Trump wants to play with the tanks
Of course. Idiot Trump thought the right way to celebrate his inauguration would be with a brutalist display of tanks and missile launchers.
The military “may come marching down Pennsylvania Avenue,” Trump told the Washington Post in an interview published Wednesday. “That military may be flying over New York City and Washington, D.C., for parades. I mean, we’re going to be showing our military.”
Trump spoke about his vision of military parades in vague terms, suggesting it was something he might oversee in the future. But according to several sources involved in his inaugural preparations, Trump has endeavored to ensure that his first day as commander-in-chief is marked by an unusual display of heavy military equipment.
During the preparation for Friday’s transfer-of-power, a member of Trump’s transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers in the inaugural parade, a source involved in inaugural planning told The Huffington Post. “They were legit thinking Red Square/North Korea-style parade,” the source said, referring to massive military parades in Moscow and Pyongyang, typically seen as an aggressive display of muscle-flexing.
Kill the arts and humanities, but get those missile launchers out there where people can see them.
If this is our last night on earth – so long, it’s been real.
Huh. Turns out it ends not with a bang nor a whimper, but a farce.
(All together, now… https://youtu.be/HsM_VmN6ytk?t=88)
Nice to see he’s putting our fears of fascism to rest…
Well, Putin does it, and Trump surely has to show that the US have better weapons than Russia, absolutely the best weapons, the greatest weapons, very weaponly. You just won’t believe how good his weapons are.
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Yeah, I’m sure they’re longer, broader, pointier and more devasting than Putin’s. I mean, he has to compensate for those small hands of his…
Who am I kidding. He has to compensate for pretty much everything about himself.
Jesus h Christ. What a terrifying huge baby. Damn it. And I had plans for the next few years and a good souvenir for you Ophelia.
Did he get the tank-think backwards? Too?
Holms is right. This is classic fascism. And utterly terrifying, even to those of us on the other side of the pond (who should really be distracted by our own brand of political idiocy and self-harm).
But, dammit America, you have to be bigger and more impressive than everyone else. Even when it comes to amazingly stupid political decisions.
Parades don’t demonstrate which side has the superior weapons, the only way to do that is to use them. Perhaps there will be an “attempted coup” and the Trumpists will be forced to jail millions.
Perhaps the ‘doomsday preppers’ are not so completely barking mad after all.
And what’s the point of prepping for nothing …
Let’s get things into perspective.
Der Trumpenfuhrer ist not ein Adolf Hitler. Well, not yet anyway.
If he was, for his inauguration he would be leading highly discpilined battalions of goose-stepping redneck supporters in full military regalia down Pennsylvania Ave to the strains of a newly concocted song ‘America Great Again und Uber Alles.’
My spies tell me that they are working on it. Biggest problem apparently is its inherent tendency to collapse into farce.
Omar, fascism doesn’t have to mean Hitler. After all, Mussolini was a fascist too. So worrying about fascism, is not the same as saying, omg, Hitler.
This is worth a look if you are looking for some hope and inspiration. The image is also strikingly beautiful. We’re all going to need more of this in the days ahead.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2017/01/20/if_you_need_to_find_some_strength_saturn_s_moon_daphnis_may_help.html
That’s right, and Benito marketed the word from Latin fasces meaning bundles of the sticks used to beat simple folk with. Popular as ornament on iron fences, by the way, often with a lance stuck in the middle.
But those two bullies were good buddies too, for a while at least. As were Joe and Adi.
Not Bruce, that was indeed both beautiful and inspiring!
(Sorry about my format fail just now):
Thank you, Not Bruce. I think we all needed that.
This is not intended to be self promotion, though it kinda is. Some years ago I was in a band. My songwriting partner in the band has recently started to record some of the songs we never got around to recording way back when. The link below is to one of them. The first verses were partly inspired by political events of the late 80’s and early 90’s. On hearing them again, I was struck by their relevance now. Enjoy, if that’s the right word.
https://soundcloud.com/getdunne/simple-stories
Ophelia, please feel free to delete this if you don’t think it’s appropriate.
The symbolic bullying. The assumption of a tin-pot dictator’s public persona. These are jaw-dropping enough. But how can anyone alive today be so grotesquely ignorant of the meaning of goose-stepping parades and formations of (possibly fake) armored vehicles?
Nothing says a celebration of the peaceful transfer of power in a democratic society under the rule of law like a tank parade!
Trump is probably going to need a much longer red carpet than Vlad’s, thicker, redder, wider and more erectile. Also Praetorian guards are essential for all fascist dictators. Putin already has a set, the tighter their pants the more sinister the regime. Donald will want some. I doubt that Trump will copy all of Putin’s posing, appearing bare-chested is probably not on the agenda.
Pretty sure that tanks would be bad for DC’s notoriously bad paving.
That’s one reason the military said no.
@21 Alona
That would probably depend on the type of tracks used, so don’t assume that Red Square style parades are off the agenda.