Yikes.
My weather forecaster says 38 celsius tomorrow in DC, with clouds and showers. Not often I hear of scorching heat and rain. I’ll just take that as the gods being really angry at Trump.
Undoubtedly he’s going to say it was wildly successful with massive attendance AND there was no one there because of Antifa’s threats or something.
Trump: “May the odds be ever in my favor.”
Half of me is glad that 250 got cancelled today, while the other half was hoping it still would’ve gone on, in hopes that my prediction of 140 attendees would happen. 
It’s canceled on the fourth of July? God damn.
I don’t think so (at least, not yet); it was shut down yesterday due to the weather, but it looks like, as of right now, for today, a parade this morning was cancelled, and the fair itself will be opening two hours late.
Thanks. Because out of all the days this dumb thing has existed, today was supposed to be the day.
Ah, my bad - just the parade cancelled.
Still hope, then, for Trump to be looking out over a near-empty field later on.
Bet he’ll cancel, too - but not out of any stated claims of heat, but because they know it’ll be a shitty turn-out.
Or he could just possibly collapse in what will still be near-100 temperatures.
He’ll have a bullet proof airconditioned box. The turn out will be terrible though.
If it isn’t prerecorded and/or put on a big screen from elsewhere.
If so, so much for the windbag’s brags that he’ll handle the heat no problem.
That is how he is “handling it”.
Yep. The American Republican/TeaParty/MAGA/techbroligarch response to high temps is “so, crank up the AC” (with a subcategory of “u Europoors dum, u rather die of heat than have AC” if anyone from across the pond complains).
Nobody is at the Fair but they are still spending a gazillion dollars on flyovers. I saw a few at EarthCam Live: Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
- 1:14 PM - NASA F-5 Flyover
- 1:24 PM - NASA Fleet Review
- 1:44 PM - USCG Helo Flyover
- 1:54 PM - USCG Fixed Wing Flyover
- 2:09 PM - Golden Knights, Leap Frogs
- 2:29 PM - Army Helo Flyover
- 2:44 PM - USAF Fleet Review - Wave 1 - Heavies
- 2:54 PM - USAF Fleet Review - Wave 2 - AFSOC
- 3:04 PM - USAF Fleet Review - Wave 3 - Fighters
- 3:29 PM - Executive Rotary Wing Airlift
- 3:39 PM - USMC Fleet Review - Wave 1 - Rotary
- 3:49 PM - USMC Fleet Review - Wave 2 - Fixed Wing
- 3:59 PM - USN Fleet Review - Wave 1 - Rotary
- 4:09 PM - USN Fleet Review - Wave 2 - Fixed Wing
- 4:19 PM - USN Fleet Review - Wave 3 - Fighters
- 4:21 PM - USN F-18F Demonstration
- 4:59 PM - USN Blue Angels
- 5:26 PM - USMC MV-22 Osprey Demonstration
- 5:44 PM - USAF Fleet Review – Fighters
- 6:02 PM - USAF Tri-Bomber Formation
- 6:05 PM - USN F-35C Demonstration
- 6:25 PM - USAF Thunderbirds Demonstration
- 7:03 PM - Air Force One Flyover
- 7:07 PM - USAF Thunderbirds Delta Break
- 7:17 PM - HUGE 1 Flyover Led by the Newly Renovated Air Force One
- 7:38 PM - U.S. Stealth Airpower Flyover
- 7:39 PM - F-22 Raptor Demo
- 7:53 PM - F-22 Raptor in Afterburner
- 7:59 PM - B-1 Flyover
- 8:07 PM - B-1’s in Afterburner
- 8:11 PM - HUGE ONE Fly Over Review
- 8:22 PM - Golden Knights Twilight Jump
- 10:36 PM - B-1 Afterburner Night Pass
I’ll be stunned if nobody gets killed with all that shit.
The Parks Service is apparently warning people to wear N95 masks because of the amount of smoke that 850,000 fireworks is going to produce.
Some details:
This site has a lot of short articles on today’s doings, including (as mentioned earlier in the thread) their choice to open the Mall two hours late, and the number of people taken to the hospital yesterday with heat issues. Today is likely to bring larger numbers (more people, more heat).
There’s also a mini-article on the BDOA (Basement Dwellers of America), aka the “Patriotic Front.” They’ve been parading around DC in full facial masks, and their usual long-khakis—perfect for the heat!
And their confederate flags, the fucking idiots. Another Trump term, another racist march. Fuck off, Republicans.
There is fair and reasonable ridicule of the Basement Boys all over the internet. One example:
eta: well, rats, I don’t see another source for this. It’s an 8-second GIF of them marching with a big banner reading “Where is the clitoris?” and looks very realistic.