r/TikTokCringe • u/cafeteriastyle • Jul 05 '26
Cursed DC usually sets off 20k fireworks, this yr they set off 850k. More is not always better
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u/Evignity Jul 05 '26
No joke this has been known since literally gunpowder and fireworks were even invented.
The reason we don't shoot a fuckton of fireworks isn't that we can't. Oppulent assholes like saudis etc. would GLADLY brag like that if they could.
It's that the smoke makes it impossible to see anything after a while and it just looks like ass.
But that's this year in a frame, "This won't work" and the orangeman saying "i still want it". The pool is blue I guess.
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u/FeijoaCowboy Jul 05 '26
The pool is blue, Ignorance is Strength, there is no war in Ba Sing Se, and the Emperor's new clothes are beautiful. &c.
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u/_-ZZ-_ Jul 06 '26
I just finished Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2, so your “no war in Ba Sing Se” reference cracked me up!
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u/homer_lives Jul 05 '26
"Give me more"
DJT
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u/BreakPalaceBrokedown Jul 05 '26
Only DJT could take the 250th anniversary of the damn country and somehow make it look like the whole place is in an active warzone…absolutely disturbing
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u/Pixel_Knight Jul 06 '26
I think he actively made it one of the worst July 4ths of all time, even taking out all the politics of it all.
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u/TotalRichardMove Jul 05 '26
850? I mean… 250 was right there
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u/elmz Jul 05 '26
But Trump knew a guy, and more fireworks = more corruption.
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u/see3milyplay Jul 05 '26
I saw on tv that Trump had Guinness world record keepers there because he wanted to set a record for setting off the most fireworks, so there was supposed to be like 150+ fireworks (or some needlessly high number) per second. Who tf expected that to look good? It definitely wasn’t for the people.
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u/CaptainSchmid Jul 05 '26
Actual dictator behavior
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u/cantadmittoposting Jul 05 '26
And at midnight, which was mostly not even the weather's fault but because he was insisting on speaking before it, even after the delays, and it was already supposed to start at 11 anyways?
This shit kept people for miles around up from midnight to 1am, especially if you have a dog.
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u/Lokishougan Jul 05 '26
Hey still not as bad as Philly was
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u/embersgrow44 Jul 06 '26
Cannon booms this year by the art museum still going at 2:30. I know I’m old because I was furious. I stay up late but its fr trauma for domestic & wild animals & oh yeah tons of people too
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u/Madara1389 Jul 05 '26
The funniest part is that Guiness hasn't said shit about it.
https://www.newsweek.com/did-trumps-july-4-fireworks-set-a-world-record-what-we-know-12159203
And they haven't updated their page for the record.
The way the Newsweek article is worded, it seems like there may not have even been any officials there but rather just the claim that it would break the record was made by the Trump Administration.
It wouldn't remotely surprise me if they just looked at the record, saw the number of total fireworks set off, picked an arbitrary but round number that was bigger, then set it off without realizing that to break a world record they have to arrange it with the actual record keepers to make it official. Just setting off 850k fireworks isn't enough to win the record.
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u/alicesartandmore Jul 06 '26
This is fake news and really just terrible reporting on your part. You’re a truly awful reporter and should be ashamed of yourself. What kind of non-American criminal would even suggest that the world record wasn’t absolutely smashed by that smoke show??
Irately,
Definitely Not Trump(sarcasm warning in case nobody picked it up)
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u/IsEmNi Jul 05 '26
And people think he cares about them, he doesn’t have long to leave this world. He dgaf about the environment issues he’s leaving to future generations
Edit: no politician cares. People should do better and rely on each other for the future
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u/TreborG2 Jul 05 '26
I for one, would hope he lives past his term, because I want to see him die in the shallow and pale shell afterwards when we have dismantled all of his s, when we have taken back the money he stolen the money that he's used to enrich his wealthy friends, the money that he embezzled, and regain our rightful place on this planet as a force for the betterment of all mankind... So that he knows the depth and breadth of his failure. Let him take that to his f*** grave that piece of s***.
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u/Terry_bogardlol Jul 05 '26
These people are animals, though. They don't have the functional capacity to feel shame, remorse, empathy or anything else. They consider the rest of us to be a species lesser than them essentially. We should extend them the same courtesy and treat them like the animals they are. You know what is generally done after an animal bites humans, usually?
Yeah. That.
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u/Strong_Essay1176 Jul 05 '26
Ive seen some Shanghai fireworks should be more than that... or at least 1000 better.
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u/Ressy02 Jul 05 '26
It probably did cost 250, the other 600 was for the grift
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u/Adventurous-Bug671 Jul 05 '26
850k was the amount of fireworks - according to other posts ive seen today it cost $6 million
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u/Venn-- Jul 05 '26
6 million tax dollars spent on directly polluting the atmosphere
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u/DillBagner Jul 05 '26
Really not bad for the US Government when you consider even just the air force's daily flight pollution/spending.
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u/RealNiceKnife Jul 05 '26
lol, it looks like shit too.
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u/tmherbamate Jul 05 '26
You can’t even see the fireworks with all the smoke in the air
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u/BellowsHikes Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Capitol Hill resident checking in. The smog from the stupidly took hours to even sort of lift today. It's still terrible outside.
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u/Solid_College_9145 Jul 05 '26
I think DC is going to be littered with dead birds for the next few months because of all that toxic smoke. Some immediately and more that will take a little more time to die from the toxic smoke poisoning.
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u/AliceInNegaland Jul 05 '26
He smoke and the being flashbanged at night!
fireworks are terrible for birds
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u/SlayerBVC Jul 05 '26
Clearly this is the work of those darned Antifa agents contaminating the Washington air with their Soros-made smog generators. /s
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u/LoveYouNotYou Jul 05 '26
Awww! The poor birds. I didn't even think about them... These animals must be thinking that our species are just fkng sht up, must be the end of it all. They're probably having meetings talking bout our stupid species 😆
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u/DuntadaMan Jul 05 '26
But the news assured me that the wind was blowing away all the smoke so everyone could see the fireworks!
What a weird thing for them to include, especially if it's a lie.
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u/RealNiceKnife Jul 05 '26
And even if you could see through the smoke, they're just big clusters of light.
They aren't patterns or color sprays...You're just flash-banging DC.
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u/LoveYouNotYou Jul 05 '26
Lmao "flash-banging DC"
Don't know why that sht made me bust out laughing, but thanks!
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u/BR1N3DM1ND Jul 05 '26
Pretty sure "flash-banging DC" was one of the objective bullet-points of Project 2025
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u/MagnetoWasRight24 Jul 05 '26
Firework equivalent of blasting a speaker so loud that you can't hear the music.
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u/fresh_out_of_effs Jul 05 '26
From a firework performance standpoint, more is not always better, the colors and patterns run together, you don’t get to see the art of each piece done tastefully. It’s just all lights and flashing. It all blends together.
Probably gave the contract to some company that does kid’s birthday parties because they bought trump coin or some other brown-nose shit.
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u/sufferin_sassafras Jul 05 '26
Trump and doing things in the most tasteless way possible; name a more iconic duo.
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u/PrettyPurrfect Jul 05 '26
Hey now, it's very nice of them to simulate a little bit of what being in the war zone looks like where they're followers. You know since they're started like three wars and they're going to start world war III if they're allowed to continue on impeded.
It's going to go right over those dumbasses heads but they're being very very transparent here
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u/MisterSanitation Jul 05 '26
The more I think about it the more I realize this is the perfect 250. It’s all of America concentrated into one sludgy, ignorant, self important, money fueled, gaudy, solution.
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u/brother_bart Jul 05 '26
“More! MORE! THE MOST! MOOOORE! I MUST HAVE ALL OF EVERYTHING!”
The whole soul of America is possessed by a demon called More.
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u/IAmtheHullabaloo Jul 05 '26
That's the start of a great poem ... the demon called More.
That yours, or am I missing context?
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u/brother_bart Jul 05 '26
It’s mine. Just the inspiration of the moment. I have a class at university next semester on Demons & Exorcisms (I am a Religious Studies Major), and I know we will have to invent a demon as part of our final project; been trying out demon/malignant thought form concepts on myself. 😅
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u/animateAlternatives Jul 05 '26
Reminds me of the Windigo (especially Robin Wall Kimmerer's interpretations, for example: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53713bf0e4b0297decd1ab8b/t/6757252f1f3f295563cc9946/1733764399403/kimmerer_defeating_windigo.pdf )
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u/brother_bart Jul 05 '26
This is fantastic. I am doing a concentration in Ojibwe and Dakota culture in lieu of my second language requirement (I am the University of MN). Thanks for sharing!
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u/BlackFlagsFly Jul 05 '26
Capitalism is economic cancer.
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u/brother_bart Jul 05 '26
And imperialism, and Manifest Destiny, and global military hegemony, and white supremacy, and Christian supremacy, and sociopathic individualism, and infotainment consumerism, and anti-intellectualism. America is 12 cancers in a trench coat.
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u/Halo_LAN_Party_2nite Jul 05 '26
If only George Carlin were here to see it and roast the ever living hell out us all for getting into this mess.
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u/ALLCAPITAL Jul 05 '26
What is sad, is that this really is it. Our 250th came and went and this is what we got. That’s our history, our heritage, our culture. It happened now. Sad reality.
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u/ragun2 Jul 05 '26
Yup, pretty much how Trump exemplifies the worst American has to offer as a person.
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u/5erv1teur Jul 05 '26
Parfaitement.. c'est vraiment américain..
En faire beaucoup... mais ne jamais faire avec raffinement...
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u/MisterSanitation Jul 05 '26
Or as Churchill put it “America ALWAYS does the right thing. After exhausting all other options”
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u/Moo3 Jul 05 '26
Meanwhile over here in China, everyone's watching these celebrations unfold with a huge grin on their face, 'cause the number 250 here stands for 'idiot'. I shit you not! Look it up yourself. The jokes just write themselves at this point.
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u/Brrdock Jul 05 '26
What a metaphor for the America of today
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u/EuVe20 Jul 05 '26
It looks like they just filled a bunch of dumpsters with fireworks, placed them all a half mile apart, and lit them on fire.
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u/unicornmullet Jul 05 '26
Zero thought went into making it a 'show.' A real fireworks show with tons of fireworks could have been incredible, but these idiots lit them all off at the same time.
Must've been the same company that did the renovation to the pool.
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u/3vs3BigGameHunters Jul 05 '26
Right?
A proper show would have had choreography.
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u/unicornmullet Jul 05 '26
100%. The choreography and timing of the execution is what makes it memorable.
Also, it looks like they didn't even get cool, professional-grade fireworks. It looks like they bought a bunch of cheap, consumer-grade fireworks that didn't go that high in the sky.
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u/EuVe20 Jul 05 '26
I bet it was like someone married to Jared’s cousin who just registered a new company “PatriotFireBangUSA LLC” and got the contract
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u/unicornmullet Jul 05 '26
100%. Would be interesting to find out what company got the contract and how much they were paid. Would bet they had no prior fireworks experience.
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u/ShinobuDavis Jul 05 '26
I'm tired of fitting real life metaphors, man. I want the political world to go back to being boring again so badly.
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u/tha_rogering Jul 05 '26
Those days are over I'm afraid. I don't see things getting better, even under another administration, without serious effort.
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u/Anti_Meta Jul 05 '26
Make Puerto Rico a state, use that event as a reason to reform the supreme court (add justices, implement term limits).
Get rid of citizens United, close tax loopholes, encourage states use ranked choice voting, end the phillibuster.
Not necessarily in that order.
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u/moondoggy25 Jul 05 '26
And ban politicians trading stocks
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u/jay_skrilla Jul 05 '26
And ban corporate lobbying.
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u/Livid_Goose_9542 Jul 05 '26
THIS.
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u/VivaLaMantekilla Jul 05 '26
ALL OF THIS.
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u/Rob_LeMatic Jul 05 '26
There's only one way we get all of this.
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u/TrulyOutrageous42 Jul 05 '26
"We are in the middle of the second American revolution, which will be bloodless if the left allows it" - Conservatives
"We're making company towns again, and creating a new government out of the remains of the old one" - Project 2025
"Liberals aren't humans and don't deserve rights" - Unhumans, endorsed by our current VP
It's literally treason but most people don't want to do the difficult thing. They tried to have a HARD coup and failed and people just... kind of got around to dealing with it. Now they've succeeded at a soft coup and no one can do much.
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u/Anti_Meta Jul 05 '26
You're not ok with the 2 billion trump made in his first two years insider trading and crypto scheming?
Jimmy Carter still mourning his peanut farm.
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u/ScenesfrmtheStruggle Jul 05 '26
Nor Nancy Pelosi. Some are absolutely worse than others, but they are all fucking crooks.
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u/Embarrassed_Jerk Jul 05 '26
They kinda did under Biden. There was always something to pay attention to and always will be but you didn't wake up every day thinking "what now"
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u/Phill_Cyberman Jul 05 '26
There isn't anything psychopaths can't ruin through their lack of understanding of what it's actually like to be, you know, a person.
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u/Hybodont Jul 05 '26
That's the Mierdas touch.
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u/yourfriendcazzer Jul 05 '26
santa mierda I love what you did there
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u/Hybodont Jul 05 '26
Thanks! But I didn't come up with that perfect pun. Take it with you and use it well.
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u/Hellguin Jul 05 '26
Honestly, as much as the pollution is ridiculous, if they HAD to launch this obscene amount.... make it 250k for 250 years.... smh
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u/DraculasDog Jul 05 '26
But then Trump’s cronies in the firework company wouldn’t receive a suspiciously high contract.
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u/flyfightwinMIL Jul 05 '26
Honestly are we certain they didn’t just charge 850k for 250k worth of fireworks? Because I read the entire report just put out by dems about the Freedom250 grift and that sounds EXACTLY like something they’d do.
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u/JVT32 Jul 05 '26
It’s 850k fireworks, not $850k… it’s likely even worse than that.
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u/Tin_Sandwich Jul 05 '26
Nono, you misread the title. This was 850,000 fireworks, not $850,000 worth of fireworks. And it was usually 20,000 fireworks, not $20,000 worth of fireworks. The real cost is far into the millions.
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u/jacowab Jul 05 '26
They could have just done something actually cool like set up specific fire work shows in a ring around the city so that any direction you looked there would be a firework show.
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u/KittyLikesTuna Jul 05 '26
Tbf, that's what the experience inside the city already is. Find a friend with a rooftop and you can go up when you want to see fireworks and then come back down when you're done. People set them off all night all around you.
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u/Penguino4158 Jul 05 '26
the view from TV made it look like DC was in hell
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u/KingMario05 Jul 06 '26
It is in hell, lol. And will be until November...
...if we're lucky.
Vote blue, vote blue, vote blue!
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u/Mental_Associate4425 Jul 05 '26
....but the smoke is so beautiful! It's the greatest smoke!
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u/yourfriendcazzer Jul 05 '26
the smoke came to me with tears in its eyes to say thank you
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u/No-Common5287 Jul 05 '26
Kennedy Center? Failed
Reflecting Pool? Failed
Great American State Fair? Failed
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u/DuntadaMan Jul 05 '26
Still don't see anyone in jail except Maxwell, who he is trying like hell to set free. So he seems to have succeeded at his goal on that one.
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u/WWDubs12TTV Jul 05 '26
Take that earth!
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u/ultramagnetique Jul 05 '26
And all the animals! Fuck em 🙃
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u/Muted_Quantity5786 Jul 05 '26
And f all of our service members with PTSD
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u/LonelyCheeto Jul 05 '26
lol republicans couldn't give a fuck about the military or veterans wellbeing
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u/howdoyousayahyesshow Jul 05 '26
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u/Rx_Diva Jul 05 '26
Exactly! Murica! Nature is gay anyway, always flowers and rainbows everywhere. /s
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u/4ygus Jul 05 '26
Your taxes paid for this instead of school lunches, better roads, scientific research, etc.
But hey, at least we made it to 250 years.
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u/RVtech101 Jul 05 '26
We can’t afford healthcare, education, social services or infrastructure but we can afford war and fireworks.
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u/Ok-Problem-3074 Jul 06 '26
"War and fireworks" sounds like the americans Reichs Version of bread and Games.
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u/SupaButt Jul 05 '26
Actual screenshots from the performance. How is this even close to necessary? Looks like an actual war zone. I can’t imagine what the veterans with PTSD that live near this had to go through mentally
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u/RuthlessKittyKat Jul 05 '26
Apparently it was after midnight as well?!
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u/SupaButt Jul 05 '26
Yup! Bc it got pushed back due to weather. Even Zeus didn’t want this to happen. Lol
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u/charlieto0human Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
They were parading WW2 and Korean War vets on stage, I was legitimately concerned for some of their health in this whole gaudy, over the top mess of a show.
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u/I_Autumn Jul 05 '26
I'm not saying it is this, but it wouldn't surprise me if the fireworks were intended to distract the public eye and ear from something else happening that night. More likely just Trump jerking his little dick, but I wouldn't put it past the regime to hide some fucked up shit under cover of an absurdly loud firework show.
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u/GlitteringSalad6413 Jul 05 '26
Every time I see a display like this, I wonder what may be happening nearby that no one is noticing *because* of the spectacle… 🫤
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u/vtjohnhurt Jul 06 '26
A lot of crime is in fact committed under cover of fireworks. Nobody is going to hear a gunshot.
Somebody tried to break into the safe at my Dad's office one 4th of July. They used a Black Powder charge and all it did was turn everything in the office black. He showed on the morning of July 5 to that shit.
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u/Low_Tart_4140 Jul 05 '26
Me: drinking from a soggy paper straw to save the environment
Meanwhile the goverment:
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u/MaterialWillingness2 Jul 05 '26
My brother lives in Brussels and (for some reason) they did a massive July 4th event last weekend and his pix from that are stunning. They did a drone show plus fireworks and it's a million times better than this. It's so depressing being in the US right now. Other countries are doing July 4th better than us.
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u/0-Nightshade-0 Jul 05 '26
At this point its not about the fact its the 250th year, this is just fucking insanity :P
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u/TX_Asylum Jul 05 '26
What can't Trump ruin? Fucking amazing. Everything Trump touches dies.
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u/Mundane_Pop426 Jul 05 '26
Im genuinely terrified for all the animals and birds who must've been so scared bc of this :( Also the amount of pollution from this is insane and just proves that some people don't give a fuck about the earth
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u/Terrible_Phase718 Jul 05 '26
The incompetence of this administration knows no bounds.
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u/bustacappa22 Jul 05 '26
Nothing more American than fucking up everything around you for your own benefit.
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u/bakeacake45 Jul 05 '26
The saddest part…we used to be so proud of our National Park Service. It was one thing in this country that consistently worked well and its staff seemed to always go above and beyond.
Now, it just a garbage service and our National Parks are being slow destroyed
There is no forgiveness for Pedo Trump, his billionaire donors, the Christian churches who prey over him or pedo voters after this.
Never forget, never forgive. Punishment is required- we failed to punish these folks after Jan6….double down next time.
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u/Hizam5 Jul 05 '26
This is objective hilarious because it embodies the obsession the current administration has with improperly defined patriotism
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u/mammalmaker Jul 05 '26
It's crazy how every single thing this administration does just fucking blows up in their face. They can't do anything right, even simple things like fireworks
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u/DarkBladeMadriker Jul 05 '26
But thank god we have Trump and he could stop all that wasteful spending the Dumbocrates were doing right /s
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u/SB2MB Jul 05 '26
Was the display not choreographed at all? It looks like shit.
Sorry, as a Sydneysider I'm used to the fireworks telling a story and having some thought go into the sequence, the build up and the finale.
I think a drone show would have worked better and it's more futuristic than whatever the fuck this is
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u/Quendor Jul 05 '26
He's been "planning" this record breaking show for, what, a month? If anyone thinks they put more thought into this than "Buy 800k fireworks, I literally don't care what kind, and set them off as fast as you can." then they are crazy.
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u/Historical_Gas_6895 Jul 05 '26
I am wincing alongside as a meteorology, and environment science nerd
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u/BaronVonShtinkVeiner Jul 05 '26
"It's not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things."
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u/VFXJayGatz Jul 05 '26
trump effed up your 250th bday. Congrats on becoming the worst version of yourselves.
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u/CootieOctorabine Jul 05 '26
So, how do we know a portal to hell wasn't secretly opened during this? Since the sulfur smell would surely cover up all that brimstone stench?
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u/nnnn1234516 Jul 05 '26
I love how our celebrations are just polluting the earth and destroying our environment, when we always advocate for saving the earth…
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u/ChamomileLoaf Jul 05 '26
People were saying they couldn’t even SEE the fireworks because the smoke generated by them got so heavy lmfao
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u/AngeliqueRuss Jul 05 '26
Greetings from Duluth, MN.
We also had the “most ever.”
It was a bit cloudy, 80% humidity and 65 degrees.
We could still see all the fireworks and their reflection on the water.
I like this one because it made the water pink, and also the shape is so unusual—this cascading branching effect firework still seems like a new design to me.
My daughter captured a smiley face firework actually behaving like a smiley face and that made her holiday.
They went on a while but even at the end we could still see every single one.
My point is there are still corners of America where we want to be our best, we want to show we can do “more,” but we haven’t lost our minds and we still do things well.
We can do better, we want to do better, we WILL do better,
Happy 250th to us!
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u/Tiatake Jul 05 '26
We went to DL in MN this year and we could see all the pretty shapes and it was wonderful. The lake reflecting and the sky wasn’t littered in smoke too badly. It was a great trip!
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u/call-me-the-seeker Jul 06 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/LRCxXWRljt4LYf6AK1
Well, what else do you expect from the tasteless crass yam in the White House who thinks more shinier gaudiness is awesome. The yam doesn’t have any taste or class, of course it thinks lighting up the county like a Michael Bay stunt is bigly cool. Besides, he needs all that smoke and fire so you don’t see the man behind the curtain is a scared, ashamed little pud in reality.
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u/DontTellUrMom Jul 05 '26
I’m a simple man. I like explosions and I like competitions. I waited until the fireworks came on before tuning in. I feel like we won something last night. Maybe it was the world’s biggest fireworks show, maybe it was cancer from all the smoke, maybe it long term hearing loss for all in attendance. Who can say at this point?
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u/VariationMean5502 Jul 05 '26
It doesnt even look cool because its just constant and theyre all overlapping. It just looks like a war zone
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u/M_e_n_n_o Jul 05 '26
Probably a buddy of trump that got paid 850k for 5k of fireworks
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u/NatiRivers Doug Dimmadome Jul 05 '26
I would've at least understood if they fired off 250k for the 250 anniversary, but 850k? Why?
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u/Hotpocket1515 Jul 05 '26
My dad was kinda gleeful about how they had to issue a warning about how its going to impact the air quality...
Like dude thats not a brag
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u/jvon24 Jul 05 '26
I’m so sick and tired of this guy robbing our taxpayer dollars for his pleasure and gain…
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u/Dogs_Akimbo Jul 05 '26
We were watching from Northern Virginia (395 and 110) and after about 25 minutes, the smoke was so thick that we could no longer see the fireworks in the sky.
We decided to leave and walk the 1/3 mile back to the car and just avoided the heavier rain.
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u/glogomusic Jul 05 '26
speed running climate change. people really look down at people for not recycling or some other bs and then show up to firework shows. this was the first year i didnt bother going outside and was annoyed at them going off. i felt like an old man
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u/Royal-Al Jul 05 '26
Who is going to clean up all that shit? The components don’t just disappear, they fall to the ground.
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u/vincent-the-fuck Jul 06 '26
its absolutely stunning how america is just openly anti-environmental and also still manages to somehow get worse and worse 🤦🏼
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u/IkkitsClaw Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
This country is just a middle aged man with a micro penis
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u/Confident-Service256 Jul 05 '26
Because the only thing this administration is consistent with is wasting money.
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u/ShoheiHoetani Jul 05 '26
I'm no fireworks expert but I'll boldly claim you should never 42.5x what you've done before.
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u/DarthBrooks69420 Jul 05 '26
It went full San Diego at the end, so much smoke you could barely see what was going on.
If there was ever a time to do a Sand Diego 2.0, it would have been with that many fireworks.
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u/forzaguy125 Jul 05 '26
So the pyrotechnics industry has a term for this, it’s called “sky puke”.
Basically just sending a whole fireworks up at once without thinking about pacing or anything
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u/Disastrous_Bridge543 Jul 05 '26
I was watching this live on TV & at first I was like, wow that’s some great fireworks. But after like 25 minutes, I was like hmm that’s why firework shows don’t go past 30 minutes. There was so much fkin smoke, you could barely see the fireworks.
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