The parade - from one who was there

[Mac1958]

That's only because the orange draft dodger used the US Army as a prop for HIS birthday parade.

They look like they're at a fuckin' FUNERAL.

 

[22lcidw]

Old white people, but with drums. Remember when you were sure to win all elections going forward because, minorities?

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If their checks were to stop, they would sell out their family members.

 

[rightwinger]

His people are working. Not retired white grannies with walkers

His people were forced to attend

They looked less enthusiastic than Trump and Melania

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

They look like they're at a fuckin' FUNERAL.

Bet Malaria can't wait Donnie's

She'll turn that frown.........upside down.

 

[JoeB131]

This kind of hatred and opposition is unhealthy.

No, what's unhealthy is your side refusing to admit your mistake, and now we have a petty dictator wannabee trying to Cosplay North Korea.

 

[JoeB131]

Yeah we know.

Cadet Bone Spurs favorite song.

They aren't even marching in step!!!

Did they all forget D&C in the last 20 years?

 

[JoeB131]

His people are working. Not retired white grannies with walkers

If his people are working on Saturdays, their lives kind of suck.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

They aren't even marching in step!!!

Did they all forget D&C in the last 20 years?

Phoning it in.
Just like Donnie.

 

[JGalt]

I'm 70 now and I remember when parades used to be fun—bands, bunting, some big Army boom-booms for the kids to cheer over, every high school bandmaster doing their best Robert Preston cosplay. I remember when they were ceremonies of communal joy. You could mark your calendar by them. Homecoming parades. Veterans Day, which was Armistice Day when I was very young.

And then there was this leaden spectacle on Saturday, June 14.

I have never experienced such a joyless, lifeless, and sterile mass event in my entire life. Grim-faced soldiers, marching past half-empty grandstands, many of them obviously wanting to be somewhere else. No bands. Little bunting. Just piped-in rock music and MAGA hats. If this truly was meant to honor the 250 years of the United States Army, all we got was an endless procession of uniformed troops looking like they’d prefer to have been at Valley Forge. The president, sitting on the reviewing stand in that weird, forward-leaning attitude that he has, rarely smiling, a skunk at his own garden party. Scores of people being funneled through cattle-runs of metal grates just for a chance to sit on the lawn of the Washington Monument and listen to bad music and speeches so dull and listless that they’d have made Demosthenes get out of the business and open an olive oil stand.

I think there probably was more good feeling and genuine emotion when they took Jack Kennedy out to Arlington for the last time.

Why is this thread even still here?

I Went to Trump’s Military Parade. Everything About It Was Wrong.

 

[Cellblock2429]

I'm 70 now and I remember when parades used to be fun—bands, bunting, some big Army boom-booms for the kids to cheer over, every high school bandmaster doing their best Robert Preston cosplay. I remember when they were ceremonies of communal joy. You could mark your calendar by them. Homecoming parades. Veterans Day, which was Armistice Day when I was very young.

And then there was this leaden spectacle on Saturday, June 14.

I have never experienced such a joyless, lifeless, and sterile mass event in my entire life. Grim-faced soldiers, marching past half-empty grandstands, many of them obviously wanting to be somewhere else. No bands. Little bunting. Just piped-in rock music and MAGA hats. If this truly was meant to honor the 250 years of the United States Army, all we got was an endless procession of uniformed troops looking like they’d prefer to have been at Valley Forge. The president, sitting on the reviewing stand in that weird, forward-leaning attitude that he has, rarely smiling, a skunk at his own garden party. Scores of people being funneled through cattle-runs of metal grates just for a chance to sit on the lawn of the Washington Monument and listen to bad music and speeches so dull and listless that they’d have made Demosthenes get out of the business and open an olive oil stand.

I think there probably was more good feeling and genuine emotion when they took Jack Kennedy out to Arlington for the last time.

/—-/ I say you’re lying. Trump hating MSNBC reports the exact opposite.

MSNBC hosts highlight lack of 'dark, malevolent energy' at military parade in DC
MSNBC hosts highlight lack of 'dark, malevolent energy' at military parade in DC

 

[jbrownson0831]

I'm 70 now and I remember when parades used to be fun—bands, bunting, some big Army boom-booms for the kids to cheer over, every high school bandmaster doing their best Robert Preston cosplay. I remember when they were ceremonies of communal joy. You could mark your calendar by them. Homecoming parades. Veterans Day, which was Armistice Day when I was very young.

And then there was this leaden spectacle on Saturday, June 14.

I have never experienced such a joyless, lifeless, and sterile mass event in my entire life. Grim-faced soldiers, marching past half-empty grandstands, many of them obviously wanting to be somewhere else. No bands. Little bunting. Just piped-in rock music and MAGA hats. If this truly was meant to honor the 250 years of the United States Army, all we got was an endless procession of uniformed troops looking like they’d prefer to have been at Valley Forge. The president, sitting on the reviewing stand in that weird, forward-leaning attitude that he has, rarely smiling, a skunk at his own garden party. Scores of people being funneled through cattle-runs of metal grates just for a chance to sit on the lawn of the Washington Monument and listen to bad music and speeches so dull and listless that they’d have made Demosthenes get out of the business and open an olive oil stand.

I think there probably was more good feeling and genuine emotion when they took Jack Kennedy out to Arlington for the last time.

Then you should have attended the No Kings protest or a gay parade, more suited to you commies.

 

[pknopp]

The "Fortunate Son" doesn't have the drawing power he once did.

 

[JGalt]

Oh look, an old white guy

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Here's a bunch of old boomers leaving the senior center to participate in the "No Kings" march...

 

[Edgetho]

Leftists don't realize it but their "protests" are just the other side of the parade. Mostly stupid, all for show, signifying nothing. At the end everyone goes home and most say (if even secretly) "hey, what was all that about anyway?"

dimocrap scum also fail to note the obvious........ The Weather forecast called for it to rain like a Cow pissing on a flat rock.

I ain't going out to see that. I don't care what it is or who it is. One of the worst things in the world is being caught in a bad storm during a huge event with a quarter million people trying to get to their cars at the same time.

I quite going to the Daytona 500 because of the crowds. And NFL Football Games. And they're set up for it. Takes an hour to make it to your car and 4 hours just to make it to Orlando from Daytona afterwards -- About 55 miles. Traffic is not the problem because it turns into a parking lot. You could almost walk faster.

But, as we all know -- dimocraps are the scum of the Earth and they hate anything Patriotic or American. Plus being THE most ungrateful scum to ever exist in the Universe. So they have to take a cheap shot at any attempt to honor the people who have offered up their lives for them. They do it so they don't HAVE to be grateful. Believe it

Too good to say 'thanks' to the Men that charged German MG-42's knowing they were going to die. Having Wives and childrern back home but still diving that POS Torpedo Plane into the murderous gunfire from a Japanese armada. Making their Wives Widows and their Children Orphans. To save our People from becoming the slaves of the Germans and the Japanese.

Too 'edumucated' to care about the men who offered up their lives to give us a free country. Just cannon fodder. That's all we are to dimocrap scum. They couldn't give a **** less about Veterans but will start riots over Illegal Aliens raping and murdering their way throughout our Country.

People, you need to remember something -- No matter how much you hate dimocrap scum..... It isn't enough

 

[rightwinger]

They aren't even marching in step!!!

Did they all forget D&C in the last 20 years?

They look like they are out for a stroll
Looks intentional….they don’t want to be there

 

[Zincwarrior]

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When no one shows up at your parade.

I saw that. Looked like he fell asleep or something.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

Good. That "parade" wasn't for the military, and Americans knew it. It was an insult.

But I still won't be surprised if he claims 5 million were there. For him.

It was an insult to America haters and rioters.

 

[struth]

I'm 70 now and I remember when parades used to be fun—bands, bunting, some big Army boom-booms for the kids to cheer over, every high school bandmaster doing their best Robert Preston cosplay. I remember when they were ceremonies of communal joy. You could mark your calendar by them. Homecoming parades. Veterans Day, which was Armistice Day when I was very young.

And then there was this leaden spectacle on Saturday, June 14.

I have never experienced such a joyless, lifeless, and sterile mass event in my entire life. Grim-faced soldiers, marching past half-empty grandstands, many of them obviously wanting to be somewhere else. No bands. Little bunting. Just piped-in rock music and MAGA hats. If this truly was meant to honor the 250 years of the United States Army, all we got was an endless procession of uniformed troops looking like they’d prefer to have been at Valley Forge. The president, sitting on the reviewing stand in that weird, forward-leaning attitude that he has, rarely smiling, a skunk at his own garden party. Scores of people being funneled through cattle-runs of metal grates just for a chance to sit on the lawn of the Washington Monument and listen to bad music and speeches so dull and listless that they’d have made Demosthenes get out of the business and open an olive oil stand.

I think there probably was more good feeling and genuine emotion when they took Jack Kennedy out to Arlington for the last time.

I saw it on TV looked amazing, saw the bands…maybe you were in the bathroom when they came by

 

[The Duke]

Yeah we know.

Cadet Bone Spurs favorite song.

BFD.
It was a good day for recruitment and military morale.
These fuckers do not know how deadly a lot of Americans are.
There's guys out there hunting bears with spears n shit.
Taking mule deer down with arrows.
Many of the Red Man's ways are ingrained into American heritage.
Americans know how to shoot and hunt and cull bad predators from around their place.

 

[Orangecat]

I have never experienced such a joyless, lifeless, and sterile mass event in my entire life. Grim-faced soldiers, marching past half-empty grandstands, many of them obviously wanting to be somewhere else. No bands. Little bunting.

It sounds like you’d prefer a West-Hollywood-style pride parade. To each his own.