{"id":110131,"date":"2023-06-08T19:36:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T23:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=110131"},"modified":"2023-06-08T19:37:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T23:37:01","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-june-7th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=110131","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, June 7th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, June 7th, 2023&#8230;and 79 years ago yesterday, thanks largely to the courage of Americans who are today a breed of increasing rarity\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indeed<\/em><\/span>, the forces of\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">actual<\/span><\/em> Fascism had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/featured-12-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/featured-12-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/featured-12-copy.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/featured-12-copy-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DDay_Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DDay_Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DDay_Cover.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DDay_Cover-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ogImage_history_dday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ogImage_history_dday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ogImage_history_dday.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ogImage_history_dday-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/620.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/620-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/9380672-0-image-a-3_1549300652178.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/9380672-0-image-a-3_1549300652178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/9380672-0-image-a-3_1549300652178.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/9380672-0-image-a-3_1549300652178-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus was Patton given the opportunity to&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nPzCJ-F0gT4?start=18&amp;end=22&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>And now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, if ever you needed confirmation we live under a two-tiered system of injustice, consider this item, then ask yourself&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/virginia-mom-whose-6-year-old-son-allegedly-shot-teacher-facing-federal-gun-drug-charges\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Virginia mom whose 6-year-old son allegedly shot teacher facing federal gun, drug charges<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/virginia-mom-whose-6-year-old-son-allegedly-shot-teacher-facing-federal-gun-drug-charges\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Court documents say Deja Taylor made false statements when filling out forms to purchase a gun last year<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Deja-Taylor-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Deja-Taylor-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Deja-Taylor-copy.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Deja-Taylor-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Deja Taylor, the\u00a0Virginia mom\u00a0of a 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his elementary school teacher back in January, is now facing federal drug and gun charges. Court documents filed Monday say Taylor\u00a0bought a firearm\u00a0from a gun shop in Grafton, Virginia in late July 2022 <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>while &#8220;knowing that she was an unlawful user of a controlled substance<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;how has Hunter Biden, whose abandoned laptop offers conclusive evidence he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>too<\/em><\/span> purchased a firearm <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>knowing<\/em><\/span> he was an unlawful user of a controlled substance,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not been similarly indicted<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 Boys and girls, can you say &#8220;corruption at the highest levels of government&#8221;?\u00a0 We KNEW you could!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, the <em>Morning Jolt<\/em> examines the curious case of&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/desantis-and-the-nebulous-charisma-threshold\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20230605&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">DeSantis and the Nebulous \u2018Charisma Threshold<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/desantis-and-the-nebulous-charisma-threshold\/?lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20230605&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">It Doesn\u2019t Matter That Much How DeSantis Works a Rope Line<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/msm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/msm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/msm.png 371w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/msm-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;As the 2024 presidential cycle was taking shape, a handful of influential voices in the news media concluded that the key weakness of Ron DeSantis \u2014 and thus, the single most important measuring stick of the Florida governor for the duration of his presidential campaign \u2014 is that he has an allegedly glaring charisma deficit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mark Leibovich,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/11\/ron-desantis-awkward-trump-2024\/672292\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">The Atlantic\u00a0magazine, November 30, 2022<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cJust Wait Until You Get to Know Ron DeSantis. People who haven\u2019t met him think he\u2019s a hot commodity. People who have met him aren\u2019t so sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Jonathan Martin,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/01\/17\/ron-desantis-likability-issue-on-politics-00077927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">Politico, January 17, 2023<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cThe GOP\u2019s great hope to defeat Trump is hot on Fox but cold on the stump and in the VIP line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Michael Bender,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/10\/us\/politics\/desantis-iowa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">the\u00a0New York Times, March 10, 2023<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201c[DeSantis\u2019] preference for policy over personality can make him seem awkward and arrogant or otherwise astonishing in person, depending on the voter and the success or failure of his one-on-one exchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Paul Waldman,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/03\/14\/desantis-charisma-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">the\u00a0Washington Post, March 14, 2023<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cDeSantis is so lacking in charisma that winning the presidency would be exceedingly difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There have even been some who have\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/lucid.substack.com\/p\/ron-desantis-devoid-of-charisma-builds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">tried to argue that DeSantis is simultaneously \u201cdevoid of charisma\u201d and that he heads up an \u201cauthoritarian personality cult<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d\u00a0I\u2019m fairly certain that a personality is a prerequisite for a cult of personality; it\u2019s right there in the name. Contradictory arguments such as these make it seem as if someone is cooking spaghetti, throwing it all against a wall, and seeing what sticks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For a lot of people in the mainstream media, a charisma deficit is the perfect candidate weakness to argue about because it is subjective and difficult to measure with any precision. For almost everything else a campaign and its staff do or attempt, there are numbers we can measure: What\u2019s their level of support in the polls? How much money did they raise? How many donors do they have? How many campaign stops did the candidate make? Roughly how many people showed up? How much are they spending to air that campaign ad? How big is the television market? How many campaign offices, staffers, and volunteers do they have? How many doors have they knocked on? How many phone calls and texts have they made?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But a candidate\u2019s charisma? That can\u2019t be quantified or precisely measured. You can watch how the candidate does when interacting with groups and argue whether the attendees were enthralled or merely pleased. (I notice that more than a thousand people came to see DeSantis at a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.islandpacket.com\/news\/politics-government\/national-politics\/article276022911.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">breakfast stop last week in Bluffton, S.C<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>.) You can sit around and debate how he looks in photos, as\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2023\/05\/best-photo-ron-desantis-throwing-pens.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Slate<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattklewis\/status\/1648672047801696258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">Matt Lewis<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0did. But you can\u2019t go out and prove, through data, that a candidate was 12 percent more charismatic on Wednesday than he was on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And when DeSantis did a campaign stop in Iowa this past weekend, almost everything was covered through the lens of, \u201cIs he being charismatic enough?\u201d<\/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:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/06\/03\/roast-and-ride-iowa-gop-primary-00100095?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000014e-f0f7-dd93-ad7f-f8f761430001&amp;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">Politico<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cDeSantis \u2014 who has faced quite a bit of criticism for his aloofness \u2014 is out here doing retail politics, and he seems to be improving at it. \u2018That\u2019s an oldie but a goodie,\u2019 DeSantis says as he signs a bumper sticker from his 2018 gubernatorial campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-06-03\/republican-2024-presidential-hopefuls-descend-on-iowa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bloomberg<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/a>: \u201cDeSantis, faced with pressure to improve his retail politics, worked crowds at U.S. Senator Joni Ernst\u2019s Roast and Ride on Saturday \u2014 he stopped for ice cream with his children at a stand his super PAC set up in the parking lot at the Des Moines event, signed the side of his team\u2019s touring bus and posed for pictures.\u201d<\/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:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e82b11d2-cbaa-4301-b317-35c2ff4cc5f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">The\u00a0Financial Times<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cDeSantis is also trying to convey a more human side to his candidacy. Critics have accused him of being too socially awkward and not investing enough in the \u2018shaking hands and kissing babies\u2019 side of retail politics that voters in early primary states crave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If DeSantis were the boring black hole of personality that these columnists describe, you\u2019d figure that at some point it might have impeded his rise to where he is now. Apparently, he\u2019s the kind of uncharismatic guy who becomes captain of the Yale baseball team, advances through the ranks to lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/florida-politics\/elections\/2023\/04\/13\/casey-desantis-ron-desantis-adviser-florida-first-lady-wife-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>marries the attractive local-news anchor<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Florida%27s_6th_Congressional_District_elections,_2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">wins a seven-way GOP House primary in a rout<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>. This alleged charisma deficit hasn\u2019t stopped DeSantis from rising to the Florida governor\u2019s mansion, winning reelection by 20 points, and starting in second place in the GOP presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Does DeSantis strike some people as boring or stiff? Sure. Does DeSantis strike lots of people as boring or stiff enough to impede them from supporting him or voting for him? So far, no.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It feels fair to ask whether certain media voices are using\u00a0<em>\u201cHe lacks charisma\u201d<\/em>\u00a0as a synonym for,\u00a0<em>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t appeal to me, a person who has disliked him and opposed him from the first moment I heard of him.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0A lot, if not quite all, of the people who are most eager to tell you about DeSantis\u2019s crippling lack of charisma were never going to vote for him in the first place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;The final version of the charisma argument is that somehow DeSantis is failing to, or is going to fail to, charm donors. You can find deep-pocketed GOP donors who have come away underwhelmed by DeSantis. Billionaire John Catsimatidis\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/john%20catsimatidis-not-backing-ron-desantis-2024-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">recently complained that DeSantis didn\u2019t even return his phone call<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>. (I suspect those with a ten-figure net worth are used to being treated extremely well, moving through the world in a constant bubble of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/us\/definition\/english\/obsequiousness?q=obsequiousness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\">obsequiousness<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But DeSantis was a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2022\/09\/florida-gov-ron-desantis-breaks-gubernatorial-fundraising-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">record-breaking fundraiser as governor<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>, he\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/28\/ron-desantis-has-2024-war-chest-twice-the-size-of-trumps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"standard-link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sitting on a campaign war chest of $110 million as of late April<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and his campaign\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/25\/us\/desantis-fundraising-campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">raised more than $8 million on its first day<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>. Does this look like a campaign that will be derailed by a lack of money?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Isn\u2019t that an indicator that a whole lot of Republicans are watching DeSantis and concluding, \u201c<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Eh<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, he\u2019s charismatic <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>enough<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u201d?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two thoughts immediately come to mind: (i) Our Spidey Sense starts tingling every time we read or hear the MSM all parroting the same anti-Conservative talking points; and, (ii) we should note DeSantis won the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>seven-way<\/em><\/span> GOP House primary <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sans any assistance<\/em><\/span> from anyone named Trump who repeatedly evaded the Vietnam draft.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In two related items, Rich Lowry relates how\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/06\/desantis-exposed\/?bypass_key=UU53cDdxZkJVL0ViSDlTQ29ySERnZz09OjpaakZ3YVZkVlprSlBVRzl3Tkdkc1RYbHhhRFJ1UVQwOQ%3D%3D&amp;lctg=547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202023-06-05&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><em>the AP would have you believe it has the scoop on what Ron&#8217;s REALLY like on the campaign trai<\/em>l<\/a><\/span><\/span>, while Matt Vespa suggests the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2023\/06\/05\/desantis-comms-staffers-were-incredibly-prepared-to-handle-attacks-from-the-trump-camp-n2623753\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>latest attacks on DeSantis from Team Trump underscores a potentially serious long-term issue for The Donald<\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, namely the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>quality<\/em><\/span> of the staff <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>willing<\/em><\/span> to work for him.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in today&#8217;s installment of the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>EnvironMental Moment<\/em><\/span>, courtesy of The Boss, the <em>Journal<\/em>&#8216;s Andy Kessler ponders the question&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"css-1hch5ce-StyledHeadline e1ipbpvp0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/can-the-climate-heal-itself-cumulus-cirrus-clouds-negative-feedback-un-30bbbef0?mod=mhp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Can the Climate Heal Itself<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"css-jiugt2-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/can-the-climate-heal-itself-cumulus-cirrus-clouds-negative-feedback-un-30bbbef0?mod=mhp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dissenters from the catastrophe consensus on warming are worth listening to<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download-300x225.png 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;<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Stop<\/em><\/span><\/strong> with all the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>existential-crisis talk<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. President Biden said, \u201cClimate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.\u201d Defense Secretary\u00a0Lloyd Austin\u00a0also talks about the \u201cexistential threat\u201d of climate change. National security adviser\u00a0Jake Sullivan\u00a0identifies an \u201caccelerating climate crisis\u201d as one reason for a \u201cnew consensus\u201d for government picking winners and losers in the economy. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Be wary of those touting consensus<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">But what if the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>entire premise<\/em><\/span><\/strong> is wrong? What if the Earth is <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>self-healing<\/em><\/span><\/strong>? Before you hurl the \u201cclimate denier\u201d invective at me, let\u2019s think this through. Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years\u2014living organisms for 3.7 billion. Surely, an enlightened engineer might think, the planet\u2019s creator <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>built in<\/em><\/span><\/strong> a mechanism to regulate heat, or we wouldn\u2019t still be here to worry about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">The theory of climate change is that excess carbon dioxide and methane trap the sun\u2019s radiation in the atmosphere, and these man-made greenhouse gases reflect more of that heat back to Earth, warming the planet. Pretty simple. Eventually, we reach a tipping point when positive feedback loops form\u2014less ice to reflect sunlight, warm oceans that can no longer absorb carbon dioxide\u2014and then we fry, existentially. So lose those gas stoves and carbon-spewing Suburbans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">But <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nothing<\/em><\/span><\/strong> is simple. What about negative feedback loops? Examples: human sweat and its cooling condensation or our irises dilating or constricting based on the amount of light coming in. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Clouds<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, which can block the sun <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span><\/strong> trap its radiation, are <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rarely mentioned<\/em><\/span><\/strong> in climate talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Why<\/span><\/em><\/strong>? Because clouds are <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>notoriously difficult to model<\/em><\/span><\/strong> in climate simulations.\u00a0Steven Koonin, a New York University professor and author of \u201cUnsettled,\u201d tells me that today\u2019s computing power can typically model the Earth\u2019s atmosphere in grids 60 miles on a side. Pretty coarse. So, Mr. Koonin says, \u201cthe properties of clouds in climate models are often <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>adjusted or \u2018tuned<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u2019 to match observations.\u201d <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Tuned<\/em><\/span><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">Last month the coddling modelers at the United Nations\u2019 World Meteorological Organization stated that \u201cwarming El Ni\u00f1o\u201d and \u201chuman-induced climate change\u201d mean there is a \u201c66% likelihood that annual average global temperatures will exceed the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2027.\u201d Notice that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>El Ni\u00f1o<\/em><\/span><\/strong> is mentioned <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>first<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">Richard Lindzen, a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/em><\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lead author<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of an <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>early<\/em><\/span><\/strong> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, told me, \u201cTemperatures in the tropics remain relatively constant compared with changes in the tropics-to-pole temperatures. The tropics-polar difference is about 40 degrees Celsius today but was 20 degrees during the warm Eocene Epoch and 60 degrees during Ice Ages.\u201d This difference has <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more to do with changes in the Earth\u2019s rotation<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, like wobbling, than <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything else<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. According to Mr. Lindzen, this effect is some <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">70 times as great as human-made greenhouse gases<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">OK, back to clouds. Cumulus clouds, the puffy ones often called thunderclouds, are an important convection element, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>carrying heat from the Earth\u2019s surface to the upper atmosphere<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. Above them are high-altitude cirrus clouds, which can <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reflect heat back toward the surface<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. A 2001 Lindzen paper, however,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.1\/132106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\">suggests<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that high-level cirrus clouds in the tropics <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dissipate<\/em><\/span><\/strong> as temperatures <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rise<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. These thinning cirrus clouds <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>allow more heat to escape<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. It\u2019s called the Iris Effect, like a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>temperature-controlled vent opener for an actual greenhouse<\/em><\/span><\/strong> so you don\u2019t (existentially) <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fry your plants<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. Yes, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Earth<\/em><\/span><\/strong> has a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>safety valve<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">Mr. Lindzen says, \u201cThis <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more than offsets<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the effect of greenhouse gases.\u201d As you can imagine, theories debunking the climate consensus are met with rebuttals and more papers. Often, Mr. Lindzen points out, critics, \u201cto <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>maintain<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the warming narrative, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>adjust<\/em><\/span><\/strong> their models, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>especially<\/em><\/span><\/strong> coverage and reflection or albedo of clouds in the tropics.\u201d <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>More tuning<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">A 2021 paper co-authored by Mr. Lindzen\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><a class=\"css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0 broken_link\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/350564532_The_Iris_Effect_A_Review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" type=\"link\">shows strong support<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for an Iris Effect. Maybe Earth <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really was<\/em><\/span><\/strong> built by an engineer <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em>Only the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">GOAT<\/span>&#8230;and before AND after time, for that matter!<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span>. Proof? None other than astronomer\u00a0Carl Sagan\u00a0described the Faint Young Sun Paradox that, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>2.5 billion years ago<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, the sun\u2019s energy was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>30% less<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, but Earth\u2019s climate was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>basically the same as today<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. Cirrus clouds likely formed to trap heat\u2014<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a closed Iris and a negative feedback loop at work<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">In a 2015 Nature Geoscience paper,\u00a0Thorsten Mauritsen\u00a0and\u00a0Bjorn Stephen\u00a0at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ngeo2414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\">reran<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0climate models using the Iris Effect and found them <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>better at modeling historic observations<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. No <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>need<\/em><\/span><\/strong> for tuning. Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if the U.N. used <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>realistic<\/em><\/span><\/strong> cloud and climate models?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-type=\"paragraph\">Earth <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has<\/em><\/span><\/strong> warmed, but I\u2019m convinced negative feedback loops will save us. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Dismissing<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the Iris Effect or <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>detuning<\/em><\/span><\/strong> it <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t science<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. Sadly, climate <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>science<\/em><\/span><\/strong> has morphed into climate <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rhetoric<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. And note, Treasury Secretary\u00a0Janet Yellen\u00a0explained in April that green spending \u201cis, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at its core<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, about <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">turning the climate crisis into an economic opportunity<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.\u201d Hmmm. \u201cCatastrophic,\u201d \u201cexistential\u201d and \u201ccrisis\u201d are cloudy thinking. Negative feedback is welcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As is almost always the case when someone or some group acts <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>contrary<\/em><\/span> to what they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>surely know<\/em><\/span>\u00a0to be the truth, just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>follow the money<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Think transgenderism and abortion, and Progressives&#8217; seemingly insatiable desire to maim and slaughter the young and unborn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s an octet of items sure to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Since we&#8217;re on the subject of following the money, Andy McCarthy offers a primer on&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/The-Bidens-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/The-Bidens-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/The-Bidens-copy.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/The-Bidens-copy-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2023\/06\/12\/how-the-bidens-got-rich\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=top-stories&amp;utm_term=first\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>how the Bidens got rich&#8230;FILTHY rich<\/em><\/span><\/a>!\u00a0 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Spoiler alert<\/span><\/em>: They didn&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>earn<\/em><\/span> it&#8230;at least <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not honestly<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). Yet another reason we won&#8217;t be visiting the Big Apple&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6328851501112&#038;w=462&#038;h=258\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\" class=\"broken_link\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;EVER!!!\u00a0 At least not without an armed security team while traveling in bullet proof vehicles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Since we&#8217;re on the subject of hellholes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/owner-of-two-of-san-franciscos-largest-hotels-pulling-out-of-city-path-to-recovery-remains-clouded\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=31709304\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Park Hotels &amp; Resorts announced Monday it will be terminating its mortgage payments and going into foreclosure on the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55<\/em><\/span><\/a>, the largest and fourth largest hotels in the rapidly declining urban center, &#8220;stating that the city faces \u201cmajor challenges\u201d and that reducing exposure to the market is in the best interest of investors.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). Sorry, but <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/security\/crisis-confidence-us-marine-corps-biden-nominates-new-commandant\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>when you&#8217;re part of a team promoting a plan<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to which some two dozen retired Marine Corps generals, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including<\/em><\/span> every living former Commandant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/04\/01\/corps-detat-how-two-dozen-retired-generals-are-trying-to-stop-an-overhaul-of-the-marines-00022446\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>strenuously objected<\/em><\/span><\/a>, it&#8217;s time to hang up your Mameluke sword and quatrefoil cover.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). Speaking of those seemingly determined to undermine our Military, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/juliorosas\/2023\/06\/05\/one-gop-presidential-candidate-will-not-implement-a-transgender-ban-in-the-military-n2624069\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Vivek Ramaswamy just lost any chance of gaining our support<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6).\u00a0The drama over the document which purportedly details a pay-to-play scheme involving then-Vice President Biden continues, as chairman James Comer is initiating contempt of Congress hearings Thursday after Trump&#8217;s pick to head the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-oversight-lawmakers-briefed-by-fbi-on-biden-document-alleging-criminal-bribery-scheme\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>again refused to hand over the unclassified record to the custody of the House Oversight Committee<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(7). A &#8220;family-friendly&#8221; Pride event in West Hollywood featured&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two men performed a sex act in public as BDSM flags were displayed during the &#8220;family friendly&#8221; West Hollywood Pride Parade yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A witness to the &#8220;float&#8221; informed Reduxx that there were children in attendance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rxtx0bTeO5\">pic.twitter.com\/Rxtx0bTeO5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReduxxMag\/status\/1665629530336432128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 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>(8). We&#8217;d feel <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/05\/university-of-cincinnati-student-alleges-professor-failed-her-project-for-using-the-term-biological-women\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sorry for the young lady<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0getting a zero for using the term &#8220;biological women&#8221;&#8230;if she didn&#8217;t get it in a class entitled <em>Women\u2019s Gender Studies in Pop Culture<\/em>.\u00a0 As far as we&#8217;re concerned, anyone wasting their parents money taking such a useless course <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">deserves<\/span><\/em> a failing grade to better prepare them for what&#8217;s coming their way in life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC-milktoast-web-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110105\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC-milktoast-web-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC-milktoast-web-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC-milktoast-web-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC_prideboycott_web-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110107\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC_prideboycott_web-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC_prideboycott_web-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC_prideboycott_web-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cb060223dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110108\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cb060223dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cb060223dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cb060223dAPR-800x0-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/stg060423dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/stg060423dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/stg060423dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/stg060423dAPR-800x0-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/payn_c19861420230605123038-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110144\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/payn_c19861420230605123038-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/payn_c19861420230605123038-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/payn_c19861420230605123038-800x0-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110145\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-2-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/payn_c19858920230602023016-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/payn_c19858920230602023016-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/payn_c19858920230602023016-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/payn_c19858920230602023016-800x0-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC_AIthinker_web-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110147\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC_AIthinker_web-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC_AIthinker_web-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MC_AIthinker_web-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-9.53-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110109\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-9.53-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-9.53-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-9.53-AM-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these direct from <em>The Patriot Post<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.53-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110102\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.53-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.53-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.53-PM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.53-PM-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.33-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.33-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.33-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.33-PM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.33-PM-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.34-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110104\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.34-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.34-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.34-PM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-5-23-at-2.34-PM-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with a couple forwarded by Andy Meyers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Andy1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Andy1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Andy1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Andy1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Andy1-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Andy2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Andy2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Andy2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Andy2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Andy2-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wRnSnfiUI54?t=18\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Khan<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a> Memorial <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\"><em>Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold<\/em><\/span> segment, as <em>Townhall.com<\/em>&#8216;s Spencer Brown informs us the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">House Freedom Caucus Gets Its Revenge for Debt Deal<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0530-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110106\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0530-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0530-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_0530-800x0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;There was a clash between Republican members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon as members of the House Freedom Caucus torpedoed a rule vote on the floor of the lower chamber, reportedly the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>first time<\/em><\/span><\/strong> such a procedural tactic had been used <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in years<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The vote was on the rule for\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\/118th-congress\/house-resolution\/463\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">H.R.463<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>, House Republicans&#8217; bill to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>prohibit the use of Federal funds to ban gas stoves<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, and it failed\u00a0206-220\u00a0with <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>12 members of the House GOP Conference voting against the rule<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: Reps. Andy Biggs (AZ), Dan Bishop (NC), Lauren Boebert (CO), Ken Buck (CO), Tim Burchett (TN), Eli Crane (AZ), Matt Gaetz (FL), Bob Good (VA), Ralph Norman (SC), Matt Rosendale (MT), Chip Roy (TX). <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">House Majority Leader Steve Scalise<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (R-LA) <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also<\/em><\/span><\/strong> voted against the rule in order to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>preserve<\/em><\/span><\/strong> his ability to bring the rule back to the floor for a vote <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at a later time<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The move to block the House from moving forward with consideration of the Republican bill was done as an <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>act of protest against GOP leadership<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, launched by the 11 lawmakers to register <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>their disapproval<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of the way the deal to avert a debt default was handled&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: We could be wrong, but if we read Chip Roy &amp; Co. correctly, Kevin McCarthy just sampled merely the appetizer from the bill of fare the House Freedom Caucus plans on serving him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Video of the Day<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Stossel reveals yet another dirty, little secret about Socialism, the sophistry of its adherents to the contrary notwithstanding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QVh3dcdepkc\" 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;\"><em><strong>Tales of The Darkside<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Konstantin Kisin explains why its proponents won&#8217;t entertain a debate on transgenderism while extolling the virtues of the greatest country in the history of the planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQBo27YyE44\" width=\"462\" height=\"258\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>On the Lighter Side<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave Rubin nails it: this IS complete and utter INSANITY!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vXeMsFnj1Is?start=0&amp;end=116&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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, June 7th, 2023&#8230;and 79 years ago yesterday, thanks largely to the courage of Americans who are today a breed of increasing rarity\u00a0indeed, the forces of\u00a0actual Fascism had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day: Thus was Patton given the opportunity to&#8230; \ufeff And now, here&#8217;s The Gouge! First up, if ever you [&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-110131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110131","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=110131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110212,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110131\/revisions\/110212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}