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“On Wednesday morning, NBC’s Today show and ABC’s Good Morning America recited identical liberal talking points as both broadcasts warned viewers that the U.S. was on the verge of looking like world’s worst “authoritarian regimes” if the Pentagon followed through on President Trump’s desire to hold a military parade in the nation’s capital.”

No, they won’t stop calling him a dictator. But it took less than 24 hours for my prediction about the media response to his military parade to come true. The proposed parade just gives them real ammunition for the propaganda blitz already underway. I don’t see how this idea is a winner in any respect.

And you haven't even addressed the fact that this would be taking away a holiday from the involved troops that they'd probably rather be spending with their families. And we haven't even gotten into the fact that they would have to spend weeks, no, probably a month or more at least, preparing for it, and then showing up in Washington in the summer and sleeping on a crappy cot in some hangar or gym for a few days. And then packing everything up and going back home.

And I notice that Senator Linda Graham is tweeting his support of it. Lindsay thinks the military can come up with the tens of millions of dollars this would cost, but he and his buddies in Congress thinks we can't mysteriously come up with millions more for the VA, or for systems/equipment that the troops want, because Congress would rather push for systems/equipment that benefits some contractor (lobbyists) in their state.

And by the way, those of us who are older and experienced the Cold War - this does look bad. If you want a one-time thing, you might be able to get away with it in November as a commemoration of World War I, since that's incredibly significant. A parade just because Trump said he wanted one is....I still cannot believe that the administration is openly talking about it.