Trump orders tanks for Independence Day parade

about time the US gets their military parade :)

Trump orders tanks for Independence Day parade
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48842428

President Donald Trump's plans to host a military parade on US Independence Day this week have left critics seeing red, rather than red, white and blue.

At his "Salute to America" on Thursday, Mr Trump will address the nation from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC amid a parade of military tanks.

But city officials have expressed dismay at the possible damage to roads at the 4 July event.

A congressman dismissed the celebration as a presidential vanity project.

"We're going to have planes going overhead - the best fighter jets in the world and other planes too," the Republican president told reporters at the White House on Monday.

"And we're going to have some tanks stationed outside."

He said the event will "be like no other, it'll be special".

City leaders have spoken out against the idea.

"We have said it before, and we'll say it again: Tanks, but no tanks," the District of Columbia council tweeted on Monday

I say bring the tanks to the NFL games too...

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Originally Posted by Dragonfly

about time the US gets their military parade

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Fuck Trump aka Mr Bone Spurs draft dodging piece of shit. This cowardly kunt is the last person who should be ordering military equipment in 4th celebration.

The sooner the country is rid of this low life, self serving cocksucker and his dysfunctional family the better.

^ Tell us how you really feel about Trump. :)

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Originally Posted by misskit

^ Tell us how you really feel about Trump. :)

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Good morning MK. :)

Maybe he'll do his parade North Korean style :)

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Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Maybe he'll do his parade North Korean style :)

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Perfect opportunity for him and his bestest bud Kim, who btw 45 invited to DC, to stand side by side watching all their neat toys parade by.

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Originally Posted by misskit

^ Tell us how you really feel about Trump. :)

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I can can sum it up in one word,hate.

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Originally Posted by RPETER65

I can can sum it up in one word,hate.

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he is a

coward
bully
tax evader
sex offender
fraudster
thief
liar

and to top it off - dumb

WTF is wrong with 50% of American people that they have any respect for this obvious turd

^ It is hard to believe that people still support him.

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Originally Posted by baldrick

WTF is wrong with 50% of American people that they have any respect for this obvious turd

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Shows the US is full of enough gullible people to swallow the bullshit of a self serving snake oil salesman and elect him Prez. :(

Although it's substantially less than 50% of Americans to be fair.

Not even anywhere near that amount of voters cast their vote for him: I think the total turn-out was only around 60% of all eligible voter and less than half of that elected him.

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Originally Posted by Norton

Fuck Trump aka Mr Bone Spurs draft dodging piece of shit. This cowardly kunt is the last person who should be ordering military equipment in 4th celebration.

The sooner the country is rid of this low life, self serving cocksucker and his dysfunctional family the better.

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Which draft-dodging POS do you prefer? :)

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Originally Posted by kmart

Which draft-dodging POS do you prefer? :)

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Being the draft ended in 1973 probably no dodgers left to run for Prez. All a bunch of old farts like me now.

Bernie was a conscientious objector. Close enough so I prefer him.

Why did this need a new thread?

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Originally Posted by Norton

ordering military equipment in 4th celebration.

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Preferred is a POTUS ordering military equipment not just for a show but for destroying countries and killing people...

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Originally Posted by Norton

Fuck Trump aka Mr Bone Spurs draft dodging piece of shit. This cowardly kunt is the last person who should be ordering military equipment in 4th celebration.

The sooner the country is rid of this low life, self serving cocksucker and his dysfunctional family the better.

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bad mood this morning? :)

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Originally Posted by Dragonfly

bad mood this morning? :)

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Got up on the wrong side of bed and coffee maker went on the blink. Brought out the best of me. :)

Hmm Mr Norton,never seen you angry like this before,most impressed,though surely Potus is doing a great job for your beloved Country.......

Who from the previous POTUSes not having a military career but fighting a (just) war?
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._United_States)

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Originally Posted by Klondyke

Who from the previous POTUSes not having a military career but fighting a (just) war?
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._United_States)

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You do realize this has fuck all to do with the OP.
Mods, move this to a cooking thread please.

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Originally Posted by Norton

Mods, move this to a cooking thread please.

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Better yet chuck it in the doghouse or just bin the whole thing. One trumpanzee thread is enough.

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^ It is hard to believe that people still support him.

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There is a documentary (no commentary) called Monrovia, Indiana.

It has no commentary, it's just a spy on the wall thing.

Gives you an idea of rural America.

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2017/09/684.jpg

There you have it...

Yeah crazy. Being in the construction industry I see plenty of it right around DC not just middle hickville America. More interesting is that some "educated" higher earners that I run into love him.
Luckily for me and my piece of mind I don't get to caught up in the political madness.
I just hope those tanks are gone by Monday I have to deliver some material in downtown DC.

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Originally Posted by SKkin

There you have it..

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and most of the telephones are iphones

Tanks and parades in US history...

JFK Inaugural Parade:

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/...z3VlQNE0-1.jpg

Eisenhower's:

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/...FuMV47O9-1.jpg

FDR's:

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/...SIRQAWJn-1.jpg


Pics of tanks on the streets of DC won't load here, but they're from:

Jingoistic Military Fetishization Is As American As Bald Eagle McNuggets
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/j...s-bceb80186db2

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And the fact that it’s mostly Democrats kvetching about this parade is especially absurd, given that in 2019 they’ve somehow managed to become even more hawkish and jingoistic than the Republicans. This is the same crowd that just the other day was attacking Trump for having the audacity to meet with Kim Jong-Un, the same crowd that’s constantly accusing Trump of being weak on Syria and Afghanistan, the same crowd that’s made heroes of the US intelligence community and the “grownups in the room” generals in the administration, and the same crowd that’s been shrieking hysterically for the last three years demanding greater and greater escalations against a nuclear superpower because something-something Putin’s cock holster. The biggest problem with Trump’s tank parade will be that male Democrats in attendance will have trouble hiding their erections.

Americans are the most aggressively propagandized people in the world, and US service personnel are the most aggressively propagandized people in America. That’s the group that all this special reverence and fetishization has been attached to: a bunch of kids who’ve been manipulated into killing and dying for plutocratic investments and the mommy-shaped hole in John Bolton’s heart. That’s what this parade is meant to manufacture even more support for in a culture that is saturated past the brim in a relentless barrage of war propaganda.

Face it, America. Trump’s tank parade isn’t in any way alien to anything you’ve ever stood for. The only way to make it more American would be to add a few monster trucks and a Kardashian. This parade is your reflection. This parade is you.

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Jingoistic Military Fetishization Is As American As Bald Eagle McNuggets

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I've always thought it was a bit odd.

All that 'thank you for your service / protecting us' stuff can be cringey considering they're usually invading poor countries and killing poor people in order to 'protect' Americans.

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Originally Posted by SKkin

Tanks and parades in US history...

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That was a completely different era. During and WW2 and then the Korean war the with JFK it was the height of the red menace and the cold war. In all a brief 20 year period in American history. It didn't exist before or after until this orange moron.

Putin and Kim must be absolutely laughing themselves silly at this stupid little wannabe trying to copy real dictators.

What a fucking bald orange prick.

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Originally Posted by naptownmike

^ It is hard to believe that people still support him.

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They the most troubling part of this whole thing.
trump will be gone soon,(not soon enough) but this idiots will remain. I think they are a greater problem than trump. trump is a symptom .......

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Originally Posted by SKkin

Tanks and parades in US history...

JFK Inaugural Parade:

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/...z3VlQNE0-1.jpg

Eisenhower's:

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/...FuMV47O9-1.jpg

FDR's:

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/...SIRQAWJn-1.jpg


Pics of tanks on the streets of DC won't load here, but they're from:

Jingoistic Military Fetishization Is As American As Bald Eagle McNuggets
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/j...s-bceb80186db2

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The difference is that all of the above served in the military except for F.D. Roosevelt, who served as a civilian Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1913 to 1920 and during World War I sought to join the Navy as an officer, only to have his appeal rejected by President Wilson.
Though I consider these military parades to be an unnecessary expense, especially in the financial condition we are in now . All of the above have with their service earned it, trump has not.
IMO this will be a taxpayer funded political stunt .

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Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

All of the above have with their service earned it, trump has not.

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True...but he's not the first Prez who avoided military service. The others may not have pushed for tank parades though.

However the glorification of interventionism and militarism does have a long history here in the US. I've pretty much had my fill of it no matter who is serving as President.

so facilitating close up photos of the latest military equipment is not treason ?

I suspect that there are times when this artist should not be operating machinery

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Originally Posted by docmartin

I suspect that there are times when this artist should not be operating machinery

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That reminds me I haven't checked out the latest offerings from that loon Ben Garrison for a while. He always pens Trump in a fetishistic Übermensch way and notably reduces the fat cnuts girth each time:

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/...1024x766-1.jpg

And here he is depicted as preventing Bolton & Co., you know those he appointed and is ultimately responsible for, from starting a war. :dunno:

It doesn't stand up to scrutiny and make zero sense but Trumptards:

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/...1024x839-1.jpg

And this one... ? Well it's not funny or amusing in any traditional sense I guess, just seems to be flat-out homoerotic worship:

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Classic propaganda horseshit.

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Classic propaganda horseshit.

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Which belong over here. ;)

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American Pride Hits New Low; Few Proud of Political System

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
45% are "extremely" proud, the second straight year of sub-50% readings
22% of Democrats are extremely proud, down 10 points in one year

Americans most proud of U.S. scientific success, military; least proud of politics

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As Americans prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, their pride in the U.S. has hit its lowest point since Gallup's first measurement in 2001. While 70% of U.S. adults overall say they are proud to be Americans, this includes fewer than half (45%) who are "extremely" proud, marking the second consecutive year that this reading is below the majority level. Democrats continue to lag far behind Republicans in expressing extreme pride in the U.S.

These findings are explored further with new measurements of the public's pride in eight aspects of U.S. government and society. American scientific achievements, military and culture/arts engender the most pride, while the U.S. political system and health and welfare system garner the least.

Decreasing Percentage in U.S. Are Extremely Proud to Be American

U.S. adults' extreme pride in being American has been steadily weakening in recent years, and the current reading, from a June 3-16 Gallup poll, marks the lowest point to date. However, the latest two-percentage-point decline from last year's 47% is not a statistically significant change.

The highest readings on the measure, 69% and 70%, were between 2002 and 2004, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when the American public expressed high levels of patriotism and rallied around the U.S. government. Yet, since the start of George W. Bush's second presidential term in 2005, fewer than 60% of Americans have expressed extreme pride in being American.

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Line graph. % of Americans who are “extremely proud” to be an American -- currently 45%, a new low; plus % extrem./very proud.

Read more
https://news.gallup.com/poll/259841/...al-system.aspx

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