Tag Archives: Canceled

Parade Validation

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I guess Trump is cancelling his grand military parade because, at it turns out, to create the parade he wanted, it would run about $92 million!  $92 MILLION.  If that number doesn’t raise your blood pressure a few points, it should be noted that that number is about $80 million over budget.  And that’s not hyperbole.  That’s about 766% over the expected budget.  And it leaves me once again with the question, who the hell was this parade for?  I mean, what was the purpose?  Listen, I appreciate the troops as much as the next guy, but sending our tanks and missiles down Pennsylvania Ave. doesn’t make me think of our troops.  It makes me think Trump is proud of our guns.  And the reality is, I think that’s more of the point.  As much as Trump wants us to believe this was about troop morale, I think it’s more akin to Trump really wanting to show off the nation’s firepower.  Because we all know what people say about the size of one’s guns…that’s it’s reflective of the size of their insecurity.

Addressing Controversy

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Roseanne Barr, the once beloved comedienne, has had a rough few days.  It started with a pretty unabashedly racist tweet, directed at an ex-Obama staffer, and ultimately lead to widespread condemnation, the cancellation of her successful sitcom revival, and her original sitcom being removed from syndication by every network, including Hulu, that was carrying it.  I’m not sure there’s any way she recovers her career from this, but it doesn’t help that when the President of the United States, a person she has defended and even publicly conversed with recently, commented on the situation only by making it all about himself.  You see, when Donald Trump decided to speak to the situation with Roseanne, it wasn’t to either condemn or endorse Roseanne.  It wasn’t to ask for patience or suggest she’s being misunderstood.  Instead, he angrily came out and railed on the head of the network that produced Roseanne’s show.  Not for canceling it, but for not apologizing to him.  Because if Donald Trump is good at one thing, it’s getting to the heart of a mater.