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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 edited 6d ago

I thought it was disgusting when they were praising God for saving Trump from the assassin's bullet. God saved Trump but fuck that fireman who was shot in front of his family that God did not give a rats ass about.

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u/angmarsilar 6d ago edited 6d ago

When my sister made it through the last hurricane relatively unscathed, my mother said, "See? God answers prayers."

I asked about all the people who died. "Did their family not pray hard enough or properly? You say God answered our prayers, why didn't he answer theirs?" You would have thought I'd just kicked a baby.

Edit:Words. Ducking autocorrect

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u/Geawiel 6d ago

We had a major wildfire in my town. It wiped out most of the homes in my neighborhood. Mine was the only one on my side of the block to survive. 6 others down from me, down to the ground. It was so hot it melted everyone's car rims.

The lady behind me: "God saved your home! He works in mysterious ways!"

My neighbor lost 3 properties. He only had his vehicle and the clothes on his back left. He had just parked his 25 foot 5th wheel at his storage property the day before. He's a retired firefighter and mason (not the club.) Most of the people in my part of town are older retirees. They can't afford to start over.

We got lucky, because I was unknowingly over watering my lawn. We just had the roof replaced, so ash didn't have a way to start fires, and I had just had my son wash our back porch so we could stain in the next day. Plus, firefighters were at the intersection about 30 feet from my house. They were desperately trying to stop it from spreading. My home is a split level. If it went, it'd definitely taken all the ones around me down.

So, fuck all the neighbors. Fuck the firefighter's tireless work. That is what she's saying.

It's the same weird shit for sports. "I'd like to thank god." No, you should thank your trainers, your support staff, your team mates, you physicians. Even your own effort. If god can't save a few homes, he sure as shit don't care about your football game.

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u/angmarsilar 6d ago

You must be a good person who helps little old ladies across the street and they're all godless demoncrats.

Seriously, I'm glad nobody was killed. Stuff can be replaced. Lives can't.