The band played "Fortunate Son". They all knew exactly what they were doing.
If shit ever does hit the fan full send (I very much doubt it) he doesn't have the army.
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Yeah! They need to do important stuff!
Like point guns at me while I'm going to the grocery store!
Military doesn't do that, that's for cops after they get out of the military.
Oh, so who was the guy in digital camo standing next to the grey armored vehicle doing that?
Because im pretty sure that wasn't a cop; he looked like he might've actually know how to use his gun.
Edit: did not see crayons, but it was a few hours after lunch and there was a pretty nice art supply store nearby.
National Guard maybe? Officially they are not military though. Edit: Yes they are I was wrong sorry
Marines have also been deployed
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He's about to get out and become a cop.
No. Like i said; he was holding his gun properly.
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Except when deployed when the police are "overran".
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If I could march in a brass band after very limited practice, these guys can. They just didn’t want to.
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They didn't want to attract the worm.
No need, trump was already there.
Trump physically resembles Baron Harkonen from the old film.
"The Spice must flow"
Somehow I doubt that someone in a professional armed forces can't fucking march. It's just left, left, left right left
Anyone can march. Marching in perfect sync with 50 other soldiers in formation is another matter and takes quite a bit of practice and coordination like any other group dance routine.
I've been out of the military for almost 20 years and I can still march to a cadence.
Active duty? They could march if they felt like it. They did not.
You learn a lot about the speed of sound
Just gotta keep the bends outta those elbows, troop!
If they're all really so unhappy to do this, I'm not saying they should do a coup... but I'm not not saying that, either.
probably one of the first things every soldier world wide learns is marching. Malicious compliance it is.
I'm sure they felt very proud being brought on and ordered to march on display like trained monkeys.
From what I'm hearing from coordinators and people inside its not that they can't march. It's that nobody wanted to. They had to be there. So they phoned it in. Malicious compliance.
Like the squeaky tanks. That was a choice made in the motor pool. They could have greased them up and tested to make sure they were smooth. But they made a different call.
100%. I'm the most uncoordinated guy I know and even I learned (French army but the cadence/the mere act of marching is similar enough), like not even that far into basic either. Maybe not everything is lost for the common American!
Lmao I didn't think about that. Probably didn't think it would be quiet enough to hear it squeak either.
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Shit excuse. It takes more effort not to march in unison.
It's also something that is taught in UK army, since the collapsing bridge incident.
Wild first point but we'll ignore it.
What is the collapsing bridge incident?
I think this is what they are referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge.
TL;DR: The bridge collapsed because soldiers marching on it created force they hadn't anticipated, soldiers breaking step supposedly don't have as much of an impact.
It's common knowledge that soldiers don't walk in unison on bridges. It dates back to 1831.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge
Same thing happened in France twenty years later:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angers_Bridge
It also postponed the opening of a bridge in London by two years in 2000:
London Bridge falling down, falling down, falling down?
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They deliberately half-assed the parade because they don't like the way Trump treats them. Trump calls them "suckers and losers." He cuts their benefits Why would you show any loyalty (or enthusiasm) to someone who treats you like that?
More Trump quotes: "You fucking generals. Why can't you be more like Hitler's generals?" 2017
On the burial of US Army private Vanessa Guillén: "It doesn't cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!" December 4, 2020. Trump has denied having made the remark.
"We're not going to support that loser's funeral." August, 2018. Trump has denied having made this remark.
re: John McCain, who was captured and tortured for five years: "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you." July 18, 2015.
"But, you know, during the Vietnam War, I got very lucky. I had a very high lottery number." November 9, 1995.
On the 1,800 US Marines who died at Belleau Wood in France during World War I "Suckers." November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.
On US soldiers in World War I "Who were the good guys in this war?" November 11, 2018. Trump denies having asked this question.
"I don't get it. What was in it for them?" November 11, 2018. Trump denies having made this remark.
On disabled veterans "Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded." September 30, 2019.
"Look, I don't want any wounded guys in the parade. This doesn't look good for me." Summer 2017.
I'm a PATRIOTIC Republican who PROUDLY wears the American Flag on my Shorts and Truck and TRUMPS RIGHT! Our Soldiers are LOSERS AND SUCKERS!
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