The U.S. Army is planning a historic parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., on June 14 that will coincide with and be part of the Army’s long-planned 250th celebration.
The parade will involve some 6,600 soldiers, tanks and infantry vehicles, helicopter flyovers and parachute jumps, according to several people familiar with the planning effort, and will also occur on Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.
The timing and White House involvement in planning efforts have stoked speculation that Trump is using the Army’s birthday as an excuse to get the kind of grand military parade he wanted during his first term in office. That event was scrapped after estimates topped $90 million.
you know the countries that do military parades like that are usually weak presidents.
Usually military parades are a dictator thing not a president.
Dictators often adopt the trappings of a democratic system and go through the motions to run sham elections.
How is this making America great again? Why not just put out some floats? Why do we need to roll out the real equipment and spend millions while people are losing healthcare, SS and 401k?
I rather divide the 90 million and give every school in America 900 bucks.
No more libraries, scientific research grants, or hurricane tracking… military parades instead!
… You could easily make an entire ‘you might be a redneck / here’s your sign’ style set out of insane things Trump and MAGA do that are just laughably over the top signs they are a moronic fascist cult, and you wouldn’t even have to hyperbolize…
But of course, the audience for such a set would boo and hiss and probably threaten the life of anyone who did that Netflix special, demand they be cancelled…
I’m assuming Kim Jong-Un will be the guest of honor to this not-the-birthday-boy military parade?
putin will be, probably orban.
Don’t see how this makes my eggs any cheaper…
We learned after Vietnam that we needed to support the troops and not condemn them for our President’s actions. We might have to re-evaluate this approach if they continue down this path. If the military does this and supports deporting American citizens, then we need to start booing them in public.
“Need to”? No we don’t. Some military people will insist we thank them for their service, but everyone in now is a volunteer that saw what the military has done and is used for and decided to sign up. It’s a job, with benefits and pay, and we don’t need to support them any more than we need to support any other job, especially as this job involves a willingness to kill someone just because someone else says so.
The military preys on the poor and desperate. It brain washes those that don’t know fully what they are getting involved with.
True U.S. history isn’t taught until you hit college, which most enlistees have not done. However, being asked to attack your fellow citizens after being told to protect them is a choice.
The military preys on the poor and desperate. It brain washes those that don’t know fully what they are getting involved with.
Exactly this. In 96/97 I was supposed to have gone to college and fucked that whole thing up and had to look for a job. I was having a really hard time trying to find a job and thought about the military.
Out of the blue I got a phone call from one of the military recruitment centers (you’re lucky I remember this at all, let alone what branch) telling me about military service since I had turned 18. I told them I was hearing impaired and wear hearing aids as well as legally blind in one eye. I was told I was not a good candidate and would be denied despite my willingness to take the offer since I couldn’t find a job fresh out of high school.
This comment connected this memory of that call and the Iraq War in a way I hadn’t thought of before – I no doubt know now that if I had been accepted into the military I would have gone to Iraq in 2003. At this moment, I am grateful that I have an unusually heavy burden of medical issues when I normally don’t find much to be positive about in life.
Thank you for this unintentional reminder.
•Military parade to celebrate your greatness as your tariffs absolutely massacre the economy, officially cementing record for the lowest first 100 days in office in 80 years
•Answering “IDK” when asked if you will uphold the constitution
• Your vice president saying “I don’t really care that much,” when asked about low approval ratings
•Your speaker of the House trying to gaslight the country into believing this is all for our own good as Walmart warns shelves will soon be empty.
•We have yet to roll out a bird flu vaccine, but we are banning some dyes in food and fluoride in drinking water…
Just stating all that to get a sense of where the red line is now? Wondering when/if the Republicans in the House and Senate will be continuing to move it as more “healthy Americans,” somehow die from making America so healthy/great or do they stop bothering. Are they hoping we all just die off from disease/fighting each other for the last remaining resources before the midterms?
United Banana States
Krasnov will order the soldiers to goose step and wear jack boots. What a waste of taxpayer money. All the spectators will be forced to cry like a bunch of North Koreans.
and roll out those ICBMs, nuke launchers.
All of the sudden I’m realizing that in seeing Abraham tanks for over 25 years I’ve never seen a green one, only sand yellow.
Kinda makes you think about the only place the US likes to invade all the time
Why repaint the equipment with Iran on the menu.
Hey, maybe this will finally get U.S liberals to take the immense threat of blind nationalistic militarism in the U.S. seriously instead of just acquiescing to conservatives about everything on the topic… … …
…or it will just be a dress rehearsal for using the military to cement the Republican coup.
Rehearsal? The coup is already complete my friend. Know what the worst part is? The US voted for it.
Long live the regime
They do know he thinks of them as suckers and losers, right?
Dictators love their parades.
Can’t spell coward without Donald J Trump.
