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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    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 😂 😂 😂

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    Man, I sure hope he went home and realized how much of a fucking loser he is. You know he won’t though. In his head it was fantasy land North Korea type spectacle. They’ll have some post about how it was bigly and bester than any other parade and how there just have been a million people in attendance with sold out tickets.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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

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        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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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      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.

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    I snorted my coffee reading this.

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