{"id":83763,"date":"2022-11-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83763"},"modified":"2022-11-02T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:55:09","slug":"assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83763","title":{"rendered":"Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:  Mitch BERG is out dropping literature for a candidate for the Minnesota state House of Representatives. As he walks toward a door, he encounters Avery LIBRELLE, carrying a shopping bag full of campaign literature.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Oh, Chriiiiistchurch New Zealand is beautiful this time of year, hey, Avery, how\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Shut up. Paul Pelosi was attacked by a MAGAt terrorist who represents the inner id of all Republican scumbags, something that every voter needs to remember as we head towards a midterm election where some polls are showing democracy itself is a threat from slack-jawed, drooling yokels in red caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: &#8220;Uh, there&#8217;s no evidence that DePape was a Republican or conservative in any\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE: &#8220;He was an old man who was <em>attacked<\/em>, and all you can think is politics?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: (<em>Glances into LIBRELLE\u2019s shopping bag<\/em>) Uh, Avery, that\u2019s all Republican literature\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But LIBRELLE is already scampering down the road<\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is out dropping literature for a candidate for the Minnesota state House of Representatives. As he walks toward a door, he encounters Avery LIBRELLE, carrying a shopping bag full of campaign literature. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, Chriiiiistchurch New Zealand is beautiful this time of year, hey, Avery, how\u2026 LIBRELLE: Shut up. Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,426],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-83763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83767,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83763\/revisions\/83767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}