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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.

I see the lackluster parade as a victory for democracy. Democracies don't have massive goose-stepping parades in glory of their dear leader. That's a fascist dictator thing, and surely what Trump wanted, but what he got was the kind of parade that you get in a democracy where the military exists for defense rather than tue glorification of the generalissimo.

Well done, military peeps.

I always enjoy a feel-good story.

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.

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

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.

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

I snorted my coffee reading this.

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

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 😂 😂 😂

The parade was also afflicted with bone spurs.

"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.

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.

Here's the thing, they weren't all leftists. That was the beauty of the "No Kings" moniker, it encompassed all of the people pissed off. That includes a shit ton of republicans.

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.

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

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.

Due to my interest in military hardware I watched the live stream by LazerPig, and the parade was absolutely garbage. Sure, they showed the Sherman, but no SPAA or engineering vehicles. They showed the Abrams and the Bradley, but nothing between that and WW2. There was so much objectively cool stuff they could've shown off, but it seemed they put no effort in it beyond pleasing the chief cheeto.

The Russian parade was also a disappointment, but the ones with actual quality hardware managed to be even more disappointing.

Fascists make everything worse. Even the thing they claim to be good at. Fucking clownshow.

A Trump project? A failure? Noooo...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Entertainment_Resorts

I mean, it's not quite Google Graveyard level... but it's not good!

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