{"id":61483,"date":"2018-12-04T20:06:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61483"},"modified":"2018-12-04T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T20:12:12","slug":"its-not-yet-noon-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61483","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not yet noon here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; but this crop of sports metaphors, game refs and other items of interest seems quite extraordinary for a single morning.. ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Best cat-and-mouse game reference, and a fight, war instance while we&#8217;re at it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DtlrmOYUUAATUxG.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Vanity Fair<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2017\/08\/robert-mueller-justice-department-investigation-conflicts-of-interest\" rel=\"nofollow\">TRUMP DROPS HIS FIGHT WITH MUELLER TO WIN THE WAR<\/a>\n<li><strong>Vanity Fair<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2018\/02\/donald-trump-robert-mueller-interview\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cMUELLER IS GOING TO GET WHAT HE WANTS\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s part of what I assume is an ongoing <strong>Babish-Bateman<\/strong> colloquy &#8212; philosophy fresh off the branch:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Most folk would quite agree!<\/p>\n<p>I do not, manifestly&#8230; cf., say, and most obviously, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZLrZgl5H7T\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZLrZgl5H7T<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ayT4mNriUI\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ayT4mNriUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Babette Babich (@babette_babich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/babette_babich\/status\/1070002075684229121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">December 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/12\/no-single-news-event-will-take-down-trump\/577264\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mueller Is Laying Siege to the Trump Presidency<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It happens this way every time: A big news event in the Trump-Russia investigation takes place, and commentators talk about it as though a house of cards were collapsing or a row of dominoes were falling. Each time, it\u2019s the beginning of the end. Each indictment or plea is the \u201cbig one.\u201d And then those expectations are disappointed. The sun rises the next day\u2014in the east, as expected\u2014and it sets in the west, as it did the day before. The Trump presidency endures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking &#8220;house of cards&#8221; and or &#8220;row of dominoes&#8221; equates to one or more game metaphors, eh? Is an &#8220;and or&#8221; formulation plurl or singular?<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the underlying metaphors are wrong. There is no sudden bend in the path of the investigation. There is no house of cards. The dominoes will not fall if gently tipped. The administration is not going to come crashing down in response to any single day\u2019s events. The architecture of Trump\u2019s power is more robust than that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Dtl4yAEU8AAJgUh.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Velshi &#038; Ruhle<\/strong> chyron 12\/4\/2018:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DtmFnpCUwAA2Cmu.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/film\/global\/bolivia-gory-patino-human-trafficking-the-goalkeeper-1203079824\/\">Bolivia\u2019s Gory Pati\u00f1o Exposes Human Trafficking in \u2018The Goalkeeper\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His next project, \u201cRock Paper Scissors,\u201d penned like \u201cPseudo\u201d with Luis Reneo, promises to be more ambitious as he plans to film it in English in Los Angeles. Pati\u00f1o describes the thriller as \u201cthree stories of couples whose lives intersect as they obey the logic of the game: Love kills jealousy, jealousy kills ambition, but ambition kills love.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Excellent instance of three-way games, which are interesting because they &#8220;defeat:&#8221; binary logic &#8212; see, eg, <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56520\">Rock paper scissors lizards geese<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; but this crop of sports metaphors, game refs and other items of interest seems quite extraordinary for a single morning.. ] . Best cat-and-mouse game reference, and a fight, war instance while we&#8217;re at it: Sources: Vanity Fair, TRUMP DROPS HIS FIGHT WITH MUELLER TO WIN THE WAR Vanity Fair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,529,875,286,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-games","category-metaphor","category-series","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61483","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=61483"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61490,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61483\/revisions\/61490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}