Military Spectacle for July 4

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I wonder if any Las Vegas bookies are taking odds of him staying on message.

Or is he going to throw in “Crooked Hillary” “enemy of the people” “Lock her up” or any other of his catch phrases.
 
I am not assuming anything. I was responding to the suggestion that 99.99% of voters were Americans. That would mean 0.01% were not Americans. It is simple math (which you can obviously do since you came up with the correct number of people for that percentage), not an assumption. If you don’t like it, take it up with the person who suggested the 99.99% figure.
 
ummmm. The election was so 2016. Why are you guys arguing about who won. We have a president.

I think celebrating the 4th of July as a parade in Washington is a good thing. It is the celebration of America. President and us. Whoever sits on the White House should be celebrating this.
 
Are you new to the forums? Arguing about Trump is a relentless daily occurrence
 
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Or is he going to throw in “Crooked Hillary” “enemy of the people” “Lock her up” or any other of his catch phrases.
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It doesn’t matter. The RNC is distributing VIP tickets and the President’s reelection committee is inviting people to it. It is already an illegal use of public funds right there.
 
Here’s something new (unless I missed it upthread) from the Washington Post:
The White House is distributing tickets for President Trump’s July Fourth speech on the Mall to Republican donors and political appointees, prompting Democratic lawmakers to question whether the administration’s planned celebration violates federal ethics rules.
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I suggested 99.99% because I am pretty sure that there is at least one non-American person who was not supposed to vote but did. If I said 100%, someone would be sure to dig up that one person that made it not 100%.

However, in spite of some people’s opinions, I have not seen any facts that say the number of invalid voters was in the millions. Heck, I haven’t even seen any facts (as put out by the cities and counties involved) that indicate it was even in the thousands.
 
Well done, it’s time we showed appreciation to the military and all they do for us. Veterans have a high suicide rate currently but I even heard of 2 active duty suicides in the past week or so. It’s interesting that some in this country would spare no expense for some foreigners who we know nothing about coming into our country, who may well be dangerous to the population in general but find fault with having a military parade showing appreciation for our troops who put their lives on the line every day to protect our freedoms.
 
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Don’t most cities and towns have parades honoring veterans on Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day. On the 4th of July we celebrate the founding of our nation.
 
sallybutler said:
Don’t most cities and towns have parades honoring veterans on Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day. On the 4th of July we celebrate the founding of our nation.
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Around here, they do for certain. And politicians speak at them too. And nobody gets the vapors over it when they do, any more than anybody gets them when presidents or first ladies show off the White House Christmas decorations or a president gives a political speech at the State of the Union address.

Of course, the liberals who hate Trump so much won’t say a word about the billions in illegal political air time donations the Democrats get from the liberal media.
 
My grandfather, who died in 1984 and who was a veteran of WWI, drove the truck in a military parade that contained all the living Civil War veterans from the Union side (this was in Boston I believe); but I think that was probably Veterans Day.
 
And why should it. There was already a perfectly wonderful 4th of July event planned for the evening. We’ve been watching or attending these concerts for years. I don’t recall them being political at all. It’s a shame what this man is doing to this day.

What is it with republicans and the military. We have the strongest military in the world and don’t need to advertise it.
 
More news:
The National Park Service is diverting nearly $2.5 million in entrance and recreation fees primarily intended to improve parks across the country to cover costs associated with President Trump’s Independence Day celebration Thursday on the Mall, according to two individuals familiar with the arrangement.

Trump administration officials have consistently refused to say how much taxpayers will have to pay for the expanded celebration on the Mall this year, which the president has dubbed the “Salute to America.” The two individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, confirmed the transfer of the Park Service funds Tuesday.

The diverted park fees represent just a fraction of the extra costs the government faces as a result of the event, which will include displays of military hardware, flyovers by an array of jets including Air Force One, the deployment of tanks on the Mall and an extended pyrotechnics show. By comparison, according to former Park Service deputy director Denis P. Galvin, the entire Fourth of July celebration on the Mall typically costs the agency about $2 million.
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They should just do away with national parks. They’re unconstitutional anyway.
 
I think President Trump donated his first
year’s salary to the National Parks.
 
All $400,000 of it? That should do a lot to defray the $2.5 million that was taken out of the National Park Service budget.
 
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Lemuel said:
They should just do away with national parks. They’re unconstitutional anyway.
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Says who? Fortunately, the Supreme Court has never ruled that this is the case and it’s the Court’s opinion that counts.
 
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Not accurate. Take away California and Hillary’s popular vote so-called victory disappears.
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So. What. If you take away 150,000 Republican votes from Florida and Pennsylvania, Trump’s electoral victory disappears. 150k is a lot less than 6.6 mil. So should we really be playing this what-if game? “Oh, he WOULD have won the popular vote, if not for that six and a half million people. But THOSE votes were in California, they don’t count. So there” Please.

The voters in California are every bit as an American as the voters in Kentucky, Wyoming, Florida, etc. etc. People vote. Geography doesn’t vote.

It appals me to see you think these voters’ ballots are less-than, or don’t count as much as someone from the heartland. You act like all of California is some monolith - have you seen the voting trends per county? There’s more Republicans in California than in many states entirely. There are more Republicans in California than in many states COMBINED. Their votes matter as much as anyone else’s in the nation. They are every much a citizen of this Nation as you are and they deserve the same exact amount of consideration and say in how this Republic is run.

More on point - You hear from the Bully Pulpit about how much money is wasted and now we’re going to throw away millions to roll tanks down the Capitol like it’s Red Square. This is a shame in so many ways. I feel sorry for anyone who equates patriotism with jingoism, and anyone who thinks our explosions are what is worth celebrating about out country.
 
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The entire popular vote victory myth is an issue liberals who don’t want to follow the rules or who demand the rules change when they lose, so they can appear to win. It is a sign of an unhealthy need for control. You do know in Cali there was no Republican candidate for Senate, right… because the voters passed an initiative where the two highest vote getters in the open primary faced each other in the general election. In Cali, the metro areas all lean strongly Democratic and Cali does not have more Republican voters than Democrats, 43.9% were registered Democrats in comparison to 28.9% Republicans and everywhere you go in the state, the Republicans aren’t all that conservative. And Cali is different, I think the Lord even knows that…Again take away Cali, and Trump would have claim a 2+ mil cushion over Clinton in the popular vote, not to mention 306 electoral votes to 177 and the fact is that you can’t say that about any other single state.
 
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