1 of 1- Goose
- Cogito ergo sum
Offline 
- Registered: 1/29/2015
- Posts: 13,427
State of the Union.
The budget deficit is hovering around $1 trillion.
North Korea is not denuclearizing.
We are in a trade war with China.
Russia is meddling in our elections.
Climate change is getting worse faster than we thought.
An opioid epidemic is ravaging the heartland, killing tens of thousands of Americans each year.
AND, there have been several mass shootings in his state. So, what is US Senator Marco Rubio tweeting about?
A movie. A movie.
Clearly Marco isn't very interested in being a Senator, and just as clearly, he isn't very good at it.
We need serious people in our government to solve serious problems.
Marco Rubio Slams U.S. Flag Omission In ‘First Man,’ And Twitter Users Pounce
The Florida Republican tweeted that not showing Neil Armstrong (played by Ryan Gosling) planting the American flag on the moon is “total lunacy.”
Ryan Gosling’s new Neil Armstrong biopic, “First Man,” seems to have sent Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to the dark side of the moon.
The movie premiered on Thursday at the Venice Film Festival, and viewers noticed that one moment from the 1969 moon landing was not re-enacted in the film: when NASA astronauts Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin plant the American flag on the moon.
The Canadian-born Gosling said he decided not to include the flag-planting because Armstrong’s accomplishment “transcended countries and borders,” the Telegraph reported.
He added: “I’m Canadian, so might have cognitive bias.”
Since the moon landing was a U.S. mission, Rubio wasn’t happy to have it attributed to earthlings in general.
He made his displeasure known on Twitter Friday morning.
Marco Rubio
✔
@marcorubio
This is total lunacy. And a disservice at a time when our people need reminders of what we can achieve when we work together. The American people paid for that mission,on rockets built by Americans,with American technology & carrying American astronauts. It wasn’t a UN mission.
Business Insider
✔
@businessinsider
Neil Armstrong movie 'First Man' omits the American flag being planted on the moon, and star Ryan Gosling defended the decision: 'I don't think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero'
8:21 AM - Aug 31, 2018
32.4K
24.8K people are talking about this
Last edited by Goose (9/02/2018 9:24 am)
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
- tennyson
- Exchanger
Offline
- Registered: 2/06/2015
- Posts: 6,654
Re: State of the Union.
The start of the solution is in November !
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"