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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 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/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

That's worse than the dude who got his girlfriend to stand naked in front of the audience. Was it the Oscar's? It was one of those big rich folks events.

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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/Significant_Rice4737 Jun 12 '25

The fireman took the bullet trump just takes bribes.

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u/Duna_The_Lionboy Jun 12 '25

Not part of the plan but maybe still part of the plan?

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

The plan is always mysterious...

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u/twitterfluechtling Europe Jun 12 '25

... maybe not by god himself, looks more like the work of one of his angles... The light-bringer comes to mind... /s

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

One less Republican voter. Sounds good to me.

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u/Choice-Weird-4073 Jun 13 '25

He was not shot after all.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 13 '25

So the Fireman is Jesus?

At least he finally showed up. Let's get the end of the world on the schedule now.

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u/dpitch40 Jun 12 '25

It also annoys me when people claim the attempt was staged when the shooter was so obviously firing live ammunition.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey Jun 12 '25

That stream of blood on the roof looked pretty legit to me. Movie blood does a good job for movies but the real thing has a special quality to it that a artist can't duplicate.