{"id":82759,"date":"2022-07-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82759"},"modified":"2022-07-13T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T17:01:57","slug":"when-i-fight-authority-authority-always-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82759","title":{"rendered":"When I Fight Authority, Authority Always Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:   Mitch BERG has just ordered at a food truck, and is waiting for his order to come up.  Avery LIBRELLE steps around the corner.  BERG visibly ponders abandoning his food and slipping away &#8211; but LIBRELLE sees him first. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE: Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: Oh, godododoooood golly, Avery, it&#8217;s great to see&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE: Shut up.  The Supreme Court just took us down the road to authoritarianism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Let me guess.  The <em>Dobbs <\/em>case&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  &#8230;was a blow for tyranny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: Quick question for you, Avery.   Six unelected justices, fifty years ago, making up law out of whole cloth&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE: Democracy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: Thousands of legislators, and 435 Congresspeople, directly representing millions of voters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  (<em>Hisses<\/em>) Tyranny!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  You do realize these series of satirical sketches barely qualifies as parody, anymore, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG has just ordered at a food truck, and is waiting for his order to come up. Avery LIBRELLE steps around the corner. BERG visibly ponders abandoning his food and slipping away &#8211; but LIBRELLE sees him first. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, godododoooood golly, Avery, it&#8217;s great to see&#8230; LIBRELLE: Shut up. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30,82],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-82759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-liberty","category-scotus","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82759","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=82759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82760,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82759\/revisions\/82760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}