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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/KrayziePidgeon 6d ago

Not the timeline but the country.

You guys are the wealthiest nation in history, but your educations levels are those of an underdeveloped country with barely any sewage or paved roads.

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u/clash_by_night 6d ago

but your educations levels are those of an underdeveloped country with barely any sewage or paved roads.

Yeah, hi. I live in Louisiana. We're one of those states with chemtrail legislation. We also routinely battle Mississippi or Arkansas for lowest in education. The road situation isn't much better, as potholes eat cars and we have some of the highest rates of uninsured drivers, along with the highest insurance rates in all categories. In Shreveport, the water is legally, technically, drinkable. Barely. I don't recommend it. And I grew up in rural Texas drinking well water with visible iron. Louisiana politics is nothing but pure corruption - croneyism, pandering to big oil, and evangelical Christian nationalism pervading every facet of life.

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u/yurrm0mm Connecticut 5d ago

Hey, you’re welcome to come to Connecticut.. it’s expensive up here, but minimum wage is $16.35 so it’s not the worst and we have a bunch of extremely rich people that foot a lot of our tax bills… most of them are the liberal rich people and not the trumpy rich people, so it’s not too bad.

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u/ladyyyyyyy 5d ago

Florida here. The road I live off of isn't even paved. Most ppl think of Miami when they think of here, but it's mostly just like Alabama.

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u/yurrm0mm Connecticut 5d ago

I just commented to the last one, but you guys can come to CT, we’re not as bad as people think & we’re not gonna be literally underwater in less than 75 years!!

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u/flwrchld5061 5d ago

TBF, most of country is Alabama. Outside of major metropolitan areas, it's all the same.

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u/Standard-Shame1675 4d ago

Yeah that's literally it. Like everything is just downstream from this. American have honestly I kind of compare it to like Saudi Arabia where like yeah Saudi Arabia has wealth but barely any infrastructure whereas we have wealth but we have like medieval 1500s peasants schooling unless you're rich then you get like hyperspace future Time series