July 4, 2019: Trumpendence Day!

[tricoteuse]

I heard on the Today Show that the Baby Trump Balloon people have permission to fly the balloon on the same day so that is one bright spot.

[dasmoocher]

@Nava

“They” have to pay to fix the streets… I think that Mr. Grinch should offer to pay for it from his own pocket, if he likes the celebration so much.

Trump spends the MAGAss’s political donations to his campaign on legal fees:

More Than One-Fifth Of The Trump Campaign’s Spending This Year Has Been On Legal Fees

Using campaign funds to pay for the president’s mounting legal fees related to Daniels and the Russia investigation means that the money small-dollar donors are giving to the president’s campaign isn’t all going toward traditional reelection efforts like ads, campaign staff payroll, and fundraising.

Let these people donate for fixing the streets, instead of subsidizing Trump and Kushner’s defense. Also, those people who donated (got ripped off) money for the wall can chip in too. Support The Troops!!!

[dasmoocher]

The Washington Post’s editorial (may be paywalled):

Trump’s Fourth of July plans just keep getting worse

[describing letters to paper from readers about having a great time at the gathering]

The letters were written in response to President Trump taking direct control of plans for the country’s premier Independence Day festivities; the writers were worried that a day traditionally set aside for Americans to come together for simple love of country was in danger of being co-opted and usurped. Judging by the latest revelations of the president’s plans, they were right to worry. The order of the day as ordained by Mr. Trump will not be patriotism but instead personality and politics.

It was bad enough that Mr. Trump sought to make the holiday about himself with plans to deliver a nationally televised address from the Lincoln Memorial, thus eliminating what many consider the hands-down best spot in Washington for fellowship and fireworks on the Fourth of July. But Mr. Trump now plans to cordon off an area in front of the memorial reserved just for dignitaries, family and friends. Nothing about reserved seating says “We the people.”

Equally, if not more troubling, is his insistence on a display of military might that will include a flyover of warplanes and the stationing of tanks or other armored military vehicles on the streets of the capital. What this will cost the Defense Department and the National Parks Service is anyone’s guess. (Officials have refused comment.) But the question of expense pales in comparison with the message that will be sent by a gaudy display of military hardware that is more in keeping with a banana republic than the world’s oldest democracy.

Yep, no better way to unite and celebrate the country than by having reserved seating for your cheerleaders and sticking it to people who aren’t.

[Ravenman]

And in another violation of the Hatch Act, the RNC is giving out tickets to the speech.

[not_what_you_d_expect]

I’m doing all Mexican food for our family get together.

And I’m not watching any TV. That’s all I can do.

[madmonk28]

@Ravenman

And in another violation of the Hatch Act, the RNC is giving out tickets to the speech.

We don’t really have rule of law anymore.

[VinylTurnip]

I’ll watch it if they’re going to fire a Roman candle up the president’s shitter, otherwise, not so much.

If they do, I hope someone remembers to get Newt Gingrich out so he doesn’t get burned.

[MindsEye_Watering]

@Rick_Kitchen

July 1
Individual 1 wants tanks on the Capitol Mall for his 4th of July Nuremberg Rally.
Trump Wants Tanks on the National Mall on July 4 | Fortune

Little Donny Fail-Fail:
**“Tanks…must have big tanks. And shiny firetrucks…lots and lots of shiny firetrucks. I like those. Oooh, and bulldozers. Bigly bulldozers.”
**

[asahi]

@dasmoocher

Trump spends the MAGAss’s political donations to his campaign on legal fees:

More Than One-Fifth Of The Trump Campaign’s Spending This Year Has Been On Legal Fees

Let these people donate for fixing the streets, instead of subsidizing Trump and Kushner’s defense. Also, those people who donated (got ripped off) money for the wall can chip in too. Support The Troops!!!

All I hear from these fucking morons is how we shouldn’t waste taxpayer dollars and this and that, and these fuckers waste it on defending someone who is obviously a criminal.

[asahi]

@madmonk28

We don’t really have rule of law anymore.

The Hatch Act is effectively null.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

“Mr. President, what do you think of potential violations of the Hatch Act by your family and staff?”

“Hatch. Chickens hatch out of eggs. I had eggs the other day on my Mcmuffin. Those are really good. It’s good that they started making them any time of day.
Hillary probably does not like eggs. She’s an egg. The lying press are so unfair to me.”

<Press goes into huddle to interpret what Trump just said. Op-eds are written>

[dasmoocher]

I saw a comment on the flyover in one of the online news sites. The person suggested that the Pentagon tell Trump it will be performed by stealth aircraft. And, since Trump thinks stealth aircraft are invisible, he wouldn’t know the difference.

Trump seems to think F-35 is “literally invisible” in flight

[elucidator]

I hereby solemnly predict that no tank will go rumbling down the street in front of Il Douche’s reviewing stand. Ain’t gonna happen.

[Try2B_Comprehensive]

Any word on whether they plan to just leave the tanks out there until past Inauguration Day?

[bobot]

They could paint them up in the colors of the local sportsball teams.

[ElvisL1ves]

@elucidator

I hereby solemnly predict that no tank will go rumbling down the street in front of Il Douche’s reviewing stand. Ain’t gonna happen.

Not Shermans, anyway.

[CalMeacham]

@tricoteuse

I heard on the Today Show that the Baby Trump Balloon people have permission to fly the balloon on the same day so that is one bright spot.

Apparently, though, the permit says they can’t fill it with helium – just air.
So maybe they could use hot air, but I’m not sure how effective that will be on a hot July day. Maybe they can just fill it with hydrogen, instead. Tat might lead to the extra bang of a fiery end to the balloon.

Trump Baby Blimp Will Appear At Trump's July 4 Military Display. Kind Of.

“The permit … does not allow the balloon to be filled with any helium, only air, and the permit is not in the location we requested – within line of sight of the Lincoln Memorial where President Trump will be speaking,” Codepink said in a press release obtained by USA Today.

[VinylTurnip]

@elucidator

I hereby solemnly predict that no tank will go rumbling down the street in front of Il Douche’s reviewing stand. Ain’t gonna happen.

Just tell him this is the best they could do.

[dasmoocher]

Wow, I guess we all had Trump wrong. This isn’t about the self-aggrandizement that has defined Trump all his life, but patriotism. Who knew?

Donald Trump’s July 4 spectacle just keeps getting more and more absurd

The dynamic, as Conway and the White House see it, is simple: If you are questioning why Trump is using July 4 to put on a show of military might, you simply don’t either understand what it means to be an American or you don’t love your country properly.

Which is, uh, well, problematic.

There’s a reason that no president before Trump has turned July 4 into, well, what Trump is turning it into. And that reason isn’t that they didn’t love America enough or understand what makes this country great.

Instead, they understood that there is a very fine line between patriotism and nationalism. (FWIW: Patriotism is, according to Merriam Webster, a “love for or devotion to one’s country.” Nationalism is a “sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.”)

Yep, no other president before Trump apparently has been patriotic enough to celebrate America properly.

[Skywatcher]

@dasmoocher

Donald Trump’s July 4 spectacle just keeps getting more and more absurd

His entire presidency gets more absurd every day. Why would the Fourth be any different?