{"id":179657,"date":"2017-12-05T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/05\/metaphor-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T00:48:00","slug":"metaphor-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/05\/metaphor-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphor of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Over at <i>Naked Capitalism<\/i>, I suggested in the comments that, as I have <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/well-you-could-talk-with-die-linke.html\">here<\/a>, given the problems creating a majority coalition, Frau Merkel<sup>*<\/sup> should at least make a proforma effort to bring in Die Linke (The Left) into the coalition.<\/div>\n<p>Well, this engendered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/12\/germanys-dystopian-plans-europe-fantasy-reality.html#comment-2895810\">the following response<\/a>, which is one for the ages:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>Sid Finster<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ain\u2019t gonna happen. It would be the equivalent of asking \u2018OK, which one of you just farted?\u201d during an audience with the Pope. <\/p>\n<p>Some things cannot be acknowledged, especially among Europeans, who have created a political system based almost entirely on pretense. Even if the assembled petitioners are turning green and retching from the rancid stank and the Holy Father has s stupid grin on his mug, everyone has to carry on like everything is normal. <\/p>\n<p>Because Europe is so committed the pretense of \u201cMore Europe!\u201d, to \u201cfake it until you make it\u201d, it is particularly bad form to point out that Europe is faking it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the f%$#ing internet. <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Horses whinnying.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Naked Capitalism, I suggested in the comments that, as I have here, given the problems creating a majority coalition, Frau Merkel* should at least make a proforma effort to bring in Die Linke (The Left) into the coalition. Well, this engendered the following response, which is one for the ages: Sid Finster: Ain\u2019t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[630,464,439,367],"class_list":["post-179657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-european-union","tag-good-writing","tag-government","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}