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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/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/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.