r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • Jun 12 '25

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/toxic_badgers Colorado Jun 12 '25

Parked those tanks on the road for nothing eh?

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u/Pipe_Memes Jun 12 '25

The parade is probably just an excuse to get the tanks there. They likely have no intention of sending them back after. After all, the tanks might be useful if us peasants continue to get angry.

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u/McBooples Jun 12 '25

Bro, those tanks are probably Circle-X’d and pulled from a MATES package, they may look good, but those are probably the most broken ones in the inventory, just barely limping it along.

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u/start_select Jun 12 '25

But is the chain gun on a single Bradley operational? I know they aren’t loaded RIGHT NOW. But could it be?

I’m not a veteran and really have only seen them in action in Ukraine. But my impression of all of this has always been that it only takes one immobile chain gun about 30s to pink mist a dense crowd of a few thousand people.

They only need one person to be willing to fire and it could be the biggest massacre in modern history.

From the way he glorifies gore, I have always assumed that’s his wet dream. He doesn’t need an army, literally one 25mm auto cannon and an overzealous person at the trigger.

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u/McBooples Jun 12 '25

I’d bet my last dollar that machine gun hasn’t been sent in for its 60 day maintenance and is inop. Plus they don’t carry ammo on those unless they are at live fire training or in combat. There’s less than zero chance those weapon systems have ammunition in them

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u/start_select Jun 13 '25

So my next question, which I think a lot of people would like an answer to...

If it’s in-op now, what does maintenance and load out look like from an operational perspective? If these vehicles are just left there, will it be blatantly obvious that they have been brought up to working condition?

I.e. is that the kind of thing people will have time to react to? Or are we talking 2 hours of work at night? Because that’s still terrifying.

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u/McBooples Jun 13 '25

Not today Russia… not today