{"id":86642,"date":"2023-12-12T08:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86642"},"modified":"2023-12-12T08:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:12:01","slug":"a-pattern-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86642","title":{"rendered":"A Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:   Mitch BERG is walking to his parked car after a political event in downtown Saint Paul.  As he walks past a near-empty office building, MyLyssa SILBERMAN, Reporter for National Public Radio\u2019s Saint Paul bureau, covering the \u201cFake News\u201d and \u201cDiversity\u201d beats, steps out. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SILBERMAN: Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Er, hey, Mylys&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SILBERMAN:  In recent years, you&#8217;ve pounced on Demcorats for saying &#8220;tut, tut, nobody&#8217;s coming for your guns&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  &#8230;.and pointing the reams of legislation that shows that they <em>are, <\/em>but that that&#8217;s not good enough unless there&#8217;s actually a cop beating down your door.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SILBERMAN:  Uh&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  If the cops are busting down one&#8217;s neighbor&#8217;s door, I should shut up because they&#8217;re not storming my house <em>yet.<\/em> Point being, the progressive line on all outrages against freedom is &#8220;If it&#8217;s not <em>happening to you right this second<\/em>, no matter how imminent, then it&#8217;s not a threat&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SILBERMAN:  Don&#8217;t you think that&#8217;s a bit unfair? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  You tell me:<\/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\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Not until it becomes conduct.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sr385nuIVp\">pic.twitter.com\/Sr385nuIVp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMossadIL\/status\/1734311210781130993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SILBERMAN:   Not sure I get your point&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Yeah, I don&#8217;t imagine you do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>AND SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking to his parked car after a political event in downtown Saint Paul. As he walks past a near-empty office building, MyLyssa SILBERMAN, Reporter for National Public Radio\u2019s Saint Paul bureau, covering the \u201cFake News\u201d and \u201cDiversity\u201d beats, steps out. SILBERMAN: Merg! BERG: Er, hey, Mylys&#8230; SILBERMAN: In recent years, you&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458,51],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-86642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaza-2023","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86642","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=86642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86643,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86642\/revisions\/86643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}