{"id":89725,"date":"2021-01-26T19:27:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=89725"},"modified":"2021-01-26T19:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:27:35","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-january-25th-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=89725","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, January 25th, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday, January 25th, 2021…but before we begin, another<\/em><\/span> mere man (and a rather dimwitted one at that) who would be king quickly drops the facade we’re in this together, as FOX<\/em> reports…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jen Psaki says Biden “was celebrating a historic day in our country” and “We have bigger things to worry about” than following own mask mandate<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Biden and his relatives all ditched their masks on federal property \u2014 the Lincoln Memo<\/span><\/span>rial<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

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46* means time for us<\/span><\/em> to mask up; his family and him<\/span><\/em>…only when it’s politically expedient…and doesn’t put a crimp in their celebration.\u00a0 P.S. Honest Abe must have been rolling over in his grave.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For those keeping track of 46*’s lies which have already been exposed a mere 4-1\/2 days into his illegitimate Administration…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…this item from The Federalist<\/em>\u00a0forwarded by Steve Armour will help you keep an accurate count:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s The Full List Of Every Lie Joe Biden Has Told As President<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Meanwhile, as much as it pains me to say it, David French finally confirms he’s totally taken leave of his senses:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Regarding David French’s tweet, and ignoring for the moment the obvious illegalities in the election, four<\/span><\/em> things are true: (1)<\/strong> A “handful” of executive orders?\u00a0 Give him time; after all, the clown’s only been in office since last Wednesday<\/span><\/em>; (2) Replacing a “deranged liar” with a<\/span> demented, pathological prevaricator who’s made practicing deception and corruption the primary features of a 47-year political career<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is a trade up<\/span><\/em>?!?; (3) Forgetting for the moment the mob who breached the Capitol’s curiously deficient defenses hardly<\/span><\/em> constituted the Visigoths sacking Rome, how can one incite those who’d preplanned their assault<\/span><\/em>?; and, (4)\u00a0“Perspective”?\u00a0 To\u00a0what<\/em><\/span> perspective is French referring?\u00a0 Perhaps that of the female athletes whose hopes and dreams will henceforth be dashed by mentally-ill men and boys seeking some perverted form of self-satisfaction?\u00a0 Or maybe David means the millions of babies<\/span><\/em> who will be sacrificed<\/span><\/em> on the altar of abortion around the world over the coming years thanks to 46*’s slavish support for the unrestricted slaughter of the unborn<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

All of which leads us to share the feelings of the noble bird featured in this meme from Brenda Berry:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

First up, as Jim Freeman records at Best of the Web<\/em>, Groper Joe offers the rest of us…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bureaucracy Without Apology<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“Meanwhile in Washington, the news is less<\/span><\/em> encouraging, as President Joe Biden has sent a bizarre diktat<\/span><\/em> to the heads of federal agencies and departments. The Inauguration Day memo\u00a0instructs<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0them to \u201cidentify ways to modernize and improve the regulatory review process\u201d to promote \u201cpolicies that reflect new developments in scientific and economic understanding, fully accounts for regulatory benefits that are difficult or impossible to quantify<\/span><\/em>, and does not<\/span><\/em> have harmful anti<\/span><\/em>-regulatory or de<\/span><\/em>regulatory effects\u201d.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFully accounting<\/span><\/em>\u201d for alleged<\/span><\/em> benefits of big government<\/span><\/em> that are \u201cimpossible to quantify<\/span><\/em>\u201d sounds like a rather difficult task\u2014perhaps even the opposite of accounting<\/span><\/em>. Here\u2019s hoping the CPAs among our readership will share their views on how they might attempt to fulfill such a task.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime, Wayne Crews at the Competitive Enterprise Institute\u00a0warns<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Biden \u201cModernizing Regulatory Review\u201d plan is about gutting the restraint of the past four years<\/span>…There is no mention of costs and burdens of regulation<\/span><\/span>… So, the aim is to put weight on the scales of whether or not to regulate such that the answer will always be in the affirmative<\/span>, replacing market operation and civil society with government in the pursuit of a range of non-quantifiable goals, even without legislation from Congress<\/span>. Agencies are being unleashed to issue guidance, memoranda, notices, circulars, bulletins, letters, interpretations and so on<\/span>; all the stuff<\/span> I like to call \u201cregulatory dark matter<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

…<\/span>The \u201cModernizing Regulatory Review,\u201d in a nutshell plainly translates into a new architecture for never-ending regulations as long as the left declares that benefits exceed costs<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em>“<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, courtesy of Breitbart<\/em>, the dictator of what was once the second-richest nation in the Western Hemisphere celebrates the ascendance in America of his party’s policies, as…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Venezuela\u2019s Maduro<\/span><\/span> Cheers Trump Departure:<\/span> \u2018We Beat Him<\/span><\/span><\/a>!\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Since we’re on the subject of unsuccessful, unrepentant Socialists, another item from\u00a0The Federalist<\/em>\u00a0informs us the…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Woman Behind Bernie Sanders\u2019 Iconic Mittens Quit Making Them Because High Taxes Killed Her Business<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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“The Vermont school teacher who made Bernie Sanders\u2019 mittens, featured in the most recent\u00a0viral meme, said she had to stop making them after the federal government taxed her too much.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have been contacting me thinking that they can get mittens, and actually they can\u2019t.<\/span> I don\u2019t have any more, and I don\u2019t have much of a mitten business anymore because it really wasn\u2019t worth it,\u201d Jen Ellis explained to\u00a0Slate. \u201cIndependent crafters get really taken for a ride by the federal government.<\/span> We get taxed to the nth degree, and it wasn\u2019t really worth it pursuing that as a business, even as a side hustle.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But don’t feel sorry<\/span><\/em> for Ellis, as…<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Even though Sanders\u00a0admitted<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0in 2019 that he would raise taxes on the middle class to support his Medicare for All plan, Ellis has shown support for the senator, sending him the repurposed sweater mittens in 2016 because she was \u201cheartbroken\u201d that he lost the Democratic nomination and \u201cprobably wouldn\u2019t run again.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

Speaking of insufferable Socialists, writing at AEI<\/em>, the normally well-grounded Yuval Levin curiously describes…<\/strong><\/p>\n

A normal and exceptional inaugural<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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We were with him ’til the second to last paragraph, when we read…<\/strong><\/p>\n

“…We can hope<\/span><\/em> that at his age, having achieved an impressive primary victory and led his party to win a general election they could easily have lost, and with little left to prove or gain in politics, Biden may be more immune to these kinds of pressures than he once was.<\/span> And we can hope<\/span><\/em> too that his underlying decency<\/span><\/em>, to which everyone who has known him attests<\/span><\/em> and which comes across at a distance too<\/span><\/em>, may guide him toward decisions that help to stitch our political culture back together and resist the awful impulses unleashed in our society in recent years<\/span><\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

“Underlying decency, to which everyone who has known him attests and which comes across at a distance too”:\u00a0REALLY<\/span><\/em>?!?\u00a0 The guy accused of sexually assaulting or groping eight different women<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>…the serial liar<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>…the candidate who can’t field legitimate concerns voiced by voters<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>…the corruptocrat<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>…the grieving widower who repeatedly lied about the circumstances of his first wife’s death to the decided detriment of the innocent party involved<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>…then lied about how and when he met and dated his second wife with the phony title<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>…the complete and utter scumbag who assassinated the character of Robert Bork<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>?\u00a0 THAT<\/span><\/em> guy?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, the one with the underlying decency of Bill Clinton, LBJ or JFK.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to\u00a0The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Then there’s these five versions of the Bernie meme from the lovely Shannon…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…along with this wholly-inaccurate cover from a once-respected magazine…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…as well as four more memes from Balls Cotton:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bought and<\/span><\/em> paid for by Xi Jinping, baby, along with a host of big-name globalists who stand to profit from your future misery…including, but not limited to, the subject of this James Nichols forward of a Mollie Hemingway tweet:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Inquiring<\/span><\/em>\u00a0Conservative minds are dying<\/span><\/em> to know.\u00a0 Any<\/span> <\/em>chance Republican<\/span><\/em> senators will ask<\/span><\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Video of the Day<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And here WE are, stuck with Frizzell Gerald Gray, aka Kweisi Mfume! Can we\u00a0get a redo? Better yet, is there housing available in Rifle, CO?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n