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Trump’s army parade was neither the totalitarian North Korean spectacle that critics had grimly predicted, nor the triumph of MAGA nationalism fans craved

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

The parade was also afflicted with bone spurs.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 6 hours ago

I had the misfortune of hearing the opinions of some conservative family on the matter on Father's Day.

It was the best thing since sliced bread, apparently, and Trump "deserved" it because "it's his birthday", while "no one" showed up for the No Kings protests.

Don't ever be fooled into thinking that a lackluster performance will disappoint his fans.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

That's what the media is telling them. Fox in particular, but the networks have been downplaying No Kings.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 34 minutes ago

That and facebook and talk radio, I really wish there was a practical way to shut the bastards down without causing undue collateral. Sadly wiping out the talking heads wouldn't amount to jack shit.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

June 4 from now on will be known as "NO KINGS" day .
The delusional right might ignore the massive protests but the tide is turning, they will disavowal their allegiances to the orange Krasnov.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Much like everything else he touches. he's like king Midas, but with shit.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago

King Mierdas.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

yup. this is how we save money! By putting on a pointless fucking parade to stroke his fucking ego.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 11 hours ago

A tent managed by a beverage company handed out room-temperature bottles of an energy drink, Phorm. The flavor, called Screamin’ Freedom, tasted like hard candies dissolved in water, and an advisory on the cans warned that they were not to be consumed by minors or pregnant women.

If we saw this in a movie, we would laugh at how overly top unreal it was.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 44 minutes ago

See, everything was room temperature at the protests because fuck ICE. When they do room temperature its just incompetence

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

PHORM. It's what facism craves!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

Brawndo

The thirst mutilator

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

It's got electrolytes!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Pretty sure that warning is on a most heavily caffeinated energy drinks

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

The flavor, called Screamin’ Freedom, tasted like hard candies dissolved in water

This is ridiculous. Room-temperature energy drinks are supposed to taste like cough syrup.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Someone saw office uprising and thought yes I have that energy.

Did you do the campaign that sold 30,000 automatic shotguns to Blackwater? No, we did. How about the nukey the talking warhead campaign? Nope, we did that too. How about that Iraq port game now for children? Oh nope, that was us too. How about my personal favorite: The Agent Orange Soda Campaign? DING, DING, THAT WAS US TOO! ADVER-F--KING-TISING! See, we make reality out of...nothing.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm so confused. Are they actually bragging about those things?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 52 minutes ago

In the movie? oh yeah. Dude was super evil. Becoming a half brain zombie resulted in little change.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

Brawndo, it's got what the body craves.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

The half heartedness of the military in this parade suggests that they will be half hearted in their enforcement of the regime too. This would make it much easier to resist and overthrow the regime (or at least enforce rule by mass civil disobedience) as large sections of the military are likely to make only a token effort to suppress it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Yes! I think that's a very important hint. These guys know how to march in step. It's drilled in to them from day one in the military. They didn't do it, and their commanding officers aren't making them do it.

I'll probably be accused of being an optimist again, but I think June 14 is when we started winning. That comes from multiple angles.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The American military doesn't train to put on parade theatre for a despot. No high stepping, no elaborate formations or movements. None of that pointless bullshit. If you see a military parade from NK or China achieving dazzling perfect performances, while impressive, that's all it is; a visual performance. All they do is practice for those events. Those are not uniforms. They're costumes. Those are not soldiers. They're a dance troupe. These are completely different skillsets. Soldiers don't need to know how to dance perfectly in formation. They storm the objective, execute the mission, and get the fuck out. You might as well send a marching band into combat, because that's all they would become.

It's funny how they want to force the US military into performing flamboyant pageantry, while also kicking out the gays.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago

Frederick the Great's legacy shines irony on many a homopgobic leader

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

All I can think of, is Monty Python's Close Order Nastiness. "We know where you've been, you military fairy! OOOOOH"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Thats all nice what you said but its far more likely the members of the army just didnt care as much rather than they are incapable of marching in unison.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I know this from experience. Perfect formation marching must be drilled constantly. The US military does not waste its time with it because it is useless beyond Basic Training.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago

The American military doesn't train to put on parade theatre for a despot. No high stepping, no elaborate formations or movements. None of that pointless bullshi

Marines doing the silent drill in dress uniform : 👀

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

That's like 20 dudes though who's entire job is drill and ceremonies, though.

The guys marching in this parade looked like they were forced on a group walk, and none of them looked like they wanted to be there.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Marching in step is basic training stuff. They know how to do it if they want to. The fact that they didn't is very important.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

What Trump wanted far exceeds marching in step. But even just that requires regular practice, which the US military simply does not bother with. Exceptions being a few ceremonial guards.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Sure, but the important point is that they know how to do better than they did. They're refusing on purpose.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I know that's what I'd have done.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

He said what he fucking said

[-] [email protected] 47 points 20 hours ago

As she and the other leftists marched, a young man, bare chested and wearing a bucket hat, approached a demonstration marshal. He seemed confused. He wanted to know where the protest for the opposite point of view could be found.

Whaaat? 😂

A secret service officer, trying to explain the general confusion, just sighed. “Nobody knows what’s going on.”

I'm dead 😂 😂 😂

[-] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Captain Bonespurs says march more stiffly like the North Korean army.

[-] [email protected] 145 points 1 day ago

imagine joining the military to serve the country and then being used as pencil dick compensation by a draft dodging con man. and then being the focus of ridicule by half the nation

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Its better than being tricked into killing civilians in the middle east for the past 35 years at least.

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[-] [email protected] 77 points 23 hours ago

I snorted my coffee reading this.

A secret service officer, trying to explain the general confusion, just sighed. “Nobody knows what’s going on.”

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Not even Trump.

[-] [email protected] 102 points 1 day ago

She defended Trump’s decision to ban transgender troops from the military, and complained that Biden had subjected the military to political correctness and DEI initiatives. “The military is not a social experiment.”

The irony of saying this statement at a self-fellating and totally unnecessary military parade is too much

[-] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

You know if they'd had some drag queens putting this show on it would've been fabulous as fuck.

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