{"id":90008,"date":"2021-02-02T19:13:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=90008"},"modified":"2021-02-02T19:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:14:04","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-february-1st-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=90008","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, February 1st, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s February 1st, 2021&#8230;but before beginning, we offer two items related to our <em>Quote of the Day<\/em>\u00a0immediately above.\u00a0 First, as\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Bronson Stocking records at\u00a0<em>Townhall.com<\/em>, when it comes to Progressives, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what&#8217;s said<\/span><\/em> is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">far less important<\/span><\/em> than <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">who said it<\/span><\/em>, as&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/bronsonstocking\/2021\/01\/30\/another-twitter-troll-has-democrat-hypocrites-outraged-n2583959\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Democrats Express Outrage at Maxine Waters&#8217; Comments&#8230;When They Don&#8217;t Know She Said Them<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cuomo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cuomo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cuomo.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cuomo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cuomo-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,\u00a0<em>FOX<\/em>\u00a0informs us the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-optics-issue-kamala-harris-niece\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">White House is facing optics issue with Kamala Harris\u2019 ambitious niece<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-optics-issue-kamala-harris-niece\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Meena, 36, flew to the Inauguration on the private plane of a Biden donor and\u00a0 posted about the trip on her Instagram stories<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w3npq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w3npq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w3npq.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w3npq-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reports Meena has sisters named Eena, Mina and Moe remain unconfirmed.\u00a0 Sorry, we couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But seriously, she flew in on a private jet?\u00a0 Who does she think she is&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w519t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w519t.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w519t.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w519t-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;John Kerry?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to two observations from an email Balls Cotton forwarded yesterday, as Rich, after initially offering his\u00a0 definition of an&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Oligarchy:\u00a0This term refers to a kind of government we sometimes call &#8216;crony capitalism&#8217;. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Public officials and big business collude to get and hold power, and wealth, at the expense of everyone else.<\/span> It is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a step<\/span><\/em> along the way to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">total<\/span><\/em> Communism, when even big business submits to the government.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8230;went on note what we saw during 46*&#8217;s illegitimate inauguration was yet another step in the same direction:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Did you see that they are building a steel and concrete fence all around the capitol building, and other offices? <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That<\/span><\/em>, along with the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thousands of troops<\/span><\/em> stationed there <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tells us what<\/span><\/em>?<\/span> For <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one thing<\/span><\/em>, it tells us that the left is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very, very afraid<\/em><\/span> that the public will <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rise up and throw them out<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">They <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">must move fast<\/span><\/em>, to secure and consolidate their positions, before everyone else can react.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus the dizzying pace of Groper Joe&#8217;s executive orders, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1966876\/how-joe-bidens-executive-orders-compare-to-other-presidents\/\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">which at 25 in 2 weeks exceeds the total issued during the terms of his four predecessors<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">combined<\/span><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 For those slow on the uptake, that&#8217;s <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">25 in 2 weeks<\/span><\/em> versus <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">20 in 28 years<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Here&#8217;s the juice<\/em><\/span>: if you don&#8217;t understand the goal of the Dimocrats is a one-party, Socialist state, you likely also believe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>voter fraud<\/em><\/span> didn&#8217;t influence the outcome of the 2020 election on a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">massive scale<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wake up<\/span><\/em>, America, and sense the same impending totalitarian tyranny Germany welcomed in 1933.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S. TLJ just mentioned a <em>FOX<\/em>\u00a0segment featuring interviews of people who&#8217;ve suffered the immediate impact of 46*&#8217;s termination of the Keystone XL expansion (Notwithstanding the fact, as the graphic below shows&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/keystone-xl-pipeline-map-graphic-cbc-news-net-jan-17-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/keystone-xl-pipeline-map-graphic-cbc-news-net-jan-17-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/keystone-xl-pipeline-map-graphic-cbc-news-net-jan-17-copy.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/keystone-xl-pipeline-map-graphic-cbc-news-net-jan-17-copy-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;the Keystone XL would merely <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">add<\/span><\/em> to an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already-existing<\/em><\/span> pipeline&#8230;or the fact&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image000000-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90061\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image000000-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image000000-8.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image000000-8-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;!!!), and we responded with one rather salient question the interviewer never asked, the answer to which <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">inquiring minds<\/span><\/em> would <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">want to know<\/span><\/em>: for <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">which candidate<\/span><\/em> did these unfortunates <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cast their ballot<\/span><\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just sayin&#8217;, as it kinda, <em>sorta<\/em> makes a difference as to the level of compassion they&#8217;re owed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We lead off the month of February with an item from\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>, as Andy McCarthy details how the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/01\/democrats-domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-shields-jihadists\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202021-01-30&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Democrats\u2019 Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act Shields Jihadists<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3eYPSmHUkzU?start=49&amp;end=54&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 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>H<\/strong><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span class=\"small_caps\">ow<\/span>\u00a0interesting that the familiar<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/schneider.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-dtpa-2021-introduced-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">array of Islamist-apologist and left-wing groups<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">, notoriously opposed to U.S. counterterrorism efforts, has lined up in support of congressional Democrats\u2019 latest push for a \u201c<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/schneider.house.gov\/sites\/schneider.house.gov\/files\/DTPA%20of%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Could it be because the proposed legislation goes out of its way to shield domestic terrorists who are catalyzed by foreign jihadist organizations?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You needn\u2019t read far<\/span><\/em> into the bill <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to hear the alarm bells<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1IPPn9t6dyE\" 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 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Section 2 provides a definition for \u201cdomestic terrorism.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Sounds sensible&#8230;until you remember that federal law already has a definition of domestic terrorism.<\/span> The term is codified by\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/2331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 2331(5)<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0of the criminal code. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">It\u2019s been there for a long time, and it\u2019s perfectly fine.<\/span> So <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">why would<\/span><\/em> we need <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another one<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFdJza0AbeA?start=55&amp;end=61&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 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Obviously<\/span><\/em>, Democrats are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not defining<\/em><\/span> but\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">redefining<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>The point is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not to clarify what is already clear<\/span><\/em> about domestic terrorism.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It is to carve out an exemption from the definition<\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">specifically<\/span><\/em>, to create a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">new safe haven<\/span><\/em> for a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very specific category of terrorist<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Here\u2019s a thought experiment: Every time the proposed legislation invokes the term \u201cwhite supremacism,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ask yourself what Democrats and their supporters would say<\/em><\/span> about a bill that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">instead said \u201csharia supremacism<\/span><\/em>\u201d \u2014 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the<\/span><\/em> animating ideology of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>jihadist terrorists<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">As federal law has recognized for decades,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all<\/em><\/span>\u00a0terrorism in our country poses a threat.<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">None of it should be exempted<\/span><\/em>, and <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all of it should be aggressively investigated and prosecuted<\/span><\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>consistent with the constitutional principle of equal protection under the law<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The Democrats\u2019 proposal <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is not<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> about countering terrorism<\/span><\/em>; <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">it<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is about weaving a political narrative<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The shielding of jihadists is no surprise<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>last time<\/em><\/span> Joe Biden was helping run the government, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the word \u201cterrorism\u201d was verboten and \u201cviolent extremism\u201d was substituted<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Out of this same epistemological haze came such tragi-comic terms as \u201cman-caused disasters,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so determined were Democrats to avoid upsetting their Islamist allies by noticing the not infrequent coincidence of terrorism and Muslims<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> (Apparently, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>white<\/em><\/span>-man-caused disasters\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can<\/em><\/span> safely be called terrorism.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Studiously unmentioned<\/span><\/em> in the Democrats\u2019 proposal, moreover, is the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">radical left<\/span><\/em> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no<\/em><\/span> Antifa, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no<\/em><\/span> Black Lives Matter militants, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no<\/em><\/span> communists, anarchists, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span> enviro-terrorists. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Even as Portland, Seattle, and Denver <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>remain under siege<\/em><\/span>, the plan is to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pretend<\/em><\/span> that the last seven months of insurrectionist rioting <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never happened<\/em><\/span>; or if it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did<\/em><\/span>, that it was the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/01\/when-insurrection-was-okay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noble kind of insurrection<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The proposed Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would prevent terrorism about as much as President Biden\u2019s executive order blitz will meet his inaugural vow to unite the country<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Under the guise of addressing a real problem, Democrats would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>give a pass<\/em><\/span> to jihadists and left-wing militants, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>appease<\/em><\/span> their interest groups, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>intensify<\/em><\/span> the nation\u2019s deep divisions.<\/span> If <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that\u2019s<\/em><\/span> your idea of security, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>consider yourself united<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s life imitating art&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RUsxRv9737A?start=65&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><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;as Dimocrats and their corporate accomplices sell out their country for personal power and profit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More important is who will <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unquestionably<\/span><\/em> come under the specific scrutiny of the numerous special units, departments and committees tasked with rooting out these rebels: <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">White gun owners<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 To which we say&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZV7_ntTlbIE?start=25&amp;end=28&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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xg7sFV98dSE?start=4&amp;end=6&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>How fitting it would be if the eventual answer\u00a0to the Dimocrats&#8217; intended despotism is the same proposed by Corporal Hicks&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/juzU6Ty4Q6c?start=128&amp;end=132&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>&#8230;in <em>Aliens<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RUsxRv9737A?start=73&amp;end=76&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>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">true<\/span><\/em> nature of terrorism facing America,\u00a0<em>Frontpage Mag<\/em>\u00a0tells us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/01\/another-muslim-american-soldier-turns-terrorism-raymond-ibrahim\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">ANOTHER Muslim-American Soldier Turns to Terrorism<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"subhead\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/01\/another-muslim-american-soldier-turns-terrorism-raymond-ibrahim\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\">Exposing where his true loyalties lie<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #003300;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/traitor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/traitor.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/traitor.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/traitor-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll defer comment on this one to the input of G. Trevor, which we confess to having subjected to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">minor<\/span><\/em> editing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>What upsets <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">me<\/span><\/em> more than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span> is the fact The Left went <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ballistic<\/em><\/span> over the mob&#8217;s intrusion into the Capitol, when they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>didn&#8217;t bat an eye<\/em><\/span> at the violence to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>private<\/em><\/span> businesses <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all summer<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Personally, I think it far more justifiable people angered over the theft of the election stormed the place of business of those instrumental in stealing it than the random ransacking and destruction of private business on Any Street USA by mobs angered over the OD of a career criminal.<\/span> But then, I must appreciate The Left&#8217;s violence is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>merely a protest<\/em><\/span>, while a significantly lower level of lawlessness from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anyone the merest Right of center<\/em><\/span>\u00a0constitutes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>insurrection<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>an attack on civility<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Or at least, that&#8217;s what GTV <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>meant<\/em><\/span> to say!\u00a0 Wink, wink!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">where&#8217;s<\/span><\/em> George Casey when Progressive <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NEED<\/em><\/span> him:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8EITu5ZYo8?start=8&amp;end=16&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>Hopefully <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">burning in Hell<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 But no worries; they now have Lloyd Austin at the helm of the Pentagon, a man dedicated to the proposition national security must take a back seat to diversity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Turning now from terrorists to traitors&#8230;or, as is the case of Lloyd Austin and his CINC, simply the latter&#8230;as\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Brittany Bernstein reports, and you undoubtedly already know&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/ex-fbi-lawyer-clinesmith-given-probation-after-admitting-he-doctored-email-in-trump-probe\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=22796742\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\">Ex-FBI Lawyer Clinesmith Given Probation after Admitting He Doctored Email in Trump Probe<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/justic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/justic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/justic.png 288w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/justic-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>In August, Clinesmith\u00a0pleaded guilty to \u201cone count of making a false statement within both the jurisdiction of the executive branch and judicial branch of the U.S. government, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years and a fine of up to $250,000<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In a\u00a0court filing\u00a0last month, Durham asked the judge to sentence Clinesmith to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a prison sentence of up to six months<\/span><\/em> \u2014 a jail term \u201cbetween the middle and upper end\u201d of the recommended sentence for the crime of making false statements in writing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Clinesmith\u2019s attorneys argued that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">probation<\/span><\/em> would be more appropriate.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Clinesmith <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pleaded guilty<\/em><\/span> on August 19 to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">changing<\/span><\/em> a June 2017 email which was originally sent to him by the CIA and which he was forwarding to the FISA Court, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to make it seem as though the agency did not consider Page an intelligence source<\/span><\/em>, though Page <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>had served<\/em><\/span> as an \u201coperational contact\u201d for the agency from 2008 to 2013.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">The former FBI lawyer told the court that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he had<\/span><\/em> altered the email, but <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he believed<\/span><\/em> Page <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was not a source<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Wow: Amazing analysis from a mere lawyer untrained in the identification or classification of intelligence sources!<\/em>)\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201c<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">At the time<\/span><\/em> I <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">believed<\/span><\/em> the information I was providing in the email <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was accurate<\/span><\/em>, but I am <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>agreeing<\/em><\/span> that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the information I inserted<\/span><\/em> into the email <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was not already there<\/span><\/em>,\u201d Clinesmith\u00a0said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said that Clinesmith\u2019s behavior had undermined the integrity of the FISA Court.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cCourts all over the country rely on representations from the government, and expect them to be correct,\u201d Boasberg said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">However<\/span><\/em>, the judge said <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he agreed<\/span><\/em> with an earlier finding by the Justice Department Inspector General that Clinesmith and other FBI officials\u2019 actions <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">were not<\/span><\/em> caused by political bias and that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he believes<\/span><\/em> Clinesmith\u2019s claims\u00a0that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he thought<\/span><\/em> that the information <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he was adding<\/span><\/em> to the email <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was accurate<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what<\/span> reasonable standard or basis?!?<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The CIA had made the Crossfire Hurricane team aware of Page\u2019s work as an \u201coperational contact\u201d in August 2016<\/span><\/em>, according to the IG report.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #003300;\">The <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">agents who knew of Page\u2019s work<\/span><\/em> with the CIA <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">failed to include that information in the initial FISA application<\/span><\/em> against Page.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If the FBI had discovered that Page was a source for the CIA it would have \u201cdrastically\u201d changed how the bureau handled the FISA applications, Clinesmith told the IG.<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Need we add &#8220;Judge&#8221; James E. Boasburg <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sits<\/span><\/em> on the FISA Court?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to beat a dead lawyer (of which there can <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">never<\/span><\/em> be <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">enough<\/span><\/em>!), but again, the question <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">isn&#8217;t<\/span><\/em> how the FBI&#8217;s handling of the FISA applications would have changed had they known Carter Page <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was<\/span><\/em> a CIA source&#8230;they most definitely <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did<\/em><\/span>&#8230;but why Clinesmith, a relatively low-level legal bureaucrat, took it upon himself to make the utterly unsupported assumption he <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wasn&#8217;t<\/span><\/em>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, it&#8217;s our two-tiered system of justice at work, as a supposedly intelligent and impartial jurist is bamboozled by meaningless arguments more parlous than&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4XT-l-_3y0\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><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 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Jim Freeman offers at Best of the Web<\/em><\/span>&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>This is the kind of appalling Beltway abuse of power that inspired voters to elect Mr. Trump in the first place.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Is Judge Boasberg joking when he suggests the convict has suffered from some kind of media circus?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Readers wondering how often Clinesmith has been trailed by a pack of press photographers will note that the rare stories about him are generally illustrated with a years-old official photograph.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">In the months after his offenses were detailed by the Justice inspector general, there was\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"icon none\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/who-is-kevin-clinesmith-11580417909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an almost complete blackout<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0of the story in major media outlets.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">The Journal\u2019s Byron Tau<\/span>\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"icon none\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/fbi-lawyer-who-pleaded-guilty-to-altering-document-sentenced-to-probation-11611948859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offers additional reporting<\/a><\/span><\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">on the judge\u2019s decision to be lenient:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201c<em>Mr. Clinesmith has lost his job in government service\u2014what has given his life much of its meaning,\u201d said Judge Boasberg.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">The judge responsible for punishing <em>an attorney who helped the FBI abuse its powers to target a political campaign and then a presidency with a collusion hoax that poisoned our politics for years <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is concerned about the criminal\u2019s personal search for meaning<\/span><\/em>?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Instead of community service<\/span><\/em>, perhaps Judge Boasberg should have just ordered Clinesmith <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to live, laugh and love<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">On the other hand, if the judge wanted at least to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">pretend<\/span><\/em> to be concerned <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">about a crime that went straight to the heart of our democratic process<\/span><\/em>, he <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">might<\/span><\/em> have spent a moment exploring the meaning of <\/span><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"icon none\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/who-is-kevin-clinesmith-11580417909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clinesmith&#8217;s texts about<\/a><\/span><\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u201cthe crazies\u201d who supported Mr. Trump and \u201cla resistance\u201d within the government<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>No political bias there, Judge Boobsburg, you colossal crook!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/but-wait.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/but-wait.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/but-wait.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/but-wait-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IY5XgJu_mfY\" 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>Which brings us, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span><\/em>appropriately enough, to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bidens-morals.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bidens-morals.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bidens-morals.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bidens-morals-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-ecnomic-plan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-ecnomic-plan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-ecnomic-plan.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-ecnomic-plan-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-critical-race.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89991\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-critical-race.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-critical-race.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-critical-race-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/afb013021dAPR20210129124507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/afb013021dAPR20210129124507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/afb013021dAPR20210129124507.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/afb013021dAPR20210129124507-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-eos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-eos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-eos.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/biden-eos-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cancel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cancel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cancel.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cancel-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cancel-culture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cancel-culture.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cancel-culture.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cancel-culture-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gamestop.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gamestop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gamestop.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gamestop-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sk013121dAPC20210129104506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sk013121dAPC20210129104506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sk013121dAPC20210129104506.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sk013121dAPC20210129104506-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/teacher-unions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/teacher-unions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/teacher-unions.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/teacher-unions-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image-1-29-21-at-8.14-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image-1-29-21-at-8.14-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image-1-29-21-at-8.14-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Image-1-29-21-at-8.14-AM-300x198.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Speed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/79a73f2e4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/79a73f2e4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/79a73f2e4.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/79a73f2e4-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/speed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/speed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/speed.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/speed-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;one each from Andy Lang&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3928.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89982\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3928.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_3928-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;the lovely Shannon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shannon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shannon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shannon.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shannon-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Carl &#8220;The Great One&#8221; Polizzi&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/carl.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89986\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/carl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/carl.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/carl-256x300.png 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;our eldest Major Jon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/142830434_10100585840463468_3610216925476415701_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/142830434_10100585840463468_3610216925476415701_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/142830434_10100585840463468_3610216925476415701_n.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/142830434_10100585840463468_3610216925476415701_n-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Balls Cotton, in a meme which would do Stilton Jarlsberg proud&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w39wr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89983\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w39wr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w39wr.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4w39wr-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and last&#8230;and certainly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>least<\/em><\/span>&#8230;this collection of t-shirts we found rather humorous:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Untitled.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Untitled-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20-51.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20-51.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20-51.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20-51.jpg.pro-cmg-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10-55.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10-55.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10-55.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10-55.jpg.pro-cmg-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/t-shirt-fails10-e1520270235125.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/t-shirt-fails10-e1520270235125.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/t-shirt-fails10-e1520270235125.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/t-shirt-fails10-e1520270235125.jpg.pro-cmg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/t-shirt-fails10-e1520270235125.jpg.pro-cmg-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/T-Shirt-Fail-2.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89980\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/T-Shirt-Fail-2.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/T-Shirt-Fail-2.jpg.pro-cmg.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/T-Shirt-Fail-2.jpg.pro-cmg-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with another meme forwarded from Major Jon as relates the Game Stop kerfuffle:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/141479724_222842276213562_12435619656920969_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/141479724_222842276213562_12435619656920969_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/141479724_222842276213562_12435619656920969_n.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/141479724_222842276213562_12435619656920969_n-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Video of the Day<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Knowles highlights the hopelessness of Conservatives kowtowing to the Cancel Culture; indeed, of even conceding an inch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zYMGSTz7Wco\" 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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Tales of The Darkside<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Stossel calls foul on Wuhan hypocrites or every race, creed, color and political party, the GREAT preponderance ARE Progressives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VCisCyS4btg\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>On the Lighter Side<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Onion takes us back to when The Dear Misleader&#8217;s teleprompter malfunctioned during dinner with Moochie. If a teleprompter was a necessary crutch for The Obamao, for 46* it&#8217;s a mandatory motorized wheelchair.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aXQTaWjMoFw\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s February 1st, 2021&#8230;but before beginning, we offer two items related to our Quote of the Day\u00a0immediately above.\u00a0 First, as\u00a0Bronson Stocking records at\u00a0Townhall.com, when it comes to Progressives, what&#8217;s said is far less important than who said it, as&#8230; Democrats Express Outrage at Maxine Waters&#8217; Comments&#8230;When They Don&#8217;t Know She Said Them &nbsp; Second,\u00a0FOX\u00a0informs us [&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-90008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90008","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=90008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90099,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90008\/revisions\/90099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}