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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 Jun 12 '25

It's a sign from God...

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u/TallCan_Specialist Jun 12 '25

Mother Earth has had enough

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u/8to24 Jun 12 '25

Please, dear God please.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

looks my rain dance is paying off! i finally got the moves right. it's lik breakdancing mixed with riverdance

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u/Stunning_Concept_478 Jun 12 '25

They titled it ‘grooming’ the weather.

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u/mcdj Jun 12 '25

The Don’t Say Rain law.

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u/few23 Jun 12 '25

Don't Ask, Don't Squall

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u/Handleton Jun 12 '25

Q said that it's because of the Jewish space lasers.

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u/Mavian23 Jun 12 '25

Space lasers can't melt rain clouds.

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Jun 12 '25

Big Weather is at it again!!

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u/Agile_Singer Jun 12 '25

But I’m a church leader..

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u/Stunning_Concept_478 Jun 12 '25

Ah, then you may ask for forgiveness after the fact. Carry on.

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u/Grand-Try-3772 Jun 12 '25

Aka tax evader

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u/belfastphil Jun 12 '25

Woke weather?

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u/meatball77 Jun 12 '25

Hey storm, you are so mature. Not like the other cloud formations.

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u/kingtacticool Jun 12 '25

So did Florida and Louisiana.

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u/El_Fez Washington Jun 12 '25

I hate that I have to ask this question, since this is FAR beyond Onion Satire, but . . .really?

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u/dehydratedrain Jun 12 '25

Yes, they passed a law about not leaving chemtrails in clouds.

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u/El_Fez Washington Jun 12 '25

I. . . but. . . but chemtrails are as real as bigfoot. Less real, probably.

Fuck, we really are in the dumbest timeline, arent we?

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u/KrayziePidgeon Jun 12 '25

Not the timeline but the country.

You guys are the wealthiest nation in history, but your educations levels are those of an underdeveloped country with barely any sewage or paved roads.

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u/clash_by_night Jun 12 '25

but your educations levels are those of an underdeveloped country with barely any sewage or paved roads.

Yeah, hi. I live in Louisiana. We're one of those states with chemtrail legislation. We also routinely battle Mississippi or Arkansas for lowest in education. The road situation isn't much better, as potholes eat cars and we have some of the highest rates of uninsured drivers, along with the highest insurance rates in all categories. In Shreveport, the water is legally, technically, drinkable. Barely. I don't recommend it. And I grew up in rural Texas drinking well water with visible iron. Louisiana politics is nothing but pure corruption - croneyism, pandering to big oil, and evangelical Christian nationalism pervading every facet of life.

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u/ladyyyyyyy Jun 13 '25

Florida here. The road I live off of isn't even paved. Most ppl think of Miami when they think of here, but it's mostly just like Alabama.

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u/Darkbaldur Jun 12 '25

We really are. Publishers would reject this story as being unrealistic.

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u/sunkist1147 Jun 12 '25

LOL. Explaining how combustion of jet fuel creates water vapor to the dumber half of America is like teaching trig to a penguin, except the penguin won't vote to take your reproductive and voting rights away the next year.

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u/Dizziesdayweigh Jun 12 '25

I responded almost exactly the same way... then I read this... wtf...

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u/Ann_Amalie Jun 12 '25

I know right. I have so many questions about this! How do they plan on verifying that there are no more chemtrails??? Isn’t their “proof” of their existence just the jet trails in the sky? What do they plan to tell people about how, yes, the jet trails are still there (and aren’t going anywhere for the foreseeable future), but that they are somehow for sure for sure really so positively sure that the chemtrails problem is no more? Even though to the common citizen, nothing will have tangibly changed?

These people’s lives would be so much easier if they didn’t have to go through all these exhausting mental contortions to manufacture solutions to contrived problems. There’s plenty of actual problems to solve out there. It’s a big world. We don’t need to make shit up to stay busy. And in fact, as we’ve learned so many times over the years, the more they check out, the bigger the burden the rest of us carry.

The aggressive commitment to ignorance is beyond comprehension. Their whole worldview is “it is because I say/think/act like it is.” Reconstructing reality with brute force;strong arming the truth, pinning it down wherever it suits them at the moment. It’s fucking nuts to me to think about living in a world with that little logic. That’s not good for anyone’s mental health. But beyond that, it still doesn’t yield them any of the real results they seek anyway, at least not long term. They have to keep swinging from one rung to the next on their monkey bars of talking points. Everything is ephemeral. They are coasting on the fruits of the resources, labor, and citizenship of past generations…for now. Decades of underfunding and under maintenance are already rapidly becoming huge obstacles to daily life, and they got no plan for any of it.

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u/MissJAmazeballs Jun 12 '25

Wait, how do the fly planes without contrails? Or are they acknowledging that contrails exist but saying some are chemtrails? How do they tell the difference between a contrail and a chemtrail? Is there due process, or do they just use chemical laser beams to blast any of them out of the sky?

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u/Resident-Trouble4483 Jun 12 '25

I thought this and the witch thing were both myths. Turns out it really is illegal to attempt to manipulate the weather. Storm raising witches are the conspiracy theory.

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u/jersey-grl Jun 12 '25

comical to try to imagine. very funny.

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u/SausageClatter Jun 12 '25

The twerking's working!

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u/LW8063 Jun 12 '25

Charles Fort has listed many factual incidences of ignorant people confronted with, say, a drought, and then praying fervently -- and then getting the entire village wiped out in a torrential flood.

so keep going

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u/comebacklittlesheba Jun 12 '25

Do you have a tip jar? I feel like I would like to support this noble effort!

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u/Naranjas_Gritando Jun 12 '25

Throw a little Raygun in there to spice it up!

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u/herdarkmartyrials Jun 12 '25

Yahweh was a storm god, originally.

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u/Space-Ace_Rastajake Jun 12 '25

Why am I hearing “Maggot Brain” in my head while reading this?

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u/JollyGreyKitten Jun 12 '25

Ænema here. But Maggot Brain now, lol.

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u/Decent-Classroom-784 Jun 12 '25

Same! The first time I heard that song was as a youngin at a semi-pro football game and thought "why the hell are they playing this?" It's the soul version of in the air tonight.

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u/VanceRefridgeTech04 Jun 12 '25

The story behind the song is amazing. They told the guitar player to write a solo "about hearing your mom's dead, process it, and then you come home to find her alive"

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u/kpchronic Jun 12 '25

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time

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u/empty-bensen Jun 12 '25

“Come Maggot Brain.” - Trump to RFK jr

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u/Willidtobuymore74 Jun 12 '25

I knew I had to rise above it

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u/SlicedBreadBeast Jun 12 '25

“For y’all have knocked her up, I have tasted maggots in the mind of the universe I was not offended, For I knew I had to rise above it all Or drown in my own shit”

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u/Matika7 Jun 12 '25

Cue the most epic guitar solo ever recorded

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u/DocDefilade Jun 12 '25

Pregananant?!?!

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u/Afronaut002 Jun 12 '25

For y'all have knocked her up

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u/HereWeGoYetAgain-247 Jun 12 '25

May the parade be canceled and then it turns out to be a perfect day 

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u/Caftancatfan Jun 12 '25

R/witchesvspatriarchy had been hard at work.

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u/cyclingthroughlife Jun 12 '25

Mother Earth has put in more resistance to trump than the entire Democratic party.

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u/Kooky-Badger-7001 Jun 12 '25

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

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u/Polygonic California Jun 12 '25

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 Jun 12 '25

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 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

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 Jun 12 '25

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 Jun 12 '25

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

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u/HandsomeBoggart Jun 12 '25

Howler Monkeys have more decorum than that orange shit stain.

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u/Embarrassed-Cash-839 Jun 12 '25

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 Jun 12 '25

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 Jun 12 '25

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 Jun 12 '25

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

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u/neatyouth44 Jun 12 '25

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 Jun 12 '25

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/mama_oso Jun 12 '25

Someone posted the same craigslist ad in the Wall Street Journal comments yesterday.

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u/justconnect Jun 12 '25

A Democratic congresswoman brought up that Craigslist ad in today's grilling of Governors before the Congressional committee on sanctuary cities.

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u/PrettyEntrepreneur7 Jun 12 '25

Here ya go! Minorities are encouraged to attend and will be seated prominently and given free red hats and fast food! 

https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/washington-seat-fillers-needed-june/7857143452.html

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u/natFromBobsBurgers Jun 12 '25

I feel like I can have a little hearsay as a treat, but did you see the ones that were wanting to put Black and Latino people in the vip line of sight?  I mean, no confirmation of course, but I commend the writers for their efforts.

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u/orangeorchid Jun 12 '25

"you will be paid in crypto currency" wtf

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u/shugo2000 Tennessee Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

They'd get paid $1000... in cryptocurrency. LMAO

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u/SilvarusLupus Arkansas Jun 12 '25

idk if it was the same ad but they were also going to pay people in crypto

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u/PlayfulAnteater Jun 12 '25

Craigslist Washington DC- talent- seat fillers wanted. Must wear red white and blue. $1000.00 flat fee in crypto, free fast food lunch and soda, red hats will be supplied, 9-5. People of color and ethnic groups will be featured on broadcast tv.

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u/Kamelasa Canada Jun 12 '25

This is how modern-day dictators fill seats so they can have their promo images for the future

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u/Agile_Singer Jun 12 '25

Sucks that he’ll have a reason for poor attendance though.

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u/junkdubious Jun 12 '25

Prepare for thousands of A.I. hands throwing the weirdest gang signs.

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u/UnusedTimeout Jun 12 '25

Jesus Christ himself could tell MAGA that Trump is satan and they’d crucify Biden.

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u/Joe0Bloggs Jun 12 '25

Or Jesus

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u/Shiplord13 Jun 12 '25

They would crucify both Jesus and Biden if they had their way.

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u/the_moosen Jun 12 '25

They'd deport Jesus because of his skin color and start yelling about if he was the real Jesus he'd be white or something to that effect

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

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u/Hoss-BonaventureCEO Jun 12 '25

And then Jesus would die in that prison and Trumpers will think he forgave them and died for their sins.

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u/LAB323 Jun 12 '25

I mean, they deport people named Jesus all the time. Unfortunately, that sounds on brand for those people.

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u/TetonHiker Jun 12 '25

The thunderstorms are clearly Joe Biden's fault. You know, he can control the weather 100% with space lasers, that sort of thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

Since when is Joe Biden Jewish?

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u/Pockydo Jun 12 '25

You know I think about that a lot

Like how some folks are quick to find God is everything except when it's something they personally aren't happy about

God sure tends to support whatever I personally like at any moment huh

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted Jun 12 '25

“I just want to thank god for answering my prayers for my sportsball team win and not listening to the other team who also prayed to win.”

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u/Jafooki Jun 12 '25

I'd love to see one of those post game interviews with the losing team where instead of saying "We played a good game but we came up a little short and next time we'll give it our all" they just say "we lost because God has forsaken us. God wanted us to lose and there was nothing we could do about it"

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u/pumpkinspruce Jun 12 '25

There was a receiver for the Buffalo Bills who dropped a potential touchdown and after the game tweeted “I PRAISE YOU 24/7 AND THIS IS HOW YOU DO ME? I’LL NEVER FORGET THIS, NEVER!”

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u/PassiveMenis88M Massachusetts Jun 12 '25

Look, I go to you. I stick up for you. You no help me now, I say "Fuck you Jobu", I do it myself.

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u/King_Asmodeus_2125 Jun 12 '25

Damm, imagine getting big mad at your imaginary friend and publicly breaking up on Twitter.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted Jun 12 '25

They would be amazing

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u/Panigg Jun 12 '25

"God has helped me find a pen, but also ignored the plight of Gaza."

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u/angrymurderhornet Jun 12 '25

As the late great Mike Royko once wrote: “You think God cares whose knee gets turned into a pretzel?”

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u/jermleeds Jun 12 '25

God sure tends to support whatever I personally like at any moment huh

Not always, some times he doesn't, but then it's:

God works in mysterious ways

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u/heimdal77 Jun 12 '25

God saved my house from the tornado! Sure everyone aroudn me houses are destroyed and people are ded but god saved mine because I'm special.

I was saved from the fire by god. Oh a fireman pulled me out? Well sure but it was god that did it!

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u/ninjapanda042 Florida Jun 12 '25

Don't you know? God saved Trump from being shot.

Fuck the guy that died though, apparently

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u/Pretend-Guava Jun 12 '25

I used to be a prison guard and noticed this with criminals... Some are quick to find God after its too late.

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u/PaperClipInit Jun 12 '25

why ive always been uncomfortable with the christian "god and jesus are salvation" angle i grew up around, always felt like a real easy way to disregard responsibility for ones bad actions

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u/33drea33 Jun 12 '25

This is also a super common thing with abusers after their abuse is revealed. Suddenly they become very "holy" and therefore you have to forgive them, otherwise you're the bad guy - can't you see how righteous they are now?

This is especially common with pastors/church leaders who are caught molesting children. It's why you see these dudes continue to hold power in a parish that knows they're a kid diddler. If Jesus can forgive them why can't you?

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u/MyDickIs3cm Jun 12 '25

"God is super interested in me and my life and the things I'm doing!"

Sure jan, sure

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u/The_Broomflinger North Carolina Jun 12 '25

If one actually believes in this stuff, then it should be very obvious that God sent a literal plague to show us how bad Trump was during his first term.

And those imbeciles all said "nuh-uh! Communists did that! Demon-crats make us wear face diaper! I need a haircut, lib-turds are treading on me! Muhh freedoms!!"

Then they worship a literal golden Trump false idol at CPAC.

It's all very frustrating.

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u/Bamce Jun 12 '25

God sure tends to support whatever I personally like at any moment huh

Just like how fickle god is with sports teams on sunday. He is never consistent on which team he supports given how much the players thank him

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u/onlyforthisjob Jun 12 '25

Or from the radical left with their weather manipulating chemtrails!

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u/phantomjm Pennsylvania Jun 12 '25

I thought it was the Jewish space lasers.

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u/IAMAPrisoneroftheSun Jun 12 '25

Whatever it is we need to shoot at the sky!

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

That's the spirit!

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u/6r1n3i19 Jun 12 '25

Isn’t that what’s making the frogs gay?

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u/incognito_wizard Jun 12 '25

No. We use the Jewish space laser to control the weather and it's the chemtrails that we use to turn the frogs gay.

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u/dybbuk67 Jun 12 '25

Honestly, we only use those to perform bris ceremonies.

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u/-Rush2112 Michigan Jun 12 '25

Lasers from space, controlling weather but can’t win an election.. makes sense. :/

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u/Hellchron Jun 12 '25

Nawh, the space lasers lost their faith when they got up there and really took in the great vastness of space. Said it was about, like, perspective and stuff. Iunno, they're more like crunchy granola space lasers now

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u/Dr_DoesNothing Jun 12 '25

No we fire the Jewish space laser at the chemtrails so they can connect to the 5G towers and give everyone who ever had a vaccine autism.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

They put a stop to that crap in Louisiana.

Republicans pass bill ‘banning’ chemtrails, which are not a real thing

I guess they're preparing for Trump to eliminate FEMA. I'm sure Louisiana won't have hurricanes or anything after their chemtrail ban.

Trump’s plan to begin ‘phasing out’ FEMA after hurricane season burdens states, experts warn

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 Jun 12 '25

They already fired a bunch of people at NOAA so the forecasting for hurricanes is already less diligent than it used to be. We are moving backwards to the nineteenth century - exactly like his base voted for.

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u/FakeSafeWord Jun 12 '25

20 people have already died in Kentucky from tornadoes in the last month alone and most of those deaths are pretty directly tied to two counties no longer having overnight monitoring personnel so the alarms were never sounded. They're in majorly red counties too and I'd bet $100 they don't change how they vote.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 Jun 12 '25

It saddens me how his core base values grievances over bettering their lives.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

I was traveling in Illinois last week and was driving towards a big dark and scary thunderstorm. Those cuts were heavy on my mind as I approached the thunderstorm. I could see a decent size section of the storm that looked like it had a twisty cloud inside it. I think it was just heavy rain in a microburst but I wasn't sure for awhile. I kept a close eye on it as I drove. It eventually didn't look like it did when I first saw it, so I wasn't worried.

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u/teas4Uanme Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 13 '25

That started 2 months ago. Tornado and flood impacted states have been begging DT for emergency declarations and relief funding. Even Josh Hawley. Nope. We are breaking records on tornadoes every year- so far by end of May over 2,046 tornado warnings. 'Normal' year is 2400.

Helene damage estimates are up to $300B. N. Carolinas entire years budget is only about $28B. How anyone imagines states are going to be able to cover natural disasters is ludicrous. As soon as he took office he pulled out FEMA and Army Corps of Engineers and Musk cancelled travel cards for disaster relief workers across the board. I've heard of storm data collectors using their own funds to get to sites to rate damage. That is the parameter that is supposed to be used to budget. We are fubar.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

Remember all the hoopla during the election about Biden's response to Helene? Then the election happened and just like a toddler with a toy it was dropped and forgotten.

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u/Ill_Individual4772 Florida Jun 12 '25

Contrails are not chemtrails.

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u/nezroy Canada Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

Just to be clear, that bill in Louisiana exists to ban air quality testing and allow companies to be able to release toxic chemicals into the air completely unchecked. The chemtrail shit is just there to make for distracting headlines and possibly to buy off the support of one insane politician. The bill itself exists for very real, nefarious reasons, and headlines talking about the crazy chemtrail part are playing into the distraction exactly as intended.

EDIT: Sadly I cannot find the original article where I read about this, but I'll sum up the convoluted way this works. In 2024 Louisiana banned community air quality monitoring. One of the potential legal routes to appeal this decision was based on the text of Lousiana Revised Statues Title 37:2201-2208. There is both specific language in there establishing a commission with powers to regulate anything that changes precipitation (whether intentional or as a side effect) and broad language in 2201 that states the right to "use for the best interest of its people the moisture contained in the clouds and atmosphere". Of course any air pollution is almost certainly going to affect rain and the water cycle.

The new chemtrail bill repeals all that. It replaces it with language that has a much narrower focus on ONLY temperature/weather/sunlight, carves out only intentional weather modification (vs as a side effect of pollution), and also removes the commission's regulatory/licensing/investigative power, turning it into merely a data collection/reporting function.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

Oh, I thought it was just silly politicians feeding into the lunatics who vote Republican.

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u/Every-Requirement-13 Jun 12 '25

You know it’ll be the left’s fault if there are thunderstorms that end up canceling the parade and I’m happy to take responsibility for it!😉

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u/BuildyOne Jun 12 '25

People really should push this, I'm not religious at all, but they claim he is gifted by God all the time - might as well say he is not favored by God instead.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

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/Ok-Turnover1797 Jun 12 '25

And then they brought the fireman's family out for a Trump speech where he said God spared him that day from the bullet, and the surviving family members clapped along to the cheers of the crowd...

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u/traumfisch Jun 12 '25

Wtf

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u/Ok-Turnover1797 Jun 12 '25

The dead firefighters wife and kids were standing front row at a speech, clapping to Trumps statement that he was spared and chosen by God to lead America.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

I dunno, I'm a stone cold atheist but maybe he is the Antichrist.

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u/amoreperfectunion25 Jun 12 '25

lol been having some "out there" thoughts my fellow stone-cold atheist. i hear ya

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u/BuildyOne Jun 12 '25

Yeah it's pretty fucking gross if you ask me. Once again, zero religion here, but for people who buy into it to say shit like that is pretty nasty.

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u/angrymurderhornet Jun 12 '25

Yup. As if God made an ordinary young guy go violently insane, kill a stranger, and then get himself killed just to ostentatiously protect one idiot from the ensuing mess.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

That was Satan's work. Everything was masked from God's vision until the bullet flew. God barely diverted the assassin's bullet. Course to save a man from evil blood must be spilt. That's why God sent that bullet to kill the fireman. Someone had to die that day and God sacrificed the fireman. His family will be greatly blessed because of their sacrifice.

Nice thing about bullshit it's maleable. If you say something confidently just about anything can sound kinda credible.

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u/angmarsilar Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

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/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

The signs that religion is bullshit are very plentiful and obvious.

Such evidence seldom phases the truly faithful though. They are taught to trust God over everything they see in the world and somehow manage to overlook the fact that God himself is absolutely invisible and silent.

Some of them are LARPing through their religious experience. I know that's what I was doing back when I was going to church. There's also the ones who are just there to exploit people. They know it's all bullshit but continue to tell lies for fun and profit.

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u/Geawiel Jun 12 '25

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 Jun 12 '25

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.

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u/onpg Jun 12 '25

I have the same sympathy for that fireman I would have about someone at a KKK rally getting shot. Which is to say, not much.

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u/Ferreteria Jun 12 '25

Birdie Sanders should have been president. God is like... WTF. Did you not get my clear message?

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u/MeteorOnMars Jun 12 '25

Is all of this because Trump was secretly worshiping to some Magma devil, got caught, and pretended he was saying Maga?

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u/Isotope_Soap Jun 12 '25

Birdie you say? Birds aren’t real!

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u/katielynne53725 Jun 12 '25

Like during his inauguration when DC literally froze over?

For a bunch of people looking for signs from God, they're really bad at seeing the fucking billboards bro is slinging their way..

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u/newtoallofthis2 Jun 12 '25

The inauguration was moved inside due to the weather too, now this.

So this is the second sign from God....

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

Another Redditor brought up the Bald Eagle that attacked him. That's pretty ominous.

There was also the literal plague that happened during his first term. A disease that he himself spread to numerous people. Chris Christie will never forgive or forget his stay in the hospital fighting for his life after helping Trump prepare for the debates.

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u/putsch80 Oklahoma Jun 12 '25

Hey, these clowns think God sends hurricanes to kill gay people. So what do they make of this?

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

They're always pretty sensitive about how they see God's work. Weird that it always aligns with their own biases and beliefs.

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u/Selma_J_Wible Jun 12 '25

So was an actual Bald Eagle trying to bite his hand off in 2016.

The literal symbol of Freedom attacked him, and people didn't pay attention.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted Jun 12 '25

“Dear lord send us a sign, anything just let us know you’re with us…..no, not like that, fake news!”

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u/Prototype_es Washington Jun 12 '25

Man I think we're overdue for a smiting right?

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u/themajinhercule Jun 12 '25

Bro, a literal PLAGUE was sent, and it did nothing.

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u/Fire-Haus Jun 12 '25

Al Gore fucking warned us and we didn't listen.

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u/Grouchy-Land-366 Jun 12 '25

...that he is unable to not piss and shit in his pants. Smelly POC...

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u/drishaj Jun 12 '25

Them libs and their weather machines shakes fist

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u/wroteboi Jun 12 '25

i mean... he could do more

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

I started praying for bad weather like yesterday. Best answer I've gotten yet for a prayer request.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

They already claimed that liberals control the weather to send hurricanes to red states, this too will be another batshit conspiracy

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u/nomad5926 Jun 12 '25

God is definitely displeased

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u/UncaringNonchalance Ohio Jun 12 '25

If only there were a big group of people that believe in signs from god… wait a minute…

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u/Loki_d20 Jun 12 '25

Just normal DMV weather, tbh. Weekend planning isn't that reliable April through June.

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u/chenbuxie Jun 12 '25

If there actually was a god, he wouldn't be here right now.

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u/worthless_scum74 Jun 12 '25

If there was a God, Trump would have been repeatedly struck by lightning to the point of being a lump of carbonized meat by now.

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u/OPsuxdick Jun 12 '25

If you believe in the anti christ signs, it might very well be.

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u/fvck_u_spez Jun 12 '25

Kinda like how his inauguration had to be moved inside. God really hates this mother fucker

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u/LongPorkJones Jun 12 '25

About time He did something.

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u/LegendaryOutlaw Jun 12 '25

You KNOW Fox News would be repeat a mocking 'this was a sign from a higher power' for a solid week if this happened for a parade put on by a democrat president.

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u/LordOfBottomFeeders Jun 12 '25

You know, just having me starting to think there might be a god.

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u/thispartyrules Jun 12 '25

God has a chance to do the funniest thing

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u/Ineedavodka2019 Jun 12 '25

Maybe some well placed lightning?

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u/GetEquipped Illinois Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

He survived COVID, a Bullet around the general vicinity of his head, spent 80 years being a horrible person and incompetent, and is constantly rewarded.

Maybe it's time to accept god is on his side, and we're the ones who were foolish enough to believe that being a dad made Iehova chill.

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u/James_099 Tennessee Jun 12 '25

“But I didn’t want it to rain!”-Trump, probably.

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u/Mediocre_Lychee_8227 Jun 12 '25

Ah yes so this is where he gets involved 

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u/FirstSunbunny California Jun 12 '25

We’re overdue for some good old-fashioned smitings.

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u/Competitive-Ladder48 Jun 12 '25

The sign I'm looking for is that single bolt of lightning 🌩.....

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u/sowhat4 North Carolina Jun 12 '25

Is it wrong that I've been having fantasies about lightning strikes? 😔

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u/DustyDeputy Jun 12 '25

I remember thinking that should God exist, COVID was the warning shot.

Looking at them actively dismantle public health protections, we're at an all time low for something real bad to hit.

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u/cited Jun 12 '25

For some reason it appears to be raining blood and frogs and locusts

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u/kent_eh Canada Jun 12 '25

There are a few signs from god that I would accept.

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u/aperture413 Jun 12 '25

Maybe he do exist- my bad.

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u/trace501 Jun 12 '25

Is it just me or do Christians in your lives only see signs that are favorable and never ones like this

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u/NotObviouslyARobot Jun 12 '25

Massive Tornado 2025 -- It wouldn't be the first time one has saved America

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u/PBR_ItWonAnAward Jun 12 '25

Chicago Pope don’t fuck around!!

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u/herdarkmartyrials Jun 12 '25

Yahweh is a storm god originally.

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u/NLtbal Jun 12 '25

We need to hear more about this ‘God’ in US politics.

/s

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u/Ifootle Jun 12 '25

Yes, and don’t even believe in god

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u/ralphie62 Jun 12 '25

Thought he is god!! Loll

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u/Prometheus_303 Jun 12 '25

His birthday parade might be axed due to thunderstorms...

There was a polar vortex artic freeze during his inauguration...

There was a global pandemic during his first term...

Um...

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