{"id":67659,"date":"2019-03-07T18:55:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=67659"},"modified":"2019-03-07T18:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:56:01","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-march-6th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=67659","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, March 6th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, March 6th, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, the 2020 race for the White House has just been tossed into turmoil:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/holder-announces-he-wont-run-for-president-in-2020\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Holder announces he won&#8217;t run for president in 2020<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9orf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9orf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9orf.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9orf-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ehVgQYed60?start=128\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" 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><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><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>Wow, what&#8217;s next: Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein all pulling out of the race simultaneously?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Meghan &#8220;Broken Clock&#8221; McCain observed in one of her rare lucid moments prior to Holder&#8217;s announcement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/d832a1eb6ad7bca3c277fae764b19f3b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/d832a1eb6ad7bca3c277fae764b19f3b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/d832a1eb6ad7bca3c277fae764b19f3b.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/d832a1eb6ad7bca3c277fae764b19f3b-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And his former boss would be in there with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We lead off the day with a confession: prior to the public and well-justified criticism of her powder-puff interview with Jussie Smollett, we&#8217;d never even heard of Robin Roberts, let alone knew she was a Black lesbian.\u00a0 But her &#8220;explanation&#8221; is emblematic of what&#8217;s wrong with the MSM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/robin-roberts-on-jussie-smollett-interview-it-was-a-no-win-situation-for-me\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Robin Roberts on Jussie Smollett interview: &#8216;It was a no-win situation for me<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dz-YXnHVYAAhKI_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67547\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dz-YXnHVYAAhKI_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dz-YXnHVYAAhKI_.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dz-YXnHVYAAhKI_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dz-YXnHVYAAhKI_-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Per\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter,\u00a0Roberts said Smollett&#8217;s team\u00a0told her that she could challenge the &#8220;Empire&#8221; actor on what she saw as &#8220;red flags&#8221; in the alleged attack and that the 36-year-old would also give her new information he hadn&#8217;t said anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m like \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>as a journalist and as a news person<\/em><\/span>, this is his right,&#8221; Roberts stated.<\/strong><\/span> &#8220;He&#8217;s going on the record for the first time. Yes, I&#8217;ll do the interview.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Although she didn&#8217;t know how the interview was going\u00a0to go, Roberts said she worked to stay as &#8220;neutral&#8221; as possible.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u201cI\u2019m a black gay woman, he\u2019s a black gay man,\u201d she said. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cHe\u2019s saying that there\u2019s a hate crime, so if I\u2019m too hard, then my LGBT community is going to say, \u2018You don\u2019t believe a brother,\u2019 if I\u2019m too light on him, it\u2019s like, &#8216;Oh, because you are in the community, you\u2019re giving him a pass.&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u201cIt was a no-win situation for me,\u201d Roberts added<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frankly, though we never watch it, we consider\u00a0<em>GMA<\/em> as entertainment, not news.\u00a0 But since Ms. Roberts chooses to self-identify &#8220;as a journalist and as a news person&#8221; her statements and conduct beg the question, &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Since when does what people might think\u00a0or say influence a &#8220;journalist&#8221; and\/or &#8220;news person&#8221; in their pursuit of the<\/em> <em>TRUTH<\/em><\/span>?!?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SPOILER ALERT<\/em>: It should <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>EVER<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item courtesy of <em>American Greatness<\/em>, Victor Davis Hanson details how The Left is starting to feed on its own:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title fusion-post-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-fontsize=\"30\" data-lineheight=\"42\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/03\/03\/pigs-on-two-legs-turn-on-each-other\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pigs on Two Legs Turn on Each Other<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hanson-1024x576.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hanson-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hanson-1024x576.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hanson-1024x576-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">&#8220;T<\/span>ennis great Martina Navratilova until recently had long been coronated as a social justice trailblazer. She was one of the first marquee celebrity athletes to come out as gay, and then to advocate lesbian issues in and out of sports. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But suddenly the icon seems out of step with her progressive legend status.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Navratilova had the temerity to suggest that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one\u2019s sex is biologically determined<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> In other words, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>transgenderism<\/em><\/span>, even with the imprimatur of the social and biological sciences, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>cannot trump our innate genetic codes<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>A frustrated Navratilova was editorializing mostly i<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>n the context of men \u201ctransitioning\u201d to women<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>while in many cases still enjoying innate muscular and size advantages over females in same-sex sporting events<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As a result, she is being demonized unfairly as an intersectional traitor (\u201ctransphobic\u201d) and thus increasingly disinvited from a number of events by what is known as the LGBTQ community. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>For yet another example of such politically-correct shunning, catch the\u00a0Tales From the Darkside video, accessible through link #3 at the top of the page just below our Quote of the Day<\/em>.)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>In other words, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>her intersectional femaleness and gayness are revoked by improper ideology<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Barack Obama, once the progressive \u201cgod\u201d who was acclaimed to have the power to cool the planet and halt the rising of the seas, had the recent audacity to suggest, quite understandably, that young black teens need not ostentatiously show their wealth with gaudy chains, or highlight their sexuality with a cadre of \u201ctwerking\u201d girls. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Worse<\/em><\/span>, the now multi-million-dollar-mansion-residing Obama sort of suggested that young inner-city African-Americans who do such gauche things might be insecure about either their income or their sexuality.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Now <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even the divine Obama<\/em><\/span> is having his \u00a0ankles bitten on social media as a counterrevolutionary, despite his prior denunciations of white bitter clingers, \u201cthe 1 percent,\u201d and greedy capitalists who delusionally believed they had built their own businesses.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The new generation has forgotten that the now graying Obama once had the audacity to invite\u00a0Kendrick Lamar\u00a0into the White House. He also celebrated as his official portrait painter\u00a0Kehinde Wiley. Remember the former was lauded for his\u00a0album-cover\u00a0showing a dead white judge, with eyes x-ed out, whose demise was being celebrating by toasting rappers on the White House lawn, while the latter for a while had a cachet of taking a couple of Old Master\u00a0paintings of decapitations\u00a0and redoing them with black decapitators and white decapitated\u2014e.g., \u201cIt\u2019s sort of a play on the \u2018kill whitey\u2019 thing.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Was that not revolutionary enough? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">No, no\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> was\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><i>yesterday<\/i><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Today<\/em><\/span> the revolution <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has passed over the once-edgy Obama<\/em><\/span> (\u201c<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2008\/06\/14\/obama-philly.html\" class=\"broken_link\">bring a gun to a knife fight<\/a><\/span><\/em>\u201d).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Now to the Left he sounds more like a crabby Bill Cosby ranting about falling-down trousers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ouroboros.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ouroboros.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ouroboros.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ouroboros-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>In such a revolutionary scramble to be the most diverse and hard left, the logical trajectory ends up with a race to transcend the physical limits of victimhood.<\/strong><\/span> Think of the devolution of French anti-monarchists to republicans to Girondists to Jacobins\u2014and on to Napoleon. Or remember how the anti-Czarists aristocrats were overwhelmed by Mensheviks who were crushed by the Bolsheviks as Lenin radicalized everything prior and in the end his Soviet became Stalinized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>So <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>now<\/em><\/span> appears <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Jussie Smollett<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>He is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em> <em>just<\/em><\/span> left-wing, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but a rabid hater of Donald Trump<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And he is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not just<\/em><\/span> black, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but gay as well<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> And he is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not just<\/em><\/span> a victim, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but a hyper-victim of white bullie<\/em><\/span>s. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not just<\/em><\/span> bullies, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but bullies\u00a0with MAGA hats<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> And he is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not just<\/em><\/span> a victim of white red-hats, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but a victim of ski-masked racists<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not just<\/em><\/span> of their blows, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but of (frozen?) bleach<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not just<\/em><\/span> of bleach and blows, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but of lynch rope as well<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And they did <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not just<\/em><\/span> hit, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but smeared and slurred<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not just<\/em><\/span> MAGA sloganeering, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but anti-gay, anti-black<\/em><\/span>\u2014and perhaps, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worst of all<\/em><\/span>, in our performance society, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they slandered his \u201cEmpire\u201d TV show<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Progressives are like a worn rope being pulling apart at both ends.<\/span> At one end, there is an effort to radicalize prior radicalization, <em>and on the other end <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">victimhood is heading toward parody<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And what is left is the emblematic Jussie Smollett\u2014<em>the logical result of the revolution, who alone has staked out the only authentic and ultimate revolutionary stance<\/em>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>nihilism<\/em><\/span>\u2014<em>a state where <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no one can possibly rival Jussie\u2019s revolutionary grievance credentials<\/span> because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">they cannot exist in a reality based world<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Or put another way, <em>when <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no one is revolutionary enough<\/span><\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the revolutionary auditors end up ridiculous in their zeal for power and celebrity<\/em><\/span>\u2014sort of like Orwell\u2019s radical pigs finally prancing about on two legs and feasting on silver, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sort of like Jussie Smollett leveraging the ultimate state of victimhood for a better deal on \u201cEmpire<\/em><\/span><i>.<\/i>\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyway you cut it, the inmates have taken over the asylum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb030419dAPR20190304064505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb030419dAPR20190304064505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb030419dAPR20190304064505.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb030419dAPR20190304064505-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And it&#8217;s our belief, everything else being equal, between now and November 2020, a majority of Americans in enough states agree it&#8217;s time they were back in their padded cells.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, writing at <em>The New York Times<\/em>, Arthur Brooks demonstrates an amazing capacity to ignore reality while trying to bring biased balance to an almost purely Progressive problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<h1 id=\"link-1cc490e6\" class=\"css-1o7db0h e1h9rw200\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/02\/opinion\/sunday\/political-polarization.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldRM01UZGtZbVl6WW1ZeSIsInQiOiJDMHI3ZVk2TEc4WDdpcE83aE9jTW5hWUM4bjVxU0lMamJWRHJpN1NvTjZDRnlncnJSWkJGd2FkVm5KZHJ1UGtPRExySlpiNklyd3pTSDFjdXVtSVhOXC81RzliUWNzUElkWDBCYmZLbzJ6T0xUWGdaQ04yZ1dGdWZJSjZPZHBEMmkifQ%3D%3D\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Our Culture of Contempt<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"css-z6dj7x e1wiw3jv0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/02\/opinion\/sunday\/political-polarization.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldRM01UZGtZbVl6WW1ZeSIsInQiOiJDMHI3ZVk2TEc4WDdpcE83aE9jTW5hWUM4bjVxU0lMamJWRHJpN1NvTjZDRnlncnJSWkJGd2FkVm5KZHJ1UGtPRExySlpiNklyd3pTSDFjdXVtSVhOXC81RzliUWNzUElkWDBCYmZLbzJ6T0xUWGdaQ04yZ1dGdWZJSjZPZHBEMmkifQ%3D%3D\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The problem in America today is not incivility or intolerance. It\u2019s something far worse<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9o2q.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9o2q.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9o2q.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9o2q-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>My passion is ideas, especially policy ideas. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">While politics is like the weather, ideas are like the climate.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Climate<\/em><em> has an impact on<\/em> <em>weather<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but they\u2019re different things<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Similarly, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ideas affect politics, but they aren\u2019t the same<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> When done right, policy analysis, like climate science, favors nerds with Ph.D.s.<\/strong> <\/span>And that\u2019s me. For 20 years, I\u2019ve been a professor of public policy and president of a think tank in Washington. (For a decade before that I made my living as a musician, but not the cool kind \u2014 I played in a symphony orchestra.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But even a climatologist has to think about the weather when a hurricane comes ashore. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>And that\u2019s what\u2019s happening today<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Political differences are ripping our country apart<\/em><\/span>, swamping my big, fancy policy ideas.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Political scientists\u00a0have found\u00a0that our nation is more polarized\u00a0than it has been at any time since the Civil War.<\/span> One in six Americans has stopped talking to a family member or close friend because of the 2016 election. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Millions of people organize their social lives and their news exposure along ideological lines to avoid people with opposing viewpoints.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What\u2019s our problem<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>A\u00a02014 article\u00a0in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on \u201cmotive attribution asymmetry\u201d \u2014 the assumption that your ideology is based in love, while your opponent\u2019s is based in hate \u2014 suggests an answer. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The researchers found that the average Republican and the average Democrat today suffer from a level of motive attribution asymmetry that is comparable with that of Palestinians and Israelis.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Each side thinks it is driven by benevolence, while the other is evil and motivated by hatred<\/em><\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and is therefore an enemy with whom one cannot negotiate or compromise<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, Mr. Brooks, but one side <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> evil <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> motivated by hatred; and it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ain&#8217;t Conservatives<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allow us to offer a brief history (by no means all-inclusive!) of the seminal events which began the nation&#8217;s descent into discord and have brought us to brink of civil war:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Progressivism&#8217;s pursuit of political policy via judicial fiat:\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, when Liberal judicial activism snatched an otherwise political issue out of the people&#8217;s hands and enshrined abortion as a non-debatable Constitutional right. [see: &#8220;<em>warming, anthropogenic global<\/em>&#8220;]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). The complete and wholly-concocted attack on the character and record of a decent, honorable man and brilliant legal mind: Robert Bork.\u00a0 All to ensure the indiscriminate slaughter of the unborn could continue behind the veil of the most factless finding in SCOTUS history, and giving rise to the term &#8220;borking&#8221;: <em>obstruction (of someone, especially a candidate for public office) through systematic defamation or vilification<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9di4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9di4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9di4.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2v9di4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Thus an individual expelled from Harvard for cheating&#8230;who allowed a girl to drown in his car to protect his political career <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> lied to both the police and the country&#8230;and who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>repeatedly<\/em><\/span> cheated on his wife&#8230;fabricates facts about a man whose boots he&#8217;s not fit to lick, using talking points prepared by&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/biden_composite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/biden_composite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/biden_composite.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/biden_composite-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;America&#8217;s creepy uncle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Clarence Thomas is borked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). Former <em>Time<\/em> contributor Nina Burleigh states, for the record: &#8220;I would be happy to give him [Bill Clinton] a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal&#8221;&#8230;and outside the power of the people to legislatively limit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). Bush II isn&#8217;t &#8220;our president&#8221;. (Though frankly, in hindsight, we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>too<\/em><\/span> wish he hadn&#8217;t been!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). &#8220;Bitter clingers&#8221;, &#8220;Elections have consequences&#8221;, &#8220;the Cambridge Police acted stupidly&#8221;, &#8220;If I had a son he&#8217;d look like Trayvon&#8221;, &#8220;After my election I have more flexibility&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a pen and a phone&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(7). The &#8220;Russian Collusion&#8221; concoction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(8). Antifa, and the inevitable public exhibition of violence inherent in any Socialist movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(9). Brett Kavanaugh gets borked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(10). It&#8217;s not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>collusion<\/em><\/span>, it&#8217;s his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>finances<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a hint:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-iK3k_M9tcY\" 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>Now, here&#8217;s the juice: with the exception of fringe-element whackos who&#8217;ve as much to do with Conservatism and the Republican Party as Malcolm X did the KKK, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> of the violence&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> of the anarchy&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> of the divisiveness, through race, religion, class or national origin&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> of the lawlessness in the name of open borders and abortion&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> of the efforts to subvert unalienable individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> of the attempts to overturn the legal election of a President&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all of it has been as a result of purposeful Progressive policies and political calculation<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>PLEASE<\/em><\/span>, David Brooks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_4e8iAofnrw\" 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>Moving on, writing at his <em>Best of the Web<\/em>, Jim Freeman\u00a0wonders&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/is-team-trump-getting-along-too-well-with-france-11551828795?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Is Team Trump Getting Along Too Well with France<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/is-team-trump-getting-along-too-well-with-france-11551828795?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">A bad tax idea gets a surprise U.S. endorsement<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2vb9g0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2vb9g0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2vb9g0.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2vb9g0-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">France has contributed many cultural treasures to the world. Its corporate tax policy is not among them. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But on a recent visit to Paris, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin seems to have agreed to help make it easier for tax collectors in France and many other global jurisdictions to maintain high rates on corporate income.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Last week Reuters\u00a0reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>The United States <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">supports France\u2019s call within the Group of Seven economic powers for a minimum level of corporate taxation<\/span>, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday after meeting with the French finance minister in Paris.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>France has said it will use its G7 presidency this year to push for an agreement on a minimum level of corporate taxation.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cOn the minimum tax, that\u2019s something we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">absolutely<\/span> support, that\u2019s something the U.S. just put into place with our tax reform,\u201d Mnuchin told reporters.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cWe think it\u2019s very important, the concept of minimum taxes, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and that there isn\u2019t a chase to the bottom on taxation<\/span>,\u201d he added.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">That last line is particularly disturbing because it echoes the discredited criticism of tax reform lodged by former Obama economics adviser Larry Summers, who completely<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a class=\"icon none\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/thank-you-tax-reform-11551399901?mod=article_inline\">misjudged the impact<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>of a competitive corporate income tax rate in the United States.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Along with most every other economic reality!<\/em>)<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Recent U.S. economic growth has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>proven once again<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>slashing corporate income tax rates represents a race to the top of global prosperity<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Voters recognize the economic success of Mr. Trump\u2019s tax reform.<\/span> His <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Treasury secretary<\/em><\/span> should <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>too<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To borrow a phrase from George Satayana, those who cannot remember the past condemn the rest of us&#8230;<em>those who have to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">foot the bill<\/span><\/em>&#8230;to pay for their selective amnesia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cb030219dAPR20190301014518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cb030219dAPR20190301014518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cb030219dAPR20190301014518.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cb030219dAPR20190301014518-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mle190304c20190304060442.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67566\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mle190304c20190304060442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mle190304c20190304060442.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mle190304c20190304060442-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aria_c16383120190304120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67554\" 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width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Image-3-4-19-at-7.58-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Image-3-4-19-at-7.58-AM-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Image-3-5-19-at-7.29-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67520\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Image-3-5-19-at-7.29-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Image-3-5-19-at-7.29-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Image-3-5-19-at-7.29-AM-300x219.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image001.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image001-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image004.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image004-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image004-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-4.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-4-300x254.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-1-300x256.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-2-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-2-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-2-1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-2-1-236x300.jpeg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this string of memes forwarded by G. Trevor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bimpevcz08c21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bimpevcz08c21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bimpevcz08c21.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bimpevcz08c21-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bimpevcz08c21-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g5-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g5-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g5-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g5-2-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g7-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g7-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g7-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g7-2-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g13.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/g13-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/h5-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/h5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/h5-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/h5-1-141x300.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/h7-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/h7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/h7-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/h7-1-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67536\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image002.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image002-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1191.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67537\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1191.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1191-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67538\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n3-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n3-2-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n4-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67539\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n4-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n4-3.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n4-3-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n12a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n12a.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n12a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n12a-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n17-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67541\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n17-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n17-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/n17-1-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/r5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67542\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/r5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/r5.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/r5-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/r8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/r8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/r8.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/r8-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/t3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/t3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/t3-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/t3-2-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and this just in from the exotic Middle East:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/turkish-soccer-player-appears-to-cut-four-opponents-with-sharp-object-prosecutors-launch-probe\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Turkish soccer player allegedly cut 4 opponents with &#8216;sharp object<\/span><\/a><\/span>&#8216;<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/medium_2019-03-04-b7841b08e1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/medium_2019-03-04-b7841b08e1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/medium_2019-03-04-b7841b08e1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/medium_2019-03-04-b7841b08e1-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;An investigation was launched after a Turkish soccer player was seen allegedly injuring four other players with a \u201csharp object\u201d during a match Saturday. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Four members of Sakaryaspor accused midfielder Mansur Calar of Amed SFK of wounding them on the pitch during a third-tier match, Turkey\u2019s state-run news agency reported.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Calar was issued a travel ban as prosecutors investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Video on social media appeared to show Calar getting into multiple incidents with multiple players of Sakaryaspor and appeared to cut them using some kind of sharp object, media reports said<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If the report proves accurate, this is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>truly<\/em><\/span> a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>momentous moment<\/em><\/span>; as it would mark the <em>first time in recorded history<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anyone<\/em><\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>was\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actually<\/em><em> injured<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/daA2A08YSJU\" 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;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>playing soccer<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, March 6th, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, the 2020 race for the White House has just been tossed into turmoil: Holder announces he won&#8217;t run for president in 2020 &nbsp; \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff Wow, what&#8217;s next: Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein all pulling out of the race simultaneously?!? As Meghan &#8220;Broken Clock&#8221; [&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-67659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67659","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=67659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67660,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67659\/revisions\/67660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}