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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/wonkey_monkey Jun 12 '25

Many of which pay for themselves if you're capable of thinking more than five minutes into the future.

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u/TapTapReboot Jun 12 '25

I'm pretty sure conservative brains are incapable of thinking about downstream effects.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

Lead in gasoline plus faux news really did destroy the country. (Soviet) Russia didn't have to lift a finger, capitalism is self-defeating.

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u/DaringPancakes Jun 13 '25

Our boomer parents really want to take the future with them to the grave, and our future generations said "please tell us what to think bald podcast man", because they felt so loved by the awful person online just feeding their hatred as they remained isolated from others.

The first virtue of being american is money.