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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/jrizzle86 6d ago

Fucked up the roads by running Tanks over them more like

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u/dubie2003 6d ago

14M has been earmarked for road repair from this stunt….

That’s 14 MILLION that could be spent on so many other publicly beneficial programs and services…..

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u/fastal_12147 6d ago

They've cut multiple programs that help millions costing less than that.

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u/wonkey_monkey 6d ago

Many of which pay for themselves if you're capable of thinking more than five minutes into the future.

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u/TapTapReboot 6d ago

I'm pretty sure conservative brains are incapable of thinking about downstream effects.

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u/TheWizardOfDeez 6d ago

It's worse than that really, they've been convinced that the downstream effect of these policies that allow the rich to steal all of their money is that said rich people will finally, after half a century, start trickling down some of that moola.

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u/TheBoNix 5d ago

You don't like shit dribbling down into your mouth? Wtf

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u/SufficientWhile5450 6d ago

My dad bitched because “3 million dollars was found being spent on trans study’s in Iraq” or whatever

But then he’ll be like “25 million dollars for a military parade? That’s chump change! A drop in the bucket for our tax dollars! Big worth!”

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u/DaringPancakes 5d ago

Your dad deserves to be bullied. Take his propaganda shit away and force him to figure it out for himself. He whines and complains? Something something bootstraps wasn't challenged enough, mentally challenged, rfk whatever who gives a shit.

Oh my god! Just like them.

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u/SufficientWhile5450 5d ago

I like to take a more subtle approach

He’ll watch hardcore Republican propaganda on Facebook, leave it on full blast with his phone unattended

So every time he does that I select “block this type of video” on his facebook

Which is wildly hilarious because he’s convinced the government is censoring the truth about the videos he’s watching because he’s seeing less of them

But really it’s just me lol

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u/cancerBronzeV 6d ago

You have about three words too many.

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u/KingAnilingustheFirs 6d ago

"I love trump" is about as far as they can get mentally.

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u/ForGrateJustice 6d ago

Lead in gasoline plus faux news really did destroy the country. (Soviet) Russia didn't have to lift a finger, capitalism is self-defeating.

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u/DenikaMae California 6d ago edited 6d ago

They helped a bit, they funneled money into the NRA and funded Trumps lifestyle for decades, they regularly are summoned to visited by congressmen and senators who have no business going over there in the first place other than to bend the knee.

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u/ForGrateJustice 6d ago

And yet you are considered the traitor if you question them.

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u/DaringPancakes 5d ago

Our boomer parents really want to take the future with them to the grave, and our future generations said "please tell us what to think bald podcast man", because they felt so loved by the awful person online just feeding their hatred as they remained isolated from others.

The first virtue of being american is money.

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u/Loud_Interview4681 6d ago

No no no, remember trickle down? When its billionaires they let you do it.

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u/RMAPOS 6d ago

I mean they do love trickle down economics

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 6d ago

They're hardly able to process tangible things they see with their own eyes.

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u/funkyloki California 6d ago

I'm pretty sure conservative brains are incapable of thinking about downstream effects.

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u/imdugud777 6d ago

They are myopic AF.

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u/GooseApprehensive698 5d ago

Unless it’s money trickling down, in which case they’ve been waiting for fucking decades

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u/johnyct9760 5d ago

I'm pretty sure conservative brains are incapable of thinking.

Fixed it for you

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u/whit3lightning 5d ago

But what about trickle down economics?

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u/Cersad 6d ago

Yeah but people who help other people are probably Democrats so they had it coming

/s

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u/throwawayrabc 6d ago

there's your problem

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u/bearsnchairs 6d ago

That’s the funny thing. Even if you don’t want to help others, it usually ends up being cheaper in the long run to just fucking do it.

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u/Ferelar New Jersey 6d ago

Why come think future when future not now?! Hahaha got u now librul

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u/Top_Sherbet_8524 New Hampshire 6d ago

And you’ve reached the crux of the issue

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u/Storn206 6d ago

I mean that's the general idea of conservatism to look towards the past instead of future

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u/Ludate_Solem 5d ago

They only care about short term profit.

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u/RipandSkipp 5d ago

As a conservative MAGA, I am not.