{"id":89976,"date":"2025-10-15T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89976"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:10:13","slug":"instant-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89976","title":{"rendered":"Instant Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Berg&#8217;s 17th Law doesn&#8217;t get much of a workout&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70850\">until it does<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>W<strong>hen reporting \u201cnews\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Nothing any Democrat says, or does, up to and including violating federal law and national security, will ever be held against them<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>On the other hand, anything untoward (or that can be interpreted as being untoward, regardless of intent or context) that is or is reputed to be done, said, hinted at or speculated to have been done, said or hinted at by any Republican officeholder (no matter how obscure or inconsequential), candidate (whether mainstream or far fringe), party official, contributor, voter, supporter, rally attendee, or by any\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>putative<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0supporter, contributor or rally attendee, or anyone\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>claiming or reputed<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0to have at any time\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>been\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>a Republican party member, supporter or sympathizer,\u00a0will not only be treated like it\u2019s evidence in a federal trial, but imputed to every conservative, anywhere, regardless of its context, accuracy or even truthfulness.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>A Republican &#8211; no matter how obscure &#8211; who says something repugnant in a forum no matter how marginal, can count on becoming very, very famous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To wit:<\/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\">I have a question for all Republican politicians with a shred of dignity: <br><br>Are you proud of the fact that embracing Donald Trump has poisoned the character of your children?<br><br>Just look at what you\u2019ve become. An entire generation of Republicans are literal fucking Nazis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m6WdBaKSLJ\">pic.twitter.com\/m6WdBaKSLJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John Jackson (@hissgoescobra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hissgoescobra\/status\/1978166474586886501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bad &#8220;young Republicans.  No cookie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we presume this conversation isn&#8217;t a hoax (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70863\">I don&#8217;t<\/a>), then let&#8217;s tote up the score: \u00a0 a few maladapted &#8220;young republicans&#8221; had a pretty ugly conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Versus: \u00a0A solid plurality of young Democrats justify murder over politics. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which is probably why this story is getting pushed in the first place. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rage farmers are bringing in a bumper crop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,44,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-stupid","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89976","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=89976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89977,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89976\/revisions\/89977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}