The Birthday blues. Some things are priceless. Everything else? Ka-ching.

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The Macy’s Day Parade on Thanksgiving Day is watched by millions and loved for decades. Santa shows up each and every year with Rudolph. There are balloons of legend like Snoopy and skyscrapers to avoid on windy November days.

It’s a big deal with a huge price tag that withers in comparison to the Big Fat Birthday “Perade” as it was spelt in his tweet about it all. Begging and pleading on blended knees is the question,… was it so bad because his planners were “loyalists” and are so incompetent or it was so bad because his planners are not “loyalists,” winky face emoji.

They took time off for WWII but otherwise the parade has been a staple for now 101 years. Macy’s day parade said to cost a lot, but pales in view of our Army, in uniforms already paid for, in tanks we own to saunter down the avenue. Stroll? roll whatever,... They shouldn’t have been there in the first place in a civilian led military complex as we are. Hence, the real parade for “No Kings Day.” Love this minimalist approach.

Contemporarily, the Macy’s Day Parade costs around, let’s see…

Wow. 13 Million. Including costumes. I’ve heard Santa pays his own way for himself and the reindeer. A per diem perhaps?

The price tag bandied about for the June 14 day? 40-50 million dollars. Thats a lot of reindeer feed. I’ve seen as ridiculously high as 80 million for a bunch of “suckers and losers” to walk down Constitution Avenue. His words not mine, along with the defunding of Veterans hospitals and the Veterans Administration who is he celebrating?. But where the money, again. Melania’s appearance fund is getting bigger all the time.

So big tears today and just in time for a rousing Father’s Day event at the WH. Brunch with the kids? Grandkids and pets oh goodie, they have no pets. It’s a delightful schadenfreude filled moment. Ivanka sent an insta pic.

Some moments… Rubio, that is a yawn in progress.

These people in Ohio came out in spite of their usual bent. “So messed up, the Introverts are here.”

Love this dog in Newark!

And Manhattan, my City…

Love from Sweden. People are watching every move we make, keenly.

Japan took the assignment too.

Wonderful crowns. Wonderful X’s to X em out. Now that is what an X is for. No good. Good by, hasta la vista, b-bye to kings since 1776. The rest of the world likes us. They really really like us.

The other rest of the world? The one Donnie likes better? The one that would have you know… “put out”…

Pete might get fired of this terrible op. But Signal chat-gate thingy…

Whaaa whaaaaaaa … you know the trombone sound…

Happy Father’s Day to all. Thankful for fathers past and present. We don’t really need a reason. Men also love flowers, btw.

And lastly, be careful what you wish for, a legacy of the Aesop’s Fable, “The Old Man and Death.” A “faggot” btw, is a bundle of sticks as in the drawing.

Yup. He keeps ticking as the Timex ads used to say… he’s also the Energizer bunny. Lol.

Melania at the after party…

Thanks for being here. I wouldn’t be here without you.

❤️