skyrocketing retail theft in the city.<\/p>\n<p>These are not serious people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ovD5hT7APb\">https:\/\/t.co\/ovD5hT7APb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WCGai1CRHA\">pic.twitter.com\/WCGai1CRHA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGHamilton29\/status\/1659724159738339328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4).<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Speaking of the judgment-impaired, Colorado Dimocrat Michael Bennet says, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/sen-bennet-overturning-roe-sacrificed-us-military-security\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>The Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, among many other things, has seriously sacrificed our nation\u2019s military readiness and security<\/em><\/span><\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 No, Senator, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>women being placed in combat roles for which they&#8217;re physically incapable<\/em><\/span>\u00a0is what has sacrificed our nation&#8217;s military readiness and security.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). He may be a doddering, demented old deviant corrupt to his core&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here are the &#8220;TALKING POINTS&#8221; Biden is using at the G7 Summit in Japan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kqmhQPu3Wq\">pic.twitter.com\/kqmhQPu3Wq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1659551816449679362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 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>&#8230;but if The Donald&#8217;s the Republican nominee in 2024, the crazy uncle in the Dimocrats&#8217; attic will almost certainly be reelected.\u00a0 Besides, even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were<\/em><\/span> he to win, we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don&#8217;t want<\/em><\/span> four more years of Trump, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>particularly<\/em><\/span> when the likes of Ron DeSantis are available.\u00a0 And think about this: Who on earth would be willing to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>work<\/em><\/span> for him based on his conduct during his first term?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). The Pennsylvania state vegetable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/boebert-fetterman-hoodie-shorts-senate-news-conference-no-excuse\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>showed up at a Thursday news conference to discuss debt limit negotiations sporting a white hoodie, gray workout shorts, and running shoes<\/em><\/span><\/a>, accompanied by four other Dimocrats all wearing suits and ties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetterman-Sweats-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109770\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetterman-Sweats-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetterman-Sweats-copy.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fetterman-Sweats-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>As Bugs Bunny would have said&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZruHfeUcNys\" width=\"462\" height=\"258\" 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\/05\/a-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-11.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-11-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/payn_c19831220230519043107-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/payn_c19831220230519043107-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/payn_c19831220230519043107-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/payn_c19831220230519043107-800x0-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cb052023dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109789\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cb052023dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cb052023dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cb052023dAPR-800x0-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gv051923dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109767\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gv051923dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gv051923dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gv051923dAPR-800x0-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109761\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-9.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-9-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afb051923dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109762\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afb051923dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afb051923dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afb051923dAPR-800x0-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cb051823dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109763\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cb051823dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cb051823dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cb051823dAPR-800x0-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MC_DurhamReport_web-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109764\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MC_DurhamReport_web-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MC_DurhamReport_web-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MC_DurhamReport_web-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sk051823dAPC-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109765\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sk051823dAPC-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sk051823dAPC-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sk051823dAPC-800x0-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sk051923dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sk051923dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sk051923dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sk051923dAPR-800x0-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-10.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-10-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-5-19-23-at-4.29-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-5-19-23-at-4.29-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-5-19-23-at-4.29-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Image-5-19-23-at-4.29-PM-300x223.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this astute observation from Ed Hickey:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hickey1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hickey1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hickey1-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hickey1-2-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with yet another titillating tale torn from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and this just in from the <em>WSJ<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"crawler css-bsrkcm-Box e1vnmyci0\">\n<h1 class=\"css-1lvqw7f-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates-affair-russian-bridge-player-8b2022ff?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jeffrey Epstein Appeared to Threaten Bill Gates Over Microsoft Co-Founder\u2019s Affair With Russian Bridge Player<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates-affair-russian-bridge-player-8b2022ff?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The disgraced financier was trying to set up a philanthropic fund that he hoped would include the billionaire as an anchor donor<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/download-6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/download-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/download-6.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/download-6-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Jeffrey Epstein\u00a0discovered that\u00a0Bill Gates\u00a0had an affair with a Russian bridge player and later <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>appeared<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to use his knowledge to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>threaten<\/em><\/span><\/strong> one of the world\u2019s richest men, according to people familiar with the matter. The Microsoft co-founder met the woman around 2010, when she was in her 20s. Epstein met her in 2013 and later paid for her to attend software coding school. In 2017, Epstein emailed Gates and asked to be reimbursed for the cost of the course, according to the people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">The email came after the convicted sex offender had struggled and failed to persuade Gates to participate in a multibillion-dollar charitable fund that\u00a0Epstein tried to establish with\u00a0JPMorgan Chase. The implication behind the message, according to people who have viewed it, was that Epstein could <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reveal<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the affair <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if<\/em><\/span><\/strong> Gates didn\u2019t keep up an association between the two men. \u201cMr. Gates met with Epstein\u00a0solely for philanthropic purposes. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates<\/em><\/span><\/strong>,\u201d said <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a spokeswoman for Gates<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">&#8230;The new details about Epstein and Gates reveal a layer of complexity to their relationship, and shed new light on\u00a0how Epstein operated. In the years between his 2008 conviction and death, Epstein packed his days <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>meeting with\u00a0politicians, businessmen, academics\u00a0and celebrities<\/em><\/strong><\/span>. He <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>provided favors<\/em><em> and sought to use the connections <\/em><em><strong>f<\/strong>or his own purposes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>. And <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">when the relationships soured, he could turn against people<\/span><\/em><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two thoughts immediately come to mind: (i) The headline reads, &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Appeared<\/em><\/span> to Threaten&#8221;, this despite Gates&#8217;s own spokeswoman affirmatively stating, &#8220;Epstein <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates<\/em><\/span>&#8220;.\u00a0 Sure seems like Epstein threatened Gates to us; and, (ii) Note the underlined portions of the third paragraph immediately above&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>meeting with\u00a0politicians, businessmen, academics\u00a0and celebrities<\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/strong>&#8230;<strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>provided favors and sought to use the connections for his own purposes<\/em><\/span><\/strong><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>&#8230;<strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>when the relationships soured, he could turn against people<\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;add in Epstein&#8217;s proclivity for sexual deviancy, objectification of women and lack of a moral compass, then tell us <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who else<\/em><\/span> comes to mind who fits that mold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/unspecified-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/unspecified-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/unspecified-copy.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/unspecified-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Video of the Day<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The truly troubling aspect of this video is it was shot over four years ago. Think these fascist snowflakes have grown less violent in the interim?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wK-XjdN1IKs\" width=\"462\" height=\"258\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Tales of The Darkside<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RattlesnakeTV features Dinesh D&#8217;Souza effectively and respectfully countering an Amherst student on the concept of reparations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tN9bu6CP318\" width=\"462\" height=\"258\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>On the Lighter Side<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, but it&#8217;s hard to take seriously someone unwilling to differentiate between giving the mentally-ill caring respect and permitting the irreversible genital mutilation of minors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T8ezPv84IeM\" width=\"462\" height=\"258\" 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, May 22nd, 2023&#8230;but before beginning, at the risk of seeming judgmental, we&#8217;ve a statement to make: No, by definition, this ISN&#8217;T&#8230; Christian church hosts &#8220;family friendly&#8221; drag night &nbsp; &#8230;a &#8220;Christian&#8221; church!\u00a0 It&#8217;s as Phil Hoffman averred in Moneyball, in this particular case&#8230; \ufeff We&#8217;re not condemning, only pointing out an undeniable&#8230; &#8230;immutable [&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-109801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109801","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=109801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109856,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109801\/revisions\/109856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}