"Where's My Pony?"

 

     "Someone told me I'd get a pony!"

     Today, America honors a draft dodger, convicted felon, fraud, child molester and convicted felon and rapist, someone who'd once called fallen soldiers "suckers and losers" and refused to honor them in France on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice and led an insurrection against our nation's Capitol with impunity..

     And, oh yeah, Flag Day and the 250th anniversary of the US Army. But, really, it's all about Trump's birthday (Interesting historical fact: Hitler also had a military parade on his birthday in 1939).

     I'm sure the spectacle of  watching all these military resources costing tens of millions of dollars  being co-opted to honor the most manifestly inept and unqualified person for the role of president is making tens, if not hundreds, of millions of Americans psychically, morally and emotionally ill. No other American president has ever thrown himself a military parade simply because of the optics. After all, large scale military parades, especially in capital cities, brings to mind grainy black and white news reel footage of dictators like Hitler, Mao and Stalin on reviewing stands while children threw flowers at them.

      Military parades held at the whim of dictators like Trump are designed to show strength but in reality, as many of us know, it's a sign of weakness. Any world leader, any head of state who doesn't suppress and oppress his people knows that the true proof of strength is not in showing it but in not showing it. Plus, it comes at a very awkward time, when Trump has dispatched 4000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines in Los Angeles because a bunch of brown people assembled as per their Constitutional right.

      Today's spectacle also comes on the same day some maniac, a Trump voter named Vance Boelter, shot two Minnesota lawmakers and both their spouses at their homes, killing two of them. Maybe he thought he was giving Trump a birthday present. In his car, they found a list of roughly 70 other Democrats, meaning Mr. Boelter was feeling especially ambitious today.

     It also comes in the same week that Rep. LaMonica McIver was indicted in New Jersey on bullshit charges and Sen. Alex Padilla was roughed up and handcuffed by federal agents because he wanted to ask dog killer Kristi Noem a question.

      We're living in very dark times, Dear Reader. Again, this is not how a democracy is supposed to function, look or sound. Democratic lawmakers are getting shot in their homes, killed, arrested, prosecuted and handcuffed. And, lest you forget where Trump's loyalties really lie, consider this Flag Day message from his Department of Defense: