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BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 10:07 PM Nov 2018

Noam Chomsky: Trump and His Enablers Are 'Criminally Insane'

Someone want to argue he is wrong? lol I love this because Chomsky doesn't avoid the obvious, they are indeed fucking crazy.There is NO other planet to move to once they destroy this one.


Of the myriad disturbing reports that Donald Trump’s presidency has generated over the past 22 months, from its woeful recovery efforts in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria to its sadistic child separation policy, few were as viscerally upsetting as The Washington Post’s findings from September of this year. According to a new environmental impact statement, administration officials privately acknowledge that we are on course for a cataclysmic temperature increase of 7 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. What’s worse, the White House appears entirely resigned to the planet’s fate, even opening up the Arctic for offshore drilling.

For this reason alone, Noam Chomsky considers the president and his Republican enablers to be “criminally insane.”

In a new interview with Scientific American, the celebrated linguist and political theorist opines on a range of topics including classical liberalism, Trump’s presidency and his own vision of a better world. He also further clarifies why he considers the Republican Party to be “the most dangerous organization in human history.”

Here are just a few of his more memorable remarks:

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomsky-trump-and-his-enablers-are-criminally-insane/

On the failings of Western civilization

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Noam Chomsky: Trump and His Enablers Are 'Criminally Insane' (Original Post) BeckyDem Nov 2018 OP
One of my favorite intellectuals. triron Nov 2018 #1
Spot on as usual, yep. BeckyDem Nov 2018 #2
+1 ooky Nov 2018 #12
This theorist always has the right on analogies. peacebuzzard Nov 2018 #3
+1 BeckyDem Nov 2018 #6
someday......... Takket Nov 2018 #4
Their greed is astonishing, it makes them mindless in my view. There is NO where else to move to, BeckyDem Nov 2018 #5
I don't think psychopaths love anyone angstlessk Nov 2018 #8
That is a fair point. BeckyDem Nov 2018 #9
Right on. Kath2 Nov 2018 #7
knr triron Nov 2018 #10
K&R smirkymonkey Nov 2018 #11

peacebuzzard

(5,145 posts)
3. This theorist always has the right on analogies.
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 10:38 PM
Nov 2018

I admire him greatly for his practical and piercing realism.
My good friend in Brazil who admires him as well was stunned when I told her Chomsky is married to a Brazilian librarian and has traveled to the interior of Brazil where she is from. (Minas Gerais)

Takket

(21,526 posts)
4. someday.........
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 10:42 PM
Nov 2018

history (if anyone survives) will look upon those that turned a blind eye in the 90s and 00s when we still could have stopped this as the greatest monsters in History. The modern GOP will be looked upon as even worse than Hitler for lying and suppressing climate science and policy eventually leading to the literal inability of the planet to support life as we know it today. All for their own greed and gain. The question isn't whether this will kill people and force wildlife out of existence, the question is only "how many" will perish.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
5. Their greed is astonishing, it makes them mindless in my view. There is NO where else to move to,
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 10:48 PM
Nov 2018

they presumably love their children and grandchildren yet they have doomed their future too.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
8. I don't think psychopaths love anyone
Sun Nov 11, 2018, 11:15 PM
Nov 2018

including members of their family...except

a good looking daughter who's father euphemistically said he'd like to 'date' her.

He euphemistically 'dated' Stormy

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