Indeed, I meant attendees

There are different ways to resist.

One thing that scares me is that they might not see any irony in this.

"Great men are almost always bad men"
I think we can safely assume it applies to nations as well

I see what you're saying, but I think it would be a useful way to demonstrate how meaningless the pagentry and celebration of an awards ceremony becomes in this political climate, and that those energies could be directed elsewhere.

I remember a bunch of assholes telling us to calm down. I don't remember anyone trying to tell us we would be protected.

Peace is for losers who can't hack it!

It couldn't possibly have anything to do with his base's deep mistrust of the Jewish community. No way.

That is the danger of not taking someone's threats as a promise.

What if your boss banned friends and family he deemed party-poopers, even though you knew he had no grounds upon which to determine who was and was not a party-pooper? I would not attend my own birthday party.

What about all of the alternative-crises facing the nation?

The only thing that kept me from losing my breakfast was seeing the ACLU had already filed suit.

How about "making money" and "pursuing some kind of artistic ambition"?

I was going to engage you in some Philosophy 203 Tit-for-Tat, but I think this quote does it better.