Let Trump show off his tanks. I don't think America's gonna like it.

[Rustynaerduwell]

We have been taught to react to tanks rolling down a street negatively. We've never seen anything good come from it. Ever. It's a picture that makes us, in our guts, recoil. It strikes at our core. It's a visceral response, much like Pavlov's dog. And, like Pavlov's dog, it is a conditioned response I believe every American will feel. Even the most hardcore Trumper will give pause, no matter how fleetingly, to such a sight because we have all been trained to.

[RKP5637]

1. His supporters? I bet his numbers rise. Many of them love death and gore. n/t

[atreides1]

2. He's not concerned about America as a whole!!

The only people he's attempting to impress are his base...and that's exactly what he'll do...even more so because he's requested the presence of the commanders of the military services to stand behind him...which his base will take to mean that he has the support of the US military...

[uponit7771]

4. +1, Don't know if this will even get the support of the majority of his base.

[Cosmocat]

15. They will self pleasure themselves to the mental image of the tanks running over liberals

nm

[sop]

3. Yeah, tanks and goose-stepping soldiers parading past dictators aren't a good look

[brewens]

7. I said all along we should give him his fearless leader tribute parade. But instead of the

military, get the Trumptroopers from Charlottesville. That might take an executive order demanding The Daily Stormer be allowed back online to organize it. They could call in Proud Boys, Roy Moore republicans and whatever other assorted alt-right degenerates and perverts they can think of.

At night with their little tiki torches would be best. If there weren't enough for a real big parade, they could just keep marching around the block. Trump would never notice.

[sop]

30. "Trumptroopers"...Well done.

I recall seeing historical images of a huge KKK parade in DC back in the '20s. They could all get together and march on the 4th.

https://wamu.org/story/18/08/09/brief-history-white-supremacist-rallies-d-c/

[trev]

5. It'll work for him.

Everything he does just strengthens his base, and that's all he's concerned with.

I doubt that he even understands the implications of his plans.

[Nay]

19. And that's the thing. He does NOT "understand the implication of his plans" --

as you have mentioned.

He is the embodiment of the id ("the disorganized part of the personality structure that contains a human's basic, instinctual drives. Id is the only component of personality that is present from birth&quot . The id runs every facet of his daily life. We are being led by a raging toddler, basically.

[Aristus]

6. I don't think they're going to be in a parade.

Word is, they're going to be part of a static display. Unfortunately for us, people love those. I know I did when I was a kid with the intellectual grasp of an adult Trumpster.

[milestogo]

8. The purpose of the 4th of July tanks is to make his ass look smaller.

[OhZone]

28. hahahahha

[jberryhill]

9. Wait for someone to go stand in front of them

[RKP5637]

18. That, would be excellent!!! Perfect photo shot. n/t

[ADX]

10. 99% of the "Americans" who support that scumbag will have orgasms...

...watching this quasi-dictatorial display of military might. They're mindless sheep who see this kind of shit as a projection of strength.

One of the only times that motherfucker didn't lie is when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote and the other was when he said that he loves the poorly educated...

[RKP5637]

13. America has always had a very very ugly side and tRump has that as his base. It's so damn

pathetic and sad ... and individuals such as tRump are sometimes the ones that make some countries fail for humanity.The GOP congress is pathetic, especially The Turdtle.

[snowybirdie]

11. Anyone planning

to watch this fiasco? A day when many have a day off to plan outdoor activities. No one watching tv. A day that will have thunderstorms. A day when announced protesters will be out in force and people in DC will stay away to avoid the hassle. Who's going to show up to sit in the heat and sun? Love to see lots of empty seats!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. Spectacle before a war.. Trump is a calculating BASTARD....

Trump is prepping his base to support him in a war in the Middle East, just before the election in order to prop him up as a TOUGH GUY.

Unknown to the ignorant who follow him, is that there will be much death and gore that could have been averted. The amount of money such a war will cost will be thrown to the poor and Middle Class to pay as the RICH get yet another Tax Cut, Farmers go bankrupt, Health Care and Drug prices go up, food supplies dwindle, retirement savings see a nose dive as the Stock Market begins to nose dive in a downward spiral, more jobs lost.....ALL to get re-elected because "I ALONE CAN FIX THIS."


This is all a ploy my friends to continue the destruction of everything we hold dear. What was it that William Wallace said..."They can take our lives, but they cannot take our FREDDOM!"

[RKP5637]

16. This is the move that could take the US in a downward spiral for decades. China, Russia and

North Korea must be totally laughing their asses off at how stupid he is and how easily he can be played. They don't have to do a thing. tRump, is fully capable of making the US fail on his own.

[dweller]

14. eh, what's a couple of tanks ... I say send 100+

surround the White House ... facing in

✌🏼️

[OhZone]

29. HA This!

[NewJeffCT]

17. are you kidding?

Most of the media will have on air orgasms over it, and that will translate into a temporary bump in the polls.

[ChicagoRonin]

20. This seems like a disaster in the making

So Trump is having them move the fireworks display, change the area accessibility, and adding military displays (including flyovers). Apparently all over the protests of the military, national park service, D.C. officials and others who have to figure out the logistics. And this is being done with little advanced planning, no attention to the costs and incoming thunderstorms.

I think this has all the makings of being the world’s first fascist Fyre Festival.

[jberryhill]

22. the world's first fascist Fyre Festival

Second.

[Baclava]

21. They won't be rolling anywhere, they will be on on static display

I'm pretty sure Americans have seen tanks before

[Hortensis]

23. It'll please right wing authoritarians,

of all colors unfortunately, as does his oppression and persecution of Hispanics and undocumented immigrants. But I’m hoping Rusty is very right about all the rest of us and that this very un-American display will be ringing alarms for democracy all over the nation.

We are already a majority, so hopefully this will help further alarm wobbly right-leaning independents who haven’t yet taken the step of voting against him. And of course, bolster those who did in the midterms and help prepare them for taking that same big step in the national election.

Also of course, encourage some of those still- feckless nonvoters who’ve been refusing to stand for right and against wrong to at least vote to protect themselves.

[Rustynaerduwell]

24. When I say a conditioned, visceral response

I mean the unconscious, biological reaction to what is seen. Just say the phrase "tanks rolling down the street" out loud. The gut responds negatively. Justification and pride may come next from a Trumper, but I believe the subtle, first response from most Americans would be to give pause,

[Totally Tunsie]

25. Sounds like a bad Tom Cruise movie.

[redstatebluegirl]

26. His crazy supporters will love the show of testosterone and "strength".

Of course they are all crazy.

[AllaN01Bear]

27. this

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i do belive yesterday dc said no thanks to tanks .

[Initech]

31. I say let him, I will not watch it.

I'm sick of the right wingers and their bastardized version of patriotism that I cant stand it. I will literally watch paint dry before I watch Chump's Americagasm parade.

I mean if you want to see the right wing's America boner at work, check out Twitter today - they are more sad that Nike pulled their Betsy Ross flag shoes than they are about the fact that we have concentration camps operating on American soil operated by psychopathic CBP and ICE agents. So they will get no sympathy for me.