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Your so called health service has all but collapsed.
Your roads are among the worst in Europe and your railways are grinding to a halt.
You've an aircraft carrier without any planes and your brave military personnel are still ''lions led by donkeys'.
As in two world wars we had to bail your under equipped and poorly led troops out of Helmand Province in Afghanistan.
Our troops had to donate your guys proper boots and other pieces of equipment which you illustrious Ministry of Defence overlooked.
For a dummy Limey to come on here and have the audacity to tell Americans how their government should spend taxpayer's money, is the height of misplaced self importance.
From Dunkirk and Singapore onwards you dummies got kicked out of every theatre of war in which you were involved and came looking for Uncle Sam to save the day for you.
Get your own house in order before you come on to an American debating forum spewing out the arrogant rhetoric of a ''has been'' nation.
Please, do explain what a random link of a German parade from 1938 has to do with American military parades. I'd love to see how the brain of an embacile works.
If you want to watch a U.S. military parade, go on YouTube and watch them. They have happened all throughout history.
Please, do explain what a random link of a German parade from 1938
Please explain what you find "random" about a video of a military parade which I have posted in a debate about military parades. Your false language is just positively idiotic.
has to do with American military parades.
Are you under the impression that America invented the military parade, you fucking idiot?
I'd love to see how the brain of an embacile works
Ahahahahahahahahaha! I'd love to learn why you keep accusing everybody else of exactly what you are guilty of yourself. You can't speak your own language and for the last four hours you have used puppet accounts to upvote every one of your own comments.
Why you haven't been banned from this site is frankly beyond my ability to fathom. You are the most blatant paid shill I have ever stumbled across in all my years of using the internet.
Wait a minute, that last guy called him a paid shill too. And after looking at the history he seems to think you are this "nomenclature" guy just like NumberOne. You make all the same wild accusations and have the same debate style and type exactly the same. I have also noticed that you both use british spelling. Let me check....hmm....I looked up nomenclature and then repasted this to finish the reply. It is quite apparent that you are indeed nomenclature, and that brontoraptor has a much bigger wanker-doodle in his knickers and your bollocks are the size of neutrinos. Your bollocks are so tiny they will have to revise the standard model because they are small enough to be classified as a new subatomic particle.
he seems to think you are this "nomenclature" guy just like NumberOne
I don't think that. Why do you lie so much? I don't have any idea who he is and I have never made any comment on the matter.
You make all the same wild accusations
I haven't made any wild accusations you stupid partisan troll.
I have also noticed that you both use british spelling
Lol. God, you're just such a bizarrely stupid, dishonest little cretin.
First sentence: falsely accuse opponent of making wild accusations.
Second sentence: make wild accusations.
I fully support you being permanently banned from this site because you are here to abuse it. Your own actions demonstrate this across dozens of different accounts.
What I meant is that bronto thinks you are nomenclature, not that you think joe is nomenclature. You are both joe and nomenclature judging by your debate style and constant use of the "neo-nazi" allegations.
I haven't made any wild accusations you stupid partisan troll.
Hate speech, neo-nazi. These are wild accusations. There is no reason to resort to such childish antics whenever someone disagrees with you. And what makes you think I am a partisan troll? Because I am not sucking your cock and agreeing with everything you say? I'm left wing buddy, you just don't like me because I'm not an alt-left lunatic who calls everyone nazis and paid shills just for disagreeing.
I fully support you being permanently banned from this site
I fully support you being permanently banned from this planet.
They are the opposite of wild accusations, you lying Russian fuckwit. Whether an accusation is wild or not depends entirely on the evidence which supports it. Using a debate about space colonisation to attack immigrants is hate speech, not a "wild accusation".
He did. He taught progressives how to monopolize the media, brainwash kids through academia, and how to shout down and call your opponents names to try and shut them up.
Joe it is possible that you need to try and find Hitler ? He might be hiding in the deep crevices of your confused mind ? What are you going to do if you find him ?
You should not eating the bananas. Bananas are tropical fruit, your ancestors would have never eat something like this, european arenot adaptation to this....on top of this no human is adapting to ate a bananananana.....bananas dont existing in nature to be eadible to huymewn beestings......here is a pictorus of a natural banana
As you can see no human would naturally eat these, it is unnatural ESPECAILLY for european who are in the entire different climate...Your ancestors never had axis to any food like this until modern civilization, it's totally not what you are evolvelutioned to eeet.
You should not eating the bananas. Bananas are tropical fruit, your ancestors would have never eat something like this, european arenot adaptation to this....on top of this no human is adapting to ate a bananananana.....bananas dont existing in nature to be eadible to huymewn beestings......here is a pictorus of a natural banana
As you can see no human would naturally eat these, it is unnatural ESPECAILLY for european who are in the entire different climate...Your ancestors never had axis to any food like this until modern civilization, it's totally not what you are evolvelutioned to eeet.
You should not eating the bananas. Bananas are tropical fruit, your ancestors would have never eat something like this, european arenot adaptation to this....on top of this no human is adapting to ate a bananananana.....bananas dont existing in nature to be eadible to huymewn beestings......here is a pictorus of a natural banana
As you can see no human would naturally eat these, it is unnatural ESPECAILLY for european who are in the entire different climate...Your ancestors never had axis to any food like this until modern civilization, it's totally not what you are evolvelutioned to eeet.
You should not eating the bananas. Bananas are tropical fruit, your ancestors would have never eat something like this, european arenot adaptation to this....on top of this no human is adapting to ate a bananananana.....bananas dont existing in nature to be eadible to huymewn beestings......here is a pictorus of a natural banana
As you can see no human would naturally eat these, it is unnatural ESPECAILLY for european who are in the entire different climate...Your ancestors never had axis to any food like this until modern civilization, it's totally not what you are evolvelutioned to eeet.
You should not eating the bananas. Bananas are tropical fruit, your ancestors would have never eat something like this, european arenot adaptation to this....on top of this no human is adapting to ate a bananananana.....bananas dont existing in nature to be eadible to huymewn beestings......here is a pictorus of a natural banana
As you can see no human would naturally eat these, it is unnatural ESPECAILLY for european who are in the entire different climate...Your ancestors never had axis to any food like this until modern civilization, it's totally not what you are evolvelutioned to eeet.
The millions this will cost, in taxpayer money, would "support our troops" better invested in the VA! If Comrade Trump wants a parade, let HIM pay for it out of the money wasted on his "wall"! It will do about as much good!
BWAAAhaha! If Kim can play with HIS soldiers, why can't I! BWAAhaha
Okay. You literally pick on anyone who doesn't support a useless parade?
All I'm saying is that before you pick on Britain, ask yourself whether this parade is entirely worthwhile, seeing that there are a billion other things your president could spend money on that would actually accomplish something.
Scatman it must be you purpose that Americans that vote against Progressives are all Communist. Now where are those parades going to happen in America ? Share your wealth from across the pond LMAO !
A parade of AMERICAN troops on AMERICAN soil is a matter for AMERICANS and not some broken down limey whose country hasn't the capability of defending itself against an attack by Liechtenstein.
Direct your Limey bullshit towards the catalogue of eye-watering failures of you own country which is still in free fall.
Once the effects of BREXIT kicks in you'll most likely be unable to afford a computer on which to stick your unwelcome nose into other people's business.
I've told before, watch out you don't step on number twos.
We had to come to your rescue when the Germans kicked you out of Europe and when the Japanese humiliated you at Singapore and exposed you LIMEYS as no more than a tribe of blustering throwbacks with a dangerously over estimation of yourselves.
You LIMEYS and frogs had to withdraw from Suez when you realized we were not going to bail you out when Russia threatened to intervene on the side of Egypt.
Off you skipped post haste, ONCE AGAIN , with your tail between your legs.
You despotic oppressors were very good at conquering the bow and arrow 'natives' of the many underdeveloped and poorly defended countries you illegally invaded and subjugated.
The U.K. stole the mineral wealth and priceless artifacts from these third world countries and left behind political chaos which continues to cause desperate problems today.
Yes, the United States did make mistakes in its efforts to check the apparent unstoppable advance of communism across Europe and Asia, but it never intended to stay and rape the estate of the nations whose freedoms we were trying to maintain.
As you broken down, washed up LIMEYS were totally incapable of fighting your own wars the only force which stopped the old U.S.S.R., from 'appropriating even more western European nations was the foreboding spectre of the military might of the United States of America.
You LIMEYS with your laughable little ineffective army soiled your trunks when you thought the United States were going to pull out of N.A.T.O.
Wise up LIMEY and smell what it is your trying to shovel.
Your day is well and truly over and you're going to be splattered all over the walls of the shithouse when the effects of Brexit kick in.
Your senior politicians are embarrassingly prostituting themselves to the important nations of the world such as America and China in a futile attempt to secure promises of trade deals ahead of the Brexit bombshell.
What a pitiful and insignificant little nation you have become.
Goodbye Britain, it was nice knowing you.
WE HAVE EVERY JUSTIFICATION TO PROUDLY HOLD A PARADE TO SALUTE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THE LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD FOR OVER 70 YEARS.
If he wants to support our troops he should spend that money on healthcare and/or equipment for them, but I think we all know that the only reason he wants a parade is to stroke his ego and act tough.
I see what you mean, and I aggree with you it would be more effective to spend that money on equipment and other stuff; here he is showing his public support to the army wich his supporters will like, while promoting nationalistic feelings. I dont think it is about his ego, and the other countries of the world will perceive this not as Trump acting but an american display of power. With this parade americans have nothing or not much to loose and everything to gain
That sounds like an excellent opportunity for a rogue general to lay waste to all the Washington elite including the POTUS. Maybe they'll even showcase new secret weapons like microwave canons. Sounds fun. Bring the kids, just don't get too close.
I'd say if he wants to support our troops he should do so in a manner that betters the military healthcare and decreases the number of homeless/jobless veterans. This one day parade is a damn waste of money and an empty gesture when we have so many of our military having to wait weeks to months to see a specialist and hundreds, if not thousands, of our veterans who can't re-acclimate to civilian life.
I support our troops enough to not glamorize war. I will peacefully protest................................................................................
The country is more than 20 trillion dollars in debt, no thanks to Bush and Obama. Now Trump wants to spend millions on a parade so he can beat his chest and pump up his already over-inflated ego. Good grief!
The military parade in 1991 cost more than 8 million. That was 27 years ago. The cost of things has gone up 61.91% since then. So, if we adjust for inflation, a similar parade would cost around 12.96 million. Only 200,000 people attended the 1991 parade, which was to celebrate the end of Desert Storm. There is no good reason for this parade other than to stroke Trump's ego, so I doubt attendance would be very high, especially considering his approval rating is the lowest of any president's first year since Gallup starting tracking it in 1945. If Trump wants to act tough, he needs to pay for it himself.
So have I. I have been debating since I was 13, studied political science, neuroscience, the human genome, comparative religion. I wish the best for you and Trumpsky, but think think this is a bad idea because dictators glamorize war.
S/he said that a parade could generate revenue. That isn't to say strictly in ticket sales. Vendors can set up shop to sell goods and services, businesses and restaurants will gain more customers and IF there are ticket sales, not to say there are, but IF there are it would probably be in some VIP section where people can buy better viewing.
Regardless, I my stance is still the same. That money spent could be better served helping our military in more beneficial ways to them.
I dunno.. A military victory is worth a parade.. But, we haven't been victorious since.......... well, a LONG time ago. We're LOSING in Afghanistan.... We're LOSING in Iraq. Kim jon un has our number...
What is to celebrate by having a parade????? LOSING???? DUDE!!!
My great grandfather was in Sherman's Army of the Tennessee and marched in this parade.
Grand Review of the Armies
MAY 23-24, 1865
Over a Two-day period in Washington, D.C., May 23-24, 1865, the immense, exultant victory parade of the Union's main fighting forces in many ways brought the Civil War to its conclusion. With the nation's new president, Andrew Johnson, declaring on May 10 that all armed resistance was "virtually at an end," plans commenced for the review. It would far eclipse the two victory celebrations held before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and bring Washington out of its formal mourning period for the slain president.
William Tecumseh Sherman's Army of Georgia, just finishing its 2,000-mile march through the heart of the Confederacy, arrived from North Carolina and bivouacked around the capital near George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac. Though the two armies camped on opposite sides of the river, the troops met up with one another in the taverns and brothels of Washington, D.C., where the customary rivalries led to numerous fistfights.
Sherman, concerned that Meade's army would outshine his own in the upcoming parade, was not immune from the rivalry either, Ordering some last-minute drilling and spit and polish sessions to whip his ragged troops into marching shape, Sherman knew they could not match the close-order discipline that the Army of the Potomac perfected.
The parade's first day was devoted to Meade's force, which, as the capital's defending army, was a crowd favorite. May 23 was a clear, brilliantly sunny day. Starting from Capitol Hill, the Army of the Potomac marched down Pennsylvania Avenue before virtually the entire population of Washington, a throng of thousands cheering and singing favorite Union marching songs. At the reviewing stand in front of the White House were President Johnson, General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant, and top government officials. Leading the day's march, General Meade dismounted in front of the stand and joined the dignitaries to watch the parade. His army made an awesome sight: a force of 80,000 infantrymen marching 12 across with impeccable precision, along with hundreds of pieces of artillery and a seven-mile line of cavalrymen that alone took an hour to pass. One already famous cavalry officer, George Armstrong Custer, gained the most attention that day-either by design or because his horse was spooked when he temporarily lost control of his mount, causing much excitement as he rode by the reviewing stand twice.
The next day was Sherman's turn. Beginning its final march at 9 A.M. on another beautiful day, his 65,000-man army passed in review for six hours, with less precision, certainly, than Meade's forces, but with a bravado that thrilled the crowd. Along with the lean, tattered, and sunburnt troops was the huge entourage that had followed Sherman's on his march to the sea: medical workers, laborers, black families who fled from slavery, the famous "bummers" who scavenged for the army's supplies, and a menagerie of livestock gleaned from the Carolina and Georgia farms. Riding in front of his conquering force, Sherman later called the experience "the happiest and most satisfactory moment of my life."
For the thousands of soldiers participating in both days of the parade, it was one of their final military duties. Within a week of the Grand Review, the Union's two main armies were both disbanded.
