If you’re an aide to Donald Trump and you’re in Alberta right now, whatever the hell you do, don’t let him get near a television set or a computer. In fact, take his phone away, although he might not be slick enough on social media to find this clip. That’s to be devoutly wished, for a lot of reasons. All that the members of the G7 Summit are trying to achieve is a sojourn without Trump “erupting.” And that will not be the case if he sees this little ditty. This will put him straight over the edge.
Hegseth is definitely getting fired. 😂😭😭
— ϽΓΣⱤẛ∁ (@CholericCleric) June 15, 2025
Pete Hegseth isn’t doing too well right about now. What about the “warrior ethos” he intended to instill in the troops? And what about his anti-DEI stance? I don’t know about you, but those gals in the white uniforms carrying the submachine guns would be enough to scare the bejesus out of me. They exude competence and purpose and I don’t think that image is there by accident. Nor is the image of the gals in the green uniforms who are maching. I think those images were put there to deliberately mock Trump and Hegseth.
Another comical aspect to this: Oddjob Steven Cheung can post all the phony statistics he wants but this mockery from Russia only underscores that the entire world has seen the videos of Trump’s parade and the No Kings In America demonstrations and have made their own decisions accordingly. If Cheung persists, he’ll only look more that much more the fool.
What’s tragic is that on a larger level the United States looks stupid. This was not, emphatically not, necessary to do. Those troops didn’t want to be there, the publicity attending this event has been awful, nobody showed up — and now our troops in uniform are getting mocked on the other side of the world. That is a travesty and it is directly traceable back to Trump. And his dum dum Secretary of Defense.
Cost of Trump's birthday parade $45 Million;
The bored and disappointed look on Trump's face,
PRICELESS pic.twitter.com/qfqhjCU09v— Dexter Wright … New PFP, same attitude (@Dexter__Wright) June 14, 2025
My cousin is on the run as I speak!!!! PRAY FOR HIM pic.twitter.com/Wo7L8HosoB
— Dexter Wright … New PFP, same attitude (@Dexter__Wright) June 15, 2025
I wonder if they have ketchup in Canada. Don’t they put gravy on their French fries? And cheese? Something like that? I’m told that’s even more popular in the western provinces, which is where Trump is tonight, getting ready for the G7 summit. Wouldn’t it be funny if Trump couldn’t find a ketchup bottle to smash, or pour on his burnt steak?
In any event, all the world is laughing at Donald and just wait for the morrow. All the world will be laughing anew, except for different reasons. Tariffs are first and foremost on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mind. And how are we doing in that regard? Let’s ask our Commander in Chief and genius deal maker, shall we?
Also I’m pretty sure some Nigerian prince is asking trump to give him 500 billion and he will return a trillion and trump is about to accept it
— AnEnemyWithin (@An_Enemy_Within) June 15, 2025
He doesn’t even sound convinced. The awful truth of this situation that we’re in is that Trump doesn’t want the job. He never wanted to govern. In 2016 he wanted the publicity and when he got elected, he thought what a great platform from which to scam. And so he did. But one thing led to another and he interfered with the election in Georgia and started the insurrection and Stormy Daniels was out there in the background all the time — so Trump had to avoid prison.
He managed to do that but now he has a job which is way beyond him and getting farther out of his control and beyond his capacity by the hour. I don’t pretend to know what’s going to happen next on this E-ticket to Hell ride that we’re in. The only thing I feel certain of is that things will get worse. He’ll probably start by acting out at the G7 Summit — which is the one thing they’re looking to avoid.
They call that marching, especially given the stage? They looked like a large, oddly dressed, fraternity scoping out bars in the French Quarter. If I were dictator for a day, I’d want those Russian ladies…they looked like iron fists wrapped in velvet gloves.
I would like to say that if there is a matchup between Prime Minister Carney and US Failure Trump, I’d bet on the one name that starts with a P. Yannow? Heh heh heh.
this will be the test of a number of things. will trump be stupid enough to repeat that crap at the summit? if he does how do the rest of the leaders react? specifically, do they continue to take trump and the US seriously (do they take him seriously to start with?).
Nobody takes him seriously. They just put up with him, like most of us have had to put up with a coworker that we totally hate, but we have to try to make it work somehow.
I read an opinion from a former military person, who said that after all the training the troops go through, it’s difficult to NOT march in step. This person thought that the shabby showing was their way of protesting what they were forced to do.
They had a specific term for this behavior, but I can’t recall it now.
It’s not just military people who tend to when walking as a group find themselves walking ‘in step.’ It’s a natural thing to do although marching in what in the Corps we called “tight” meaning in perfect step as a platoon takes some work/effort. The purpose of teaching a unit of troops to march in “tight” manner isn’t just to turn them into mindless automatrons. It’s to instill teamwork, and the belief of the unit being a single entity where everyone knows everyone else is working together with them. That kind of cohesiveness gets ingrained in one’s memory and matters when shit hits the fan.
Getting more to your question, when I was in the process of being transformed from a civilian to a Marine our Drill Instructors (in the Army they call them Drill Sergeants) had a variety of ways they’d mess with our heads, or punish us. We’d take a measure of pride and satisfaction when marching along and hearing our boots hitting the ground in unison. Crisp. Proving we were mastering the discipline required of us. If a DI was pissed at us for some reason sometimes they’r order us to “mob”, or “mob march” as in deliberately march out of step to look hapless and stupid to others in view. Basically force us to embarrass ourselves. We hated it. And it was actually kind of hard to do! The command “Hippety Hop – Mob Stop” was welcome. Even having to do ‘rifle PT’ if we were marching with rifles or getting ‘thrashed’ was preferable to mob-march.
Now, having said all that there is an actual marching command that’s legitimately used sometimes called “Route March’ which means don’t bother trying to walk in step. It’s used when the terrain is uneven/unusual and marching in step is impractical. Or when you need to speed things up some but not “double time” (run) somewhere. No cadence is called to keep people in step.
Seeing some examples of the marching in the parade it could be some of the units intentionally made little effort to be “tight.” Instead of traditional marching music (that’s a whole new topic) all kinds of music was being played over that crappy sound system that didn’t have a ‘marching beat’ which would make it a challenge to stay in step, even with someone loudly calling out cadence. It doesn’t seem like that was the case, which lends credence to the theory that with some of the units the sloppy marching was on purpose and tacitly approved by whatever Lt. or Sgt. was in command of those guys ‘mobbing’ along. If higher ups wanted to rip on them they could always blame that music and lack of a ‘marching beat’ and though putting them through some sort of punishment back at base migh happen this week it won’t last long. They’ve got more important stuff to deal with.
Thanks for the more thorough explanation. I looked for the source I had read, to get more details right, but of course I couldn’t find it. Nice to know that the repercussions — if any — won’t be too long or too severe.
The poutine could be on the walls at Kananakis when the Fortunate Son discovers he was being musically trolled in his perade. John Fogerty gives some history: