{"id":82235,"date":"2022-05-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82235"},"modified":"2022-05-23T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T17:53:55","slug":"those-darned-armed-bigots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82235","title":{"rendered":"Those Darned Armed Bigots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE: Mitch BERG is picking up an Amazon parcel at the drop box at a Whole Foods on Selby Avenue. As he fiddles with getting the scanner to scan the bar code on his phone, Avery LIBRELLE walks up behind him. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Oh, shhhhhhhure enough, it&#8217;s Avery.  How&#8217;s thi&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Republicans are racists!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Oh, yeah, you bet.  You heard about the Republican gubernatorial candidate who chased down an unarmed black jogger &#8211; very similarly to the Ahmaud Arberry story?  Chased him down and pointed a shotgun at his chest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  I had not.  But sounds like a typical Rethuglicon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Oh, you beg:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The jogger said [the candidate] pointed the shotgun at his chest; [the candidate]  denies this but allows that his intent was to detain the jogger. At the time, [the candidate]  was mayor of a small town in Pennsylvania.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE: This is truly the America that Donald Trump created. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Uh huh. (<em>BERG takes on a snarky grin<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  What?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: Nothing. (<em>He can barely cvontain his glee<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Wait. That&#8217;s the look you get when you drop what you think is the big zinger in one of these stories of yours.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Zinger?  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/who-among-us-has-not-chased-down-an-unarmed-black-jogger-with-a-shotgun\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=homepage&amp;utm_campaign=river&amp;utm_content=featured-content-trending&amp;utm_term=first\">Who, me<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  (<em>Yelling at a store employee<\/em>).  Pouncer!  He&#8217;s a pouncer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EMPLOYEE:  Er, sure, maa&#8230; (Stops, confused) Sir&#8230;uh (<em>Looks at BERG, who merely shrugs<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  I&#8217;ll be leaving now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is picking up an Amazon parcel at the drop box at a Whole Foods on Selby Avenue. As he fiddles with getting the scanner to scan the bar code on his phone, Avery LIBRELLE walks up behind him. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, shhhhhhhure enough, it&#8217;s Avery. How&#8217;s thi&#8230; LIBRELLE: Republicans are racists! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,426,370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-the-bernie-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82235","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=82235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82237,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82235\/revisions\/82237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}