Sometimes, a parade is just a perade but sometimes...

[CincyDem]

…it’s an excuse to fortify Washington DC with 7,000 troops, 150 or so army vehicles (including a couple dozen M1 tanks) and who really knows what else.

You can’t move that much “stuff” around the country without being noticed. Using our military to feed TFG’s narcissistic appetite is insulting and, for many, triggering. But in the grand scheme of things…as long all those troops take all that hardware back home over the next few days…its a benign embarrassment.

Tanks and troops moving into any country’s capital has always been a bad thing and without the cover of his big, beautiful birthday perade…what story would this military concentration tell?

While the focus is on deploying 200 marines into LA on the pretext of uncontrollable violence…we just moved thousands of troops (and their heavy duty toys) into the nations capital. Hopefully, it’s just a visit and we’ll seen all that military firepower back home where they belong but if “logistical challenges” mean they have to park those M1’s at the National Arboretum for a while…that’s gonna be one f’ing bad omen, imho.

[johnnyfins]

1. Plus the symbolism

Parade starting at the Pentagon and coming IN to D.C. to be reviewed by the "leader". The direction matters.