{"id":80528,"date":"2020-05-03T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T20:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=80528"},"modified":"2020-05-03T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T20:25:44","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-may-1st-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=80528","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, May 1st, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, May 1st, 2020&#8230;and here&#8217;s a belated edition of <em>The Gouge<\/em>, belated because we were waiting for the Biden interview before going to press.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We must say we were surprised by the tenor of Mika Brezinski&#8217;s questions&#8230;as was Groper Joe, as evidenced by this<\/strong><strong>\u00a0deer-in-the-headlights moment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/seu_C08yAAM?start=957&amp;end=998&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>You can access the entire interview <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/seu_C08yAAM\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><\/span>, but we&#8217;ll give the <em>Cliff Notes<\/em> version of Biden&#8217;s assertions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I didn&#8217;t do it<\/em><\/span>, and you must believe me because,&#8230;well&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I&#8217;m me<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>There&#8217;s no record of a complaint<\/em><\/span>, and you must believe me because,&#8230;well&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I&#8217;m me<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I&#8217;m not a hypocrite: my circumstances are totally different from Kavanaugh&#8217;s<\/em><\/span>\u00a0because,&#8230; well,&#8230;I say so, and you must believe me because,&#8230;well&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I&#8217;m me<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>My files can&#8217;t be searched because they contain classified information of my conversations with Barack<\/em><\/span>,\u00a0and you must believe me because,&#8230;well&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I&#8217;m me<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Yeah,&#8230;we can only imagine the substance of those &#8220;classified conversations&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls2.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls2-286x300.jpeg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe&#8217;s evasive &#8220;explanations&#8221; recall his misleading response to a question Tom Brokaw posed in a 2008 interview, which provided a preview of an issue which continues to dog him to this day:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8HFyQYdlnsM?start=297&amp;end=394&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>Two thoughts come to mind: (1) Brokaw should have pointed out $140,000 in New York City doesn&#8217;t go nearly as far as $100,000 in Delaware; and (2) Hunter&#8217;s career has demonstrated, despite having graduated from Yale Law, any success he&#8217;s enjoyed has been as a result of his father&#8217;s political connections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, as a forward from Bill Meisen informs us, a team of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-operatives-accessed-secret-senate-records-at-university-of-delaware-report-says\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Biden operatives accessed his secret Senate records at the University of Delaware prior to its closing in Mid-March<\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0 Guess there&#8217;s no chance they were in there to locate and eliminate any record of Reade&#8217;s complaint!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, two thoughts arise: first, if Biden&#8217;s records <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>truly<\/em><\/span> contain <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>classified<\/em><\/span> material, on what basis would the University of Delaware or Biden campaign staffers have access to them?\u00a0 We strongly doubt any possess the necessary security clearances, let alone the critical &#8220;need to know&#8221;; s<\/strong><strong>econd, we&#8217;d put the likelihood of Obama entrusting Joe Biden with any truly sensitive information on a par with us winning the lottery&#8230;without buying a ticket.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In any event, if his minders believe the <em>Morning Joe<\/em> interview helped the increasingly-befuddled Biden, they&#8217;re on dope&#8230;in addition to backing one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As an aside, The Boss mentioned this reminds him of when\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2005\/apr\/4\/20050404-084700-5791r\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Sandy Burglar<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0was caught stealing and destroying highly-sensitive evidence from National Archives which highlighted the Clinton Administration&#8217;s ineptitude anti-terror efforts.\u00a0 Rather than serving time, Berger was simply assessed a fine.\u00a0 What are odds <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any of us<\/em><\/span> could <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>steal and destroy<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span> from the National Archives, then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lie to police<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not spend time in stir<\/em><\/span>&#8230;let alone have the President of the United States find the deed funny?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of criminal subterfuge originating in the Oval Office, the <em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s Kim Strassel weighs in on&#8230;<\/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\/the-fbis-flynn-outrage-11588288438?mod=opinion_lead_pos8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The FBI\u2019s Flynn Outrage<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-fbis-flynn-outrage-11588288438?mod=opinion_lead_pos8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">New documents shock the conscience and demonstrate the need for accountability<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aaaaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aaaaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aaaaa.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aaaaa-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The newest Federal Bureau of Investigation documents in the case of former White House national security adviser Mike Flynn are stunning in themselves. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>totality<\/em><\/span> of Mr. Flynn\u2019s treatment <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shocks the conscience<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The FBI exists to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>investigate<\/em><\/span> crimes, not to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>create<\/em><\/span> them. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Some might add this shameful behavior to the<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em> long list of the FBI\u2019s \u201ccollusion\u201d malfeasance<\/em><\/span>: the surveillance-court abuse, the Steele dossier, the leaks. But the Flynn case is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>something different<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> This <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t<\/em><\/span> the FBI <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>playing fast and loose with sources or the courts<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>law enforcement abusing its most tyrannical power<\/em><\/span>\u2014to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>strip citizens of their reputations, their livelihoods and their liberty<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The FBI\u2019s treatment of Mr. Flynn lives up to Americans\u2019 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worst fears<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Attorney General William Barr was right to order a review of the case.<\/span> Now <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>someone<\/em><\/span> must be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>held<\/em> <em>to <\/em><em>account<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Or, as we fervently hope&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/crossfire-hurricane-5-page-strzok-mccabe-comey-brennan-clapper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/crossfire-hurricane-5-page-strzok-mccabe-comey-brennan-clapper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/crossfire-hurricane-5-page-strzok-mccabe-comey-brennan-clapper.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/crossfire-hurricane-5-page-strzok-mccabe-comey-brennan-clapper-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a lot<\/span><\/em> of someone<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>s<\/em><\/span>!\u00a0 Boys and girls, can you say, &#8220;two-tiered system of justice&#8221;?\u00a0 We KNEW you could!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, writing at <em>The Corner<\/em>, the great Victor Davis Hanson offers The Donald some unsolicited advice he&#8217;d do well to take:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/about-those-press-conferences\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">About Those Press Conferences<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3zlrfv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3zlrfv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3zlrfv.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3zlrfv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>P<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span class=\"small_caps\">resident Trump<\/span>\u00a0seems increasingly ambivalent about the utility of the daily and sometime marathon press conferences. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">He <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should be<\/em><\/span> \u2014 and for reasons <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>besides<\/em><\/span> just their length and frequency.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>First, Trump gets <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bogged down into long, back-and-forth jousts with the touch\u00e9 Washington press corps<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">His impromptu skills, honed both as president and in his years on television, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>usually<\/em><\/span> ensure him <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>tactical<\/em><\/span> victories.<\/span> He is not peremptory but retaliatory in his put-downs.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fine.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Most<\/em><\/span> Americans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don\u2019t especially like<\/em><\/span> the Washington press corps. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">So they don\u2019t mind them earning the repartee that their rude provocation deserves.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But Trump\u2019s victories are becoming <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Pyrrhic<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It is in the interest of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the nation<\/em><\/span> as well as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the president<\/em><\/span> to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>diversify<\/em><\/span> the press conferences, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shorten<\/em><\/span> them, keep them to tight schedules \u2014 and to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not let them become monotonously hijacked<\/em><\/span> by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>those with little if any expertise other than in parroting \u201cI told you so\u201d and \u201cI got you<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of Fake News, one its prime purveyors is the subject of this report by Alexa Moutevelis writing at <em>Newsbusters.org<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"page-header\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/alexa-moutevelis\/2020\/04\/30\/cbs-declares-coronavirus-abortion-restrictions-public\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Biased CBS Reporter Declares Coronavirus Abortion Restrictions \u2018Public Health Crisis<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/screen_shot_2020-04-30_at_12.08.31_pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/screen_shot_2020-04-30_at_12.08.31_pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/screen_shot_2020-04-30_at_12.08.31_pm.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/screen_shot_2020-04-30_at_12.08.31_pm-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>After all, when <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> a bad time for slaughtering the unborn?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this from <em>Breibart<\/em> via Breeze Gould:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2020\/04\/29\/rutgers-professor-brittney-cooper-fck-each-and-every-trump-supporter\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Rutgers Professor Brittney Cooper: \u2018F*ck Each and Every Trump Supporter<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rutgers-prof-Brittney-Cooper-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rutgers-prof-Brittney-Cooper-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rutgers-prof-Brittney-Cooper-640x480.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rutgers-prof-Brittney-Cooper-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>According to a\u00a0report\u00a0by Campus Reform,\u00a0Rutgers University <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Associate Professor of Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies<\/em><\/span> Brittney Cooper came under fire this week after taking aim at Trump supporters in a lengthy Twitter thread.\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cI am saying some obvious things this morning because as a country we are too good at skipping over the audience and we might as well say this to people as often as we can.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Fuck each and every Trump supporter<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">You all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>absolutely did this<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>You are to blame<\/em><\/span>,\u201d Cooper wrote in one tweet.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Cooper wrote that it is \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>utterly absurd<\/em><\/span>\u201d to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reopen the country at this stage<\/em><\/span> of the ongoing pandemic. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">According to Cooper, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>white conservatives want to open the nation because it will \u201cdisproportionately\u201d affect black Americans<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Here we thought Associate Professor Super-size expertise was in Women&#8217;s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> Virology or Epidemiology!<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cI feel like most Black people are clear that this utterly absurd to push [sic] to re-open the country is all about a gross <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>necropolitical calculation<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Not only do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>white conservatives not care about Black life<\/em><\/span>, but my most cynical negative read of the white supremacists among them is that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they welcome this massive winnowing of Black folks in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up political power<\/em><\/span>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Professor Cooper has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a history of bizarre remarks<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In October 2019, Cooper\u00a0argued\u00a0during an interview on Oprah\u2019s television network that the policies of the Trump administration have led to high levels of obesity for Black women.<\/span> \u201cI <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hate<\/em><\/span> when people talk about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Black women being obese<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I hate it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because it becomes a way to blame us<\/em><\/span> for a set of conditions that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we didn\u2019t create<\/em><\/span>,\u201d Cooper said.<\/span> \u201cWe are living in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Trump era<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">And look, those policies <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>kill our people<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> You <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can\u2019t get access to good health care, good insurance<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judging from her picture, something tells us Cooper didn&#8217;t gain all that girth during Trump&#8217;s term in office.\u00a0 And how The Donald&#8230;or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ronald McDonald<\/em><\/span> for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> matter&#8230;forced all that junk food down her throat, or what her obesity has to do with &#8220;access to good health care, good insurance&#8221; we&#8217;ll never know.\u00a0 Besides, didn&#8217;t Obama and Biden solve those particular problems?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ramirez.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ramirez.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ramirez.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ramirez-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/biden.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80466\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/biden.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/biden.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/biden-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/afb043020dAPR20200430044509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/afb043020dAPR20200430044509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/afb043020dAPR20200430044509.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/afb043020dAPR20200430044509-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/biden-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/biden-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/biden-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/biden-1-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bok.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80463\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bok.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bok.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/bok-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/afb050120dAPR20200501044540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/afb050120dAPR20200501044540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/afb050120dAPR20200501044540.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/afb050120dAPR20200501044540-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/comey.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/comey.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/comey.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/comey-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aaa-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gorrell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gorrell.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gorrell.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gorrell-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/payne.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/payne.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/payne.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/payne-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gorrell2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gorrell2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gorrell2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gorrell2-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mle200429c20200429015559.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mle200429c20200429015559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mle200429c20200429015559.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mle200429c20200429015559-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ball.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ball.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ball.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ball-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-4-29-20-at-7.38-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-4-29-20-at-7.38-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-4-29-20-at-7.38-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-4-29-20-at-7.38-AM-300x263.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-4-30-20-at-7.13-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-4-30-20-at-7.13-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-4-30-20-at-7.13-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-4-30-20-at-7.13-AM-300x196.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The there&#8217;s this string of humor offered by Ed Hickey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Untitled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80483\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Untitled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Untitled.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Untitled-300x206.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/imag1e.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/imag1e.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/imag1e.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/imag1e-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image-300x294.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;these from Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/balls-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/balls-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/balls-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/balls-1-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Balls1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80435\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Balls1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Balls1-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Balls1-2-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-1-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls1-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;one from The Penguin&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/balls-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and last but not least, another from Brenda Berry:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/brenda-berry.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/brenda-berry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/brenda-berry.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/brenda-berry-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which provides the perfect lead in for our final item of the day, as we wrap up the week with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and a tale of murder most foul we called when it went down, as&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"heading text-2xl md:text-4xl text-red-700\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/police-investigating-death-of-arizona-man-from-chloroquine-phosphate\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Police Are Investigating Death of Arizona Man From Chloroquine Phosphate<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\" text-1xl md:text-2xl subtitle mt-0\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/police-investigating-death-of-arizona-man-from-chloroquine-phosphate\/\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\">Mesa City PD opens homicide investigation into death of Gary Lenius whose wife, Wanda, said she served him a deadly cocktail to ward off coronavirus<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3z7ph3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3z7ph3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3z7ph3.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3z7ph3-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>News of the police probe comes after a series of\u00a0<em>Free Beacon\u00a0<\/em>stories raised questions about the portrayal of the couple in the initial\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/man-dies-after-ingesting-chloroquine-attempt-prevent-coronavirus-n1167166\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NBC News report<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0that vaulted the story onto the national stage.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Though <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that report and others<\/em><em> suggested the couple mindlessly followed the president&#8217;s medical advice to disastrous results<\/em><\/span>, friends of Gary Lenius told the\u00a0<em>Free Beacon\u00a0<\/em>they were skeptical he would knowingly ingest fish tank treatment.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Rather, they\u00a0described Lenius\u00a0as a levelheaded retired engineer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and recounted a troubled marital relationship that included a previous domestic assault charge against his wife<\/em><\/span>, of which she was ultimately found not guilty. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">The\u00a0<em>Free Beacon\u00a0<\/em>also reported that Wanda Lenius was a\u00a0Democratic donor\u00a0whose most recent contribution went to a &#8220;pro-science&#8221; super PAC.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8220;What bothers me about this is that Gary was a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very intelligent man<\/em><\/span>, a retired [mechanical] engineer who designed systems for John Deere in Waterloo, Iowa, and <span style=\"color: #008080;\">I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really can&#8217;t see the scenario<\/em><\/span> where Gary would say, \u2018Yes, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>please<\/em><\/span>, I would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>love<\/em><\/span> to drink some of that Koi fish tank cleaner,&#8217;<\/span>&#8221; one of his close friends told the\u00a0<em>Free Beacon<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To borrow a phrase from the former mayor of Washington, D.C., we believe da b*tch set him up!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, May 1st, 2020&#8230;and here&#8217;s a belated edition of The Gouge, belated because we were waiting for the Biden interview before going to press. We must say we were surprised by the tenor of Mika Brezinski&#8217;s questions&#8230;as was Groper Joe, as evidenced by this\u00a0deer-in-the-headlights moment: \ufeff You can access the entire interview here, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80528","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=80528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80529,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80528\/revisions\/80529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}