canpakes wrote:Hey, maybe he’ll use his time at the mic to bash Democrats in some jackassed partisan BS sort of way. That would be a nice refocus away from other stupid things like ‘promoting unity’ on the Nation’s birthday.
I'm guessing that somewhere in our nearly 250 years of existence, we thought to pass some laws that prevent the executive from re-purposing funds from the department of interior budget to hold political fundraisers.
My understanding of the concern is Trump is not known for avoiding polemics or politics. He is, after all, actively campaigning for 2020. Yet the military is supposed to refrain from being involved in political activities. Do we want to take bets on when Trump goes political in his speech?
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Trump plans to divert $2.5 million from national parks to fund his ‘Salute to America’ — featuring himself.
Trump will address the crowd at some point in the evening. The event is free to the public, though the section closest to the Lincoln Memorial is reserved with tickets being doled out by the Republican National Committee and Trump’s reelection campaign.
I do not wish to say anything negative about the military here but they have a couple of holidays and parades specifically honoring them. I have always understood that the original instructions for the fourth, illuminations all across the land, was to commemorate the burst of spirit, intelligence and light from the declaration of independance and all the hope that it pointed to.
I get what everyone is saying, but . . . at the end of the day, tanks are frickin' cool, are they not?
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Dr. Shades wrote:I get what everyone is saying, but . . . at the end of the day, tanks are frickin' cool, are they not?
Er, no.
They are an unfortunate necessity. To like military equipment for its own sake may be excusable in teenage boys (of which I have been one in my time), but basically it is all just machines for one lot of mother's sons to use to convert another lot of mother's sons into a bloody pulp.
(Of course, like all parents I'd prefer my kids to be the ones who do the converting rather than getting converted, every time. But please don't ask me to take pleasure in the damn things.)
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moksha wrote:Trump will address the crowd at some point in the evening. The event is free to the public, though the section closest to the Lincoln Memorial is reserved with tickets being doled out by the Republican National Committee and Trump’s reelection campaign.
Making the national holiday into a campaign fundraiser sounds like something novel, provided the novel is about a dystopian future ruled by a demented megalomaniac.
