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"Kind of lame"?
We didn't have our service members proudly marching in lockstep. It was a bunch of old people that could barely keep formation, "marching" (and I use that term loosely) as if they just walked out of the bar and into their first day of basic training after being drafted.
Our "show of military strength" was a couple of old tanks creaking down the road, sounding like they were Ford Model Ts from the 1920s.
There was no music or marching band or anything for the parade to make its way through. There was no crowd to cheer them on; it was just dead silence. My daughter's high school graduation had better attendance and a more enthusiastic crowd.
Not that this should be a surprise to anyone at this point, but we looked like a laughing stock on the world stage. If that parade showed off the best that the US military had to offer, our military will never be taken seriously again. Seriously. A bunch of old people and a couple of tanks that were older than they were. That's what Trump gave. I've seen those carnivals that pop up from time to time in mall parking lots that had all the rigged games and unsafe rides, and they were still both cheaper than Trump's parade and more entertaining.
I expected Trump's parade to be a dud, but even he outdid himself with how bad that so-called parade was. Take out all the people that were forced to attend for whatever reason, and the people who attended could probably fit in a phone booth.
Ah ... As someone with clearly different expectations (living in Russia) I'd say everything except being unable to march in lockstep and showing Coinbase ads was kinda fine, the big costume show in Russian parades doesn't really cause any feeling of reverence and such.
US military doesn't have to show anything big on parades, because it, ahem, has modern jets, nukes, air carriers in bigger numbers than some countries have infantry vehicles.
Probably a military ceremony should be organized better, but ... it's a theater anyway. A kind of that falling out of relevance, too.
That's with as many people as they could pay $1000 and some fast food to attend.
The 1000$ ad was making fun of trump supporters, it wasn’t real
Got a link? I thought 1000 was sus when it's usually like $250