gotta stroke shitler's ego.
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“A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine.”
– Soviet observation during the Cold War
These soldiers spend their days doing important work to defend our nation.
The U.S. military has done nothing to defend their "nation" for over 100 years. They ONLY defend the corporate oligarchs' ability to steal resources and use slave labor in third world countries.
Lmao yet Ukraine still stands thanks to American intelligence and military apparatus.
I'm not even an American but this kindergarten sentiment in Lemmy is so exhausting.
The band played "Fortunate Son". They all knew exactly what they were doing.
If shit ever does hit the fan full send (I very much doubt it) he doesn't have the army.
Got a video link? Sounds amazing.
They didn't want to attract the worm.
No need, trump was already there.
Trump physically resembles Baron Harkonen from the old film.
"The Spice must flow"
Yeah! They need to do important stuff!
Like point guns at me while I'm going to the grocery store!
Military doesn't do that, that's for cops after they get out of the military.
Oh, so who was the guy in digital camo standing next to the grey armored vehicle doing that?
Because im pretty sure that wasn't a cop; he looked like he might've actually know how to use his gun.
Cops have camo and rifles. I genuinely don't think the army has vehicles any color other than green, tan, and woodland camo.
Did it look like this?
He's about to get out and become a cop.
No. Like i said; he was holding his gun properly.
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Except when deployed when the police are "overran".
If I could march in a brass band after very limited practice, these guys can. They just didn’t want to.
From what I'm hearing from coordinators and people inside its not that they can't march. It's that nobody wanted to. They had to be there. So they phoned it in. Malicious compliance.
Like the squeaky tanks. That was a choice made in the motor pool. They could have greased them up and tested to make sure they were smooth. But they made a different call.
100%. I'm the most uncoordinated guy I know and even I learned (French army but the cadence/the mere act of marching is similar enough), like not even that far into basic either. Maybe not everything is lost for the common American!
Lmao I didn't think about that. Probably didn't think it would be quiet enough to hear it squeak either.
Same, considering its age that thing is in mint condition and barely made any noise, really highlighted how much crowd noise wasn’t there
They deliberately half-assed the parade because they don't like the way Trump treats them. Trump calls them "suckers and losers." He cuts their benefits Why would you show any loyalty (or enthusiasm) to someone who treats you like that?
More Trump quotes: "You fucking generals. Why can't you be more like Hitler's generals?" 2017
On the burial of US Army private Vanessa Guillén: "It doesn't cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!" December 4, 2020. Trump has denied having made the remark.
"We're not going to support that loser's funeral." August, 2018. Trump has denied having made this remark.
re: John McCain, who was captured and tortured for five years: "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you." July 18, 2015.
"But, you know, during the Vietnam War, I got very lucky. I had a very high lottery number." November 9, 1995.
On the 1,800 US Marines who died at Belleau Wood in France during World War I "Suckers." November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.
On US soldiers in World War I "Who were the good guys in this war?" November 11, 2018. Trump denies having asked this question.
"I don't get it. What was in it for them?" November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.
On disabled veterans "Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded." September 30, 2019.
"Look, I don't want any wounded guys in the parade. This doesn't look good for me." Summer 2017.
Ok, but 1. fuck John McCain that ghoulish piece of shit is in hell lmao. 2. Trump's point about soldiers who die on the other side of the planet, fighting for the profits of people like Trump, is absolutely valid. I have no idea what that thought is even doing in an imperialist's brain.
I had a very high lottery number
ah yes. that's how lottery works
During the Vietnam War there was a draft, so you could end up being conscripted and shipped halfway around the world to fight it. One way to avoid getting drafted was a lottery where, if you picked a high enough random number, you could avoid being drafted.
The thing is, Trump never picked a lottery number. Instead, he got five draft deferments, 1 medical and 4 educational. A lot of rich people at the time were able to avoid military service alltogether by getting a doctor to sign off that you had a sketchy illness. In Trump's case, it was bone spurs, which apparently healed right up after the Vietnam War ended. Trump kept his 1-Y deferments until after 1972, when he was reclassified 4-F (permanently ineligible for service). By claiming he got a "high lottery number" Trump makes it sound like staying out of Vietnam was an amazing stroke of luck. That was just another lie. Trump had powerful friends and family intervene for him. Luck had nothing to do with it.
Dodging the draft was the most moral action, after fragging your officer and joining the PAVN. Of course Trump only did it because it coincidentally happened to line up with what served him, but at least he didnt use his connections to pilot a bomber or something.
🏅"Could have committed more atrocities"
I'm a PATRIOTIC Republican who PROUDLY wears the American Flag on my Shorts and Truck and TRUMPS RIGHT! Our Soldiers are LOSERS AND SUCKERS!
Somehow I doubt that someone in a professional armed forces can't fucking march. It's just left, left, left right left
Anyone can march. Marching in perfect sync with 50 other soldiers in formation is another matter and takes quite a bit of practice and coordination like any other group dance routine.
I've been out of the military for almost 20 years and I can still march to a cadence.
Active duty? They could march if they felt like it. They did not.
You learn a lot about the speed of sound
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Given that Fortunate Son was playing as one of the songs...
I wouldn't be surprised if they also played Born in the USA and Little Pink Houses to complete the missing the point trifecta.
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I was only in marching band. 25 years later, I promise I could still do it with zero practice. This was on purpose.
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