Trump’s hijacking of the Fourth of July just got a lot uglier

Army tanks move along Pennsylvania Avenue in the inaugural parade for President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 21, 1953.




A Nike Zeus missile is showcased at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration parade in 1961 in the midst of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union.




An Army Pershing missile (nuclear weapon) on a tank-like carrier catches the sunlight as today's inaugural parade draws attention of spectators along Pennsylvania Avenue. Other missile from front, are: LaCrosse, Nike Hercules and Nike Zeus showcased at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration parade in 1961.




Inaugural Parade for President John F. Kennedy along Pennsylvania Avenue. Originally Posted by I B Hankering

You miss the point by light years. 45 is politicizing a national holiday and hijacking it as a Republican political rally at the expense of taxpayers and tradition. You do know that an inauguration (45 has not yet paid for his) is not viewed in the same cultural context as the 4th of July by local residents who lookforward to enjoying a non-political holiday. This is not an appropriate venue to showcase the military. Many patriots (secret code word to describe white racists, white supremacists, neo-confederates, neo-nazis and white separatists collectively) just don't seem to get it.

His dignity and his honor. That's two right there! Originally Posted by Whisky_1

What's the third...immoral skirt chaser??

You miss the point by light years. 45 is politicizing a national holiday and hijacking it as a Republican political rally at the expense of taxpayers and tradition. You do know that an inauguration (45 has not yet paid for his) is not viewed in the same cultural context as the 4th of July by local residents who lookforward to enjoying a non-political holiday. This is not an appropriate venue to showcase the military. Many patriots (secret code word to describe white racists, white supremacists, neo-confederates, neo-nazis and white separatists collectively) just don't seem to get it. Originally Posted by Whisky_1

Where did you get the secret codes...the DNC archival talking point??
P.S. You forgot...FASCIST!!

Leave it to the libturd left to try and ruin a holiday for everyone.

EPIC FAIL!

BTW, Betsy Ross flags are selling out everywhere.

Hey, England! Enjoy your day.... AT WORK! LMAO!!!

Leave it to the libturd left to try and ruin a holiday for everyone.

EPIC FAIL!

BTW, Betsy Ross flags are selling out everywhere.

Hey, England! Enjoy your day.... AT WORK! LMAO!!! Originally Posted by gfejunkie

Wow! Just what this thread needs. A picture of draft dodger wearing a military uniform and right winger that can't make a salient point without tossing in at least one insult.

Where did you get the secret codes...the DNC archival talking point??
P.S. You forgot...FASCIST!! Originally Posted by bb1961

Nope! I learned to translate the secret codes growing up in America. However, the Internet, social media and the low cost of computers makes decoding messages a lot easier now. By the way, I did not forget. The neo-nazis got fascism covered.

I put my American flag up yesterday. This evening I will go to our local park and celebrate the 4th of July like most people in this country. Visit, listen to music, watch fireworks. No tanks. No fly-overs.

If Donald Trump thinks his pomp and circumstance is necessary at a cost of millions of dollars, I won't argue with him. His decision.

It is sad and pathetic that anyone would object to a military display to honor our independence..

This is pure TDS at it's worst.....and it was predictable.

Wow! Just what this thread needs. A picture of draft dodger wearing a military uniform and right winger that can't make a salient point without tossing in at least one insult. Originally Posted by Whisky_1

Oh, boo fuckin' hoo. You won't rain on America's parade either. Too bad. So sad.

LMAO!!!

Army tanks move along Pennsylvania Avenue in the inaugural parade for President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 21, 1953.




A Nike Zeus missile is showcased at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration parade in 1961 in the midst of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union.




An Army Pershing missile (nuclear weapon) on a tank-like carrier catches the sunlight as today's inaugural parade draws attention of spectators along Pennsylvania Avenue. Other missile from front, are: LaCrosse, Nike Hercules and Nike Zeus showcased at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration parade in 1961.




Inaugural Parade for President John F. Kennedy along Pennsylvania Avenue. Originally Posted by I B Hankering

I think our President is following this tradition on the country's 4th of July extravaganza.

Thanks for posting these important historical photos which vindicate President Trump.

You miss the point by light years. 45 is politicizing a national holiday and hijacking it as a Republican political rally at the expense of taxpayers and tradition. You do know that an inauguration (45 has not yet paid for his) is not viewed in the same cultural context as the 4th of July by local residents who lookforward to enjoying a non-political holiday. This is not an appropriate venue to showcase the military. Many patriots (secret code word to describe white racists, white supremacists, neo-confederates, neo-nazis and white separatists collectively) just don't seem to get it. Originally Posted by Whisky_1

Actually you have a decent point but the anti-Trump faction politicizes everything our President does and attempts to denigrate his positive efforts for America so it is hard to unite the country in the midst of the left's constant efforts to divide America for their own political benefit.

You do know that they had tanks for JFKs inauguration? Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn

No, he doesn't. He wasn't "around" then.

I think was when this happened ....

http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune...2013-pictures/

Seems like the hometown newspaper is kind rankled about the big dick waving planned for the Fourth of July in DC.

Nothing says God Bless America like tanks on the National Mall.

YOW!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.wa...outputType=amp

Trump’s hijacking of the Fourth of July just got a lot uglier


The authoritarian nationalist leader typically rewrites the story of the nation in his own image, in a very particular way. Our own homegrown authoritarian nationalist has proved particularly devoted to this fusion of national mythmaking and self-hagiography, often delivered in his own unique language of crass, gaudy spectacle.

The historians tell us that this is what authoritarian nationalists do. As Harvard’s Jill Lepore puts it, they replace history with tried-and-true fictions — false tales of national decline at the hands of invented threats, melded to fictitious stories of renewed national greatness, engineered by the leader himself, who is both author of the fiction and its mythic hero.

This is what we will be seeing in one form or another on the Fourth of July, no matter what Trump says in his planned Independence Day speech from the Lincoln Memorial. The very act of taking over the proceedings in the manner he has cooked up itself accomplishes this feat.

New details are emerging about Trump’s plans. The Post reports that the National Park Service will now divert millions of dollars previously earmarked to improve parks across the country to fund Trump’s celebration on the Mall.

Meanwhile, a White House official tells The Post that the plans include a plane from Air Force One’s fleet soaring overhead at precisely the moment that Trump takes the stage. Tanks will take part in the display.

President Trump is seeking to make Independence Day about himself, says The Post's Editorial Board. Americans should not be lured by the spectacle. (The Washington Post)
Finally, the White House is handing out tickets to the event to GOP donors and political appointees. Passes are being distributed by the Republican National Committee and Trump’s reelection campaign.

As many critics have pointed out, by politicizing the Fourth of July so nakedly, Trump has inevitably transformed the celebration into a campaign event. It remains to be seen whether he will do so explicitly in his speech, but either way, that conversion has already been implicitly accomplished.

It’s the melding of that fact with the particular display Trump is putting on that makes this so ugly. The showcasing of military might, Trump’s association of himself with it, and the unabashed conversion of a paean to the nation’s founding into a reelection event — what it all amounts to is larger than the sum of its parts.

The naked audacity of the usurpation is itself the point. That Democrats and liberals are getting trolled into expressions of outrage over it only reinforces that point to greater effect.

Many have interpreted this moment as yet another sign that Trump does not care a whit about the idea of America. Never-Trumper Tim Miller has a good piece arguing that in multiple ways, Trump rejects the ideas about freedom, equality and self-governance at the core of Thomas Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence.

Instead, Miller notes, “it’s all phony branding, no history,” an exercise that “swaps out liberty and self-government for owning the libs and self-aggrandizement.”

Karen Tumulty: The brightest star this Fourth of July? Donald Trump. Oh, and the tanks.

Trump and American greatness

All of that is true. But at the core of Trump’s celebration there actually will be a vision of America — or, at least, of American greatness, and more to the point, of his own imagined restoration of that greatness. For you cannot disentangle Trump’s vision of both those things from his paeans to the strength of our military.

Trump campaigned on the false story of an America in steep decline. He embellished this story with endless lies and demagoguery about immigrants, and about how international engagement supposedly resulted in foreign leaders “laughing at” and “humiliating” us. Central to this tale was the constant refrain that our military has been “depleted,” the ultimate symbol of that national decline.

Trump’s claim to having rebuilt the military is also foundational to his tale of revived American greatness — and his own authorship of it. He pulled out of the Iran deal — international diplomacy had produced a “weak” solution — and will now force Iranian capitulation by threatening unilateral “obliteration.”

There is no doubt that Trump envisions this Fourth of July speech — delivered amid a show of military might — as a display of his own imagined role in “restoring” U.S. greatness.

But the whole story Trump told about American decline is false, and it is producing epic policy disasters. The demented worldview undergirding his lies about immigrants is producing a horrific humanitarian catastrophe. The anti-globalization rhetoric — while containing kernels of truth — has in practice produced a combination of bread-and-circuses bluster toward foreign elites and destructive trade wars with no end.

Meanwhile, Trump’s turn away from international engagement has in practice meant a genuine embrace of strongman authoritarian nationalism, and with it, a very real abandonment of the ideals of liberal democracy. Just this week, Trump agreed with Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s claim that “the liberal idea has become obsolete” and “joked” with him about getting rid of journalists. Trump absolved the Saudi royal family of any role in the dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi.

It may be, as Jonathan Chait suggests, that Trump does not know why he hates liberal democracy — only that he senses that it is incompatible with the value he places on domination and hierarchy.

It may also be that Trump has not given much thought to the Declaration of Independence, or to what Abraham Lincoln — whose memorial will become Trump’s stage — said about Thomas Jefferson’s words in it in a letter in 1859:

All honor to Jefferson -- to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.
That “abstract truth” from Jefferson was seen at the time as an afterthought amid the immediate political grievances of the moment. But it is what endured, and it is a big reason we celebrate the Fourth of July today.

Nobody, to be sure, has a monopoly on the meaning of America and its history. That is a big reason we celebrate the Fourth of July today as well.

Trump will read aloud some words of his own about Jefferson and Lincoln that were written for him to create the impression that he grasps these things. But the celebration itself will reveal that he very much does not. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

If Kamala Harris could magically go back in time she would have pointed out to all the founding white men that they were white men who wrote all those magical words and Jefferson was a slaveholder so his fucking documents should all be shredded.

Lincoln wanted to ship the slaves back to Africa so we should tear down that monument, also.

That was nearly 60 years ago.

They had polio back then too.

And measles ... ooops! Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis...ments/ipv.html

Polio used to be very common in the United States. It paralyzed and killed thousands of people every year before polio vaccine was introduced in 1955.

Salk and Sabin vaccines. Now only inactivated polio vaccine is used in US


https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/measles/index.html

Measles can be prevented with MMR vaccine. The vaccine protects against three diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella. CDC recommends children get two doses of MMR vaccine, starting with the first dose at 12 through 15 months of age, and the second dose at 4 through 6 years of age. Teens and adults should also be up to date on their MMR vaccination.
The MMR vaccine is very safe and effective. Two doses of MMR vaccine are about 97% effective at preventing measles; one dose is about 93% effective.
Children may also get MMRV vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox). This vaccine is only licensed for use in children who are 12 months through 12 years of age.
Before the measles vaccination program started in 1963, an estimated 3 to 4 million people got measles each year in the United States. Of these, approximately 500,000 cases were reported each year to CDC; of these, 400 to 500 died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 1,000 developed encephalitis (brain swelling) from measles. Since then, widespread use of measles virus-containing vaccine has led to a greater than 99% reduction in measles cases compared with the pre-vaccine era. However, measles is still common in other countries. Unvaccinated people continue to get measles while abroad and bring the disease into the United States and spread it to others.


An accurate history of vaccines for polio and measles from the CDC.
That is Center for Disease Control, OP.
Unfortunately, there is no vacccine for DPST self-delusion and history revisionism/ignorance.
Interesting that so many of the DPST enclaves such as Kalifornia are also Endemic with Anti-
Vaxxers.


A bit off topic response to OP allegations.

So - I will enjoy the 4th of July celebration despite the best efforts of DPST's to rain on the parade.

If hillary were in office - they would salivating over themselves at the thought of a military parade.

"Intolerant fascists" - please see left coast Anti-fa and how the DPST's love their anonymous storm troopers/brown-shirts.


Hypocrites.

So - I will enjoy the 4th of July celebration despite the best efforts of DPST's to rain on the parade.
Originally Posted by oeb11

In November 2016 their "parade" was DROWNED by their own tears!!!!



They get a chance in 2020 for a "do-over," but it seems they want history to repeat itself.