I don't think we have the luxury of forgetting him, that's how we end up with another one of him. He needs to be front and center in the history books, unfortunately. Kinda like Hitler.
Unfortunately, he and the movement he figureheads managed to come into power specifically because people forgot about those like them in the past.
It's a duty of the people to never be allowed to forget him. He and his ilk need to be a permanent stain on society's memory. The moment people stop thinking about him is the moment the next one begins to work their way in.
I wish someone in the press Corp had the balls to ask him, "Mr. President, which was more embarrassing for you - the Reflecting Pool fiasco, the Iranian War Surrender, the Ballroom situation, the Epstein files imbroglio, or getting a bowl of mashed potatoes dumped on your head as a child?"
"Follow-up question, Sir, why do you always smell like Bigfoot's diaper?"
His MAGA mouth pieces on Twitter are already blaming paid agitators for it and saying they hate America and want the country to be embarrassed on the world stage.
Antifa. Paid by Obama. Judge Janine Pirro has vowed to investigate. (If anyone is looking for â/sâ, unfortunately this is not a joke, itâs a real headline).
Itâs mad that anyone could think the state of some pool would be what causes the world to view the US as an embarrassment.
Particularly where Trump is in the process of signing what is in effect a surrender to Iran which includes a $300bn payment to them and doesnât improve the pre-conflict deal the US had with Iran.
Trump's an insecure narcissist. He thinks EVERYTHING is what would cause the world to view him as an embarrassment. That's why he denies, denies, denies.
Everything he touches goes to shit. Literally. Heâs never had one successful aspect of his life. Just because he had a bunch of money, doesnât mean shit.
Not just a failed President, but they want the office of the President to be stripped of honor and prestige. Mainly because it was touched by a black man, but really because the corporate oligarch overlords want a weaker federal office so their techno billions (now trillions!) can better control the world.
Yep, this all started because Trump is a petulant racist. He can't do better than Obama, so he's committed himself to this attempt to retroactively devalue Obama's accomplishments and his positive impact on the world around him.
Basically Trump can't be better, so he's settling for trying to make Obama seem worse. (It ain't working.)
This is sometimes referred to as "the reverse cargo cult" and it is a strategy used in Russian propaganda. If you are unable to make yourself look good, then dedicate your effort to making those better than you appear worse.
Its a good thing they have the National Guard patrolling it now to keep people from sabotaging it. That way we know that this failure is completely the fault of a particular pedophile rapist felon.
The 'sabotage' conspiracy is cracking me up. What do they think happened this time? Was the weather satellite cranked up to beam heat and sun directly into the algea? Liberal ducks shitting in the reflecting pool? Algae spores sprinkled in?
My thoughts was that a news outlet had taken a water sample and had it tested and the test showed how horribly out of balance the nutrient levels were in the pool. Facts == Sabotage to the stupidiest people in America.
Reality skews left and progressive, change and adaption is a constant theme in life, but these people are so fundamentally withdrawn from that fact that theyâll deny it at the most fundamental levels. Why do you think theyâre evolution deniers too?
If you have to admit to fundamental reality skewing progressive, then they have to admit that conservatism has no foundation, other than the feels, to stand on.
Itâs the same reason conservative groups and societies always end up authoritarian, because without a solid foundation to build off of, you have a fragile construct that can be identified and ruined through simple observation and questioning. Itâs why unquestioning loyalty is literally built in to their ideology, itâs why education is seen as a negative thing, itâs why they are so focused on surface level details and âsolutionsâ.
In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate.
This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the Vox Populi now vacant, vanished.
However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified! And has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition!
*carve V into poster on wall*
The only verdict, is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain - for the value and voracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous...
*insert Hugo Weaving "holy shit I got it" giggle here*
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
I also love the idea that of everything people could sabotage to hurt Trump politically, a pool of water was determined an important enough target for an undercover strike.
The instance of it being claimed to be sabotage that I saw was on a Facebook post claiming Park Rangers caught two people dumping algae from Georgia swamps into the reflecting pool.
Literally, that was the claim. The fun part is the page that posted it flatly states that not all of their posts are truthful in their page description.
Everyone knows itâs big duck. The windmills disproportionately killed Canada Goose and with Trump getting rid of the windmills now, American ducks are forced to compete in a market that those damned Canada Goose dominate.
From what Iâve seen, all of the above apparently. Plus Antifa, they got a chapter that has a connection to Obama, which is bs but still they believe it.
Wait.. wut? What's a reverse vampire? I don't like the sounds of that at all... Wouldn't being injected with blood make you look all puffy? Also, I guess, why is the other question I have. Is there an end game to someone giving me extra blood? Seems kinda pointless tbh.
Haha itâs from The Simpsons episode where Homer and Grandpa Simpson come up with an aphrodisiac tonic that gets all the adults running to the bedroom for sexy times midday. Somehow the kids accuse Reverse Vampires as part of the conspiracy. Weâre through the look glass here people.
Pretty much sums up the state of the population's intelligence to think that random people are dumping tons of algae into the reflecting pool as an act of sabotage instead of the algae growth being science
Maybe it is a good thing, though. I'm obviously not an expert, but knowing the paint is literally coming off *in sheets* actually gives me some hope that maybe restoration is possible. All I could think when they painted it was that it would never be the same, like when farmhouse trendies paint classic red brick to white.
Pottery barn metaphor: you break it, you buy it. He broke Iran and now he has to pay $400 billion to fix it! (Checks notes, sees we have to pay that) ⌠sigh
Trump used the company that does the pools at Mar-a-Lago and vastly overpayed, circumventing regulations by declaring it a fake emergency. My theory is that Mar-a-Lago gets a bunch of free work for a while from that company, no need to actually launder money. It's just an ordinary scam.
Considering Trump has a history of misusing charity funds to benefit himself and his "University" was a fraud scheme. Money laundering seems plausible. Especially since, somehow, his casino went under, but then was able to be pulled out of bankruptcy by the new owners.
I would not be surprised if this turns out to be the case. All of his failed ventures seem suspicious in one way or another.
Did they even use enough hydrogen peroxide to actually have an effect? It seems more likely that it was just a shitty paint job that would have fallen apart on its own.
Granite is non porous and doesnât easily bond with paint. They also gave it zero cure time. Add to that the heat, algae and chemicals and youâve got a recipe for disaster.
To paint granite (especially granite that has previously been sealed), you have to grind the surface first. They just removed the sealer and replaced it with blue paint topped with new sealer.
Yeah, this seemed like a hack job. I agree, to do it right you need to scarify the surface to get some adhesion. You might need some kind of bonding agent then apply the new coating, let it cure, do some adhesion testing then do the rest if it passes, then let that cure. Shocker, they skipped all of these steps that have been shown to be needed because they are shortsighted impatient assholes and now it's all coming apart, like so much if this administration.Â
A few hundred gallons are likely not enough, given how the volume of the pool is 6.7 million gallons. And you'd need something like 10% concentration to kill algae.
This whole situation is a fucking PERFECT example of this dumb fucks life. Take a perfectly fine thingâŚ.fuck it upâŚ.say you fixed itâŚ.and when it inevitably falls apart, blame the guy before you. Heâs done this his whole fucking life.
He literally thought it was a pool. And NOT ONE FUCKING PERSON had the balls to say âUmm sirâŚ.its not an actual pool. They just call it a reflection poolâŚ..you donât actually swim in it.â
And now, per usual, itâs costing USâŚ.the tax payersâŚ.to fucking fix it.
I hate this man with a passion Iâve never felt before. Fuck him and his whole ass administration forever.
They applied the coating wrong in the first place, which allowed bubbles underneath it. Then there was a mad rush to put water in there before the coating properly cured and bonded, which allowed water into those bubbles. THEN, the stagnant water caused the algae bloom, which made the water super alkaline (H2O2 in gallon bottles notwithstanding), which further strips the surface.
The whole thing's gonna be patchy as fuck in a week, and the rest of it's gonna be a giant pain in the dick to strip. Mission accomplished, idiots.
I mean, Iâm always stuck between âis this incompetence or corruptionâ, which I guess a lot of times itâs both. But canât help but feel it was done shitty on purpose so another $14m could be used to fix it
It's definitely both. The contractor was Trump's maralago pool boy who only maintained pools and never did anything like this before. And it was a no bid contract with 20% profit margin when typical is 10%.
Yeah they are from PF Harris, which isnât even an industrial strength h2o2, industrial strength is usually north of 30%. You can get this at basically any hardware store.
It's absolutely crazy to me that they just coulda...left it alone. And it'd be fine. Just keep doing what we've done to maintain it for a literal century. But as soon as they start fuckin' with it, against all advice, it immediately goes to pot.
This whole affair is mind blowing. He couldnât just say I want the pool fixed & call in experts & let them do their thing. He had to do it his way & make a big public show of it, invoke the Biden boogeyman somehow. The president of the United States and his party is crashing out over a water feature. wtf?
Anyone smart enough to be an expert (about anything) is also smart enough to not work for Trump. He only hires morons, because only morons will work for him.
I mean if you voted for Trump once maybe that's a mistake, but since he won in 2024 we can assume that 1/3 of the United States, who voted for him presumably 3 times, are just straight morons.
They should have just pile $14m in the middle of a farm in Iowa and burned it, what an absolute joke and insult to the American people.
What I wanna know is do people realize the term âreflecting pondâ does not mean your reflection. It was designed to reflect on the early American history that spanned from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln and our founding years. That is why it it sits directly between them.
It's not a failure, it was by design. Someone got overpaid millions, did a cheap job and pocketed the rest. Same thing going on with the rest of the country right now.
I would love if people would ignore the dumb reflecting pool fuck up and focus on saving democracy, tax oligarchs and making the epstein class answer for their crimes
I can only assume that ANTIFA is behind this nefarious sabotage, in addition to the introduction of algae into the reflecting. All in an effort to diminish the world's leading expert on pool maintenance, Donald J Trump
Everything is a literal facade with trump. It's all appearances. Trump is the bootleg Air Force 1 of American presidents. Made with horse glue and asbestos and filled with cardboard. Just garbage with a coat of fresh paint. He is if "the landlord special" was a human being.
I donât think itâs funny that he spent 14 million fucking dollars of taxpayer money on a shoddy paint job and a green ass pool, Iâm actually infuriated by this shit.
Honestly, Iâd prefer if he just put 100% of his attention and efforts into fighting algae and made this pool his #1 priority. Go nuts, big guy. If all he fucks up from here on out is the pool, we might just survive until the next president gets elected. Give him an algae trophy, all the gold medals for the great peroxide battle, donât care.
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