{"id":99603,"date":"2022-01-30T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T23:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=99603"},"modified":"2022-01-30T19:06:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T00:06:25","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-january-28th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=99603","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, January 28th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, January 28th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, another picture worth far more than a mere thousand words:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Image-1-27-22-at-9.31-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99571\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Image-1-27-22-at-9.31-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Image-1-27-22-at-9.31-AM.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Image-1-27-22-at-9.31-AM-247x300.jpeg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, as this video from James Nichols reveals, nothing to see here, America&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LyLhI7YVweE\" 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;please move along like the sheep you&#8217;ve been conditioned to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By the way, when the country and world are going to Hell in a hand basket and the complete incompetent responsible&#8230;and his equally inept handlers&#8230;find tweets such as this appropriate&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/biden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/biden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/biden.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/biden-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;we&#8217;re all for&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/speed2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/speed2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/speed2.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/speed2-300x204.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hat tip to Speed for the Mean Tweets meme and James Nichols for the tweet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, a favor.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/matthew-mya\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">link to a GoFundMe page<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0for&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/babies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/babies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/babies.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/babies-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a case where we&#8217;re personally acquainted with the parties involved, and know for certain the only option to their great aunt caring for them is giving these precious babies up to foster care.\u00a0 Problem is, the great aunt and her husband both work full-time in a hair salon they own, and though they frankly don&#8217;t have the money necessary to care for Matthew and Mya at the moment, they&#8217;re committed to raising them until their birth mother&#8217;s on her feet again, a very lengthy process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So any amount anyone would care to give would be both greatly appreciated and sure to be spent on the intended purpose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, writing at\u00a0<em>The Epoch Times<\/em>, James Dale Davidson details how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/covid-hysteria-degrades-public-discourse_4223674.html?utm_source=opinionnoe&amp;utm_campaign=opinion-2022-01-26&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=SHp9xoAJuQTaGo%2BATMWAM2uy5cgu8jQXJp06IOPUuFeVR5oHw2vRXIPyAjxHXDShpw%3D%3D\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Covid Hysteria Degrades Public Discourse<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pv92Nvg9bjs\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;\u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>Our public health agencies\u2014together with their cronies in mainstream media, Big Pharma, and Big Tech\u2014have been conspiring for almost two years to keep you very afraid\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em><strong>\u201cOne way they have been keeping you scared is by vastly inflating the number of deaths that are actually attributed to the virus.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s a story you won\u2019t hear about from most media outlets. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Still, countries across the globe are quietly lowering the number of deaths caused by Covid.<\/span> Take Italy, for example. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">A couple of weeks ago, Italy\u2019s National Institute of Health (ISS) made a shocking revelation.<\/span> They admitted their country\u2019s official number of Covid-19 deaths had been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">greatly miscalculated.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">And they revised the numbers to reflect that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">97%<\/span> of reported \u2018Covid deaths\u2019 were probably <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not due to Covid after all<\/span>.<\/span> It turns out that of the 130,000 deaths that were registered as official Covid fatalities, only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3,800<\/span> were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">directly attributed<\/span> to the virus. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The others died\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">with<\/span>\u00a0Covid, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not\u00a0from<\/span>\u00a0Covid.<\/span> It\u2019s a distinction our government hierarchy refuses to accept<\/em>.\u201d<\/span> \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/marketing.alsearsmd.com\/acton\/fs\/blocks\/showLandingPage\/a\/28028\/p\/p-0632\/t\/page\/fm\/0?utm_term=Click%20here.&amp;utm_campaign=Your%20Sunday%20Review%20From%20Dr.%20Sears&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;cm_mmc=Act-On%20Software-_-email-_-Your%20Sunday%20Review%20From%20Dr.%20Sears-_-Click%20here.&amp;sid=TV2:ipuDjzrnQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Al Sears<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">, a doctor of medicine based in Florida.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Think about it. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Italy\u2019s National Institute of Health revises down the official number of COVID deaths by 97 percent.<\/span> That is a significant fact.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>But I would bet a significant amount of money that you have heard not a whisper of it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>A toxic combination of \u201cpolitical correctness,\u201d Big Tech censorship, and crony capitalist special pleading has effectively twisted the public dialog about COVID in a fashion that heightens hysteria and public fear.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Government officials want to intimidate you into ceding your freedom and autonomy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Early in the pandemic, I read a fascinating argument advanced by two doctors in California, drawing attention to the slippery statistics that over-stated deaths from the pandemic.<span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">They argued that anyone who died after testing positive for COVID-19 was added to the COVID tally, quite apart from whether COVID was reasonably implicated as the cause.<\/span> Thus, a COVID-positive pedestrian run-over by a bus would be counted as a COVID-19 victim.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">That sort of nonsense underscores the importance of genuine freedom of speech.<\/span> It is more difficult for the authorities to frighten the public into ceding their freedom. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The hope for informed civic discourse depends on circumventing political controls on thought.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item courtesy of <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Dennis Prager explains&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/dennisprager\/2022\/01\/25\/why-the-masked-and-the-unmasked-have-disdain-for-each-other-n2602316\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Why the Masked and the Unmasked Have Disdain for Each Other<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/parent-protest-florida-1200x800-700x420.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/parent-protest-florida-1200x800-700x420.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/parent-protest-florida-1200x800-700x420.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/parent-protest-florida-1200x800-700x420-300x180.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Among the many unbridgeable divides between Americans is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>completely<\/em><\/span> antithetical view of mask wearing. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">On one side are those who wear masks almost everywhere outside their homes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>demand that others do so<\/em><\/span>, including young children in class and on outdoor playgrounds, and 2-year-olds on airplanes.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>&#8220;On the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other<\/em><\/span> side are those who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only wear a mask where they are punished for not doing so<\/em><\/span> (most obviously, airplanes). <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">They regard masks as <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">essentially pacifiers for adults<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Generally speaking, these two groups have disdain for each other.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Why the pro-mask half of America holds the anti-mask half in contempt needs little explanation.<\/span> They believe anti-mask Americans are putting others in grave danger. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Pro-maskers believe that even children who do not wear masks put their own lives and the lives of other children and teachers at risk.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Consequently, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pro-mask<\/em><\/span> Americans regard those who do not wear masks, let alone those who actively oppose mask-wearing, as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>selfish, anti-science potential killers<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">What may be less obvious is why anti-maskers hold pro-maskers in equal contempt.<\/span> So, this needs explaining in greater detail. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">After all, anti-maskers don&#8217;t believe that maskers are putting people in hospitals.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>First, anti-maskers regard the charges made against them by pro-maskers as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>baseless<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Therefore, as odd as it sounds, anti-maskers have contempt for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pro-maskers&#8217; contempt<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> To wrongly charge people with causing mass death is, to understate the case, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>immoral<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And if this charge is demonstrably wrong, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>people who level it<\/em><\/span> are the ones who are anti-science.<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Since <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>each side regards the other<\/em><\/span> as anti-science, what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> the science?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Nearly all public health authorities<\/em><\/span> claim that masks are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>absolutely necessary<\/em><\/span> to save lives.<\/span> But they have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>virtually no science<\/em><\/span> to back up the claim.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>There <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span>, however, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>abundant scientific evidence<\/em><\/span> that masks are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>worthless<\/em><\/span> vis-a-vis viruses <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> do great harm to society.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Here is a fraction of the examples I could give<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rand Paul offered this advice for anyone confronted by a mask Karen like those in the video above:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/8pe980Hw-EAYoNgFe.html\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\"><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>Here&#8217;s the juice: Mask hysteria is just another example of life imitating art&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3iV8X8ubGCc\" 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;and is unsupported by anything remotely approaching &#8220;science&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Turning from science to political science, <em>AEI<\/em>&#8216;s M. Anthony Mills\u00a0wonders&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/articles\/is-this-still-an-emergency\/?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAGCOir2atCGhcJbQ4670rjrGYDEs0BvP7oiHOZBg7C_NRGx7DYnoZmG6UX7km29SREUi4r8qiZCfp-rZgCcCpGTDycVbvSm8NFYDlSMvI7ehHM\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Is this still an emergency<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/articles\/is-this-still-an-emergency\/?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAGCOir2atCGhcJbQ4670rjrGYDEs0BvP7oiHOZBg7C_NRGx7DYnoZmG6UX7km29SREUi4r8qiZCfp-rZgCcCpGTDycVbvSm8NFYDlSMvI7ehHM\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">As with 9\/11, we cannot sustain crisis politics for years after a moment of unity passes<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/62yqtz.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/62yqtz.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/62yqtz.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/62yqtz-300x199.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>With a new variant running rampant, an enormous wave of cases, hospitals under strain, mask mandates returning, states of emergency being redeclared, and schools reverting to virtual learning, it is easy to get the sense that we have slid back to where we started.<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> A\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/college-return-remote-omicron-4eaf24b7-09b0-4131-bc74-524e23410fba.html\" class=\"broken_link\">raft<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/12\/27\/forecasting-the-omicron-winter-experts-envision-various-scenarios-from-bad-to-worse\/\">news articles<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0in\u00a0late December\u00a0described the perilous and demoralizing feeling that the country was returning to the pandemic moment of early 2020.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Yet much has changed in two years. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Besides the fact that Omicron is milder, we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>now have<\/em><\/span> vaccines, antivirals, and a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>much<\/em><\/span> better understanding of the disease and how to treat it.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Logistical<\/em><\/span>, rather <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>epidemiological<\/em><\/span>, problems \u2014 such as the shortage of health care workers, the distribution of new medical treatments, and inadequate testing capacity \u2014 increasingly take center stage in our policy debates.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">But the change goes much deeper than this.<\/span> The political form of the crisis itself is now <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fundamentally different<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Back in March 2020 \u2014 when the country finally\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/an-oral-history-of-the-day-everything-changed-coronavirus\/\">snapped to attention<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 the rationale for shutting down national life was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> that everyone faced the same degree of risk.<\/span> Rather, it was that the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only effective way to neutralize the threat<\/em><\/span> was for all of us to work together. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Those who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>could<\/em><\/span> stay home <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>should<\/em><\/span>, for the sake of those who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>couldn\u2019t<\/em><\/span> \u2014 to \u201cflatten the curve\u201d and relieve our health care system.<\/span> The rationale for pandemic policies was altruistic, though paradoxically so: We had to withdraw from our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>common life<\/em><\/span> to protect the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>common good<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">What the pandemic gave rise to, then, was not just extraordinary policies \u2014 such as school closures and stay-at-home orders \u2014 but an extraordinary form of politics.<\/span> A community facing a crisis of such magnitude becomes unified. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Analogies with World War II\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/world-war-ii-and-coronavirus-economics-the-perils-of-comparison\/a-53214554\">were<\/a>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2020\/05\/11\/shadow-world-war-ii-hangs-over-coronavirus-age\/\" class=\"broken_link\">commonplace<\/a><\/em><\/span>: We are facing a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>once-in-a-century global threat<\/em><\/span> that requires all of us to make personal sacrifices for the greater good, much as during the 1940s Americans accepted rationing and planted victory gardens and sent their sons to fight and die overseas for the sake of defeating the Axis powers.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It is easy to forget now how real that unity was in the pandemic\u2019s early phase. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">The doubts about restrictions that are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>now so pervasive<\/em><\/span> were the province of a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>small minority<\/em><\/span> (<em>A province, we&#8217;re proud to say, in which we resided.<\/em>).<\/span> Most elected leaders \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including President Trump himself<\/em><\/span> \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ignored<\/em><\/span> the skeptics and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/articles\/15-days-slow-spread\/\">heeded the advice of the experts<\/a><\/em><\/span>, who then urged lockdown policies. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">And the large majority of our fellow citizens went along with them.<\/span> Indeed,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2764368\" class=\"broken_link\">research suggest<\/a>s<\/span><\/em><\/span> that many Americans were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>already<\/em><\/span> voluntarily withdrawing from public activities <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>before<\/em><\/span> leaders imposed restrictions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">That moment has passed.<\/span> We are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no longer unified<\/em><\/span> as a country around a shared purpose and mission. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Instead, we are increasingly polarized along familiar ideological, sociological, and geographic lines, precisely about how we view Covid and what it demands of us.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>This polarization is, of course, widely recognized and bemoaned. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">And yet much of our country\u2019s political and media leadership seems <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unable to come to grips with our fractured state<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> They persist in a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>political mode<\/em><\/span> that wishes the country back into that unifying moment of March 2020.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Trump administration squandered an opportunity to lead during our moment of unity, needlessly undermining it with mixed messaging and by sowing distrust.<\/span> The Biden administration is now undermining its own pandemic response for almost the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>opposite<\/em><\/span> reason: by failing to articulate a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>clear objective and path to victory<\/em><\/span> to a stubbornly divided country that can no longer agree about what kind of threat it faces, much less what to do about it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>If we have any hope of a return to normal life, our leaders must come to grips with the return of normal politics<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: When it comes to constructing an offramp from the WuFlu Thruway, if Progressive politicians have any say whatsoever, there&#8217;ll be&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/no-exit-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/no-exit-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/no-exit-scaled.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/no-exit-scaled-300x211.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>EnvironMental Moment<\/em><\/span>, in a forward from Jeff Foutch, the\u00a0<em>Institute for Energy Research<\/em>\u00a0records 46*&#8217;s&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\" weight-normal color -text \" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instituteforenergyresearch.org\/regulation\/interior-department-revokes-federal-leases-for-twin-metals-minnesota\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\">Interior Department Revokes Federal Leases for Twin Metals Minnesota<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Graphic-Homepage-How-it-Works-1024x1020.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Graphic-Homepage-How-it-Works-1024x1020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Graphic-Homepage-How-it-Works-1024x1020.png 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Graphic-Homepage-How-it-Works-1024x1020-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Graphic-Homepage-How-it-Works-1024x1020-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>President Biden\u2019s Department of the Interior revoked existing federal leases for Twin Metals Minnesota to mine copper, nickel, cobalt, and platinum-group elements in the Superior National Forest. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">These metals are needed for President Biden\u2019s program for electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies.<\/span> Electric vehicles, for instance, use twice as much copper as vehicles with internal combustion engines.<span style=\"color: #003300;\"> Instead of producing these metals domestically, President Biden wants to be dependent on imports.<\/span> Biden is choosing foreign sourced minerals, including mines that use child slave labor, over domestic mines and a union workforce that follows the best labor and environmental standards in the world in order to kowtow to environmentalists who want to ban mining in the United States. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">With less worldwide production of these metals and growing demand for them, their prices will skyrocket and be passed onto consumers who will eventually be forced into buying the products as auto manufacturers are planning to manufacture only electric vehicles in the future.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>To reach a green energy future, the International Energy Agency (IEA) found that the world needed to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>massively increase<\/em><\/span> its production of minerals\u2014forecasting <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>needed growth<\/em><\/span> of graphite, cobalt, nickel, copper, graphite, and lithium by between <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>20 and 40 times<\/em><\/span> by 2040<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyone care to guess where the majority of said imports will originate?\u00a0 Yeah, that&#8217;s right&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dXVU-L4dl_4?start=22&amp;end=25&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>The cost of which will of course include a little something extra for Hunter and the Big Guy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s worth noting the revocation was issued despite Twin Rivers commitment to use only electric vehicles in its mining operations, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twin-metals.com\/how-it-works\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>putting forward a plan which would have minimal environmental impact<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Such counterproductive psychopathy surely begs the question from whence, other than foreign sources which involve far more environmentally destructive mining than in the U.S., these Birkenstockers hope to produce the raw materials necessary for their utopian clean energy future?\u00a0 Other than, of course&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unicorn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unicorn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unicorn.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unicorn-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, another septet of items specially selected with inquiring Conservative minds in mind:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(1). Having learned nothing from the disaster which resulted the last time he made such a commitment&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PDYMaJbctO0?start=0&amp;end=3&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;46* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/biden-pledges-to-nominate-black-woman-to-supreme-court-by-end-of-february\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=26507749\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>reiterated his campaign pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(2). In two related items, Charlie Cooke first gives us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/justice-breyers-retirement-may-not-be-all-bad-news-for-conservatives\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">four reasons Justice Breyer&#8217;s retirement may not be all bad news for Conservatives<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong>, then relates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/01\/justice-kamala-harris-will-never-happen\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202022-01-27&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>why Kommielaa won&#8217;t be a candidate<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-supreme-court-risk-justice-stephen-breyer-retirement-progressives-confirmation-midterm-2022-competitive-district-11643323750?mod=opinion_featst_pos1\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Journal&#8217;s Kim Strassel opines on reason #3<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, while the most important reason may well prove to be reason #2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(3). The <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>\u00a0offers a primer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/how-to-stop-a-volcano-of-violence-in-europe\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MJ_20220126&amp;utm_term=Jolt-Smart\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>how to stop Russia from initiating a &#8220;volcano of violence&#8221; from in Europe<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(4). Writing at <em>NRO<\/em>, Wes Smith records how the once-dependable\/now-dismissible\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/01\/george-will-pushes-the-hemlock\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=top-stories&amp;utm_term=fourth\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>George Will contradicts himself in promoting assisted suicide<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(5). Courtesy of the <em>WSJ<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/epidemic-mindlessness-crime-shootings-sexual-misconduct-stabbings-violence-looting-riot-11643235536?mod=opinion_featst_pos1\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dan Henninger correctly concludes<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, &#8220;<em>The primary culprits aren\u2019t the perpetrators running wild through a society that has devalued accountability. The blame lies with the adults in the room, the establishment elites, who have so often explained away and validated this behavior<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Don&#8217;t forget the educational system which taught the perps such behavior was <em>de rigueur<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(6). Perhaps if Biden hadn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/us-waive-sanctions-firm-ceo-behind-russias-nord-stream-2-pipeline-source-2021-05-19\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">green-lighted the Nord Stream 2 pipeline<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a> like he did an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-kyiv-feels-about-a-minor-incursion-ukraine-russia-joe-biden-volodymyr-zelensky-11642715519\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>incursion into Ukraine<\/em><\/span><\/a>, his State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/state-dept-vows-nord-stream-2-hunk-metal-bottom-ocean-russia-invades-ukraine\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>wouldn&#8217;t have found it necessary to threaten its destruction<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(7). In yet another real shocker, a report in the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> forwarded by George Lawlor informs us <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/blms-millions-go-unaccounted-for-after-leaders-quietly-jump-ship\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">Black Lies Matter&#8217;s millions are unaccounted for after its leaders quietly jumped ship<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong>, noting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">&#8220;<strong>N<\/strong><\/span><strong>o one appears to have been in charge at\u00a0<em>Black Lives Matter<\/em>\u00a0for months. The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"Link\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/california\">address<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0it lists on\u00a0tax\u00a0forms is wrong, and the\u00a0charity&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(&#8220;<em>charity<\/em>&#8220;?!?)<\/span> two board members won&#8217;t say who controls its $60 million bankroll, a\u00a0<i>Washington Examiner<\/i>\u00a0investigation has found.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Making <em>Black Lies Matter<\/em> one of biggest scams since <a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/con-artists\/5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Jim and Tammy Fay<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/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\/2022\/01\/biden-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/biden-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/biden-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/biden-1-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MC_BullBear_web20220125012109.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MC_BullBear_web20220125012109.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MC_BullBear_web20220125012109.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MC_BullBear_web20220125012109-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/criminals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99597\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/criminals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/criminals.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/criminals-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/breyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99598\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/breyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/breyer.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/breyer-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/gv012522dAPR20220125074516.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/gv012522dAPR20220125074516.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/gv012522dAPR20220125074516.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/gv012522dAPR20220125074516-300x221.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls5.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls5-300x208.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Image-1-26-22-at-10.24-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Image-1-26-22-at-10.24-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Image-1-26-22-at-10.24-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Image-1-26-22-at-10.24-AM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Image-1-26-22-at-10.24-AM-300x300.jpeg 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\/2022\/01\/Balls1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99572\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Balls1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Balls1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Balls1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Balls1-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99573\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls2-1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls2-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls3.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balls3-238x300.jpeg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;the lovely Shannon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shannon.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shannon.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shannon.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shannon-291x300.jpeg 291w\" 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\/2022\/01\/speed1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/speed1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/speed1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/speed1-300x149.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and Major Jon&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/major-jon1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/major-jon1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/major-jon1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/major-jon1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/major-jon1-300x297.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/major-jon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/major-jon2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/major-jon2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/major-jon2-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;along with four bon mots from Ed Hickey:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-2.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-2-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image004-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99613\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image004-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image004-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image004-1-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99614\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image012.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image012-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image013.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image013-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a week with the <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Just Desserts<\/span><\/em> segment, courtesy today of yet another educated idiot, as <em>Cal Coast News<\/em>\u00a0describes&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/calcoastnews.com\/2022\/01\/slo-climate-change-activist-heidi-harmons-electric-car-calamity\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">San Luis Obispo climate change activist Heidi Harmon\u2019s electric car calamity<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Heidi-Harmon-car-298x300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-99589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Heidi-Harmon-car-298x300-298x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Heidi-Harmon-car-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Heidi-Harmon-car-298x300-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;<strong style=\"color: #800000;\">Former San Luis Obispo mayor and climate change activist Heidi Harmon attempted to \u201cdo the right thing,\u201d and travel to a rally in San Francisco in an electric car. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">After multiple attempts to find a working charging station in San Jose, Harmon realized charging the car would take up to seven hours and there was no way she could make the rally.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Harmon posted multiple videos about her difficulties in traveling in an all-electric vehicle. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">She discusses <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>calling the police or asking someone to send a helicopter to rescue her<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Many of the posts have now been deleted, though a collage of portions of Harmon\u2019s videos remains<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qukfma9S2o8\" 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>Oh, the humanity!\u00a0 What,&#8230;Uber doesn&#8217;t operate in San Jose?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Video of the Day<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesse Watters highlights how Nancy the Red came to possess so much green. If there are levels to Hell, we know on which Nancy&#8217;s seat is reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ZeD4mkH_HU?start=0&amp;end=527&amp;\" 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>John Stossel relates how and why the once-Golden State has steadily headed into the tank.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t madness, and it sure as heck isn&#8217;t Sparta: It&#8217;s UTTER SOCIALIST INSANITY!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IHXtHZpDvAo\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>On the Lighter Side<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtesy of Jeff Foutch, a glass half-full look at the stark statistics of Black crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dhsjxhxhchd\/video\/7055082112218811694\" data-video-id=\"7055082112218811694\">\n<section><a title=\"@dhsjxhxhchd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dhsjxhxhchd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dhsjxhxhchd<\/a> Reply to @reniece.reeves <a title=\"\u266c original sound - dhsjxhxhchd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7055082134851144495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; dhsjxhxhchd<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, January 28th, 2022&#8230;but before we begin, another picture worth far more than a mere thousand words: Meanwhile, as this video from James Nichols reveals, nothing to see here, America&#8230; \ufeff &#8230;please move along like the sheep you&#8217;ve been conditioned to be. By the way, when the country and world are going to Hell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99659,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99603\/revisions\/99659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}