{"id":67467,"date":"2018-07-17T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67467"},"modified":"2018-07-17T07:51:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T12:51:12","slug":"67467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67467","title":{"rendered":"Chefs On The Battlefield, Generals In The Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

[SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is at his county elections office getting an early primary voting packet.\u00a0 He looks around and notices Avery LIBRELLE walking in.\u00a0 He briefly considers fleeing out the fire exit, but just tries to make himself look small and inconspicuous.\u00a0 It doesn’t work.]<\/em><\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg!\u00a0 Donald Trump is a traitor!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 No he’s not.\u00a0 \u00a0We’re not at war with Russia.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Yes we are!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 How do you figure?\u00a0 Be specific.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 They’ve been attacking our society and election system.<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 They’ve been attacking our society and election system since the 1930’s – ours and every one in Western Europe, with a brief break during the early nineties, maybe.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Espionage is a form of war.<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0Then we’re “at war” with every nation on earth, including all of our putative allies.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg!\u00a0 Merg!\u00a0 Trump’s performance in Helsinki was a threat to national security!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 His press conference<\/a> was a fairly awkward display of ego over common sense.\u00a0 But since you brought up national security, if you favor open borders…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 STOP BREAKING UP FAMILIES!\u00a0 ABOLISH ICE!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 …or ignoring the perils of untrammeled migration from Wahhabi-dominated regions…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 RACIST XENOPHOBE!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 …or getting real about China’s ambitions…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 MCCARTHYITE!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 …while obsessing about the Russians…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0\u00a0Dire threat to our security<\/em>!!!!!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 …but only in re Trump, and not Obama’s fairly shameful upsucking to the Russians<\/a>…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 RACIST!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Naturally.\u00a0 But when it comes to Trump…<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 LITERALLY HITLER!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 …you all turn into George Patton?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Who?<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 [theatrically snaps fingers<\/em>] Wait – this is Ramsey county?\u00a0 I’ve got the wrong election.\u00a0 Gotta go!<\/p>\n

BERG leaves.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And SCENE.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is at his county elections office getting an early primary voting packet.\u00a0 He looks around and notices Avery LIBRELLE walking in.\u00a0 He briefly considers fleeing out the fire exit, but just tries to make himself look small and inconspicuous.\u00a0 It doesn’t work.] LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Merg!\u00a0 Donald Trump is a traitor! BERG:\u00a0 No he’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[368,11],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-67467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump-derangement","category-world","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67467","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=67467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67469,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67467\/revisions\/67469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}