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Atticus (7,757 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213408822Does anyone else see these fighter jet "flyovers" as wasteful, meaningless, militaristicnonsense? Just a coincidence that the recent Blue Angel's flyover "to salute the nurses" is featured in Trump's latest campaign ad
Star Member rurallib (53,804 posts) 1. totally - money and effort that could be used for good
sop (2,090 posts) 2. Think how many face masks and PPE the nurses could have purchased with the money it cost.
Star Member Solly Mack (77,376 posts) 6. Feel-good insanity for the unhinged.K/R
SoonerPride (5,891 posts) 9. Worse, they were done for Trump's campaign ads.I've already seen them.They weren't to support the nurses.They are a tax-payer funded campaign stunt.
RandiFan1290 (5,405 posts) 19. Was a waste of money for scumbag trump's campaign ad "in these trying times"
Star Member LisaM (25,234 posts) 60. But why do people like them?They are just war machines, they are noisy and scary. What's to like?
Moostache (7,128 posts) 15. Nothing accidental about it at all...Trump is focused on ONLY one thing...getting enough electoral college votes to secure a second term...notice he is NOT concerned with actually winning re-election, it is blatantly obvious by now that his support hovers between 40-45% and will not move off of that point.He is using EVERYTHING he can to stack the decks and set the wheels in motion to allow just enough chicanery to be seen, but not so much that its obvious to the Fox News crowd too. Willful suspension of disbelief is necessary for people to enjoy movies or books or entertainment - they must be willing to accept certain premises or the experience is ruined...for example, Superhero stories only work if the audience is not thinking about the physics of Superman flying or Flash running through time...it is the exact same principle in play with Trump.His facade is miles wide and fractions of a cm deep, but his fans and supporters DO NOT CARE...they simply accept what he says and do not question it. They are along for the ride and damn the consequences. This is even more obvious with the recent 'protesters' who want to 'reopen America' because that was Trump's wording..."damn the consequences, we want what our Tangerine Mussolini wants!"Unless we figure out a way to pierce that willing suspension of disbelief - and we have not been successful with - TREASON, Foreign interference in elections, Extortion of another foreign leader, Nepotism, Cronyism, Incompetence, Racism, Sexual Assault or the out right cause of TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DEAD AMERICANS have not worked yet - unless that veil is pierced and Trump is seen by all how those who do not blindly worship him to feel better about themselves - the collective 'we', the United States is doomed.
Star Member kimbutgar (12,453 posts) 18. Last night during the NBC evening news one of the commercials was a pro mf45 and it hadFootage of those flyovers. It talked about how he well responded to the cv19 and how he has been great for the economy.But there was the flyover footage featured prominently.
Star Member Judi Lynn (139,029 posts) 20. It's damned creepy. No need for them to remind us our military can lay waste to the planet so often.It would make the world a lot more civilized if people could act like grown-ups, and stop all the ####-waving.It's the really stupid ones among us who feel the need to threaten violence.
Star Member Aristus (50,313 posts) 24. Oh yea. Huge waste of money.Wasteful military displays are the Band-Aid incompetent leaders put on a bleeding national wound, hoping we won't notice it doesn't stop the bleeding...
Blues Heron (2,094 posts) 26. It causes people to crowd places to watch like the mall in dcLiterally sickening. You can't bomb a virus idiots, the ten trillion wasted on this evil crap could come in handy right now.
Ron Green (9,020 posts) 29. War Porn. It's a reliable move to rally gullible people to a cause.Loud, fast things that we can’t all use but that we all pay for.
Star Member tiredtoo (1,918 posts) 37. A massive waste of our tax dollarsHow many lives could have been saved with this money? How many hungry people could have been fed?
warmfeet (1,865 posts) 44. It's what authoritarian regimes do.Military parades, military flyovers - all things military, rah, rah, rah. Think North Korea/Russia. From our perspective, it is a waste. From the perspective of an authoritarian, it is essential to showcasing the hierarchical power structure of their society. What remains here, is merely the facade of democracy.
Star Member LisaM (25,234 posts) 59. Yes.I always hate them
Warpy (97,395 posts) 72. Yes.Never mind that hospitals are not places that need to be buzzed by loud fighter jets.****ing grandstanding.
Moostache (7,128 posts)15. Nothing accidental about it at all...Trump is focused on ONLY one thing...getting enough electoral college votes to secure a second term...notice he is NOT concerned with actually winning re-election,
Awwwwwww! They don’t like it.In that case, we need more of them.
They forget that the pilots have to get in their flight hours, so they would be flying anyway, why not use them the way they are right now? DUmbasses
Exactly. Expenses for things like this are included in the annual budget for the services.
Yes sir, that is correct. It was made very clear when NC shut down that we were exempt from that or any curfew by our command because the DOD does not shutdown. You can’t fix an aircraft sitting at home.
