tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923236661120048535.post577547938446346624..comments2024-03-10T16:47:12.963+00:00Comments on Michael Ampersant: Donald Trump, seriouslyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923236661120048535.post-6854931387639430472017-02-03T06:30:29.524+00:002017-02-03T06:30:29.524+00:00Perry: Yes, fully agree.Perry: Yes, fully agree.Michael Ampersanthttp://morefreedomfries.blogspot.fr/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923236661120048535.post-81908593751727881562017-02-02T16:41:34.729+00:002017-02-02T16:41:34.729+00:00As long as he prevents even one Charlie Hebdo mass...As long as he prevents even one Charlie Hebdo massacre, he can be every contemptible character in literature, film, and real life as far as I'm concerned. As long as he does the job I hoped for when I voted for him.MJJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13262292607514100629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923236661120048535.post-12733061016681265732017-02-02T16:25:10.938+00:002017-02-02T16:25:10.938+00:00Wonderful commentary, Michael. Yes, the Trump trum...Wonderful commentary, Michael. Yes, the Trump trumped-up victory can be attributed, in some ways, to the Information Overkill Age we are in,and the need, a constant in America——er, the USA——to affirm regular, good ol' boy anti-intellectualism. But I see other situations in play here. One is our constant American need to recognize, buttress, and even create "self esteem," so that all efforts, all accomplishments are recognized on the same level. Thus the Donald's yuge accomplishments as builder, developer, and creator of vast useless spaces, like running 3 failed casinos in Atlantic City, is on the same level as a Nobel prize winner in physics or medicine. Trump firmly believes in his own "genius," and so do his followers, because, as Joe Conrad said in "Lord Jim," "He is one of us." <br />He is not a regular member of the "elite," despite all his money and the fact that if one of his hillbilly followers ever tried to sneak into the upper levels of Trump Tower he'd be shot on sight, but because he "tells it like it is." He is not going to let us down, and he hates all the same people we find it convenient to hate.<br /> <br />As we say back in the shit-kickin' part of the USA I'm from: "Nuff said." Perry Brasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14750213993334812556noreply@blogger.com