The Refried Presidency: Trump Hateful Machine/Fossil Fuel Boogaloo or Whatever Continuation

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  1. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
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    Make sure you put an “R” in the thread title if you give us the play by play.
     
  2. ElNaranja

    ElNaranja Member+

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  3. Knave

    Knave Member+

    May 25, 1999
    It just looked really bad. No enthusiasm. Totally underwhelming. And nobody was there.

    If I was a foreign adversary watching this parade, I'd think the US Army looked weak.
     
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  4. Cris 09

    Cris 09 Trololololo

    Nov 30, 2004
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    Germany
    Definitely NOT a lefty...

     
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  5. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
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    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
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    Fortunate Son is trending on Xwitter.

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    Didn't know the song, but I'm guessing that many of you know it is a protest song.

    edit - Forgot to say that it was played during the parade.
     
  6. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

    Jul 23, 2015
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  7. Pittsburgh Ref

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    Oct 7, 2014
    da 'Burgh
    During the D.C. parade?!? I guess the same musicologists who misunderinterpreted "Born in the USA" were involved here.

    Every name on the Vietnam Memorial must have glowed red.
     
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  8. SetPeace

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    Jun 22, 2004
    SC Illinois
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    I live in a small town in Illinois. It's the same here too. :(:mad:
     
  9. Cris 09

    Cris 09 Trololololo

    Nov 30, 2004
    Westfalenstadion
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    Borussia Dortmund
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    Germany
    Literally Russian flags. Even if you say it, "The red white and blue" it's still not in order.
     
  10. Pittsburgh Ref

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    Oct 7, 2014
    da 'Burgh
    Yob tvoyu mat

    I'm glad I let my clearance lapse, because there is utterly no point
     
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  11. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
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    https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/minnesota-shootings-manhunt-vance-boelter-invs

    Yep. Not really MAGA by the initial looks of things, more of an Eric Rudolph/Scott Roeder situation. Add in a pinch of homophobia and a dash of video game/gun culture nuttiness, bake until fully cooked.

    (Rudolph bombed abortion clinics and Roeder assassinated George Tiller.)
     
  12. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
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    I know it’s the cheapest, laziest form of commentary…but imagine Fox and The Blaze and Senator Tuberville if somehow the Biden administration had made a similar error in optics.
     
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  13. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
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    :eek:

    You must not watch many, or maybe any, movies about the Vietnam War. It’s like a friggin’ soundtrack requirement. EDIT: its use is just about as lazy as my post above about Imagine If Biden….

    I think it was in Forrest Gump and if it wasn’t it should have been.
     
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  14. Cris 09

    Cris 09 Trololololo

    Nov 30, 2004
    Westfalenstadion
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    Yup, also known as: What is, "In every single movie about the US involvement in the Vietnam War" for $300, Alex.
     
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  15. superdave

    superdave Member+

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    I mean, with the complete collapse of the Enlightenment project of improvement through the spread of knowledge, we have to take our joy where we can get it, right? And in these circumstances it’s hard to define appropriate and inappropriate.

    So allow me to chuckle at someone saying they’ve never heard of Fortunate Son.
     
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  16. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
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    That trying to be reasonable towards Republicans is a fool's errand and they will always turn on you in the end so it's better to stick to your principles.

    If that's not what he meant, well it's the obvious take-away from that article.
     
  17. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Try that on your arraignment sucker
     
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  18. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    As is this one.
     
  19. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
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    America being bad at parades is a good thing. Armies that look tough aren't and ones that actually are tough don't look it. North Korea spends something like 5 months getting ready for a parade. They literally have a military base just for parade preparation and training. And it shows. They are really good at parades. But if you are training to do a parade, you aren't training to be a soldier. They have government dancers with guns, not soldiers.
     
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  20. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
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    Republicans slipping Russian things into patriotic messages happens often enough that I don't think it's an accident.
     
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  21. Deadtigers

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    I didn't know I knew it. I asked my wife and she was like it's CCR she started like I'm in the beginning and like how the first two lines sound even though she didn't know the words and I was like oh yeah I've heard it.
     
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  22. ElNaranja

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    Jul 16, 2017
    Have you seen some of these police forces? Add in all the safe guards the feds placed on them to prevent corruption and abuse being gone and I'm not sure they'll go out of their way to catch folk like this in certain areas.

    Texas, Florida, Tennessee and I think a few others have recently tried, or did, pass laws saying "ram away!". We've been seeing cops run people over since the George Floyd protests (and seems a lot of y'all were around for Civil Rights and Kent State).

    Like the Nazis before, it'll be deemed ok since it was for the good of the State if they were wearing red hats.
     
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  23. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    My college circles included six or seven Viet Nam vets; they pretty much agreed that there were two songs they heard more than once a day throughout their time there-- "Fortunate Son" and the Animals "We Gotta Get Out of This Place..."

    The parade appears to have been all obsolete stuff? Shermans, Half-tracks etc? Almost as though the Army was trying to give him what he asked for without actually demonstrating real power. a kind of paper tiger demonstration...
     
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  24. rslfanboy

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    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    There were 2 bigger No Kings protests in SLC today. 10am at the UofU that about 4000 attended and another at 6pm that started in a downtown park with about 10k in attendance.

    1 person was shot at around 8pm. There aren’t many details yet about what happened.

    My parents were there at the later protest, but I was at the RSL game with my daughter instead. I’ll talk to them tomorrow about how it was.


    The Red Bull soapbox thing in between got about 50k out. However, these numbers I’m seeing are reported by a conservative source, so it might be more than a bit off. Needless to say, a lot more showed up for entertainment than protest.
     
  25. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    France
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    So the guy who shot/killed the Minnesota legislators was an evangelical Christian who travelled to the Congo and preached against the LGBT+ community. No surprises there.

    It is "fun: how are right-wing posters are trying to make him appear as a Democrat, given how they like to blame all Democrats for any violence perpetrated by someone who might be liberal. They ignore how much violence is actually perpetrated by those who are outspokenly anti-LGBT+.


     

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