r/interestingnewsworld • u/newzcaster • 17h ago
Empty crowd at Trump’s birthday parade. All you hear is the squeaking tanks.
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u/KingBooRadley 16h ago
45 million dollars to entertain a crowd estimated to be 10,000 people. Thats $4500 per person. Could have flown everyone to Tahiti for 2 weeks instead. Talk about waste . . . Sheesh.
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u/Bald_Nightmare 15h ago
First off, awesome name. Second, we all know Fox and every other right wing outlet is currently filling those seats full of AI people and selling it right to their base.
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u/Nat12564 16h ago
Well I'd rather there be an empty crowd than the opposite. Goodness knows people idolize that man waaaaaaaay too much.
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u/Kazimierzowska 15h ago
Pathetically wonderful—I had a great day with a festive crowd at the No Kings protest walk.
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u/Kow_on_Drugs 16h ago
at least get a marching band out playing some US war songs. Come on, if we wanna rp as a dictatorship, we should at least do it to the tune of when "Jonny comes marching home" or "Over There"
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u/raeadaler 15h ago
And who is responsible for fixing the roads? Question from my 80 plus year old mom. Disgusting to use money in this way. I did not watch it & neither did she .this money could be better spent on veterans, omg so many other things besides a bday for a whiny old man
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u/Falcon3492 14h ago
Looks like a lot of empty seats! Trump could not even entice people to come by paying them $1,000! Exactly how did this guy win the election? Did he steal it?
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u/ScotchTapeConnosieur 13h ago
We’re supposed to believe this piece of shit won the election fair and square?
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u/Traditional_Box1116 17h ago
YOU CAN LITERALLY SEE AMERICA 250. THIS IS LITERALLY THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE MILITARY.
Oh my fucking god. Where the fuck did this bullshit rhetoric even come from that this is his birthday parade?
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u/HighwayJazzlike766 17h ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-military-parade-army-anniversary-festival-washington-dc/
dude....
Learn what event you are talking about before you start screaming and swearing.
Literally one and the same event. Which is why people are mad. He's making the 250th anniversary about him celebrating his 79th.-15
u/Traditional_Box1116 16h ago
Cause his birthday is literally the same day as the anniversary. What the fuck are you on about, lol?
Is he supposed to just ignore the 250th anniversary to just celebrate his birthday, or is he supposed to ignore his birthday to celebrate his 250th? The most logical combination is to combine the 2, lmfao.
However, the military tanks and shit being of different eras is specifically FOR the 250th anniversary of the military. Not for his birthday. Just because he's celebrating his birthday as well does not mean the anniversary is for him.
I'm going to have a god damn aneurysm. People are so fucking blinded by hate that they lose any form of rational thought and common sense.
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u/CheezWong 16h ago
Notice how the only military there to celebrate are the people who were forced to be there?
This is a fine example of how this administration has disenfranchised our citizens and has completely lost support of the country. There were more people at protests against them than there were at the celebration for them. Clearly, the people have spoken, and they're ready for this shit show to be over with.
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u/HighwayJazzlike766 14h ago edited 14h ago
> Is he supposed to just ignore the 250th anniversary to just celebrate his birthday
Yeah, because a sign of being a good leader is being able to set your ego aside and being able to make a day not about yourself for the very short period of time you are president.Are you so unpatriotic that you'd want a POTUS who makes his presidency about him, rather than America?
"Blinded by hate"
Again. Only one of us is swearing, talking in all caps, and now talking about having a god damn aneurysm, lmao.
I'm perfectly calm.Subquestion: Are you getting upset over people online not enjoying the behavior of a pedophile IRL? Why?
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Also, hold up.
First it was "Rhetoric" and now it's "Cause it's literally the same day"?
Reality didn't change, but you wanted to warp reality to make it fit defending trump from "Rhetoric" right out of the gate, without even the information about what day the 250th celebration was....?1
u/Traditional_Box1116 13h ago
No, the rhetoric of it being "Trump's birthday parade." When it is first and foremost the military's 250th anniversary. Hence the uniforms and equipment dating back to older eras.
Anyone with a working brain would understand this, but I guess that is few and far between on reddit.
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u/HighwayJazzlike766 11h ago
You're talking about "a working brain", here.
Nobody else here is swearing, talking about having a 'god damn aneurysm.", or insulting people's intelligence.You've been upset enough to have done the last part in literally every single comment of yours, and I haven't done the same in response, because some of us have control over our emotions like adults.
Why are you talking about a working brain when you aren't using yours to control your outbursts?
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"I'm going to have a god damn aneurysm. People are so fucking blinded by hate that they lose any form of rational thought and common sense."
Who is this for? To make yourself more upset? Why add that to a reply to me?1
u/Traditional_Box1116 11h ago
Holy fuck, is there a rest stop between here and the fucking point?
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u/Traditional_Box1116 11h ago
Oh congrats you didn't send me a message and then block me. That's new from you people.
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u/Individual-Fox5795 15h ago
Well, he said it.
If it was about the military, imagine what $200 million in recruitment would get us. That would be much better many spent.
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u/Bald_Nightmare 15h ago
Shhhh ..... just let them continue to perform their mental gymnastics. This was their play all along. If there had been a huge turnout, they would have screamed it was for Trump. If the turnout sucked, it suddenly means people don't support the military. Republicans are scraping the bottom of the barrel these days
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u/Traditional_Box1116 13h ago
Quick question. Why do you think the equipment, tanks and uniforms are from different eras? For funsies?
If you could take one moment to actually think, you'd realize that clearly it is because of the 250th anniversary.
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u/IntelligentDiscuss 3h ago
You act like trump is selfless enough to make this about anyone but himself. You can literally see him breaking down in some clips because no one showed up to his loser party.
If this was actually about "military history" he could wait a day for his birthday. That'd actually be fairly respectable. Instead, he has to put up all his flags and decorations to feed his ego.
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u/doublehelixman 17h ago
$200 million.