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So, if there's a major spectacle of a military parade scheduled... (Original Post) Girard442 Feb 2018 OP
That would be a bad idea because it would be spun as anti-military. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #1
+1 onenote Feb 2018 #3
Disrupting it will just get you shot, arrested, or run-over... regnaD kciN Feb 2018 #2
My idea TlalocW Feb 2018 #4
I like that idea, but it could cause significant clown casualties. VOX Feb 2018 #6
Well, not to be too Machiavellian TlalocW Feb 2018 #7
Film? Leighbythesea Feb 2018 #5
Just don't show up. dflprincess Feb 2018 #8
+1 ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #9
Frankly, I doubt that it will happen MrScorpio Feb 2018 #10
I agree. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #11

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
1. That would be a bad idea because it would be spun as anti-military.
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 10:42 PM
Feb 2018

Having a really huge counter-parade like last year's women's march in another city such as New York would be a better way to deal with it.

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
2. Disrupting it will just get you shot, arrested, or run-over...
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 10:42 PM
Feb 2018

The proper strategy is that, as soon as the date for the Parade for Dear Leader is announced, plans start being made for the largest anti-Trump march ever elsewhere in the city.

TlalocW

(15,381 posts)
4. My idea
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 11:39 PM
Feb 2018

Everyone wear normal clothes that can be taken off in a hurry because once the parade starts, everyone watching it should shed what they're wearing to reveal a clown costume underneath, and en masse, we should all jump the barriers and join the parade.

TlalocW

VOX

(22,976 posts)
6. I like that idea, but it could cause significant clown casualties.
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 11:43 PM
Feb 2018

The DC Clown Massacre of 2018.

TlalocW

(15,381 posts)
7. Well, not to be too Machiavellian
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 11:51 PM
Feb 2018

But wouldn't it be an honor to give our lives to hang that around Trump's neck?

TlalocW

Leighbythesea

(92 posts)
5. Film?
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 11:43 PM
Feb 2018

Of other authoritarian/despot military parades in the past --on the side of buildings or screens, nearby? No sound. It'd just create a visual juxtaposition. People would see it, and it would be symbolically and literally parallel, if you could do it close enough.

MrScorpio

(73,630 posts)
10. Frankly, I doubt that it will happen
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 12:00 AM
Feb 2018

Not in DC, not in NYC. I can’t think of any major city that would allow it. Most of the military would never want it. Hell, even Congressional GOPrs have come out against it.

I can see Trump backing down.

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