Not Satisfied with Laying Waste to Common Decency, Trump Co-Opts the Most Important US Holiday
Since his first day infesting the WH, Trump has been trying to produce a militaristic super duper patriotic ceremony to celebrate…himself. The Pentagon succeeded in shutting down his Soviet style military parade last year, but now he’s decided to co-opt the most American of American holidays and 
make it about himself. The National Park Service has announced that, at Trump’s order, they are turning a traditional non-partisan event of American music and fireworks into an event centered on His Orangeness, including giving a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and rearranging the entire holiday celebration to put himself in the middle of it.
My response to Trump trying to take over OUR HOLIDAY to make it about himself? Fuck you. I refuse to participate in any way, not even turning on my television for it. Enough of this nonsense is enough. He’s turned the entire US government into a reality television show starring him, his criminal cronies, and his entire fucking family. I’m sick of it. Congress needs to stop this narcissistic asshole in his tracks, get him out of office, and then return our government to some level of normalcy.
For God’s sake, I want my country back from insanity and cheesy reality television.
What is so sickening is that he’ll probably be able to pull it off with enough attendance from his followers. My son, who received a medical discharge for his Iraqi souvenirs told me on several occasions that a large percentage of troops support him regardless of his lack of understanding the ramifications from the whole, long-term picture.
1We are heading after China’s leader who just made himself premier for life. Hong Kong is in the process of being mainlanded with the attendant loss of liberties. This is what trump is shooting for – emperor for life and then some.
Are we close to another bloody revolution but much more bloody?
I was hoping that somebody with sense would stop the SOB, but there are so few people with sense left. At least they may manage to stop his idiotic Mexican tariff hissy fit. But nobody will tell this bloated baby that every tradition in the United States is not for the purpose of glorifying his ugly ass.
I hope everybody who’s been going to the Fourth for years as a family celebration stays away in droves. Picnic in your own back yards and town parks, enjoy your local fireworks. We have some in Greenbelt MD and can see several others in nearby towns.
Donnie, you know how much everybody in the DC metro area wants you to desecrate our holiday? Go down to the Potomac, stick your finger in the water, then pull it out and look at the hole. While you’re there, stick your head in the water and leave it there for ten or fifteen minutes.
2… and the rocket’s orange glare…
3Tiny things sometimes garner our attention in the face of ponderous abomination:
Ex Trump aide Hope Hicks agrees to hand over campaign documents to Congress.
Hope Hicks walked out of the DC Swamp leaving ‘Individual 1’ mired in his own muck.
double entendre – noun – ambiguity, double meaning, innuendo, play on words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K30e9O3Nng
4El Jefe: You left off “and the horse you rode in on.”
5Just what we need, the Thug President, misusing our Independence Day celebration to harangue us on and on with his disgraceful prejudices and petty insults. I, too, will avoid being held hostage by that thug.
6I have a dream: we pack the 4th of July event with our folks, and wait for him to start speaking. When he goes, we pull a Braveheart – and the entire crowd moons Trump. Then the chanting starts: Impeach Trump Now!
Won’t happen, but it would be funny.
7My outrage meter was already pegged today out over this:
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel-d-day-anniversary-should-be-a-time-to-celebrate-trump/
So not just historic events in the U.S., but those that occurred as part of a grand alliance of democracy world-wide, must be cast in terms of honoring Trump?
[Anyone remember when per tradition NPR had their people read the Declaration of Independence on line, one paragraph per person? And the RWNJ’s went bonkers because they took it as a criticism of Trump?]
This is still only a 7/10 for my outrage. The D-Day commemoration ranks at 11/10.
8Oops, I left off two points:
1. Rick@3 wins the internet comment of the day, and maybe of the week.
2. I hereby bet $100, with the winnings to be paid to JJ’s get-em-out-to-vote efforts (https://secure.actblue.com/donate/juanita) that any Trump speech-like artifact delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, will include pointing out that Lincoln was a Republicant. Any takers? It might be a safe bet for you, especially if he rambles off in whatever direction the random firing of neurons in his alleged brain induce.
9I’m surrounded by forest where I am right now in Washington State, and I, along with many of my neighbors, will be watching that no fireworks shooting idiots set our peninsula on fire. No time for Deadbeat Donald that day or any other.
10RepubAnon:
11That would be epic. The thing is, my pessimistic attitude towards our current situation leads me to a different possible outcome. My explanation for Trump’s motive is more nefarious than El Jefe’s.
Trump wants to be able to have rallies like the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda organized and produced in the 30’s.
Without the pesky comparisons to Hitler.
Stephen Miller won’t be able to provide anything close to the level of total devotion that Goebbels achieved in those crowds.
But it won’t be for lack of trying.
And I’m forseeing plenty of the most rabid trumpsters turning out.
The kind that punched and beat protesters at trump campaign rallies. BEFORE he was elected.
So the question now becomes, does starting a riot on the fourth of July help them or us?
Almost forgot. I’ve called the wannabe dictator who’s trying his best to burn down 200 years of progress by names like Donnie Douchebag, the Golgothan, etc. Because in the beginning it was laughable.
12It ain’t been funny for a long time.
We’ve got to keep OUR sense of humor in this joint.
But no more stupid names for my part.
Let the name Trump start being associated with the attempted destruction of our democracy.
But that’s just my opinion, and I’m just as full of shit as anybody else.
Remember the old movie, Yankee Doodle Dandy? George M. Cohan was born on July 4 and, during his early childhood thought the celebration was for his birthday.
Yes, well — he was just a child. What’s Trump’s excuse?
Oh, that’s right. There is none.
13Apologies. The question now becomes does HAVING a riot on the fourth of July help them or us?
14We won’t have started it.
I fear that this doofus will call for a 2nd american revolution to free him from judges and the media.
15I’ll be living in far north, majority Blue area Wisconsin. I won’t watch anything that features Trump but will give Hell to anyone who televises it. I’m sure PBS will be safe.
16As Rachel Maddow pointed out tonight, Richard Nixon tried to use the 4th of July to rally people behind his causes back in the 70s. It didn’t end well for him–in fact, it ended in teargas and rioting. Let us hope that it goes just as badly for Donnie.
17But tell us, Hefe, how you REALLY feel?
18He is using our tax dollars to promote himself.
19I would like my money back.
Today is the anniversary of D-Day. Can’t wait to see what monkey shines he has with that. Fat Donnie must go!
20Does he plan to force the NSO to provide music or will he have Nugent and Three Doors Down Drag out those little Trump Girls to perform? (God, what an embarassment) Has he signed Scott Baio to emcee?
21I used to go to the July 4th celebration on the Mall every year. After 9/11, though, it took forever to get through the checkpoints which took all the fun out of it. Haven’t been since 2004. I’ll continue that tradition this year – though I’d be tempted to join @RepubAnon’s merry tribe if it gains momentum!
22Exchanging our Fourth of July celebration for a MAGAt rally to appease the Toddler-in-Thief is just fine by the same conspiracy knuckle draggers who wage their counter offensive to the imaginary war on Christmas every year. Will they be wishing each other a Happy Deranged Donnie Day, or is it still permissible to say Fourth of July?
23US Senator (The Honorable) Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a true hero, gravely wounded pilot, commander, double-amputee, had this succinct twitter comment about ‘courageous’ Comrade Bonespurs on the 75th anniversary of D-Day:
Tammy Duckworth
✔
“@SenDuckworth
These comments only make one thing clear: @realDonaldTrump got his deferments for the wrong thing. They shouldn’t have been for his disappearing, imaginary bone spurs—they should have been for that yellow streak down his back. At least that would have been a real condition. 4/4
6,623
242:26 PM – Jun 5, 2019”
Is it too late to book the baby Trump blimp? I had ancestors who lived through the American Revolution and the Civil war (both sides). We have been proud Americans. Just the thought of Trump and an Independence Day celebration make me want a hot shower with a fresh can of Comet!
25Sandridge@24, the silence from IQ4.5 is deafening. Once again proving what a whiny little coward he is Donnie will suffer that burn in silence and pretend he didn’t see the tweet from Senator Duckworth. In one of the few glimpses of his fragile sanity, he’s scared witless of Senator Duckworth.
Grandma Ada@25 the Trump Baby blimp would be the perfect Grand Marshal for any parades. Miniature versions should be provided to the spectators as a theme for the parade.
26In protest I won’t be watching the 4th on the Mall to see Rump foul the air.
A lot of people will use the 4th as a day to grill, drink and take their boats out. I’m not saying that’s bad. Many though, will treat it like another three day weekend, witout a pause to think about its true meaning.
I’ll be cooking my share of ribs. I will be donating to veterans groups to help homeless vets and other causes to honor my dear late, a veteran of Viet Nam.
27Maybe some advocates of Edward Abby’s Monkey Wrench Gang can SNAFU the entire event.
28Jane & PKM@26, every miserable cell in SOBOTUS genetically has 100% coward DNA, all the way back to grandpa [or is it great-grandpa?] Drumpf, who fled Germany to avoid military service in the 1800’s [and then tried to sneak back and the Germans deported him, for what was essentially cowardice, so it is genetically imbued in the mangy Trump bloodline].
As far as little balloon ‘Trump Baby blimps’, surely somebody is selling them by now? I’d buy a half dozen.
29.
BTW, I lifted that Sen. Duckworth tweet from here:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/5/1862943/-Whoa-Sen-Tammy-Duckwoth-Says-Trump-Has-a-Yellow-Streak-Down-His-Back?utm_campaign=recent
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Also has some good satirical images there:
Young QEII served much more time in the military than the entire klan of Trump chickenhawks:
https://images.dailykos.com/images/683163/large/Queen-Elizabeth_Served-Military_MORE_Trump-FAMILY.jpg?
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Toy soldier Trump:
https://images.dailykos.com/images/683171/large/trump-cadetbonespurs2.jpg?
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True heroes, not a zero:
https://images.dailykos.com/images/683123/large/BoneSpurMeme.jpg?
check out Amazon or eBay – they both have baby trump balloons for sale. Everyone should have one of their very own!
30The Navy needs to stretch one of their big tarps over the statue of Lincoln.
31Buttermilk Sky@30, the Navy should drop one of these puppies into the big pool in front of Lincoln’s monument, aimed at RAT45’s podium:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_54_Lightweight_Torpedo
32You just know that he is going to persevere in this foolishness. Do remember that some of these festivities were rained out a d seriously so. Inn that case he just may telecast from the White House. I think the Secret Service will talk him out of it on the grounds that there are not enough of them to safeguard him.
33Sandridge@29
Amazon delivers and IQ4.5 hates Jeff Bezos. Worth buying a few dozen to pass out to the kiddies, especially if their parents are wearing MAGAt hats.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=trump+balloons&hvadid=77653061232295&hvbmt=bb&hvdev=c&hvqmt=b&tag=mh0b-20&ref=pd_sl_3l6i2q7cy2_b
34Hey, One Day Delivery on Trump Baby Blimp T Shirts, with a searing takeoff on Mary Poppins: “Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist Nazi Potus”
So I bought one.
35carrott & Jane & PKM, bwahaha, those have all kinds of neat ‘baby trump’ stuff, gonna order something when I can decide from the hundreds of items…
36wouldn’t dare put one out here though, my house would get mortared or shelled, riddled with drive-by bullets, in this 75% rabid trumpanzee MAGAot county.
Sandridge, the problem in our rural NW corner of NV is that it would be safe. This week. But if the Bundys need to get to Iduho again or their wingnut posse from Iduho ever finds gas money to visit the Bundy Ranch we’re within reach of the idiots’ parade route. With our ranchies and NA friends, they’d never get near the house or other buildings, but we have two young sons to consider if there were to be any crossfire. But we did stock up on balloons to hand out and a few t-shirts like the one Ormond found. Really like the vendors donating $1 to the ACLU for each purchase. Sticking it to Donnie and a charitable donation, my kind of shopping.
37I speech on the Mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial, would be fraught with problems from the viewpoint of the Secret Service. Maybe it won’t happen.
38Jane & PKM, All the MAGAot scumsuckers are always very big on ‘propurty rahts’ and ‘persnal freedumbs’, but only theirs, not yours and everybody else’s.
39We are headed for an effen civil war unless those sonsabitches get neutralized and corralled somewhere in their own little confederated universe.
I used to advocate the perfect place for them, the Minor US island of Navassa in the Caribbean, but I now see that it’s not near large enough for all of them [on the other hand, it would be fun to watch them ‘work & whittle’ it out like rats].
Kate Dungan@38, Or maybe “it” will…
40Sandridge @ 40,
RE: Kate @38.
I hope “it” does.
41Papa et al –
Vehement DIsagree.
I cannot condone assassination or other acts of terrorism as political tactics under any circumstances.
Firstly, it throws everything into chaos. Secondly, the people in charge can use it as an excuse to hurt a lot of innocent people.
But worst of all, it sets an unconscionable precedent.
How can any society that is founded on the principle of the Rule of Law benefit from the most lawless act imaginable?
Nope, gotta do it the hard, slow, messy way. Voting, legislation, public education, and possibly civil disobedience.
And just hope the whole ungodly mess doesn’t end in armed conflict.
42El Jefe: I still remember an upper classman at USAFA telling me my constant swearing showed the lack of an extensive vocabulary.
43Even though Susan’s mama is gone, her sensibility about language remains. Please refrain for the cursing in your posts.
Larry –
In this case, I found El Jefe’s language to be concise and on point. I thoroughly concur with him.
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