This parade is a desperate distraction, and it says to me that Trump no longer feels like he has anything to lose. He is going to do what he’s been jizzing his pants to do ever since he took the oath goddammit: be a perfect little puppet dictator. Scare the shit out of us. Set the table with a little sample of his almighty power before he does the ultimate distraction. We can laugh about the absurdity and stupidity of his fevered tyrant dreams now, but once it is happening and we can actually see our country rolling along into a banana republic right before our eyes, he will unleash the worst thing he can do. It might mean firing Rosenstein, or Mueller, or maybe he has something a little more ambitious in mind. Like a war. This parade must never be allowed to happen.