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Related: About this forumTrump's military parade dealt humiliating blow - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen
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donald Trump's birthday is almost here i
hope your present isn't a $45 million
parade he already bought himself one of
those this is just another day
if you happen to be in the DC area this
weekend and are looking to take a
leisurely stroll around the National
Mall I'd suggest you make other plans
this weekend an event that doesn't
happen often in our country it's a
military parade through the streets of
our nation's capital complete with tanks
and helicopters thousands of soldiers to
be praised the parade officially marks
the 250th anniversary of the army
however our Joe St george explains the
event has taken a pretty controversial
and political turn however weirdly this
event has taken a pretty controversial
turn because it turns out those
Democrats want to protest this lovely
event where the president spends $45
million on a jerkoff parade to celebrate
himself for those who haven't graduated
from the Kim Jong-un School of State TV
this parade is controversial because
while Trump claims it's a celebration of
our military in reality it is a blatant
vanity project for his 79th birthday and
just the next obvious indicator that our
president sees himself as a dictator
here they are rehearsing i mean when it
becomes a challenge to distinguish our
military parades from these
I think you've lost the plot and Trump
for his part is doing his level best to
ensure that there is no daylight between
his parade and that of every other
totalitarian ruler the parade itself is
expected to include get this 6600
soldiers as well as 150 uh vehicles and
aircraft they will all be here along the
parade route we have highlighted in
yellow for you president Trump wanted a
parade during his first term after he
visited France and saw the celebrations
on Bastile Day
donald Trump is every single kid who
studied abroad in Paris coming back home
and wanting to replicate the
life-changing experience he had overseas
is something that all of us do including
me i tried to make the male Capri happen
i thought to myself you know what i
could rock a speedo at the beach in New
Jersey i complained about how much
better the non-GMO fruits and vegetables
tasted but you know what I did i came
back to reality but this man is still
stuck in his study abroad phase the only
difference is that now the American
taxpayer is on the hook for it the cost
to taxpayers the army alone spending up
to $45 million yes the costcutting Doge
president looking to remove waste fraud
and abuse thinks a $45 million traffic
cluster is a great way to spend our
nation's money and he's doing it by the
way all while ushering a bill through
the Senate that would explode the
deficit strip health care for millions
of people and kick working-class
Americans off of food stamps and by the
way the uh the forecast says it's going
to be a wet day during the parade but
I'm not sure it'll be rain it might just
be Donald Trump pissing all over
low-income Americans this parade is
beyond obscene and tonedeaf but I do
want to clarify that my negativity
toward this parade is not aimed at
members of the military they didn't ask
to be there they serve at the pleasure
of the commander-in-chief and whether
it's being deployed overseas or marching
down Pennsylvania Avenue unlike Donald
Trump they know how to obey lawful
orders but given the fact that they are
going to be pawns in his political chess
games it's at least heartening to know
that they're being well taken care of
they're staying in two government
buildings near Capitol Hill from about
June 11th to June 15th officials say
they're sleeping on CS eating packaged
meals called MREs and getting a pdeium
of $69 a day this has Elon Musk written
all over it someone was like "Hey we
should pay the troops a living wage."
And Elon was like "You know it would be
way funnier if we paid them $69."
And if you think I'm kidding might I
present to you just a small sampling of
Elon's Twitter feed anyone want to
create a hard-hitting show on X called
69 Minutes i will actually fund it i was
born 69 days after 420 69.420% 42% of
statistics are false but 69 isn't all
that surprising considering these two
guys have been consistently blowing each
other for years also seriously $69 a day
donald Trump so deplores making life
easy on anyone that he couldn't even
hand out a stipend number this parade
would be an uncomfortable display of
autocratic leadership regardless of who
is in office but the fact that this man
is in charge makes it all the more
disturbing millions of Americans are
taking to the streets this weekend to
protest illegal ICE raids the arrests of
multiple Democratic officials and the
frightening consolidation of power that
Donald Trump so craves so apologies if
we don't share the same enthusiasm as
this guy i want to show you this because
I mean how often do you get a chance to
be this close to an Apache helicopter
right how often uh kind of anytime you
want because in Washington DC there's a
whole room filled with them at the Air
and Space Museum and maybe my math is
off but since entry is free there that
puts us at just slightly less than $45
million but for people who find this
parade just slightly uncomfortable there
seems to be a consistent question from
the right why do you hate America it's
inspiring it's not intimidating at least
it's not if you love America you enjoy
watching this country flex its muscles
and display its strength uh no it's
possible to love something and still not
be cool with it flaunting its strength
and beating its chest whether it's
America or this guy something about it
just feels deeply uncomfortable look
while there may be a literal march going
on this weekend it's not a march towards
autocracy because guess what we've
already arrived and everyone's cleareyed
about it we are in the midst of a
constitutional crisis in this country
because we have an executive branch that
is extra constitutional and lawless in
so many of its actions he fully intends
to trash the Constitution of the United
States this is about power the blatant
pervasive and unapologetic power grab
and the abuse of the office of the
president you see even staunch
conservatives are voicing their
discomfort with what they and the rest
of us see as moves by a sitting
president that are far outside the
bounds sorry oh those were those were
actually about a different president's
dictatorial rule well I must know what
was the grave offense that prompted such
weighty accusations this week he signs
into law a raise in the minimum wage
albeit in the future for federal
contract employees only now to some of
you this could be a good thing but
that's not the point right not the point
i mean it can't be because if you went
guns ablazing over a raise in the
minimum wage for federal employees that
would make you look super dumb but if
that was the response to Obama
facilitating arrays for some Americans
then you got to imagine that if he was
defying Supreme Court rulings silencing
media outlets threatening Americans
right to peacefully assemble and saying
he wanted to terminate parts of the
Constitution then this type of rhetoric
would seem appropriate it's intimidation
that rises to the level of a
dictatorship this is a democracy this is
the United States of America our
founders broke from a king from a
monarchy so that we could be a
government of by and for the people but
Obama wasn't doing any of those things
this guy is and his actions feel just
slightly worse than raising the minimum
wage and so surely if Judge Janine was
that bent out of shape over the prospect
of some Americans getting paid enough to
survive then just imagine the war path
she must be on now if only we could find
her
she must be close uh
oh here she is and this city will again
become a shining city on the hill in an
America that President Trump has
promised to make great again and will
make safe again phew thank God she's
here to protect us from the real
authoritarianism that is paying people
enough money to survive well surely
Glenn Beck can see clearly i mean he
literally suggested that Obama would be
America's first dictator so I can only
imagine what he thinks about the guy who
called for terminating the Constitution
i I can't believe what they're saying
about Donald Trump that everybody is
saying that this is you know about his
birthday it is the 200 What part of the
250th anniversary of America do people
not get what part uh there's not really
a single one more like 45 million of
them can you even imagine what the
reaction would have been if Barack Obama
took out America's checkbook to pay for
a military parade on his birthday there
wouldn't be a capital building left for
these to storm sorry uh
peacefully assemble in front of everyone
on the right like Glenn Beck Fox News
and Janine Piro can try and downplay the
severity of what we're witnessing from
Donald Trump and his administration but
it's as clear as day sorry to say Janine
but there isn't enough wine on the
planet to make people forget what we're
watching.
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Trump's military parade dealt humiliating blow - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jun 14
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MagaSmash
(9,922 posts)1. With Luck; Thunderstorms will Cancel this Pathetic Self Indulgent DECADENCE.