A Grand Parade for The Donald

As we ponder the idea of a Great Show of military might in the form of a giant parade in our nation's capitol we should remember The Donald's comments following his State of the Union address. Just a few days before The Donald proposed his parade he complained that some Democratic lawmakers were unpatriotic because they did not applaud his State of the Union remarks enthusiastically enough. No, he actually said they were treasonous.

Moscow - May 2015
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Now, accusing members of Congress of treason for not applauding is ludicrous. But if The Donald said it you may be assured that there is a cadre of thugs out there who believe it.

Now comes the parade. In The Donald's Brave New World will the children that are bussed in from the suburbs to observe the grotesque spectacle be required to wave their tiny flags with Great Enthusiasm? Failing that, will they be sent to camps for reindoctrination?

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The photos here are of the 70th anniversary victory parade in Moscow in 2015. At the event Vladimir Putin, a favorite of The Donald's, made his twelfth, or was it his fourteenth, victory harangue. This, of course, is what The Donald aspires to.

The drawing is an actual drawing made by a prisoner of the Russian Gulag under the Stalin regime. Members of Congress who fail the applause test should trend carefully under The Donald's regime.

Thanks to the National Security Archives in the U.S. and their heroic Russian colleagues for preserving this.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/russia-programs/2017-12-20/memoriam-arseny-borisovich-roginsky-1946-2017

On February 8th the on-line magazine The Hill reported that bills were introduced in the House and Senate that would keep The Donald from holding his parade. The article is here: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/373036-dem-lawmakers-introduce-bills-to-block-funds-for-proposed-military-parade

You can petition your member of Congress to support these bills by going here http://act.winwithoutwar.org/sign/tell-congress-defund-trumps-tank-parade/?refcode=em20180214&t=2&akid=1421%2E373436%2E4uZW_j

- Tim King

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