The president was previously forced to abandon plans for a procession in Washington, D.C., due to its colossal price tag.
  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    It would be cool if no one went. Just him, Musk, and some right wing drifters on empty streets.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Other unnamed officials told the paper that a big military parade will require a huge amount of coordination between the six branches of the armed forces, along with several federal agencies and regional officials.

    If it happens it’ll be a shit show…

    To quote Henry Zebrowski:

    I have a bad idea, and I’m gonna execute it poorly

    • GroundedGator@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      IIRC our asphalt roads are not built to handle tank tracks and you know little king shits in pants will insist he has tanks going vroom vroom for his big boy parade.

  • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    someone on lemmy mentioned that Trump’s economic policies are north korea’s juche and it is all shaping up that was

    • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Yeah, the famously lavish North Korean standard of living. “Gonna feast on rat.”

  • alvyn@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    all dictators like to parade, nothing new. wake up us. time to impeach that orange shit!

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      LOL you definitely were going to get him in jail 4 years ago.
      It was ridiculous back then and now even more.
      If only they would’ve called to impeach Hitler, history would’ve been different.
      What a bunch of weak pussies americans are.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Wow. Just like every dictator out there with a huge inferiority complex, trying to boost their ego.

    • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Anyone who hasn’t watched Charlie Chaplin’s The Dictator really should. In the movie they mock how Mussolini was simping for Hitler and was trying to impress him at every occasion.

      This is totally what is Trump is trying to do with Putin right now.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Just for the historical record, here’s Mussolini’s last public appearance:

        Just Hanging Out (nsfw)

      • buwho@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        9 days ago

        is there a textbook that people like trump read and act accordingly. because its almost as if there is a guide book on being a self absorbed fascist tyrant baby

        • Tiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I know you’re being facetious and asking this from their side, but from our non-Nazi side I highly recommend “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by Shirer which is a great telling of how Hitler rise to power and a study of him and his crew. I’m sure Trump types read these histories to learn and try to pick up where Hitler failed.

          • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 days ago

            My reading of history is that Hitler failed because he was Hitler.

            He was a powerful orator, and also a narcissistic man baby, high on his own self importance long before he was high on meth/cocaine/heroin/etc.

            He was too paranoid to trust anyone more competent than he was, and he was fucking incompetent.

            I could go on, but in short, Hitler was a conman who tapped into that special hatred that some people have in place of their hearts.

              • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                8 days ago

                Pretty much the exact same except that Hitler was a hardened war veteran, and Trump has been a conman all his life. Most of Trump’s cons were stupid and failed, but never quite hard enough for him to ever see consequences.

                Hitler also went to prison for his coup attempt. It was a daycare style prison, but he still went.

                Other than that, the similarities are striking. Likely because the only book that Trump in known to have read, is a copy of all of Hitler’s speeches.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          9 days ago

          i mean. i guess. it’s titled “my daddy never hugged me and kept me away from my mom, whom he may or may not have effectively purchased on account of how incredibly impoverished she was”

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          9 days ago

          https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8?op=1

          Yes.

          Literally Hitler.

          ‘My New Order’, a collection of Hitler’s speeches up through 1939.

          Trump kept it in his bedside table in the 80s and 90s, according to his then wife.

          Did people not know about this or forget this?

          Trump literally routinely read Hitler’s speeches before he went to bed for years, then got very defensive when asked about it.

          Lefties who were politically active during Trump’s 2015 campaign were… fairly concerned about this, and basically everyone to the right of them just screamed ‘You’re just calling him a fascist because everything you don’t like is fascist’ at us.

          Did this whole thing seriously get memory holed this hard that you genuinely didn’t know this?

          Or are you just younger and/or weren’t so politically involved a decade ago?

        • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Yeah there’s a bunch of history books. My mom had a collection of history books on the second world war with accounts of what happened and the atrocities committed.

          You just have to take notes in a notebook and call it Project 2025.

        • AJ1@lemmy.caEnglish
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          9 days ago

          there’s a playbook, for sure. it’s not officially published, but every d-bag like this gets a copy