{"id":36960,"date":"2019-07-03T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36960"},"modified":"2019-07-03T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T17:23:04","slug":"a-parade-for-the-fuhrer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/a-parade-for-the-fuhrer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Parade for the Fuhrer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On Bastille Day 2017, the Feckless Fuhrer was in France where he witnesses a military parade (see picture) from the reviewing stand with President Macron.&nbsp; Resident Bone Spurs turned green with envy.&nbsp; He wanted soldiers with such powerful weapons saluting him, so he could pretend he is a great leader of men, not just a craven bully. It took him a long time to pull it off, and in the process, he&#8217;s making it a campaign rally.&nbsp; And who pays for it?&nbsp; YOU!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0703TrumpParade\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0703TrumpParade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0703TrumpParade.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"401\">  <\/p>\n<p>Fresh off his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-appears-more-at-ease-with-strongmen-than-democratic-leaders-at-g-20-summit\/2019\/06\/28\/dc2fac88-99b7-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html?utm_term=.638210a47983\">Authoritarians Tour 2019<\/a>, President Trump is ready to celebrate himself on July Fourth.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh sure, there\u2019s that whole Independence Day thing going on, but whatever. Trump\u2019s \u201cSalute to America\u201d isn\u2019t about this country. It\u2019s a masturbatory self-tribute by the man cruelly leading it. This is the military parade Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/19\/us\/politics\/trump-interview-transcript.html?mcubz=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has wanted for more than two years<\/a> to show off his big-boy toys like tanks and jets, in formation for his own glorification.  <\/p>\n<p>If his dictator buddies like Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un, and Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can have expensive and pointless pomp and circumstance, why can\u2019t Trump?&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2019\/07\/02\/trump-july-fourth-parade-tribute-himself\/YJoivTaWIFTpF2YKoMMJTI\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Globe<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PeVpRgq3XFw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> explanation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PeVpRgq3XFw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MoDIJ47P0q0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesse Dollemore<\/a> has more detail of Trump&#8217;s abuse of power.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MoDIJ47P0q0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">But Trump hopes fort much more.&nbsp; If he can establish one-party rule, we&#8217;ll see something more like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4MeV0E6Ibyk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4MeV0E6Ibyk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Bastille Day 2017, the Feckless Fuhrer was in France where he witnesses a military parade (see picture) from the reviewing stand with President Macron.&nbsp; Resident Bone Spurs turned green with envy.&nbsp; He wanted soldiers with such powerful weapons saluting him, so he could pretend he is a great leader of men, not just a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/a-parade-for-the-fuhrer\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}