{"id":94951,"date":"2021-07-01T17:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T21:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=94951"},"modified":"2021-07-01T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T22:00:44","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-tuesday-june-29th-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=94951","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Tuesday, June 29th, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, June 28th, 2021&#8230;but before we begin, two brief observation on the increasingly woke nature of our nation&#8217;s Military and its senior officers:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-14.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-14-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ll note we referred to the likes of Mark Milley, Mike Mullen and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/O8EITu5ZYo8\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">George Casey<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a> as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>senior officers<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;leaders&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/bbb-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94923\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/bbb-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/bbb-8.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/bbb-8-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought #1: America&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>domestic<\/em><\/span> enemies are engaged in a thinly-disguised conspiracy to remove any remnants of loyalty to the Constitution from our increasingly emasculated Military, thus minimizing any opposition to future the unconstitutional use of America&#8217;s Armed Forces against her own citizens&#8230;say, for example, national gun confiscation, or enforcing fraudulent federal elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought #2: In the short term, America&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>foreign<\/em><\/span> enemies are laughing their a*ses off.\u00a0 In the long term, they&#8217;re biding their time&#8230;and licking their chops.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5JVPdb6Urhw?start=152&amp;end=156&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>Now, here&#8217;s an exceedingly rare Tuesday edition of<em>\u00a0The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, writing at his <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>, Jim Geraghty opines on this decidedly un-intelligent assessment from the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/head-of-u-s-intelligence-we-may-never-know-covid-19s-origin\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20210623&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">U.S. Director of National Intelligence: Hey, We May NEVER Know the Origin of COVID-19<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eexie.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94902\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eexie.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eexie.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eexie-300x175.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>If, after a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">90-day<\/span><\/em> review, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>specifically in response to a directive from the president<\/em><\/span>, the U.S. intelligence community\u2019s answer is, \u201cWell, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we just don\u2019t know<\/em><\/span> how this pandemic started,\u201d it will be not just a colossal disappointment; it will also set off a million conspiracy theories about coverups.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The U.S. intelligence community has access to all kinds of information that we mere laymen don\u2019t \u2014 signals intercepts of every kind from the NSA, satellite photos and footage, information from allied intelligence services such as the \u201cFive Eyes,\u201d and who knows, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hopefully at least one<\/em><\/span> human source in the Chinese government.<\/span> There\u2019s that\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/feds-shoot-down-rumor-chinas-missing-spymaster-dong-jingwei-defected-to-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rumor of a high-level defector, although some unnamed U.S. official told the\u00a0Daily Beast\u00a0that\u2019s not true<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 but governments <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>aren\u2019t usually eager to confirm<\/em><\/span> rumors of major-league defections. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">(If that denial is accurate, that raises the question of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>just where<\/em><\/span> Dong Jingwei, vice minister of the Ministry of State Security, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">currently is<\/span><\/em>.)<\/span> At minimum, the U.S. intelligence community <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should<\/em><\/span> be able to determine if anyone of significance within the Chinese government <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>secretly feared or believed<\/em><\/span> that the pandemic was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indeed<\/em><\/span> the result of a lab leak. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Between the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/chinas-devastating-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early lying<\/a><\/em><\/span>, the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/united-nations-health-ap-top-news-virus-outbreak-public-health-3c061794970661042b18d5aeaaed9fae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">delayed release of key information<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0to the WHO,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/science\/wuhan-labs-deleted-data-unreported-pneumonia-cases-challenges-to-natural-origins-of-covid\/671984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the taking down of previously accessible databases of virus information<\/a><\/em><\/span>, the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5926665\/china-delays-who-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refusal to allow a WHO team to visit for a year<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/12\/world\/asia\/china-world-health-organization-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">refusal to turn over raw data on the first COVID-19 patients<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, and the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/11\/china-clamping-down-on-coronavirus-research-deleted-pages-suggest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suppression of academic research into the virus\u2019s origin<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lord knows<\/span><\/em> the Chinese government has been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>acting<\/em><\/span> like it\u2019s guilty <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>from the start<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>then there\u2019s this simple fact<\/em><\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/06\/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laid out in Katherine Eban\u2019s piece in\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Dr. Richard Ebright, board of governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, said that from the very first reports of a novel bat-related coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">it took him \u201ca nanosecond or a picosecond\u201d to consider a link to the Wuhan Institute of Virology<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Only two other labs in the world<\/span>, in Galveston, Texas, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">were doing similar research<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not a dozen cities,\u201d he said.<\/span> \u201cIt\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">three places<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>There was one comment from Haines in that interview with Yahoo that seemed a little curious:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Haines even posited a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">third, hybrid theory<\/span> for the virus\u2019s origin. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">\u201cIt <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">could be<\/span>, for example, a scenario in which a scientist comes into contact with an animal that they\u2019re sampling from\u201d and contracts the virus in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that<\/span> way.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>A scientist contracting the virus while collecting a sample <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is not morally or ethically all that different from a lab leak<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">(<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That<\/span><\/em> particular scenario <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">doesn\u2019t seem all that unlikely<\/span><\/em>, considering the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimgeraghty\/status\/1404422115747680260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fun-and-games images of bats hanging off the hats of the researchers with exposed skin collecting the samples<\/a><\/em><\/span>, and Tian Junhua\u2019s description of the time he \u201c<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-china-trail-leading-back-to-wuhan-labs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forgot to take protective measures. Bat urine dripped on him like raindrops<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u201d and self-quarantined for two weeks.)<\/span> In <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">either case<\/span><\/em>, an effort at virus research that the institutions publicly insisted <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was<\/span><\/em> safe\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was not safe<\/em><\/span>\u00a0and set off the worst pandemic in modern history. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The only mitigating factor would be that no gain-of-function research was involved.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>There is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no bigger question facing the world right now than how this awful pandemic got started<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Sure, thanks to vaccinations, the pandemic\u2019s effect on American life is getting smaller each day.<\/span> But this progress comes after more than 617,000 Americans succumbed to the virus,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2020\/11\/what-might-covid-cost-the-u-s-experts-eye-16-trillion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least $16 trillion in economic losses<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, a lost year of schooling for almost all of America\u2019s kids, the health effects of the \u201clong-haulers,\u201d and a million other disruptions and tribulations in the lives of ordinary people, all around the globe. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">We\u2019re almost at 3.9 million deaths worldwide, and have more than 179 million cases worldwide.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">There\u2019s also a good chance that all of these official figures <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>underestimate<\/em><\/span> the true toll in lives lost<\/span>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>At least in China; we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know<\/span> here in the U.S. the total has been grossly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">over-inflated<\/span> in the name of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">continued control<\/span>.<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">No one<\/span><\/em> wants to go through this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>again<\/em><\/span>, which means we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>have to know how it started<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> A \u201cWe just can\u2019t figure it out\u201d from the part of the U.S. government that is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>specifically<\/em><\/span> assigned to protect us and and find out what other countries are hiding <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t going to cut it<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It will as long as Xi Jinping controls the WHO, the MSM\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of those far more interested <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> in what is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right<\/em><\/span>, but rather that which fattens their already-bloated bank accounts, <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Michael Brendan Dougherty details&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/06\/our-cruel-covid-class-system\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202021-06-28&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">Our Cruel COVID Class System<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/06\/our-cruel-covid-class-system\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202021-06-28&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Three tiers: essential, inessential, and expendable<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eumkt.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eumkt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eumkt.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eumkt-300x184.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94956\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-7.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-7-300x171.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eumge.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eumge.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eumge.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eumge-300x176.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">O<span class=\"small_caps\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">ver\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">a year ago, seeing the immediate effect that quarantines, shutdowns, and lockdown policies were having on Western democracies, I put out my futile prayer: \u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/04\/lets-never-get-used-to-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let\u2019s Never Get Used to This<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">I was appalled by the culture of snitching taking over the United Kingdom, the open contemplation by major Western governments of \u201cantibody certificates,\u201d and the U.S. attitude of going into lockdown without ever explaining what measures would end it. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">There were <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">none<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">But I\u2019m worried that, in the future, historians will laugh at us.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Over a period of 16 months, we have just discovered that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>governance inspired by Chinese despotism could be practiced in the West in the name of public health<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Across the former free world, constitutional rights were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>enthusiastically violated<\/em><\/span> in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>name of saving lives<\/em><\/span>, and the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>vast majority<\/em><\/span> of people <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">complied happily<\/span><\/em> or even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>became zealous enforcers themselves<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">This is something <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>governments<\/em><\/span> can\u2019t \u201cunsee.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">When <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>governments and other powerful entities<\/em><\/span> take a hard look at the wholescale shutdown of businesses and social and religious institutions, the requirement to work at home if possible, the Zoomification of social life, the suppression of dissenting opinion and the promotion of government party lines by all major social networks across the globe, what will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they<\/em><\/span> see?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Tools available for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>many other problems<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Such as combatting the non-existent threat of anthropogenic global warming, just to name a few.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, some more of that sh*t you just can&#8217;t make up, as, courtesy of <em>Judicial Watch<\/em> via G. Trevor, we learn a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/corruption-chronicles\/jailed-murderer-wins-public-office-in-d-c-election-with-five-inmate-candidates-from-same-prison\/?utm_source=deployer&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=corruption+chronicles&amp;utm_term=members&amp;utm_content=20210623184532\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jailed Murderer Wins Public Office in D.C. Election, Defeating Four Other Inmate Candidates from the Same Prison<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5ebkr6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5ebkr6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5ebkr6.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5ebkr6-300x106.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">As the homicide rate hits a record high in Washington D.C. the city <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>elects a convicted murderer to public office<\/em><\/span> in a unique election featuring <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all inmate candidates<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">The freshly elected public official, Joel Caston, has been in prison 26 years and is currently incarcerated at the District of Columbia Jail.<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> In 1996 Caston was convicted by a jury of <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">first-degree murder<\/span><\/em> for ambushing and killing a man in the city\u2019s Anacostia neighborhood.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Court records obtained by Judicial Watch indicate that a 2016 appeal was denied.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">In the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/documents\/caston\/\">document<\/a>, Caston\u2019s attorneys name the victim, which is not common practice today.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Court records also reveal a \u201cspeed loader\u201d\u2014a device used to rapidly load ammunition into a firearm\u2014was found by police under Caston\u2019s mattress after the shooting.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">It contained six rounds of .44 caliber ammunition as well as additional rounds of ammo.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Now<\/em><\/span> Caston is a commissioner on D.C.\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/anc.dc.gov\/page\/about-ancs\">Advisory Neighborhood Commission<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0(ANC), which advises the D.C. Council and other local government entities involving matters ranging from liquor license applications to public safety.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Commissioners serve two-year terms and are elected in even-numbered years.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">The ANC was established to bring \u201cgovernment closer to the people, and to bring the people closer to government,\u201d according to its website.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Caston was chosen by voters to represent Ward 7, one of D.C.\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most crime-infested areas<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">It is represented by Councilman Vince Gray, an ex-D.C. mayor who was embroiled in a campaign finance scandal.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The Ward 7 ANC seat has never been occupied and D.C. officials conducted an unprecedented election earlier this month to fill the post.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">All five candidates <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and the majority of voters they courted<\/em><\/span> are incarcerated at the same prison with Caston, according to a local\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/dcist.com\/story\/21\/06\/03\/dc-jail-anc-local-election-candidates\/\">news report<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Last year the D.C. Council passed<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/lims.dccouncil.us\/downloads\/LIMS\/45307\/Introduction\/B23-0825-Introduction.pdf?eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=d06b4bff-54f3-47a4-bd92-8f05284343d0&amp;eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=cc05a1e8-d4aa-4a00-a8bc-fac336a8aa6e\" class=\"broken_link\">legislation<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\">allowing incarcerated convicted felons to vote<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talk about a group of citizens getting the government they deserve.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item detailing the present-day circumstances of those who may well be the next Joel Caston,\u00a0<em>FOX<\/em>\u00a0recently reported an&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/illinois-aurora-police-officer-beating-strangling-traffic-stop\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Illinois trio has been charged with beating, strangling police officer over traffic stop<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/illinois-aurora-police-officer-beating-strangling-traffic-stop\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aurora Police chief said she will not allow city to become place &#8216;where criminals feel emboldened<\/span><\/a>&#8216;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jennifer-Taylor-Sheba-Taylor-Paul-Sherrod.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94898\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jennifer-Taylor-Sheba-Taylor-Paul-Sherrod.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jennifer-Taylor-Sheba-Taylor-Paul-Sherrod.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jennifer-Taylor-Sheba-Taylor-Paul-Sherrod-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, chief: Criminals began to feel emboldened the day The Obamao took office, and they grow ever more impudent under 46* at an increasingly dizzying pace.\u00a0 But the story here is NOT that three Blacks would feel free to assault a law enforcement officer over a traffic stop, rather at what point&#8230;and, given Progressives&#8217; continued support of the law-breaking over the law-abiding, that point is fast approaching&#8230;will an officer, in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>justifiable fear for his life<\/em><\/span>, draw his service weapon and shoot savages such as these?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: Certainly the officer assaulted by the heirs of Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Jacob Blake and St. George of Floyd featured above had far more cause to have shot any of his attackers than the trigger-happy Quickdraw McGraw of Capitol Hill had to execute the unarmed, nonthreatening Ashli Babbitt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We turn now to another sextet of items specially selected to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). In yet another indication Trump&#8217;s judicial legacy won&#8217;t be nearly as significant as we&#8217;d hoped,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/supreme-court-declines-to-take-up-transgender-bathroom-case-leaving-in-place-victory-for-trans-student\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=24290928\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the SCOTUS declined to take up a case over a Virginia school board\u2019s policy on transgender bathroom use, leaving in place a lower court\u2019s ruling that the school unconstitutionally discriminated\u00a0against a biologically female student who was denied access to the boy\u2019s bathroom<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). Anyone still wondering whether America has a two-tiered system of justice in which the upper level absolves prominent Progressive politicians and government bureaucrats of any meaningful retribution or guilt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/fbi-lawyer-who-doctored-russiagate-email-agrees-to-one-year-law-license-suspension\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202021-06-28&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>consider the &#8220;sentence&#8221; handed down to Kevin Klinesmith<\/em><\/span><\/a>, the former FBI lawyer who deliberately doctored a FISA warrant application as part of the Deep State&#8217;s dogged pursuit of The Donald.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). Courtesy of <em>Townhall.com<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Matt Vespa records a recent\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2021\/06\/23\/loudon-county-school-board-meeting-descends-into-total-mayhem-n2591401\">Loudon County school board meeting was engulfed in total mayhem over critical race theory<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Image-6-24-21-at-8.06-AM-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94896\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Image-6-24-21-at-8.06-AM-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Image-6-24-21-at-8.06-AM-1.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Image-6-24-21-at-8.06-AM-1-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Yet what disturbed <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">us<\/span><\/em>\u00a0most was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> the uproar, but rather local law enforcement&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reaction to it<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-13.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-13-300x281.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>It should disturb <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span> greatly to know certain police officers are more than willing to circumvent and\/or disregard the law to protect the unpopular, unconstitutional policies of bumbling bureaucrats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). In a forward from James Nichols,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Newsbusters.org\u00a0<\/em>relates the curious fact that <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/rich-noyes\/2021\/06\/28\/blackout-cuomos-many-scandals-live-tv-news-goes-silent\">though Sonny Cuomo\u2019s many scandals live on, the MSM&#8217;s interest in them has died<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CuomoStudyChart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CuomoStudyChart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CuomoStudyChart.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CuomoStudyChart-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>It&#8217;s the MSM&#8217;s Ralph &#8220;Blackface&#8221; Northam strategy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/northam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/northam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/northam.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/northam-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Did his retro-racism <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>actually happen<\/em><\/span> if no one covers the story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). Writing at <em>Best of the Web<\/em>, Jim Freeman wonders, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other<\/em><\/span> than dodging shoplifters in your local drugstore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/dodging-shoplifters-in-san-francisco-11624915603?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>what&#8217;s the best way to explain why YOU are leaving the once-Golden State<\/em><\/span><\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5euaip.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94941\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5euaip.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5euaip.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5euaip-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). Since we&#8217;re on the subject of The Land of Fruits &amp; Nuts, the <em>New York Post<\/em> reveals\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/25\/dianne-feinstein-lists-41m-lake-tahoe-estate\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Dianne Feinstein has listed her Lake Tahoe digs for a cool $41M<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 Reports <em>Black Lies Matter<\/em> co-founder and Marxist Patrisse&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e7X01_j_oDA?start=128&amp;end=130&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;\"><strong>&#8230;-Cullors is considering adding it to her existing stable of more-equal-than-others estates remain unconfirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-12.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-12-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cb062521dAPR20210625124506.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cb062521dAPR20210625124506.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cb062521dAPR20210625124506.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cb062521dAPR20210625124506-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ccc-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ccc-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ccc-3.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ccc-3-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94928\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-15.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/aaa-15-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cb062621dAPC20210625104506.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94938\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cb062621dAPC20210625104506.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cb062621dAPC20210625104506.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cb062621dAPC20210625104506-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MC_Tumblers_web20210628124329.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94939\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MC_Tumblers_web20210628124329.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MC_Tumblers_web20210628124329.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MC_Tumblers_web20210628124329-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/afb062521dAPR20210625064504.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94929\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/afb062521dAPR20210625064504.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/afb062521dAPR20210625064504.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/afb062521dAPR20210625064504-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/afb062621dAPC20210626044502.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/afb062621dAPC20210626044502.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/afb062621dAPC20210626044502.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/afb062621dAPC20210626044502-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/faucitaffypull2webcr-6-23-21_orig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/faucitaffypull2webcr-6-23-21_orig.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/faucitaffypull2webcr-6-23-21_orig.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/faucitaffypull2webcr-6-23-21_orig-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Image-6-26-21-at-6.25-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Image-6-26-21-at-6.25-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Image-6-26-21-at-6.25-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Image-6-26-21-at-6.25-AM-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Balls1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Balls1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Balls1-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Balls1-1-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Balls2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Balls2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Balls2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Balls2-300x289.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Speed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speed.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/speed-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Ed Hickey:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94908\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey1-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey1-1-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94909\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey2-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey2-1-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey3-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey3-1-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey4.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey4-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94912\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey1-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hickey1-1-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Sports Section<\/em><\/span>, courtesy today of the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/message-sent-berry-turns-away-from-flag-during-anthem\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">Third-place hammer thrower turns back to US flag during national anthem at Olympic trials<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eqyh1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94906\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eqyh1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eqyh1.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5eqyh1-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As if we needed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>another<\/em><\/span> reason not to watch the Olympics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Monday evening.\u00a0 We had a long weekend, worked in the garage much of today, and will be playing Merion tomorrow.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gonna be <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hot<\/span><\/em>, and we&#8217;re gonna be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>tired<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 So rather than miss publishing on Wednesday, we decided to move things up a day.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll resume our regular schedule on Friday.\u00a0 &#8216;Til then&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GLUNypEfrFQ?start=86&amp;end=88&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Video of the Day<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Stossel marks the 60th anniversary of <em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxlsr9YwO1A\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/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>Assuming he ever had it to begin with, here&#8217;s proof Biden has lost it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yOkoTfqIbjc?start=7&amp;end=82&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>On the Lighter Side<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>In keeping with the subject of our Quote of the Day, one of our favorite clips from The Simpsons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uG3uea-Hvy4\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, June 28th, 2021&#8230;but before we begin, two brief observation on the increasingly woke nature of our nation&#8217;s Military and its senior officers:\u00a0\u00a0 You&#8217;ll note we referred to the likes of Mark Milley, Mike Mullen and George Casey as senior officers, not\u00a0&#8220;leaders&#8221;. 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