{"id":61783,"date":"2018-12-27T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61783"},"modified":"2019-01-19T04:53:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T04:53:36","slug":"more-metaphor-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61783","title":{"rendered":"More metaphor miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; this one with quite a few neat chyrons, a book recommendation, &#038;c  ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ghost-feet-lkikewar-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ghost-feet-lkikewar-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ghost-feet-lkikewar-600-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <strong>PW Singer<\/strong> on his new book, <em>LikeWar<\/em>, and our cyber-security future:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/28FjYZ17b-U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Notable in the above, for the <strong>games metaphor<\/strong> collection as well as general understanding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a space where ISIS&#8217; top recruiter and Taylor Swift are using the very same tactics to achieve fundamentally the very same goal in terms of online, but very different effects offline.<\/p>\n<p>And final point of it, if we don&#8217;t understand these new rules of the game, we are the losers of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>A great few hours for chyrons<\/p>\n<p>MTO 12\/26\/2018 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DvZcjn8U8AAwNaJ.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Melber Beat 12\/26\/2018 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DvZcwIKUYAABHeY.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DvZc5iVVYAAr6vv.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DvZdEJ5UUAE07tb.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Melber 26 Dec: echoing politics as just a savage game ..<br \/>\ntrump has no agenda here,he has no endgame, he has no strategy, he has no tactics ..<br \/>\nlook, i went to the mat, i did everything i could do, i shut down the governmentmover this, and democrats just wouldn&#8217;t give me the billions that we agree we need to get this done <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;..Bob Corker was responsible for giving us the horrible Iran Nuclear Deal, which I ended, yet he badmouths me for wanting to bring our young people safely back home. Bob wanted to run and asked for my endorsement. I said NO and the game was over. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MAGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MAGA<\/a> I LOVE TENNESSEE!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1076935567760338944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DvcKFXsUwAAzSZy.jpg\"><br \/>\n.<br \/>\ndjt: we&#8217;re not playing to lose slowly in iraq ..26\/2018<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nall in chris hayes 12\/26\/2018<br \/>\nthe secretary of defense jim mattis resigned with a letter that politely torched the president&#8217;s worldview ..<br \/>\nmore and more like a mob boss ..<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s the game plan here? ..<br \/>\ni wonder how you, your colleagues are thinking about gaming out the strategy of this house majority which is walking into day one, a sort of staring contest with the president ..<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nuncertain misc 12\/26\/2018<br \/>\nit&#8217;s given every other country around the world whiplash ..<br \/>\npulling the rug out from under his own policies [ourob] ..<br \/>\nand the question is, does pressure work any more on the operators in this sort of game ..<br \/>\nit will be ironic if he was hoist by his own petard of sexism ..<br \/>\nthey organize their own demise because they ask for too much ..<br \/>\nkaty mtp: i wonder what the end game is for the president ..<br \/>\nari: the federal reserve has to raise rates, because they have to reducfe the balance sheet, in order to get the dry powder, to come rescue the economy ..\/<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nchris hayes: markets have whipsawed back and forth as investors try to figure out whata exactly is going on ..<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n12\/27\/2016<br \/>\nrule #1 of negotiation is don&#8217;t negotiate against yourself &#8211; the president negotiated against himself, and now he&#8217;s in a corner..<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nAnt=d this, IMO, is brilliant, capturing a whole series of mirroring arguments: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>to play that &#8220;if obama had done&#8221; game..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>that&#8217;s one heck of a game!<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nSubtitle from Vanity Fair&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2018\/12\/lets-make-a-deal-trumps-unlikely-truce-at-mar-a-lago\">Hive<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The author of Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump\u2019s Presidential Palace recounts the society columnist who tried to out-Trump the future president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ourob?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/chyron-culture-of-cruelty.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/chyron-culture-of-cruelty.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/chyron-culture-of-cruelty-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some culture!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DvcjQxKVYAALxJu.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some contest \/ fight \/ war..<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>More as relevant events, quotes, tweets, headlines &#038; videos crop up in my various feeds..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; this one with quite a few neat chyrons, a book recommendation, &#038;c ] . ** Here&#8217;s PW Singer on his new book, LikeWar, and our cyber-security future: ** Notable in the above, for the games metaphor collection as well as general understanding: This is a space where ISIS&#8217; top recruiter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,526,1753,1632,529,875,187,719,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-charles-cameron","category-chyron","category-collections","category-games","category-metaphor","category-politics","category-sports","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61783","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=61783"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61803,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61783\/revisions\/61803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}