{"id":2952,"date":"2025-06-23T03:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/06\/lame-pissed-soldiers-squeaky-tanks-fake-deals-r-us\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T03:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:08:56","slug":"lame-pissed-soldiers-squeaky-tanks-fake-deals-r-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2952","title":{"rendered":"
Lame: Pissed Soldiers, Squeaky Tanks, Fake Deals ‘R Us<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Of course the long-coveted, savagely panned parade for a man-child who would be king was a bust, “a pathetic event for a pathetic president,” notably in contrast to the estimated 11 million angry Americans who came out to say, “No Cons, No Clowns, No Dicks, No Kings.” The sad poseur raved about Marxist lunatics who want “transgender for everybody,” but he evidently missed the silent, stellar protest by scores of Army troops who in “malicious compliance” were in fact doing “the fuck Trump shuffle.”<\/p>\n

The Continental Army was established 250 years ago this weekend on June 14, 1775 by the Thirteen Colonies as they fought to defend their freedoms against autocrats. Coincidentally, June 14 is also Flag Day, International Bath Day, Knit in Public Day and the birthday of Che Guevara, yours truly and that orange stain on humanity, Commander Tinpot Bone Spur. So it was that the five-time draft dodger and aspiring despot was fundraising <\/a>for “my military parade” while arguing America can’t afford health care for seniors, free lunch for schoolchildren, HIV drugs for sick children or more than two dolls each so “a broken-inside narcissist can pretend he\u2019s not the worthless piece of shit failure his father never stopped telling him he was” and have a bellicose vanity parade like all the other Big Boy Supreme Leaders like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un – “We fell in love” – who isn’t speaking to him any more.<\/p>\n

Pretty much everyone else, including veterans <\/u><\/a>furious about the gutting of the V.A, <\/u>agreed it was a stupid, vulgar, deeply offensive, hideously timed idea, with Retired Maj. General Paul Easton of VoteVets<\/em> calling it “an exercise in puffery” echoing Soviets marching around Red Square in the Cold War: “We didn\u2019t do it because our greatest strength was our democracy. Today, that democracy is under attack.” Indeed, even as House co-chairs of a new Democratic Veterans Caucus handed out small hopeful flags to colleagues, arguing, “Patriotism <\/a>does not belong to one party,” one party was doing its best to shred democratic governance. At that moment,<\/em> ICE goons were handcuffing <\/a>Sen. Alex Patilla for asking<\/a> a question of Nazi Barbie Homeland as she vowed <\/a>that illegally called-up military won’t leave L.A. until they can “liberate” the city from its “socialist,” albeit duly elected officials.<\/p>\n

There’s been a Dem mayor arrested, Dem Rep indicted, Dem comptroller detained, a goading, <\/a>vicious Tinpot speech (behind bulletproof glass) at Ft. Bragg, a threat protests at his party “will be met with very big force – these are people who hate our country” (nope, just you) – and deranged taunts <\/a>from a Florida sheriff that if fictional protesters “throw a brick…we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead.” Now, a few days later, we’ve seen real murders of Dem lawmakers in Minnesota, a Middle East increasingly, mindlessly facing conflagration, our own deportation police state’s spiraling effort to render<\/a> the military and every U.S institution a weapon of a madman’s vengeful agenda, and untold reasons why a dog-and-pony-and-tank show for an idiot narcissist was not what we needed at this dark historic moment. <\/p>\n

Yet here they came: 6,600 soldiers, Black Hawk helicopters, Chinooks, tanks, P-51 aircraft, B-25 bomber, 34 horses, two mules, robot dogs, paratroopers dropping, soldiers absurdly carrying drones like pizzas, a soundtrack of canned applause and bad covers of 80s rock songs, Lee Greenwood warbling “God Bless the U.S.A,” an MC squawking<\/a>, “Special thanks to our sponsors” – Lockheed Martin, Coinbase, Palantir, <\/a>UFC, though he left out U.S. tax payers – because, “Corporate sponsorship for autocracy <\/a>is such an American thing.” They even hawked watches by Trump, who’s wanted a parade since seeing a 2017 Bastille Day event in Paris; first term Defense Sec. James Mattis said <\/a>he’d “rather swallow acid.” Now Trump blathered, “We\u2019re the hottest country in the world right now…Our warriors will charge into battle. They will plunge into the crucible of fire, and they will seize the crown of victory.”<\/p>\n

Uh huh. Facts owe: Everything he touches dies. Despite the $45 million price tag, trainloads of tanks and fears of goose-stepping storm-troopers, the day was “a flop at best,” “a little underwhelming,” a shoddy, bleak<\/a> vision of aspiring fascism by a low-rent, third-world country whose sweaty denizens endured “a very long and uncomfortable day” of speeches, exhibits, humidity, slow lines, no shade, little food, sticky drizzle, shrieking music, kids clambering<\/a> on tanks, warm Screamin\u2019 Freedom<\/em> energy drinks, too few signs – “Nobody knows what\u2019s going on” – and sparse crowds<\/a>: “I had more people at my bar mitzvah party,” “I’ve seen more people at Applebees<\/em> on a Tuesday.” Much lampooned were near-empty stands of onlookers gazing silent, uncheering, perhaps pondering their life choices as lumbering tanks s-l-o-w-l-y squeaked past. The consensus from one young poet: “It was just…kind of lame.”<\/p>\n

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