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The Case For Military Parades [Diogenes]

There is growing opposition to this weekend’s Army Birthday Parade…ordered by President Trump. Apparently because he ordered it, his opposition is finding all kinds of excuses to complain about it. It costs too much, it disrupts soldiers’ holiday weekend, it’s really about Trump as it is his birthday too. Hogwash.

These people are wrong.

Here’s why.

America needs this parade and frankly it needs more of them. Today’s military is drawn from a remarkably small percentage of the American public. Only about 1% of Americans are currently serving and only about 6% identify as Veterans. The result of this is an America that does not identify with the military, cannot understand what it does, and, sadly, many just don’t care. Whatever they need to know about the military, Hollywood will teach them. Parades can change this. It is an opportunity for thousands of citizens to see what an artillery piece looks like, what a tank sounds like, and what an MRAP looks like in the street. It allows citizens to see soldiers marching, looking sharp and standing tall. America meet your Army.

It is a training opportunity. The President gave an order. It will be carried out. Staffs begin planning. Units are alerted to begin preparations to participate. They will need to plan for travel, shipping of the vehicles, feeding, housing, and care of the troops. They will need to plan for time to set up, rehearse, and inspect. They will need spare parts for maintenance, special training for specific units, and leaders need time to check each soldier involved. In short, deploying to a parade in Washington DC (or anywhere else) is not that different from deploying to, say, the National Training Center for a month of training. It is just another mission to accomplish.

Further, it isn’t an excessive cost. The troops are going to be doing many of these things anyway, whether on their Post or in the field. They will still get paid. They will still eat. They will still have a place to sleep. Leaders will still be checking their soldiers. Maintenance expenses are factored into annual training forecasts. The only real delta in the budget is travel and that isn’t a huge cost, given the payoff. In short, the majority of the budget for the parade is sunk cost.

But there is a huge upside. Yes, troops will bitch about this stuff. It will be a couple of weeks of hurry up and wait. Multiple inspections, spot corrections, last minute changes, and boredom. But when the marching begins, most troops stand a bit straighter and take pride in their units. The soldiers I knew who did a major parade like this were in the DC parade after Desert Storm. All of them told me it was a real pain in the butt. But they also said that afterwards they were very glad to be a part of it. “Sir, it was a huge party!” Children coming up and giving a soldier a bouquet of flowers, strangers shaking their hands, hundreds of civilians saying thank you, and best of all, they never had to buy their own drinks.

Lastly, a parade is a huge recruiting event. When I commanded a Recruiting Company, any time I could get some equipment into a high school or a local civic event, I did so. The results were always positive and some were incredible.

America needs to renew its acquaintance with its soldiers. And soldiers need to see who it is they are fighting for. We cannot let this bond be broken.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:30 AM




Comments

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1 God bless America

Posted by: Mississippi at June 14, 2025 09:33 AM (VE6XX)

2 Soldiers putting up fencing around D.C. after an election was good.

Soldiers to be cheered and celebrated by the public after an election is bad.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 14, 2025 09:37 AM (T4Xze)

3 Excellent post. Full agreement with your logic and your sentiment. The naysayers are full of vinegar. Its ok to have a parade for the US military. Should have treated better over the years. Sure as shit after Vietnam and the endless GWOT.

These are good kids who come from good people. Celebrate them. They absolutely deserve it. Period end of debate.

Posted by: Simplemind at June 14, 2025 09:39 AM (YrUlT)

4 I read somewhere that they haven't done a national military parade since 1991.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 09:40 AM (KhjS7)

5 Did they pick today for the No Kangz riots coz it's DJT's birthday?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 14, 2025 09:40 AM (Splbu)

6 Never Rains on Trump's Parade

-- but all the AI spoofing tools spooing up will make these hard to top the UN-Parade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbC6dLG_dQY


Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 14, 2025 09:40 AM (55bjE)

7 Everybody loves a parade.

Posted by: Mobile and New Orleans at June 14, 2025 09:40 AM (lIgBp)

8 Ukraine "sneaks" agents into Russia, stations them close to important military bases, then has them launch drones and other short range weapons, with virtual no advance warning, destroying significant parts of Russia's defense capabilities.
Israel "sneaks" agents into Iran, stations them close to important military bases, then has them launch drones and other short range weapons, with virtual no advance warning, destroying significant parts of Iran's defense capabilities.
The USA allows hundreds of thousand Chinese to live, study, work and buy land (some near important military locations) in their country.
No one gets out of China without CCP approval.

Posted by: Tom Locker at June 14, 2025 09:41 AM (SBTk7)

9 They get so confused on Father's Day.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 09:41 AM (KhjS7)

10 Hear, hear, Diogenes! I just hope and pray all goes well.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2025 09:43 AM (79pEw)

11 The USA allows hundreds of thousand Chinese to live, study, work and buy land (some near important military locations) in their country.
No one gets out of China without CCP approval.
Posted by: Tom Locker at June 14, 2025 09:41 AM (SBTk7)
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Have you seen those people try to drive a car? They'll drone Canada by mistake.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

12 ”The parade will serve as a living history lesson, spanning every era of the Army from the Revolutionary War to today — and even the future — as thousands of soldiers will be decked out in era-appropriate uniforms and gear.”

This sounds really cool

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 14, 2025 09:45 AM (Splbu)

13 Hope the weather cooperates with the tank parade.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2025 09:45 AM (Q4IgG)

14 Big parade is good practice for July 4 2026 festivities

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 14, 2025 09:45 AM (Splbu)

15 I’m sort of neutral on the idea of a military parade, it sort of goes against the whole speak softly but carry a big stick American ethos.

But on the other hand military hardware and the trappings of a military parade are CAF.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2025 09:46 AM (XV/Pl)

16 But, but, having a military parade shows that you have a fascist government - like France on Bastille Day every year.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 14, 2025 09:46 AM (xTIDn)

17 They hate Trump. That is all that matters

Posted by: Accomack at June 14, 2025 09:46 AM (tG1pe)

18 Have you seen those people try to drive a car? They'll drone Canada by mistake.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

I've never seen any Asians delivering to the local Chinese restaurants. It's always a white guy.

Posted by: KwaK! at June 14, 2025 09:46 AM (89Sog)

19 I recall during Desert Storm coverage some news babe said of the soldiers, "They are all so fit!". Admiringly so.

Posted by: Javems at June 14, 2025 09:47 AM (8I4hW)

20 Have you seen those people try to drive a car? They'll drone Canada by mistake.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

Have you seen any Chinese drone displays? They know how to drive drones.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 14, 2025 09:47 AM (g8Ew8)

21 The soldiers I knew who did a major parade like this were in the DC parade after Desert Storm. All of them told me it was a real pain in the butt. But they also said that afterwards they were very glad to be a part of it. “Sir, it was a huge party!” Children coming up and giving a soldier a bouquet of flowers, strangers shaking their hands, hundreds of civilians saying thank you, and best of all, they never had to buy their own drinks.

I was there for that celebration. There were tanks and planes on the Mall, with soldiers atop them. I guarantee you those men will never again have a feeling of pride that intense. People walked up to them and treated them like heroes. My little girls sat next to them and were thrilled. The guys looked a bit surprised at how they were treated. It was a moment they'll remember forever.

Posted by: Inevitable Juvenile Humor at June 14, 2025 09:47 AM (s8j++)

22 Yes, troops will bitch about this stuff.

Corpsmen check troops for vital signs if they don't hear any complaining. It's the truth.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 14, 2025 09:47 AM (7xrfc)

23 Real America's Voice will cover the DC festivities starting at 4 PM.

Posted by: TV Guide at June 14, 2025 09:48 AM (G5+As)

24 Apparently the Iranian senior leadership is fleeing to Moscow.

Obama hardest hit.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 14, 2025 09:48 AM (xTIDn)

25 That viagra milf is AI because her sweater has many different sleeves.
I am getting an oil change and this place has a buncha flies buzzing about

Posted by: Accomack at June 14, 2025 09:48 AM (tG1pe)

26
The last three sentences of this post are of paramount importance.

Go read them again.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 14, 2025 09:48 AM (hKoQL)

27 Well, damn.

Posted by: Archimedes = Inevitable Juvenile Humor at June 14, 2025 09:49 AM (s8j++)

28 America needs to renew its acquaintance with its soldiers. And soldiers need to see who it is they are fighting for. We cannot let this bond be broken.
====

My dad opposed ending the draft because he feared the military would become alienated from the people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 09:49 AM (RIvkX)

29 Thanks, Diogenes. Very good and important essay

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 14, 2025 09:50 AM (Ylknx)

30 Apparently the Iranian senior leadership is fleeing to Moscow.


Not a smart move.

Posted by: Ukrainian drone operators at June 14, 2025 09:50 AM (s8j++)

31 Yes, troops will bitch about this stuff.

Corpsmen check troops for vital signs if they don't hear any complaining. It's the truth.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 14, 2025 09:47 AM (7xrfc)

LOL. Truth.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 14, 2025 09:50 AM (g8Ew8)

32 25 - the one in my ad has no sweater, just a low cut wonder woman style shiny silver something

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 14, 2025 09:50 AM (Splbu)

33 US Army predates the actual United States by about a year. Well worth celebrating that fact by a public parade. Father was an Army colonel and would have loved to see it or better yet be in it. Grandfather also.

Signing off for today.

Go Army!

Posted by: whig at June 14, 2025 09:50 AM (ctrM5)

34 They can visit Assad.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 09:50 AM (KhjS7)

35 My dad opposed ending the draft because he feared the military would become alienated from the people.

Many people thought that, and there is definitely some truth to it. I think anyone who volunteers to kill space bugs should get ten votes, not one.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2025 09:51 AM (s8j++)

36
I slept in this morning.

Is the "No King" revolution over?

Posted by: Auspex at June 14, 2025 09:51 AM (j4U/Z)

37 Military parades go back at least 3,000 years for a reason.

A country that so hates its military that it refuses to parade is near the end of its life cycle.

It's interesting that Timmeh Walz can only associate this with North Korea given that National Guard units regularly participate in parades. Michigan - just across the lake, maybe he heard of it - has an annual Pass in Review this time each year where a few thousand troops form up and then march around a field and do the old fashioned roll call for the governor and various dignitaries. It's boring as hell, but still kind of cool to see each unit get announced and the crowds cheer for them as they salute the podium.

(I marched in 2022 with the Air Guard component, which always gets big shouts because so few of us show up.)

And yes, having the military in the community is part of the American ideal. Walz's vision - if it even is one - is of troops hiding in their barracks or doing TDY or whatnot, but never marching proudly down Main Street. It's bizarre, but then again, we need to remember that the bulk of his career was during the grim 1990s with tight budgets, low recruitment and so anyone who stuck around got promoted

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)

38 Don't forget about us.

Posted by: US Navy sailors in the Persian Gulf at June 14, 2025 09:52 AM (lIgBp)

39 My dad opposed ending the draft because he feared the military would become alienated from the people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 09:49 AM (RIvkX)

Good point.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 14, 2025 09:52 AM (g8Ew8)

40 Apparently the Iranian senior leadership is fleeing to Moscow.

Obama hardest hit.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 14, 2025 09:48 AM (xTIDn)
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IF that doesn't topple the regime, I don't know what will.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)

41 It's bizarre, but then again, we need to remember that the bulk of his career was during the grim 1990s with tight budgets, low recruitment and so anyone who stuck around got promoted


Pffffft.

Posted by: The post-Vietnam 1970s at June 14, 2025 09:52 AM (s8j++)

42 I am fine with military parades.
The Bolsheviks loved them too if the Leftists remember

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 09:53 AM (+qU29)

43 > Lastly, a parade is a huge recruiting event. When I commanded a Recruiting Company, any time I could get some equipment into a high school or a local civic event, I did so. The results were always positive and some were incredible.
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I worked, as a civilian, at the Army's Human Resources Command, Ft. Knox before retiring. The Recruiting Command is there too. I was a Program Manager for a couple of the Recruiting and Retention software systems.

During the Obama years it was something of a struggle with the recruiting side... IIRC.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2025 09:53 AM (Q4IgG)

44 Apparently the Iranian senior leadership is fleeing to Moscow.

Got a link?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2025 09:53 AM (s8j++)

45 Having the Military viewed by the Public will show that everyone is human and normal. The Left would have us believe that soldiers are damaged goods who are to be pitied rather than loved.

Posted by: dc at June 14, 2025 09:53 AM (u0crE)

46 The President gave an order. It will be carried out.

Overruled!!!

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at June 14, 2025 09:54 AM (ULPxl)

47 My dad opposed ending the draft because he feared the military would become alienated from the people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 09:49 AM (RIvkX)
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At its core, a peacetime draft is unAmerican. When the Cold War ended, we should have disbanded CIA and the three-letter agencies, cut the Active Duty Army to 200,000 troops, consisting a rapid-deployment corps-sized element, garrisons and administrative/cadre units.

Then ramp the Guard up to 1 million troops, who would meet recruitment because it's community-oriented.

Instead we kept am active duty force just large enough to piss away in nation-building and then had to start drawing on Guard units to bridge the readiness gap, causing recruiting woes on both ends.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)

48 I'm still turning over Walz's bizarre "I hope it rains" comment.

Wisconsin must have been desperately short of recruiting goals to let this turd get above E-6.

I bet he was a world-class brown-noser. Licked his captain's boots clean daily.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)

49 Posted by: whig at June 14, 2025 09:50 AM (ctrM5)

So good to see you posting! I hope you are feeling better.

Posted by: Ann at June 14, 2025 09:59 AM (4neFu)

50 Chinese are slowly killing us with Melamine and MSG. Not to mention Bat-borne viruses.

Posted by: Wuhan Hacking Institute at June 14, 2025 10:00 AM (G5+As)

51 I am getting an oil change and this place has a buncha flies buzzing about
Posted by: Accomack at June 14, 2025 09:48 AM (tG1pe)

Obama's sitting close by?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 14, 2025 10:01 AM (5xuJ/)

52 Reads as if prep for a parade is a lot like prep for deployment.
Mass deployment is usually not for a pleasant thing but being prepared for one is part of the deal.

Free beer for all the GIs.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:01 AM (6dYPy)

53 Apparently the Iranian senior leadership is fleeing to Moscow.

Obama hardest hit.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 14, 2025 09:48 AM (xTIDn)
=====

This is what I have been waiting for, it was either Moscow or Beijing. Possibly Ankara.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:02 AM (RIvkX)

54 During the Obama years it was something of a struggle with the recruiting side... IIRC.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2025 09:53 AM (Q4IgG)

Speaking of Obama...

I guess we're seeing one of his greatest wishes come true..for certain values of "come true" on No Kings Riot Day.

His Civilian Security Force:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fO-usAlqak

An insane proposition that progtard enforcement thugs should be just as well funded and armed as our military.

I still can't believe that people voted for this esp. after this bit of communist inspired political control wish-casting.

Anyway, here we are. I hope these a-holes are happy and get what they deserve.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 14, 2025 10:02 AM (iJfKG)

55 Just googled "military parade dc". About the first dozen responses were titled "Trumps military parade". One mentioned the founding of the Army. Assholes.

Posted by: Javems at June 14, 2025 10:04 AM (8I4hW)

56 "Apparently the Iranian senior leadership is fleeing to Moscow."

This is the lynchpin. This is what this current effort is all about.

Once the Iranian man on the street realizes that the leaders are gone then it's gonna be a new day.

Posted by: pawn, one of many at June 14, 2025 10:05 AM (QB+5g)

57 Despite being a blue state Rhode Island has very strong ties to the military dating back to the Revolution. During WWII, much of the state was bascially Navy bases including most of my town. Almost every PT Boat skipper was trained here and before moving to its permanent home in Annapolis the original home of the Naval Academy was in Newport. The two parks I take Elvis for a walk are both former military installations, one dating back to Revolutionary times.

Even today between the Newport Naval Base, the Naval War College and the remains of Quonset Naval Air Station where they still train RI National Guard and build submarines the ties are strong. Lots of retired military in my town and the flags will be flying today.

Not all Democrats hate the military. Just this new breed of woke idiots.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 10:06 AM (viF8m)

58 On Reddit I said I look forward to blue cities burning today.

I got banned for 3 days. 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:07 AM (YTjJV)

59 Parade brings the community together on the good side.
It's like Mardi Gras without the booze and bewbs. A family event.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:08 AM (6dYPy)

60
Still waking up; but if the mullah have fled to Peking doesn't it mean that the morally authoritative CCP has solved the Isreal-Iran war?

Posted by: Auspex at June 14, 2025 10:08 AM (j4U/Z)

61 Just googled "military parade dc". About the first dozen responses were titled "Trumps military parade". One mentioned the founding of the Army. Assholes.
Posted by: Javems at June 14, 2025 10:04 AM (8I4hW)
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Typical media blunder. They think associating Trump with a revitalized, patriotic military carries shades of Hitler, but it actually reminds us of leaders like Reagan, Eisenhower, and Washington.

Why wouldn't the president support a military parade? Why does the left think this is unnatural?

Because it frightens them. Remember when Clinton was inaugurated, staff frowned at the troops in the parade until Hillary noted that "they belong to us, now."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)

62 Wait. No beads?

Posted by: Blonde chick with nice hooters at June 14, 2025 10:09 AM (lIgBp)

63 All the best Parking Wars episodes were in Providence.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:10 AM (RIvkX)

64 When I was a kid, we had military parades every year for July 4th in my small hometown. Nothing big...just a small parade and a bit of military hardware. Had an M2 50 cal in the central park that we could check out. Pretty cool.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 14, 2025 10:10 AM (XMwZJ)

65 Good post. Far too many people got their heads up their asses.

Posted by: From about That Tim at June 14, 2025 10:10 AM (fBUnn)

66 I’m not all that crazy about a military parade. It does make me think of Soviet times or Saddam or NoKo.

I’m not going to go burn down a city over it though.

And the opposition based on cost is absurd. Same people who want trillions spent on welfare freak out at $1M spent for a parade. It’s retarded.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:11 AM (YTjJV)

67 We didn't flee to Parking. We fled to Moscow.
Please try to keep up.
Besides it's called Beijing now.

Posted by: The Mullahs at June 14, 2025 10:11 AM (lIgBp)

68 They are intentionally NOT saying it is the Army's 250th Birthday. They want people to believe this is just Trump throwing a parade for his birthday. They know no one knows when the army started and will just believe the lie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:11 AM (bss/y)

69 Ha...maybe the Ukes can kill the Iranian leadership now that they're in Moscow.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 14, 2025 10:12 AM (XMwZJ)

70 Oops. Peking.

Posted by: The Mullahs at June 14, 2025 10:12 AM (lIgBp)

71 Not all Democrats hate the military. Just this new breed of woke idiots.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 10:06 AM (viF8m)
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There is a significant amount of Boomer Dems that still think it's Scoop Jackson's party. I know several. I have to tread lightly around them, because the delusion is very deep.

And yes, they vote.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)

72 Apparently the Iranian senior leadership is fleeing to Moscow.

How? Most of their planes got blown up real good.

Posted by: dantesed at June 14, 2025 10:12 AM (Oy/m2)

73 62 Wait. No beads?
Posted by: Blonde chick with nice hooters at June 14, 2025 10:09 AM (lIgBp)

Artillery shells. But they are harder to wear around your neck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:12 AM (bss/y)

74 Parking?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 14, 2025 10:12 AM (XMwZJ)

75 69 Ha...maybe the Ukes can kill the Iranian leadership now that they're in Moscow.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 14, 2025 10:12 AM (XMwZJ)

Well, they are going to take the city any day now. That is what I have heard for the last 5 years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:13 AM (bss/y)

76 My leftist Mayor cancelled the Memorial Day parade this year. To be fair attendance was lagging, but it is still a must to honor those who have passed . There was a ceremony . The mayor will probably show up at the No Kings protest today.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2025 10:13 AM (akw+7)

77 Think having an army is expensive? Try not having one.

Posted by: Old Pentagon saying at June 14, 2025 10:14 AM (lIgBp)

78 Tim Walz looks to the CCP as a "moral authority"
Tim Walz says that in public
Tim Walz thinks you are immoral

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:14 AM (RIvkX)

79 >>> 58 On Reddit I said I look forward to blue cities burning today.

I got banned for 3 days. 🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:07 AM (YTjJV)

Only 3? You can do better than that.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2025 10:14 AM (ULPxl)

80
It is the nature of the fighting man to grumble-
then follow orders, and excel.

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:14 AM (AOsQT)

81
Well, they are going to take the city any day now. That is what I have heard for the last 5 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:13 AM (bss/y)


#TeoWeeks

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:14 AM (YTjJV)

82 I don't think they are winning.

I drove through the local state University, and hung over the main drag was an enormous US flag on a guy wire stretching from two of the buildings.

and me thinking, "wow, during pride month even"

Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 10:15 AM (D7oie)

83 They are intentionally NOT saying it is the Army's 250th Birthday. They want people to believe this is just Trump throwing a parade for his birthday. They know no one knows when the army started and will just believe the lie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:11 AM (bss/y)
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Right, but the message common people are getting is Trump loves the military. This whole "Caesar did this/Hitler!!!" doesn't cut it.

Besides, NO ONE READS THEM. They are dead. CNN is a husk. MSNBC is being shut down. All the dailies in Michigan print only three days a week.

Seriously, if they think OMG Trump had a parade on a sunny June day is going to cut into his support, they are more deluded than usual.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)

84 78 Tim Walz looks to the CCP as a "moral authority"
Tim Walz says that in public
Tim Walz thinks you are immoral
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:14 AM (RIvkX)

Well, he is also a retard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:16 AM (bss/y)

85 63 All the best Parking Wars episodes were in Providence.

Nah

-- DeAndre “Ponytail” Hubbard from Detroit

Posted by: one hour sober at June 14, 2025 10:16 AM (Y1sOo)

86 Seriously, if they think OMG Trump had a parade on a sunny June day is going to cut into his support, they are more deluded than usual.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)

*looks outside at the grey sky*

Sunny? Maybe in DC.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:17 AM (bss/y)

87 >>> 75 69 Ha...maybe the Ukes can kill the Iranian leadership now that they're in Moscow.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 14, 2025 10:12 AM (XMwZJ)

Well, they are going to take the city any day now. That is what I have heard for the last 5 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:13 AM (bss/y)

And then the EU will partition OMG Russia into 87 districts!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2025 10:17 AM (ULPxl)

88 >Apparently the Iranian senior leadership is fleeing to Moscow.
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where they will quickly make nuisances of themselves and be sent back

Russians are irritable like that

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:17 AM (AOsQT)

89 I do so tire of the reservists and NG who identify as regular army.
We are not the same.

Posted by: Reforger at June 14, 2025 10:17 AM (E8aDl)

90 Apparently the Iranian senior leadership is fleeing to Moscow.

How? Most of their planes got blown up real good.
Posted by: dantesed at June 14, 2025 10:12 AM (Oy/m2)
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Presumably the Russians could send planes to pick them up - with an escort as well.

Israel is probably happy to see them leave rather than shoot them down. Dead, they become martyrs. Alive, they are merely cowards.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)

91 And then the EU will partition OMG Russia into 87 districts!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2025 10:17 AM (ULPxl)

And each technocrat will have his own fiefdom!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:17 AM (bss/y)

92 -- DeAndre “Ponytail” Hubbard from Detroit
Posted by: one hour sober at June 14, 2025 10:16 AM (Y1sOo)
=====

He was Teh Awesome Civil Servant

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:18 AM (RIvkX)

93 Well done, Diogenes!

Posted by: RushBabe at June 14, 2025 10:19 AM (19N3v)

94 69 Ha...maybe the Ukes can kill the Iranian leadership now that they're in Moscow.

I imagine Israel knows exactly where they are...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 14, 2025 10:19 AM (VE6XX)

95 Israel is probably happy to see them leave rather than shoot them down. Dead, they become martyrs. Alive, they are merely cowards.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)

But dead is still dead.

Actually, I would think Israel would want to hype that. 'Your leaders flee! See how much they care for you! See how brave they are! They leave you to us! We will not harm you intentionally, we will merely destroy the things they have been spending money on!'

Kind of wordy for a leaflet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:20 AM (bss/y)

96 Apparently the Iranian senior leadership is fleeing to Moscow.

Got a link?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2025 09:53 AM

X posts: https://bit.ly/3HA5QH1

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 14, 2025 10:20 AM (P5BPp)

97 I do so tire of the reservists and NG who identify as regular army.
We are not the same.
Posted by: Reforger

-

I never served. That said, as an outside observer I think it probably happened when they were used in the Forever Wars as regular army.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 14, 2025 10:20 AM (+vtNx)

98 A very nice post. Thank you.

It's the first in D.C. since 1991's Victory Celebration, and that was really a 1st since WW2.

We have not honored the fine men and women serving, or who've served honorably in the past, enough & appropriately. (And, no, dumping more $ into the VA is not the answer. It has more than enough plus an extraordinary # of FTEs & contractors to do the job RIGHT.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 14, 2025 10:20 AM (NFX2v)

99 I do so tire of the reservists and NG who identify as regular army.
We are not the same.
Posted by: Reforger at June 14, 2025 10:17 AM (E8aDl)
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Not me! Weekend Warrior Zoomie REMF, and my medical file has a LOD injury for hemorrhoids.

Fun fact: I never went to tech school. Got it waived. Can't get more Guard than that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:21 AM (ZOv7s)

100 X Link is behind subscription wall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 10:21 AM (KhjS7)

101 Well said, Sir!

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2025 10:22 AM (LHPAg)

102 Preach it, Diogenes!
And let's recall what Washington (or someone) said when establishing the 4th of July as a holiday: fireworks, shooting, parades!

Posted by: GWB at June 14, 2025 10:23 AM (NQWij)

103 This should be interesting:

@MrAndyNgo
·
17m
A group of “Queers for Palestine” militant protesters has gathered to try to shut down the Pride event in Warsaw, Poland.

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:23 AM (AOsQT)

104 I would think the Ukes are probably pro-Iran, honestly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:23 AM (bss/y)

105 100 X Link is behind subscription wall.

Yeah, I'm beginning to question this assertion.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2025 10:23 AM (s8j++)

106 Happy Flag Day and 250th for the Army!
The left doesn’t like these kind of parades because
Families attend, community , people are happy and they see patriotism front and center. Love this and hope the weather holds out.

Posted by: Paisley at June 14, 2025 10:24 AM (ny1NG)

107 I’m not all that crazy about a military parade. It does make me think of Soviet times or Saddam or NoKo.

I’m not going to go burn down a city over it though.

And the opposition based on cost is absurd. Same people who want trillions spent on welfare freak out at $1M spent for a parade. It’s retarded.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:11 AM (YTjJV)

I guess I grew up in different times, the 1950's. There were military parades in my town on Memorial Day, 4th Of July and Veterans Day. Of course, many WW2 vets marched in those parades, Dad included. It was considered normal and patriotic. I would be drafted in 1967 and served two years in the US Army during some very difficult and changing times. I have no problem with this parade. None at all.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 14, 2025 10:24 AM (5xuJ/)

108 103 This should be interesting:

@MrAndyNgo
·
17m
A group of “Queers for Palestine” militant protesters has gathered to try to shut down the Pride event in Warsaw, Poland.
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:23 AM (AOsQT)

Let them fight.
-from Godzilla

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:24 AM (bss/y)

109 A group of “Queers for Palestine” militant protesters has gathered to try to shut down the Pride event in Warsaw, Poland.

I kinda don't know who to support here.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2025 10:24 AM (s8j++)

110 I never served. That said, as an outside observer I think it probably happened when they were used in the Forever Wars as regular army.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 14, 2025 10:20 AM (+vtNx)
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Yeah, that line got very blurred. Guard units were put on a rotational cycle same as active duty.

The big difference is that Guard units don't have all the peacetime rituals, because when they're done, they just go home and (hopefully) back to their civilian job.

When I went to Germany, I found active duty somewhat claustraphobic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:25 AM (ZOv7s)

111 https://tinyurl.com/nhf9us26

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:26 AM (bss/y)

112 *A group of “Queers for Palestine” militant protesters has gathered to try to shut down the Pride event in Warsaw, Poland.*

Let's you and him fight.

Posted by: Popcorn retailers everywhere at June 14, 2025 10:26 AM (lIgBp)

113 >>>There is growing opposition to this weekend’s Army Birthday Parade…ordered by President Trump. Apparently because he ordered it, his opposition is finding all kinds of excuses to complain about it.

Is "ordered" what he did?

Posted by: m at June 14, 2025 10:27 AM (CQE5S)

114 This is all wonderful, Diogenes. Thank you so much.

Posted by: m at June 14, 2025 10:30 AM (CQE5S)

115 I think the parade marking the 250th birthday of the US Army and flag day is what this country needs. Let's reestablish pride in our military. Not gay butt-sex pride (pride month et al), but actual honorable pride. Plus, we get to see the power and might of our armed forces. Who doesn't want to see the hardware we use to blow stuff up? Well, besides our enemies and that's usually because the are looking down the dangerous end.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2025 10:30 AM (7v6oI)

116 Positive post! Thank you, Diogenes.

Nice to see whig, boron cobbie and rush babe!

Posted by: old chick at June 14, 2025 10:31 AM (F3Dlr)

117 A great guest appearance Diogenes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:33 AM (RIvkX)

118 So Queers for Palestine wants to shut down a Pride Event because they believe no one should be celebrating anything until people listen to them about Gaza. And being queer. And trans rights. And everything else. You haters

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2025 10:33 AM (akw+7)

119 X Link is behind subscription wall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 10:21 AM

This one?

https://bit.ly/3HA5QH1

It's simply a link to the search results on X for "Iran leaders fleeing to Russia".

It works for me.

Here is link to Grok response. Take it with a grain of salt, as Grok considers Reuters and Al Jazeera as credible sources:

Grok: https://bit.ly/4njLRwH

No definitive evidence from credible sources, such as Reuters or Al Jazeera, confirms these claims of Iranian leaders fleeing to Russia. The situation remains fluid, with conflicting reports and no official confirmation from Iranian state media or Russian authorities. Given the lack of verified information, these reports should be treated as inconclusive.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 14, 2025 10:33 AM (P5BPp)

120 Is the parade on tv anywhere?

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 10:34 AM (+qU29)

121 I guess I grew up in different times, the 1950's. There were military parades in my town on Memorial Day, 4th Of July and Veterans Day. Of course, many WW2 vets marched in those parades, Dad included.

—
That’s totally different though. Local parades that have the military as participants is great. My town has that now as well. 4th of July parade in my town is kicked off with veterans groups as the first floats.

These are not what “the parade” today is though.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:34 AM (YTjJV)

122 Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses shot, allegedly by someone impersonating a police officer!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 14, 2025 10:34 AM (NFX2v)

123 And let's recall what Washington (or someone) said when establishing the 4th of July as a holiday: fireworks, shooting, parades!
Posted by: GWB at June 14, 2025 10:23 AM (NQWij)
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John Adams, I believe - and at the time he wrote, he believed the day would be July 2.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 14, 2025 10:34 AM (6YdsJ)

124 I would think the Ukes are probably pro-Iran, honestly.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:23 AM (bss/y)

The people or the government? Iran is a Russian ally.

Ukraine is a U.S. ally.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:35 AM (/LUn2)

125 > Is the parade on tv anywhere?
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It starts around 6:30PM EDT. Probably on a variety of channels and YouTube streams.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2025 10:35 AM (Q4IgG)

126 Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses shot, allegedly by someone impersonating a police officer!
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 14, 2025 10:34 AM (NFX2v)

Or an actual, you know, police officer.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:36 AM (/LUn2)

127 When I went to Germany, I found active duty somewhat claustraphobic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:25 AM (ZOv7s)

Peacetime military is the shitiest military.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 14, 2025 10:36 AM (g8Ew8)

128 62 Wait. No beads?
Posted by: Blonde chick with nice hooters

youtu.be/gOfYnVLu9uQ?t=43

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:36 AM (6dYPy)

129 How many people even knew Trump's birthday was today before the left started claiming that it was the "real" reason for this parade?

There is no limit to the petty mendacity of the left.

Posted by: Toad-0 at June 14, 2025 10:37 AM (ZSsHR)

130 The people or the government? Iran is a Russian ally.

Ukraine is a U.S. ally.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:35 AM (/LUn2)

I was thinking more of the anti-Semitism.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:37 AM (bss/y)

131 I think the claims that the Iranian leadership fled to Moscow are premature at best. Say what you will about the mullahs; they're true believers, and I expect they'll stay in Iran to the bitter end.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2025 10:37 AM (s8j++)

132 John Adams, I believe - and at the time he wrote, he believed the day would be July 2.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 14, 2025 10:34 AM (6YdsJ)

And then Jefferson turned in his paper two days late, just to piss off Adams.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:37 AM (/LUn2)

133 129 How many people even knew Trump's birthday was today before the left started claiming that it was the "real" reason for this parade?

There is no limit to the petty mendacity of the left.

Posted by: Toad-0 at June 14, 2025 10:37 AM (ZSsHR)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:38 AM (bss/y)

134 I think the US Army youtube channel will broadcast the festivities

Happy Birthday, Mother Green

3/61st ADA, 2nd Brigade 3rd Armored Division USAREUR

"Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way."

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:38 AM (AOsQT)

135 I’m gonna call the Iranians in Moscow thing bullshit. There’s no mention of it anywhere. A single X account saying shit doesn’t mean much.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:39 AM (YTjJV)

136 I think the claims that the Iranian leadership fled to Moscow are premature at best. Say what you will about the mullahs; they're true believers, and I expect they'll stay in Iran to the bitter end.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2025 10:37 AM (s8j++)

I think pretty much all news coming out is not trustworthy.

The same people who lie about everything else are providing what is passing for "news."

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:39 AM (/LUn2)

137 "I am getting an oil change and this place has a buncha flies buzzing about
Posted by: Accomack at June 14, 2025 09:48 AM (tG1pe)"

A Studebaker Hawk?

Posted by: Toad-0 at June 14, 2025 10:39 AM (ZSsHR)

138 126 Posted by: BurtTC.

Impersonating, I think. Just on as breaking news. That and Walz.

"Brown haired White guy."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 14, 2025 10:39 AM (NFX2v)

139 > Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses shot, allegedly by someone impersonating a police officer!
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I saw that. Thought it was fake at first. But, no.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2025 10:40 AM (Q4IgG)

140 How many people even knew Trump's birthday was today before the left started claiming that it was the "real" reason for this parade?

There is no limit to the petty mendacity of the left.

Posted by: Toad-0 at June 14, 2025 10:37 AM (ZSsHR)

This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:38 AM (bss/y)

I thought Trump's birthday was April 20.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:40 AM (/LUn2)

141 135 I’m gonna call the Iranians in Moscow thing bullshit. There’s no mention of it anywhere. A single X account saying shit doesn’t mean much.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:39 AM (YTjJV)

Sir, I think you are missing the point of the internet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:40 AM (bss/y)

142 122 Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses shot, allegedly by someone impersonating a police officer!
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 14, 2025 10:34 AM


https://tinyurl.com/mtmpxbx3

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 14, 2025 10:40 AM (lIgBp)

143 Late to the party. Totally agree and thank you Diogenes.

Once upon a time I was in the Army… and I was not a particularly good soldier and I hated every second of it… BUT, I’m glad I got that experience; it was valuable in many ways not the least of which is it makes me very cautious about supporting military actions (only when necessary)

I will grudgingly admit I look back at a few moments with fondness

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 14, 2025 10:41 AM (ZtAny)

144 You know who else had a birthday on April the 20th?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 10:41 AM (KhjS7)

145
Sir, I think you are missing the point of the internet.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:40 AM (bss/y)

Porn and memes?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:41 AM (YTjJV)

146 Impersonating, I think. Just on as breaking news. That and Walz.

"Brown haired White guy."
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 14, 2025 10:39 AM (NFX2v)

Yeah, I know that's what they're saying. I'm just saying, Minniesomalia hasn't exactly been good to their cops lately.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:41 AM (/LUn2)

147 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

How do you feel about large, civilian airshows that almost always have a large component of fully combat capable military aircraft on static display with either the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds performing as the signature event?

Do those give you the icks, too?

Posted by: one hour sober at June 14, 2025 10:41 AM (Y1sOo)

148 142. Thanks, Quarter Twenty.

Perhaps an affair stirred up the ire. 🤷

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 14, 2025 10:44 AM (NFX2v)

149 Nice to see whig, boron cobbie and rush babe!
Posted by: old chick
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You too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:44 AM (6dYPy)

150 Good job Mr D.

Posted by: Javems at June 14, 2025 10:44 AM (8I4hW)

151 Porn and memes?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:41 AM (YTjJV)

Yes.

but also running and riffing on speculation and rumor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:45 AM (bss/y)

152 I guess I grew up in different times, the 1950's. There were military parades in my town on Memorial Day, 4th Of July and Veterans Day. Of course, many WW2 vets marched in those parades, Dad included.

—
That’s totally different though. Local parades that have the military as participants is great. My town has that now as well. 4th of July parade in my town is kicked off with veterans groups as the first floats.

These are not what “the parade” today is though.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:34 AM (YTjJV)

Then, what, exactly does this parade represent to you? I talk to my fellow vets and they're proud this is taking place. No qualms at all. In fact, my son's friends (in their early 40's) who also served are very much in favor.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 14, 2025 10:45 AM (5xuJ/)

153 How do you feel about large, civilian airshows that almost always have a large component of fully combat capable military aircraft on static display with either the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds performing as the signature event?

Do those give you the icks, too?
Posted by: one hour sober at June 14, 2025 10:41 AM (Y1sOo)

I’ve always thought those were just marketing campaigns. Ick? No.

But again those shows are local events. They’re not massive DC things with potus overseeing them with genetals at his side.

This is the problem with everything politics. It has to be black or white. Either you support the parade or you hate the military and everyone who has ever served. Why can’t there be a shade of gray in there? A shade where I can support the military, be grateful for everyone who served, enjoy 4th of July town parade with military participants….BUT… not be all that thrilled with a massive DC parade.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:46 AM (YTjJV)

154 61 Remember when Clinton was inaugurated, staff frowned at the troops in the parade until Hillary noted that "they belong to us, now."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)

yikes

Posted by: m at June 14, 2025 10:47 AM (CQE5S)

155 "How do you feel about large, civilian airshows that almost always have a large component of fully combat capable military aircraft on static display with either the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds performing as the signature event?

Do those give you the icks, too?"


Now do Fleet Week.

Posted by: The United States Navy at June 14, 2025 10:47 AM (lIgBp)

156 Irony can be pretty Ironic sometimes.

https://tinyurl.com/3wn9vaw9

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:47 AM (bss/y)

157 There is growing opposition to this weekend’s Army Birthday Parade…ordered by President Trump. Apparently because he ordered it, his opposition is finding all kinds of excuses to complain about it. It costs too much, it disrupts soldiers’ holiday weekend, it’s really about Trump as it is his birthday too. Hogwash.


$45 million. USAID spent $45 million a year on dental programs for guinea pigs on Bora Bora.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:47 AM (fab8c)

158 Whig,
I've always looked forward to your comments and feel educated by them.

I'm glad you feel well enough to check in.

Posted by: Wenda at June 14, 2025 10:47 AM (A65Zh)

159 107 I’m not all that crazy about a military parade. It does make me think of Soviet times or Saddam or NoKo.


When this is a twice yearly thing as it was in the USSR, we’ll talk. I have no problem with this parade. And we could use two more this year: on October 13 and November 10 (for the USN and USMC). These events are rare in this country and this is a great chance for the military to show the people it defends the hardware and people the taxes go to pay for. And it just might help with recruitment.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 14, 2025 10:47 AM (vm8sq)

160 I wonder if we have broom squads practicing how to sweep aside the inevitable Tiananmen Square wannabe lookalikes standing in front of our equipment. That's how I would deal with it, a half dozen men with literal floor brooms to push them.

Posted by: toby928 at June 14, 2025 10:47 AM (jc0TO)

161 Many moons ago, I went to the DoD Open House at Andrews AFB. Very cool. Blue Angels. Got to do a walk-around of a B-1 bomber. Golden Knights parachute team. The Marines did this thing where they all hooked on to a cable suspended from a helicopter and flew around the base. They latched on one by one as the chopper rose from the ground.

Fun day.

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:48 AM (AOsQT)

162 "How do you feel about large, civilian airshows that almost always have a large component of fully combat capable military aircraft on static display with either the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds performing as the signature event?

Do those give you the icks, too?"


Now do Fleet Week.
Posted by: The United States Navy



Ick.
Posted by: Local Hookers

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:48 AM (fab8c)

163 $45 million. USAID spent $45 million a year on dental programs for guinea pigs on Bora Bora.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:47 AM (fab8c)

Gotta make sure they have good teeth. Gingivitis might lead to dementia, I saw this week.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 10:48 AM (bss/y)

164 Breaking: 2 Minnesota Dem lawmakers (and their spouses) shot in targeted attacks at their homes this morning - lawmakers in grave condition, spouses unknown. Suspect is supposedly a whitish man, brown hair, impersonating a masked cop. Yahoo and other places have the story, but I won't link it...

They both apparently crossed the aisle to support the repeal of free healthcare for illegals. Is that why they were targeted? Who knows...but the suspect is still at large and unknown, so til he's identified, we don't know much...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 14, 2025 10:48 AM (tOcjL)

165 Now do Fleet Week.
Posted by: The United States Navy

"I got sore the last time I did." -Pete Buttigieg.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 14, 2025 10:48 AM (7xrfc)

166 Is the parade on tv anywhere?
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It starts around 6:30PM EDT. Probably on a variety of channels and YouTube streams.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2025 10:35
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NewsMax is starting coverage 5p Central.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 14, 2025 10:49 AM (BwZyW)

167 When Democrats leave the reservation.

https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1933879882976522635

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 14, 2025 10:50 AM (a1415)

168 Parades are fun duty. A couple of weeks of not being in the fucking motorpool. A break from the dirt and grease.
Ususlly in some TDY locale so different strippers to woo.

Posted by: Reforger at June 14, 2025 10:50 AM (E8aDl)

169 Porn and memes?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
-----------------------------

No. Mentos and Coke

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:51 AM (6dYPy)

170 Minnesota story confirmed by Tim Walz live on Fox

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:51 AM (RIvkX)

171 “America needs this parade and frankly it needs more of them. Today’s military is drawn from a remarkably small percentage of the American public. Only about 1% of Americans are currently serving and only about 6% identify as Veterans.”

Another bit of food for thought: of those veterans, and those currently in right now, how many are doing so because it is the family business? I went in due to no small part of the fact that my father was in the Army. (Back in the day Ramstein AB and Rhein-Main AB more or less did recruiting work for free as I got to see what the AF was all about before I joined them some years later.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 14, 2025 10:51 AM (vm8sq)

172 "I am getting an oil change and this place has a buncha flies buzzing about
Posted by: Accomack at June 14, 2025 09:48 AM (tG1pe)"

A Studebaker Hawk?

Posted by: Toad-0 at June 14, 2025 10:39 AM


ISWYDT

Posted by: Billy at June 14, 2025 10:51 AM (jc0TO)

173 Fun fact: The F/A-18s flown by the Blue Angels can be made fully combat capable and ready for re-deployment to the fleet if need be in 72 hours.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 14, 2025 10:51 AM (Y1sOo)

174 When this is a twice yearly thing as it was in the USSR, we’ll talk. I have no problem with this parade. And we could use two more this year: on October 13 and November 10 (for the USN and USMC). These events are rare in this country and this is a great chance for the military to show the people it defends the hardware and people the taxes go to pay for. And it just might help with recruitment.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 14, 2025 10:47 AM (vm8sq)

Frankly, I always thought those Soviet and North Korean parades were cool looking. With those huge paper machete rockets, and chick soldiers in skirts....

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:52 AM (vF3jY)

175 “They both apparently crossed the aisle to support the repeal of free healthcare for illegals”

Well, many illegals have no health for which to care. And no matter the laws passed, nothing is free.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 14, 2025 10:52 AM (vm8sq)

176 89 I do so tire of the reservists and NG who identify as regular army.
We are not the same.
Posted by: Reforger at June 14, 2025 10:17 AM (E8aDl)
Tell that to the many reservists who retired with more than twenty years active duty, much of it deployed to actual wars. And some on this blog. Just an observation.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2025 10:52 AM (LHPAg)

177 >>"How do you feel about large, civilian airshows that almost always have a large component of fully combat capable military aircraft on static display with either the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds performing as the signature event?

One of the biggest loses around here since the lockdowns is the air show they used to run out of Quonset. They would bring all sorts of military aircraft including the Blue Angels and paratroopers and they would scream up and down the bay. It was glorious.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 10:53 AM (viF8m)

178 Irony is good for you. It's got iron in it.

Posted by: Grammatical nutritionist at June 14, 2025 10:53 AM (lIgBp)

179 Minnesota story confirmed by Tim Walz live on Fox
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:51 AM (RIvkX)

In that case, now I think it must be fake.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:53 AM (vF3jY)

180 Hiya Braenyard!

Posted by: old chick at June 14, 2025 10:53 AM (F3Dlr)

181 112 *A group of “Queers for Palestine” militant protesters has gathered to try to shut down the Pride event in Warsaw, Poland.*

Let's you and him fight.
Posted by: Popcorn retailers

They've now united to resist your patriarchal pronouns.

Posted by: Auspex at June 14, 2025 10:54 AM (j4U/Z)

182 One of the biggest loses around here since the lockdowns is the air show they used to run out of Quonset.
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Home of the Hut?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 14, 2025 10:54 AM (6YdsJ)

183 3rd world dictators and soviets before them have military parades to show off how big and tough their military is. It’s gay and retarded. Because if you truly have a strong military you don’t need a parade to let the world know how powerful it is. It’s like a smart person doesn’t have to tell you he’s smart. You just know.

Is Trump doing this? No. I think he genuinely wanted to do this to celebrate the Army’s history. However it also comes across as “look how tough we are”. When I first heard about it that was my first reaction, without even knowing it was his birthday (which is a realllly retarded reason to oppose it by the way).

That’s why I’m not super happy with it. Doesn’t mean I will be burning my city down to protest. Doesn’t mean I hate veterans. Doesn’t mean I hate current members of the military. Doesn’t mean I’m a communist. Doesn’t mean I hate America.

I just think it’s a bad look. That’s all.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:54 AM (YTjJV)

184 Walz: We must all stand for political violence.

MN lawmaker, husband killed in 'targeted attack.'

Suspect is still free.



Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 14, 2025 10:54 AM (NFX2v)

185 Breaking: 2 Minnesota Dem lawmakers (and their spouses) shot in targeted attacks at their homes this morning - lawmakers in grave condition, spouses unknown. Suspect is supposedly a whitish man, brown hair, impersonating a masked cop. Yahoo and other places have the story, but I won't link it...

They both apparently crossed the aisle to support the repeal of free healthcare for illegals. Is that why they were targeted? Who knows...but the suspect is still at large and unknown, so til he's identified, we don't know much...
Posted by: Nova Local


The LARP'ers are really wanting a shooting war. It be won't turn out like they think it will.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:55 AM (fab8c)

186 Tim Walz would stand proudly in PRC MBT while sticking Wong with his wang.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 10:55 AM (DSNOc)

187 For those of you waiting for Trump to defy the courts your time has come.

>>@Rightanglenews

>>BREAKING - President Trump’s administration has informed the judge who ordered the release of college riot organizer Mahmoud Khalil that they will not comply.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 10:55 AM (viF8m)

188 184. I'm so sorry. Really

against political violence.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 14, 2025 10:55 AM (NFX2v)

189 This US Army celebration, parade, whatever isn't some "massive," day long pornographic display of American firepower. It's got about the same number of participants as a typical Army "command change" ceremony. I doubt there's over 100 pieces of military kit like tanks, APC's, etc.

It's the Army's 250th birthday. Let 'em party.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2025 10:56 AM (Q4IgG)

190 Walz: We must all stand for political violence.


FU. I'm crouching and firing from cover.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:56 AM (fab8c)

191 As a retired soldier, (let me note here that I am not a combat vet, just to be clear about my status) I take it as a personal insult that anybody would participate in the "No Kings" protest.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 14, 2025 10:56 AM (WJz/2)

192 Frankly, I always thought those Soviet and North Korean parades were cool looking. With those huge paper machete rockets, and chick soldiers in skirts....
Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:52 AM (vF3jY)

I did too, until I read A Quick and Dirty Guide To War, by Dunnigan and Bay, which has no small amount of sarcasm. On those parades, they said, paraphrasing, the missiles in Red Square look great on TV but is in fact a very bad way to carry a missile if your intent is to shoot it.

(When deployed I told a fellow officer this when he asked why I went with a thigh holster instead of the cheap over the shoulder ones whoch had the M9 facing rearward: is your aim to look cool, or to use the M9 if called upon?)

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 14, 2025 10:56 AM (vm8sq)

193 Prayers for those attacked in MN.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 10:57 AM (DSNOc)

194 >>Home of the Hut?

Yep. And the Seabees. Fittingly enough, there is a museum at Quonset for the Seabees and it is mainly housed in Quonset huts.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 10:57 AM (viF8m)

195 One of the biggest loses around here since the lockdowns is the air show they used to run out of Quonset.
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Home of the Hut?
Posted by: Captain Obvious


Quonset the Pizza Hut.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:57 AM (fab8c)

196 Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 10:57 AM (DSNOc)

Amen

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 14, 2025 10:58 AM (ymNCe)

197 Tell that to the many reservists who retired with more than twenty years active duty, much of it deployed to actual wars. And some on this blog. Just an observation.
Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2025 10:52 AM (LHPAg)

I think I did. Still not the same.

Posted by: Reforger at June 14, 2025 10:58 AM (E8aDl)

198 Perhaps an affair stirred up the ire.
Posted by: L - No nic

*********

I agree that this might turn out to be a domestic thing. One male and one female victim. Cuckolded husband found out they were knocking boots. Shoots one, drives 8 miles to the house of the other. Shoots again.

Just speculating. First impressions. 72 hour rule. etc.

Posted by: muldoon at June 14, 2025 10:58 AM (/iMjX)

199 BREAKING - President Trump’s administration has informed the judge who ordered the release of college riot organizer Mahmoud Khalil that they will not comply.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 10:55 AM (viF8m)

What's he being held for?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:58 AM (vF3jY)

200 Our big parade with the military was Thanksgiving Day.
It was a big turnout.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:58 AM (6dYPy)

201 from Instapundit:

https://is.gd/C6pXU5

@IngrahamAngle
This is Walton's megayacht - named KAOS.
[image]

==
Can we start a )(%# (payment on delivery) *fund* for Poo Tin to start collecting these megayachts? or will OrangeManBad authorize marque & reprisal???


Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2025 10:59 AM (ULPxl)

202 Peace is not the ( can't find the word I want) condition of humanity.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 14, 2025 10:59 AM (DLqye)

203 183 3rd world dictators and soviets before them have military parades to show off how big and tough their military is. It’s gay and retarded. Because if you truly have a strong military you don’t need a parade to let the world know how powerful it is. It’s like a smart person doesn’t have to tell you he’s smart. You just know.

Is Trump doing this? No. I think he genuinely wanted to do this to celebrate the Army’s history. However it also comes across as “look how tough we are”. When I first heard about it that was my first reaction, without even knowing it was his birthday (which is a realllly retarded reason to oppose it by the way).

That’s why I’m not super happy with it. Doesn’t mean I will be burning my city down to protest. Doesn’t mean I hate veterans. Doesn’t mean I hate current members of the military. Doesn’t mean I’m a communist. Doesn’t mean I hate America.

I just think it’s a bad look. That’s all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:54 AM (YTjJV)

I get what you’re saying but today IS the 250th anniversary of the Army and this isn’t the constant thing it is for dictatorships.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 14, 2025 10:59 AM (vm8sq)

204 >>What's he being held for?

For lying on his visa about being a supporter of Hamas.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 10:59 AM (viF8m)

205
What's he being held for?
Posted by: BurtTC
--------------------------

Good reason.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:00 AM (6dYPy)

206 Were the MN lawmakers and their spouses killed or they are in the hospital?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 14, 2025 11:00 AM (ymNCe)

207 202 Peace is not the ( can't find the word I want) condition of humanity.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 14, 2025 10:59 AM (DLqye)

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Posted by: Plato at June 14, 2025 11:00 AM (vm8sq)

208 KAOS?

Where's Agent 86?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:00 AM (DSNOc)

209 Being reported that both of the Minnesota legislators who were shot broke with the Dems and voted to deny illegals Medicaid. Might not be the reason but it's interesting.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2025 11:00 AM (akw+7)

210 drives 8 miles to the house of the other.

********

That smells personal, not political.

Posted by: muldoon at June 14, 2025 11:00 AM (/iMjX)

211 For lying on his visa about being a supporter of Hamas.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 10:59 AM (viF8m)

Spreading misinformation and disinformation.

Sounds bad.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 11:01 AM (vF3jY)

212 202 Peace is not the ( can't find the word I want) condition of humanity.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 14, 2025 10:59 AM (DLqye)

'Natural state'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 11:01 AM (bss/y)

213 KAOS?

Where's Agent 86?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:00 AM (DSNOc)
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Killing As an Organized Sport

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 14, 2025 11:01 AM (6YdsJ)

214 Good reason.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:00 AM (6dYPy)

That's what they said about the J6ers too.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 11:02 AM (vF3jY)

215 Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna

This is horrible, and we condemn this awful violence. This unhinged individual -- still on the loose -- was reportedly dressed as a police officer, and shot both the representatives and their spouses. We are praying for their families.

Election Wizard @ElectionWiz

BREAKING: Minnesota Senator John Hoffman (D) and State Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) have been shot at their homes. Condition unknown - KMSP/KSTP

Hortman recently supported repealing healthcare benefits for illegal aliens.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 14, 2025 11:02 AM (P5BPp)

216 194 >>Home of the Hut?

Yep. And the Seabees. Fittingly enough, there is a museum at Quonset for the Seabees and it is mainly housed in Quonset huts.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 10:57 AM (viF8m)

about 15 years ago I lived across the street from a guy who had to be the oldest living seabee when he died - he lived to age 102, and he had joined the seabees when he was 40, after a construction career. Fascinating old guy.

we had a really in depth conversation once, I was wondering why he was talking to me like he knew me, and then I realized he thought I was some relative who had quit coming to see him and who he had missed. I played the part, since it made him so happy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2025 11:03 AM (uWKK8)

217 Peace is not the ( can't find the word I want) condition of humanity.
Posted by: Ben Had

***********

default?
baseline?

Posted by: muldoon at June 14, 2025 11:03 AM (/iMjX)

218 FS - the latest on FOX
John Hoffman and his wife are out of surgery, per reports. Both were shot multiple times. Melissa Hoffman and her spouse's conditions are unknown at this time.

Posted by: old chick at June 14, 2025 11:03 AM (F3Dlr)

219 I love a parade!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at June 14, 2025 11:03 AM (JkO4W)

220 Peace is not the ( can't find the word I want) condition of humanity.
Posted by: Ben Had



Normal.


War is the normal condition of humanity. Been that way sing Og wanted Ug's woman & cave.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 11:04 AM (fab8c)

221 No suspect found?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 11:04 AM (bss/y)

222 The state of peace among men living side by side is not the natural state, the natural state is one of war.

- Immanuel Kant

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 11:05 AM (viF8m)

223 208 KAOS?

Where's Agent 86?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:00 AM (DSNOc)

That’s a radio station.

Posted by: Roger Waters at June 14, 2025 11:05 AM (vm8sq)

224 War is the normal condition of humanity. Been that way sing Og wanted Ug's woman & cave.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 11:04 AM (fab8c)

I mean, have you seen the size of her boobs? And that cave!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 11:05 AM (bss/y)

225 muldoon. Default is close but still not quite right.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 14, 2025 11:05 AM (DLqye)

226 I just think it’s a bad look. That’s all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:54 AM (YTjJV)

I get what you’re saying but today IS the 250th anniversary of the Army and this isn’t the constant thing it is for dictatorships.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 14, 2025 10:59 AM (vm8sq)

What various men think about this parade is a pretty accurate testosterone level test. For women it's simply a Patriotism test.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK8)

227 about 15 years ago I lived across the street from a guy who had to be the oldest living seabee when he died - he lived to age 102, and he had joined the seabees when he was 40, after a construction career. Fascinating old guy.

we had a really in depth conversation once, I was wondering why he was talking to me like he knew me, and then I realized he thought I was some relative who had quit coming to see him and who he had missed. I played the part, since it made him so happy.
Posted by: Tom Servo


My uncle was a SeaBee. We he got out, he went to work on the locks & dams on the Mississippi River.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 11:06 AM (fab8c)

228 Yep. And the Seabees. Fittingly enough, there is a museum at Quonset for the Seabees and it is mainly housed in Quonset huts.
Posted by: JackStraw

Ward Cleaver was a Seabee. Hugh Beaumont, IRL, was a CO and served as a medic during WW II.

Posted by: Life In Mayfield at June 14, 2025 11:06 AM (G5+As)

229 I see we have a generation of people unaccustomed to parades.
Parades are part of history and American history. They are as American as Apple Pie and to have a parade with out the military represented should not be considered.

Put the mounted cops in for bunting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:06 AM (6dYPy)

230 >>Spreading misinformation and disinformation.

>>Sounds bad.

And, you know, starting fucking riots and directing violence against Jews.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 11:06 AM (viF8m)

231 In Minnesota:
Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed this morning in what appears to be a "politically motivated assassination".

https://tinyurl.com/2c82nne2

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 14, 2025 11:06 AM (lIgBp)

232 Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.

Posted by: Vegetius at June 14, 2025 11:06 AM (vm8sq)

233 Rubio said he will be deported.

A judge said nah bruh I’ll be the Sec of State from
Now on and said he can’t be deported. Even though the law clearly and unambiguously says it is the SoS who makes this decision.

Trump is telling the judge, bitch fuck off I didn’t nominate you as Sec of State.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 11:07 AM (YTjJV)

234 Agent 99. Barbara Feldon.

https://tinyurl.com/3hysjerw

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 11:07 AM (bss/y)

235 Well, the MN assassin shooting two D state lawmakers and their spouses in the predawn dark, on their front porches, has certainly stepped on the news cycle, no?

First we had the junior D senator from CA doing a staged martyrdom thing in the Homeland Security Secretary's presser, then came Israel bombing Iran, followed within hours by Trump doing the parade to end all parades, and now we get this.

Anybody remember the ICE riots?

How can NoKings gain any traction with their side outed as murdering assassins masquerading as cops?

Who's writing this script?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 14, 2025 11:07 AM (zeLd4)

236 And, you know, starting fucking riots and directing violence against Jews.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 11:06 AM (viF8m)

Just like J6.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 11:07 AM (vF3jY)

237 Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
Posted by: Vegetius at June 14, 2025 11:06 AM (vm8sq)
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I've always seen that as, "Si vis pacem, para bellum."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 14, 2025 11:08 AM (6YdsJ)

238 Is the one dude a state senator or a federal one?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 11:08 AM (bss/y)

239 I just think it’s a bad look. That’s all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Can we assume your hair is un-immolated?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2025 11:08 AM (s8j++)

240 >>Just like J6.

No, nothing at all like J6. There were no people associated with designated foreign terrorist groups at the Capitol on J6. And as best I can tell none of them were here on a student visa which requires you to list any and all potential affiliations with enemies of the US.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 11:09 AM (viF8m)

241 224 War is the normal condition of humanity. Been that way sing Og wanted Ug's woman & cave.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 11:04 AM (fab8c)

I mean, have you seen the size of her boobs? And that cave!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 11:05 AM (bss/y)

Troglodyte from 1972 - Best Video!
https://tinyurl.com/mer2c374

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2025 11:09 AM (uWKK8)

242 First we had the junior D senator from CA doing a staged martyrdom thing in the Homeland Security Secretary's presser,


I think this guy, who I couldn't pick out of a lineup, is actually the Senior Senator from California.

Posted by: toby928 at June 14, 2025 11:10 AM (jc0TO)

243 3rd world dictators and soviets before them have military parades to show off how big and tough their military is. It’s gay and retarded. Because if you truly have a strong military you don’t need a parade to let the world know how powerful it is

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:54 AM (YTjJV)
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This is where you are wrong. The Soviets and dictators didn't invent these parades, they were *imitating* the ones held in civilized nations, like the United States.

The parades were an effort to look legitimate, but that was because all the First World nations had them as well. At the end of the Civil War, the Grand Army of the Republic marched through Washington for three whole days.

Victory parades were the norm, and on special days the troops would come out just as they are doing today. We got away from that because the counterculture reviles the military and parades make people proud of it.

So the "ick" factor you have is because you (and a lot of other people) are so alienated from traditional Americana that you actually associate it with Idi Amin rather than George Washington. You have it precisely backwards.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)

244 I see we have a generation of people unaccustomed to parades.
Parades are part of history and American history. They are as American as Apple Pie and to have a parade with out the military represented should not be considered.

Put the mounted cops in for bunting.
Posted by: Braenyard


Call out the Shriners and their little go carts.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 11:10 AM (fab8c)

245 My enjoyment of local parades is boundless.

In case you didn't know, the midwest has a long tradition of parades with every police vehicle, fire truck, ambulance and all publicly-owned vehicles on display for parades with lights flashing and sirens blaring.

I find it reassuring to see where our tax money is being spent.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 14, 2025 11:11 AM (RqH5H)

246 Nice post Diogenes, good job. That there are so many with such stupid reactions to a parade is no surprise. It was somewhat surprising in 1991, when I witnessed some amazing reactions. Now it's just to be expected.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2025 11:12 AM (1m82a)

247 This unhinged individual -- still on the loose -- was reportedly dressed as a police officer, and shot both the representatives and their spouses. We are praying for their families.
===
Bet:
Hit man. They had information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of a Clinton.

Any takers?

Posted by: Simplemind at June 14, 2025 11:12 AM (YrUlT)

248 Victory parades serve another function; they are a way the nation tells the soldiers that what they did in the war was okay.

Most humans find it very difficult to kill another human, and need affirmation from their countrymen that they are not monsters for killing.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2025 11:13 AM (s8j++)

249 Call out the Shriners and their little go carts.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 11:10 AM (fab8c)

https://tinyurl.com/yc4rje5v

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 11:13 AM (bss/y)

250 179 Minnesota story confirmed by Tim Walz live on Fox
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:51 AM (RIvkX)

In that case, now I think it must be fake.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 10:53 AM (vF3jY)
And an op. And ghey.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2025 11:13 AM (LHPAg)

251 So the "ick" factor you have is because you (and a lot of other people) are so alienated from traditional Americana that you actually associate it with Idi Amin rather than George Washington. You have it precisely backwards.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)

Times change. In modern times those parades are associated with the bad guys.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 11:13 AM (YTjJV)

252 39 My dad opposed ending the draft because he feared the military would become alienated from the people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 09:49 AM (RIvkX)

Good point.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 14, 2025 09:52 AM (g8Ew

Which is why when the draft ended there became so much reliance on the Reserves and NG.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 14, 2025 11:13 AM (vm8sq)

253 231 In Minnesota:
Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed this morning in what appears to be a "politically motivated assassination".

https://tinyurl.com/2c82nne2
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 14, 2025 11:06 AM (lIgBp)

oh that's tragic, he murdered her husband as well.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2025 11:14 AM (uWKK8)

254 Leftists get their groups mixed up of who wants want
Intersectionaly isn't what they think it is

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 11:14 AM (+qU29)

255 No, nothing at all like J6. There were no people associated with designated foreign terrorist groups at the Capitol on J6. And as best I can tell none of them were here on a student visa which requires you to list any and all potential affiliations with enemies of the US.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 11:09 AM (viF8m)

So more like pro-lifers praying in front of abortion clinics.

Got it.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 11:14 AM (vF3jY)

256 It's not a Big Beautiful Parade™ unless there are 76 trombones out front.

Posted by: muldoon at June 14, 2025 11:14 AM (/iMjX)

257 Times change. In modern times those parades are associated with the bad guys.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 11:13 AM (YTjJV)

only in the minds of femboys, tranny's, and mental defectives.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2025 11:15 AM (uWKK8)

258 It's not a Big Beautiful Parade™ unless there are 76 trombones out front.
Posted by: muldoon at June 14, 2025 11:14 AM (/iMjX)
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And 110 cornets close at hand.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 14, 2025 11:15 AM (6YdsJ)

259
Now do Fleet Week.
Posted by: The United States Navy

Ick.
Posted by: Local Hookers

With genetals by his side.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2025 11:15 AM (63Dwl)

260 Agent 99 will be 99 in about 7 years.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 11:15 AM (KhjS7)

261 >>So more like pro-lifers praying in front of abortion clinics.

>>Got it.

No you don't. Either intentionally or worse unintentionally you definitely don't get it.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 11:16 AM (viF8m)

262 256 It's not a Big Beautiful Parade™ unless there are 76 trombones out front.
Posted by: muldoon at June 14, 2025 11:14 AM (/iMjX)

Who ordered these 110 cornets?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 11:16 AM (bss/y)

263 the "ick" factor you have is because you (and a lot of other people) are so alienated from traditional Americana that you actually associate it with Idi Amin rather than George Washington. You have it precisely backwards.
===
Hippies ruined America.

Posted by: Simplemind at June 14, 2025 11:16 AM (YrUlT)

264 Walz: " . . . political violence is not who we are . . . "

Well, Timmy, it seems it is.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 14, 2025 11:16 AM (zeLd4)

265 So this murderer is possibly another Luigi Mangione? If so this story will be 86’d very quickly and Tim Walz will forget it happened

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 14, 2025 11:17 AM (/iXAp)

266 Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 14, 2025 11:16 AM (bss/y)
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*fistbump*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 14, 2025 11:17 AM (6YdsJ)

267 No you don't. Either intentionally or worse unintentionally you definitely don't get it.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 14, 2025 11:16 AM (viF8m)

I get it perfectly, Jack.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 11:17 AM (vF3jY)

268 Juneteenth parade in our town right now. Good grief. On the, uh, "other side" of town. Actually near KFC. Huh.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 14, 2025 11:17 AM (5xuJ/)

269 Times change. In modern times those parades are associated with the bad guys.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 11:13 AM (YTjJV)
---
Who pushed that change? Is it healthy for society to loathe its military and regard martial displays as distasteful?

Would you prefer rainbow flags and draq queens, because that is the alternative.

All societies require civic celebrations. Which do you choose?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:17 AM (ZOv7s)

270 Agent 99 is from Butler, PA.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 11:18 AM (KhjS7)

271 The Bank closes for Juneteenth now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 11:19 AM (KhjS7)

272 "when Clinton was inaugurated, staff frowned at the troops in the parade until Hillary noted that "they belong to us, now."

Especially since troops were needed for the "Monica" bombings in Kosovo during Bill's impeachment hearings.

Posted by: ju at June 14, 2025 11:20 AM (vgX6l)

273 269 Times change. In modern times those parades are associated with the bad guys.
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Only people that make that association are Democrats and communists.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:22 AM (6dYPy)

274 "when Clinton was inaugurated, staff frowned at the troops in the parade until Hillary noted that "they belong to us, now."
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Especially since troops were needed for the "Monica" bombings in Kosovo during Bill's impeachment hearings.
Posted by: ju at June 14, 2025 11:20 AM (vgX6l)

If I recall, Rush attributed the planes comment to actor, Ron Silver.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2025 11:22 AM (vF3jY)

275 Once again, small town 4th of July parades with a military component: awesome!!! Massive DC parade with the President and generals looking on like Brezhnev and his cronies used to do, not cool.

Why is it so hard to distinguish between the two?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 11:22 AM (YTjJV)

276 There be noodage.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 14, 2025 11:22 AM (lIgBp)

277 Something makes me think while a politician it has nothing to do with a political hit job.
But Walz of course wants you to think their Right wing opponents are now trying to kill Leftists

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 11:24 AM (+qU29)

278 Well, I picked a hell of a morning to sleep in. Mrs D had me up watching one of my favorite programs, "Foyle's War."
Thanks for the contributions and comments.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2025 11:24 AM (W/lyH)

279 Peace is not the ( can't find the word I want) condition of humanity.
Posted by: Ben Had

***********

default?
baseline?

Historical norm?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 14, 2025 11:25 AM (/y8xj)

280 Enjoy the parade.

Enjoy the city burnings

Enjoy the interesting times.

Gonna be a hell of a day. I’ll be on my boat away from the stupidity. Hopefully way I come back home it’s still standing and has t been taxed. Lol.

Have a great Saturday everyone.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 11:26 AM (YTjJV)

281 I just think it’s a bad look. That’s all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:54 AM (YTjJV)

It's a good look for a nation that should be prepping for war, 'cause it's coming either outside or inside our borders.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 14, 2025 11:26 AM (g8Ew8)

282 Thanks for the contributions and comments.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2025 11:24 AM (W/lyH)

thank you for this post. Really sums up what I've thought about this parade. Those of us who served love to see a positive light shone on service.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler at June 14, 2025 11:28 AM (0aYVJ)

283
I get it perfectly, Jack
==
If that were true you would have compared them to pro lifers who use violent means. Fire. Bombs to destroy clinics. This guy was organizing destructive acts and violence against Jewish students. I accept free speech. I do not accept violence. You really shouldn't shoot abotionists. One of the worst abotionists of all time, who by his own admission killed a small city worth of babies, converted and became one of the most effective anti abortion activists of all time. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Posted by: Simplemind at June 14, 2025 11:30 AM (YrUlT)

284 Tone Policing a celebration of our military is not a good look. It smacks of Bulwark-ism.

Posted by: Toad-0 at June 14, 2025 11:33 AM (ZSsHR)

285 Okay. Here's a goodie I found while looking up the (Ron Silver) Rush quote:

"Rush’s monologue about Barack Obama’s interview. Do you remember what Obama bragged about being good at killing people?...I think it was in Rolling Stone where he was talking about droning people and it turned out he was really good at this." (killing thing)

Barry is just magical...no wonder he's a Kang wid he's oun perade!

Posted by: ju at June 14, 2025 11:36 AM (vgX6l)

286 Saw both the Sunset Parade and the Evening Parade while I was stationed in DC. After both parades the Marines mingled with the crowd. I saw lot of numbers being given to the Marines. So yeah, they'll bitch about all the build up, but the pay off is worth it

Posted by: Stacy0311 at June 14, 2025 11:37 AM (gwujb)

287 >Parades are fun duty.
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who doesn't like a long walk on a sunny day

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 11:43 AM (AOsQT)

288
I drove 8 miles to sho0ot my wife sounds like a country song.

Like so:

*strums guitar*

I drove 8 miles to shoot my wife
Cuz she'd been messin' around
I never drove 8 miles for nuthin'
Never one day of my life

I'll drive 1 mile for a glass of beer
I'll drive 2 miles for a 6 pack here
For a brand new pick-up, maybe four
Or some red hot pussy, but not one mile more
So you gotta know i was really mad
And wanted to shoot my woman bad
I drove 8 miles to shoot my darlin'
Cuz she'd been messin' around

Posted by: naturalfake at June 14, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

289 Count down 3 rounds and in Hell I will be in good company

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 11:47 AM (+qU29)

290 Three lefts make a right.

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 11:50 AM (AOsQT)

291 I just think it’s a bad look. That’s all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 14, 2025 10:54 AM (YTjJV)

so you say the US military must be cowed and submissive, never allowed to celebrate and never ever allowed to have a parade because it might convince young men to enlist.

Oh, wait, no. Unlike you I think this is all a good thing.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:53 AM (D7oie)

292 I drove 8 miles to sho0ot my wife sounds like a country song.

[ . . . ]
Posted by: naturalfake at June 14, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

It has been done, in a way - Bluegrass

Steeldrivers, If It Hadn't Been For Love

youtu.be/YSzlV6VNqI4?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:56 AM (D7oie)

293 Narf

Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:56 AM (D7oie)

294 Posted by: Simplemind at June 14, 2025 11:30 AM (YrUlT)

You don't compare exceptions to the rule to the rule unless you're Jonah Goldberg or a similar cuck.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)

295 VJ Day

Renamed "End of War in the Pacific Day" by Bill Clinton for the 50th Anniversary Parade in Hawaii.

A lot of parading for that. I didin't go to the parade that was in town (Clinton had review stands built for that). I think it was more elike a typical big city 'hometown' parade with HS bands, floats, veteran groups, etc.
I had to do the separate military parade. I think he had litterally every single member of the military on Oahu march past his review stand including Coast Guard and NOAA. Literally an all fucking tropical day in the sun production for those in the parade.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 14, 2025 12:14 PM (/lPRQ)

296 The reason I lean to it is a political hit by someone on the 'Right' is that it was competently planned. I always feared that multiple star chambers is how the the 'Right' would eventually respond to the Left's actions.

I would not rule out a Reichstag scenario either.

Admittedly my comments are just internet conjecture .

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2025 12:18 PM (VofaG)

297 Happy Birthday US Army and Garry Owen to all 1st Cavalry Troopers, past, present and future.

Posted by: Moshe Ben Avram at June 14, 2025 01:51 PM (z6ixq)

298 HOOAH!!! Totally agree. My Grandson will be marching today and we are very Proud of him. He’s also the 4th straight generation of our family to Serve and today we are all standing tall! May GOD Bless the USA and May HE watch over our TROOPS!

Posted by: Rick554 at June 14, 2025 02:29 PM (39uzn)

299 Happy 250th Birthday US ARMY!
HOOAH!

Posted by: sfcmac at June 14, 2025 09:26 PM (n6vjq)

300 The one military parade I've seen was memorable for reasons other than the bands and the marching. The parade was for Armed Forces Day, and it was in Chicago in 1978. The guest of honor on the reviewing stand was the first lady, Rosalyn Carter. Standing beside her was the Chicago Democrat who organized the parade, a fellow named John Wayne Gacy. Interesting times.

Posted by: Nemo at June 14, 2025 09:45 PM (4RPgu)

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