{"id":61352,"date":"2016-12-13T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61352"},"modified":"2017-03-03T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:20:58","slug":"you-expected-precisely-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61352","title":{"rendered":"You Expected Precisely What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is in his garage, puttering with his snowblower.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Avery LIBRELLE walks into the garage, drinking a bottle of kombucha. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Uh, hey, Avery. \u00a0To what do I owe the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0I needed a place to throw the empty bottle. \u00a0 Hey &#8211; Trump was elected by the Russians!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Well, it seems that the Russians\u00a0<em>were\u00a0<\/em>trying to do something about our elections, via propaganda, and perhaps online skulduggery.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0It just proves that Trump was not legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Well, I&#8217;m sure the DNC hopes people believe that. \u00a0But there&#8217;s no evidence they were doing it to benefit Trump, specifically. \u00a0More to generate chaos. \u00a0Putin is a former KGB guy.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Don&#8217;t give me your crazy acronyms. \u00a0That&#8217;s racist.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Whatever. \u00a0Intelligence people use chaos as a tool; out of chaos comes opportunity. \u00a0If an American government needs to use its poltiical capital fighting internal questions about its legitimacy &#8211; which seems to be Putin&#8217;s goal, and seems to be working so far, at least among our chattering classses &#8211; then it&#8217;s less likely to be able to intervene in Syria, or take serious action re ISIS, or marshal any political will to protect Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Bla bla bla. \u00a0America&#8217;s intelligence agencies say it&#8217;s a smoking gun!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0A smoking what?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Oops. A smoking microaggression.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0No, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-intelligence-idUSKBN14204E?il=0\">they don&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>But LIBRELLE has already scampered away, leaving the empty kombucha bottle on BERG&#8217;s garage shelf<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>(<em>And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is in his garage, puttering with his snowblower.\u00a0 Avery LIBRELLE walks into the garage, drinking a bottle of kombucha. \u00a0 BERG: \u00a0Uh, hey, Avery. \u00a0To what do I owe the&#8230; LIBRELLE: \u00a0I needed a place to throw the empty bottle. \u00a0 Hey &#8211; Trump was elected by the Russians! BERG: \u00a0Well, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-61352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror","category-world","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61352","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=61352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61353,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61352\/revisions\/61353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}