{"id":87719,"date":"2024-06-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87719"},"modified":"2024-06-12T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:49:09","slug":"decoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87719","title":{"rendered":"Decoy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:   Mitch BERG is waiting at a local bar for a small debate society.  He&#8217;s reading the menu, and doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE has entered the bar, carrying a protest sign reading &#8220;Debate Is White Supremacy&#8221;.  BERG doesn&#8217;t notice LIBRELLE &#8211; but LIBRELLE notices him. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Ah, sssshhhhiiut the front door, it&#8217;s Ave&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Shut up.   The verdict against Hunter Biden shows that we <em>do not <\/em>have a two-tiered justice system!   Nobody is above the law!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Hah.  I thought you&#8217;d say&#8230;(<em>stops<\/em>) Er, what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  If you ignore the fact that the Department of Justice made a concerted effort to slow-walk the tax evasion and corruption allegations so that the statutes of limitations expired, especially on the allegations that could have led investigators to &#8220;the Big Guy&#8221;?  Yeah.  <em>Perfectly <\/em>just.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  (<em>Uneasily<\/em>) Er&#8230;right.  Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  As far as  you know, yes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Whew.  I thought so.  (<em>Walks away, waving sign and trying to disrupt the debate)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is waiting at a local bar for a small debate society. He&#8217;s reading the menu, and doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE has entered the bar, carrying a protest sign reading &#8220;Debate Is White Supremacy&#8221;. BERG doesn&#8217;t notice LIBRELLE &#8211; but LIBRELLE notices him. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Ah, sssshhhhiiut the front door, it&#8217;s Ave&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87719","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=87719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87720,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87719\/revisions\/87720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}