{"id":69742,"date":"2019-05-10T20:54:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T00:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=69742"},"modified":"2019-05-10T20:54:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T00:54:23","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-may-1st-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=69742","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, May 1st, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, May 1st, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, here&#8217;s Beto comparing the conditions of criminal illegal aliens working in the U.S. to those of antebellum slaves:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lcqhtpxqtZc\" 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, they&#8217;re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exactly<\/em><\/span> the same, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>except<\/em><\/span>: American slaves came here <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>involuntarily<\/em><\/span> after being sold into bondage <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>by their fellow Africans<\/em><\/span>, weren&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>paid<\/em><\/span>\u00a0for their labor (let alone received it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>tax-free under the table<\/em><\/span>), had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no access<\/em><\/span> to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>free healthcare, education or entitlements<\/em><\/span> and were whipped and beaten at the whim of their overseer or master.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69632\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robin.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robin-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">similarities<\/span><\/em> are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>striking<\/em><\/span>!\u00a0 Then again, given the current state of the 2020 Dimocratic field, Beto should for once be thankful Buttiegeg&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in front<\/em><\/span>, rather than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>behind<\/em><\/span> him!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a similarly inaccurate comparison forwarded by George Lawlor, <em>FOX News<\/em> informs us how a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/california-professor-baby-cancer-parasite\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">California professor is slammed for calling fetus &#8216;legitimate parasite&#8217; during lecture on cancer<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-21.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69598\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-21.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-21.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-21-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A medical school lecture comparing the &#8220;parallels between fetuses and cancers&#8221; is coming under fire from the University of California as a dehumanizing lesson to students.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But the professor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>insists\u00a0it wasn&#8217;t the point of the slide<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The lecture, reportedly\u00a0part of the UC San Diego School of Medicine course, Evolution of Human Disease,\u00a0&#8220;explores the major epidemiological transitions from ape-like ancestors to foraging tribes, farmers and pastoralists, to the global metropolitan primate we now are. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">We focus on how diseases have shaped humans and how humans have shaped disease over time.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In the screengrab, the slide refers to a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>preborn child<\/em><\/span>\u00a0as a &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>legitimate parasite<\/em><\/span>&#8221; that &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>invades<\/em><\/span>&#8221; its mother and &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>manipulates&#8221; her immunity<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/in-utero-parasites.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/in-utero-parasites.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/in-utero-parasites.png 399w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/in-utero-parasites-288x300.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;After the slide went viral, the professor responded in an email to his class. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8220;Most of you probably realize that my point was to show that mammals are especially prone to invasive cancers because mammals evolved invasive placentation,&#8221; he wrote<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>My point was not to indoctrinate you with the notion that fetuses are cancers<\/em><\/span>, as insinuated in the article.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lila Rose, the founder and president of Live Action, slammed California&#8217;s public university system and called out the professor for his statement. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8220;Amid scrutiny, UC San Diego professor says <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he didn&#8217;t intend to say &#8216;fetuses and cancers<\/em><\/span>,'&#8221; Rose wrote. &#8220;<em>How about backtracking the term \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">parasite<\/span><\/em>\u201d? <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">These are medically inaccurate &amp; offensive terms, ones that abortion advocates have used for dozens of years to dehumanize children.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The university said the slide said the point of the slide is to show &#8220;mammals are especially prone to invasive cancers, in part because mammals evolved the ability to host fetuses and placentas.&#8221; &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The slide presents common, widely accepted scientific concepts and in no way represents a political statement,&#8221; the university said in a statement<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And you know, the university is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right<\/em><\/span>: this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em><\/span> a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>political statement<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Rather it was a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>moral pronouncement<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em>accurately reflecting The Left&#8217;s utter disregard for the sanctity of human life<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just in case anyone was&#8230;<em>confused<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, we trust you&#8217;ll join us in wishing good riddance to bad rubbish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2019\/04\/29\/breaking-rod-rosenstein-officially-leaves-the-department-of-justice-n2545570\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Rod Rosenstein Officially Resigns From the Department of Justice<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2yy80g.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2yy80g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2yy80g.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2yy80g-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pardon us if we don&#8217;t bid this disease-ridden rodent fare-thee-well as he scurries off into some dark alley on K Street, having already inflicted upon the body politic <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all the harm he could<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inquiring minds will remember, like so many other of the wounds suffered by The Donald, Rodentstein&#8217;s were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/politics\/blog\/bal-trump-to-nominate-rod-rosenstein-deputy-attorney-general-20170131-story.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">self-inflicted<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, if the facts of this story from the <em>WSJ<\/em>\u00a0are true, like his good friend Jim Comey, Bob Mueller has just revealed himself as the partisan deep state swamp rat we&#8217;ve always held him to be:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-objected-to-barrs-summary-of-report-11556670415?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mueller Objected to Barr\u2019s Summary of Report<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-objected-to-barrs-summary-of-report-11556670415?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Special counsel said attorney general \u2018did not fully capture the context, nature and substance\u2019 of findings on Trump and Russia<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zv0z1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69623\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zv0z1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zv0z1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zv0z1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Mr. Mueller <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>decided not to render a judgment<\/em><\/span> on whether Mr. Trump\u2019s conduct constituted obstruction of justice, <em>saying he was guided in part by Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted<\/em>, <em>but made clear he was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not exonerating<\/span> the president<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mr. Barr subsequently determined that the evidence Mr. Mueller\u2019s investigation developed was insufficient to establish a crime of obstruction of justice<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, but after <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>2 years<\/em><\/span>, some <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>400 pages<\/em><\/span> and well over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>$30 million<\/em><\/span>, was it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>too much to expect<\/em><\/span> the special counsel would offer an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unambiguous report<\/em><\/span>\u00a0with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>conclusions not subject to misinterpretation<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: this was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span> part and parcel to &#8220;the plan&#8221;: they couldn&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>prove<\/em>\u00a0<em>t<\/em><em>heir<\/em><em> facts<\/em><\/span>, so now they&#8217;re seeking <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to condemn by innuendo<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Andy McCarthy called the play some three weeks back, as he observed, when it came to his conclusions,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/18\/mueller-completely-dropped-the-ball-with-obstruction-punt\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Mueller completely dropped the ball<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Now<\/span><\/em> we know his fumble was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>deliberate<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, courtesy of <em>NRO<\/em>, we present the latest\u00a0ruminations of <em>NeverTrumper<\/em> George Will, as with a straight face he seriously suggests&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/04\/joe-biden-campaign-2020-chaos-weary-voters\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Biden Is Well-Positioned to Offer Chaos-Weary Voters a Rest<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-content\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/04\/joe-biden-campaign-2020-chaos-weary-voters\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If most Americans are tired and embarrassed with the direction of the country more than they\u2019re angry, the former vice president could benefit<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BidenGravity-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BidenGravity-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BidenGravity-sm.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BidenGravity-sm-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Three days before Joe Biden dove back into the deep end of the political pool, a rival, Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), said the terrorist who bombed the 2013 Boston Marathon, and everyone else in America\u2019s prisons, should be allowed to vote, lest the \u201cchipping away\u201d of voting rights leave America \u201crunning down a slippery slope.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> Such running \u2014 to be fair to the faux independent (he caucuses with Senate Democrats; he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination) \u2014 does sound dangerous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Another Biden rival, California senator Kamala Harris, utilized the sort of verbal fudge that many Democratic presidential candidates resort to when they are terrified that they might be neglecting to stroke some obscure erogenous zone on the party\u2019s progressive base.<\/span> She initially said Sanders\u2019s idea should be part of a \u201cconversation,\u201d which is basically what she (and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren) said about \u201creparations\u201d for slavery.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>One or more<\/em><\/span> of Biden\u2019s rivals <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>have endorsed<\/em><\/span>, or at least <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>deemed conversation-worthy<\/em><\/span>, many ideas <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not uppermost in most voters\u2019 minds<\/em><\/span>: socialism, the Green New Deal, packing the Supreme Court, abolishing ICE and the Electoral College, free college, votes for 16-year-olds, \u201cMedicare for All\u201d (and private health insurance for no one), etc. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Biden\u2019s campaign slogan <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">should<\/span> be: \u201cHow about a president who doesn\u2019t make the current one look less loony than he is?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The large progressive component of the Democratic nominating electorate, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>comfortable in its intellectual silo<\/em><\/span>, seems to have convinced itself of this: <em>Because Donald Trump <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">constantly makes sensible people wince<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any<\/span> Democratic nominee, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">even one from progressivism\u2019s wilder shores<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can win<\/span><\/em>, so <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no nominee<\/em><\/span> should be (in President John Quincy Adams\u2019s 1825 words) \u201cpalsied by the\u00a0will\u00a0of our constituents.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> (Adams lost the 1828 election to the populist Andrew Jackson, whose portrait adorns the current populist president\u2019s Oval Office.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">..<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Biden, whose smile is Jack Nicholson\u2019s without the naughtiness, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is not angry<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">His sporadic attempts at seeming so are transparently, and engagingly, synthetic.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Neither<\/em><\/span>, however, are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most Americans angry<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Rather<\/em><\/span>, they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>embarrassed and exhausted<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Biden has a talent for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>embarrassing himself<\/em><\/span>, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not the nation<\/em><\/span>, and he probably might seem to weary voters to be something devoutly desired: <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">restful<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah, restful: sorta like the sleep induced by an overdose of barbiturates.\u00a0 And how, pray tell, does an American President <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>embarrass himself without embarrassing the nation<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Will is as out of touch with the tens of millions of American who, like us, pulled the handle for The Donald primarily because we&#8217;d cast a vote for a Clinton when&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/When-Pigs-Fly-slot-NetEnt-720x540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/When-Pigs-Fly-slot-NetEnt-720x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/When-Pigs-Fly-slot-NetEnt-720x540.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/When-Pigs-Fly-slot-NetEnt-720x540-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to mention, as this video shows, Joe is either demented, brain-damaged or drunk:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1AVulVQRipk\" 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>Let the national embarrassment <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>begin<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In <em>another<\/em> related item, we find the <em>New York Post<\/em>&#8216;s Michael Goodwin heavily engaged&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"postid-13758115\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/27\/battling-the-democrats-big-lie-about-donald-trump\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Battling the Democrats\u2019 big lie about Donald Trump<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">*<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>* <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Which<\/span><\/em> big lie?!?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/treason.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/treason.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/treason.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/treason-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>No doubt you\u2019ve heard a Democrat or two declare that President Trump is a \u201cthreat to our democracy.\u201d <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Joe Biden used his campaign launch to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>up the ante<\/em><\/span>, saying that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the 2020 election is a \u201cbattle for the soul\u201d of America<\/em><\/span> and warning that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if<\/em><\/span> Trump gets a second term, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ho hum<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #000080;\">The suggestion that <em>the president is the personification of evil and is destroying all that makes America exceptional<\/em> <em>has become <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so routine<\/em><\/span><em> that <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it\u2019s easy to ignore it<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> In fact, it\u2019s an \u00adextraordinary charge, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">even for our<\/span><\/em> nasty, turbulent times.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>More remarkable<\/em><\/span>, the charge and related talking points <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>continue to thrive<\/em><\/span> on the left <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>despite the lack of facts to support them<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Indeed, special counsel Robert Mueller\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shredded the heart of the wildest accusations<\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em> that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">So <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the collusion charge was a Big Lie<\/em><\/span>, <em>but it\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a lie that won\u2019t die<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>A trip down memory lane shows how we got to this perilous place<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of &#8220;all sizzle, no substance&#8221;, here&#8217;s one more\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>completely incomplete<\/em><\/span> report from\u00a0<em>FOX News<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/navy-reviewing-procedures-after-female-recruit-18-dead-boot-camp\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Navy reviewing procedures after female recruit, 18, dies during boot camp<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kelsey-Nobles-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kelsey-Nobles-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kelsey-Nobles-.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kelsey-Nobles--300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Navy\u00a0is reviewing its training and safety procedures after an 18-year-old recruit from\u00a0Alabama\u00a0died during boot camp last week.<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> <strong>Kelsey Nobles, of\u00a0Mobile, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>collapsed during training<\/em><\/span> at the Navy Recruit Training Center in Great Lakes, Ill.,\u00a0on Tuesday, spokesman Lt. Joseph W. Pfaff said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Nobles&#8217; father, Harold,\u00a0told\u00a0WKRG-TV\u00a0that <em>doctors said <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the woman went into cardiac arrest after a fitness test<\/span>, and &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">couldn&#8217;t be revived<\/span><\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The recruit&#8217;s death was the second at the Navy training center in just over eight weeks. On Feb. 22, Seaman Recruit Kierra Evans, 20, collapsed following the 1.5-mile run portion of the Navy&#8217;s Physical Fitness Assessment.<\/strong><\/span> She was rushed to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead several hours later,\u00a0according to Military.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>&#8220;For me, I&#8217;m just like, &#8216;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What&#8217;s wrong<\/em><\/span>?&#8217; <span style=\"color: #000080;\">These young people are so excited about serving their country and going into the military.<\/span> Are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they<\/em><\/span> doing enough to check <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>them<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Does physical testing need to be more in-depth?&#8221; Harold Nobles\u00a0told\u00a0the news station<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>&#8220;Recruit Training Command reviewed the training, safety, medical processes, and overall procedures regarding the implementation of the Physical Fitness Assessment and found no discrepancies in its execution,&#8221; Pfaff told the outlet<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>First and foremost, to the greatest extent possible having never lost a child, we grieve with Mr. Nobles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That being said, no physical screening is perfect.\u00a0 During our four years at Navy, at least one Midshipman a year was lost to some undiagnosed medical condition; and we were subjected not only to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pre<\/em><\/span>-admission physicals, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>post<\/em><\/span>-admission testing as well.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not like the Navy hasn&#8217;t been running boot camps for generations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we<\/em><\/span> find rather curious is the article&#8217;s focus on recent female fatalities, and only one other at that.\u00a0 No attempt whatsoever to establish any statistical trend or recurring history, let alone a recounting of similar deaths among <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>male<\/em><\/span> recruits.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the greatest leap of misplaced faith since Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvSkeJbQy74\" 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;writing at <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Cortney O&#8217;Brien records how a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/cortneyobrien\/2019\/04\/30\/witness-in-favor-of-medicare-for-all-admits-at-hearing-theyre-shooting-in-the-dark-n2545608\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Witness in Favor of \u2018Medicare for All\u2019 Admits at Hearing They\u2019re \u2018Shooting in the Dark<\/span><\/a>\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zuyxt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69621\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zuyxt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zuyxt.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zuyxt-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>By the way, did you notice how <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cool<\/span> I look in this photo?!?<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The House Rules Committee held its first hearing about the Democrats&#8217; Medicare for All bill, introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) in the House and by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), for a second time, in the Senate.<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong> The &#8220;revamped&#8221; version of the bill boasts &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; health care coverage, including primary care, dental, vision, and other services, as well as no deductibles, no co-pays, etc. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Democratic led-committee was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thrilled to share the news<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">It <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sounds<\/em><\/span> pretty good, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>until you see the price tag or consider the lower quality of care<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Representatives from the Mercatus Center and the Galen Institute were there to deliver the bad news.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>the folks on the anti-Medicare-for-All side were obligated to tell the panel <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>just how much the Democrats&#8217; effort would cost<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Dr. Charles Blahous of the Mercatus Center reported that the new net cost will be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>between $32.6 trillion and $38.8 trillion in the first 10 years<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>adding<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the first number<\/em><\/span> is &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a very low estimate<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>By 2022<\/em><\/span>, the program would consume <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>11 to 13 percent of GDP<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner added in her remarks that <em>Medicare for All will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">also<\/span> come with l<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ower quality of care<\/span>, such as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what&#8217;s been reported in<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/sallypipes\/2019\/04\/01\/britains-version-of-medicare-for-all-is-collapsing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">England<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Americans could expect rations, longer wait times, etc., she warned.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Another<\/em><\/span> scary factor to consider is that, since the U.S. has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never implemented something like this before<\/em><\/span>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re getting into<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>WRONG!!!<\/em>)<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Even Dr. Dean Baker, from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who was there to testify<em>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in favor<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>of Jayapal&#8217;s measure, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>admitted that we would be &#8220;shooting in the dark<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/span> But it would be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worth it<\/em><\/span> &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to see what happens when we make health care more available<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">He argued that the legislation would come <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>with administrative savings<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> With <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>certain adjustments<\/em><\/span>, <em>we could get the tab down to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">$25 trillion<\/span><\/em>, he suggested<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/liVOBgO4QfI?start=26&amp;end=29&amp;\" 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>Sorry, but with all due respect to Ms. O&#8217;Brien, the U.S. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>HAS<\/em><\/span> implemented this type of program before, and with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>disastrous<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/va-waiting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69622\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/va-waiting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/va-waiting.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/va-waiting-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in<\/em><\/span>appropriately enough, to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG-562420190425113844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69601\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG-562420190425113844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG-562420190425113844.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG-562420190425113844-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/12_22445220190425023209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/12_22445220190425023209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/12_22445220190425023209.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/12_22445220190425023209-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cb042619dAPR20190426124509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cb042619dAPR20190426124509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cb042619dAPR20190426124509.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/cb042619dAPR20190426124509-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sk042819dAPR20190426104512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sk042819dAPR20190426104512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sk042819dAPR20190426104512.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sk042819dAPR20190426104512-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lb190426cd20190426121715.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/lb190426cd20190426121715.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" 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src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zpy0v.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zpy0v.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zpy0v-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-2-6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-2-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-2-6.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-2-6-300x235.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-20.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69571\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-20.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-20.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-20-300x230.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-4-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69572\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-4-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-4-1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-4-1-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-3-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69573\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-3-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-3-7.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-3-7-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-1-10.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-1-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-1-10.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/download-1-10-300x277.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and this just in from <em>Charmless City<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6970119\/Seven-people-shot-near-Baltimore-church.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">One person is dead and six are injured in a shooting near a Baltimore church<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6970119\/Seven-people-shot-near-Baltimore-church.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The shooting broke out in Baltimore at about 5.30pm on Sunday<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zus81.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69613\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zus81.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zus81.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2zus81-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>One<\/em><\/span> killed, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>seven<\/em><\/span>\u00a0injured; that&#8217;s the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>same number slain<\/em><\/span> and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>four mor<\/em><em>e<\/em><em> than were wounded<\/em><\/span> by the Poway synagogue shooter.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t hold your breath waiting for the MSM to give <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span>\u00a0incident the same breathless coverage afforded the Poway shooting spree, as\u00a0<\/strong><strong>it was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Black-on-Black crime<\/em><\/span>; which means repetitive reporting <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>might<\/em><\/span> lead <em>someone<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>somewhere<\/em><\/span> to focus on the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">real root<\/span><\/em> of the problem: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>purposefully counterproductive Progressive policies<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More importantly, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/04\/baltimore-suffers-after-decades-of-mismanagement\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-30&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Marta Mossburg recently recorded at NRO<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, this shooting was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>just another Sunday in Baltimore<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Crime is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so pervasive<\/em><\/span> today that Johns Hopkins University, the city\u2019s largest private-sector employer, won approval this year from the state legislature <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to create its own armed police force to protect students, faculty, and its medical campus<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">The rate of violent crime has been terrible for years and last year Baltimore\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2018\/09\/25\/baltimore-homicide-murder-rate-fbi-statistics-death-crime-killings\/1426739002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">topped<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the FBI\u2019s homicide list at a time when violent crime has been decreasing nationally.<\/span> Security company ADT just ranked Baltimore\u2019s residents the \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/baltimore.cbslocal.com\/2019\/04\/04\/baltimore-has-the-most-robberies-in-america-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most robbed<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u201d in the United States.<span style=\"color: #008080;\"> This, four years after former mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a Democrat like every Baltimore mayor since 1967, told residents they needed to give looters \u201cspace\u201d to \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/baltimore-unrest\/mayor-stephanie-rawlings-blake-under-fire-giving-space-destroy-baltimore-n349656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroy<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u201d during riots following the death of\u00a0Freddie Gray, a black man who died in police custody in 2015, and earlier told residents who complained about spiking crime during her tenure that they were \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/baltimorebrew.com\/2014\/02\/10\/mayor-says-citizens-can-be-part-of-the-solution-or-part-of-the-problem-in-curbing-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">part of the problem<\/a><\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span> (She decided not to run for a second term, by the way.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008080;\">No wonder <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so many people are voting with their feet<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>leaving<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Last year\u2019s census figures showed that, <em>of the 30 largest cities in the United States<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only Baltimore and Detroit lost population<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Baltimore had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shrunk<\/em><\/span> to a population <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not seen for 100 years<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> This year\u2019s census figures show another\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/baltimore-sees-biggest-population-loss-in-single-year-since-2001-census-estimates-show\/2019\/04\/21\/f601f560-62b9-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html?utm_term=.0c198bab2279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">population decline<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0of 1.2 percent to just over 600,000 residents and no signs of stopping.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lest we appear focused on seeking scapegoats from amongst the city&#8217;s darker denizens as the source of the problem, Martin O&#8217;Malley, who turned 8 years of singularly uninspired leadership as Baltimore&#8217;s mayor into two terms as Maryland&#8217;s budget-busting governor&#8230;along with a brief and forgettable 15 minutes of fame on the national stage&#8230;was as white and lacking in rhythm as a honky could be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inquiring minds might wonder, what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was<\/em><\/span>\u00a0Marty&#8217;s claim to fame&#8230;besides rivaling Joe Biden, John Kerry and AOC for the honorific &#8220;Dumbest Dimocrat <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>EVER<\/em><\/span>&#8220;?\u00a0 Answer: h<\/strong><strong>e campaigned for mayor on promises to improve student performance <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> curtail violent crime, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>both<\/em><\/span> of which he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>accomplished<\/em><\/span>&#8230;by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lowering the passing grade<\/em><\/span> on public school tests from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>60<\/em><\/span> to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">50<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reclassifying<\/em><\/span> a number of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>violent<\/em> <\/span>crimes as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>non-violent<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If, as Einstein is purported to have proffered, the\u00a0<b>definition of insanity<\/b>\u00a0is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, the citizens of Baltimore are, quite literally, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>utterly out of their minds<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which is why we frequent the Charmless City only six times a year: to feed and minister to the homeless.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On a personal note, due to our commitment to entertain Chris Wilson, one of our oldest, bestest buddies <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> father of Jack Wilson, Naval Academy Class of 2014 and Naval Aviator extraordinaire, we shan&#8217;t be publishing again before next Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So until then&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GLUNypEfrFQ?start=86&amp;end=88&amp;\" 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>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, May 1st, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, here&#8217;s Beto comparing the conditions of criminal illegal aliens working in the U.S. to those of antebellum slaves: \ufeff Yeah, they&#8217;re exactly the same, except: American slaves came here involuntarily after being sold into bondage by their fellow Africans, weren&#8217;t paid\u00a0for their labor (let alone received 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