CSotD: Here Comes the Big Parade!
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Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for, either as a coronation of the king or as a moment of unified rebellion against egotism and fascism.
Looks like God is planning a test of his own, to see how many people will turn out in the rain either to cheer or to protest.
I’m often That Guy, and I’m going to be That Guy here, because somehow the legend of King Canute has been twisted over the past 800 years or so. He did, indeed, order the tides not to come in, but he didn’t expect them to obey and he was showing his courtiers that there were, indeed, limits to his power and that perhaps they should back off a little.
Telling the story as it was intended suggests that Canute did not want every meeting of his advisors to begin with them telling him what a great king he was, and perhaps that’s why he took them to the seashore and demonstrated his ability to fail.
No danger of that with our king, who has staged a military parade for just the opposite reason.
It takes a lot of damn nerve for a spoiled coward who avoided service with a fake medical excuse to turn around half a century later and play the heroic figure, particularly after dismissing those who died in war as suckers and losers and questioning why they’d bother.
Don’t listen to me. Listen to his chief-of-staff, John Kelly, who both served in the Marines and lost a son in Afghanistan:
What can I add that has not already been said? A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family – for all Gold Star families – on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.
None of that explains why the egomaniac dares stage a military parade in his own honor, but it certainly explains why he doesn’t have anyone like John Kelly in his current administration.
Banx notes Trump’s willingness to send others into conflict, though his own grandfather came to this country to avoid mandatory service in Germany and the only Trump who ever served here was Fred Jr., later disowned by his father in favor of Donald.
And Matt Davies points out the way the Trump administration has rewarded veterans, with Senate Republicans somewhat softening the harsh House version but still falling short of what veteran groups consider fair.
But today’s parade will support Dear Leader, Deering assures us, in a way that perhaps emphasizes the Royal Birthday more than it does Flag Day or the Army’s 250th anniversary.
Weather looks spotty, with “scattered thunderstorms” mingling with “cloudy” projections. The parade will happen and we should expect the reviewing stand to be covered, since Trump was unable to visit veterans’ graves in France due to rain and he’s determined to be at this celebration.
Besides, as Granlund points out, we’re already paying for this grand illusion. The show must go on!
And speaking of costs, Venables allows a guardsman to wonder aloud who’s going to clean up in the wake of their California military adventure. He’s not the only cartoonist to question the coming labor shortages, assuming the success of ICE and the National Guard and the Marines and whoever else Dear Leader sends to arrest and deport them furriners.
Juxtaposition of the Day
It’s all very confusing. ICE has, indeed, been raiding farms and rounding up legal migrant workers alongside undocumented braceros, which caused the Grand Taco to reverse his orders yet again, since he realized that we actually need migrant workers after all.
This may result in confusion, since he will not only have to reverse his declaration that Mexican migrants are lunatics and criminals guilty of drug dealing, murder and worse, but he’ll also need to contend with his administration’s rejection of court rulings that people deserve due process before being deported.
There being a large number of legal immigrants and crime-free migrants his brave lads have already deported without hearings or trials or reasons.
Perhaps today’s parade will include “Taco! Taco man! I want to be a Taco man!”
I’m puzzled by Lester’s point, since I’ve covered legal migrant farmworkers for a few decades and know it’s possible to follow the law and still make a handy profit. I agree that hiring under-the-counter braceros would give a farmer an unfair advantage over those who follow the law, but I also remember calls for those who break the law in their hiring to be prosecuted.
It makes me think that Jones is onto the real crime in all this, which is that a policy of villainizing Hispanic people can quickly get out of hand.
Bramhall makes a point, which is that, if the Big Beautiful Bullroar gets through the Senate, parents will end up scrambling to handle childcare issues, while if ICE is successful in eliminating all the brown-skinned people, we’re going to find that Pick-Your-Own is a necessity, not a weekend adventure.
I also suspect that running Musk off the property must cut down on the futility of urging rampant fatherhood on an incel fan base, though it may just put further pressure on ICE to eliminate the threat of diversity.
We wouldn’t be having a parade today if militarization wasn’t the solution to all our problems, right?
Trust Dear Leader to find the answers. As a good American, you should show up and cheer for him.
Or, perhaps a good American should show up at a No Kings rally and demand other answers.
Doing neither is for cowards.
As Phil Ochs said, “This country is too young to die.”
He also said this:
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