NYT: Trump's Parade Was Sooooo Fucking Cool! "Pure Showmanship!"

The New York Fucking Times never misses a chance to give Trump a public blowjob.

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I wish I could say I was surprised by this headline from the New York Fucking Times but aside from Rupert Murdoch-owned outlets, no one has put in as much work to normalize and obscure Donald Trump fascism, corruption, and uniquely historic unpopularity. I mean, seriously, look at this bullshit right here:

As someone who has spent YEARS writing headlines and subheaders, I have a habit of picking these apart. I’m just some schmuck with a laptop and a cat curled up next to him working from home. The NYT is a multimillion dollar organization with multiple levels of editorial control. Nothing goes out on a whim. What you see above was written with intent, knowing that a lot of people will just skim that part and move along. I’m pointing this out because, good fucking lord, this is pure propaganda. Each line gets progressively worse.

First, Trump was not celebrating the Army. This was a birthday parade for a wannabe dictator. This is so obvious that it’s insulting the legacy press is still saying it. So we’re already lying and normalizing authoritarian chic.

Second, “take to the streets” makes the No Kings protests sound ad hoc. These were planned for several weeks and only grew in number as Trump invaded Los Angeles in a so-far-failed attempt to kick off a riot. Words matter and the NYT is trying REALLY fucking hard to downplay the overwhelming response to Trump’s attack on our democracy.

Third, there weren’t “hundreds of protests”; there were over two thousand. That qualifies as “thousands of protests.” This is the “downplaying” part of steroids. The article literally says, eight paragraphs down, that “roughly 2,000 protests” were held. It was closer to 2,100 but whatevs. They could have written “almost 2,000 protests under the headline but that would not have served the narrative. Instead, we got the technically true but purposefully misleading “hundreds of protests.”¹

And what was the narrative here? Our old friend, “Both Sides,” of course! The default setting for liars and scumbags or, in the case of the New York Fucking Times, lying scumbags.

The entire premise of this risible article is that Saturday was a “split-screen of force” by both sides.

Are you fucking kidding? Split screen, my ass!

This is the single largest protest in the United States since the anti-Iraq War protests in 2003 (which the NYT ALSO pretended were not a big deal).² Several million people, possibly as many as 11-12 million, were on the streets, in town squares, in front of city halls and state capitols, all of them demanding an end to Trump’s assault on the rule of law and the Constitution.

But is that really what we were all doing out there on Saturday? The New York Fucking Times has some thoughts about that. Here was the skeet for this article on Bluesky. Again, notice how the wording normalizes Trump.

You see? We’re just marching against Trump’s policies, everyone! It’s just a regular ol’ political squabble. No big deal. Nothing to see here. Why don’t you skip ahead to the sports section? Maybe catch a movie review?

Actually, fuck off. This was the “No Kings” protest. What fucking policy are talking about here? What legal policy allows Trump to rule over the country with no checks or balances? Oh wait, that would none, you cockbites! So why is the NYT focusing on policy in the parts that people are most likely to read?

Again, it’s all about normalizing what Trump is doing and downplaying the response. This is the project the NYT has been engaged in for a full decade now.

The article itself is not much better:

The city [DC] was locked down, divided by a wall of tall, black crowd-control fences designed to assure that the parade, the first of its kind since American troops returned from the Gulf War in 1991, was an uninterrupted demonstration of history and American power.

It went off without a hitch…

I mean…sure, if you ignore the fact that the regime planned for at least 200 to 250,000 people and maybe 10,000 showed up. And then the regime lied about it.

Even the VIP seats were half empty. Those are the seats Trump was selling so rich people could bribe him. Barely any takers. When you throw yourself a $45 million (or more) birthday party and even the bootlickers don’t show up? It’s a reeeeeeeal fucking stretch to say “it went off without a hitch.”

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But the Times just has to keep fluffing Trump. It appears to be their official job now.

Mr. Trump’s political advisers bet that half the country or more would enjoy watching the display of Army history, from the World War I tanks to the twin-prop B-25 Mitchells that swept over neighborhoods in northwest Washington on their way to the flyover, as much as Mr. Trump’s ever-evolving definition of what “America First” means to his presidency. Parades are pure showmanship, and Mr. Trump is the master showman.

If President Kamala Harris had arranged a giant spectacular parade (not in DC) to celebrate the 250th birthday of the Army, yeah, a good chunk of the country would have enjoyed that. Putting a bunch of tanks and military vehicles on display for kids (and adults) to climb in would have drawn a massive crowd. I ran a Touch-a-Truck event twice and kids (and adults) went nuts to climb around inside of a school bus and a bulldozer and a fire truck. Our local police department had an armored personnel carrier and that was a HUGE hit. Can you imagine what a bunch of tanks would be like for that crowd? For ANY crowd?

So why did no one show up? Because Trump made it a vulgar display of power instead of a celebration of history. He made it gross and about his own glorification and that’s as un-American as it gets. Master showman? Fuck all the way off.

Conversely, the protests the Times is so keen to downplay were massive because they did the exact opposite. They were not about self-glorification or engaging in a dick measuring contest with other countries so they would be scared of us.³

These protests are about We The People, something bigger than ourselves. They are about the rule of law and democracy, things that will long outlive us. They are about the future of the United States, not just for us but for our children and their children.

This, ultimately, is why Trump and the GOP cannot win. They only fight for themselves and have no belief in anything greater than their own personal greed. The United States means nothing to them. It means everything to us.

But this is not the narrative the lowlife assholes at the New York times wants to push. To tell the truth about Saturday would be lethal. To show Trump as weak and the anti-fascist movement as strong and growing would be disastrous for the regime.

Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of inevitability. They weave the myth that they cannot be stopped so we might as well surrender to their unstoppable power. This is what Timothy Snyder calls “obeying in advance.”

But when we protest and march and yell and make a nonstop ruckus, we show that the regime is not all-powerful. That we have not surrendered. We have not obeyed in advance. This creates a permission structure for others to speak out against fascism and say, “This is wrong. This is not what I want my country to be.”

The larger the protest, the easier it is for others to stand up and be counted. This is what the regime fears and the NYT is trying oh so very hard to erase. The No Kings protests didn’t completely dominate and crush Trump’s tiny penis parade! They were an equal show of force! In fact, Trump might have had the edge because something something “showmanship” and “American power!”

But the real show of American power was NOT in Washington DC with a sad and lonely autocrat alternately dozing and raging during his sparsely-attended wankfest. All of the power was with the people, millions of us, in every state, red or blue. In cities, small and large. In the dozens, the hundreds, and the hundreds of thousands. All of us speaking with a single voice: No Kings In America.

Stop tonguing Trump’s taint and print THAT fucking story, NYT.

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1. I turn 52 this year and while the sentence “I am dozens of weeks old” is technically true, it’s obvious I am lying to you about my age if I say it.

2. Sure is weird how the Times never finds protests against Republicans to be all that impressive but had obsessive Tea Party coverage for over a year. Soooooo weird.

3. The United States has invaded more countries and killed more people across the globe than any three countries combined in the last 75 years. Why, exactly, do we need to swing our dick around with a pointless military parade? Answer: We don’t. Trump does because he’s an insecure little man.