Expensive parade 4 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Oh, and it’s personally irritating to me for other reasons that he wants to fuss and celebrate the military on the patriotic holiday, instead of the two military-centric holidays already on the calendar. Those holidays are already set up for appreciation and speeches and fanfare for our troops. (Don’t get me wrong; huzzah military with all respect 365.25 days a year.)
Don’t even try to say this is all troop appreciation. Wrapping yourself in the flag (or the cross) and claim righteousness from inside its depths is a strategy any child could use - and see through.
Naw. It’s just my petty take that the contrast he faces on the two military-focused holidays make it seem like a lot more fun to have bombast and pomp on a day that doesn’t center on sacrifice and service.
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Edited 5 years ago
Don’t even try to say this is all troop appreciation. Wrapping yourself in the flag (or the cross) and claim righteousness from inside its depths is a strategy any child could use - and see through.
Naw. It’s just my petty take that the contrast he faces on the two military-focused holidays make it seem like a lot more fun to have bombast and pomp on a day that doesn’t center on sacrifice and service.
Expensive parade 4 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Trump’s a citizen hired to do a job. It’s okay if he wants to spend his own $ or have a GoFundMe page to put on little shows to keep his image up as a private citizen. But he isn’t doing that. The *opportunity cost* of Trump is something you either see or you don’t. But we can all agree he was hired to actually do some work, not waste the public purse.
It’s not a good ROI to anyone else for Trump to center narratives on himself instead of doing the job in a cost-effective way. (His permanent attitude of wastefulness and all-grandstanding-no-grinding is what makes these types of actions so annoying.) Are you 100% sure there were no celebrations *IN DC* he could have attended or spoken at, hmmm? Really SURE?
Equally annoying: False equivalencies and bald-face lies. It’s impossible you don’t see AT LEAST ONE of the dozen reasons why Pride and a publicly funded waste of resources aren't the same. Conflating the two, then, makes this comment an obvious lie in service of nothing useful.
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It’s not a good ROI to anyone else for Trump to center narratives on himself instead of doing the job in a cost-effective way. (His permanent attitude of wastefulness and all-grandstanding-no-grinding is what makes these types of actions so annoying.) Are you 100% sure there were no celebrations *IN DC* he could have attended or spoken at, hmmm? Really SURE?
Equally annoying: False equivalencies and bald-face lies. It’s impossible you don’t see AT LEAST ONE of the dozen reasons why Pride and a publicly funded waste of resources aren't the same. Conflating the two, then, makes this comment an obvious lie in service of nothing useful.
They’re - They are. It’s a contraction (two words pushed together, like I’m [I am]. It’s got the apostrophe in the middle to remind you to check if it could be written as two words instead).
Their - possessive third person (their house, their car, their terrible dancing skills). There’s not a handy way to remember ‘their’. You just gotta memorize it. (Uhm, accidental usage of there’s: notice you can pull it apart because of the apostrophe. ‘There’s’ is right because it can be written as ‘there is’. ‘Theirs’ would be wrong because no apostrophe. ‘They’re is wrong because when you pull it apart to ‘they are’, the sentence doesn’t work).
On the plus side, ‘they’re’ doesn’t come up much in writing. You can skip it forever, just use ‘they are’. Then you only need to remember there/their and there’s/theirs. Your post is excellent; don’t be so hard on yourself