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GB_RN

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23. Hegseth...

Sun Jun 15, 2025, 02:33 PM

Jun 15

The DUI hire.😂

What these jackasses have either forgotten or didn’t realize is that a parade that’s strictly military is B.O.R.I.N.G. There’s a reason why, here in the US anyway, when you see military in a parade it’s almost always in the context of a regular parade; marching bands, floats, cowboys on horseback doing rope tricks, etc.

We have a tradition of NOT having military-only parades. The few times we have had them was usually in the setting of a military victory (e.g., Union troops after the Civil War, after VJ Day/end of WW2). And Caligula’s birthday isn’t even close to any of those.

Oh, and they botched the reason for the parade. The 14th was 250 years since the creation of the Continental Army by the Continental Congress. The US Army wasn’t created until AFTER the Constitution superseded the Articles of Confederation. The Navy and Marines were created at the same time, too. Do they get their own parades? 😂

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