It’s Monday, October 11th, 2021…but before we begin, here’s a video clip courtesy of Rick Page which speaks volumes about the level of 46*’s command and competence:

All of which makes these memes from Balls Cotton…

…and W. Conrad…

…all the more timely and totally appropriate.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, Epoch Times reports a…

Colorado Hospital Refuses Kidney Transplant to Woman Over COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal

“A hospital in Colorado rejected a woman for a kidney transplant after she refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine, officials have confirmed. Leilani Lutali received a letter on Sept. 28 informing her that the transplant team at the University of Colorado Hospital decided to designate her inactive on the waiting list for transplants. “You will be inactivated on the list for non-compliance by not receiving the COVID vaccine,” the letter states. If Lutali continues to refuse to get a vaccine, she “will be removed from the kidney transplant list,” it added.

Neither Lutali nor her designated donor, Jaimee Fougner, have received a COVID-19 vaccine. Fougner hasn’t for religious reasons, while Lutali believes there isn’t enough known about the vaccines, they told KCNC-TV.

According to Lutali, hospital officials previously said vaccination wasn’t required to get a transplant. “Here I am, willing to be a direct donor to her. It does not affect any other patient on the transplant list,” said Fougner. “How can I sit here and allow them to murder my friend when I’ve got a perfectly good kidney and can save her life?”

The hospital didn’t respond to a request for comment. It told news outlets in a statement that there are many requirements in place at transplant centers, such as requiring patients to avoid alcohol…”

In less than eighteen months, we’ve gone from “Do no harm” to “Do not help”.

Here’s the juice: What possible threat could an unvaccinated transplant patient and donor pose to a robed, masked, vaccinated surgical team?  We’ll let our personal physician answer that question: ZERO…ZIP…NADA!!!  The only threat Ms. Lutali poses is to herself, as she’d be on immunosuppressants for some time immediately following surgery.  And as she has a designated donor, it’s not like she’s taking a kidney from someone else awaiting a transplant.

So why not just test both the donor and recipient for the Wuhan virus immediately prior to the surgery; and if both are negative, move ahead with the transplant?  Instead, the hospital’s taken a position equivalent with a concept from the not-too-distant past:

All of which leaves us wondering what manner of mass insanity has possessed so much of the country.

Turning from an act of insanity to one of cold, cruel calculation, FOX informs us the…

Chinese president insists on Taiwan ‘reunification,’ avoids threat of force*

President Xi Jinping in July promised China would ‘smash’ any attempt at formal independence

* For now

This comes on top of China’s People’s Liberation Army flying 56 planes off the southwest coast of Taiwan last Monday…

“setting a new record and capping four days of sustained pressure involving 149 flights. All were in international airspace, but prompted Taiwanese defense forces to scramble in response and raised fears that any misstep could provoke an unintended escalation.“

Or perhaps, provoking an intended escalation, or at least a convenient excuse for an escalation.

Meanwhile…

“The U.S. called China’s latest actions “risky” and “destabilizing,” while China responded that the U.S. selling weapons to Taiwan and its ships navigating the Taiwan Strait were provocative.“

Both of which have been happening with regularity since 1949 when the Nationalist Chinese retreated to and established a democracy on the island refuge.  Fact is, the only “destabilizing” aspect of this confrontation is the nominal “leader of the free world”:

As we observed during the Kabul debacle, were we running Taiwan, we’d have immediately cancelled all leaves, followed by ordering…

Anyone who believes Xi isn’t willing to take full advantage of the fecklessness and ineptitude of America’s “leaders”…

…and attempt take Taiwan by force doesn’t appreciate the stakes for which the ChiComs are playing, namely…

Moving on, we offer a quartet of items, all of which have a common theme inquiring Conservative minds should be able to discern:  

(1). Even as an elderly NYC woman was dragged and punched in attempt to steal her purse in broad daylight, Mayor de Blowmeo claims…

(2). And here’s a real shocker, as NRO‘s Caroline Downey records the vast majority of incidents cited by school-board group to justify federal intervention didn’t involve threats.

(3). Also writing at NRO, Dominic Pino details the Virginia Tech super-spreader that wasn’t, as, despite the COVID hysterics who warned you otherwise, a college-football game DID NOT lead to a spike in positive cases.

(4). Contrary to the claims of the 46* clown car, the Taliban say they won’t work with the United States to contain Islamic State.

The theme?  Nothing…

…these prevaricating Progressive putzes say is true!  Not to mention anything uttered or written by the MSM mouthpieces who shill for them.

Which provides the perfect segue into today’s installment of the EnvironMental Moment, where we learn a supposedly…

“Catastrophic” California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands

An estimated 126,000 gallons, or 3,000 barrels, had spread into an oil slick covering about 13 square miles of the Pacific Ocean

Just to put things into perspective, the grounding of the Exxon Valdez on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska resulted in the release of some 12,000,000 gallons, or 285,000 barrels of crude, creating an oil slick which covered 3,000 square miles and impacted some 1,300 miles of coastline, making “catastrophic” in this case a very relative term.  It’s also worth noting, at the time of the Exxon Valdez spill…

…the EnviroNazis assured us the impact of the spill would be permanent, yet the damage was mitigated in less than five years.

Which in turn brings us to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these from George Lawlor…

…Balls Cotton…

… and Ed Hickey:

Finally, last, but certainly never least, here’s one from the lovely Shannon which deserves an emphatic response:

Uh,…that would be US!!!  Pssst…and the horse he rode in on!

Magoo

P.S. We’d very much appreciate everyone forwarding The Gouge onto to those similarly concerned with the future of America.  And as always…

Video of the Day

Tucker relates why the Dimocrats’ new definition of criminal activity should have us all concerned.

Tales of The Darkside

Tucker reveals the true face of Fascism in America.

On the Lighter Side

Courtesy of Carl “The Great One” Polizzi, meet the F-22ski, likely based on technology courtesy of the Clintons. Watch as much or as little as you please, but of one thing be certain: Putin won’t be selecting its pilots based on their preferred pronouns or gender identity of the day.