3个月前

Trump Orders Four Mile Military Parade for His 79th Birthday

www.thedailybeast.com Trump Orders Four Mile Military Parade for His 79th Birthday

The president was previously forced to abandon plans for a procession in Washington, D.C., due to its colossal price tag.

geteilt von: https://lemmy.world/post/27899430

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27899425
Just some North Korea shit, nothing to see here. Move along.

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Wow. Just like every dictator out there with a huge inferiority complex, trying to boost their ego.
- Anyone who hasn't watched Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator really should. In the movie they mock how Mussolini was simping for Hitler and wanted to impress him by trying to one-up him at every occasion.
  This is totally what Trump is trying to do with Putin right now. Trump is a Putin simp desperate to get his attention.
  
  Just for the historical record, here's Mussolini's last public appearance:
  
  is there a textbook that people like trump read and act accordingly. because its almost as if there is a guide book on being a self absorbed fascist tyrant baby
- We should all show up.tp fucking protest and ruin his birthday fucking sociopath mother fucker.
- ‘Look at the size of my ~~penis~~ parade!’
  
  Basically

DOGE: “Sounds good to me”
- “Make sure to march in lockstep, boys. And can you kick the feet up a bit higher”
  
  And point at the leader! No, with your whole hand!
  
  Don't forget the song.
  https://youtu.be/saYLOkAnINc
  
  and i want to see lots of mincing!

If this isn't waste, fraud, and abuse, I don't know what is.
- Military shit is never considered as such in this country.
- I'm just imagining how much logistic support they're going to need and how many people they'll have to move for this

My mom voted for and still defends this piece of shit. I blocked her number.
- I'm fortunate my whole family hates this guy... Other than one red state cousin somewhere in Tennessee
- I hope you reconnect one day.
  
  Fascists have no friends or family
  
  Fuck off, wanker
  
  .ee user. What a surprise

The draft dodger Private Bonespurs
Fuck this guy. I'd risk my career in protest of I were in the military. No way I'm going to dance like a trained monkey for some PoS like drumpf...
- I'd risk my career in protest of I were in the military.
  Methinks this may be part of the reason we're not in the military

How long before he is wearing medals he's given himself?
- No medals yet but will check back.
- #1: "2025 Stock Market Campaign"
- Oh fuck me book marking this comment for later.

Let's make a four mile parade of people holding "fuck you, fascist" signs, instead.
- why show up?
  
  Horrible as this whole thing is, this could be an amazing time for a protest. You know he'll be paying attention here.
- Or what happened at Anwar Sadat's military parade....
- That’s an interesting strategy question. Would it be more effective to not show up, knowing there will be swarms of magats anyway, or to create a huge protest? At what point does lack of an audience trump a protesting audience, and what will they claim for attendance?

No money for scientific research but plenty for parades
- Sometimes you have to cut school lunches to tackle the important problems

American taxpayers funding a parade for a felon rapist traitor who's destroying our economy and nuking the middle class.
What a wonderful country we have.
Home of the brave my fucking ass.

Just another day in the DPRK...I mean US
- When there is video footage of the parade, someone needs to make a video clip that is compiled from several clips from the US, North Korean and Russian military parades and put "Entry of The Gladiators" as the background music.
- See something American happening in America: "What are we, a bunch of Asians?"

Where was he when the dead soldiers were returning last week?
- Pooping his nappy on the fairway
- I know it was a rhetorical question and you probably knew the answer, but he was playing golf
  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-skips-dover-soldiers-golf_n_67effa46e4b0bb67eb7acc1a

Merde et Gras?
- J'ai ri.

Opportunity is knocking again
- Just like 3 inches to the right this time. Center of the target.
  
  Let's hope the next guy has a Remington 700 or better

Definitely not a dictator

4 miles? Just have a 1/2 mile parade that goes in a circle. He'll think it is a 10 mile parade.
- Clear out the parking lot around The Ellipse and have them drive around that. Make sure he is facing away from the center so he cant see them circle around, and just keep going until he is tuckered out and gets tucked into bed.

The USA is extremely lucky that Trump is 79 years old. Imagine if he were 40. By the time he turned 79, they would be living in a totalitarian dictatorship. The luck is that they will suffer for another 6-7 years. Yes, Trump will have a third term, in three years there will be no free media or independent judiciary. The public administration will be turned into mindless voters. All critics will suffer the fate of the oppositionists in Russia and will become "allergic to windows". Forget about democracy. Land of the bigots and the home of the bully.
- He can (and has) done plenty of permanent damage. I don’t think age is doing us as many favors as you think. He can put us in the exact same position in 4 years a younger dictator would.
  The only difference is whether or not the US can recover some actual semblance of the democracy it once was. The world is already turning away from us and I sincerely doubt we’ll be welcomed back should trump no longer be president. They forgave us his first term, but the second term with him openly threatening other countries is a line that cannot be uncrossed. With us being held at arm’s length it will be all but impossible to recover our position in the world as well as mend our democracy.
  
  The reputation that America lost is gone for good. It will take a colossal effort and time, and these people who caused the problems are not going anywhere. They will continue to cause problems and oppose any solution no matter what.
  
  And In the end it's not really on him alone, there are far too many of us who WANT to be isolated and aggressive because they've been brainwashed into thinking were untouchable, despite the fact that "America's become weak thanks to all the gays and feelings" and "kids these days never worked a real job". The double think is insanity
  
  My hope is, if we can win and put the maga cult out of its misery, we can change this country significantly so nothing like this happens again. Then, and only then, can we begin to rebuild some trust.
- Trump has been called a super ager by some people. That means despite a highly unhealthy lifestyle he has managed to remain active and functional despite all else.
  Don't think he could just drop dead tomorrow. While I am sure millions of people would like it if he died suddenly of a heart attack or stroke, that probably isn't going to happen. Kissenger lived to be 100 despite not being much of a healthy looking guy for decades, and his slurring speech patterns were widely mocked as early as the 90s. I am not sure if anyone who wrote his Freakazoid appearance in the 90s ever thought he would live as long as he did.
  What I am ultimately saying is that he might make it to 90 and still keep going.
  
  Please, this isn't the kind of information I wanted today. I eat one mcdouble and feel cardiac arrest behind me and this guy can eat them on the daily

Non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/c427l

Small pene energy.
Full stop.
- You are just insulting other people's bodies using this type of response instead of attacking all the things Trump is actually doing wrong.
  
  You're right. I should only make jokes that satisfy your personal sensibilities.

someone on lemmy mentioned that Trump's economic policies are north korea's juche and it is all shaping up that was

It would be cool if no one went. Just him, Musk, and some right wing drifters on empty streets.
- It be cool if the protests were so big they had to cancel the parade route
  
  that gives him opportunity to use the tanks. :\
  
  Eggs would be really handy right there.

FUCK THIS IDIOT.
Disgraceful.

They're going to try to scramble it together last minute so newspapers can't blast out the several hundred million dollar price tag before it goes down.
- There is a standing army. Where do the costs come from? Like flyovers, it will be an exercise.
  
  Last time they refused to release the cost breakdown, but quoted 93 million (but that one sounded smaller).
  So other than expenses faced by any parade, I don't know details. Transporting the vehicles, road prep and repair (city cost seemed like a big part of it), they might all get paid for anything not routine.
  Either way, captain bonespurs can run a parade up his own ass

all dictators like to parade, nothing new. wake up us. time to impeach that orange shit!
- LOL you definitely were going to get him in jail 4 years ago.
  It was ridiculous back then and now even more.
  If only they would've called to impeach Hitler, history would've been different.
  What a bunch of weak pussies americans are.

Where’s that meme of Obama being given a medal by none other than… Obama?

hope he rides in that ol 1961 Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible "X-100"
ik the cia prolly still has one in storage.
edit:1*961
- He should show the world he is brave to travel in an open top car so his adoring fans can see him.

Vive « Papa Trump », héros national et président à vie !
- If only Trump's core supporting demographic were educated enough to both get the reference and the joke...

Absolute clown show

I remember him wanting a big military parade during his first term too. Somehow he didn't get it.
- Wasn't it because the streets in DC aren't capable of carrying heavy military equipment?

The article says "A source in the capital told the Washington City Paper that Trump has earmarked June 14—which is the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army—for the event."
He can stand on a podium and wave like the Soviet leaders of old.
- I yearn for that one M1 Abrams in a column of them to focus its turret on the tribune as it passes.