The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, July 29th, 2019

On July 30, 2019, in Uncategorized, by magoo1310

It’s Monday, July 29th, 2019…and here’s The Gouge!

First up, in a quote which once again makes us wonder in what alternate universe these people reside, the Old Grey Nag’s Maureen Dowd dims the hopes of anyone who thought Silent Bob Mueller’s testimony before the House was going to suddenly restore rationality to The Left:

“The Republicans were impressively craven and hypocritical.They are sticking with Trump, and no pallid reminder of his turpitude, his trellis of obstructions and his unpatriotic embrace of foreign interference in our elections, will change that…The argument about whether Trump is impeachable is the wrong argument. Mueller settled that. We know Trump did things worthy of impeachment. That is not the question we should be asking. The question is: Should he be impeached?“

This despite neither the Mueller report nor any other investigation having EVER uncovered ANY evidence of Trump either colluding with Russia or obstructing justice. If there are none so blind as those who will not see, Dowd’s world is dark indeed.

Here’s the juice: like Crazy Eddie’s prices, Progressives are completely and utterly…

And Trump’s re-election in 2020 will only serve to drive them further from reality…assuming that’s even possible.

In a related item, as epitomized by The Hill‘s Krystal Ballbreaker, even when someone on The Left gets something right, their facts are still wrong:

Yes, Krystal: like Lucy Ricardo, Rachel Madcow DOES have some ‘splainin’ to do. But NO, neither The Donald nor anyone in his campaign EVER COLLUDED WITH RUSSIA…in ANY WAY, SHAPE or FORM!!!

Seriously, it’s almost as if, like Maureen Dowd, Jerry “Jabba” Nadler and Adam “Pencilneck” Schiff, Krystal neither READ the Mueller report nor listened to his testimony.

Hey, at least the Madcow made her unsupportable claims PRIOR TO Silent Bob’s “Who-am-I-and-what-am-I-doing-here?!?” act before the House.

And as long-time friend and contributor Bill Meisen observed, those clinging to the Trump Colluded/Obstructed scenario are nothing if not the contemporary Progressive version of Wile E. Coyote…

…i.e., never quite understanding they’ll never catch the orange-haired road runner…with the MSM playing the roll of ACME, giving them a bunch of useless, ineffective tools and ideas which inevitably blow up in their face.

Then again, at least Krystal got one aspect of her report right, which is more than we can say for the D.C. police description of the gang of thugs who recently beat a man senseless outside the Washington Hilton:

“Police described the attackers as juveniles, both girls and boys ages 13 and 14, who were wearing black clothing.“

“…ages 13 and 14, who wearing black clothes“: perhaps D.C.’s finest simply confused the miscreants race with the color of their clothing. Though it’s possible the higher-ups don’t really want the perps identified, let alone brought to justice.

Regardless, this reminds us of a scene from The Natural:

Speaking of the police, once again, when seconds count, there’s times cops can’t help you even when they’re already on the scene:

Shooting at block party leaves 11 injured, one dead

“A “brazen” lone gunman opened fire at a massive Brownsville, Brooklyn, block party on Saturday night, leaving a 38-year-old man dead and 11 others injured, law enforcement sources told The Post.

The gunfire erupted just before 11 p.m. as the annual two-day “Old Timers Day” party was ending and thousands of attendees were leaving, the sources said.

The violence was preliminarily blamed on a single shooter who remained at large early Sunday, and who had begun blasting into the crowd despite a contingent of some 100 cops monitoring the event, the sources said…”

Curiously enough, the shooting went down in the same precinct where police were doused with water a week ago this past Saturday. Heaven forbid the cops took their douching as a sign local citizens really didn’t appreciate their service and sacrifice!

Since we’re on the subject of sh*tholes, at least one Baltimoron agrees with Trump’s assessment of both the impact of Elijah Cummings’s 26 years “serving” the citizens of the manifestly misnamed Charm City, as well as the true nature of present-day Baltimore…rats and all:

In the interest of full disclosure, we should point out, due to the gerrymandering of Maryland’s 7th Congressional District to preserve a Black-majority, Cummings is OUR representative as well. And ONE thing we can say with a 100% degree of certainty is he’s NEVER done SH*T for US!!!

Well,…at least he’s consistent.

Next up, though it will be lost on Maureen Dowd and every other hyper-partisan Progressive, Jeff Foutch forwarded the following warning via Breibart:

Thus is the real threat of interference in the of legitimacy of ANY national election correctly identified.

Next up, as FOX News informs us, the grossly-over-educated-yet-incredibly-uninformed…

AOC supports the ‘decolonization process’ of Puerto Rico following governor’s resignation

“I’m really proud of everyone that’s out there, but of course there’s a lot of work to be done…This is just the beginning of a decolonization process, a process of self-determination where the people of Puerto Rico begin to start taking their own self-governance into their own hands.“

Once again, AOC demonstrates she…

…as in each of the four plebiscites held since 1967, residents of the Commonwealth, technically a U.S. territory, have rejected independence in favor of either statehood or the status quo.

Speaking of purposeful Progressive prevaricators, one’s the subject of this item from NRO, as John Hirschauer reports the latest on…

Erica Thomas, Mythmaker

The Georgia state representative appears to have taken some liberties — and a page out of the progressive playbook for mythmaking.

“The newest chapter in that expansive compendium of progressive myth and fable: The Verbal Assault of Representative Erica Thomas.

Once upon a time, Erica Thomas, a state legislator in Georgia, roamed the aisles of a local grocery store for a handful of canned goods and snack foods. Georgia, you’ll remember, is not exactly friendly to minorities — this is the same state (per another fable in the collection) that denied Stacey Abrams the governorship by unfairly suppressing the votes of foreign nationals and Westview Cemetery interrees. Thomas is not simply courageous; she is a trailblazer. A Ruby Bridges for our time.

Thomas is nine months pregnant; while her late-stage pregnancy would typically be irrelevant — clumps of cells do not, by the by, make compelling characters in this genre — it served to make her a more sympathetic hero. Thomas wheeled her 15-item cart to the express lane, meant explicitly for customers with ten items or fewer. But she’s nine months pregnant — how can she be expected to adhere to such onerous guidelines when she is saddled with a large mass of tissue in her womb?

Thomas was minding her own business when a redneck (probably from the loathsome foothills of Pickens County) was so blinded by privilege and intoxicated with a stuporous love for the president that he told the honorable representative to “go back where she came from.”

America is a racist country.

But in real life, Erica Thomas is not brave…She’s a liar.

…Watch this surveillance video. Does the woman in that video — the one who is nine months pregnant and wearing the implausibly ironic “I Stand With Planned Parenthood” T-shirt, who approaches the man and waves her finger at him — look “helpless”?

There’s no audio in the surveillance footage. Perhaps the white man (Eric Sparkes, who, as fate would have it, has Cuban heritage and a documented record of progressive bona fides) did tell her to “go back” to her country. But the police report and eyewitness accounts tell a story that is at once shocking and predictable (and, per chance, shockingly predictable). From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, emphasis mine:

A Publix employee told a Cobb County officer that she witnessed part of the conversation and heard Thomas “continuously tell Eric Sparkes to ‘Go back where you came from!’” but did not hear Sparkes utter those words to Thomas.

Oh.

Okay, okay. While this particular instance of public bigotry didn’t actually happen, it highlights the larger truth that America is an awful, no-good, very-bad, racist country that we ought to despise, tear down, and remake in something approaching Sweden’s image. Racism is everywhere. Sexism is everywhere. And even if Brett Kavanaugh isn’t a gang rapist, Jussie Smollett wasn’t assaulted by the only two Trump supporters in Chicago, the Covington Catholic boys didn’t harangue an American Indian man who was minding his own business, the Duke lacrosse team didn’t sexually abuse a racial minority, and Tawana Brawley wasn’t shoved into a garbage bag filled with feces, the larger truth remains.

Unless it doesn’t.“

And it don’t…it don’t.

We report, YOU decide:

This, which went on for some 13 more minutes, was just one of four press conferences Thomas held on the same day in the wake of her “traumatic” experience at Publix. So much for her inability to stand in line at the grocery store.

Now the unvarnished reality:

Thus does Georgia State Representative Erica Thomas achieve the same level of purposefully-divisive, hypocritical infamy as the creators and supporters of Black Lives Matter and “Hands-up/Don’t Shoot“.

Moving on, here’s more proof, as if any were needed, the spirit of surrender is alive and well and living in France, as we learn…

Israeli soccer fans are prohibited – temporarily – from flying national flag during match in France

“Authorities in France briefly prohibited Israeli soccer fans from flying the Star of David flag ahead of a UEFA Europa League qualifying match Thursday, igniting furor from fans and Israeli officials.

Police in the northeastern city of Strasbourg initially banned fans of Maccabi Haifa from waving the Israeli flag at their match against RC Strasbourg, citing fears of violence following anti-Semitic actions against fans of the Israeli club. Just 600 Haifa fans were allowed into the Stade de la Meinau for the match…”

Thus do the forces of law and order surrender to the mob. Then again, what can one expect from a country which has known nothing BUT surrender, whether to Germany, the Viet Minh or the mob, since the Fall of the Bastille in July of 1789?!?

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side: