Trump coveted a military spectacle but his parade proved underwhelming: ‘Just kind of lame’
Trump coveted a military spectacle but his parade proved underwhelming: ‘Just kind of lame’
Trump’s army parade was neither the totalitarian North Korean spectacle that critics had grimly predicted, nor the triumph of MAGA nationalism fans craved
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
Much more than 1/2 the nation.
which is also embarrassing, seeing as how he's still getting away with literally everything
"Democracy" says otherwise, regardless of any numbers or stats thrown around.
Planet
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.
From that Wikipedia article:
when pub owners in Bamber Bridge were told to segregate their facilities by the US military, they installed signs that read "Black Troops Only"
🤣
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.
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.
The amount of republicans is actually dwindling and don't forget they cheated. He said he was going to cheat, Musk said they cheated, and he's projecting about the democrats that they cheated. I believe them.
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.
Brawndo, it's got what the body craves.
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
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.
See, everything was room temperature at the protests because fuck ICE. When they do room temperature its just incompetence
"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.
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.
Seems like a no-show is called for then.
Fascists and their sympathisers deserve to be isolated.
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 😂 😂 😂
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.
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 : 👀
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.
I agree that they clearly didn't want to be at his stupid little parade. Yes, they half-assed it. It just blows my mind that Trump clearly expected pageantry when our military has never once put on such a show.
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.
All I can think of, is Monty Python's Close Order Nastiness. "We know where you've been, you military fairy! OOOOOH"
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. Fucking clownshow.
A Trump project? A failure? Noooo...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Entertainment_Resorts
I mean, it's not quite Google Graveyard level... but it's not good!
Don't forget Tr*mp Wine. I wouldn't drink his overpriced plonk if it were the last alcohol on the planet.
I was going to be REALLY mean and add:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Trump
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Trump
😃
You'll soon be adding the Trump phone to this list.
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.
Worthless traitor cunt.
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.
Indeed.
I'm a big fan of fact-based optimism, and I think you're right.
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.
yup. this is how we save money! By putting on a pointless fucking parade to stroke his fucking ego.
He could have said "This weird obsession with dick sizes", and it would still be on point.
i mean the hand gesture was clearly alluding to that. he basically said it without saying it.
Jokes are always funnier when you explain them!
Woosh.
The parade was also afflicted with bone spurs.
I always enjoy a feel-good story.
Captain Bonespurs says march more stiffly like the North Korean army.
Much like everything else he touches. he's like king Midas, but with shit.
King Mierdas.
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.