This is straight up poetry. This cult not being able to manage a pool is peak.
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Since when is ineptitude and incompetence a Conspiracy Theory?
Trump is blaming Obama.
As an internet onlooker, I thought that was a joke. I should know better by now.
Drain the swamp!
Reseal and paint the swamp!
Refill the swamp!
I think calling it the swamp will have far greater impact than most people realize
Now this actually is a distraction from the pedophilia and warcrimes. Rather than warcrimes being a distraction from the pedophilia, or vice versam
Who could have guessed this would be the false flag he would lean into.
Can we get back to the trumpstein files please.
Who fucking care about 15 million pool.
War, genocide, allied war crimes, cabal of billionaire pedophiles.
Piss in the pool.
The pool is news because it is a very understandable and approachable subject. Most people believe they could handle a pool, and if it turns out trump can't even manage a pool (with all the power of the government at his disposal), then some of the MAGAs finally start thinking that trump may not be Presidential material.
You think at this point that these people can think rationally?
Yeah, these people are fighting an epic battle of good and evil and logic is aligned with the evil forces.
Talking to some of them, there seems to be a belief that even if everything looks like it's going horribly wrong, then that must be a sign too that the plan is coming together differently than they thought...
It's really fatalistic and tied up in the prosperity gospel/American mythos/calvanism. This can be a real shorthand for "everything is how it's supposed to be because God controls the minutia of our lives so how about a thank you." It's how they whip the rank and file voters.
The irony is that
No, the MAGAs are saying that it was antifa who dumped algae and chemicals in the pool to make Trump look bad
It's wild how he's turned his immediate surroundings in Washington into this living metaphor for his chaos and senility. Half the whitehouse is torn down, there's a circus attraction on the front lawn, the rose garden is a slab of concrete and the reflecting pool has become a swamp. Nauseatingly stupid, yet astonishingly predictable; predictions that when they were first made were called hysterical and deranged...
Real estate is the one thing he's supposed to be good at, and he's even fucking that up.
Everything has fake gold trim now tho
The alternative was a woman, apparently, and many sat it out as a result.
The dumb part is not that this orange idiot wanted to do all this.
The dumb part is that there is a large team, a huge organization, an entire community of people and professionals that enabled him to do all this and make it all possible. Everyone keeps pointing fingers at the deranged mango clown show, but people seldom think about the production crew that keep him in power and enable everything he wants to do, no matter how stupid it is.
Accelerationists want the chaos he brings. This was all part of their plan. They didn't know exactly what he would do, but they're on board with the crazy shit he's come up with.
How about those Epstein files?
Hooooowwww about those Epstein files?
Algae, and now the paint is peeling. Could not be more emblematic. Didn't solve the problem, and inarguably made it worse.
Yep, just like Iran, DOGE, Covid, the economy, healthcare, fraud, immigration, the Press Corps, the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, the entirety of the White House, etc.
Trump might literally have the Mierdas Touch.
Mierdas Touch
Haha, I'm stealing that one!
And of course it has to be some diabolical covert operation orchestrated by "Antifa". It's unthinkable that the 80 year old going to the doctor every 6 weeks made a poor decision about some vanity project.
Lmaooo they are saying antifa did this??
Absolutely hold him accountable for such things, but let's not forget the chain of yes-men that enabled it to become an actual disaster. There is room on the wall for more than one person.
There is only one rule in the Republican party, Trump is infallible.
My wife's aunt is a MAGA hat surgeon. She informally recommends Ivermectin to people to treat any number of illnesses. She doesn't prescribe but tells them where to get it online.
All because the leader cannot be wrong. Ivermectin must be a wonder drug even if it was useless for covid.
I'm amazed this hasn't been updated to reflect all the new 'uses'... And it refers to ivermectin as a wonder drug too!
Unfortunately that vanity project seems to be running the country into the ground.
Well at least it isn’t Harris.
Sad thing is it’s not a poor decision - he gave a lot of taxpayer money to a friend and almost certainly got a nice little kickback himself. It’s a bad decision if you assume he gives a fuck about the pool. But not if you think he only gives a fuck about enriching himself
The guy that was supposed to drain the swamp is building a new one.
It perfectly sums up Trump and this administration. They do not know how to build. Only destroy.
Destroy and profit from it
Democrats online were quick to gloat.
Fuck you, billionaire sewer CNN
Yeah, that article goes out of its way to call out and condemn entirely justified criticism.
Trump set out to accomplish the renovation that has eluded previous presidents in late March. In a post on Truth Social, he criticized the Biden administration for not taking on the project after a $34 million reconstruction effort under President Barack Obama proved to be unsuccessful.
I somehow feel like there was another person between that didn't do anything... 🤔
Oddly allegorical.
Make America Green Again
Might want to indent each word one more time if you meant it to be read vertically.
On topic, considering how many people are sick and/or dying under both Trump admins, a lot of Americans are actually being made green.