{"id":110426,"date":"2023-06-22T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=110426"},"modified":"2023-06-22T13:45:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:45:58","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-june-19th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=110426","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, June 19th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, June 19th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, enjoy one of the most compelling, cogent condemnations of transgenderism you&#8217;ll ever hear:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07Fzrz8bQYI\" 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>\u00a0<strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Charlie Cooke explains why&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/06\/trump-was-never-any-match-for-the-swamp\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Trump Was Never Any Match for the \u2018Swamp\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/06\/trump-was-never-any-match-for-the-swamp\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The former president\u2019s latest indictment shows why he is so uniquely ill-suited to reining in the federal bureaucracy<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download-1-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download-1-1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download-1-1-300x175.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;I\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"small_caps\">wonder\u00a0<\/span>if I can prevail upon the nation\u2019s many multidimensional-chess players to tell me, a mere dilettante of the 2D game, which variant of strategic dexterity this\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/trump-documents-investigation-timeline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">bewildering little incident<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0is supposed to represent:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>Some of Mr. Trump\u2019s advisers have been telling him for months that he needs to return the documents. But other allies, including Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, have been telling Mr. Trump that he is entitled to keep the documents and never should have been pushed to return them<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Granted, I lack the raw political sagacity of your average Roger Stone or Jason Miller, but to my uninspired eyes, this seems to have been transparently stupid. \u201cWhat,\u201d I have been asked in recent days, \u201cis the difference between what Donald Trump did and what Hillary Clinton did?\u201d Well, I\u2019ll tell you one thing: Unlike Trump, Hillary Clinton is actually\u00a0<em>good<\/em>\u00a0at being villainous. Informed that the feds were onto her, Hillary proceeded as a veteran mobster would have: She lawyered up, feigned ignorance, and destroyed evidence, playing the game like a champ. At home, no doubt, she cackled herself to sleep each night. But when the lights were on her and the tapes were whirring away, she was disciplined enough to get away with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I do not find this admirable. I do, however, find it instructive. For eight long years now, the case made in defense of Donald Trump has been that, unlike the feckless yellowbellies he replaced, he has the courage and the capacity to \u201cfight.\u201d Washington, D.C., we have been told, is a \u201cswamp,\u201d a \u201csewer,\u201d a breeding ground for out-of-touch hypocrites, and Trump, that plucky little outsider, is those hypocrites\u2019 worst nightmare. Only\u00a0<em>he<\/em>\u00a0can effect substantial change. Only\u00a0<em>he<\/em>\u00a0can take on the entrenched special interests. Only\u00a0<em>he<\/em>\u00a0can survive the gauntlet of the elites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To which I would respectfully inquire: When, exactly, did they decriminalize LSD?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The most devastating sections within the latest indictment of Donald Trump are the ones that star the man in his own words. In the minds of his admirers, Trump is a populist Sir Humphrey Appleby. In the transcripts of the indictment, he\u2019s Marv from\u00a0<em>Home Alone<\/em>, explaining to anyone who\u2019ll listen how he knocked over all those houses. Not only does Trump <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>explain<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that he did it, he <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>establishes<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that the defense on which his champions have <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>relied<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2014 that he had secretly declassified every document he kept \u2014 was <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>untrue<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. Effective political reformers are deft, intentional, and covered in well-tailored armor. Trump is a klutz, a narcissist, a bumbler. He\u2019s a manatee in a jacuzzi, making mess after mess after mess while insisting to the world that he\u2019s a mermaid. That \u2014\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 is the guy who\u2019s going to vanquish the \u201cdeep state\u201d? <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Get real<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>notable exception of belligerence<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, Trump lacks <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of the characteristics that would be necessary to such a job. A president who can rein in the bureaucracy will be a president who understands that the serious obstacles in his way must be eliminated from within rather than without; who is prepared to utilize the existing levers of power against those who installed them; who can distinguish between good and bad advice; who is capable of evaluating which risks are worth taking and which are not; and who grasps instinctively that if he is to avoid the worst consequences of having a giant target painted on his back, he must appear cleaner than clean. Entrenched institutions will invariably fight back against those who wish to renovate them, and they will invariably do so in unfair or inconsistent ways. Morally, that unfairness and inconsistency matter. Practically, they do not. Here, there are no half-victories to be had. A reformer who cannot survive his own attempts at reform is useless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Donald Trump <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>cannot<\/em><\/span><\/strong> survive his attempts. Worse still, Donald Trump does not\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>want<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0to survive them. It <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is true<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that, on the matter of classified documents, there exists an <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>infuriating difference<\/em><\/span><\/strong> in the justice system\u2019s treatment of Hillary Clinton and its treatment of Donald Trump. It is also true that Donald Trump\u2019s <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>choices<\/em><\/span><\/strong> made it <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>easier<\/em><\/span><\/strong> for that double standard <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to be observed<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. Trump <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not need<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to take classified documents and store them in his home. He <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not need<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to reject the DOJ\u2019s overtures and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/trump-documents-investigation-timeline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" testid=\"standard-link\" class=\"broken_link\">refuse to return<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0those documents. He <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not need<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to be caught on tape admitting that he was breaking the law. He <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not need<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to ignore the advice of his lawyers in favor of the bad counsel offered up by the head of Judicial Watch. These were <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>choices<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2014 <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bad choices<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. What, may I ask, does Trump have to show for them?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It has become popular in recent years to argue that it does not especially matter how a given Republican politician behaves because, irrespective of who he is, he is destined to be treated in exactly the same way by the press, by the Democratic Party, and by the permanent bureaucracy with which both are now so closely entwined. This is false. It is true, indeed, that all Republicans are reflexively accused of the same sins. But it still matters whether those accusations <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>happen to be true<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Every<\/em><\/span><\/strong> Republican <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span><\/strong> deemed corrupt, selfish, a wannabe dictator. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Not every<\/em><\/span><\/strong> Republican is caught <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>standing over the body saying \u201cbang<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.\u201d There is nothing to be gained by self-deceit here: GOP primary voters can have reform of the bureaucracy, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span><\/strong> they can have <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Donald Trump\u2019s endless sh**show<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. If they try to have <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">both<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, they will get <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>neither<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2014 and they\u2019ll <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>deserve it<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Though the rest of us who see through Trump&#8217;s blusterous bombast will have to live with the consequences along with our blinded brethren.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, <em>Townhall.com<\/em>&#8216;s Spencer Brown tells us the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2023\/06\/16\/ag-garland-mn-police-probe-n2624600\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">DOJ Announces Consent Decree With Minneapolis Over &#8216;Pattern&#8217; of Police &#8216;Discrimination<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download-7.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download-7-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Speaking from Minneapolis on Friday morning, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the findings of a federal investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department and its officers&#8217; conduct, as well as an &#8220;agreement in principle&#8221; to &#8220;negotiate a consent decree&#8221; that is court-enforceable between the Biden Justice Department, the City of Minneapolis, and MPD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Garland said that federal officials reviewing MPD conduct &#8220;observed many MPD officers who did their difficult work with professionalism, courage, and respect&#8221; but also witnessed &#8220;patterns and practices&#8221; that &#8220;made what happened to George Floyd possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Minneapolis&#8217; Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey spoke after Garland and other federal law enforcement officials, saying that &#8220;the data and the facts the DOJ have presented in these findings are aligned with what communities of color <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">have told us for several years<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in fact generations<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.&#8221; Despite being the mayor of Minneapolis since 2018, Frey said on Friday that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the DOJ&#8217;s investigation was needed for change to happen<\/em><\/span><\/strong> and pledged that the federal report marks the &#8220;beginning of new chapter of public safety in Minneapolis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Frey did not explain why, despite being in charge of the city for more than five years and having a nearly unanimously left-wing city council, he hadn&#8217;t done anything to address the issues outline by Garland, ones he says he&#8217;s known about for years<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Touch\u00e9, Spencer, touch\u00e9!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, in the Lone Star State, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2023\/06\/16\/rainbow-underground-theres-a-reater-in-texas-helping-lgbt-families-leave-the-state-n2624601\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Townhall.com&#8217;s Matt Vespa informs us<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span>&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The end of this month can\u2019t come soon enough for Paul Lewis. He\u2019ll get to hand over the keys to his house in a Dallas suburb and start a long drive north, where he\u2019ll become the latest LGBTQ+ Texan to leave the state in hopes of finding a friendlier place to call home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cPart of me hates the fact that I\u2019m leaving Texas, the home I\u2019ve always known,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cBut part of me is also excited by the fact that I get to start a new chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The lifelong Texan committed in January to begin looking for somewhere else to move. He explained how two factors ultimately solidified that decision, pointing to the growing number of LGBTQ+ restrictions introduced this legislative session as well as the frequency of deadly mass shootings happening in the state. He noted his home in Carrollton is 20 minutes from the Allen Premium Outlets, where a gunman killed eight people in May. Plus, the governor recently signed a bill into law that would ban transgender minors from receiving certain health care options to help in their transition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cI don\u2019t feel like Texas is my home anymore,\u201d Lewis said simply.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He ended up selling his home through a real estate service launched last summer by the Dallas-based broker, Bob McCranie, who sought to help LGBTQ+ people list their homes in Texas and then connect them with an agent in another state or even a different country where they\u2019d like to go next. McCranie initially called it \u201cFlee Texas,\u201d but soon changed the name to reflect a broader group of people expressing interest in the service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWhat we discovered was we got so much response from other states that we decided to expand and become \u2018Flee Red States,&#8217;\u201d McCranie said Tuesday. \u201cWe\u2019ve helped 27 groups of people so far get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWe\u2019re calling it kind of the \u2018rainbow Underground Railroad,&#8217;\u201d McCranie said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to get people out quietly and get them to someplace where they feel safer.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: Though McCranie is inadvertently doing Texans a favor, what right-thinking STRAIGHT citizen would do business with this Santanista?!?\u00a0 WE say, BOYCOTT BOB MCRANIE!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, here&#8217;s a special sextet of selections certain to pique the curiosity of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). A\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/michigan-teen-convicted-killing-father-drain-cleaner-hair-salon-appointment\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Michigan teen has been convicted of killing her alcoholic father with drain cleaner because he was too drunk to take her to a hair appointment<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Imagine what she&#8217;d done had he taken away her smartphone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Dan McLaughlin offers his expert advice in an in-depth analysis of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/06\/how-to-read-the-trump-boxes-indictment\/?bypass_key=dXFaVHFPWm9pcHRDYlpIS2IvbkZzUT09OjpTaTkyYkc5SlRUZHdjMk5MWW1odGVtdDZWbHAyWnowOQ%3D%3D\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>how to read the Trump boxes indictment<\/em><\/span><\/a>, his first suggestion being <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not to<\/em><\/span> &#8220;let\u00a0knee-jerk partisan tribalism prevent you from reading the Trump boxes indictment critically.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). <em>The Daily Wire<\/em> informs us Matt<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Walsh has obtained internal documents from <em>FOX News<\/em> employees showing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fox-corp-encourages-employees-to-support-radical-lgbtq-organizations-uses-woke-ai-to-track-commitment-to-dei-matt-walsh-reveals?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=housefile&amp;utm_content=member\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Fox Corp. encourages employees to support radical LGBTQ organizations and has deployed \u201cwoke AI\u201d that tracks people\u2019s commitment to DEI principles<\/em><\/span><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;A screenshot of a Fox employee portal shared by Walsh showed that the company encourages employees to donate to the Trevor Project, the Ali Forney Center, and the L.A. LGBT Center. Fox also encourages employees to read explicit LGBTQ books like one that gives a sexually explicit description of a \u201cglory hole\u201d and another that describes pornographic scenes between two gay characters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Though we stopped watching <em>FOX<\/em> well over a year ago, we now suggest it&#8217;s time others join us.\u00a0 But\u00a0given\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/msnbc-dethrones-fox-news-after-years-long-ratings-dominance-1806438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek&#8217;s report<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>the network\u2019s 120-week reign atop prime-time cable news ended Sunday when <em>FOX<\/em>\u00a0surrendered its #1 position in the ratings to <em>MSDNC<\/em>, it appears many already have.\u00a0 As Michael Shwarz observed at <em>The Western Journal<\/em>, &#8220;<\/strong><strong>It takes a special effort to make <em>MSNBC<\/em> look good, so congratulations to Fox executives on their improbable achievement.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><strong>(4).\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><strong>In another indication the depths of Progressive perversion haven&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>begun<\/em><\/span> to be plumbed, <em>The Washington Free Beacon<\/em> reports <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/liz-warren-donor-dog-sex\/?utm_source=actengage&amp;utm_campaign=FreedomMail&amp;utm_medium=email\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>long-time Dimocrat donor and Penn State chemical engineering professor\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Themis Matsoukas, 64, was caught on tape\u2014naked from the waist down except for shoes and socks\u2014performing bestiality with his collie in Rothrock State Forest in Pennsylvania<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 He purportedly told park rangers,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>&#8220;I do it to blow off steam&#8221;, though we&#8217;ve no doubt steam isn&#8217;t the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only<\/em><\/span> thing Matsoukas blows off.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5).\u00a0<\/strong><strong>So it\u2019s no shocker that Biden wanted to smooth things over with Xi Jinping after belatedly shooting down his surveillance balloon which passed over the U.S. earlier this year.\u00a0 According to\u00a0sources, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/saraharnold\/2023\/06\/16\/biden-reportedly-wanted-to-apologize-to-xi-for-shooting-down-chinese-spy-balloon-n2624609\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>top National Security officials were forced to talk Biden out of making a call to apologize to Xi<\/em><\/span><\/a> in the days immediately following the downing of the spy balloon after it passed over the Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Biden evidently thought Xi would make him reimburse China personally out of the bribes they&#8217;d paid Hunter and him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). This tweet says all that need be said about the mental condition of our Commander-in-Chief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I have seen countless &#8211; and I mean countless &#8211; drunk people say something totally obscure like \u201cGod save the Queen\u201d and then jaunt around like a Joe Biden just did in an effort to play it off as if they were sober. He\u2019s truly incapacitated.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XhNfFwyTwK\">pic.twitter.com\/XhNfFwyTwK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan Berryhill (@EvBerryhill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvBerryhill\/status\/1669806556227989504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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\/cb061723dAPR-800x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cb061723dAPR-800x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cb061723dAPR-800x0.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cb061723dAPR-800x0-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/a-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/a-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/a-7.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/a-7-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/a-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/a-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/a-6.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/a-6-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aaaa-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aaaa-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aaaa-3.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aaaa-3-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aaa-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aaa-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aaa-6.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aaa-6-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-7.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-7-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-8.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/aa-8-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-16-23-at-7.03-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-16-23-at-7.03-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-16-23-at-7.03-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Image-6-16-23-at-7.03-AM-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Speed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Speed1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Speed1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Speed1-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Speed1-1-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Speed2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Speed2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Speed2-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Speed2-1-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Balls Cotton:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls2-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110431\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls1-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls3.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Balls3-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with a cross between <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">News of the Bizarre<\/span><\/em> and yet another titillating tale torn from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, as <em>FOX<\/em> informs us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/german-police-arrest-american-tourist-shoving-two-women-down-ravine-killing-one-famous-castle\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">German police arrest American tourist for shoving two women down a ravine, killing one, near famous castle<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/f2be9485956a270a682f89781577d04d-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/f2be9485956a270a682f89781577d04d-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/f2be9485956a270a682f89781577d04d-copy.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/f2be9485956a270a682f89781577d04d-copy-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;An American tourist was arrested in Germany Thursday for allegedly pushing two fellow American tourists down a steep slope \u2013 killing one of them \u2013 near a famous\u00a0German castle.\u00a0The incident took place Wednesday afternoon near the Marienbruecke, a bridge over a gorge that offers a view of the\u00a0Neuschwanstein Castle.\u00a0The 30-year-old man met the two American women, ages 21 and 22, on a hiking path and <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lured them onto a trail that leads to a viewpoint<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-iu=\"lb2\" data-ad-size=\"728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-hot-unit=\"\">&#8220;The younger of the two women was attacked by the suspect,&#8221; said police spokesman Holger Stabik. &#8220;The older one tried to rush to her aid, was then choked by the suspect and <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>subsequently pushed down a slope<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.&#8221; The assailant then allegedly tried to\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sexually assault<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0the 21-year-old before pushing <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>her<\/em><\/span><\/strong> down the slope as well. She fell nearly 165 feet, ending up close to her friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;The suspect left the scene but was quickly arrested nearby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seriously&#8230;you&#8217;re going to spend the money to travel overseas and commit crimes you could have perpetrated back here in the States; like&#8230;seriously?!?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Video of the Day<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Florida Congressman Brian Mast KNOCKS IT OUT OF THE PARK!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W0Dx2DL0UmI\" width=\"462\" height=\"258\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tales of The Darkside<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In case you missed it, Dave Rubin calls it like it is: There IS NO ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATION, only anti-gender mutilation of minors legislation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q2ftuyQvDeQ\" width=\"462\" height=\"258\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">On the Lighter Side<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma literally embarrasses a &#8220;witness&#8221; who doesn&#8217;t know her a*s from a piece of plastic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5V5CHCc8dfY\" 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, June 19th, 2023&#8230;but before we begin, enjoy one of the most compelling, cogent condemnations of transgenderism you&#8217;ll ever hear: \ufeff \u00a0Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge! First up, NRO&#8216;s Charlie Cooke explains why&#8230; Trump Was Never Any Match for the \u2018Swamp\u2019 The former president\u2019s latest indictment shows why he is so uniquely ill-suited to reining [&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-110426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110426","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=110426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110483,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110426\/revisions\/110483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}