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Trump's Second Term

alfaniner said:
I thought at first you meant the Flag itself. Perhaps it's just my pareidolia, but doesn't it look an awful lot like a coquettish female with leg turned in and arm and hand in a suggestive place and perhaps the other arm with hand raised to lips? The classic "innocent girl" Playboy pose.
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No it's that the bunting should be red white and blue with the blue at the top. Not arranged in the order of the Russian flag.

Or to quote the flag code.

Draped red, white and blue bunting should be used for decoration, with the blue at the top and red at the bottom
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www.left-horizons.com

That military parade…from the Trumpland Diary

For a bit of light relief, we are republishing this post from Facebook, by The Trumpland Diary I WATCHED THE ENTIRE MILITARY PARADE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO Here's what it was like... • The initial forecast was for 200,000 spectators, though it appeared less than half of that turned out...
www.left-horizons.com www.left-horizons.com

I WATCHED THE ENTIRE MILITARY PARADE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO
Here's what it was like...
• The initial forecast was for 200,000 spectators, though it appeared less than half of that turned out. Estimates ranged from 50,000-100,000—half of the estimated turnout for the "NO KINGS" protest in L.A. alone (early estimates report 5+ million nationwide).
• The parade itself was actually kind of embarrassing. Even though none of us wanted the U.S. to engage in the kind of authoritarian shows of force Russia, China, and N. Korea are fond of putting on, we've all seen video of those parades—even when they have those huge, goofy strides like their entire military is auditioning for the Ministry of Silly Walks—
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No part of this pitiful disaster was a show of American Military Might. It was a cry for help and an indictment against kicking gays out of the military - exactly the kind of parade you’d expected when you fired the only people who know how to throw a proper parade.
So, in the end...Trump got exactly the kind of birthday he deserved.
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Andy_Ross said:
Trump suggests that the fact it didn’t rain on his military parade is a refutation of climate change

https://twitter.com/x/status/1934380059613073432
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Ooh, as an atmospheric scientist one of my biggest pet peeves, the inability of some (and of course Trump) to completely not understand the difference between climate and weather (and thus climate and weather prediction). Also, as I pointed out in a post yesterday, it *did* rain last night in DC, just not during the parade.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
Some terrible crime happens. GM guy: "This is what happens when Ford guys don't get their way."

I don't even know what point he thinks he's making, beyond "I am a contemptible dick".
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Apparently, he jumped right on that early reporting that the shooter had been re-appointed by Walz to some state commission thing, so obviously a Democrat; and, since Democrats are, for idiots like Lee, automatically Marxists...well, there ya go.

Lee might have done better to, as Amy Klobuchar said, wait before leaping wholesale into conclusions as to Boelter's motives; but, from the reporting I've seen, Lee's post might have more accurately said something like "this is what happens when some uber-Christian anti-choice fanatics don't get their way." (Boelter may also have had a list of Democratic politicians, including Walz, Ilhan Omar, and Keith Ellison)

My guess is that the guy will suicide, and we may never get the whole picture he could give us. I also don't think that this sort of thing is typical of the anti-choice people; and, though I've seen it reported that Boelter's housemate said that he (Boelter) voted for Trump, I would certainly never paint all Trump voters with such a broad brush as to say "this is what happens" with them as a demographic. Would that the Lees of the world, the ones in such responsible positions as US Senator, could exercise just a little of the same forbearance.
 
There is a flag code, and it probably includes bunting too. If the thing show is a flag itself, it is backwards, as when it's hung on a wall, it should be flat and the union should be on the left. If it's on a pole anchored at the left, then perhaps it's correct, but it's certainly badly shown in the picture. Once a Boy Scout always a Boy Scout I guess, so I do sort of remember my flag etiquette, unlike the hypocritical flag idolaters who would pass laws to protect the icon but not the republic for which it stands.
 
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