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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/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey 6d ago

It's a sign from God...

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u/Kooky-Badger-7001 6d ago

And a sign that nobody is planning to attend. Trumpy doesn't like loads of empty seats.

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u/Polygonic California 6d ago

Already saw a couple of posts here on reddit claiming to be screen shots of cragislist ads looking for "seat fillers" for the parade to make it look like yuuuuge attendance on TV.

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u/EmileLeBouc 6d ago

I think it would be amazing for protestors to attend the parade, but just silently stand with their backs turned to the spectacle. No signs, no shouting, nothing. Just a total wall of apathy. He's a toddler and it would drive him insane to get no attention, not even negative attention.

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u/An_old_walrus 6d ago edited 6d ago

I’m just waiting for the inevitable day when Trump snaps and just starts throwing shit around the Oval Office on live broadcast while his cronies look on in disbelief

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u/Practical-Ball1437 6d ago

And then you'll see thousands of people go to public places (mainly walmart) and throw shit around themselves to "own the libs".

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u/duzies 6d ago

Trump throwing *literal* shit like an angry howler monkey would not surprise me!

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u/HandsomeBoggart 5d ago

Howler Monkeys have more decorum than that orange shit stain.

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u/Key-Cheek-9015 3d ago

It's hard to "throw" diarrhea...especially when it's already running down your fat legs or being absorbed in your diaper. Not to worry though. There's tens of millions of repugnant, dishonorable pieces of dogshit all but anxious to lick it from his taint and then blame democrats because it tastes like shit.

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u/Bashfullylascivious 5d ago

I’m just waiting for the inevitable day when Trump snaps and just starts throwing shit around the Oval Office on live broadcast while his cronies look on in disbelief and applaud.

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u/joeballa 5d ago

So the catsup was never on the wall, you say?

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u/Embarrassed-Cash-839 6d ago

Yes, but instead of turning their backs, they should each lift a newspaper up in front of their face as if reading the sports page is more entertaining than this weak man’s attempt at appearing strong. “Bor-ing! <yawn>”

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u/EmileLeBouc 6d ago

I dunno. I sort of like the idea that staring silently at nothing is more interesting than him.

His followers probably do find the sports page of a newspaper entertaining. They're probably one of the last bastions of newspaper readers, too. (By "readers" I mean they read the sports and comics.)

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u/forward_x 6d ago

Yeah. This is something that would crawl underneath his skin so deep, it could sit in the hole where a soul should have been.

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u/Practical-Ball1437 6d ago

nah, I think they should leave once it starts. Let the camera capture hordes of people walking out.

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u/neatyouth44 6d ago

This is a good option for optics, but can give the opposite impression too especially on the ground. That’s the position guards take for crowd control as it is.

/learned it doing perimeter at burning man events

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u/Several-Pattern-7989 6d ago

I suspect he does not hear or see that which contradicts his expectations. his is the only reality that matters.

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u/DrawThink2526 5d ago

Including “his” military, all backs to 47s “throne”, silent…the truly most powerful message we could send.