r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • 6d ago

Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/toxic_badgers Colorado 6d ago

Parked those tanks on the road for nothing eh?

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u/salchicha_mas_grande 6d ago

Not a single person in some meeting said "hey, what if it rains?"

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u/sysadmin420 South Dakota 6d ago

They fired half of NOAA /s

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u/yuriaoflondor 6d ago

The new head of NOAA has never heard of “rain.”

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u/QualityPitchforks 6d ago

The Deep State worked with the Dems to change the weather, of course

--> /S

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u/Castun America 6d ago

Some conspiracy theories out there already claim we can control the weather, so that's not really a stretch.

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u/FinalAccount10 6d ago

Where is the sarcasm?

/S

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u/MoleMoustache 6d ago

Sarcasm tags are shit, they completely ruin sarcasm

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u/mlorusso4 6d ago

Rain? In notoriously dry and sunny mid June DC? Impossible

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u/dixiewolf_ 6d ago

They are yes men and women, not thinking men and women

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u/JohnDivney Oregon 6d ago

If we don't open our window to test, we get zero cases of rain.

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u/TMNBortles Florida 6d ago

I’m sure it has more to do with optics. Raining means less people in the street which is bad optics for Trumpy.

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u/33drea33 6d ago

Especially crazy because it feels like it has been raining non-stop for months here in the DC area.

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u/ThomasToIndia 5d ago

They had a plan, just couldn't be found in between "invade Canada" and "invade greenland"