{"id":83164,"date":"2022-08-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83164"},"modified":"2022-08-23T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:48:04","slug":"checks-balances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83164","title":{"rendered":"Checks, Balances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:  Mitch BERG is looking for Gatorade Zero at Cub Foods when Cat SCAT, he designated \u201cfact checker\u201d at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog \u201c\u201d<em>MinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com<\/em>\u201c and office manager at a\u00a0small phrenology practice, steps around the corner.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCAT:  Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Uh, hey, Cat&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCAT:  Shut up. You and other so-called conservatives are spreading disinformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Do tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCAT:  You say that the so-called &#8220;woke mob&#8221; is &#8220;grooming&#8221; people, especially young children, into transitioning their gender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Yep.  You know who else says it?  <a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2021\/04\/02\/when-sons-become-daughters-parents-of-transitioning-boys-speak-out-on-their-own-suffering\/\">The parents of those children<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCAT:  Ack-shyu-ally, before someone can transition, they have to go through rigorous counseling by physician, culminating with a &#8220;Letter of Readiness for Surgery&#8221; signed by a physician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Ah.  A <em>legal document<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCAT:  Yes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Delivered with all due solemnity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCAT:  Of course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Because <em>science<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCAT:  Uh&#8230;yeah?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Yeah &#8211; about that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/billboardchris\/status\/1561918689032560640?s=21&#038;t=AL89YVO716yUJcrlAgtxsQ\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Comments?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCAT:  White supremacy!  Racism!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Of course.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is looking for Gatorade Zero at Cub Foods when Cat SCAT, he designated \u201cfact checker\u201d at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog \u201c\u201dMinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com\u201c and office manager at a\u00a0small phrenology practice, steps around the corner. SCAT: Merg! BERG: Uh, hey, Cat&#8230; SCAT: Shut up. You and other so-called conservatives are spreading disinformation. BERG: Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83164","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=83164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83167,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83164\/revisions\/83167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}