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Feb 7 2018 10:01am
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President Trump’s vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand military parade later this year showcasing the might of America’s armed forces.

Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in the Pentagon’s tank — a room reserved for top-secret discussions — marked a tipping point, according to two officials briefed on the planning.

Surrounded by the military’s highest-ranking officials, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Trump’s seemingly abstract desire for a parade was suddenly heard as a presidential directive, the officials said.

“The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France,” said a military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the planning discussions are supposed to remain confidential. “This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.”

Shows of military strength are not typical in the United States — and they don’t come cheap. The cost of shipping Abrams tanks and high-tech hardware to Washington could run in the millions, and military officials said it was unclear how they would pay for it.

A White House official familiar with the planning described the discussions as “brainstorming” and said nothing was settled. “Right now, there’s really no meat on the bones,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions.

After The Washington Post first published this story, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement confirming that plans are underway.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-marching-orders-to-the-pentagon-plan-a-grand-military-parade/2018/02/06/9e19ca88-0b55-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.285126f65b17


Not sure how I feel about this. Public displays of nationalism are generally cool with me... but I know they make liberal scum shake uncontrollably.

Thoughts, PaRD?
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Feb 7 2018 10:26am
Something something something party of fiscal responsibility
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Feb 7 2018 11:03am
The only purpose of such a parade is intimidating Americans, not unity.

This will only bring Americans to stand and lie down in front of tanks in a display of liberty and freedom from authoritarian oppression, and Trump knows it.

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Feb 7 2018 11:17am
Put a slideshow of the president driving all of our greatest war machines on the White House website if you need to get your big bomb jollies off. Interwebs are great and reach many peoples.
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Feb 7 2018 11:21am
How will you Republicans feel if Private Bonespurs walks out in uniform covered in unearned insignia for his North Korea style parade?
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Feb 7 2018 12:07pm
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Feb 7 2018 12:18pm
whole bunches of paranoia about a police state and imagery of communism/facism etc aside. isn't this the guy who was going to clean up waste and fraud to balance the budget without cuts to major programs? so far all i see is an increase in military funding, signals to continue the war on drugs/crime, every news cycle wasted on Congress fence sitting to see how the public will swallow the media spin from both aisles, etc.

Now we should divert funds for cold war era feel good shows of force? nah.
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Feb 7 2018 12:25pm
better than a queer parade that's for sure
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Feb 7 2018 12:27pm
Complete waste of money.
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Feb 7 2018 12:28pm
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Something something something party of fiscal responsibility


Social Security and Medicare are the only budget problems.

If those two didnt exist (they shouldnt), we could practically send a golden missle to the moon
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