I was in the pool!
It shrinks?
200k expected. 20k attended. Over 50k protested in DC beforehand. 11M protested nationwide.
Happy Birthday, Dickhead.
I hope he gets our birthday wish and he keels over. That’d be fucking epic.
I only glimpsed it on the news channels on the TVs at the gym yesterday. It’s interesting that it was originally hyped as a birthday parade for him, but all the clips on the news were labeling it as a parade to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the army. I guess the birthday parade shit didn’t poll well with anybody.
Also pretty hilarious that nobody really celebrates the 250th anniversary of anything.
To be fair, most things dont make it to 250 years. I’m sure July 4th next year will be pretty poppin, though.
Usually you celebrate the xxxth birthday of someone/-thing even when they’re dead. Last year for example was the 300th birthday of Casper David Friedrich, a painter. This year my city is celeberating it’s 750th birthday and I believe the university will soon celebrate its 600th birthday
Most…I didn’t say none…
I attended a No Kings rally in a small suburb that nobody here has probably ever heard of. We easily beat Trump’s numbers. LOL
20k attended? Damn, they could have just given everybody $2000 and skipped the $40m parade. I’m sure people would have enjoyed it more.
Or just, y’know, fund the VA.
Fund universal healthcare. Doesn’t sit well with me that people willing to kill for a career get any special treatment at all.
Don’t worry Republicans feel the same way and are actively trying to remove that special treatment
Why would we try to help “those losers”
And “suckers” don’t forget
Do you think he cried a little? I hope he cried a little.
The Craigslist post didn’t bring in enough seatfillers?
I wonder if that was real or not, but I don’t wanna stop the fun lol
11m? I guess that 3.5% rule is about to be put to the test.
The thing with the 3.5% that most people keep missing, is that it needs to be 3.5% of the population consistently engaged in protest, not just in a one off event.
Also that it is bullshit.
Where were the DC protests? That sounds like a large number and I know the No Kings protest organizers excluded DC from their planning because they wanted to draw focus away from there. If it was 500k in DC that would have been fairly substantial because that would be larger than the 2017 DC women’s march, which was the largest protest since the Vietnam war and was so large it encompassed most of the national mall. You couldn’t actually march anywhere because people were shoulder to shoulder.
It was 50k, not 500k. I mistyped and corrected it. The protests in DC were staggered from the morning hours and ended by 4PM in accordance with permits.
Oh yeah, I remember hearing something about a parade, shame it ended up being the same day as all those cool protests 🤔
It looked like JROTC compared to parades overseas
very low energy, and very demoralized people.
I saw the President sitting down and being all frumpy rather than standing on a platform and saluting the troops as they walked by.
Scar at least gave good speeches and could sing.
the lion king one looks signifcantly better.
Bruh, you have no idea how much sex I got from that movie in 3D. I have no idea why. I mean, it was well done into 3D, but not good enough to explain that. And its not like I was in some kind of “prime” at the time lol
Wait so you sat through multiple viewings of that movie just for some pussy?
It’s not a bad movie on its own.
Is that bottom picture really from trump’s parade?
Yes it is.
I avoided reading anything about it so this is the first one I’ve seen. I thought it was fake but I’m glad it didn’t look like the top picture.
I dunno. If you’re going to do fascist military display at least do it right. This fascism lite crap is all the evil but none of the decorum. He just does everything so shitty.
So it was basically the McDonald’s of military parades, got it. What more could you expect from McDonald Trump.
how have I not seen this use of McDonald before?!
Right? Show me some semi trucks with obviously weiner-shaped missiles. Instead of the type’o dong from NK, ours will be called big stick or something. Mushroom tip is taken by a shadowy conglomerate.
i saw the video on publicfreakout, all the army members in the parade, look so sad.
Good.
You know this going to get under trump’s skin
Why aren’t they kicking as high as these guys?
Sir, that’s a burlesque play making fun of Nazis.
Do you think Donny was able to impress his friends?
I don’t think Donald Trump is a boss. I think he’s owned. Like a puppet of organized crime. I kind of wish people would understand how real this world really is and see beyond the talking head puppetry. Getting trump out of the presidency is only like cutting off the finger of the real perpetrators. They are still alive without him.
He’s definitely only a part of a far larger problem, but he’s also the face and voice of the MAGA cult. It feels like they’ve tried a few times too pass on that torch but they’re kinda stuck with him now.
The lines between corporate America, the American government, and organized crime are thin to non-existent.
It’s sad… These protestors, and activists… It’s naive in most cases. They aren’t playing “the game”, they are playing the part that the people playing “the game” want them to play.
The war isn’t about to start… We have been in war. But no one fighting back is playing “the game”. We are indoctrinated mostly to not play the “the game”. So everything people do to fight is exactly what the “game” players taught them to do to remain submissive.
“The game” is the same thing from the streets, like the way gangs and drug dealer work etc… hustling, mob life… to mainstream business, and politics… There is nothing different. But they indoctrinate the common American to not participate.
In some ways some people “fight” to remain submissive and escape from a reality they are afraid of or actually never even saw.
We have been raped as humanity. We have been on the losing side of a long psychological war. We pay the enemy to castrate our humanity. We made this from our naiveness. From our fear of reality that was marketed to us to buy into their power structure instead of understanding raw reality and learning how to ride that wave, how to tame that dragon, we chose the false security that made a slave master.
We paid for this and we promoted this… The same people fighting it now, created it. The divided sides are purposely made. The divided sides are one in the same. The divided sides need to unite, because they have a common enemy.
“And yes, I built this house, I made it wrong / I watched it crumble, now I’m moving on”
Legal Modern Mafia.
What are you on about? It didn’t use to be this way and history takes many turns. This is a fight and we don’t need defeatist attitudes like yours because it’s “a game”. That’s how you dig your head in the sand and throw away the towel because you’re too comfortable to get up. Fuck that noise, the people rise.
There a glimmers of hope. I think the number of people who see how Democrats contributed to where we are now are starting to outnumber those that don’t. It’s starting to look like we might have an honest to God progressive as mayor of New York, and the establishment has got to hate that.
It’s still a real fight in front of us, but we are seeing the cracks start to form. What we really need now is a presidential candidate. Pritzker is the best I’ve seen so far, but I’d really like to do better.
Y’all need an honest to God revolution. At the very least Trump and his ilk need to be deposed and tried for treason, proportional representation implemented and all powers granted to law enforcement after 9/11 revoked. Don’t count on the day after government to do these things.
working on it boss
We need the get there yes, but not all on “the day after”. This is also the reason I suggested Pritzker as the best so far. He doesn’t seem to be shying away from the needed rhetoric. My biggest concerns are that he is just being opportunistic, and that he is a billionaire. Then again, FDR was super wealthy too, and whomever it is needs to be at least a little psychotic - which at least suggests a billionaire.
US politics is just reality TV at this point and that’s why Donny is president: because the only thing he was ever really successful at in life was being a reality TV character.
But evidence seems to indicate they do need that puppet to have any power. Although, maybe not anymore.
The thing with puppets is that once one of them wears out you just replace it with a new puppet.
Netenyahu is hoping to stir patriotism before the false flag and war with Iran. If Americans don’t want to die in the Middle East it may come down to a draft and things getting messy.
You are not wrong. But I don’t think any of them have that sort of ‘charisma’ that allowed him to get back into power.
That was a funny joke. President Felon has never had friends.
Poor Cheeto Shitler…
It just seems like they are trying hard to make life like the past instead of learning to ride the wave of the universe and existence, building and growing off what God/universe provides.
That’s the essence of all that conservativism has to offer.
It is pretty easy to put on an impressive parade when you have a military of 2 million people and aren’t a global power vs the US with 1.3m and have bases all over the globe. Even Russia was able to put on a bigger parade while they were fighting Ukraine and had lost tens of thousands of soldiers.
The parade was pretty paltry, but the fireworks display was very ostentatious. Breaking out the vintage stuff was cool, but lame that they didn’t at least put some mock .50s on the half track.
Honestly this shit parade made me realize how our imperialist strategy would make us very vulnerable to any actual war in the US
I think the difference there is you’d probably notice a ton of troops like, literally gathering for war. You’d have enough time to mobilize and house them. Parades are not important enough to pull that many troops away, and it’d be way more than this one cost.
Now, a civil war… nah, I feel like by the time anyone organized you’d have plenty of troops ready to squash it.
About the vintage stuff - they got that from Hollywood costume and props rental houses, and only started organising that last-minute, so they got rinsed on the price.
They obviously just pocketed the money.
communists have the best marches.
Hugo Boss would like a word with you.
The problem is that both are bad, and collectively we need to end both, constantly.
Photo taken first thing in the morning, but nice try
Nah. That was during the parade.
Lol. It’s not like anyone was going to fly in for this. What were they thinking?
as someone mentioned in another thread, most likely it was a distraction from all the protests thats going. notice how all the MSMs are are barely covering it and focusing the assassinations and the parade.
Do you have a better photo?
Beep
Shut up, loser.
