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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Tiny hands, tiny crowds. It will be supremely ironic if he fires Hegseth for his shitty birthday parade instead of for everything else.

@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

We should make June 14th No Kings Day permanently.

Imagine. 5 million people. Telling the orange Cheeto to fuck off. Thing of beauty.

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

This looks like an 80s comedy where John Belushi & some stoners steal a tank for shits & giggles

It doesn’t solve anything and it definitely doesn’t change anything but it is kind of nice to know that he knows that his big macho honk honk birthday parade sucked

Not to get too hopeful on main but fascism hinges on the projection of strongman invincibility and every ding and crack in that image is a win for resistance. And boy howdy was there some good dinging and cracking delivered today

“Pete Hegseth’s sitting up there next to him looking like the guy who’ll die in episode 5 of the Sopranos” – @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social

May god bless this absolute creature

being able to hear the wheels on the Sherman tanks squeal on account of no one there is some incredible footage. A+ comedy.

I hope some of you actually take some joy in these pathetic images of this ridiculous and now boring military parade. It's a fiasco and everyone gets to point and laugh. More hard days ahead but for today enjoy.

My 21st birthday party was a bit of a flop, but at least my friends weren’t outnumbered many times over by people protesting the party.

Can’t believe no one wanted to fly to DC to hang out with tanks and the police

BBC split screening between empty Trump parade and No Kings protest in LA is a boss move.

Some people questioned the strategy of telling people not to show up in DC and I was not one of those people because the images of the sparsely attended birthday military bullshit parade is exquisite.

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

this entire parade

The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.

Fucking amazing

This military parade could’ve been a Signal chat

Dude's wanted a military parade for himself for years and he finally makes it happen and turnout is worse than at a medium sized city's farmers market on a rainy day while like 2% of the entire country went out to protest his bullshit

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

This what happens when you let a straight person plan a parade.

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

About an hour until parade start time in D.C., and there are plenty of prime viewing spots wide open, particularly toward the beginning of the route.

Nobody showing up to watch his stupid parade is honestly way funnier than a huge protest would have been

Couple hundred people showed up for No Kings here in Prisontown, USA, county population ~28k. It had 15,046 registered voters in Nov 2024, when 7,568 votes were cast in the election. 5,506 of em were for Trump. Any demonstration at all is startling.

The man who tried to assassinate Trump was a gun-loving Trump supporter who later turned on him. Right-wing media blamed Democrats, because of course. The alleged Minnesota shooter is an anti-abortion Christian nationalist w/ a list with other Dems as targets. They're still blaming liberals.

Last time a royalist army occupied DC they also tried it during the summer rainy season and were chased out by massive thunderstorms complete with a tornado touching down on Constitution Ave.

I loved the conflation of the queer pride parade with an anti-authoritarian protest. It took pride back to its roots as a protest and introduced the straight anti-Trump crowd to some queer joy. My favorite was the flag twirlers.p

I just heard Claire McCaskill on MSNBC saying Trump has “a duty to stop saying these things” and instead be a calming and uniting force, and I want to fucking scream. HE’S NOT GOING TO DO THAT. EVER. STOP ACTING LIKE HE MIGHT IF YOU KEEP SAYING THIS SHIT. IT’S DELUSIONAL.