Yuuuge & Bigly

a year ago by miss_demeanour to c/politicalmemes

miss_demeanour 238 points a year ago

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Soulg 148 points a year ago

I didn't realize he had to sit across from empty seats, that's fucking glorious

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WaterSword 168 points a year ago

Fyi: here’s the unaltered image

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TimLovesTech 110 points a year ago

This pic is cropped so you can't see the empty lawn just passed the people by the fence they couldn't see over.

Edit - Here is newsweeks slightly less cropped version and all the empty space is clearly visible.

Edit 2 - Here is a NYT photo that really shows how few people really showed up.

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Etterra 39 points a year ago

He looks so pathetic standing there saluting while everybody else is seated around him.

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CaptDust 18 points a year ago

Lmao that NYT photo, is this a federal parade or local band night at the city park?

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ayyy 24 points a year ago

I’ve seen neater lines from middle school marching bands. What the actual fuck.

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null_dot 7 points a year ago

Yeah they were just kinda shuffling along.

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Bristingr 7 points a year ago

It was the Army's way of protesting this shit too.

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Dorkyd68 14 points a year ago

Who's he saluting? You didn't serve donny, now sit down

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MutilationWave 6 points a year ago

Like it or not, he is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Literally the highest ranking officer in the military.

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bathing_in_bismuth 1 point a year ago

What presidents post WW2 did serve?

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El_Scapacabra 1 point a year ago

Maybe there's a North Korean general across the street?

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Etterra 11 points a year ago

I knew it was too good to be true, but it's still funny AF.

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barnaclebutt 2 points a year ago

Why did you Photoshop a massive asshole in the middle of the pic?

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homesweethomeMrL 84 points a year ago

Zoom in for details, its funny (and photoshopped)

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Soulg 50 points a year ago

Well now I see it, oh well I'll leave the comment up to be mocked

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dalekcaan 15 points a year ago

No mockery needed, it's still very valid

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Almacca 14 points a year ago

Even so, he's known for waving to invisible crowds. Wasn't there footage of him doing it when leaving court last year before E-Day?

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slevinkelevra 8 points a year ago

I wonder, are the empty seats photoshopped though?

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Robust_Mirror 4 points a year ago

Yes.

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Substance_P 3 points a year ago

That was my first thought.

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Ilovethebomb 56 points a year ago

Did you completely miss Bernie photoshopped in?

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Sho 55 points a year ago

I love the Bernie photoshop inclusion, classy.

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Wilco 9 points a year ago

Bernie was there!?!? See him there? In the front row? He may be hard to spot. He looks grumpy in this totally real and unedited photo.

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Rivalarrival 105 points a year ago

My home town has an annual 4th of july parade. They feature the High School's marching band, about a dozen firetrucks from nearby cities, and about 160 vehicles total. The local flight school flies a loose formation of 5 Cessna 150s over the route.

Attendance is usually between 10,000 and 12,000.

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RestrictedAccount 37 points a year ago

8647

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Rivalarrival 14 points a year ago

This apple is a bit spicy, pungent, and seems to be comprised of a lot of layers.

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phoenixz 4 points a year ago

8472

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Deceptichum 5 points a year ago
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finitebanjo 2 points a year ago

86 - 47 <- not random

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BMW_stick 6 points a year ago

Trump would tell us that your parade's attendance is about 500 losers, his parade had well over 200,000 very fine people.

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shalafi 6 points a year ago

Our Pensacola Mardi Gras parades stomps whatever that pathetic show was.

My initial reaction was embarrassment for Trump.

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MushuChupacabra 79 points a year ago

What a fucking loser.

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raltoid 67 points a year ago

This comment section is perfect proof that most people literally don't read news, and have the memory and attention span of a golden retirever puppy.

https://time.com/...

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StupidBrotherInLaw 25 points a year ago

The wind of the collective whoooosh from people missing the joke could be a new major source of renewable energy.

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throwawayacc0430 8 points a year ago
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Entertainmeonly 7 points a year ago

Love how MTG points out how bad democrats are by pointing out DT had two assassination attempts. Fails to mention both were by registered and very openly loud repubs.

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Nelots 4 points a year ago

I'm sure I've also seen some news articles you haven't, its kinda hard to keep up with literally every single piece of news, especially something as inconsequential as that.

Hell, I had never even heard of the term 86 before today, and I know I'm not the only one in the comments that hadn't.

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agent_nycto 2 points a year ago

Ok that makes this way funnier

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selkiesidhe 61 points a year ago

Pathetic.

Nice job on our military for following orders but making it very obvious they don't give a flying fuck about drumpf's lousy birthday. Now that is exactly what I wanted to see-- out of step marching (they absolutely know how to march perfectly, it's literally drilled into them), old ass machinery, and never once saying HB to that ass-clown, they made it about the army instead. Niiice

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Ilovethebomb 26 points a year ago

Old military equipment is part of any parade though, the tank in the photo is a ww2 Sherman.

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wanderwisley 57 points a year ago

This is the sphere in Las Vegas it holds a standing room capacity of 20,000 people or about 2.3x more people than attended Donny’s birthday flop parade.

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Derpenheim 48 points a year ago

Bro, the protest in fucking wichita had ~5k

That is saaad

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FuglyDuck 5 points a year ago

Does Wichita even have 5k

(Which Wichita? lol,)

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Derpenheim 2 points a year ago

Kansas, and shockingly yes

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brbposting 1 point a year ago

400k (half of SF) interesting!

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finitebanjo 4 points a year ago

8647 what a funny number

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Sciaphobia 41 points a year ago

Doesn't matter. Hell just lie and say 800 million people attended.

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caboose2006 33 points a year ago

All the mainstream media is reporting 250,000 because some trump official Xcreated that. Maybe if you include the No Kings protests going on around the parade it's 250k

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SereneSadie 15 points a year ago

My opinion of SBS sunk further when they put 'huge' in the title of their article about it.

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agent_nycto 32 points a year ago

To spell it out for y'all, it's a joke number.

86 means to stop, get rid of, or kill.

47 is the trump president number.

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Entertainmeonly 9 points a year ago

Thank you. I am one of those thick individuals that did not see the code hahaha.

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agent_nycto 3 points a year ago

I didn't get it till someone else commented about it either.

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hansolo 32 points a year ago

Is that for people in the parade? Or forced to watch it in person?

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scott 83 points a year ago

OK I had to look it up but the joke is "86" as in "get rid of" and 47, that is, Trump

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hansolo 31 points a year ago

Aaaahhh, I totally missed that. The comma threw me off thinking it was a real number.

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Almacca 14 points a year ago

Didn't some Fox blithering idiots interpret that as a death threat or something a few weeks ago?

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Nusm 11 points a year ago

Everything is a threat to them. They want to be victims sooooo bad.

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Almacca 5 points a year ago

Here it is.

God. That was only as recent as the 20th of May. Seems like forever ago. Can we drain the zone, please?

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Voroxpete 19 points a year ago

They advertised for seat fillers, so a lot of those people were literally paid to be there.

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Almacca 10 points a year ago

More likely they were promised payment, but have yet to collect.

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Tollana1234567 2 points a year ago

Trump never pays his dues

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Almacca 2 points a year ago

If anyone dealing with him doesn't get paid up front, that's on them at this point, though.

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proper 8 points a year ago
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shalafi 4 points a year ago

You saw a satire ad. That was not real.

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ch00f 2 points a year ago

Show me a photo of someone holding the check they received for filling a seat.

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Alaik 11 points a year ago

Well never get the real numbers. Im sure at least half weren't there willingly.

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solsangraal 17 points a year ago
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dejected_warp_core 13 points a year ago

It's worth mentioning that the entire DC Metro area is roughly 6 Million people. Calling this a small turnout for a city that size, let alone the whole country, is an understatement.

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YurkshireLad 13 points a year ago

Is that a WW2 tank?

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shalafi 16 points a year ago

Yes. The thing was to showcase 250 years of American Army, not modern shit.

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twice_hatch 4 points a year ago

I would have loved it for historical interest if anyone else was President :(

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supersquirrel 4 points a year ago

nah military is demodernizing to WW2 tanks, Make Tanks Great Again?

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supersquirrel 9 points a year ago

sherman

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merc 10 points a year ago

Q: Is that a WWII tank?

A: Sure, man.

Q: Cool, what kind of tank is it?

A: Sure, man.

Q: Um, I'm just trying to find out what kind of tank it is.

A: And I'm telling you. Sure, man.

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supersquirrel 3 points a year ago

Is that a firefly quote?

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EldritchFeminity 2 points a year ago

No, it's an American one. The Firefly was a British variant.

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griff 2 points a year ago

Saul Goodman

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clay_pidgin 6 points a year ago

Apparently they had to rent them from movie prop houses.

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griff 8 points a year ago

Putinesque feculance

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Ceruleum 1 point a year ago

Ah yes, Milkshake.

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shalafi 8 points a year ago

Not sure I believe that number. But hell, I can't estimate crowds to save my life. At one point I was in the largest rock concert of all time, still have no clue.

All I can say is the one I went to easily had 2,000. And that's in the reddest part of Florida, and only 1 of 2 protests in Pensacola.

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Brandonazz 13 points a year ago
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Litics 2 points a year ago

Rockfest, Texas Motor Speedway, 1998?

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shalafi 1 point a year ago

YES! I would have never remembered that! What a trip that all was. Forget getting to a porta-potty, piss your pants and get hosed down. I passed out and my gf took 5-hours just to get out of the parking lot. I'll never forget Bush playing and the crowd in the standing pelting those of us on the ground with trash (nothing dangerous).

Tell me you were there!

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Litics 1 point a year ago

Yes sir! I remember it taking about the same amount of time try to get out of the parking lot. We lost part of our group and were wondering around after the shows for about an hour looking for them. I remember some drunk ass had swiped a security golf cart and was driving around with an empty bud light case on his head. Ah - good times.

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joby 2 points a year ago

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding you here... But the number from this post is for the stupid military parade in DC with the tanks, not the no kings protests. I've seen claims that there were over 6 million attendees for those.

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RedditRefugee69 7 points a year ago

Jesus. That's way lower than the generous estimate I considered credible enough from /r/theydidthemath yesterday.

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iamdefinitelyoverthirteen 7 points a year ago

I told my partner, and she asked "Does that include the band?"

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danc4498 7 points a year ago

Nah, it was bigger than Obama’s inauguration.

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altphoto 6 points a year ago

So 8 highschools. That's pretty good. A well known Mexican Pueblo doesn't even match that by at least 5 or 6 more people for Sunday church.

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FauxPseudo 9 points a year ago

My highschool was more than 2000 people. And it was so new that our first semester was on two different campuses and they were still building int around us for another two years when we did move in.

Now I live in a very different area. The localist mega church gets 17,000+ butts in seats each week.

8500 people is less than normal tourism on a Saturday for DC. It was actually a net negative for attendance over just a normal day.

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Uranus_Hz 6 points a year ago

Four public high schools in my city and their combined attendance is over 9000

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macaw_dean_settle 3 points a year ago

The 3 in my district total over 7400. He/she must be talking about small towns schools.

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finitebanjo 4 points a year ago

86

47

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EtnaAtsume 2 points a year ago

WHAT 9000??

THERE'S NO WAY THAT CAN BE RIGHT

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macaw_dean_settle 1 point a year ago

Not even 4 for my area. Those are some pretty small schools if it took 8.

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Hikuro93 5 points a year ago

So, according to Trump after he's told that number, "millions and millions and millions, a parade like you've never seen! Streets overflowing! Yuge! Tremendous! The biggest and bestest parade of all time, I'd say! Putin and Kim were seeing it on their big screens, they called me just to tell me how beautiful of a parade mine was, and asked for advice on how to improve theirs! - I just know they must've had tears in their eyes seeing my big beautiful parade".

All while frantically playing his imaginary accordion. 🤡

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glitch1985 3 points a year ago

I'm sure he was playing with something while talking to Putin but I doubt it was an accordion.

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Corn -2 points a year ago

Lmao yall are still angry at Trump for being insufficiently hostile to North Korea.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 4 points a year ago

Not to judge, but that "crowd" looks a bit, uh, frumpy.

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merc 4 points a year ago

[Citation Needed]

Where is the 8,647 number coming from? I don't believe it was 250k, but I don't believe 8,647 either.

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miss_demeanour 6 points a year ago

86 47

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merc 4 points a year ago

Ah, right.

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BingoBongoBang 4 points a year ago

Unfortunately, there after a lot of photoshopped/ generated / cut images so it is really hard to tell if there were many people on trump's show. I wished people would post the real photos instead of such obviously fake shit.

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uriel238 4 points a year ago

The saddest trombone.

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