Hegseth, you royally fucked it up. Leaking classified military in a Signal group chat? Excusable. A White Supremacist? Excusable. Drunken paranoia? Excusable. HOW DARE YOU FUCK UP THE PARADE!? Pack your shit up and go back to Fox News.
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He’s trying to be a dictator damn it! Why won’t anyone take him seriously? Waaaaah
Because he's a lollipop head, bitch and nobody is scared of him
Goose stepping is actually incredibly difficult and has no military value
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So their only job is to walk in a straight line, and they pick Alchohegseth to train them? Never could have seen this coming.
This is what you get when your hiring criteria is who is the best ass kisser.
DEI. Dumb (and) extra idiotic.
HAHAHAHAHA what a fucking toddler. Did they not have enough plain cheese pizza with ketchup for your bday party, you pathetic attention-hungry piece of shit
He didn't want PIZZA! He wanted FRENCH FRIES from MCDONALDS!!! He wanted RONALD to personally cut his burger up for him because it's EMBARRASSING when his MOM does it! He wanted to use the SLIDE but he POOPED on it before he made it to the bottom and that's SOMEONE ELSE'S fault!!!
"we aren't kings"
Cries when parade isn't dictator-y enough.
I think he somehow associates their behavior with a lack of discipline. He expected coordinated … 🪿 stepping and unwavering devotion to their CiC who has zero respect for them or something? I can’t wrap my head around whatever circles of logic he tries to use
I'm going to say I 100% agree with you. The lunatic wants North Korean style marches and is angry that's not happening.
But I also want to say, what clips I've seen holy crap their marching was abysmal, like I've seen Civil Air Patrol flights with better marching. I'm not military so I can only talk so much, when listening to vets, their comments are along the lines of the people in the parade basically doing a shitty job because "Mandatory Fun Day" as apparently it's called.
Frankly I think that's funny myself.
Their marching was poor because there is almost no practical reason why anyone in today's Army should ever need to march. The vast majority of service people do very little marching after basic training.
Dictators always blame others for their failings.
But hegseth is a failure too.
Take it easy in the admins token DUI hire
I don’t think he has many tokens — at least not from AA.
He isn't top shelf, but his liquor is...
And this is why he will get the us involved in Iran. He needs something to boost his ego after this amazing by failure.
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He's not happy they smiled and waved at the people they signed away their lives to protect.
This is how Trump treats the US Army soldiers who were forced to march in front of Trump for a day that was supposed to celebrate them and their accomplishments.
Thank you to the US Army for trying to pit something together that would be fun for US citizens. If it weren't for Trump smearing his shit all over everything I'm sure plenty more would have turned out to show their support as real Americans celebrating real patriots rather than the fascists so many US soldiers have died fighting against.
Didn't see much of it but the uniforms and equipment from every era was hella cool. They actually made it about army history, not a goose-stepping show of force.
Drumpf isn't a fan of history, or learning.
Frankly, it’s just about the best way the Army could have handled this whole thing.
Always remember: the vast majority of the US Army is very, very good at malicious compliance. I’m pretty sure the E4 mafia grants you an unofficial Malicious Compliance MOS once you make that rank.
There are two types of people who survive decently in the military. Those who can find every loophole and can maliciously comply, and those who allow themselves to be completely broken and reshaped into perfect compliance by the system.
Many people believe the second group is more common, but it’s really not, since those people tend to be in lower ranking positions. Bullet catchers and the like.
This is precisely why Trump is so angry
I bet the parade could have been well executed and vibrant. My guess is that the organizer deliberately botched things when they got word about Dinky Donnie wanting to be the centerpiece. Donald really shouldn't be an 'Era', not the kind to be proud of, at any rate.
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I wonder what Kim Jong Un’s reaction was when he saw the photos of Trumps dinky little parade
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And only $46 million down the drain
What's that really though - golf trip security and accommodation costs alone for Trump in just his second term thus far have already cost around that. For which he insists the secret service and other support staff use his own golf courses and hotels so that he literally gets paid handsomly to golf & stay at his own resorts (breaking the emoluments clause of the Constitution in the process).
At least none of that $46mil went to Trump & co and the whole affair embarrassed him by the poor turnout and mediocre parade. Money well spent it was not, but at least he hated it.
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that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.
If he didn't want soldiers that were excited to be there, then why did he have them screened for political association to make sure they were his supporters?
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"He’s p---ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
The Disaster in Chief doesn't even know what the fuck "hamming it up" means. 🤦♂️
as a tangent we really need to take journalists aside and talk to them about the phrases they're coining to avoid repeating themselves every time they need to describe "talking shit" or "yell at" in an article title.
It's pride month. They can have a little extra entendre, as a treat.
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No one likes you bitch! That's why no one showed up to your backwoods shin-dig. You're a huuuuge orange joke. The likes of which the world has never seen before.
It's so lovely to hear that he's unhappy!
Hopefully it really hurts his fee-fees that he's despised by anyone with a remotely functioning brain
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