What a crappy child he is.
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If he wants to act like a third world dictator and get a third world dictator style military parade, then he needs a REAL third world dictator style military parade. He can stand up on his balcony while the same ten fake sheet metal rockets and the same ten fake sheet metal tanks go around and around the block. The whole thing continues until he notices it’s just the same fake bits coming past over and over. They’ll be there all day.
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But not for good reason.
Macron should have bring him in an hospital, or to a “health care parade”…
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Yes, every year for the 14 of July our national day, “Bastille day” as you call it.
This National Day is official since 1880 and the military parade is an inheritance of the really tense geopolitical context (the Franco-Prussian War was in 1870).
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This is pure speculation, but maybe it’s because they were, in living memory, invaded, conquered and occupied by a neighbour: the parades may be a way of saying to anyone watching, “Don’t even think of trying that shit again.”
(Ditto their insistence on retaining an independent nuclear deterrent.)
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And before that it was: Hey, look how badass we are. We are going to invade you, nyah nyah.
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They did hold the lion’s share of the front for most of the war, but that’s not the same as doing most of the fighting.
… except for 1917. They mostly sat 1917 out.
… and “everyone’s generals” weren’t “stupid”.
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Err, that’s an invasion in the east.
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A merry Go round!
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Leaving it in in a unsable state afterwards not so much…
In March in the early 80 (I think it was 82, I know it was March because I was out with friends on my birthday.) There was a military drill in D.C. Streets were closed, and artillery and tanks rolled down some of the wider streets. Troops were riding in trucks, no one was on foot. It was very scary to just happen upon. I was in college about an hour’s drive away, and had no idea in advance about what was happening. For about an hour we thought the country had been invaded. Anyway, this whole parade thing is a stupid waste of money. I just wonder what horrific event this announcement is supposed to be distracting us from.
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He likely sees this less as patriotism or a message to other countries than as a message to the FBI, the Courts and to Congress.
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“Draw Fête me like one of your French girls parades.”
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From my perspective, considered in the context of 1917, turning your guns on your officers and refusing to participate in any more stupid and pointless assaults was also “rather badass”.
No more deluded by reaction,
On tyrants only we’ll make war!
The soldiers too will take strike action,
They’ll break ranks and fight no more!
And if those cannibals keep trying,
To sacrifice us to their pride,
They soon shall hear the bullets flying,
We’ll shoot the generals on our own side.
PS: context for the lurkers.
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There are lots of parades, even in relatively progressive countries, where you get active and/or former military personnel marching along to commemorate this or that, perhaps with the odd tank to make it fun for the kids.
But there’s a whole other genre of parade, where the point is to display as much hardware as possible to impress mouth-breathers with the sheer size of your national military dong. That is 100% a dictatorship move. Apart from being a repulsive waste of money, it requires a profoundly ignorant population to find it impressive, so it works better on peoples who’ve never been permitted to leave the farm where they were born, or who are just congenitally pathetic fucking tools like Donald Turmp.
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Trump definitely wants to see missiles standing proud and erect.
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I would relish it with every fiber of my being if Turmp stomped his feet hard enough to get his fascist spectacle, and was rewarded with news footage of the nation’s most pompous roads being all smashed up and closed to traffic.
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How small is Trump’s penis again?
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As asked elsewhere - Can’t the Mayor of DC deny a parade permit?
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