{"id":60193,"date":"2018-07-17T19:43:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=60193"},"modified":"2018-07-29T01:17:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T01:17:13","slug":"metaphors-more-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=60193","title":{"rendered":"Metaphors, more iii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; continuing from <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=59678\">Metaphors, more ii<\/a> &#8212; which has become seriously overloaded and is listing, seriously, to port ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of these are references to Trump&#8217;s press conference with Putin, which seems important enough to call for its own post &#8212; there may be a couple of earlier statements dropped in..<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Epo7zfy6s7U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>..<br \/>\njump to 17.10 in the video, answering &#8220;What was your view of Vladimir Putin today?&#8221; &#8220;Well, Ari, it&#8217;s All Star week here in Washington DC. He won the Home Run Derby of all Derbys, Vladimir Putin .. I think this was a big victory for Vladimir Putin..&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>This too: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/grabien.com\/story.php?id=182693\">WILSON<\/a>: &#8220;I do think, though, that a lot of people today saw the real Donald Trump. They saw the Donald Trump who comes out acting like he\u2019s the swaggering alpha male and he sat there on the stage like a whipped dog. I mean, he wanted Vladimir Putin\u2019s approval. He didn\u2019t care about anything else. He wanted Vladimir Putin to pat him on the head and to tell him he\u2019s a good boy and nothing else mattered. He was defending himself with these wild haymaker punches trying to bring Hillary Clinton back into the conversation, but it was very clear today who the boss was in that room and who wears the dog collar. And it\u2019s Donald Trump.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>And these:<\/p>\n<p>not taking one on the chin..<br \/>\ni don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;d show up in his ofice and say, game&#8217;s up&#8230;<br \/>\ntrump made a game-time decision to play things his way ..<br \/>\nhe could have hit a home run, I&#8217;m ashamed he didn&#8217;t ..<br \/>\nit was a game-time decision that virtually no one in his white house approved of &#8211; ashley parker<br \/>\nwas the white house awaree that they were likely gamed .. ?<br \/>\ntrump has outgamed himself ..<br \/>\nthe democrats are charlie brown, the republicans are lucy &#8212; sen chris murphy<br \/>\nthe informational dark side of the moon in that meeting..<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nTrump &#038; Putin took turns on the tire swing yesterday &#8212; rachel maddow<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n**<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2018\/07\/17\/uk-economists-prove-it-sports-destroy-happiness\/\">British economists prove it: Sports destroy happiness<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sports make the world a sadder place. Seriously. We\u2019ve got data.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nArmed with 3 million responses to a happiness monitoring app, plus the locations and times of several years worth of British soccer matches, University of Sussex economists Peter Dolton and George MacKerron calculated that the happiness that fans feel when their team wins is outweighed \u2013 by a factor of two \u2013 by the sadness that strikes when their team loses.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nWhich means, assuming a roughly equal number of fans on both sides, Sunday\u2019s World Cup final between France and Croatia made the world less happy than it was the day before. On net, soccer is a destroyer of happiness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nBob Kerrey<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He got played by Vladimir Putin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vladimir Putin is going to play you, and play you he did ..<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n**<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nAri to George Will:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We go into this baroque fugue state<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nthis sort of Potemkin gun group in Russia ..<br \/>\nwhile we&#8217;re playing bingo.. [Ari]<br \/>\nhere&#8217;s an easy one for you, here&#8217;s softball on hardball  .. [chris matthews]<br \/>\ncoming up: spy games ..<br \/>\nthey do a walk back and a half twist ..<br \/>\nthis is a very simple pattern ..<br \/>\na russian diplomatic vehicle \/ miracle &#8212; and then, game over ..<br \/>\ntrump torpedo<br \/>\n moral equivalency, tit-for-tat ..<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The people of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Montenegro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Montenegro<\/a> boldly withstood pressure from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Putin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Putin<\/a>\u2019s Russia to embrace democracy. The Senate voted 97-2 supporting its accession to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NATO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NATO<\/a>. By attacking Montenegro &amp; questioning our obligations under NATO, the President is playing right into Putin\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJohnMcCain\/status\/1019611082934161408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>there&#8217;s a lot of tit-for-tat in this .. [Jonathan Chait]<br \/>\nthis kind of contrition theater ..<br \/>\nkeep your bingo card open for a few more minutes, nicolle ..<br \/>\ngone beyond a goat rodeo ..<br \/>\n[ new terms ]  helsinki republicans, helsinki humiliation ..<br \/>\nthis is a velcro, not a teflon situation for him ..<br \/>\nappears to have walked back his walk back ..<br \/>\n&#8220;think of it as a player-trade&#8221; 11th hour\/ swapping mcfaul for russians<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HardballChris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HardballChris<\/a> says we have a man sitting in the White House singing Moscow&#39;s song, sounding as much like Vladimir Putin as Simon sounds like Garfunkel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2eDgNnva0j\">https:\/\/t.co\/2eDgNnva0j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hardball (@hardball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hardball\/status\/1019811600281333760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<strong>WotR<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2018\/07\/the-shell-game-fueling-a-future-war-in-the-pacific\/\">THE SHELL GAME: FUELING A FUTURE WAR IN THE PACIFIC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Hurd<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/19\/opinion\/trump-russia-putin-republican-congress.html\">Trump Is Being Manipulated by Putin. What Should We Do?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By playing into Vladimir Putin\u2019s hands, the leader of the free world actively participated in a Russian disinformation campaign that legitimized Russian denial and weakened the credibility of the United States to both our friends and foes abroad.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/nicolle-wallace-bursts-out-laughing-as-jonathan-swan-talks-wh-confusion-no-one-really-knows-anything\/\">Nicolle Wallace Bursts Out Laughing as Jonathan Swan Talks WH Confusion: \u2018No One Really Knows Anything\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Axios\u2019 Jonathan Swan broke down how things are, um, movin\u2019 right along in the White House at the end of this very chaotic week, but the way he described it was just too much for Nicolle Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace brought up how Dan Coats sounded \u201cunshackled\u201d yesterday and asked, \u201cWhat is the collective feeling among the White House staff about the fact that Donald Trump\u2019s own appointees, who head arguably the most important government agencies\u2026 are no longer pretending that Donald Trump isn\u2019t ridiculous?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swan noted how some officials are still \u201cpretty buttoned up,\u201d citing DHS Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen, before telling Wallace the following:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re finding more and more often that when we talk to people who work in the White House or at a senior level in the administration is we\u2019ll ask them why did Trump do this thing, whatever it might be\u2026 In the early days of the administration, you could expect an answer that rationalizes, tells your game theory and whatever. Now they\u2019re just like [makes an \u2018I dunno\u2019 noise].\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wallace burst out laughing and Swan made the noise a few more times before saying, \u201cThey\u2019ve stopped bothering trying to explain him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Game theory<\/strong>, see?<\/p>\n<p>But you can hear that laugh, and Swan&#8217;s noise, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/nicolle-wallace-bursts-out-laughing-as-jonathan-swan-talks-wh-confusion-no-one-really-knows-anything\/\">Mediaite<\/a>, though I can&#8217;t find a way to bring the video here &#8212; if I could, I&#8217;d have a marbelous <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong> with <strong>Andrea Mitchell<\/strong>&#8216;s interview with <strong>Dan Coats<\/strong> and the interruption by a White House tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SopxN4NwjoA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <strong>DoubleLaugh! <\/p>\n<p>Snap!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; continuing from Metaphors, more ii &#8212; which has become seriously overloaded and is listing, seriously, to port ] . Almost all of these are references to Trump&#8217;s press conference with Putin, which seems important enough to call for its own post &#8212; there may be a couple of earlier statements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1314,627,653,875,1629,1,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-doublequotes","category-game-theory","category-metaphor","category-summit","category-uncategorized","category-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60193"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60349,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60193\/revisions\/60349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}