Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians, The Associated Press has learned.
Fuck this guy and his cronies. Fuck them right in the egg McMuffin
Hey DOGE, I found some wasteful spending.
That’d make an ok protest sign.
Thank you Dear Leader for having the strength, courage, intelligence, and selflessness required to bring the change needed to follow in the footsteps of great and powerful nations such as The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Thank you Dear Leader for all that you do and have done, including not yet sending me and my family to die in a labor camp. Glory to The Supreme Leader and to the party.
Trying as hard as he can to enforce a cult of personality.
Instead of poisoned kool-aid, suffocation by spray tan.
Sounds like a great day for mass protests
he so jealous of Putin’s birthday parades he wants to emulate.
I think he was inspired by the French défilé when he was invited during his first term. The Pentagon said no then because tanks would rip up the streets in DC. Looks like this time he successfully captured the Pentagon and other agencies to get what he wants.
We’ll see about that.
At the risk of asking a dumb question, isn’t parading military units down public streets the sort of thing communist dictatorships do?
I know I’ve seen video of this sort of thing from places like North Korea and Soviet Russia, can’t say I’ve really seen it from the states.
and fascist dictators too. so it is more of a dictator fetish
And now a fetish of dickless-tators too.
Many countries have military parades. Not just dictatorships. France has a military parade on Bastille Day. It’s a tradition started in 1880. The Netherlands has one during Veterans Day, Mexico on Independence Day and Italy during Republic Day to name a few.
And the US on Trump’s birthday. Find the odd one of the group…
It’s also on the day that the US Army has existed for 250 years and supposedly has been in planning for two years per APNews. Not to say Trump won’t make it about himself but it’s not just his birthday.
The latter being the only reason the military is going along with this.
The first time, orange mussolini was in power he wanted a parade, so they had to create a bylaw in DC saying there would be no tanks in the streets because the pavement couldn’t take it. That is how they stopped this stupid show of self agrandization the first time.
Maybe, if this goes ahead, they can find a way to parade all the aircraft carriers and nuclear subs that terrorize the world every day.
Yeah, basically. It’s treating the countries service members and equipment as personally owned property to play with.
Yes, although it has nothing to do with communism and everything to do with dictatorship, ultra nationalism and the strongman image.
Most communism has nothing to do with communism.
Well said and very true.
Hitler and Mussolini had it and im sure the romans and greeks did it too. It just feels like an attempt at normalizing war in the mind of the people.
It’s a dictator thing regardless of alleged political ideology.
Everything that they said would come true under communism has come true under capitalism
That isn’t a dumb question. It’s a correct observation.
No waste, fraud, or abuse here. No siree.
Seems like a good day to.protest
Only if you want a bunch of military goons saying that the protest is against the Army.
Cult!!!
So I guess Trump’s “I’m not planning for a military parade” statement was another lie. What a surprise.
It’s a surprise birthday parade, he doesn’t know about it.
In the military, doing something to surprise a commanding officer is among the highest displays of respect. Especially if you can make it costs tens of millions of dollars
Omg military is so cute! Donnie should totally ask military out, they’d be such a hot couple! 😍
Hot enough to instill marshal law and have a full-blown coup?
Twilight might actually be a better love story in this case
I had a faint hope our military wasn’t garbage enough to gargle Trumps balls but this is pretty telling. I guess I still cling to some kind of childish naivety.
It would be a perfect way to stage a military coup though… You’ve got a reason to have thousands of troops on hand, military vehicles and armaments of various kinds.
I’m not saying the military has any assertions on staging such an act, and it definitely would not be as desirable as the judiciary or the legislative branch holding him accountable. But… It does seem like a pretty good opportunity to exploit Trump’s egomaniacal desire for puffery.
Publicly televised military massacre. Trump is doing Saddam shit, and I wouldn’t put it past him to simply try to order the military to either start a shooting war with a near peer during said parade, or order them to gun down Congress/the SC.
There are some messed up people in the military who are willing to do questionable things, but they still have friends and family outside of the military who would certainly look down on that. I think most people would balk at orders to gun down the other branches of government, especially since the court and Congress are majority conservative and ostensibly on Trump’s side and the military leans conservative. If there is a public massacre, it’ll probably be someone he sees as an easy target for his show of force, immigrants that he was blocked from deporting perhaps
I don’t really thing we have a functional government anymore so the justice system doesn’t really exist except for poor people. Poor people like myself just get to eat all the turds shat out by the current justice system that’s controlled by people with money. Trump’s ability to escape treason charges taught me that. There’s never been a bigger traitor in the history of this basic bitch country. The biggest sign of this country’s sickness is that a greasy, sleazy, orangish, spraly tan hair slicked back used car dealer was elected for a 2nd time.
Every person in every role in every system makes their own decisions. We’re all just people. It happens that, in the military, there’s a very firm habit backed up with some enforcement, of always deciding to do just whatever the person “above” you tells you to do, but that habit gets broken sometimes. During times of political or systemic upheaval, it gets broken a lot more than it would seem like.
The military people will certainly show up and gargle, no question. But they’ll also think it’s an incredibly stupid activity to be part of, and they’ll remember that he was the one that ordered them do it, and they definitely won’t remember him fondly for it as events get more and more chaotic and exciting in the months and years to come. Personally I’m in favor of him doing as much of this stuff as possible.
I agree with everything you said but the people who think all this shit is stupid have…HAVE to do something if things swing the way it usually does under a regime trying to become authoritarian. It’s the grunts that will be important. They can’t just follow orders and just be alright with it. If most are just fine with being very stupid authoritarian tools, all is lost.
It’s not what this country was meant to be but we keep bending over for the turds that ruin or end peoples lives.
This is still the dumb bullshit stage of things, parades are the sort of time-waste you expect to have to do once in a while. If it turns out to be a pretext and he tells them to keep marching across the Canadian border for US-similation, that’s a different story. Long walk though so plenty of time to mull it over.
He fired the leaders who had a backbone and replaced them with sycophants, who have no respect for the constitution and democracy.
I figured. Never saw the exact news but I find it troubling that it’s that easy to change military leadership. Hopefully a portion of the troops understand the importance of fragging in a situation like this.
Most everything he has done would have easily been challenged, prevented, and or caused an impeachment if Congress was majority held by Democrats. It isn’t a difficult argument to say he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, or treason, against the US by abdicating his responsibilities to uphold the US constitution… in many areas; due process, equal rights, free speech, separation of church and state, the good faith funding and management of congressional established agencies within the executive… just to name a few.
Edit: also, destroying the US from within while cozying up to enemy nation states, that’s super treasonous… then there’s blackmailing Ukraine, again, and waging trade wars with allies.
Yup. Everything you said works for my brain. Hopefully my generation and the young people actually vote for people who want to change policy and don’t get stuck in identity politics for the 10th straight year. Careful pragmatism will work for everybody with half a brain.
Where did all of those people go after being fired? Surely they can’t be ok sitting idly by and watching this all unfold…
Coincidentally, Trump’s birthday this year and the 250th anniversary of the US Army fall on the same date. If the parade is for the military and not for Trump it’s not really that unreasonable.
Trumps Triumph Parade
He’ll be wearing orange-face to represent himself as the god Trump.
