Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "WoodrowWilsonCenter" channel.

  1. American trucks and canned corned beef helped the Russians save the Earth from Hitler.
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  2. Rob and his extremely intelligent, hardworking, and ambitious brother Doug, haven't changed a bit since they were BMOC drug wholesalers, spoiled brats, and exploiters of the baser instincts of their classmates in high school.   All the economic and psychological factors of the Poujade interlude in France apply.   They have a made, and now largely lost, only one honourable conquest: the very great conservatism of a number of hard working immigrant groups, largely people who were upper class in their former homelands, and now to their very great irritation often find themselves often treated with a grating kind condescension by liberal-mined "helpers" in their new.   The Fords come easily to contact with people of colour through their contacts in the drug underworld, and through football.  Until now the bonhomie of these worlds has passed for racial egalitarianism -- falsely.   The beginning of Rob Ford's meltdown was his firing by Don Bosco High School as a volunteer coach of their football team.  The good administrators of the high school were flattered and pleased to have the Mayor volunteering to help their boys, even if he did turn up drunk and make a fool of himself.  All good fun.   The parents, however, were appalled.  Minority parents in particular were horrified at the Mayor's claims to be protecting minorities from delinquency.  Religiously observant African parents do not see their children as liable to become delinquent: they see a drunken, drug using fraud who hangs out with minority drug users as a threat to their children.  They, over the resistance of the school administration, got him fired.   Ford Nation -- the thousands of people who eat hot dogs and free pop at their estate (for their father was wealthy, and they are spoiled inheritors) -- still exists, though diminished.  It is fueled by the resentments of white lower class people in Mississauga, and by ordinary people who go for their good cheer, and anti-establishment chatter.   How much the "Nation" has been diminished remains to be seen.   -dlj. david.lloydjones@gmail.com May 20, 2014.   P.S.  A pleasure to touch base with Woody Wilson.  I met my first wife, the excellent Susan Schmidt (now a heavy hitter in US Japanese language education) at a speech Carl Kaysen gave there in 1967.  The speech was good -- worth the bus from Washington for me, the plane from Boulder for Susie -- but meeting her was better. :-) -dlj.
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  3. Confederate monuments constructed "outside of history," Tyler? Uh, no. and it was amusing watching your face as you struggled for that diplomatic way of framing the event. Diplomats lie for their country. Do Alaska academics have to be diplomatic not to annoy? The late construction of these monuments, celebrating bogus versions of history, was part of an important historical movement: Jim Crow. Jim Crow wasn't the support of slavery before the Civil War. Jim Crow was the sainted Woodrow Wilson re-segregating the racially integrated civil service when he became President in 1912. That was as historically significant an event as, well, Princeton's renaming of the Woody Wilson School.
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  4.  @officerwebb620  "Officer"? 🤣😂🤦‍♂️
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  5.  @officerwebb620  Ooooh! Big bad officer webby-web goin' to go around arresting people who write messages he doesn't understand on YouTube! 😂🤣😎🤦‍♂️
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  6.  @leorkoubi4626  That's not bad. 'Course Hitler's military genius was a major contributor to the Allies' cause, too... On the intelligence side, the American effort, founded by Yardley and continued by Friedman, did a brilliant job on the Japanese. It was the nukes that put an early stop to the Pacific war, the big example of "Our German scientists are better than their German scientists."
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  7.  @leorkoubi4626  Absolute;ly not. The Russians joined in a few days before the end in order to seize a chunk of Manchuria but that was the merest trivia compared even to the submarine campaign which was starving Honshu and Kyushu -- let alone the even far greater matter of the atom bombs.
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  8.  @cliffsdepot  Your long list of counties, Cliff, does not make it any more likely that you actually watched the video. The whole point of the thing, which you miss, is that the Korean Communists, later confined to the north, took the initiative in getting China and Russia involved, for mixed and different motives. Stalin's doctrine, and very competent writing, on nationalities was a major intellectual contribution to modern i.e. post US Civil War, Marxism, and it, quite as much as his bureaucratic competence, established him as a Communist leader.
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  9.  @a.p.3004  Greece contributing troops to the Korean War effort was the weak Greek government manipulating the major powers, not the powerful using Greece as you foolishly claim. A tiny contribution of troops paid off manyfold in voice at the tables and in aid from rich America and weak, poverty-stricken Britain.
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  10.  @a.p.3004  Your list of "top five" British Communist spies is false, and rather stupid. You're just listing lower downs who were caught, vilified, and made famous, to gain applause for the authorities. Both Norman "James" Klugman and Melitta Norwood were more important than your list of five combined -- but they weren't caught.
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  11. ...instead of watching Fox TV for four hours a day.
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