{"id":4689,"date":"2018-11-16T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=4689"},"modified":"2018-11-16T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:18:11","slug":"what-aint-no-damn-country-i-ever-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/what-aint-no-damn-country-i-ever-heard-of\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What&#8221; Ain&#8217;t No Damn Country I Ever Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, while speaking to our President, Donald J. Trump (of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Make_America_Great_Again\">Make America Great Again<\/a> fame), said the following (translated):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism: nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.<\/strong> [...]\u00a0By pursuing our own interests first, with no regard to others\u2019, we erase the very thing that a nation holds most precious, that which gives it life and makes it great: its moral values.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The dictionary gives us a definition of nationalism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>na\u00b7tion\u00b7al\u00b7ism<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\/\u02c8naSH(\u0259)n\u0259\u02ccliz\u0259m<\/em><br \/>\n<em>noun<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts.<\/strong><br \/>\nsynonyms: <strong>patriotism, patriotic sentiment<\/strong>, flag-waving, xenophobia, chauvinism, jingoism<br \/>\n\"their extreme nationalism was frightening\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, that explains a lot. Either Macron is lying about nationalism, because France is a nation that historically has no interests outside of France's direct interests, or Macron is the most incompetent President that France has ever had.<\/p>\n<p>If the latter is true, then one must ask of President Macron:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HbvYeLxMKN8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, while speaking to our President, Donald J. Trump (of Make America Great Again fame), said the following (translated): Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism: nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. [...]\u00a0By pursuing our own interests first, with no regard to others\u2019, we erase the very thing that a <a href=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/what-aint-no-damn-country-i-ever-heard-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"&#8220;What&#8221; Ain&#8217;t No Damn Country I Ever Heard Of\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4693,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions\/4693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}