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[–] 77 points 1 year ago

What a fucking loser.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pathetic.

    Nice job on our military for following orders but making it very obvious they don't give a flying fuck about drumpf's lousy birthday. Now that is exactly what I wanted to see-- out of step marching (they absolutely know how to march perfectly, it's literally drilled into them), old ass machinery, and never once saying HB to that ass-clown, they made it about the army instead. Niiice

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  • [–] 102 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    My home town has an annual 4th of july parade. They feature the High School's marching band, about a dozen firetrucks from nearby cities, and about 160 vehicles total. The local flight school flies a loose formation of 5 Cessna 150s over the route.

    Attendance is usually between 10,000 and 12,000.

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    Is that for people in the parade? Or forced to watch it in person?

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    OK I had to look it up but the joke is "86" as in "get rid of" and 47, that is, Trump

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Didn't some Fox blithering idiots interpret that as a death threat or something a few weeks ago?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They advertised for seat fillers, so a lot of those people were literally paid to be there.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    More likely they were promised payment, but have yet to collect.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Bro, the protest in fucking wichita had ~5k

    That is saaad

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago

    This is the sphere in Las Vegas it holds a standing room capacity of 20,000 people or about 2.3x more people than attended Donny’s birthday flop parade.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    Doesn't matter. Hell just lie and say 800 million people attended.

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  • [–] [S] 233 points 1 year ago (32 children)
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    I didn't realize he had to sit across from empty seats, that's fucking glorious

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  • [–] 162 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Fyi: here’s the unaltered image

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  • [–] 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    This pic is cropped so you can't see the empty lawn just passed the people by the fence they couldn't see over.

    Edit - Here is newsweeks slightly less cropped version and all the empty space is clearly visible.

    Edit 2 - Here is a NYT photo that really shows how few people really showed up.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    He looks so pathetic standing there saluting while everybody else is seated around him.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Especially since those troops are representing the Vietnam War. You know, the know he dodged the draft for.

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    The people I rate highest were those who openly said they weren't going for moral reasons. Muhammed Ali couldn't fight for years because he had religious reasons the government refused to acknowledge. Others went to Canada or Sweden.

    Next are people like Bill Clinton. Had a valid student deferment and talked about how bad the war was.

    Further down are people who used legal means, but were silent.

    Lowest are people like Bush Jr. who finagled his way into the National Guard [and bailed on his last year] and Trump who lied about his medical condition. Both of these two were happy to have other people die to defend their right to be a rich kid.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Who's he saluting? You didn't serve donny, now sit down

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  • [–] 83 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Zoom in for details, its funny (and photoshopped)

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    All the mainstream media is reporting 250,000 because some trump official Xcreated that. Maybe if you include the No Kings protests going on around the parade it's 250k

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    This comment section is perfect proof that most people literally don't read news, and have the memory and attention span of a golden retirever puppy.

    https://time.com/7285796/james-comey-86-47-trump-threat-investigation-instagram-post-fbi/

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'm sure I've also seen some news articles you haven't, its kinda hard to keep up with literally every single piece of news, especially something as inconsequential as that.

    Hell, I had never even heard of the term 86 before today, and I know I'm not the only one in the comments that hadn't.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To spell it out for y'all, it's a joke number.

    86 means to stop, get rid of, or kill.

    47 is the trump president number.

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    Q: Is that a WWII tank?

    A: Sure, man.

    Q: Cool, what kind of tank is it?

    A: Sure, man.

    Q: Um, I'm just trying to find out what kind of tank it is.

    A: And I'm telling you. Sure, man.

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    Yes. The thing was to showcase 250 years of American Army, not modern shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Jesus. That's way lower than the generous estimate I considered credible enough from /r/theydidthemath yesterday.

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    It's worth mentioning that the entire DC Metro area is roughly 6 Million people. Calling this a small turnout for a city that size, let alone the whole country, is an understatement.

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  • I told my partner, and she asked "Does that include the band?"

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    So, according to Trump after he's told that number, "millions and millions and millions, a parade like you've never seen! Streets overflowing! Yuge! Tremendous! The biggest and bestest parade of all time, I'd say! Putin and Kim were seeing it on their big screens, they called me just to tell me how beautiful of a parade mine was, and asked for advice on how to improve theirs! - I just know they must've had tears in their eyes seeing my big beautiful parade".

    All while frantically playing his imaginary accordion. 🤡

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Not sure I believe that number. But hell, I can't estimate crowds to save my life. At one point I was in the largest rock concert of all time, still have no clue.

    All I can say is the one I went to easily had 2,000. And that's in the reddest part of Florida, and only 1 of 2 protests in Pensacola.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Rockfest, Texas Motor Speedway, 1998?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    YES! I would have never remembered that! What a trip that all was. Forget getting to a porta-potty, piss your pants and get hosed down. I passed out and my gf took 5-hours just to get out of the parking lot. I'll never forget Bush playing and the crowd in the standing pelting those of us on the ground with trash (nothing dangerous).

    Tell me you were there!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yes sir! I remember it taking about the same amount of time try to get out of the parking lot. We lost part of our group and were wondering around after the shows for about an hour looking for them. I remember some drunk ass had swiped a security golf cart and was driving around with an empty bud light case on his head. Ah - good times.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Not sure if I'm misunderstanding you here... But the number from this post is for the stupid military parade in DC with the tanks, not the no kings protests. I've seen claims that there were over 6 million attendees for those.

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    Not to judge, but that "crowd" looks a bit, uh, frumpy.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The saddest trombone.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Nah, it was bigger than Obama’s inauguration.

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