It’s the essence of nationalism, isn’t it: believing the product of the group is more deserving than the product of another group because it’s from the group. It’s like a sugar rush, it makes everyone feel great until the final measurements come out, and you discover your clinging to that inferior product has left you in second place … or worse.<\/p>\n
Dead.<\/p>\n
There, melodramatic enough for you? Well, here’s the master of second-best, as incoherent as ever, at it again:<\/p>\n
\n“By the way, how bad were the Academy Awards this year? Did you see it?” Trump said at a rally in Colorado Springs, to boos from the crowd. “And the winner is a movie from South Korea \u2014 what the hell was that all about?” …<\/p>\n
Trump said at the campaign rally: “We got enough problems with South Korea, with trade. On top of it they give them the best movie of the year? Was it good? I don’t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
“You know, I’m looking for like \u2014 let’s get ‘Gone With the Wind,'” Trump said, referring to the 1939 Civil War epic that\u00a0won eight Oscars<\/a>. “Can we get like ‘Gone With the Wind’ back, please? ‘Sunset Boulevard.’ So many great movies.”<\/p>\n
“Sunset Boulevard,” released in 1950,\u00a0was nominated but did not win<\/a> the best picture Oscar, but managed to nab three others. [NBC News<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
A non-American company makes a top-flight movie<\/a>, wins awards, and Trump can’t stand it? Tough shit, sonny boy. Advocating we be second-raters and that’s good enough? I’m tired of xenophobia and all that inferiority-complex victimhood attitude brings out.<\/p>\n
You don’t like that choice, Trumpy-boy? Go and make a movie that’s worth an Academy Award! (I can see the self-promotion now.) But don’t sit there and make gibble gabble about a movie you didn’t even see just to tear up a crowd.<\/p>\n
I’d say it’s shameful, but you wouldn’t even understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s the essence of nationalism, isn’t it: believing the product of the group is more deserving than the product of another group because it’s from the group. It’s like a sugar rush, it makes everyone feel great until the final measurements come out, and you discover your clinging to that \u2026 Continue reading