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DC marching bands want no part in Trump's inauguration
Fox News (NY Post) ^ | December 15, 2016

Posted on 12/15/2016 8:57:20 AM PST by Navy Patriot

For the first time in 20 years, no Washington, DC, marching band will perform in the presidential inauguration.

The bands that have performed at the last five inaugural parades — plus all other local groups — have not applied to participate in President-elect Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony, NBC 4 Washington reports.

“I think everybody knows why and no one wants to say and lose their job,” Howard University band director John Newson, whose band marched for President Obama’s swearing-in ceremony in 2009, told the local news affiliate.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antitrump; trumpinaugural
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Of course it's Public Schools.

I see Federally mandated school choice and school vouchers on the horizon.

Public School is Child Abuse.

1 posted on 12/15/2016 8:57:20 AM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

L.O.L.!!! Give a rats ass...?


2 posted on 12/15/2016 8:58:42 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Navy Patriot
"Public School is Child sexual Abuse.

Just a little adjustment.

3 posted on 12/15/2016 8:58:53 AM PST by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Yeah!


4 posted on 12/15/2016 8:59:05 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Do they do gay weddings?


5 posted on 12/15/2016 8:59:30 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Fidel and Che are together again, and it ain't on a t-shirt.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Gotta’ get my WHOGIVESAFLYINGFART card punched.


6 posted on 12/15/2016 9:00:19 AM PST by laweeks
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To: Navy Patriot

Stay classy ‘Rats.


7 posted on 12/15/2016 9:00:28 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: Navy Patriot
To hell with the marching bands...!
8 posted on 12/15/2016 9:00:32 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: CrazyIvan

have you been seeing a lot of marching bands at gay weddings?


9 posted on 12/15/2016 9:00:40 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Navy Patriot

What the left sees as principles everyone else sees as hypocrisy.


10 posted on 12/15/2016 9:01:08 AM PST by BRL
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Will they hold their breaths until they’re blue as well?


11 posted on 12/15/2016 9:01:12 AM PST by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: Navy Patriot

If I were Trump, I would have the Inauguration indoors in a private ceremony, cancel the Balls and the Parades and just get to work cancelling Obama Executive Orders and passing Legislation.. That would send the right message to America instead of the same old stuff.


12 posted on 12/15/2016 9:01:53 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (frequently.)
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I am sure they will have absolutely no trouble finding marching bands to participate; screw the leftists who think they are going to shut this down by staying home.


13 posted on 12/15/2016 9:02:19 AM PST by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: Navy Patriot

Posted yesterday with 133 replies:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3504843/posts


14 posted on 12/15/2016 9:02:22 AM PST by upchuck (Obama once thought that he belonged to the ages. Now he belongs in the rubbish bin. h/t D.Greenfield)
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To: Navy Patriot

When you rely on the government, politics becomes personal, and the personal becomes political.


15 posted on 12/15/2016 9:02:27 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

First they have to tell us who in the hell ‘asked’ them in the first place?


16 posted on 12/15/2016 9:02:40 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: fwdude

They will all go to their time out zones and hug a puppy...


17 posted on 12/15/2016 9:02:42 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Navy Patriot

Will just have to get a marching band from one of those RED states. Maybe Michigan, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin?


18 posted on 12/15/2016 9:03:30 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Who asked them to participate?


19 posted on 12/15/2016 9:04:31 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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Maybe the schools got a “heads up” from the “we will shut down the inauguration” people, and were told to stay away for their own safety. Maybe they are staying away because they were warned that there will be violence going on.


20 posted on 12/15/2016 9:04:52 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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