Summary
Trump is planning a $92 million military parade on June 14, 2025—his 79th birthday, Flag Day, and the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.
The four-mile event, from the Pentagon to the White House, revives a long-desired spectacle Trump previously canceled in 2018 over costs.
He has since overhauled military leadership, removing top Pentagon officials and replacing them with loyalists likely to support the parade.
D.C. officials, facing pressure from Trump’s federal overreach, have shown little resistance. Critics call it a vanity project amid broader concerns about authoritarian tendencies.
We could keep another thousand or so federal employees employed for the next year for that, but yeah let’s waste that money for a non-milestone birthday year for an asshole instead.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag
So if all of the military is focusing their effort on this stupid expensive bullshit, what’s the most disruptive thing a group of well organized people could do?
Boycott the event and protest 4 miles away. Imagine his face when nobody turns up haha
Paint the route in pride colours the night before
even better, paint a line off the road and to a cliff ala Wile Coyote and see if he’s dumb enough to follow it.
Organize a crowd to stand in front of the tanks.
Bomb pearl harbor? No one would expect it
Sounds like a great opportunity for a massive protest.
The secret service has got to be losing their fucking minds over this. There is literally no way such an event would end well and it’s just not practical to secure such a thing.
Wouldn’t it be hysterical if Trump’s ego was what ended all this?
If he goes anywhere near a book repository in Texas, he’s fucked.
I’d say we should throw rotten eggs and tomatoes, but we won’t be able to afford that.
Anyone in the military that goes along with this should be removed for treason
i still think he’s just putting all of the military’s eggs in one basket so russia can kill them all with one bomb.
I think this
charadeparade is both a play to his MAGA base and a sort of loyalty test to see who in the military goes along with him.
I wonder if the military are practicing the goose step
Heil Myself (Springtime for Hitler - Part Two) - The Producers
I literally just heard of this movie for the first time in my life last night and then I o see this
It’s brilliant. Skip the original straight movie and watch the movie based on the musical with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane.
What is this blasphemy? Skip the Gene Wilder & Zero Mostel movie??
It drags. Even Mel said he didn’t like it. The Broadway musical was what he said it was really meant to be.
4 mile stretch. I hope they run out of people the first mile and they have to run to get in front of the parade to make it look like it’s full. I hope an eagle shits right on his head too.
Definitely going. It’s gonna be the hugest, best parade ever, like no one’s ever seen. Spectacular.
I should stop paying taxes
They can’t arrest all of us.
I’m working on having all my jobs convert me to 1099 (some have) and then I’m just going to see how long I can go without paying.
Probably not as long as I’d like, but whatever.
I’m kind of in the same boat. At this point I want to set the federal tax money aside in a high yield savings and then just not pay taxes. I mean, what’s the fine\penalty rate that they charge? If it’s nominal then you may actually make money in the long run by withholding taxes, then negotiating lower rates later
I’m not financial expert but when the stock market is crashing, the high yield savings decrease their value over time
Also, in my country, if you withhold taxes you need to pay a fine, the interest rate and the full owed amount, unless you had a professional accountant expert in tax elusion.
Those discounted rates are reserved for who stole millions, not for regular people
I owe taxes from the past and got on a payment plan. I will be paying it for the next 5ish years.
Yes, there’s insignificant interest related to it (it’s sub 2%). But ultimately I am slow rolling what I owe and they’re getting devalued money later.
Sometimes I just don’t pay and they don’t seem to notice for months and then they send me a notice about it, so I call and make up a story and they forgive the fees.
Look, I am not opposed to taxes. I’m not opposed to the greater good. I donate plenty to local charities and causes. But this administration can fuck right off.
What does the efficiency experts say about this spending? Seems a bit of a waste of cash. I mean if we have to fire thousands of people because they cost too much…then why waste it here. We don’t need this, we don’t need him.
Oh man, if we could fuck up his birthday party I would be so happy.
30 people along the route of the parade cracking tear gas grenades at the same time would be lovey to see.
This is clearly not worse than J6 and those people are heroes now.
Yes, but I don’t want to see what the SS will do to people deploying “weapons” near enough to the president.
So, 3 months in office and we’re already going to waste over $120m for this fucking cunt to play golf on the job and stroke his ego with a military parade? At least they could fire 2,400 people in an unimportant place like the CDC to offset the costs for things that truly make America great. /s
Sounds like a great time to do massive civil disobedience.
I’m pretty sure the DC cops wouldn’t be inclined to step in if a few hundred thousand folks decided to block the parade route.
ACAB.
Good luck
Maybe you even get someone ran over by a tank. Hmm, that sounds familiar.
I know you’re being sarcastic, but I’d point out that it wouldn’t be the military handling crowd control; it would be the DC police.
DC and Trump have a long and unhappy history.
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I’m pretty sure the cops would decide that they didn’t want to interfere with a legitimate protest.
Depends. Trump is still trying to bring DC police under DHS control.
They would likely just use sonic weapons to disperse the crowds. People would trample eachother to death trying to flee and he’d just bitch about how inconsiderate all those protestors were.
I wonder what’s worse for Trump: a riot on his parade or nobody showing up.
First, Trump can’t do anything wrong. If nobody shows up he’d tell himself they were all home watching on TV and if there’s a riot he’ll say that Soros paid for it.
Second, even if ACAB the DC police have a vested interest in their own city. They’d put making Trump look bad ahead of anything else.
