[Peace-discuss] Chomsky on Trump in Truthout of April this year.

[Karen Aram]

I have to apologize for the Chomsky article below, it’s not the one I meant to post. He has a more recent one, though similar, it did have some upto date concerns, unfortunately I lost it on FB and upon googling got this one which I didn’t deem worth posting last month. 

The russiagate nonsense is turning into a Chinagate nonsense, I’ve seen some of it already. We knew it was coming but I didn’t expect it this soon with, given the focus on Iran. 

It’s been obvious to me that Trump was elected due to people across the country not wanting Hillary, but most of all not wanting the Democrat Party, who has done absolutely nothing for them. It’s the economics, not racism though this is what is being promoted by the media. 

You have a very interesting family history, and now spending your life in China. I was only there two years and loved it, the people, the place, of course I was in Shanghai which is the Paris of the east, only so much better these days. The rapid development is phenomenal, and unlike most developing nations, the people have kept up. I see this as due to the Chinese leadership recognizing what is important going forward. 

The U of I, is now the largest recipient of students from China in the US. That won’t be the case for too much longer, as China improves their educational system, they will want to keep the money in China rather than spend it overseas, especially in the US.  At least thats what I’ve been told.
There are many mainlanders now living in Thailand, doing business there, and many Thai’s and expats resenting it, nothing new of course, but I also see the propaganda in play which gives me cause for concern. Thailand has been the one place where Chinese have always been welcome and treated well, compared to some of their S.E. Asian neighbors. 


> On May 29, 2018, at 00:24, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:
> 
> It is an interesting piece to reflect upon.
> 
> I never liked Donald Trump at all during the 30 or so years that he has been in the public eye.
> I would have voted for him because of the unfathomable contempt that I hold toward the Clintons and their ilk.
> I didnt bother to vote, as it is a real pain at the embassy and in Illinois my opinion would have been
> negated by "10,000 dumbasses in Chicago who dont know shit from Shinola" as Dr. Ott was fond of saying.
> 
> I like living in Beijing.  Life is very good here, much better than anything I experienced in the USA.
> 
> I was here in the 90's and I lived like the graduate students do which is a pretty low level.
> "People in China ain't got nothin'" Forrest Gump said, or something like that, and it really was
> still true in the 90's.  If you found a good solid fruit jar with a lid, that was your teacup and a prized
> possession. I ate breakfast for 12 cents a day in 1996-98.  My income was low enough that I could demonstrate
> that I really didnt need to file a 1040.  I do recall scouring my desk and bags for
> enough money to eat breakfast.  There were few cars in Beijing and your bicycle was your car.
> 
> Contrast that a few days ago I ordered a Wacom Cintiq 13hd monitor to assist my training lectures from JD.com
> after 5 pm and it arrived at the doorstep of my home in Changping (northwest Beijing near the mountains) in 18 hours.
> I ordered it from my cell phone from my hospital bed in the PLA's 309th Hospital in Haidian (north of the summer palace).
> Robert Crumb's Zap #0 City of the Future is largely a reality in many ways but I still have to use the toilet,
> albeit that is much more comfortable than in the 90s.
> 
> If I were back in Urbana I would have to contend with the Lawn Police and the Woodpile Police
> who steal your woodpile and fine you for having one.
> If I were in an elevator in Chicago, chances are that I would be outnumbered 3 to 1 by people
> who by their own free will voted for HC.  Not a pretty thought. Talk about being a Stranger in a Strange Land!
> More like Frodo and Sam in passive-aggressive Mordor, if ya ask me.
> 
> Most of my ancestors arrived in Virginia and the Carolinas in the mid to late 1700s from England and Scotland.
> They fought the bloody Brits in the Revolutionary War.  One was a officer under Mad Anthony Wayne which is
> how that name got into the Johnson family tree, same place where Marion Morrison waxed mad.
> One branch goes back to New York and the Sidowskys (Sandusky) from Poland and the fur trader for whom Sandusky
> Ohio is named, and Gilliaume Greig (aka Killian Creek) who was a sort of stone and brick guy from Germany,
> and the McGhees who built the first grain mill in Illinois.  My mothers family is a long line of teachers
> going back many generations.   The Johnsons settled in White county IL and the other parts of the
> family settled in Saline and Hamilton counties.  They were Baptists and Methodists.
> Most of 'em are laid to rest in Little Springs Cemetery at Little Springs Church in now remote
> Flannigan Township.  The first ones to arrive there had fought the bloody Brits, others were farmers,
> storekeepers, physicians, botanists, university researchers, schoolteachers.  Little Springs Baptsts
> had shaped note hymnals with wrinkly brown covers and four-part harmonies that smelled like old
> hymnals in an old Baptist church.  Most had pianos at home but hardshells sang a-capella.  They
> always ate together after church, what they call potluck nowadays but they didnt have a name for it that
> I recall.  They baptized in farm ponds and deep spots in the creek.
> 
> My sons visited the cemetery there during the spring festival and live streamed video back to my cell phone
> here in Beijing as they walked among the tombstones. It was surreal that such technology is available.
> I was moved to something way past tears.  I had helped carry
> my greatgrandmother there in 1974.  There are the stones that mark the graves of my parents, grandparents,
> near and distant relatives, neighbors.  When i was a small boy we used to play in the cemetery while
> our elders cooked and talked.  We looked to see who could find the oldest graves or the most illegible stones
> or marvel at the rocks that marked some.  As children we didnt understand what was going on there but
> we were beneficiaries of it.  Deadpool called it the F-word. Family.  What the Greeks called στοργή storge.
> 
> Most of the folk around there have died off like my ancestors or moved away like me.
> These communities are near 100% white not so much because they are racist or xenophobic
> but more because there is nothing there for non-whites to eat.
> Such counties in southern Illinois have roughly the same population that they had 100 years ago.
> Lots of those folk dont generally bother to vote as it aint their concern.
> They turned out in record numbers to vote Against The Bitch.
> They voted as high as 85-87% for Trump (against HC).
> 
> *
> The author of the article says that Trump is racist, misogynist, xenophobic and erratic.
> There isnt much evidence that he is racist.  Perhaps he is less so than the average New York White Guy.
> Misogynist?  The press is fond of saying that he likes the ladies too much.  They have a way of saying
> it in Arkansas that I cant quite express here.
> 
> Xenophobic?  There are bad guys in the world.
> Go on, invite 'em into your treasure room, Hezekiah, you dipshit.
> And dont ya know that those pistachios dont pick themselves.
> Just drive into LA with your pickup truck and recruit some help...
> 
> Erratic? or Machiavellian?
> 
> Homophobic?  In my opinion Trump is pretty much in the Fag-Enabler category.
> The real issue seems to be lascivious behaviour and a breakdown in the fabric of
> the society.  The monkeys seem willing.
> 
> *
> I have been an admirer of Chomsky's frankness and intellect..
> He has done a lot of good for the people.
> 
> He rightly goes after McConnell and Ryan the Weinermobile boy. McConnell reminds
> me of some sort of evil deep sea creature from an alternative universe.
> If you look up feminine hygiene device in the dictionary Ryan's picture should be there.
> Nozzle sold separately.
> 
> I am genuinely surprised to see Chomsky attacking Trump from the standpoint
> that Trump is doing this president thing for the money.  I never much liked Trump
> but I dont see that this is for the money.
> 
> Is Chomsky genuinely suggesting that the world would be better off
> with the The Bitch (and Bill) back in the White House.
> I heard Ian Anderson croaking out Locomotive Breath on YouTube.
> There comes a time to hang it up for some.  He can still play the flute
> like anything.
> 
> I think the key issue with Chomsky has become the whole global warming
> euphemistically Climate Change thing.  Protecting the environment is everybody's
> business.  Sometimes Beijing is like Granite City in 1964.  Things are better.
> It aint worse than 1996 but it is nightmarishly bad on the south of Beijing
> on cool damp days with no breeze.  a bit better now.
> 
> Pollution is bad.  Global warming seems to be meteorism not meteorology.
> Fang pi they say in the local dialect.
> Chomsky is not a meteorologist and he has become oversold
> on the idea of climate change, tragically.
> Something falling from the sky.
> Must be swastikas.
> 
> Chomsky really thinks we'd all be better off with The Evil Bitch?
> 
> 
> 
> Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote:
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