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 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.
He could have said “This weird obsession with dick sizes”, and it would still be on point.
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.
The parade was also afflicted with bone spurs.
I had the misfortune of hearing the opinions of some conservative family on the matter on Father’s Day.
It was the best thing since sliced bread, apparently, and Trump “deserved” it because “it’s his birthday”, while “no one” showed up for the No Kings protests.
Don’t ever be fooled into thinking that a lackluster performance will disappoint his fans.
That’s what the media is telling them. Fox in particular, but the networks have been downplaying No Kings.
That and facebook and talk radio, I really wish there was a practical way to shut the bastards down without causing undue collateral. Sadly wiping out the talking heads wouldn’t amount to jack shit.
June 4 from now on will be known as “NO KINGS” day .
The delusional right might ignore the massive protests but the tide is turning, they will disavowal their allegiances to the orange Krasnov.
A tent managed by a beverage company handed out room-temperature bottles of an energy drink, Phorm. The flavor, called Screamin’ Freedom, tasted like hard candies dissolved in water, and an advisory on the cans warned that they were not to be consumed by minors or pregnant women.
If we saw this in a movie, we would laugh at how overly top unreal it was.
PHORM. It’s what facism craves!
*phacism
Phaxism
See, everything was room temperature at the protests because fuck ICE. When they do room temperature its just incompetence
Brawndo
The thirst mutilator
It’s got electrolytes!
The flavor, called Screamin’ Freedom, tasted like hard candies dissolved in water
This is ridiculous. Room-temperature energy drinks are supposed to taste like cough syrup.
Pretty sure that warning is on a most heavily caffeinated energy drinks
Brawndo, it’s got what the body craves.
Someone saw office uprising and thought yes I have that energy.
Did you do the campaign that sold 30,000 automatic shotguns to Blackwater? No, we did. How about the nukey the talking warhead campaign? Nope, we did that too. How about that Iraq port game now for children? Oh nope, that was us too. How about my personal favorite: The Agent Orange Soda Campaign? DING, DING, THAT WAS US TOO! ADVER-F–KING-TISING! See, we make reality out of…nothing.
I’m so confused. Are they actually bragging about those things?
In the movie? oh yeah. Dude was super evil. Becoming a half brain zombie resulted in little change.
yup. this is how we save money! By putting on a pointless fucking parade to stroke his fucking ego.
Much like everything else he touches. he’s like king Midas, but with shit.
King Mierdas.
The American military doesn’t train to put on parade theatre for a despot. No high stepping, no elaborate formations or movements. None of that pointless bullshit. If you see a military parade from NK or China achieving dazzling perfect performances, while impressive, that’s all it is; a visual performance. All they do is practice for those events. Those are not uniforms. They’re costumes. Those are not soldiers. They’re a dance troupe. These are completely different skillsets. Soldiers don’t need to know how to dance perfectly in formation. They storm the objective, execute the mission, and get the fuck out. You might as well send a marching band into combat, because that’s all they would become.
It’s funny how they want to force the US military into performing flamboyant pageantry, while also kicking out the gays.
Frederick the Great’s legacy shines irony on many a homopgobic leader
To explain and expand a bit on this: Frederick the Great was likely gay or at least somewhat queer, but also a military innovator who laid the basis for Prussia’s iron discipline. Back then units were most effective when in perfect formation, but moving around the battlefield disrupted formation, hence the invention of the goose step to rapidly move units around on the battlefield without losing formation. Invented by a gay king.
So today we’ve got homophobic dictators emulating that for pure theatre and looks, over a century after it has lost any military purpose.
Thats all nice what you said but its far more likely the members of the army just didnt care as much rather than they are incapable of marching in unison.
I know this from experience. Perfect formation marching must be drilled constantly. The US military does not waste its time with it because it is useless beyond Basic Training.
All I can think of, is Monty Python’s Close Order Nastiness. “We know where you’ve been, you military fairy! OOOOOH”
The American military doesn’t train to put on parade theatre for a despot. No high stepping, no elaborate formations or movements. None of that pointless bullshi
Marines doing the silent drill in dress uniform : 👀
That’s like 20 dudes though who’s entire job is drill and ceremonies, though.
The guys marching in this parade looked like they were forced on a group walk, and none of them looked like they wanted to be there.
Marching in step is basic training stuff. They know how to do it if they want to. The fact that they didn’t is very important.
Totally agreed. It’s very much a statement being sent. It wasn’t even half assed. You could get a group of normal people together and in an hour get them to at least be in lock step. These guys were just walking together loosely in formation.
What Trump wanted far exceeds marching in step. But even just that requires regular practice, which the US military simply does not bother with. Exceptions being a few ceremonial guards.
Sure, but the important point is that they know how to do better than they did. They’re refusing on purpose.
I know that’s what I’d have done.
Oh, I agree with all of you guys. I think they half-assed it on purpose. I have some friends that are in some premier units in the military, and all of them have pretty much come out and said their commanders have told them they will not deploy in this country.
Like ‘here’s how you sabotage your gear then go home with your loved ones’ kind of talks.
The military is not on his side.
He said what he fucking said
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.
I’m a big fan of fact-based optimism, and I think you’re right.
Indeed.
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
Its better than being tricked into killing civilians in the middle east for the past 35 years at least.
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
Planet
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 😂 😂 😂
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.”
Not even Trump.
“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
