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SCENE: Mitch BERG is trying out an ethiopian restaurant. Avery LIBRELLE, wearing two masks and a face shield, walks in, and notices BERG before he can hide his face behind a menu. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

BERG: Oh, fuuuu…get about finding better Ethiopian food than…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: All Republicans are at fault for supporting the overthrow of the Constitution! January 6 proves it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Look – it’s not only possible to believe that Trump, Powell and Giuliani’s lies about the 2020 election<\/a> got a certain faction of people lathered up with some really stupid ideas<\/a>, and it was a grave offense – in some ways, moreso than the left’s “mostly peaceful” riots of the previous year,<\/a> if only because of what they rebelled against<\/em>, and the. incredible inadvisability of “revolutionary” action<\/a> that isn’t carried out for the absolutely most solid of motives, and <\/em>that the Democrats need to continue waving the bloody shirt to deflect the nation from the problems that they created, and <\/em>to fight the battle for the GOP’s identity without taking counsel of the Demcorats deflections and gaslighting, all at the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And continuing to try to tar every Repubican with it is the lowest form of social gaslighting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Hah. You’re the only gaslighter, whatever you actually say, because you don’t really know what you thjink, but I know what Republicans really think<\/em>, deep down in their cold little hearts. You are a gaslighter, even if you don’t. know or believe it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Huh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: If you weren’t a gaslighter, you wouldn’t need to make up fake conversations that didn’t really happen<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Riiiiiiiight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Anyway – Trump’s going to go to jail<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Probably not<\/a>. Anyway – Trump’s not the president, and the GOP needs to figure out its way forward. Which is, of course, why Big Left is gaslighting Republicans – it’s what domestic abusers do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I can see why Democrats keep turning every possible conversation back to January 6. Then, you don’t have to talk about inflation, the national debt, the crime, homelessnes and blight waves sweeping Blue cities, the supply chain, the incoherence of the Administration’s Covid policy, the collapse of the immigration system, the Democrat debacle in Virginia, a mid-term that shows promise to be a wave election, the fact that the top of your ticket is a senile man and a woman who most Americans wouldn’t trust to fill out a bowling scorecard, Latino voters deserting the Democrats by the biggest numbers since 2000, and the most Afro-Americans since 1960, parents deserting and rebelling against “woke” school boards…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: (Plugs ears, turns and runs<\/em>) Januaryi 6! January 6! Rethuglicon white supremacist Nazis! January 6…! (Runs out door<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAITER: Er, what was his…er, her…er, what was the problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Gas, I suspect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAITER: I hope…it gets help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Don’t we all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAITER: Hey – isn’t this one of those “made up conversations<\/a>“? What is it called in English?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Satire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAITER: What a wonderful invention. What a wonderful country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: I know, right? Could I see a menu?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAITER: Certainly…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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