{"id":64244,"date":"2018-10-30T19:01:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T23:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=64244"},"modified":"2018-10-30T19:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T23:01:59","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-october-29th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=64244","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, October 29th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday, October 29th, 2018…but before we begin, we’re still not down with the fact an amateur American Indian body-builder\/strip club worker with a long arrest record, including making a bomb threat, and whose cousin described as a “lunatic” pulled off these…”bombings”…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…on his own, let alone is, in any way, shape or<\/em><\/span> form, even remotely<\/em><\/span>\u00a0related to…\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…The Donald, let the responsibility of the President.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We further find the pronouncement of Progressives, be they politicians or pundits, this somehow makes violence the province of The Right particularly repugnant, not to mention, as\u00a0<\/strong>Matt Vespa reminds us at\u00a0Townhall.com<\/em>, an outright falsehood:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“…While not acceptable in any stretch of the imagination, none of these devices went off. We\u2019re lucky on that end, yes\u2014but none of them went off and no one was injured. On the Left,\u00a0James Hodgkinson<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span>, a far left, pro-Bernie Sanders activist, grabbed a rifle and opened fire on congressional Republicans practicing for the annual baseball game in 2017. Rep. Steve Scalise was shot and could have died. It was a mass assassination attempt. In 2018, Minnesota GOP candidates have\u00a0been assaulted<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>. The spokesperson for the Minnesota Democratic Party said that Republicans\u00a0should go to the guillotine<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>. Sens.\u00a0Ted Cruz<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and Mitch McConnell have been harassed by mob-like behavior. Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Democrats\u00a0should kick<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0Republicans. Rep. Maxine Waters\u00a0has egged on<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0her supporters to harass Trump officials. Oh,and let’s not forget\u00a0the ricin letters<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0sent to Secretary of Defense James Mattis or the\u00a0death threats<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0hurled at Sen. Susan Collins.”<\/p>\n

And let’s not forget where it all started:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From his “the Cambridge police acted stupidly<\/em><\/span><\/a>” to “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon<\/em><\/span>“, his defense of Michael Brown<\/em><\/span><\/a> to his silence following the murder of Kate Steinle<\/em><\/span><\/a>, Barack Hussein Obama’s record of sowing racial and class division makes Donald Trump’s tweets look like love sonnets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That being said, we’re in agreement with the Dodgers’ Rich Hill when he defended Manager Dave Roberts’ decision to pull him in the sixth inning of Game 4 of the World Series against Trump’s Monday-morning quarterbacking…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…criticizing the move:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“There was a mass shooting yesterday,” Hill initially told reporters when asked about Trump’s tweet Sunday,\u00a0according to the Los Angeles Times. “I understand you\u2019re watching the World Series, but there was a huge tragedy that happened and people will say what they want to say.\u00a0The focus, in my opinion, of the president is to be on the country, and not on moves that are made in a World Series game.<\/span><\/strong>“<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as this forward from Shannon Wood suggests, following in the footsteps of Andrew Cuomo, a number of self-important Liberal legends-in-their-own-minds like Sheila Jackson Lee were left wondering…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And in the MSM madness emanating from the Pittsburgh shootings, the concept central to an article forwarded by Balls Cotton as set forth in the Constitution<\/em><\/span><\/a> is bound to be lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up, since we’re on the subject of Progressive-inspired political violence, NRO’s Kevin Williamson correctly concludes…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rage Makes You Stupid<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

People have the strongest feelings about the things they know the least about<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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“W<\/span>hat are we supposed to think about political rage?<\/p>\n

Before and after the arrest of Cesar Sayoc, the suspect in the recent string of bombs sent to prominent Democrats and media figures, we were treated to any number of homilies about \u201crage\u201d and its origins in \u201ctoxic\u201d political rhetoric. Many of these homilies were pointed directly or indirectly at President Donald Trump and his immoderate Twitter habits<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> That political rage is necessarily linked to political violence was assumed, and sometimes asserted, but rarely argued.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Five minutes before that, rage was all the rage<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Rebecca Traister, an editor for\u00a0New York<\/em>\u00a0magazine, has just published a book celebrating the \u201crevolutionary power\u201d of anger, which was celebrated at\u00a0The Atlantic\u00a0<\/em>on 4 October under a headline noting the \u201cseismic power\u201d of \u201crage.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> On 21 September, the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0affirmed that \u201crage is healthy, rational, and necessary<\/span> for America<\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> On Friday,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>NBC news<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0praised a television show for depicting \u201canger as righteous and necessary<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>Before that, it ran a segment encouraging certain<\/em><\/span> political partisans to \u201cembrace their rage<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier in the year, Leslie Jamison wrote a<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0very interesting and intelligent essay<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for\u00a0The New York Times Magazine\u00a0<\/em>exploring anger<\/em><\/span> as a \u201ctool to be used, part of a well-stocked arsenal<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> Right as the bombing suspect was being arrested in Florida,<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Rewire<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0shared \u201cAll the Rage That\u2019s Fit To Print,\u201d its assessment of four books on \u201cfury<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve omitted the word \u201cwomen\u201d in several instances above, on the theory that we\u2019re all adults here, and that we would recognize the obvious hypocrisy and illogic of any \u201cmy rage good, your rage bad, bad, bad,\u201d construct.<\/p>\n

The signals, then, are decidedly mixed<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Put me in the anti-rage camp.<\/span> Rage makes you stupid<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> (Rage and Wild Turkey . . . . Well, enough said.)…”<\/p>\n

Which, when combined with the nonsensical tenets of Progressivism, makes for a dull-wittedness of truly monumental…and incredibly dangerous…proportions.\u00a0 For as the Ghost of Christmas Present observed in what is, in our humble opinion, the greatest production of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol<\/em> ever brought to the silver screen…<\/strong><\/p>\n