We're so f*cked

[JDHURF]

Trump claims to have been inspired by the military Bastille Day parade which is not at all surprising. Trump is a pathological narcissist and unquestionably reveres military power. France has always had an undercurrent of fascism and Stalinism when equivalents weren't overt. It's a disgrace that the French imperial hegemon pretends to celebrate the storming of the Bastille (the beginning of the French revolution overthrowing monarchism) with an imperial military parade which is the same forces that drowned the Communards in literal blood (the Bloody Week). Military parades are also quite big in Russia and in North Korea. It's worth thinking of the context within which this is occurring: Trump's apocalyptic warmongering with North Korea. Decadent military parades are common features of fascist movements, autocracies and imperial powers. Again, Trump's inspiration for and advocating of a military parade in the United States is disgusting if not surprising.

[Kane]

I think if we're honest with ourselves none of this is surprising.

[John Galt]

[Kane]

It's pretty sad though, this was intentional IMO. He views it as a win/win. He wants fealty. He wants pomp. But if he doesn't get it? Deep state. Anti-military. Anti-US. Just look at this:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... -parade-is

If you oppose it you need to say why and you need to voice support for the US/Military. He's just dividing the country further.

It's amazing watch the GOP literally split this country in half over short term political power.

[Kane]

Just look at this shit:

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3727 ... ing-report

This douchebag "Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Republican staff on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee" leak texts and exclaim that it's Obama asking for all of the information on the investigation into Clinton during the 2016 election.

Then Trump tweets:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... bombshells

And then...the f**k WSJ comes out and says it's all false:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texts-from ... 29?tesla=y

Is this real life right now?

[John Galt]

i think money spent on training (no more train by watching videos on how to drive ships, Navy) and on increasing the amount of both people and ships in the Navy would be a much better use of resources than a f**k parade. our ships are 10% understaffed, people are working in shifts back to back so that they end up being up for over a day straight, our navy is stretched so thin with its demands and the amount of ships needing to meet those demands that things are dropping, our officers literally were trained by watching video training on how ships should work, and then we wonder why our ships run into other ships? spend money on things that matter

also, who has parades?

France. Russia. North Korea.

if we have parades we're debasing ourselves down to the level of those pitiful countries. we are making a big show, making ourselves look like we're bigger than we are. which in turn means we feel like we need to show off. f**k THAT NOISE. we don't put it in show biz. we spend it on the next big thing. lets get some f**k lasers up in here

[Kane]

[Kane]

[John Galt]

well TRUMP did repeatedly state without any evidence that there was a lot of illegal voting in california that made it so hillary had higher numbers than expected

actually hear me out

california was gonna be hillary anyway
why not cause lopsided hillary in order to cause people to not trust the system? as in firstly the electoral college which causes people like spider to go into a rage about it at the drop of a hat. and secondly about whether or not the votes themselves are legit. causing internal instablity was the real goal anyway

[Kane]

Yeah, that was the goal and it was accomplished. The unique thing here is that the person elected POTUS continues to cause it daily.