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Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Trump, Parading
TRUMP'S MILITARY PARADE EXTRAVAGANZA will cost an estimated ninety two million dollars, and will be postponed until next year, at the earliest, maybe forever. We can hope. The mayor of Washington, An African-American lady who supplied the estimate, was accused by the demagogue of cooking the numbers, price gouging, and of being a slut and a looser. He did not, to his credit, accuse her of being black. If you give the president bad news, he'll come after you. Images of the old Soviet Union, May Day in Moscow, come to mind. The birds are sweetly twittering, the flowers are just coming into bloom in the north, and the tanks, artillery pieces, and intercontinental ballistic missiles on wheels are rolling slowly along, surrounded by the Gothic-Romanesque-medieval architecture that are the government buildings in mother Russia's capitol. On the elevated, boxy reviewing stand, at attention, stand stern, grim men in uniform, Stalin, Khrushchev, Putin, interchangeable, gang leaders surrounded by their sycophantic gangsters. That, evidently, is what Trump wants to imitate. For him, it should be easy. Will his hair radiate the usual burnt orange, or will he tone it down just a bit? Will the men be goose stepping? The Stars and Stripes will adorn every building along Pennsylvania Avenue, just as the hammer and sickle once did in Red Square, and if Putin has his wish, will again. Recall that Trump avoided military service because of flat feet, fallen arches, a blister, a hangnail, or something severe, and that his feet fell at exactly at that point in American history when it was time to go defend America's freedom in Viet Nam. Its a shame, because he'd be a natural in green military attire, saber at his side, and perhaps jackboots just for effect.
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