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Trump Says He'll Show Off The US Military In Parades

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Ogodei

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Big, nuclear missiles rolling from DuPont Circle to Lafayette Square every time a new poll comes out showing recordbreaking presidential approval ratings (once this fake news gets out of the way, W Bush after 9/11 is going to be the floor).

(do we still need to tag sarcasm?)
 
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dankir

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Ziltoidia 9 said:
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Of course he's going to have a baller ass Trump branded tank leading the parade, If think other wise you're delusional.
 
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flkraven

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"Trump then interrupted the interview to ask his lawyer to apply for a trademark for the phrase."

Life has become a comedy
 
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Ms.Galaxy

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Are we still going to deny that Trump is a literal fascist and continue calling those who say he is hyperbolic, or are we all good now? Because if it isn't anymore obvious...
 
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devilhawk

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Military parades wouldn't even be new for the US. We use to do them quite often, but not since the 91 and 92 Gulf War and Desert Storm parades, I think.
 
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Flux

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How much will it cost to license the Imperial Storm Trooper March theme? Not like he will pay for the use of it.
 
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SpecX

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Don't we already do something like this? Maybe not at this scale that he wants, but I'm use to the military bases nearby hosting airshows and performances for the public.
 
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QuicheFontaine

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flkraven said:
"Trump then interrupted the interview to ask his lawyer to apply for a trademark for the phrase."

Life has become a comedy
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That's my favourite bit:

"Hey Jimmy! We ever trademark the keep america great thing? No? Well go do it now, I'm doing an interview here!

<turns back>

Anyway, the exclamation point really brings it all together. Shows I'm serious about America. I suggested the exclamation point myself, tremendous idea, believe me..."
 
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Spike Spiegel

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"Are you ready?" he told the Post. ”&#8216;Keep America Great,' exclamation point."

Trump then interrupted the interview to ask his lawyer to apply for a trademark for the phrase.

”I never thought I'd be giving [you] my expression for four years [from now]," the President-elect said when he returned to the interview. ”But I am so confident that we are going to be, it is going to be so amazing. It's the only reason I give it to you. If I was, like, ambiguous about it, if I wasn't sure about what is going to happen &#8212; the country is going to be great."
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There you go, Trump's campaign slogan for re-election in 2020. "TRUMP: Keep America Great!" Hasn't taken the oath yet and he's already thinking about his next run.
 
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iRAWRasaurus

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SpecX said:
Don't we already do something like this? Maybe not at this scale that he wants, but I'm use to the military bases nearby hosting airshows and performances for the public.
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I live right by an air force base and I have never seen any military parade.
 
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Imagine if Trump had proposed saluting the troops before every sporting event? People would have thought it was crazy but, well, that's already our reality. Yes, marching around the military is scary, but it's one more step on a path we've been walking down for years.
 
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ZOONAMI

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While this seems to be taking it to another level, I've always felt like flying fighter jets over stadiums was fucking dumb.
 
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B-Dubs

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We're gonna put this guy in charge of the Armed Forces aren't we?

Lieutenant Scheisskopf longed desperately to win parades and sat up half the night working on it while his wife waited amorously for him in bed thumbing through Krafft-Ebing to her favorite passages. He read books on marching. He manipulated boxes of chocolate until they melted in his hands and then maneuvered in ranks of twelve a set of plastic cowboys he had bought from a mail-order house under an assumed name and kept locked away from everyone's eyes during the day. Leonardo's exercises in anatomy proved indispensable. One evening he felt the need for a live model and directed his wife to march around the room.

"Naked?" she asked hopefully.

Lieutenant Scheisskopf smacked his hands over his eyes in exasperation. It was the despair of Lieutenant Scheisskopf's life to be chained to a woman who was incapable of looking beyond her own dirty, sexual desires to the titanic struggles for the unattainable in which noble man could become heroically engaged.

"Why don't you ever whip me?" she pouted one night.
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"That Lieutenant Scheisskopf," Lieutenant Travers remarked. "He's a military genius."
"Yes he really is," Lieutenant Engle agreed. "It's a pity the schmuck won't whip his wife."

"I don't see what that has to do with it," Lieutenant Travers answered cooly. Lieutenant Bermis whips Mrs. Bermis beautifully everytime they have sexual intercourse, and he isn't worth a farthing at parades."

"I'm talking about flagellation," Lieutenant Engle retorted. "Who gives a damn about parades?"
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echoshifting

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SpecX said:
Don't we already do something like this? Maybe not at this scale that he wants, but I'm use to the military bases nearby hosting airshows and performances for the public.
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Yes, Armed Forces Day parades have been a thing for a long time, though not at every base and much smaller scale than what he is talking about. The one that I know runs every year to this day is Bremerton WA
 
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Imperfected

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Hexa said:
Military parades are cool though. Here's the NeoGAF thread from watching the Chinese one last year. It was fun.

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1106246&page=1

I'm hoping he actually pulls this off. Though knowing him...
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I'm glad you enjoy them, but speaking as a veteran of two foreign combat deployments who enlisted explicitly during a time of war, I found them to be one of the most personally insulting things I was ever asked to do in uniform, and I spent half a tour on a detail tasked with cleaning up human remains.

Military pageantry is embarrassing and outmoded, and only allowed to exist because it's "tradition". Soldiers are not props, and tanks are not parade floats. That's before you even get into the extremely thin line between "inspiring patriotism" and "blatant intimidation".
 
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BigJonsson

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France has a really big military parade in Paris for Bastille Day so it's not just dictatorships that do it....

Still a horrible idea though
 
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