Joe Chink Is Coming!

Infantrymen are not noted for their political correctness.

Actually, there was no such thing as PC at Camp Hovey in South Korea in 1962. It was a Friday evening, payday, and I was playing cards in one of the line companies with Smitty, the company clerk there, a cool black dude from Cleveland; Lemoyne King, the armorer there, a tough little white bastard from Little Rock; and Patrick O’Malley, the clown prince of the personnel section where we worked together, and the pride of Tacoma, Washington.

We were drinking our payday special of cognac and Dr. Pepper, and I was up about forty bucks when the siren we all dreaded went off. Full battle alert!

“Jesus!” Smitty yelled. “Joe Chink is coming!”

King scooped up his money and headed to the arms room to hand out weapons. This was the real deal. This siren only went off if the Chinese – known to one and all as “Joe Chink had breached the 38^th parallel – 30 miles away – and were swarming south.

Turns out it was a false alarm. The battle group commander was drunk and decided to have a little fun and see how we reacted to the full battle alert.

This is all by way of getting around to the conspiracy theory of the other of my blogmates. It involves the Chinese, who are conning the shit out of Donald Trump at every turn in the road.

My blogster pal asks this question: “What country is benefitting the most from the Trumpster’s policies?” He answers: “It’s not Russia, is it? No, it’s China who is stepping into all the leadership roles we are withdrawing from. Trump’s presidency is advancing China’s ascension to sole superpower status by at least 25 years.

“So was it really Russian hackers and Russian government actions that the CIA and FBI are tracking? Or are the Chinese government hackers good enough to have spoofed the CIA and FBI into believing that it was the Russkies?”

Wow. My other blog partner answers: “Ok, but wouldn’t the Russians know what the Chinese did? They’d be pissed, no?”

Pissed maybe, but also smart enough to realize that the phony Russian hacks were leading Robert Mueller and company down a blind alley and that Trump would stay in office, which is just what they want because Trump is systematically ruining America, which is Vladimir Putin’s dearest dream.

Also, the Chinese wouldn’t fess up because they, too, like having Trump in office because he, like my blogmate says, is handing them all the important international leadership roles he is again systematically destroying with his America First isolationist bullshit.

Both the Russians and the Chinese doubtless see Donald Trump as the greatest ally they could have in diminishing America as a first-rate world power and in turn elevating their global status.

Of course, they are probably worried that this malignant narcissist fool is going to blow up the world and everyone in it if he becomes too enraged at the endless taunting of Kim Jong Un, who, like every other tyrannical maniac out there, has Trump’s number.

But it seems that that is a chance they are willing to take.

So, according to my blogmate, Joe Chink is indeed coming. (Again, pardon the political incorrectness, but that was the way the American foot soldiers in Korea in 1962 talked: casual racism, much like today.)