{"id":18620,"date":"2021-11-23T05:38:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18620"},"modified":"2021-11-23T05:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:38:05","slug":"overnight-news-if-you-laughed-when-kyle-rittenhouse-said-we-all-know-how-the-fbi-works-the-joke-is-on-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18620\/overnight-news-if-you-laughed-when-kyle-rittenhouse-said-we-all-know-how-the-fbi-works-the-joke-is-on-all-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: If you laughed when Kyle Rittenhouse said, \u201cWe all know how the FBI works\u201d \u2013 the joke is on all of\u00a0us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_16586\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ya think it's easy?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWhat do you call a dog who is good at guile? The Imaginary\u00a0Dog.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Much of my speech is ironical. I am a poet, to begin with, and I hate to bore my own ears. And I am a Swann boy, raised into a rapid-fire verbal wit: Homophones, definition-swaps, non sequiturs \u2013 work it and work with it fast or be swept away in the vortex. And: I am Loki from my father, my mother, her father, her brother \u2013 and from my own delight in trickery.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, to speak with me is kind of a shit test: I can tell right away if you are actually listening to me, since you won&#8217;t get the jokes if you&#8217;re not. The good news is, if you are listening, I know you will be listening when we get to the parts of the conversation that are not deliberately inverted for comic effect. But before even that, there is simply this: People who are awake enough to laugh at the world are awake.<\/p>\n<p>Last night on &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&#8221; Kyle Rittenhouse issued an unintentionally-comic national shit test: &#8220;We all know how the FBI works.&#8221; He wasn&#8217;t being ironical, alas, but everyone who laughed knows he is telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Redfin.com:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/housing-market-cooled-in-october\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Housing Market Cooled in October, But Relief For Homebuyers Was Short-Lived.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TheHill.com:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/582602-electric-car-chargers-to-be-required-in-new-homes-in-england?rl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electric car chargers to be required in new homes in England.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrea Widburg:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/tucker_carlsons_interview_with_kyle_rittenhouse_is_fascinating.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tucker Carlson\u2019s interview with Kyle Rittenhouse is fascinating.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seth Barron:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/the-rittenhouse-verdict-and-trial-by-jury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trial By Jury Needs No Fixing: Outraged by the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, the Left claims that the American justice system is illegitimate.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat do you call a dog who is good at guile? The Imaginary\u00a0Dog.\u201dMuch of my speech is ironical. I am a poet, to begin with, and I hate to bore my own ears. And I am a Swann boy, raised into a rapid-fire verbal wit: Homophones, definition-swaps, non sequiturs \u2013 work it and work with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12134,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12134\/mary-canary-on-her-way-to-feed-the-pigeons\/","url_meta":{"origin":18620,"position":0},"title":"Mary Canary on her way to feed the pigeons","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie story \"I married myself a quiet man. He told me so himself, many times. When he was drunk, he'd shout it to the world.\" Mary Canary said that. She says stuff like that just to make sure no one's listening. And no one on the bus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Mother&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2802,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2802\/realestateradiocoms-barry-cunningham-is-going-to-show-us-all-what-it-sounds-like-when-a-big-dog-howls\/","url_meta":{"origin":18620,"position":1},"title":"RealEstateRadioUSA.com&#8217;s Barry Cunningham is going to show us all what it sounds like when a big dog howls","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're not listening to RealEstateRadioUSA.com, you're missing out on the most entertaining real estate education your money cannot buy. You can listen live at 1\/2\/3\/4pm, west to east, but the show is also available every day by MP3, so you can take \"The Barrys\" with you in the car\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18596,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18596\/overnight-news-dunning-kruger-real-estate-when-you-dont-have-a-need-we-dont-have-a-clue\/","url_meta":{"origin":18620,"position":2},"title":"Overnight News: Dunning-Kruger Real Estate: \u201cWhen you don\u2019t have a need, we don\u2019t have a\u00a0clue!\u201d","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I am enduringly annoyed by the iBuyers. You may have noticed. 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