{"id":59670,"date":"2016-07-22T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59670"},"modified":"2016-10-17T21:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:25:36","slug":"1015-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59670","title":{"rendered":"10:15 Thursday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitch BERG is walking on the sidewalk past the “Safe Space” – a Saint Paul bar catering to “progressives”, featuring free-range beer, organic locally-sourced chips and pretzels, and gluten-free “everyone wins” dart boards.<\/em><\/p>\n

Suddenly, Avery LIBRELLE gets off the bus, and removes a set of Apple earbuds connected to an iPhone. \u00a0LIBRELLE notices BERG. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Hey, Merg!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 Ugh. \u00a0I mean, hi, Avery.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0 So. \u00a0Donald Drumpf’s speech was dark and dystopian.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 Well, that was quick. \u00a0The speech ended literally a minute ago. \u00a0 So you listened to it.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0 Oh, hell no. \u00a0I listened to NPR’s wrapup after I heard on Snapchat that the actual speech was over.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 So – less than thirty seconds after the speech was over, NPR and the rest of the media, more or less at the same time, labelled the speech “dark and dystopian?”<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Yep! \u00a0Because it was!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0And you don’t think these are dark and dystopian times for a lot of the people who’ve come out of the woodwork to support Trump?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Mark Shields and Gwen Ifill and David Brooks said it’s a great time to be optimistic!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Sure. \u00a0It’s a great time to be part of the DC echo chamber, with an inflated, legacy-media salary. \u00a0But if you’re a WalMart assistant manager in Mississippi, or a machinist in Milwaukee, or a coal miner in West Virginia, it’s kinda scary out there.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Bla bla bla. \u00a0After eight years of Barack Obama, America is a wonderous place! \u00a0Drumpf is a traitor for accentuating the negative!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0So you’re saying it’s wrong to accentuate the negative…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Yes!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0…when things are either positive or kinda in between, overall?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Absolutely! \u00a0It’s utterly and completely dishonest!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 Ah. \u00a0So in general, when someone talks about something that’s improved as if it’s been going the wrong way, it’s a lie? \u00a0Or even something that’s been net-neutral as if it’s been a complete negative?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Lies, lies, lies!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 \u00a0So when a candidate says “gun crime is out of control” when it’s dropped 50% in 20 years? \u00a0 Or that “women get paid 76% of what men make” when it’s actually pretty close to even when you compare men and women with the same backgrounds in the same fields, and women under 30 are actually starting to\u00a0out-<\/em>earn men? \u00a0Or that “one in five women in college will be raped” or “black men are astronomically more likely to be shot by the police, and it’s because of racism”?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Yeah!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0(Waits two beats<\/em>)<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Heyyyyyy!<\/p>\n

(And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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