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| This is what inspired Donald Trump to think of a military parade in the streets of D.C. |
YOU’D
THINK THAT even Trump would realize that he’s the comparative figure to Louis
(with first lady Melania being the equivalent of the alleged “cake eating”
lady). The comparable move would be if the masses of this country (the majority
of whom didn’t vote for him) were to get fed up enough to violently overthrow
him.
Is
that really the image Trump wants to put in the public mindset? Besides, I
thought the Trump-types were the ones who openly denounced anything associated
with France?
Somebody’s
not thinking this all the way through. But as Trump himself said, he saw the
big Bastille Day parade last year in France, saw the grand martial display of
power and authority, and wishes he could have something similar to pay tribute
to himself.
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| How Trumpian is the image of old ... |
Which
has led to countless numbers of people using their Photoshop software to create
all kinds of goofy images portraying Trump as some sort of equivalent of the
late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
WHICH
WOULD BE the closest you’d find to photographic images of Trump in a military
uniform – for as so many have pointed out, he was of military age during the
Vietnam War era, yet managed to avoid doing any sort of military service.
Heck,
even George W. Bush could claim to have been in the Texas Air National Guard (although
some insist he didn’t even fulfill the minimum service requirements) back in
that era.
Not
that I expect the ideologues who claim to value military service to mind so
much – maybe they can be bought off by the image of a military parade. Forget
about a Trump presidency actually accomplishing anything significant or meeting
any of its promises.
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| ... of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette? |
You
got a great big garish parade!!!
IF
YOU’VE GOT the impression by now that I don’t think much of the idea of a parade,
you’d be correct.
It’s
actually mostly because I don’t really care much for parades in general. There
are more sincere ways to pay tribute to someone than to stage a grand spectacle
clogging the streets of the city, while expecting the masses to stand passively
by.
I
think those who serve in the military deserve more than a parade whose real
purpose would be to pay tribute to the man with the bad combover whom many
(including my sister-in-law, Vicki) refer to as the “big cheetoh.”
Perhaps
it’s because I remember the two big military spectacles in Chicago during my
adult life – back in 1986 and 1991. The latter was a series of parades held
across the country to pay tribute to those who were in the military (including
a cousin of mine) during the Gulf War of 1990.
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| Is this Trump's image of himself? |
REMEMBER
WHEN WE were foolish enough to have thought we resolved all the disarray and
chaos of the Middle East in a matter of two months in Kuwait?
The
former was when some types of people felt the need to finally put an end to the
Vietnam era by staging parades welcoming back the troops who were so callously
ignored when they really returned home more than a decade earlier.
I
still remember watching that parade, and being told by veterans who actually
saw combat that the crowds of former soldiers on display here were most likely the
“REMFs” who never even came close to the front lines of fighting (figure out the obscenity for yourself). Is that what
we’re most likely to see from a military spectacle in this Age of Trump?
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| DUCKWORTH: Most accurate? |
If
that’s the case, then perhaps Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is correct with her
latest fund-raising e-mail, in which she says troops, “don’t need a show of bravado.
They need steady leadership. They need long term funding.” And if they don’t
get it, perhaps someday the masses will be offended enough to revolt in a
Bastille-style image against Trump Tower buildings around the country. That
would be gory.
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