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We spend more maintaining them than Russia spends on its entire military.

Author: Curly1918 (16213 Posts - Joined: Aug 30, 2017)

Posted at 11:04 am on May 16, 2025

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Replies to: "We spend more maintaining them than Russia spends on its entire military."

The military parade will be a dictatorial abomination [LINK] - Chris94 - 10:47pm 5/15/25 (37) [View All]
- Of course the MAGA cult idiots would defend this - Death - 12:23pm 5/16/25
- Dictators like Washington, Polk, Johnson, Wilson, Eisenhower, Kennedy, H.W. Bush. [IMAGE] - NedoftheHill - 10:50am 5/16/25
  - Ticker-tape parades are not military parades, King Whatabout. [NT] - Chris94 - 11:35am 5/16/25
    - Inaugurations are not ticker tape parades. - Hensou - 11:56am 5/16/25
  - Didn’t 5 of 7 win wars that a parade was in connection with? Captain Bonespurs hasn’t cept for his - Frank L - 11:32am 5/16/25
    - Each president up through Polk had them. Zachary Taylor ended the regular tradition. - NedoftheHill - 3:47pm 5/16/25
      - Johnson was the grand review of the Union armies after the Civil War. Wilson was WWI victory. Bush - Frank L - 6:45pm 5/16/25
- 45 million dollars worth of fluffer waste to satisfy a wannabe despot. - Frank L - 9:48am 5/16/25
- Your reason against it is wrong. Celebration with military parade is not just a Soviet thing. French - Eli - 9:34am 5/16/25
  - Of course you love military parades. [NT] - Chris94 - 10:34am 5/16/25
    - He’s marched in them. [NT] - Frank L - 10:35am 5/16/25
  - knowing trump’s propensity for understanding history - 😂 no he hasn’t a clue about historical - jimbasil - 10:17am 5/16/25
  - Our nation honors those who serve but not intimidating militarism. - Curly1918 - 10:02am 5/16/25
    - Maybe the Belgians? [NT] - Frank L - 10:07am 5/16/25
  - You must love those archaic Nukes they schlep thru Red Square... even if they probably don't work. [NT] - Curly1918 - 9:59am 5/16/25
    - We haven't tested our nukes in what, 35 years?...some of them much longer. [NT] - NedoftheHill - 10:36am 5/16/25
      - We spend more maintaining them than Russia spends on its entire military. [NT] [LINK] - Curly1918 - 11:04am 5/16/25
  - Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy had thousands of troops at their inaugurations. - Hensou - 9:44am 5/16/25
  - Hmm, the Soviets and the French. Hard pass. [NT] - Frank L - 9:41am 5/16/25
- It's pure "camp!" - Curly1918 - 8:33am 5/16/25
  - The “drag parade” that Baron imagines would be camp - Chris94 - 8:55am 5/16/25
    - “No parade for military’s 250th Anniversary! That would be fascist!”… - BaronVonZemo - 9:18am 5/16/25
    - It's not fascist if the population does not see it this way. - Curly1918 - 9:16am 5/16/25
      - Jesus. No population sees it what way. - Chris94 - 10:33am 5/16/25
      - Remember D Ron Silver’s”Those are our planes now!”? It’s pure tribalism. - BaronVonZemo - 9:21am 5/16/25
- It's a Celebration of The United States Army's 250th Anniversary. [NT] - Hensou - 8:28am 5/16/25
  - Bullshit. It’s a military parade, Soviet-style. And it’s unamerican. [NT] - Chris94 - 8:51am 5/16/25
    - You are being DNC ridiculous. It's a parade, not a live fire war exercise. [NT] - Hensou - 9:07am 5/16/25
- Pride in US military is not a comfortable concept for those who loathe the military.But drag parades - BaronVonZemo - 8:24am 5/16/25
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- Much simpler ways to celebrate a President’s birthday. [LINK] - conorlarkin - 5:53am 5/16/25
- I’m totally against it. Trump truly wants to be like Putin and Xi [NT] - Domer From Hell - 12:14am 5/16/25