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allegorical oracle

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19. I don't get something: Is the orange guy gonna prop himself at some elevated point along

Reply to gab13by13 (Original post)

Sat Jun 7, 2025, 12:15 PM

11 hrs ago

the parade route -- like a Mussolini or Hitler -- and salute throughout? Or will he ride on some military apparatus or "float" -- as a central Commander in Chief figure? He's doing all this to star on TV.

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Are Our Veterans Going To be Cheering At Dear Leader's Parade [View all] gab13by13 15 hrs ago OP

Many veterans will indeed be cheering BeerBarrelPolka 14 hrs ago #1

Racist-nationalists sop 14 hrs ago #2

I BeerBarrelPolka 14 hrs ago #5

Said this before the November election displacedvermoter 14 hrs ago #4

Make no mistake BeerBarrelPolka 14 hrs ago #6

Huge numbers of women vote displacedvermoter 14 hrs ago #8

True BeerBarrelPolka 14 hrs ago #10

As a white woman it was dispiriting to see more white women than not voting Against Kamala. electric_blue68 11 hrs ago #22

No support for him from this veteran. MineralMan 11 hrs ago #20

They were playing video games with our lives. travelingthrulife 14 hrs ago #3

Not this veteran. That money would be better spent on healthcare for Emile 14 hrs ago #7

This vet never voted for trump, never will... Wounded Bear 14 hrs ago #9

with a gun pointed at their backs.. probably.. Peacetrain 13 hrs ago #11

Oh you haven't heard? It's not Trump's parade it's a parade honoring the Army. BannonsLiver 13 hrs ago #12

It just happens to be on his birthday. gab13by13 13 hrs ago #15

IMO. Not a parade, a funereal for democracy. The U.S. Army is surrendering to a fascist dictator on home soil without Hotler 11 hrs ago #23

We veterans are not a monolithic group. comradebillyboy 13 hrs ago #13

Not all, but far too many. My fellow vets can be the biggest bigots, probably because they Wonder Why 13 hrs ago #14

Not saying we all are displacedvermoter 13 hrs ago #17

Vets love the VA, gab13by13 13 hrs ago #16

Not this one. I imagine that that many of the poor troops are going to be too drunk or hungover to cheer. Ping Tung 12 hrs ago #18

I don't get something: Is the orange guy gonna prop himself at some elevated point along allegorical oracle 11 hrs ago #19

Nah, It is just a troop review Jacson6 11 hrs ago #21