I’m away from live TV. Is Fox covering the parade like it’s the most logistically impressive show of military might since D-Day?
I’m sure they are, but i’m not willing to take one for the team to confirm.
Still, he’s seen other parades, which is where he got the idea. This one is really, really boring. Where’s the pageantry? Where’s the flair? Kim Jong Un must be laughing his ass off.
Seriously! We need tympanists on camels, like in Morocco. (Source: watching the movie Patton)
Years ago, my father introduced me to a nifty bit of Army slang. A number of retirees would put all their certificates and awards on one dedicated wall in their home. That wall was thus the “I love me” wall. The felon now has an “I love me” parade.
Where’s the goose stepping?
Probably in goose shit.
I just flipped over to Faux. They are of course covering it till the bitter end. Right now some singer who has not aged well is singing, while Trump and his toadies stand on a stage looking incredibly bored.
OK, that’s all I can take. My report is done.
Anyone know how many people showed up? I’ve heard attendance was miserable but would like to confirm.
Meanwhile tbe international press is covering all the protests.
I have since learned this singer was Lee Greenwood. Which is not at all surprising, although he surprisingly did not look well at all.
Well, he is 82 years old. Life has a way of catching up to a lot of us by that point.
Lee Greenwood always sucked.
Actually, he did attend a military high school and, from reports, excelled in things like marching. And they had spiffier uniforms than camo and OD green. That was 60-some years ago, but likely he remembers that better than lots of newer things.
As far as proper marching, only a very small percentage of military people actually march at all after basic training or academy/officer training. So it’s not surprising they aren’t very good at it.
The anti-Trump Meidastouch just posted this video:
Trump PARADE turns into DISASTER as NO ONE SHOWS
They show a pretty empty Mall and half-filled stands along the route as soldiers and tanks are going by.
Gavin Newsom’s press office trolled Trump by posting: “THIS IS THE LARGEST PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHDAY PARTY EVER”.
I sense malicious compliance…
Well gee “come stand in the drizzle to see some tanks and horses” VS “come break windows and shit on floors in the Capitol.”
When Hate is the brand, it’s gotta do what it says on the can.
Or just plain ignorance about the song?
It was played at a campaign rally for Donald Trump. Fogerty found this to be “confounding”[19] and later issued a cease and desist order, noting that Trump obtained a draft deferment.[20]
I normally can’t stand to even look at Trump, but I savored every bit of that 90 second clip showing him looking so frikkin miserable.
The Meidas Touch vid in this thread, posted above by @dasmoocher and about 13 minutes long, is the first thing I’ve watched of him for, well, a really long time. I watched every minute and his misery was excellent to behold. Loved Gavin Newsom’s press office troll work, too.
Yikes. Trump really does look like he’s going to cry. Hegseth looks pretty unhappy, too.
If you look at this page, you get the perade and all the NK events listed together, which is the most pleasing way to look at the day. You have to scroll down a ways to find the video, which has a few shots where you can get an idea what the civilian attendance was. To me, it looks likely that there were at least 8~10k – not “nobody showed up”, but probably not what he was hoping for. The shots that show the soldiers faces show a lot of troops who probably did not want to be there.