{"id":51790,"date":"2015-03-04T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51790"},"modified":"2015-03-04T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:41:36","slug":"all-talk-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51790","title":{"rendered":"All Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is setting up a grill on his porch, getting ready for a little pre-spring grilling. \u00a0Victor VON-SCHLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE pulls up, parks his car, and walks up the sidewalk to BERG&#8217;s porch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>VON-SCHLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE: Hah, Berg! \u00a0The \u00a0GOP doesn&#8217;t have the guts to say anything like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3306.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3306.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3306.JPG\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BERG: So you&#8217;ve got what, here? A slick, cutesy meme about what the Libertarian Party would do, if it were in power?<\/p>\n<p>VON-SCHLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE: Yep! The GOP doesn&#8217;t have the balls to say anything of the sort!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: Huh. I guess you&#8217;re right. But I&#8217;ve got a question for you.<\/p>\n<p>VON-SCHLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE: Shoot.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: Does the Libertarian Party have &#8220;the balls&#8221; to say anything like this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MITCH BERG will save 8 TRILLION DOLLARS<\/p>\n<p>by INSTANTLY PRIVATIZING THE ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY DATING SCARLETT JOHANNSON AND JENNIFER LAWRENCE!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Has the Libertarian Party said anything like this yet?<\/p>\n<p>VON-SCHLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE: \u00a0Well, no&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Statists! \u00a0RINOs! \u00a0Impure! \u00a0Unable to talk the big-enough-talk!<\/p>\n<p>VON-SCHLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE: \u00a0But&#8230;but&#8230;you can&#8217;t actually make any of that happen!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Right! \u00a0And the Libertarian Party can&#8217;t make anything it says happen either. \u00a0So go away and don&#8217;t come back until the Libertarian Party can talk\u00a0<em>really<\/em> big!<\/p>\n<p><em>VON-SCHLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE glumly shuffles back to his car.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is setting up a grill on his porch, getting ready for a little pre-spring grilling. \u00a0Victor VON-SCHLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE pulls up, parks his car, and walks up the sidewalk to BERG&#8217;s porch. VON-SCHLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE: Hah, Berg! \u00a0The \u00a0GOP doesn&#8217;t have the guts to say anything like this: BERG: So you&#8217;ve got what, here? A slick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-51790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51795,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51790\/revisions\/51795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}