Progressive Politics

This was from another article about it:

About a year later, Chomsky reached out to Bannon and expressed his and Valeria’s disappointment for “having missed you the other night”.

“Jeffrey … gave me your address,” Chomsky wrote. “Hope that we can arrange something else before too long. Lots to talk about.”

Bannon had been out of Trump’s first administration for about a year at that point. “Agree. Would love to connect,” he wrote back, before saying his brother lived in Tucson, Arizona, where Chomsky had started working as a university professor.

Maybe he’s just a horrible person?

Honestly, this raises so many questions and just downright confuses me.

• Noam Chomsky is a critic of modern capitalism, and just generally on the left. Why in the hell would be want to spend time with Epstein?

• He seems to believe in Epstein's innocence, even though he had long before been proven guilty. Chomsky is, as far as I can tell, quite the intellectual - did he not know, and if, how could he not know?

• It legitimately sounds like Chomsky is speaking from the experience of being falsely accused. I mean, he has been arrested a couple of times for his activism, but that's a completely different story than being accused of raping someone or similar. Maybe his experience being on Reagan's list, but still, that would seem like something different to me. Maybe I'm off.

• Assuming there's nothing more sinister going on with Chomsky (and I really don't know what to think there), what does that tell us about the world and the people around Epstein? I find it odd to have some of the greatest minds with a positive influence but also some of the most disgusting people in the same circle.

That Hiltzik guy in the email is conveniently now the "crisis manager" for the ex-Microsoft executive who was exposed in the Epstein files for using Epstein to extract a $14 million dollar golden parachute out of Microsoft when he got fired for Windows 8 sucking. It's incredible how interconnected the Epstein class is, it's a small world for them.

Epstein’s rizz must have been off the scale. The way this reads, Chomsky didn’t know about the Trump-Epstein child rape blackmail operation and just genuinely thought of Epstein as a trusted friend unfairly targeted by MeToo. Damn.

Is there any chance he didn’t know?

I mean - that reads like he feels bad Jeffy’s going through this as if - as if he doesn’t know. Is that even possible?

I will be so happy to read his obituary.