I haven’t claimed anything. i don’t think I’ve even called it a failure.

I have plenty of proof tho. What proof would you like?

Let me try an illustrative example:

Prove to me the planet Jupiter is huge

That leaves the question "what proof are you asking for exactly?! What’s needed to prove huge to you? What are the goal posts and I can provide information to prove it’s huge… If I only have “prove it” I’m not sure what to hand you…

That’s how it gets silly

“The parade was a failure”

“Prove it”

"What exactly do you want proven? Failure is an opinion so what’s the metric we are working worth? What proves a failure of a parade? I mean it was viewed by significantly less people than the Macy’s day parade? I hated the idea of the parade and complained it was happening but somehow still forgot it was happening at all… Does being forgettable count as failure ? It had less turnout than expected… Is that a failure? It cost millions of dollars and even the people arguing it wasn’t a failure admit they didn’t watch it or care it happened at all… Is that failure?

What exactly do you want proven? I’ll prove it I just need to know what I’m researching for you?

It’s exactly your job to define failure. You asked for proof. Tell me what proof looks like. What do you consider proof?

Let me cut thru the fat and just explain why your argument is ridiculous. I’ll put politics and jokes aside.

I love a battle semantics more than most. I once brought a $100 dictionary to my HOA pool to explain “dusk” to the security guard.

Let me explain why your argument is silly.

You want numbers to prove it was a failure, correct?

Okay. We will have them in a couple days when they are available. However in the meantime YOU need to define your parameters if you are going to argue. What exactly is a “failure” to you? How little viewing/attendance is the threshold for this argument? When is a parade a failure exactly?

If you want to argue what is or isn’t a failed parade and you want proof… Fine, but we need your goal posts, we need to know you describe as a failed parade because numbers are just numbers. What’s your metric?

You seem to have a lot of opinions about a parade you didn’t watch and don’t care about.

What was your favorite part of the parade?

How much of the parade did you watch? I watched none. I think most of America will say they didn’t even bother to turn on the tv, most probably forgot it was happening at all.

Compare that to the Macy’s day parade. It was a failure. He wanted it to be a big deal, it absolutely was not a big deal. Failure.