• Trump's cosplay parade

    From Michael A Terrell@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 19 12:11:36 2025
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    XPost: alt.fun, alt.politics.democrats.d

    What a fucking joke:

    A soldier in a Revolutionary War uniform was sitting under a tree, vaping and
    scrolling on his phone. It was the Army’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth
    anniversary celebration in D.C., and I was looking for the entrance to their
    fitness competition and cake-cutting ceremony, before the big parade at
    night. Walking down Independence Avenue, a little before noon, I heard a din.
    Behind the Department of Agriculture building, thousands of soldiers were
    getting in formation. They had spent the night sleeping in the federal
    agency’s headquarters—workers had been asked to telework to accommodate them—
    and now they were streaming out into the muggy day for their procession. Each
    conflict in the Army’s history was to be restaged in a carefully
    choreographed performance, and so the soldiers were dressed in period
    costumes: some from the Revolutionary War, others in outfits from the Civil
    War, the World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. The uniforms had been
    rented and shipped to them from Hollywood.

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-militarys-birthday-parade-rolls-quietly-through-trumps-washington

    Haw haw haw haw haw! How "menacing"! No wonder Trump reamed out Hegseth.

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