{"id":88562,"date":"2024-10-23T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88562"},"modified":"2024-10-23T07:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T12:41:57","slug":"staged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88562","title":{"rendered":"Staged!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is walking to a GOP fundraiser in one of the Twin Cities.\u00a0 He walks around a corner and almost slams into a distracted Avery LIBRELLE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Er, excuse me&#8230;oh, hi, Aver&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: Shut up Merg.\u00a0 Drumpf did a completely fake staged appearance at that McDonalds!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 A politician doing a staged, fake appearance for purely political reasons?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Yes and&#8230;hey, the world is going cloudy.\u00a0 What&#8217;s up?<\/p>\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 It&#8217;s called a flashback.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: Ooooh&#8230;.Weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"961\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5.png\" alt=\"AOC pretending to be in handcuffs.  \" class=\"wp-image-88563\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5.png 961w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5-768x511.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5-450x300.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\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\">\u201cTrump at McDonald\u2019s was staged.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/66tAv7aWdX\">pic.twitter.com\/66tAv7aWdX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrageDustin\/status\/1848736529335656822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AOC and Ilhan Omar caught out &#039;pretending&#039; to be handcuffed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7o9TXkuHPA?start=199&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6.png 600w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6-300x226.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-6-399x300.png 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  It&#8217;s making me dizzy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:&nbsp; Uh, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what&#8217;s doing it.&nbsp; Anyway, just a couple more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"959\" height=\"741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88565\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-7.png 959w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-7-300x232.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-7-768x593.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-7-388x300.png 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88566\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-1024x768.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-768x576.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-400x300.png 400w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8.png 1116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  So you were saying&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>But LIBRELLLE appears to have passed out<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>BERG:&nbsp; Huh.<\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is walking to a GOP fundraiser in one of the Twin Cities.\u00a0 He walks around a corner and almost slams into a distracted Avery LIBRELLE. BERG:\u00a0 Er, excuse me&#8230;oh, hi, Aver&#8230; LIBRELLE: Shut up Merg.\u00a0 Drumpf did a completely fake staged appearance at that McDonalds! BERG:\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 A politician doing a staged, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,130,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-tc-media-bias","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88562","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=88562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88568,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88562\/revisions\/88568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}