{"id":70113,"date":"2019-05-23T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T00:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=70113"},"modified":"2019-05-23T20:06:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T00:06:41","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-may-20th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=70113","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, May 20th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, May 20th, 2019, and here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We lead off the week with a video, as retired Navy Captain Chuck Nash offers his informed two cents on Iran:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZFwriFieJw\" 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>In a related item, to Jim Geraghty writing at his <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/what-challenging-roe-v-wade-might-look-like-today\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Choice Isn\u2019t War or No War<\/span><\/a>. <a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/what-challenging-roe-v-wade-might-look-like-today\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It\u2019s How Do We Respond if Attacked<\/span><\/a>?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Iran-Hostages-Reax_Cham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70044\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Iran-Hostages-Reax_Cham.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Iran-Hostages-Reax_Cham.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Iran-Hostages-Reax_Cham-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marine-barracks-bombing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marine-barracks-bombing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marine-barracks-bombing.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marine-barracks-bombing-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/05\/permanent-anti-war-movement\/589573\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/05\/permanent-anti-war-movement\/589573\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1558185040375000&amp;usg=AFQjCNESQRCgkl4H5TvJgZV5DCL7AQWz7A\" class=\"broken_link\">Conor Friedersdorf argues<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">America needs a permanent anti-war movement.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(He <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>somewhat<\/em><\/span> acknowledges that the anti-Iraq War movement of the 2000s was mostly an anti-George W. Bush movement, that complained quietly if at all about Obama\u2019s deployment of troops overseas, drone warfare, involvement in Libya, etcetera.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">We don\u2019t know what Iran is going to do in the coming days, weeks or months.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">But we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>know<\/em><\/span> they, or their proxies, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may attempt to kill Americans<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>If<\/em><\/span> that happens, the question <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>then<\/em><\/span> becomes, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>what do we do<\/em><\/span>?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Very few Americans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>want<\/em><\/span> all-out war with Iran, and an attempt to topple their regime.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">But we also <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>won\u2019t want any attack on Americans to have no consequence<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>While we appreciate the honest anti-war sentiment of folks like Friedersdorf, as well as understanding Geraghty&#8217;s point, the\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">reality<\/span><\/em> is we&#8217;re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already<\/em><\/span> at war with Iran.\u00a0 As the photos above remind us, America and its soldiers, sailors and citizens have been under Iranian attack since November of 1979, when the theocracy ordered the takeover of our embassy in Tehran, an assault which sharply escalated with the 1983 bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The former made Jimmy Carter a one-term President; the latter cost 241 American Marines, Sailors and Soldiers their lives, including our friend and Naval Academy classmate Jim Surch.\u00a0 Another friend and classmate, Mike Ohler, was killed in action defending the Beirut airport from Iranian-sponsored forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Innumerable other attacks and deaths have followed, both military and civilian, all at the hands of the Shiite theocracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So the question truly isn&#8217;t whether or not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to go<\/em><\/span> to war with Iran, as the reality is, on many fronts&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1fzXmJyolfY?start=38&amp;end=39&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><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>And if America&#8217;s most implacable foe didn&#8217;t already possess nuclear weapons, Obama&#8217;s Chamberlain-esque deal-of-the-century&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Iran-Nuclear-Deal-19-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70049\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Iran-Nuclear-Deal-19-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Iran-Nuclear-Deal-19-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Iran-Nuclear-Deal-19-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;made Iranian acquisition of them only a matter of time, time that is rapidly running out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And if you thought suicide speedboats, massed missiles and world-wide terror attacks were bad, wait until Iran acquires the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ultimate WMD<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 The Mad Mullahs, who believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/who-is-the-12th-imam-3555177\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>they can hasten the return of the 12th Imam and paradise on earth by plunging the world into chaos and war<\/em><\/span><\/a>, will bring a whole new meaning to the term, &#8220;going nuclear&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama tried appeasement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CqkVzelW8AAVEzn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70050\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CqkVzelW8AAVEzn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CqkVzelW8AAVEzn.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CqkVzelW8AAVEzn-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coupled with increasingly restrictive sanctions, The Donald&#8217;s decided on a different approach:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump-300x117.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: given time and continued coddling, the Mad Mullahs will inevitably confront the world with the same decision Officer Davis believed the city of San Francisco faced in <em>Magnum Force<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aEhjFKunNW0?start=64&amp;end=72&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><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>As the eloquent Inspector Harry Callahan observed earlier in the same film\u00a0(in what was, in our humble opinion, one of his best, yet most underrated lines),\u00a0there&#8217;s&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/31ea6b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70062\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/31ea6b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/31ea6b.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/31ea6b-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>That being said, we are never in favor of war until all other <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reasonable<\/em><\/span> options&#8230;again, with the emphasis on &#8220;reasonable&#8221;&#8230;have been exhausted.\u00a0 Which brings us to the latest from\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s David French, who summarizes&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/05\/the-many-downsides-of-war-with-iran\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Many Downsides of War with Iran<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"section-content--primary\">\n<h3 class=\"article-content\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/05\/the-many-downsides-of-war-with-iran\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">It could be worse than any American conflict in decades<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Trump-300x117.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Put simply, Iran has at least some ability to recreate the threat environment faced by American troops during the Iraq War\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span>\u00a0to directly strike American troops and ships with a missile force <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>far superior to any wartime adversary the United States has faced in modern times<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Moreover, Iranian forces can threaten and even sink American surface vessels.<\/span> In a<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/09\/06\/opinion\/how-we-won-the-war.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">notorious 2002 war game<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>,<\/strong><\/span> a<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> hostile force simulating Iran (commanded by Marine lieutenant general Paul Van Riper) overwhelmed the Navy and sank multiple ships \u2014 an outcome that would represent a monumental disaster for the United States.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Moreover, Iran is the most sophisticated terrorist state in the world. It has proven \u2014 for decades \u2014 that its proxies can inflict serious harm on U.S. forces.<\/strong> <\/span>The Marine-barracks bombing in 1983 killed 241 American military personnel, more men than died in any month in either the Iraq or Afghan wars. The 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia killed 19 American servicemen. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>These casualties <em>don\u2019t include<\/em> the hundreds of Americans who died at the hands of Iranian militias, militias that often wielded Iranian weapons, during the Iraq War.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Finally, it\u2019s worth pondering the economic effect of a raging conflict in the Persian Gulf.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oni.navy.mil\/Portals\/12\/Intel%20agencies\/iran\/Iran%20022217SP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">According to Navy analysis<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>, 34 percent of global crude-oil exports pass through the Strait of Hormuz, along with 33 percent of the global liquid-natural-gas market. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Disruption of the oil-and-gas trade alone would cause global (and American) economic shocks.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>None of this means that America should be afraid of Iran<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But no American should be under any illusion that a real fight with Iran would be like anything we\u2019ve seen since 9\/11<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> It would be virtually nothing like the conflict in Libya or the current fight against ISIS \u2014 where the prime risk of casualties has been borne by local allies. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>While there is\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>some<\/em><\/span>\u00a0best-case chance of a limited conflict conducted not unlike Operation Praying Mantis, it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>entirely possible<\/em><\/span> that conflict could lead to the sight of burning American ships in the Persian Gulf, missile strikes against American bases, a significant terror strike outside the Middle East, and an economic shock that disrupts the American recovery.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Of course<\/em><\/span> we would deal greater damage to Iran than they would to us. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Of course<\/em><\/span> we\u2019d (over time) get the best of any military exchange. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">But it\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>easy to imagine<\/em><\/span> a shocked American public looking at the loss of life, the loss of material, and the economic disruption and wondering, \u201cWhen did we agree to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span>?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unless<\/em><\/span> the administration <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>goes to Congress<\/em><\/span> and the American public, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lays out its case for conflict<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and receives congressional authorization<\/em><\/span>, the answer would be simple and potentially politically catastrophic: They did <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> agree.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>America <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">should not<\/span><\/em> stumble into war. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Aside from the demands of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>immediate self-defense<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>there should be no conflict with Iran absent congressional approval<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Congress, for its part, should not approve such a conflict absent the most serious, urgent, and compelling need.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food for thought&#8230;but not an excuse to shy away from confronting the world&#8217;s foremost fomenter of terrorism, and an adversary who&#8217;s been killing Americans with impunity for almost 40 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If the battle&#8217;s to be fought&#8230;and again, absent the overthrow of the Mullah&#8217;s theocracy, we believe the battle to be inevitable&#8230;then let it be on our terms and timing, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>before<\/em><\/span> Iran has a deliverable nuclear capability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, in a forward from Jeff Foutch, <em>Biz Pac Review<\/em> is reporting&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizpacreview.com\/2019\/05\/17\/trump-admin-reportedly-ready-to-use-insurrection-act-to-root-out-and-boot-illegal-immigrants-755399?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=BPR%20Email&amp;utm_campaign=DMS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Trump admin reportedly ready to use \u2018Insurrection Act\u2019 to root out and boot illegal immigrants<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70037\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-8.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-8-300x198.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Trump administration reportedly plans to use the \u201ctremendous powers\u201d of the\u00a0212-year-old Insurrection Act to\u00a0boot illegal aliens\u00a0from the United States.<\/strong><\/span> \u201cWe\u2019re doing the Insurrection Act,\u201d one unnamed official\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/05\/16\/donald-trump-insurrection-act-illegal-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">confirmed<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to The Daily Caller<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Signed into law by then-President Thomas Jefferson in 1807, the law allows the president to deploy military troops to root out \u201cunlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States,\u201d according to the<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/10\/subtitle-A\/part-I\/chapter-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legal Information Institute<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It was last used by then-President George H.W. Bush <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in 1992 to deal with the Los Angeles riots<\/em><\/span>, which had spawned following the acquittal of the four officers involved in Rodney King\u2019s beating<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two thoughts come to mind: first, it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>about time<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CeEIpYRcGcA?start=6&amp;end=8&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><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s another item from the <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>, as Jim Geraghty asks what inquiring Conservative minds want to know:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/what-challenging-roe-v-wade-might-look-like-today\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Do You Really Trust Justice Roberts with a Challenge to\u00a0<em>Roe vs. Wade<\/em><\/span><\/a>?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/chief-justice-john-roberts_bilph0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/chief-justice-john-roberts_bilph0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/chief-justice-john-roberts_bilph0.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/chief-justice-john-roberts_bilph0-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/21\/politics\/john-roberts-obamacare-the-chief\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/21\/politics\/john-roberts-obamacare-the-chief\/index.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1558185040375000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH-1vptO-xpJ6S8KHWbrfM-_3S5gA\">Roberts<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cinitially voted in a private conference to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>strike down<\/em><\/span> the individual insurance mandate \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the heart of the law<\/em><\/span> \u2014 but he also voted to uphold an expansion of Medicaid for people near the poverty line.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Two months later<\/span>, Roberts had shifted on <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">both<\/span>.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">We <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don\u2019t know<\/em><\/span> precisely <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>why<\/em><\/span> Roberts <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>changed his views so dramatically<\/em><\/span>, but there is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>widespread belief<\/em> <\/span>that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the public pressure campaign affected Roberts\u2019s decision<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/roberts-switched-views-to-uphold-health-care-law\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/roberts-switched-views-to-uphold-health-care-law\/2\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1558185040375000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFz2lp0rzEZ6lVbssdS3yqyJwXkYQ\">CBS News Jan Crawford reported at the time<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Over the next six weeks, as Roberts began to craft the decision striking down the mandate, the external pressure began to grow.<\/span> Roberts almost certainly was aware of it.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>There were countless news articles in May warning of damage to the court \u2013 and to Roberts\u2019 reputation \u2013 if the court were to strike down the mandate. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Leading politicians, including the president himself, had expressed confidence the mandate would be upheld.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Some even suggested that if Roberts struck down the mandate, it would prove he had been deceitful during his confirmation hearings, when he explained a philosophy of judicial restraint.<\/span> It was around this time that it also became clear to the conservative justices that Roberts was, as one put it, \u201cwobbly,\u201d the sources said.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>It is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not known why<\/span> Roberts changed his view on the mandate and decided to uphold the law. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">At least <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one<\/span> conservative justice <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tried to get him to explain it<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but was unsatisfied with the response<\/span>, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Roberts has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never laid out<\/em><\/span>, in detail, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>what<\/em><\/span> drove him to change his mind so dramatically.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Maybe<\/em><\/span> he really did rethink it and conclude that the individual mandate was just an unorthodox but constitutional exercise of the Congress\u2019 well-established power to levy taxes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But if Roberts <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really was swayed<\/em><\/span> by a fear that striking down a priority of liberals would do irreversible damage to the Supreme Court\u2019s reputation&#8230;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a guy who wasn\u2019t willing to reverse the individual mandate sure as heck isn\u2019t going to reverse\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Gun owners won with Heller. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Will the pro-life movement win a legal challenge to these state laws on abortion?<\/span> And how much do they want to bet with Roberts as the fifth vote?<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not merely &#8220;no&#8221;, but &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>HELL NO<\/em><\/span>!!!&#8221;.\u00a0 For that matter, until he proves differently, neither do we trust Kavanaugh to withstand the MSM pressure, particularly if Roberts were to suddenly grow a set and side with Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch, making Brett the swing vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But absent the demise of Darth Bader and Trump&#8217;s appointment of a fourth dependable strict-constructionist on the Court, there may not come a better time.<\/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\/05\/alabama.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alabama.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alabama.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alabama-300x232.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sk051619dAPR20190514104516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sk051619dAPR20190514104516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sk051619dAPR20190514104516.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sk051619dAPR20190514104516-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blame-game.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blame-game.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blame-game.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/blame-game-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/afb051619dAPR20190516074509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/afb051619dAPR20190516074509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/afb051619dAPR20190516074509.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/afb051619dAPR20190516074509-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-580520190517112347.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-580520190517112347.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-580520190517112347.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-580520190517112347-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/nerdler-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/nerdler-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/nerdler-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/nerdler-1-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AOC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AOC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AOC.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AOC-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaa-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cb051519dAPR20190514114525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cb051519dAPR20190514114525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cb051519dAPR20190514114525.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cb051519dAPR20190514114525-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-1-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-1-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-1-2.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-1-2-300x275.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-7.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/download-7-291x300.jpeg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/payback.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/payback.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/payback.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/payback-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we loved these three from Shannon, in whose breast beats the deep, true heart of Texas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.41-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.41-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.41-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.41-PM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.41-PM-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.43-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70023\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.43-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.43-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.43-PM-228x300.jpeg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.44-PM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.44-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.44-PM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Image-5-19-19-at-8.44-PM-239x300.jpeg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll be floating on the Severn River most of Tuesday enjoying the Blue Angels practice show, so &#8217;til Friday&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GLUNypEfrFQ?start=86&amp;end=87&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 Monday, May 20th, 2019, and here&#8217;s The Gouge! We lead off the week with a video, as retired Navy Captain Chuck Nash offers his informed two cents on Iran: \ufeff In a related item, to Jim Geraghty writing at his Morning Jolt&#8230; The Choice Isn\u2019t War or No War. It\u2019s How Do We Respond [&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-70113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70113","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=70113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70114,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70113\/revisions\/70114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}