76 trombones led the big parade. With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand.<\/p>\n
Aw, who doesn\u2019t love a good parade, marching bands, twirlers, floats and banners and our boys in uniform? Women too now! And Transgenders! Followed by tanks and artillery, jets flying overhead in formation, bunker buster bombs carried on carriages two blocks long. Formation after formation of the Army, the Navy, the Marines and the Air Force. Battalions and generals and military hardware. The Commander-in-Chief looking down from the stage specially constructed for his viewing pleasure, salutes to him as thousands pass by rank and file, hail to the Chief!!<\/p>\n
Damn the expense! If we can\u2019t put on a good military parade once a year, what kind of cowpie country are we? Let the rest of the world cower before our display of drones and cruise missiles moving mile after mile down the banner festooned streets of D.C. Patriotism on Display!! Military Might on Display!! Who doesn\u2019t love a good parade?? Forget that Mickey Mouse balloon stuff. Homer Simpson three blocks high. We\u2019re talking about Fire Power, not Star Power. Save the Disney stuff for the Mummer\u2019s or the Rose Bowl or Mardi Gras. Bring on the Bradley Fighting Machines, the 1126 Stryker, the MK19 grenade machine gun, the Black Hawk helicopters, the MK-54 torpedoes, bring it all out and let the world tremble. <\/p>\n
Shock and awe on the streets of the USA, that\u2019s what we need. You wonder how we won the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria, well, sir, check out that hardware we\u2019re selling to every hungry dictatorship around the globe. What\u2019s on display here is more than Uncle Sam\u2019s mighty muscles, it\u2019s a runway for arms sales, pure and simple and who better to brand that than the Trumpster himself, Captain America. You need a second generation jet, we got em. You need some Surface-to-Air missiles, we\u2019re your supplier. Just don\u2019t resell them to terrorists. Don\u2019t want those SAMs falling into the wrong hands like that time with the Taliban back in the cold war days when they were fighting the Soviets. <\/p>\n
No, give me a good parade any day. Celebrate the weapons of destruction. Hell, drop a nuclear bomb out in the countryside, nothing too big, just a little show of atomic power, a warning to the enemies of liberty. Small mushroom cloud over the capitol, better than the 4th of July. Guns and God, let freedom ring. 76 trombones and a huckster Music Man, is this a great country or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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