Puffnstuff
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Trump has seen one too many NK military parades on Faux and he's filled with envy not to mention he doesn't care how much money the government spends as long as its being directed by him.
Sure, as soon as other presidents pay back the costs of any military displays during their terms. F-16 and F-18 aerial displays cost money, ya know.
zinfamous
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I think I found you, wearing that black pointy hat in the background, off to Geldof/Pink's far left:
Here's your parade, comrade:
HomerJS
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I agree with you for the past Presidents who held parades for themselves.
I think I found you, wearing that black pointy hat in the background, off to Geldof/Pink's far left:
Here's your parade, comrade:
Weak. Do better.
werepossum
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I tend to agree, but it's certainly amusing how the left has become a virulent parody of themselves. For one thing, Trump had the idea after witnessing FRANCE'S military parade. Not exactly anyone's idea of a "military dictatorship", France. For another, Schumer himself was calling for such a parade only four years earlier.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/2689...alled-military-parade-2014-michael-j-knowles#
American politics has certainly become a sewer, but Anandtech's Politics and News forum has sadly become where that sewer goes to poop.
Fanatical Meat
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I think a military parade is weird in the US for various reasons, I’m not outraged at the thought of a parade.
It does bother me that this parade is for Trump and his ego.
I read something that years ago when small parades were more common most locations opted out of military style parades because their equipment ruins the roads. The parades we see in NK, Cuba or Russia are always held on routes with extra thick & robust roads.
werepossum
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Why would you conclude that Trump's proposed military parade is for himself and his ego, whereas Schumer's is not? They are both politicians with little to no familiarity with the truth.
Theodore Roosevelt said something very wise: Speak softly and carry a big stick. Waving the big stick for the sake of stick-waving negates any value of speaking softly. As long as we maintain the big stick, real threats will usually know its exact length, girth and heft.
Fanatical Meat
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Trump originally wanted a parade on inogeration(spelling?) day. He was told too short notice. This parade is purely for Trumps ego
Thump553
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I haven't bothered to look through this thread but I think GOP Congressman John Kennedy hit the nail right on the head with his take on this asinine brainstorm of His Donaldship: :
"I think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud," Kennedy said. "America is the most powerful country in all of human history. You don't need to show it off."
"We're not North Korea, we're not Russia and we're not China, and I don't want to be. And for that reason I would be against flaunting our strength. We don't need to; everybody knows we have it."
"I think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud," Kennedy said. "America is the most powerful country in all of human history. You don't need to show it off."
"We're not North Korea, we're not Russia and we're not China, and I don't want to be. And for that reason I would be against flaunting our strength. We don't need to; everybody knows we have it."
uallas5
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That was a parade to celebrate vets, i.e. people, both in uniform and not in uniform, in a parade. To celebrate VETERANS, not their hardware. So no columns of tanks, no missile launchers, etc. Maybe include a fly over, but I don't see much more than that. Vastly different than what Trump wants.
And don't give me that Centenary of the end of WWI hooey. The US has done little to commemorate both the beginning of the war or the beginning of our involvement. It's just an excuse and reason to declare people who don't want it "treasonous" or "unpatriotic".
Puffnstuff
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I wonder if they can also get Wall Street bankers to march in their parade carrying banners telling everyone how much money they've made from Trump's tax cut?
HomerJS
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Schumer can't order a parade, Trump can. That's how I can assume.
BTW - Have you paid any attention how Trump behaves? How can you ask that question?
Amused
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I'm a retired Army veteran. Why do chicken hawks like yourself think they can talk for me?
Puffnstuff
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I'm a compensable disabled army veteran and would bet that Felix's only experience with the military was when he played with some little green army men.
imported_tajmahal
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Lmao, thanks Mr. Possum. A much needed link to balance in here.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/2689...alled-military-parade-2014-michael-j-knowles#
Younigue
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If you think balance comes from sitting in a vat of shit is balance it's because you can't see beyond the shit. It becomes your entire existence, everything you see, think, contribute (to the conversation) is shit. You can't see a better way because shit is all you know. Awe... you stink Tajman!
Fanatical Meat
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Vic
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So were you for or against the idea of a grand military parade when Schumer proposed it? Or (and this is much more likely IMO) were you not even aware that Schumer had ever made such a proposal until that talking point was just recently spoonfed to you?
And have you stopped to ask yourself why a military parade never happened when Schumer proposed it? That obviously couldn't have been because of Republican opposition to it, because Republicans are for it now, right?
Vic
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I remember growing up during the Cold War and seeing pictures and videos of the military parades in the Soviet Union. I remember thinking, that's what I want America to be like, to have the might and power of the federal government on display for the glory of its autocratic leaders so that the People could be humbled into submission.
No doubt, any American who is against this parade must be a traitor to freedom. And though the Framers of the Constitution spoke and wrote at great length regarding the dangers of standing armies, those against the parade must also hate the Constitution as well.
/s
No doubt, any American who is against this parade must be a traitor to freedom. And though the Framers of the Constitution spoke and wrote at great length regarding the dangers of standing armies, those against the parade must also hate the Constitution as well.
/s
boomerang
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Who's volunteering to lay down in front of the tanks?
https://truepundit.com/liberals-already-planning-standing-front-tanks-military-parade-happens-video/
https://truepundit.com/liberals-already-planning-standing-front-tanks-military-parade-happens-video/
Amused
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IronWing
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