Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It is completely possible Trump is checked out enough that yesterday is quickly forgotten and replaced with Trumpys special military birthday parade in his head, but if there's any sense in his brain left, he's got to be absolutely humiliated.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I had planned to add a crowd to my parade cartoon but ran out of time. Guess I didn't need to anyway.
— Ann Telnaes (@anntelnaes.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The more time that passes, the more hilariously slobby that parade seems.
I went back and watched footage of the gulf war victory parade and the difference is so stark.
Glad to know that the troops are not overflowing with enthusiasm for our dear leader— BumboJumbo (@bumbojumbo666.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Adding to this idea is the the army band literally covered fortunate son (which is a Trump campaign theme song for some bizarre reason) and would -absolutely- know what that song is about.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the strolling of the dudes
They ambled up the street today before the crowds so few
There wasnt much to see maybe an abram tank or two
This parade is kinda mid
Glory glory what a bullshit way to serve— hammancheez (@hammancheez.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🤣💀….h/t @TotalSeasons pic.twitter.com/jwnotBPeVC
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) June 15, 2025
this dragass, drab, chudbro snoozefest has got to be all hegseth and vance, and it’s the *polar fucking opposite* of what you want in a parade
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) June 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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WhiskeyLeaks possibly got rolled twice on this: first by Trump, and thus unavoidable given the thin ice upon which he's skating; second, by the Army for not vividly showing what this was actually gonna look like.
— Turgid Jacobian (@turgidjacobian.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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The fun thing about this regime is that any sufficiently advanced malicious compliance is indistinguishable from incompetent loyalty, so who the fuck knows?
— Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A solider in uniform is handing out free cans of Phorm Energy, an America250 sponsor co-owned by Dana White. A rep from the company was taking a selfie with the soldier handing the products out.
— amanda moore ?? (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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?My background is in events. I’ve worked plenty of military races and expos. The soldiers are usually voluntold to help with the event itself, but I’ve never, ever seen someone in uniform doing promo for a sponsors product. ?
— amanda moore ?? (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The *Brits* are mocking our mighty weapons!
One of those magical clips that somehow gets funnier on each successive viewing.
The doofus riding on top; the "important" guy walking alongside the tank; the half-empty grandstands; the wheels squeaking along on an otherwise silent street.
You might not like it, but this is ART.— Carlos Noreña (@carlosfnorena.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The Russians are trolling Trump.
(Captions: "How Trump imagined his parade / What he actually saw") https://t.co/smjZZeE24n
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) June 15, 2025
Liberal haters will say this isn’t 250,000 people
— hammancheez (@hammancheez.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Lit a match on a giant fart of a parade https://t.co/x5EBwjKKyS
— The okayest poster there is (@ok_post_guy) June 15, 2025
— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) June 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
But, seriously…
Thank you to all of our service members and veterans. We appreciate you, your families, and your sacrifices for our country. Wish we were spending millions on you instead of a parade.
— Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Jeffg166
I forgot to put water in the coffee maker. Happy Monday.
Aussie Sheila
Congratulations to all the protesters and organisers that made Saturday such a successful day of popular repudiation of trump and the political forces propping him up.
It got good coverage here, not that means anything, but it does mean people are following the popular opposition to that moronic crim. I am optimistic about the movement against trump because with some decent politics he can be tied around the neck of the gop for a generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUAP-fE81zs&pp=ygUKYmVsbGEgY2lhbw%3D%3D
Ten Bears
Real dictators get real parades … the world
isshould be laughingBaud
Those North Korean parades are pretty impressive.
Aussie Sheila
@Ten Bears:
Well we’re laughing here. Even our timid ABC can hardly keep a straight face. He’s an international laughing stock. But the US people opposing him aren’t. He’s beyond parody, but the real test will be the ability of US democratic forces to tie that arsehole around the neck of every Republican politician, either extant or wannabe, for a decade.
If the international right get away with this, there is nothing they won’t attempt.
Aussie Sheila
@Baud:
That’s because that’s all they do.
Elizabelle
The music in the second part of that Russian diss post is hilarious. Even better than sad trombone
It’s the Julia Ioffe tweet.
Baud
@Aussie Sheila:
It’s a living
siddhartha
Sometimes, the darkness of the history we’re living through just enervates. The abyss really does stare back…
Aussie Sheila
@Baud:
Sure is. It beats starvation every time.
Aussie Sheila
@siddhartha:
Not dissing you here, but the abyss looks quite far away. People who are free to remonstrate and demonstrate are not going to let themselves be made mute and helpless. The only thing that really worries me about the US fight back is the ability of democratic forces to ensure free and fair elections. Not because of any lack on their part, but because the US system appears incapable of ensuring that every citizen’s vote is not only free, it is also fair.
Gerrymandering is the oldest trick in the book. It simply must be made to stop in every US State, County and Federal election.
siddhartha
@Aussie Shiela,
Good morning. Of course. That’s assumed. Just being mindful that engaging evil leaves no one unscathed, and that it’s ok to share the cost to your soul in community. After all, some are having to confront this evil in their own family members, even one’s own parents.
Aussie Sheila
@siddhartha:
Sure, family fights are a pain. But civil and political violence is much worse.
siddhartha
@Aussie Shiela
I’m not sure I follow what the disagreement is here, or if there is one. It’s just true that confronting evil (and such cynicism and nihilism) leaves its mark and can be enervating. That’s all I’m saying. That doesn’t preclude what we’re called to do. It just makes finding community and a space to tend to that enervation that much more important, precisely to meet the moment.
p.a
You know Fux “News” producers are meeting and: “shit, how do we fluff this piece of dogshit parade for our dipshit viewers? John?”
“Even our audience isn’t that dumb… Sally?”
“They might be that dumb, but we can’t risk it and waste the resources. Not sure even our on-air ‘talent’ could keep straight faces… Hal?”
“Fuckit, just find an immigrant who comitted a crime and heavy-rotation it…”
lowtechcyclist
@Aussie Sheila:
No problem. Lemme get my coffee, and I’ll take care of it by noon.
It’s easy to say “we absolutely need do to this” when very often ‘this’ is a project that requires years or often decades of sustained effort.
It took a decade for John McCain’s campaign finance reform bill to get through Congress. And then the Supreme Court gutted it.
To regain control of the Supreme Court would take winning a few consecutive Presidential elections along with having control of the Senate for a good deal of that. (If Hillary had won in 2016, Mitch McConnell had already announced that he was prepared to block all her Supreme Court nominees throughout her term. One of things we’re up against is an intrinsically gerrymandered Senate. Good luck in undoing that. So we’d have needed to win not just a third, but probably a fourth or fifth, consecutive Presidential election. Righto.)
Meanwhile, there’s always other big shit going on in the world that also needs attention. Covid, Ukraine, Gaza. Or the basic economic stuff that makes a difference in people’s lives. The cost of housing and the price of eggs.
I’m not saying this to suggest we ought to give up, but you come in here saying stuff like there’s a magic wand that we could wave and have it done if we had the will. It ain’t easy. And for the next three and a half years, we aren’t going to be able to do much more than try to limit the damage that Hair Furor and his henchmen are trying to do to our republic.
Most of the time, I just read your stuff and shrug, but this morning I guess I wasn’t feeling like shrugging.
Aussie Sheila
@lowtechcyclist:
I understand and know what you say is true. But I’m afraid that US political elites across the board take free and fair elections as important but not essential to democracy. The ‘rule of law’ holds much more purchase on your elites and those that take their cue from same.
I retain my view that the bedrock of any democracy worthy of the name is free and fair elections, where every vote counts, and every vote counts equally. Where that holds, the rule of law will hold, because if you take your popular mantra literally, it is the people that must determine who rules.
But of course, that mantra is simply that.
lowtechcyclist
@Aussie Sheila:
If the rule of law doesn’t hold in between elections, free and fair elections are an impossibility. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?
Matt McIrvin
@siddhartha: Yesterday was Father’s Day. Talking to my dad about this and that, I felt luckier than ever that he’s not one of those. I’m luckier than he is–his own family relations have been strained.
Xavier
ABC News coverage is usually good, but somebody was apparently given a memo. There was no coverage last night of the (lack of) crowd at the big parade, just straight stenography of Trump’s speech. Meanwhile on protest coverage, while the chyron noted “mostly peaceful” protests, all the video shown was of clashes with police and national guard. No mention of the massive disparity in crowd sizes at the parade and protests.
jlowe
I’m more forgiving of the “sloppy” shit. We talked yesterday with our son in the Army. Noone likes the drill stuff and everyone kinda sucks at it. It’s why the Army has a regiment that does close to nothing but ceremonial events. He says it helps having a band to keep time, as they did with his graduation ceremony, and to practice a bit beforehand. Also, it supposed to be a citizen’s army (though all the active-duty folks are under contract. . .), so it seems traditional that they won’t be too good at drill and the other formalities of military life. Shame about this, though. It was supposed to be the Army’s day yesterday but it was hijacked.
Tony Jay
Shoddy and done on the cheap? ✅
Reliant on already stiffed contractors? ✅
Overblown puffery in place of real achievement? ✅
Overseen by vainglorious incompetents? ✅
Truly, this was a Trump Parade.
WaterGirl
@Tony Jay:
Truth!
tam1MI
A friend of mine on BlueSky made an excellent point about the protests. Now is the time to follow them up by calling your Senators, be they Democrats or Republicans – ESPECIALLY if they are Republicans – and demand that they oppose the Big Ugly Bill. The protests have to have got them shook, let’s keep them shook!
Tony Jay
@WaterGirl:
I’m kind of easing back into things while awaiting the Totally Unforseen Outbreak of Apocalypse War and trying to find time to get this rant about British politics done. It would help if British politicians stopped being such daily dicks, but that’s not going to happen any day soon.
Keep on doing the good work. Salute.
fancycwabs
It’s inappropriate to conjecture on anyone’s medical condition, so I’ll only stick to the observable details–is the right side of Don’s face sagging? It looks like it’s sagging.
Elizabelle
@tam1MI: Excellent point. Especially the Republicans. Who might be begging for more security. Against their own constituents. I mean, a Democrat or two got shot.
WeimarGerman
@lowtechcyclist: With all the election shenanigans, we remain only a few votes away from controlling both Houses. There is hope in that if we fight hard now.
I firmly believe the path forward must begin with removing the pitiful limit on House size. Reapportion with ~543 House members and Dems will retain the House for a long time (see Wyoming Rule).
After that, assuming the Cheeto departs, we can do the rest of the hard things (Citizens United, Statehood for DC & PR, 13 on Scotus, etc.)