{"id":97996,"date":"2021-11-04T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T22:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=97996"},"modified":"2021-11-04T18:07:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T22:07:12","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-november-3rd-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=97996","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Editor&#8217;s Note<\/em><\/span>: We hope and pray in his victory speech, Glenn Youngkin calls out Terry McAuliffe for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbangor.com\/national-news\/mcauliffe-repeats-4-pinocchio-coronavirus-stat-calls-youngkin-who-was-vaccinated-an-anti-vaxxer\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>bald-faced, lying piece of human excrement he is<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-andrea-mitchell-calls-youngkin-textbook-case-of-dishonest-culture-warrior\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Andrea Mitchell<\/em><\/span><\/a> and the rest of the MSM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021&#8230;but before we begin, writing at <em>White House Dossier<\/em>, Rebekah Koffler reveals<i>.<\/i>..<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-19-vaccine-mandates-turn-into-religious-tests-at-ge-disneysome-longer-than-others-11635688800?mod=e2tw\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Turn Into Religious Tests at GE, Disney\u2014Some Longer Than Others<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-19-vaccine-mandates-turn-into-religious-tests-at-ge-disneysome-longer-than-others-11635688800?mod=e2tw\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Companies including General Electric and Amtrak ask employees seeking exemptions to explain how they apply their beliefs in other aspects of their lives<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/im-422498.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97975\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/im-422498.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/im-422498.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/im-422498-300x218.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Big U.S. companies are taking a range of approaches to dealing with employee requests for a religious exemption to Covid-19 vaccine mandates, according to internal documents viewed by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/clicks.aweber.com\/y\/ct\/?l=6Oa_r&amp;m=3jIcHR6Vd7TM1Od&amp;b=DoBsaXjpmcipdmY__RQD1w\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>The\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Employees at\u00a0General Electric<span class=\"company-name-type\">\u00a0Co.<\/span>\u00a0who seek a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>are asked to answer 13 questions<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including<\/em><\/span> whether their religious beliefs <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>prevent them from wearing seat belts or taking Tylenol<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Workers at\u00a0Tyson Foods<span class=\"company-name-type\">\u00a0Inc.<\/span>\u00a0requesting the same accommodation sign a two-question form.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Employers say they are trying\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"icon none\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-to-require-all-federal-workers-government-contractors-to-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19-11631195011?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to meet federal requirements<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0and protect their workers by getting them inoculated.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Companies are weighing factors such as privacy issues and religious beliefs as they try to identify workers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who are attempting to avoid the vaccine for other reasons<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Some workers at companies that ask more questions say they feel the protocols <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were designed to discourage them from seeking a religious exemption<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>The more detailed questionnaires, some experts say, reflect a view among employers that vaccine accommodations should be rare, and reserved for people who apply their religious beliefs in other decisions and behaviors as well<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <em>Journal<\/em>\u00a0goes on to list examples of questions\u00a0<\/strong><strong>asked on the more detailed questionnaires, some of which are\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>31-questions long<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>&#8212; how long have you\u00a0had your religious beliefs;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><em>&#8212; do you have any tattoos or body piercings;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>&#8212; do you eat foods that contain preservatives or chemicals;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><em>&#8212; do you take common medications, such as Tylenol, Tums, or\u00a0Motrin, which reportedly\u00a0used fetal cell lines during research, testing and development;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>&#8212; \u201cIs your request based on a belief that vaccines violate religious teachings that say \u2018the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit\u2019 or is your religious belief based on faith healing?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Forgetting for the moment <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no one<\/em><\/span> should be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>forced<\/em><\/span> to put anything <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in<\/em><\/span> their body in a country which permits the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>removal<\/em><\/span> of the unborn, Mrs. Koffler, who knows of what she speaks, having experienced the beneficent rule of Socialists in a prior life, states:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><em>This is perhaps the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">scariest<\/span> article I&#8217;ve read recently. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Remember this year<\/span>, my fellow Americans &#8212; \u00a0<\/em>2021<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"> is the\u00a0year when\u00a0America\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">stepped firmly on the path of\u00a0totalitarianism<\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">32 years after, upon\u00a0my Mom&#8217;s guidance and dream, I fled the totalitarian socialist USSR and came to America, the land\u00a0of freedom, liberty, and justice.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><em>If this recent step\u00a0doesn&#8217;t wake up Americans to US government&#8217;s\u00a0atrocious\u00a0Soviet tactics and ambitions to establish total government control in America, the way that the Soviet Politburo did, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I don&#8217;t know what will<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Neither do we, Rebekah, neither do we.\u00a0 That this scamdemic is still even newsworthy speaks volumes about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_breakingnews\/virginia-gop-claims-some-maskless-voters-turned-away-from-polls_4082486.html?utm_source=newsnoe&amp;utm_medium=email2&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2021-11-02-3&amp;mktids=84b2a563970b6f96d9563ec1695a92ea&amp;est=VI9BcVSqT8Xzf0YhV2jA0hfHz9%2Bx9HbHNx6nojNQd7%2F%2FEXhMH3OBQzZp%2FJ%2B%2BdfJlLA%3D%3D\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>how desperate Progressives<\/em><\/span><\/a> and their MSM shills are to maintain the power its given them through the next couple election cycles, as it&#8217;s the only way they can win.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, in a forward from Bill Meisen the <em>Daily Caller<\/em>\u00a0offers&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mb-6 xl:mb-10 leading-tight font-oswald font-medium\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2018<a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/31\/chuck-todd-poll-us-headed-in-wrong-direction-nbc\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Scary News For Democrats\u2019: Chuck Todd Lays Out Poll Saying 71% Of Americans Believe US Is Headed In The Wrong Direction<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/file.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/file.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/file.jpeg 357w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/file-255x300.jpeg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d moderator Chuck Todd laid out a recent poll Sunday that he said amounted to \u201cscary news for Democrats.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Todd\u00a0pointed to the new poll, conducted by\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/biden-s-job-rating-sinks-42-percent-nbc-news-poll-n1282781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, that indicates just 22% of Americans believe the U.S. is heading in the right direction while 71% believe it is not.<\/span> \u201cJust <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">22 percent<\/span><\/em> of adults say we\u2019re headed in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>right direction<\/em><\/span>,\u201d Todd said as he laid out the numbers. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u201cA shocking <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">71 percent<\/span><\/em> say we\u2019re on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wrong track<\/em><\/span>, and that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>includes<\/em><\/span> a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">near majority of Democrats<\/span><\/em> who are saying that.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u201cPresident Biden\u2019s approval rating stands at a dismal 42% versus 54% who disapprove. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Believe it or not, just two months ago Mr. Biden was in positive territory,\u201d Todd continued, noting that the\u00a0numbers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only got worse\u00a0from there<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> According to the poll, only 37% of Americans believe\u00a0Biden\u00a0is \u201ccompetent and effective\u201d or has the ability to handle a crisis. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">On the flip side, 50% do not believe the president is \u201ccompetent and effective,\u201d and 47% are not convinced of his ability to handle crises.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Todd also pointed to the broader picture, saying that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the poll indicates support for Republicans on major issues<\/span> <\/em>that could drive people to the polls during the upcoming midterm elections<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, Biden&#8217;s numbers <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span><\/em> his presidency are&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCzD3ONQsmM?start=2&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>And he&#8217;s trying to take the country with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, this snippet from a Washington Examiner article explains why pollsters like John Zogby are so often wrong: He doesn&#8217;t even understand the facts of the issues on which he&#8217;s polling.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Zogby said that the problem for Biden is that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he appears unable to get his agenda through Congress<\/em><\/span> as the economy is sinking and other critical issues, such as the border crisis, crash in.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cVoters can&#8217;t help but wonder why the Biden administration keeps sweeping these issues under the rug and declaring them \u2018transitory.\u2019<\/span> Democratic leaders cannot even come to consensus within their own ranks,\u201d Zogby said in his analysis.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201c<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Without the passage of the \u2018Build Back Better Act,\u2019 or a solid infrastructure bill<\/span><\/em>, and the potential default of the U.S. debt on the horizon, is it any surprise Biden&#8217;s presidency is sinking like the\u00a0<i>Titanic?<\/i><\/span>\u00a0Biden&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>failure to reach vaccination goals<\/em><\/span> and his executive vaccine mandates have also not helped his cause,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps&#8230;just perhaps&#8230;as Charlie Cooke relates at\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>, it&#8217;s because, as a recent ABC\/Ipsos poll confirms,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-abc-ipsos-poll-shows-that-the-democrats-spending-bills-are-duds\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=homepage&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=corner&amp;utm_term=third\">the Democrats\u2019 spending bills are duds<\/a><\/em><\/span>, and a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">significant segment<\/span><\/em>\u00a0of the population <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don&#8217;t want them passed<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 As Cooke notes, even among Dimocrats, &#8220;<em>fewer than half (47%) think the two bills would help people like them.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All of which leads Charlie to wonder, &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This<\/em><\/span>\u00a0is what Joe Manchin is violating his own standards for?\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This<\/em><\/span>\u00a0is what Democratic moderates in the House and the Senate are choosing to commit suicide over?\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This<\/em><\/span>\u00a0is the cause of our months-long Washington drama?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of Joe Manchin, the good Senator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/manchin-not-ready-to-vote-yes-blasts-shell-games-and-gimmicks\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=25541869\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>slammed House progressives during a Monday press conference for refusing to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill until he agrees to back President Biden\u2019s proposed reconciliation package<\/em><\/span><\/a>, explaining,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u201cHolding that bill hostage is not going to work in getting my support of what you want.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manchin went on to say,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u201cAs more of the real details in the basic outline of the framework are released, what I see are shell games, budget gimmicks that make the real cost of the so-called $1.75 trillion dollar bill estimated to be almost twice that amount. This is a recipe for economic crisis.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So PLEASE, Mr. Zogby, tells us again why 46*&#8217;s low polling numbers are because he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hasn&#8217;t gotten his agenda passed<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 Those portions of his agenda he&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>managed<\/em><\/span> to enact through <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>executive orders<\/em><\/span> are why inflation is soaring, the border is open and 100 container ships are stranded off Long Beach.\u00a0 And while the country goes to Hell in a handbasket, he&#8217;s falling asleep in Glasgow pursuing a cause no one cares about to deal with a problem that doesn&#8217;t exist.\u00a0 And even if it did, nothing he&#8217;s doing would solve it in the slightest &#8220;degree&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, writing at his <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>, Jim Geraghty takes us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/inside-the-intel-communitys-infuriating-covid-origins-report\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20211101&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Inside the Intel Community\u2019s Infuriating COVID-Origins Report<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/inside-the-intel-communitys-infuriating-covid-origins-report\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20211101&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The U.S. Intelligence Community Gives Beijing the Benefit of the Doubt<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5srft2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5srft2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5srft2.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5srft2-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>For months\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-intelligence-community-prepares-to-punt-on-covid-19s-origin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">people such as myself asked<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0what the point of the U.S. intelligence community was if\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/index.php\/what-we-do\/members-of-the-ic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">18 separate government agencies with amazing technology, enormous resources, and thousands upon thousands of smart and highly trained people<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0couldn\u2019t provide policymakers and the public with clearer answers about life-and-death issues involving the secretive actions of hostile foreign countries.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It is as if the U.S. intelligence community heard our complaints and answered them&#8230;with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/ODNI\/documents\/assessments\/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">an 18-page report<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0declaring that it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could not determine<\/em><\/span> the origins of COVID-19 and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could add very little<\/em><\/span> to what was already known.<\/span> Keep in mind, the U.S. intelligence community\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/index.php\/what-we-do\/ic-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">was appropriated $62 billion in 2020, and $60 billion in 2021<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The 18-page report is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fairly infuriating<\/em><\/span>, in part because of its dry bureaucratese and opaque language, and in large part because, assuming this report is accurate, it seems that large swaths of our intelligence community are bending over backward to give the Chinese government the benefit of the doubt.<\/span> It seems to see nothing suspicious in Beijing\u2019s refusal to turn over data or fully cooperate with international investigations. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The fact that\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\">Beijing lied to the world for the first three to six weeks of this pandemic<\/a><\/em><\/span>, insisting that the virus <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was not contagious<\/em><\/span> when it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>obviously was<\/em><\/span>, does not influence our intelligence agencies\u2019 analysis <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at all<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> It does not see <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> signs or indications of a coverup, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>despite<\/em><\/span> the Wuhan Institute of Virology\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>yanking large swaths of data offline shortly before the start of the pandemic<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And the agencies seem to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>explicitly reject<\/em><\/span> Occam\u2019s Razor, the principle that of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred.<\/span> As far as we can tell from this report, the U.S. intelligence community <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>does not find it strange or unusual<\/em><\/span> that a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>random<\/em><\/span> Chinese person, with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no connection<\/em><\/span> to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, could have a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>spectacularly unlucky<\/em><\/span> run-in with a bat or other animal, and that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that random Chinese person<\/em><\/span> just happened to catch an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exceptionally rare, naturally occurring animal virus<\/em><\/span> that infects, sickens, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span><\/em> spreads among human beings <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>like wildfire<\/em><\/span> on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the metaphorical doorstep of one of the three labs in the world doing gain-of-function research on novel coronaviruses found in bats<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, nothing to see here, folks; please move along&#8230;and toe &#8220;the Party&#8217;s&#8221; line.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Gerard Baker notes at the\u00a0<em>WSJ<\/em>, &#8220;the Party&#8221; means the Dimocratic Party.\u00a0 And as the Dimocratic Party is now the Party of Privileged Progressives, more and more with each passing day&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/privileged-progressives-climate-change-glasgow-cop26-racism-woke-esg-energy-crisis-11635775857?mod=MorningEditorialReport&amp;mod=djemMER_h\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">For Privileged Progressives, \u2018We\u2019 Means \u2018You\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/privileged-progressives-climate-change-glasgow-cop26-racism-woke-esg-energy-crisis-11635775857?mod=MorningEditorialReport&amp;mod=djemMER_h\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">From climate motorcades to maskless public parties, they don\u2019t follow the rules they impose on all of us<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5s6m9g.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5s6m9g.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5s6m9g.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5s6m9g-300x209.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Biden-Maskless-Leaving-Restaurant.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Biden-Maskless-Leaving-Restaurant.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Biden-Maskless-Leaving-Restaurant.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Biden-Maskless-Leaving-Restaurant-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>If there\u2019s a defining feature of modern progressives\u2019 self-image, it\u2019s the idea that\u2014by dint of their supposedly superior education, their association with like-minded members of global elites and their immersion in the various rites of the contemporary secular religion\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they<\/em><\/span> are more knowledgeable and virtuous <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>than you<\/em><\/span>, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>inferior classes<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Democratic leaders, and the academic, corporate and media people who sustain them, nurture their luxury beliefs, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>comfortable in the conviction of their own moral supremacy<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>We shouldn\u2019t be surprised. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">There\u2019s been a social revolution in this country and the wider West in the past 50 years in which, by a remarkable inversion, the left\u2014which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>used<\/em><\/span> to represent the interests of the outsiders, the disadvantaged\u2014is in almost total control of the institutions of the establishment.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>They<\/em><\/span> are the masters now. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">And like masters through most of history\u2014from tribal chiefs to Roman patricians, absolutist monarchs and totalitarian tyrants\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>their superiority<\/em><\/span> is such that the rules they make <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>don\u2019t apply to them<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> They apply <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only to you<\/em><\/span>, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unenlightened<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ultimate<\/em><\/span> demonstration of the gulf between our leaders\u2019 alarmist prescriptions and the reality of life for the rest of us can be witnessed in an energy crisis that is pushing up fuel bills for hard-pressed working people, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thanks in large part to policies that have prematurely reduced gas production, inexplicably killed off nuclear power in countries like Germany, and made our fragile economy dependent on wind power when the wind doesn\u2019t blow and solar power when the sun don\u2019t shine<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/657569893.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/657569893.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/657569893.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/657569893-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The higher costs of energy fall disproportionately on the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>poor and middle class<\/em><\/span>, for whom it represents a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sizable proportion of their total spending<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">For the laid-off coal miner in Appalachia or the family struggling to meet its heating bills in a freezing Midwestern winter, the climate demands we\u2019ll hear so much about in the next few weeks <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>have a much more immediate impact<\/em><\/span> than for the proliferating crowd of well-heeled \u201cESG\u201d investors.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u201cFolks, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we all<\/span><\/em> have that obligation\u2014that obligation to our children and to our grandchildren,\u201d Mr. Biden\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"icon none broken_link\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/10\/28\/remarks-by-president-biden-announcing-the-framework-for-his-build-back-better-agenda-and-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0last week, addressing the climate crisis. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">But the words need careful parsing.<\/span> In the newspeak of progressive sanctimony, pronouns are different. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">In this case, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we<\/em><\/span>\u201d means <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Roughly translated, Mr. Biden says: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>My<\/em><em> obligation<\/em><\/span> is to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>talk at length<\/em><\/span> about moral imperatives, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to cite<\/em><\/span> ever more alarmist scenarios about the threat we face and to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>commit to<\/em><\/span> ever grander projects and spending plans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for which I get slapped on the back for my courage over lavish dinners in international hotels and blessed in papal palaces<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Your<\/span><\/em> obligation is to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pay for it<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8230;and you children&#8230;your children&#8217;s children&#8230;ad infinitum.\u00a0 But hey, as this meme forwarded by Ed Hickey suggests, even 46*&#8217;s offspring are feeling the pain his policies are perpetuating:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/7F3E6426093A477F93C4805A106282BA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/7F3E6426093A477F93C4805A106282BA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/7F3E6426093A477F93C4805A106282BA.jpg 378w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/7F3E6426093A477F93C4805A106282BA-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which provides the perfect segue into the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>EnvironMental Moment<\/em><\/span>, where, courtesy of\u00a0<em>The Hill<\/em>\u00a0via Speed, Scott Tinker tells us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/thehill.com\/opinion\/energy-environment\/578925-the-road-to-glasgow-is-paved-with-bad-assumptions?amp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\">The road to Glasgow is paved with bad assumptions<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5skhsu.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5skhsu.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5skhsu.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/5skhsu-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>While global leaders prepare to trek to Glasgow for COP26 &#8211; the United Nations Climate Change conference &#8211; Asia, Europe and Britain are experiencing\u00a0energy crises<u>,<\/u>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>largely politically self-inflicted<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>public<\/em><\/span> is paying the price.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Meanwhile, COP26 aims to &#8220;accelerate action toward the goals of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change&#8221; and the goal of\u00a0net-zero emissions. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">The idea being that if the world could\u00a0balance\u00a0human-sourced emissions\u00a0of\u00a0greenhouse gases\u00a0with\u00a0equivalent emissions removals,\u00a0warming\u00a0could stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>As the guide for getting to net-zero emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) &#8211; an intergovernmental organization often called the &#8220;world&#8217;s energy watchdog&#8221; &#8211; published its\u00a0&#8220;Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector&#8221; in May of this year, where it describes a &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>narrow but achievable<\/em><\/span>&#8221; path to net-zero emissions.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">While the IEA does excellent, objective work, critics say it is undermining the\u00a0&#8220;climate change battle.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The\u00a0IEA roadmap\u00a0certainly assuages those accusers by targeting a &#8220;net zero energy system&#8221; underpinned by an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>extremely rapid transition away from carbon-based\u00a0fuels<\/em><\/span> &#8211; for example, an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>immediate end<\/em><\/span> to new coal, oil and natural gas. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Yet, in\u00a0reality,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>emissions<\/em><\/span>\u00a0are the primary issue for climate change, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not fuels<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Nonetheless, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fuels continue to be targeted<\/em><\/span> by public pressure that is starving oil and gas companies of capital, and government policies <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>legislating and subsidizing<\/em> <\/span>solar, wind and battery winners.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>As global leaders at COP26 prepare to commit <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>trillions of dollars<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>guided by this roadmap<\/em><\/span>, it is important to understand <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>how confusing<\/em><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even implausible<\/em><\/span>, are some of\u00a0the\u00a0roadmap&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>key\u00a02050 assumptions<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>One thing<\/em><\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>clear<\/em><\/span>: Emerging and developing economies <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will\u00a0not sacrifice economic growth for emissions\u00a0reductions<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">They <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>might<\/em><\/span>, however, consider a range of technology and resource options that focus on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>emissions reductions<\/em><\/span>, while <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>allowing them to continue to benefit from affordable and reliable coal, oil and natural gas<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Yet, many academics, think tanks, advocacy organizations and government officials <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>continue to\u00a0propound\u00a0IEA roadmap-type thinking\u00a0and produce reports with 80 percent or more solar and wind<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">Reality can be a harsh teacher as we witness the many self-inflicted global energy crises today, in systems with considerably less than 80 percent.<\/span> Weather-dependent wind and solar <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can&#8217;t deliver reliable energy at scale without extensive and expensive backup<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Undercapitalized oil and gas companies can&#8217;t provide the required backup, causing many countries to\u00a0reach out to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>non-neighborly neighbors<\/em><\/span>\u00a0for natural gas and coal as winter approaches.<\/span> As a result, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>energy prices are soaring<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">It can be difficult to separate our biases and beliefs from science and economics.<\/span> But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>separate we must<\/em><\/span>, lest a climate-based roadmap lose its energy-reality way, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hurting the very people it was intended to protect<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">The road to green <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should not be paved with bad assumptions<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yet it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>always will be<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 For just as much of the response to the WuFlu was purposed purely to promote Progressive power, so is the entire anthropogenic global warming\/climate change scam.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We turn now to a quartet of items specially selected for inquiring Conservative minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Amy Barrett&#8217;s just given another indication she might not be all that her backers represented, as her&#8217;s was an important vote in the\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/supreme-court-wont-take-up-case-of-catholic-hospital-sued-for-refusing-to-provide-gender-transition-surgery\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=25539602\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Supreme Court&#8217;s rejection an appeal from a Catholic hospital in California Monday that was sued after refusing to provide a hysterectomy surgery for a\u00a0transgender\u00a0man<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 No; Since a man cannot have a hysterectomy, the subject was a mentally-incompetent <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>woman<\/em><\/span> who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>claims<\/em><\/span> to be a man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). Once-impartial political analyst Larry Sabato surrendered any shred of credibility he still possessed by claiming, as Spencer Brown reports at\u00a0<em>Townhall.com<\/em>, <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2021\/11\/01\/larry-sabato-says-white-backlash-and-white-resistance-to-blame-if-youngkin-wins-n2598388\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;White Backlash&#8221; and &#8220;White Resistance&#8221; will be to blame if Youngkin wins<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he did<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>in what Sabato termed &#8220;a bloodbath<\/em><\/span>&#8220;.\u00a0 But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NOT<\/em><\/span> because of any <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>White racism<\/em><\/span>, Larry.\u00a0 So&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jd10x8LiuBc?start=206&amp;end=207&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><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>(3). Also courtesy of\u00a0<em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Katie Pavlich questions whether <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2021\/11\/01\/turns-out-that-southwest-pilot-didnt-say-lets-go-brandon-at-all-n2598366\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>that Southwest pilot ACTUALLY SAID &#8220;Let&#8217;s go Brandon<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/span><\/em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). And in a trifecta for\u00a0<em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Dennis Prager asks and answers <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/dennisprager\/2021\/11\/02\/is-stealing-wrong-not-on-the-left-n2598406?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Is Stealing Wrong? Not on the Left<\/em><\/span><\/a>, noting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;<strong>To <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most<\/em><\/span> readers of this column, the question is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>absurd<\/em><\/span>. The reason is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the question<\/em><\/span> is, in fact, absurd; it is because most readers of this column are conservative, and many are religious. Am I implying that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Yes, I am<\/em><\/span>. As incredible as this assertion is to just about all religious people and virtually all conservatives, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong<\/em><\/span>. Since I always draw a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>distinction<\/em><\/span> between <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>those on the Left<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>liberals<\/em><\/span>, let me add that I suspect <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most liberals<\/em><\/span> think stealing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is wrong<\/em><\/span>. But it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>almost doesn&#8217;t matter<\/em><\/span> because they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>vote<\/em><\/span> for people who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>do not<\/em><\/span> think it is<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to <em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/aaa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/aaa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/aaa.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/aaa-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ccc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ccc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ccc.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ccc-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sk103121dAPC20211029074503.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97980\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sk103121dAPC20211029074503.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sk103121dAPC20211029074503.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sk103121dAPC20211029074503-300x234.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bbb.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bbb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bbb.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bbb-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/MC_Levine_web20211101121501.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97981\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/MC_Levine_web20211101121501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/MC_Levine_web20211101121501.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/MC_Levine_web20211101121501-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-1-21-at-7.23-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97982\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-1-21-at-7.23-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-1-21-at-7.23-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-1-21-at-7.23-AM-189x300.jpeg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-2-21-at-8.12-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-2-21-at-8.12-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-2-21-at-8.12-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-2-21-at-8.12-AM-300x212.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-2-21-at-8.14-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-2-21-at-8.14-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-2-21-at-8.14-AM.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image-11-2-21-at-8.14-AM-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these from Ed Hickey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey2.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey2-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey3.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey3-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/joe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/joe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/joe.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/joe-300x290.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EB364D3C2FB14F7A96B3EC26365B5CDF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EB364D3C2FB14F7A96B3EC26365B5CDF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EB364D3C2FB14F7A96B3EC26365B5CDF.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EB364D3C2FB14F7A96B3EC26365B5CDF-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hickey1-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Balls Cotton&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image0001000.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image0001000.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image0001000.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image0001000-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image000000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image000000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image000000.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image000000-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with this instant classic from James Patrick:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/crilley-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/crilley-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/crilley-copy.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/crilley-copy-271x300.png 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a day with another sordid story straight from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and this just in from the Buckeye State, as&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"sub-headline speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Fostoria, OH police warn 2 pieces of trick-or-treat candy tampered with sewing needles<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ohio-trick-or-treat-candy2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ohio-trick-or-treat-candy2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ohio-trick-or-treat-candy2.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ohio-trick-or-treat-candy2-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kit-kat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kit-kat.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kit-kat.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kit-kat-300x126.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>An observant child in\u00a0Ohio\u00a0made a &#8220;demented&#8221; discovery inside their\u00a0Halloween\u00a0candy while trick-or-treating over the weekend, alerting police to a sewing needle planted inside a chocolate treat. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">The tampered candy was distributed in Fostoria, a city located about 40 miles south of Toledo, during citywide trick-or-treating on Saturday, the\u00a0Fostoria Police Division said Sunday.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>While the child who reported the tampered treats told police they received it while trick-or-treating in the area of North Union, Summit and Rock streets, authorities said the specific street it had been distributed on wasn\u2019t immediately clear<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the risk of seeming a conspiracy theorist, something ain&#8217;t right.\u00a0 Sorry, but if we were going to lace a <em>Kit Kat<\/em> with a sewing needle with serious intent to inflict bodily harm, we wouldn&#8217;t leave the end of the needle exposed for all to see.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just sayin&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S. While our heartfelt appreciation goes out to Virginia voters for having sent the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>a*sclown illegitimately residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a clear, unambiguous message&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NKJpajpZ0_Q\" 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;we thank God Almighty for giving our country a reprieve&#8230;however brief.<\/strong><\/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>As contributor Daniel Francis so astutely noted, the truth has finally arrived: The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help us God!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8qrolk612M?start=0&amp;end=402&amp;\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Tales of The Darkside<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtesy of Jeff Foutch, Dr. Faux Chi&#8217;s lies exposed as he utters them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/u4\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_vlngx3\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"vlngx3\",\"div\":\"rumble_vlngx3\"});<\/script><\/strong><\/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>If Terry McAuliffe loses, it will be because, as this forward from Bill Meisen confirms, up until the very last minute his campaign consisted of one word.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMfeiUCKoL4\" 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>Editor&#8217;s Note: We hope and pray in his victory speech, Glenn Youngkin calls out Terry McAuliffe for the bald-faced, lying piece of human excrement he is&#8230;along with Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM. 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