{"id":59903,"date":"2018-05-31T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T21:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=59903"},"modified":"2018-05-31T17:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T21:06:30","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-may-30th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=59903","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, May 30th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, May 30th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, a few brief thoughts on the sad state of Socialism in America:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline head1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/05\/27\/chelsea-clinton-says-trump-degrades-what-it-means-to-be-american-says-brits-should-protest-his-uk-trip.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Chelsea Clinton says Trump &#8216;degrades what it means to be an American,&#8217; says Brits should protest his UK trip<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/33_34_SS_Clinton_Foundation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59780\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/33_34_SS_Clinton_Foundation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/33_34_SS_Clinton_Foundation.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/33_34_SS_Clinton_Foundation-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah,&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bullshit-meter-gif-11-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bullshit-meter-gif-11-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;riiiight!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This from the daughter of a misogynistic rapist who turned the Oval Office into the Oral Orifice; a man who, along with his wanna-be President wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/foreign-governments-gave-millions-to-foundation-while-clinton-was-at-state-dept\/2015\/02\/25\/31937c1e-bc3f-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html?utm_term=.3c8ae7b244ff\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>accepted bribes<\/em><\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>sold sensitive missile technolo<\/em><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><em>gy<\/em><\/span><\/span>\u00a0and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>vital natural resources<\/em><\/span>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2016\/07\/hillarys-america-secret-history-democratic-party-dinesh-dsouza-clinton-foundation\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>picked the pockets of the poverty-stricken to fatten their personal bank accounts<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though her fellatio-focused father seems to get it, Chelsea apparently hasn&#8217;t yet grasped <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most everyone else on the planet<\/em><\/span> would prefer her whining mother and she&#8230;along with the rest of her entire family&#8230;would simply&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BdWEbweX1rQ?start=51\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these next two memes forwarded by Jeff Foutch which accurately depict The Left&#8217;s unseemly love affair with MS-13&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dd7AMGPVMAA3L3n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dd7AMGPVMAA3L3n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dd7AMGPVMAA3L3n.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dd7AMGPVMAA3L3n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dd7Sp7eVMAAo2nC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dd7Sp7eVMAAo2nC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dd7Sp7eVMAAo2nC.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dd7Sp7eVMAAo2nC-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with these demonstrating why we&#8217;ll never again tune into the NFL, or NBA for that matter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/50492e8392e6dbc0fc4a10efcd05955e-god-bless-america-american-pride.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/50492e8392e6dbc0fc4a10efcd05955e-god-bless-america-american-pride.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/50492e8392e6dbc0fc4a10efcd05955e-god-bless-america-american-pride.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/50492e8392e6dbc0fc4a10efcd05955e-god-bless-america-american-pride-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/f4a1767b8df585c70025747dfaefcc47.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/f4a1767b8df585c70025747dfaefcc47.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/f4a1767b8df585c70025747dfaefcc47.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/f4a1767b8df585c70025747dfaefcc47-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/f4a1767b8df585c70025747dfaefcc47-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Most<\/em><\/span> importantly, if you&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cc0c29b01cce88cc4ef6ef4e3afb6d59.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cc0c29b01cce88cc4ef6ef4e3afb6d59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cc0c29b01cce88cc4ef6ef4e3afb6d59.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cc0c29b01cce88cc4ef6ef4e3afb6d59-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cc0c29b01cce88cc4ef6ef4e3afb6d59-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t kid yourself: had The Obamao <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ever<\/em><\/span> accumulated <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>similarly unrestricted control<\/em><\/span>, his achievements wouldn&#8217;t have simply <em>rivaled<\/em>\u00a0those&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Socialism.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Socialism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Socialism.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Socialism-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;of his comrades to the South, they&#8217;d have&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/myworkhereisdone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59847\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/myworkhereisdone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/myworkhereisdone.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/myworkhereisdone-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exceeded<\/em><\/span> them!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, in another <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>must-read<\/em><\/span> commentary featured at\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>, Andy McCarthy highlights the link which explains everything:<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/trump-russia-investigation-clinton-email-fbi-linked-cases\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202018-05-27&amp;utm_term=VDHM\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">How the Clinton-Emails Investigation Intertwined with the Russia Probe<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/trump-russia-investigation-clinton-email-fbi-linked-cases\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202018-05-27&amp;utm_term=VDHM\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Obama administration officials in the DOJ and FBI saw the cases as inseparably linked<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-hillary-investigations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59801\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-hillary-investigations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-hillary-investigations.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-hillary-investigations-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">\u201cC<\/span>ruz just dropped out of the race. It\u2019s going to be a Clinton Trump race. Unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It was a little after midnight on May 4, 2016. FBI lawyer Lisa Page was texting her paramour, FBI counterespionage agent Peter Strzok, about the most stunning development to date in the 2016 campaign: Donald Trump was now the inevitable Republican nominee. He would square off against Hillary Clinton, the Democrats\u2019 certain standard-bearer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The race was set&#8230;<em>between <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">two major-party candidates<\/span> who were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">both<\/span> under investigation by the FBI<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>In stunned response, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Strzok wrote what may be the only words we need to know<\/em><\/span>, <em>the words that reflected the mindset of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">his agency\u2019s leadership<\/span> and of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the Obama administration<\/span><\/em>: \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>MYE<em>.<\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That\u2019s\u00a0<em>Mid-Year Exam<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the code-word the FBI had given to the Hillary Clinton emails probe<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It sure does<\/em><\/span>,\u201d responded Page. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mind you, she was not just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> FBI lawyer;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em> she was counsel and confidant to the bureau\u2019s No. 2 official,<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">(<\/span><em>now disgraced, confirmed liar<\/em>)<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Deputy Director Andrew McCabe<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If the thousands of text messages between Ms. Page and Agent Strzok are clear on anything, they are clear on the thinking of the bureau\u2019s top brass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In its Trump antipathy, the media-Democrat complex has admonished us to ignore the Strzok-Page texts. FBI officials are as entitled as anyone else to their political opinions, we\u2019re told; and if they found Trump loathsome, they were no different from half the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That\u2019s the wrong way to look at it<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Regardless of their politics (which, the texts show, are not as left-wing as some conservative-media hyperbole claims), these FBI officials are a window into how the Obama administration regarded the two investigations in which Strzok and Page were central players: Mid Year Exam and Trump-Russia \u2014 the latter eventually code-named \u201cCrossfire Hurricane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The two investigations <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">must not be compartmentalized<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Manifestly<\/span>, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FBI<\/span> saw them <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as inseparably linked<\/span><\/em>: <em>Trump\u2019s victory in the primaries, the opening of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">his<\/span> path to the Oval Office, meant \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">first and foremost<\/span> \u2014 that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the Hillary investigation had to be brought to a close<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>And that is because bringing it to a close <em>was already known<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>by May 4<\/em><\/span>, <em>to mean\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">closing it without charges<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2014 <em>opening <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">her<\/span> path to the Oval Office<\/em>. <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It was the calculation of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FBI<\/span>, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Obama Justice Department<\/span>, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Obama-led intelligence agencies<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Obama White House<\/span> that wrapping up MYE was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">essential<\/span> to stopping Donald Trump.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Trump had won the nomination, so <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">now<\/span> the pressure was on to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">remove the cloud of felony suspicion hanging over Mrs. Clinton<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The mistake is often made \u2014 I\u2019ve made it myself \u2014 of analyzing the tanking of the Clinton emails case in a vacuum.<\/strong><\/span> <strong>There <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are<\/em><\/span>, after all, <em>reasons <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unrelated to Donald Trump<\/span> that explain the outcome<\/em>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Obama<\/em><\/span> was implicated in Clinton\u2019s use of a non-secure email system; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Obama<\/em><\/span> had endorsed Clinton; many high-ranking <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Obama Justice Department officials<\/em><\/span> stood to keep their coveted positions, and even advance, in a Hillary Clinton administration;<\/span> the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Obama Justice Department<\/em><\/span> was hyper-political and Clinton was the Democratic nominee.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But the Clinton investigation <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not happen in a vacuum<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>It happened in the context of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Donald Trump\u2019s gallop through the Republican primaries<\/span> and, just as important, of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the Obama administration\u2019s determination to regard the Trump campaign as a Kremlin satellite<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Conveniently, the Strzok-Page text occurred in what we might call the \u201clate spring.\u201d <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As I outlined in yesterday\u2019s<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/trump-russia-investigation-obama-administration-origins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">column<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em>which is well worth reading<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>, the \u201clate spring\u201d is the vague timeframe former Obama-administration officials gave to the House Intelligence Committee when asked when the FBI\u2019s then-director, James Comey, briefed the president\u2019s National Security Council about Carter Page.<\/strong><\/span> An obscure Trump campaign adviser, Page was regarded as a likely clandestine Russian agent by the Obama administration, on what appears to be flimsy evidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>So&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>let\u2019s think this through<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>By May 4<\/em><\/span>, the Obama administration <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has already concluded<\/em><\/span> that the Trump campaign is part of a Russian covert op that must be stopped \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or at least has rationalized that the Trump-Russia storyline can work politically to damage the Republican candidate<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>At the same time<\/em><\/span>, <em>even though MYE <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is not yet formally \u201cfinished<\/span>,\u201d even though key witnesses (including Clinton herself) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">have not been interviewed<\/span>, even though essential evidence (including the laptops used to store and vet Clinton\u2019s emails) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are not yet in the FBI\u2019s possession<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Director Comey and his top aides are already drafting the exoneration speech he will give two months later<\/span>, recommending <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">against<\/span> prosecution<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>And everybody <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">knows<\/span> the fix <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is in<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <em>The Strzok-Page texts show that the pressure to schedule the Clinton interview is based on<\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the imperative to shut down the case<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> <em>to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">weigh<\/span> what she had to say<\/em> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for investigative purposes<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Clinton is permitted to have her co-conspirators represent her as lawyers at her interview \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in violation of federal law, professional-ethics canons, and rudimentary investigative practice<\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">precisely because no one regards the interview as a serious law-enforcement exercise<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>When Attorney General Loretta Lynch\u2019s shameful Arizona tarmac meeting with former President Clinton becomes a scandal in late June, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">she tries to mitigate the damage by announcing an intention to accept whatever recommendation the FBI makes<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> Lisa Page spitefully texts Peter Strzok. \u201cAnd yeah, it\u2019s a real profile in couragw [<em>sic<\/em>], <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>since she knows no charges will be brought<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That was July 1<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very next day<\/em><\/span>, the FBI does its just-for-show interview of Mrs. Clinton.<\/span> Three mornings later, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>July 5<\/em><\/span> (at the start of the work week after Independence Day), <em>Comey holds his press conference to announce that, of course, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no charges will be brought<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>To accomplish this, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he effectively rewrites the classified-information statute Clinton violated<\/em><\/span>; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>barely mentions the tens of thousands of official government business emails that she destroyed<\/em><\/span>; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>claims without any elaboration that the FBI can see no evidence of obstruction<\/em><\/span>; <em>and omits mention of her just-concluded interview in which<\/em> \u2014 <em>among <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">other<\/span> things<\/em> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>she pretended not to know what the markings on classified documents meant<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>On the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">very same day<\/span><\/em>, <em>the FBI\u2019s legal attach\u00e9 in Rome travels to London to interview Christopher Steele<\/em>, who has already started to pass his sensational dossier allegations to the bureau.<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And with the help of CIA director John Brennan<\/span> and British intelligence, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the FBI is ready to run a spy<\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a longtime CIA source<\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at Carter Page in London on July 11<\/span>, just as he arrives there from Moscow<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>With the pressure to finish MYE in the rearview mirror, Hillary Clinton looked like a shoo-in to beat Donald Trump.<\/strong> <\/span>By mid September, Lisa Page was saying as much at a meeting in Deputy Director McCabe\u2019s office. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">But Strzok was hedging his bets: Maybe \u201cthere\u2019s no way [Trump] gets elected \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but I\u2019m afraid we can\u2019t take that risk<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It\u2019s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you\u2019re 40<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Soon, as the campaign wound down, the FBI and the Obama Justice Department were on the doormat of the FISA court, <em>obtaining a surveillance warrant on Carter Page, substantially based on allegations in the Steele dossier \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">an uncorroborated Clinton-campaign opposition-research screed<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Meanwhile, the FBI\/CIA spy was being run at George Papadopoulos, and even seeking a role in the Trump campaign from its co-chairman, Sam Clovis.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Or maybe you think these things are unrelated<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If so, we&#8217;ve got some prime Florida real estate&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/swampland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/swampland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/swampland.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/swampland-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;you should find of interest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And let&#8217;s not forget Hillary&#8217;s use of her private email server and the subsequent criminal cleansing thereof is just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one<\/em><\/span> of a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>myriad<\/em><\/span> of crimes for which she should be under indictment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cd92edc9c7bfa698b11a82d1d4ac0bbc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cd92edc9c7bfa698b11a82d1d4ac0bbc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cd92edc9c7bfa698b11a82d1d4ac0bbc.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cd92edc9c7bfa698b11a82d1d4ac0bbc-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item also courtesy of <em>NRO<\/em>, McCarthy details the Deep State&#8217;s latest iteration of Slick Willy&#8217;s infamous &#8220;It depends upon what the meaning of &#8216;is&#8217; is&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/obama-administration-politicized-intelligence-law-enforcement-apparatus\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202018-05-27&amp;utm_term=VDHM\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Spy Name Games<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/obama-administration-politicized-intelligence-law-enforcement-apparatus\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202018-05-27&amp;utm_term=VDHM\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">The Obama administration blatantly politicized the government\u2019s intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/header.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/header-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>In the Trump\u2013Russia affair, officials of the Obama-era intelligence agencies suggest that there are grounds to believe that the Trump campaign was in a traitorous conspiracy with the Kremlin. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What<\/span> grounds<\/em>?<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>They\u2019d rather not say<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">You\u2019ll just have to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>trust them<\/em><\/span> as well-meaning, non-partisan pros who (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all together now<\/em><\/span>) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can\u2019t be expected to divulge methods and sources<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Countering that are not only Trump fans but growing ranks of security-state skeptics. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The Obama administration blatantly politicized the government\u2019s intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Their Chicken Little shrieks that public disclosure of FISA warrants and texts between FBI agents would imperil security have proven overblown at best (<em>and, in some <\/em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>that&#8217;s &#8220;some&#8221;, spelled &#8220;m-o-s-t&#8221;!<\/em>)<\/span><em> instances, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to be cynical attempts to hide embarrassing facts<\/span><\/em>).<\/span> \u201c<em>Trust us\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is not cutting it anymore<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>In the end, it is not about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who<\/em><\/span> the spies are. <em>It is about\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">why they were spying<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In our democratic republic, there is an important norm <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>against<\/em><\/span> an incumbent administration\u2019s use of government\u2019s enormous intelligence-gathering capabilities to \u2014 if we may borrow a phrase \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>interfere in an election<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> To justify <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>disregarding<\/em><\/span> that norm <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would require strong evidence of egregious wrongdoing<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Enough bobbing and weaving, and enough dueling tweets.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Let\u2019s see the evidence<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which makes inquiring minds all the more curious why The Donald doesn&#8217;t just make it so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, writing at\u00a0<em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Bernie Goldberg explains&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/bernardgoldberg\/2018\/05\/29\/the-racism-liberals-dont-recognize--their-own-n2484478\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">The Racism Liberals Don&#8217;t Recognize &#8212; Their Own<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/liberal-hypocrisy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/liberal-hypocrisy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/liberal-hypocrisy.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/liberal-hypocrisy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/liberal-hypocrisy-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>My friend Lee Habeeb, a conservative radio executive who appears on cable TV from time to time, has written a piece in Newsweek <em>about how too many journalists have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">played down<\/span> &#8212; and often downright <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ignored<\/span> &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the murder of young black men in places like Chicago<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>You know, where <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">guns bans<\/span>\u00a0have only served to remove firearms from the hands of the law-abiding!<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;In Chicago, it&#8217;s Parkland every week,&#8221; Habeeb writes about a city that had more than 1,400 homicides in 2016 and 2017.<\/span> <em>And in just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the first week<\/span> of May 2018, <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">84<\/span><em> people were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">shot<\/span> &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nine of them wound up dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Journalists, of course, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>care very much<\/em><\/span><em> about young black men who are shot<\/em> &#8212; <em>when the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">person doing the shooting<\/span> is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cop<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Particularly<\/span> if the cop in question is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WHITE<\/span>!<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Then, news organizations, even those based a thousand miles away, report the names of the dead &#8212; like Michael Brown who was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri &#8212; and (rightly) give as much information as possible about their deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8220;But Americans know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>none<\/em><\/span> of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thousands<\/em><\/span> of innocent <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sometimes<\/span>&#8230;sometimes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span>!<\/em>)<\/span> young black men and women killed by other black men in our nation&#8217;s third largest city &#8212; and across America,&#8221; writes Habeeb. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a reason.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>A young black male&#8217;s life <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is not worth reporting<\/span> when it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">taken by another black male<\/span><\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">That&#8217;s the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real<\/em><\/span> racism that prevails in America&#8217;s newsrooms.<\/span> The marginalization of black urban life.&#8221;<i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Habeeb believes that <em>liberal journalists <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">don&#8217;t like the storyline<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Journalists and activists can&#8217;t blame the deaths on assault style weapons like the AR-15<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Or the National Rifle Association<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/malkin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59842\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/malkin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/malkin.png 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/malkin-300x285.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It&#8217;s true<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Black on black murder <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">doesn&#8217;t fit the liberal journalists&#8217; template<\/span> &#8212; and not only because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">assault weapons aren&#8217;t involved<\/span><\/em><\/span>. <em>Liberals journalists <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">don&#8217;t feel comfortable<\/span> when it comes to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">reporting dysfunction in black neighborhoods in places like Chicago<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> If white kids in tony suburbs were being gunned down in such horrific numbers, you can be sure that the liberal media would more than simply take note. They&#8217;d run stories on Page 1 for days on end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Does that mean that liberals think white lives matter more than black lives? <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It&#8217;s not that simple<\/span> &#8212; not when you introduce <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">paternalism<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">white liberal guilt<\/span> into the mix<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>When it comes to the slaughter of black young men, liberal journalists fear that playing up <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this<\/span> kind of bad news <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">could give ammunition to bigots<\/span>, who might <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">use<\/span> the information <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to bolster their already nasty opinions of African-Americans<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>And since <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much<\/em><\/span> of the killing is the work of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fatherless young men<\/em><\/span>, that&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another<\/em><\/span> important story the national media <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would rather play down<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and for the same reason<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>More dysfunction<\/em><\/span> amounts to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more ammo for the bigots<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Why<\/em><\/span>?\u00a0 Because the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>causative factors<\/em><\/span>\u00a0resulted from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Progressive policies<\/em><\/span> first promoted in the 60&#8217;s with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Lyndon Johnson<\/em><\/span>, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>third-worst<\/em><\/span> President in American history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>News You Can&#8217;t Use<\/em><\/span>, it appears &#8220;experts&#8221; in France&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xPdWXrnONh8?start=64\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;have determined&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline head1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2018\/05\/21\/adolf-hitler-definitely-died-in-wwii-new-research-says.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Adolf Hitler definitely died in WWII, new research says<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hitler-last-picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hitler-last-picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hitler-last-picture.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hitler-last-picture-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which will come as a shock to Progressives, who believe he escaped Berlin and is now residing at&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-hitler-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59827\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-hitler-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-hitler-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-hitler-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in yet <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>Another Sign the Apocalypse is Upon Us<\/em><\/span>, the <em>U.S. Geological Survey<\/em> actually found it necessary to compose a response to this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>incredibly<\/em><\/span> idiotic question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/389731-us-geological-survey-warns-against-roasting-marshmallows-over?amp&amp;__twitter_impression=true&amp;mod=article_inline\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\">Is it safe to roast marshmallows over volcanic vents? Assuming you had a long enough stick, that is<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008080;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxr0v09qdPU?start=6\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah,&#8230;whatever; have at it, hemorrhoid!\u00a0 At least future generations will benefit from your absence in the gene pool.\u00a0 Hat tip to G. Trevor for what we can only describe as the aftereffect of too much muy caliente salsa the night before.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/price-of-freedom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59831\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/price-of-freedom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/price-of-freedom.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/price-of-freedom-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/punt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/punt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/punt.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/punt-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/crazy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59786\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/crazy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/crazy.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/crazy-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cb052518dAPR20180525124600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cb052518dAPR20180525124600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cb052518dAPR20180525124600.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cb052518dAPR20180525124600-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pelosi-on-Korea-600-CDN20180525024812.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pelosi-on-Korea-600-CDN20180525024812.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pelosi-on-Korea-600-CDN20180525024812.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pelosi-on-Korea-600-CDN20180525024812-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mle180525c20180525122203.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59789\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mle180525c20180525122203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mle180525c20180525122203.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mle180525c20180525122203-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mle180526c20180525104209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mle180526c20180525104209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mle180526c20180525104209.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mle180526c20180525104209-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59782\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-8.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-8-300x277.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-9.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59783\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-9.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-9-300x276.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-14.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-14.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-14.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-14-300x288.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with two moving Memorial Day remembrances, the first courtesy of Jim Freeman and <em>Best of the Web<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-heart-of-an-army-ranger-1527283908?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808000; text-decoration: underline;\">The Heart of an Army Ranger<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-heart-of-an-army-ranger-1527283908?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Remembering the sacrifices of Benjamin Kopp<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/im-12032.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/im-12032.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/im-12032.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/im-12032-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and the second this moving tribute from Kathy Thorp, the wife of our dear, departed friend and classmate Owen, as forwarded by another old and bestest buddy Chris Wilson:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline head1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2018\/05\/25\/captain-kathy-thorp-heres-how-im-honoring-my-husband-owens-legacy-this-memorial-day.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\">Here&#8217;s how I&#8217;m honoring my husband Owen&#8217;s legacy this Memorial Day<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1527263761692.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1527263761692.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1527263761692.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1527263761692-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You go, &#8220;O&#8221;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll close with a meme we found both particularly touching and all-too true:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2b8vze.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2b8vze.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2b8vze.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2b8vze-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, May 30th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, a few brief thoughts on the sad state of Socialism in America: Chelsea Clinton says Trump &#8216;degrades what it means to be an American,&#8217; says Brits should protest his UK trip &nbsp; Yeah,&#8230; &#8230;riiiight! This from the daughter of a misogynistic rapist who turned the Oval Office [&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-59903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59903","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=59903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59904,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59903\/revisions\/59904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}