Trump’s army parade was neither the totalitarian North Korean spectacle that critics had grimly predicted, nor the triumph of MAGA nationalism fans craved
I always enjoy a feel-good story.
He could have said “This weird obsession with dick sizes”, and it would still be on point.
Jokes are always funnier when you explain them!
Woosh.
i mean the hand gesture was clearly alluding to that. he basically said it without saying it.
Man, I sure hope he went home and realized how much of a fucking loser he is. You know he won’t though. In his head it was fantasy land North Korea type spectacle. They’ll have some post about how it was bigly and bester than any other parade and how there just have been a million people in attendance with sold out tickets.
I see the lackluster parade as a victory for democracy. Democracies don’t have massive goose-stepping parades in glory of their dear leader. That’s a fascist dictator thing, and surely what Trump wanted, but what he got was the kind of parade that you get in a democracy where the military exists for defense rather than tue glorification of the generalissimo.
Well done, military peeps.
Here’s the thing, they weren’t all leftists. That was the beauty of the “No Kings” moniker, it encompassed all of the people pissed off. That includes a shit ton of republicans.
As she and the other leftists marched, a young man, bare chested and wearing a bucket hat, approached a demonstration marshal. He seemed confused. He wanted to know where the protest for the opposite point of view could be found.
That includes a shit ton of republicans.
In absolute numbers, maybe, but in proportional terms, I’d caution against thinking like that. The vast majority of Republicans remain in lockstep behind their Dear Leader.
imagine joining the military to serve the country and then being used as pencil dick compensation by a draft dodging con man. and then being the focus of ridicule by half the nation
Planet
Much more than 1/2 the nation.
“Democracy” says otherwise, regardless of any numbers or stats thrown around.
which is also embarrassing, seeing as how he’s still getting away with literally everything
Its better than being tricked into killing civilians in the middle east for the past 35 years at least.
She defended Trump’s decision to ban transgender troops from the military, and complained that Biden had subjected the military to political correctness and DEI initiatives. “The military is not a social experiment.”
The irony of saying this statement at a self-fellating and totally unnecessary military parade is too much
You know if they’d had some drag queens putting this show on it would’ve been fabulous as fuck.
Meanwhile, in 1948, Executive Order 9981.
I snorted my coffee reading this.
A secret service officer, trying to explain the general confusion, just sighed. “Nobody knows what’s going on.”
Worthless traitor cunt.
“Kind of lame”?
We didn’t have our service members proudly marching in lockstep. It was a bunch of old people that could barely keep formation, “marching” (and I use that term loosely) as if they just walked out of the bar and into their first day of basic training after being drafted.
Our “show of military strength” was a couple of old tanks creaking down the road, sounding like they were Ford Model Ts from the 1920s.
There was no music or marching band or anything for the parade to make its way through. There was no crowd to cheer them on; it was just dead silence. My daughter’s high school graduation had better attendance and a more enthusiastic crowd.
Not that this should be a surprise to anyone at this point, but we looked like a laughing stock on the world stage. If that parade showed off the best that the US military had to offer, our military will never be taken seriously again. Seriously. A bunch of old people and a couple of tanks that were older than they were. That’s what Trump gave. I’ve seen those carnivals that pop up from time to time in mall parking lots that had all the rigged games and unsafe rides, and they were still both cheaper than Trump’s parade and more entertaining.
I expected Trump’s parade to be a dud, but even he outdid himself with how bad that so-called parade was. Take out all the people that were forced to attend for whatever reason, and the people who attended could probably fit in a phone booth.
Ah … As someone with clearly different expectations (living in Russia) I’d say everything except being unable to march in lockstep and showing Coinbase ads was kinda fine, the big costume show in Russian parades doesn’t really cause any feeling of reverence and such.
US military doesn’t have to show anything big on parades, because it, ahem, has modern jets, nukes, air carriers in bigger numbers than some countries have infantry vehicles.
Probably a military ceremony should be organized better, but … it’s a theater anyway. A kind of that falling out of relevance, too.
That’s with as many people as they could pay $1000 and some fast food to attend.
The 1000$ ad was making fun of trump supporters, it wasn’t real
Got a link? I thought 1000 was sus when it’s usually like $250
Due to my interest in military hardware I watched the live stream by LazerPig, and the parade was absolutely garbage. Sure, they showed the Sherman, but no SPAA, or engineering vehicles. They showed the Abrams and the Bradley, but nothing between that and WW2. There was so much objectively cool stuff they could’ve shown off, but it seemed they put no effort in it beyond pleasing the chief cheeto.
The Russian parade was also a disappointment, but the ones with actual quality hardware managed to be even more disappointing.
Fascists make everything worse. Even the thing they claim to be good at.
You know that Trump just told the generals to have ‘a parade.’
Kim or Putin would know exactly which tanks and units he wanted, would have specified how many flyovers, and sweated all the details.
The half heartedness of the military in this parade suggests that they will be half hearted in their enforcement of the regime too. This would make it much easier to resist and overthrow the regime (or at least enforce rule by mass civil disobedience) as large sections of the military are likely to make only a token effort to suppress it.
Yes! I think that’s a very important hint. These guys know how to march in step. It’s drilled in to them from day one in the military. They didn’t do it, and their commanding officers aren’t making them do it.
I’ll probably be accused of being an optimist again, but I think June 14 is when we started winning. That comes from multiple angles.
As she and the other leftists marched, a young man, bare chested and wearing a bucket hat, approached a demonstration marshal. He seemed confused. He wanted to know where the protest for the opposite point of view could be found.
Whaaat? 😂
A secret service officer, trying to explain the general confusion, just sighed. “Nobody knows what’s going on.”
I’m dead 😂 😂 😂
Captain Bonespurs says march more stiffly like the North Korean army.
