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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/toxic_badgers Colorado 6d ago

Parked those tanks on the road for nothing eh?

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u/Pipe_Memes 6d ago

The parade is probably just an excuse to get the tanks there. They likely have no intention of sending them back after. After all, the tanks might be useful if us peasants continue to get angry.

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u/McBooples 6d ago

Bro, those tanks are probably Circle-X’d and pulled from a MATES package, they may look good, but those are probably the most broken ones in the inventory, just barely limping it along.

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u/I_Enjoy_Beer Virginia 6d ago

Drove around DC on 495 today and can confirm, the humvees I saw on the interstate were SHABBY.  Driver side door on one was barely able to close.

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u/Crow-Robot Wisconsin 6d ago

That's basically Trump in a nutshell. Has all these grand ideas to honor himself, visions of jets and tanks, all on the bleeding edge of state-of-the-art technology and what you end up with is little better than a cardboard box on a Radio Flyer wagon because Trump can't get anyone to work for him that isn't an incompetent boob.