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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.

The Grand Parade

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So Trump wants a big, opulent military parade, and I feel almost weird talking about it, because you just know that Trump is looking forward to calling a bunch of people out for not supporting the troops by acknowledging how bad it looks.  Because a grand parade for the Military isn’t about the soldiers.  It’s a display of power.  He’s not celebrating a holiday, or emphasizing a victory.  He’s just flexing muscles. It’s a political body building contest.  But Trump is savvy and duplicitous enough to turn that on it’s ear and stoke the rage flames from all of those who don’t see this move for what it is.  Because the fact is that when people think of big military parades, people think of goose stepping Nazis and whatever that weird march step that the North Koreans do is.  Make no mistake, this is just one more divide in the body of bipartisanship.