{"id":97584,"date":"2021-10-24T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T18:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=97584"},"modified":"2021-10-24T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T18:08:09","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-october-22nd-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=97584","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, October 22nd, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, October 22nd, 2021…but before we begin, while a recent Quinnipiac poll<\/em><\/span><\/a> spells trouble for 46*…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…The Donald fared only slightly better<\/strong>, with 39% of Americans saying they have a favorable opinion of him, up a mere 2% from last\u00a0May.\u00a0 Voters’ viewed Congress even less favorably, with only\u00a0<\/strong>23% of Americans approving of Republican lawmakers and 30% of Dimocrats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Without wishing Trump any ill, we’ve no doubt the country would benefit greatly from him passing the torch, either by choice or some unforeseen circumstance…like a Mack truck.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

First up, in keeping with the theme of our Quote of the Day<\/em> and courtesy of Speed, another picture worth far more than a measly thousand words, exemplifying as it does the utter moral bankruptcy and depravity of the current Administration:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a related item, courtesy of\u00a0Patriot Post<\/em> via White House Dossier<\/em>, Dennis Prager correctly concludes…<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Left Is Evil \u2014 And Liberals Keep Voting for Them<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

The fate of America and the West lies largely in the hands of liberals<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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“As I have noted repeatedly, liberalism and leftism have virtually nothing in common. In fact, leftism is the enemy of liberalism \u2014 as a handful of liberals such as former New York Times writer Bari Weiss, former Young Turk Dave Rubin and others have come to recognize.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Left has never believed in free speech and has suppressed dissent wherever it has assumed power. Free speech is a pillar of liberalism, and it has always embraced dissent.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Left rejects the anti-racist ideal of colorblindness. Colorblind is the liberal racial ideal.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Left supports racial segregation \u2014 such as all-black dorms and separate black graduations. Liberals have always advocated racial integration.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Left has always loathed capitalism. Liberals were always major advocates of capitalism \u2014 recognizing that only capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Left has always been anti-Israel. Liberals have always been fervent supporters of Israel.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Left has always held America in contempt. Liberals loved this country.<\/span> A liberal wrote \u201cGod Bless America.\u201d No leftist would write such a song.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Leftists want to defund the police. No liberal does.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The list of liberal-Left differences is as long as the list of left-wing positions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Yet, it is liberals who keep the Left in power.<\/span> Were it not for the liberal vote, the Left would have no power.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Why do liberals vote Left? Why do liberals vote for those who have contempt for virtually everything they, the liberals, hold dear?\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>The question is all the more apt given that it is conservatives who protect virtually every liberal value. It is conservatives who seek to preserve free speech, racial integration, love of America, a strong Israel and capitalism.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So why do<\/em><\/span> liberals vote for the Left, for the very people<\/em><\/span> who hold liberals and their values in contempt<\/em><\/span>?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>There are two primary reasons.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One is brainwashing<\/em><\/span>. Liberals are brainwashed from childhood into believing that the right is their enemy and that \u201cpas d’ennemis a gauche\u201d (there are \u201cno enemies on the left\u201d).<\/span> That is why there is no left-wing position, no matter how destructive or vile, that could move a liberal to vote Republican or identify with conservatives.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The second reason is fear<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Liberals fear<\/em><\/span> they will lose friends and even family if they do not vote Democrat or if they publicly criticize the Left. And this is not an irrational fear.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

America and the West are being destroyed by the Left. But this destruction of the universities, the high schools, art and music, journalism and freedom itself could not take place<\/em><\/span> were it not for liberals.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>The fate of America and the West lies largely in the hands of liberals. There are simply not enough leftists to destroy our most revered institutions.<\/span> They need liberals<\/em><\/span> to serve as fellow travelers to accomplish their ends.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Should the American experiment fail, and it may<\/em><\/span>, that<\/strong> profile in lack of courage, the liberal<\/em><\/span>, will have made it possible.<\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

As the story goes…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Keep in mind, they’re offering to steal YOUR money to keep YOU and YOUR PROGENY in PERPETUAL SERVITUDE!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next, in a forward from FOX News<\/em> via George Lawlor, we learn a…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Navy probe reveals the failures that fueled arson fire and destroyed USS Bonhomme Richard<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“A\u00a0Navy\u00a0report has concluded there were sweeping failures by commanders, crew members and others that fueled the July 2020 arson\u00a0fire\u00a0that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard, calling the massive five-day blaze in\u00a0San Diego\u00a0preventable and unacceptable.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

While one sailor has been charged with setting the fire, the more than 400-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, lists three dozen officers and sailors whose failings either directly led to the ship’s loss or contributed to it<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> The findings detailed widespread<\/em><\/span> lapses in training, coordination, communication, fire preparedness, equipment maintenance and overall command and control.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Although the fire was started by an act of arson, the ship was lost due to an inability to extinguish the fire,” the report said, concluding that “repeated failures<\/span><\/em>” by an “inadequately prepared crew<\/span><\/em>” delivered “an ineffective fire response.”<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

Exactly HOW<\/em><\/span> inadequately the crew was trained and prepared is evidenced by this paragraph further on in the article:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Sailors also failed to push the button and activate the firefighting foam system, even though it was accessible and could have slowed the fire’s progress. “No member of the crew interviewed considered this action<\/em><\/span> or had specific knowledge as to the location of the button or its function<\/em><\/span>,” the report said.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

But at least they were up to speed on their gender pronouns, sexual harassment guidelines and diversity training!\u00a0 Hey, $5 billion here,\u00a0<\/strong>$5 billion there…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…it’s not like we’re pissing away the family funds of the Biden criminal cartel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking of criminals, writing at NRO<\/em>, Caroline Downey notes the…<\/strong><\/p>\n

NIH Admits to Funding Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan, Says EcoHealth Violated Reporting Requirements<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“A top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that U.S. taxpayers funded\u00a0gain-of-function research<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan and revealed that EcoHealth Alliance, the U.S. non-profit that funneled NIH money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was not transparent about the work it was doing<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the\u00a0letter<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0to Representative James Comer (R., Ky.), Lawrence A. Tabak of the NIH cites a \u201climited experiment\u201d that was conducted to test if \u201cspike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.\u201d<\/span> The laboratory mice infected with the modified<\/em><\/span> bat virus \u201cbecame sicker\u201d than those infected with the unmodified<\/em><\/span> bat virus.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The revelation vindicates Republican senator\u00a0Rand Paul<\/a><\/em><\/span>, who got into heated exchanges with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease director Anthony Fauci during his May and July testimonials before Congress over the gain-of-function question.<\/span> At the second hearing, Paul accused Fauci of misleading Congress by denying that the U.S. had funded gain-of-function projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Gain-of-function research involves extracting viruses from animals and artificially engineering them in a laboratory to make them more transmissible or deadly to humans.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>In keeping with Fauci\u2019s refusal to use \u201cgain-of-function<\/em><\/span>,\u201d Tabak avoids the term<\/em><\/span>, though the work he described matches its commonplace definition precisely<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A previously unpublished EcoHealth\u00a0grant proposal<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0filed with NIAID, obtained by\u00a0The Intercept,<\/em>\u00a0had already exposed that\u00a0$599,000 of the total grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology was for research designed to make viruses more dangerous and\/or infectious<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Richard Ebright, biosafety expert and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, had previously\u00a0rebutted<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0Fauci\u2019s claim that the NIH \u201chas not ever and does not now<\/em><\/span> fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology [WIV]\u201d as \u201cdemonstrably false<\/a><\/em><\/span>.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Ebright told\u00a0National Review<\/span>\u00a0that the NIH-financed work at the WIV \u201cepitomizes\u201d the definition of gain-of-function research<\/em><\/span>, which deals with \u201cenhanced potential pandemic pathogen (PPP)\u201d or those pathogens \u201cresulting from the enhancement of the transmissibility and\/or virulence of a pathogen.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to his admission that gain-of-function research was being conducted with NIH money, Tabak also revealed that EcoHealth failed to comply with its reporting responsibilities under the grant<\/em><\/span>. EcoHealth was required to submit to a \u201csecondary review\u201d in the event of certain developments that might increase the danger associated with the research<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> So, when Wuhan researchers successfully bound a natural bat coronavirus to a human AC2 receptor in mice, they were supposed<\/em><\/span> to inform the NIH, but they didn\u2019t<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Eco Health now has five days, according to Tabak, to submit to NIH \u201cany and all unpublished data\u201d relating to this award\u2019s project for compliance purposes<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

Keep in mind, Faux Chi was the arrogant ass who, back in 2012, justified funding gain-of-function research in a substandard lab facility run by America’s greatest global foe by saying, “Scientists working in this field might say \u2013 as indeed I have said<\/em><\/span> \u2013 that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, with the blood of some 5,000,000 dead worldwide on his hands, it’s more than passing curious none of the MSM talking heads constantly interviewing him have ever asked the good doctor:<\/strong><\/p>\n