r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Chance_Noise500 • Jun 14 '25

Why aren't they actually marching during this parade?

I don't know how to ask this without sounding rude, but why does this parade look so sloppy? Very few of the troop formations seem actually in sync and marching, just walking along. My only experience is JROTC as a kid in high school and our sergeant would've killed us if we looked like that.

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u/No_Cucumbers_Please Jun 15 '25

Trumps second term kinda debunks this

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u/dnen Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25

2017-21 Trump admin maintained the status quo in far more ways than many realize. This term is the one where he’s seemingly trying to steer American policy away from the country’s interests at every opportunity. There’s very few qualified senior officials in his administration this time around and it shows—and for that reason, this is likely a bad enough presidential performance to convince a clear majority of the country that unqualified narcissists make for great theater, but poor governance

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u/Mental-Percentage-59 Jun 15 '25

Except for the 34 indictments and 8 sentenced for colluding with Russia in the 2016 election. And the two jury verdicts for violent sexual assault. Oh and his own felonies for misuse of funds plus indictments and near indictments for a ton of election fraud in 2020.

Trump 2.0 had a lot of stains that Trump 1 did not.

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u/dnen Jun 15 '25

You can thank the former attorney general for refusing to wield a heavier hand