Note: Tanks in D.C. ain't about wrecking streets, it's about wrecking our principles.

[UTUSN]

So the opposition to SHITLER's tanks on July 4 is being framed as wrecking the streets. No.

We don't do tanks because of one of our bedrock principles that the CIVILIAN concept overrules the military.

[kairos12]

1. Keeping an eye to see if Shitler requires

goose-stepping as a part of basic training.

[applegrove]

2. +100.

[ProudLib72]

3. Well yes, but they had to give the orange shitstain a plausible excuse

One that he couldn't refute. You see, he cares very little for civilian concepts. He cares bigly for "his" military.

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. Just had a thought of Assface...

Assembling as much military grade hardware as he can get his tiny little hands on, and bringing it all to DC to mount his defense against removal from office. Tanks, planes, blasters of whatever type...

Please tell me there’s no live ammo!

[ProudLib72]

19. There is no doubt in my mind that he wants a show of "his" military might

as an attempt to dissuade people from removing him. He is a dictator. This is what they do.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Totally agree with your position.

But, it also costs like, a million dollars to replace a city mile.

I’m sick of paying his ego bill.

[global1]

6. It Should Be The Street In Front Of And On The Side Of The D.C. Trump Hotel.....

and if the streets need to be repaired afterwards - send Trump the bill.

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. Great idea!

[BigmanPigman]

5. RESISTERS are protesting there on the 4th!

[KentuckyWoman]

23. I hope singles manage to

Go stand in front of the tank.

If I could I would go stand there by myself and let the world watch them do whatever atrocity they'll do to me..

I'm old. I'm sick. Within a few months I'll be burying my husband. I'd be the perfect candidate if the timing was different.

I don't want anyone else to do that. No one should get hurt. But I would.

[BigmanPigman]

32. I'm not going to last more than a couple of years

and have told friends and family that right before I knew I was going to die I would volunteer to put my life on the line to defend our democracy, why not, right? What have I got to lose?

[Freethinker65]

7. The tanks are being trucked in from outside DC. They will be staged nonmoving on the National Mall.

A boring expensive unnecessary display. You can see non-moving tanks at many war and armed services museums and parks.

I want video of the tanks being trucked in and staged for Trump's ego.

[Sugarcoated]

27. So they won't be rolling down the streets?

Aw, traitor Don will have a sad

[Grasswire2]

8. Abrams tanks have arrived on rail cars.

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Link to tweet

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[UTUSN]

9. So the "acting" SecDef (whoever it is) didn't say NO?

[pangaia]

17. I suddenly have a bad feeling about all this !!!

[Skittles]

11. damn straight

[Gothmog]

12. Sherman tanks??

Link to tweet

[RobinA]

14. This Moron

is going to ruin the 4th of July forever.

[Qutzupalotl]

15. Relevant tweet from Tea Pain:

Link to tweet

Don’t underestimate what Trump is doin’ here. He showin’ us he can command the military to mobilize in our streets without question or oversight.

Expect to see more displays of military control, especially if he loses in November 2020.

[pangaia]

18. I've been expecting this.

It has nothing at all to do with the 4th of july..

this is a threat, intimidation..

[smirkymonkey]

29. This is very disturbing.

What is even more disturbing is that they have to follow the orders of this lunatic. Lock him up!! Now! We don't have time to let him escalate and get even worse. There is not telling what he might do!

[SCantiGOP]

16. If I thought Trump knew history

I would assume that he was emulating Julius Caesar violating the tradition against having the Roman Army enter the city.
That is marked as the end of Roman democracy.

[KentuckyWoman]

22. He's just showing off for Rocketman

See I can have my military parade too!!!! So there.

[lapfog_1]

26. Julius Cesar literally crossed the Rubicon

Trump is figuratively crossing on this 4th of July.

1776 to 2019... we had a good run at a democratic republic... but it is ending.

[LuckyLib]

20. My hope for DC on the 4th -- either 102 degrees

with humidity or pouring torrential rain!

[KentuckyWoman]

21. I was on The Mall July 4 once

It was 102 and also monster stormed.

[BigmanPigman]

33. I want all three...heat, humidity and thunder storms.

[SCVDem]

24. Check them for ammo!

Any civil unrest and dump will do a Tienanmen Square.

Kent State on a larger scale. That is what the orange ass wants!

[Lancero]

25. As unpopular of a opinion this will be... Our principles in regards to civilians and the military...

Have long since been wrecked.

Trump is hardly the cause. He is just the most recent in a long line of effects. He isn't a warning that we're a about to fall - He's a example of how far we have fallen.

Case in point, see our highly militarized police. Calling military gear surplus and slapping a new coat of paint on it doesn't suddenly make military issue gear appropriate for use against civilians, no matter how much people argue for it.

[Tech]

28. He majored in military parade in military school.

[Sugarcoated]

30. Remember when we celebrated 4th of July because we got independence from people like him?

Yeah. Good times.

[ecstatic]

31. Not impeaching will be the biggest mistake in history.

At a certain point, there'll be nothing we can do to stop him. I really hope I'm wrong.

[Sugarcoated]

34. I agree and know what you're trying to say

the principle that the civilian concept overrules the military, but you explain it a little more?

[dustyscamp]

35. I feel like Trump is also trying to goad Liberals into fighting his supporters with all these insane

stunts

[DFW]

36. I don't see him as thinking that far ahead

He just wants a celebration of himself, and as grandiose and as pompous as possible--with someone else paying for it, of course.

No wonder he likes hanging with Kim Jong Un so much. They are truly kindred spirits, even if Kim sees through Trump far more than Trump sees through Kim.

Their type was portrayed in this film almost 50 years ago: