Wonder how many school lunches or college degrees that 'flag blue' color would have paid for ...
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This was a MUCH Better use of Tax Dollars then Feeding STARVING AMERICANS!
-Republicans on Welfare!
If a “gray, drained pool, devoid of even a glimmer of reflection” isn’t an apt analogy for MAGAmurica, I don’t know what is…
Hes such a loser
Poor guy can't catch a break. We're here for you, Donald. Together, we'll make it through this difficult time. Deus Vult, you fat idiot.
Peroxide is a bleaching agent
A particularly strong oxidizer at that. Which is why the paint came up in chips
I really doubt it. Maybe in the direct area that is was poured into. But they'd literally have to have dumped swimming pools worth of it into it for it to do anything.
The pool takes 6 Million gallons of water to fill. They were pouring in peroxide by hand. By hand. They were essentially pouring gallons of water into water. When hydrogen peroxide is exposed to any heat (like from the fucking sun in the summer) it degrades significantly faster. The hydrogen peroxide just turns into water while releasing oxygen gas.
It could have reacted with the paint directly where it was being poured in before getting diluted. But I think the paint job was just garbage in the first place. It probably wasn't sealed correctly. Given how entire sheets of it were just floating around.
Edit: Wikipedia and it's sources agree with me.
According to a variety of experts interviewed by a variety of sources, the application of hydrogen peroxide to reduce algae in the Reflecting Pool was likely too diluted to account for the magnitude of the damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool
Not to mention that hydrogen peroxide readily reacts with organic matter (which is how it kills stuff) and the pool was full of algae to react with.
My guess is that either a layer of grey crud grew over the liner, or the dye/liner was never water safe to begin with.
Reading into the Wikipedia sources it seems the type of sealant used was liked not cured sufficiently before it was exposed to the elements. (Makes sense, the average pool isn't getting cooked in direct sunlight like the reflecting pool was).
It's like a home chef trying to cook in an industrial kitchen for 1000s of people. Trump's pool guy just repeated the process used for personal pools on a project way beyond the scale they were qualified for. Shit didn't work how they expected it to in a completely different climate and and scale.
It short. "Trump's friend" was completely unqualified. Shocker.
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Frankly, so is the sun.
I wonder whose nephew/cousin/kid owns the contracted companies who "fixed" the initial "repairs"
This shit is so blatant old school new york slumlord grift
No joke. This is the boss of the contractors. I get Batman villain vibes…
How is that not Danny Devito?
I'm just here wondering how he has TWO parts in his hair?!
I like that he went to the trouble of dying his mustache (and hair? Or is that a toupee?) but just decided to leave his eyebrows...
Haha, it sure does look like that. But I think the one is just a lens flare, it goes above the hair. But looking that close definitely gave me toupee vibes
Someone else in this thread says he looks like the type of guy who ties damsels to train tracks.
Now I think more about it he’s a good fit for a Looney Tunes villain.
Trump has said, without citing evidence, that vandals made a “350-foot gash” in the liner and caused other problems. No large slash marks were immediately visible Wednesday from the Washington Monument view. It was not possible to do a more up-close inspection of the entire pool due to a dark fence surrounding the perimeter.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, whose agency oversees the National Park Service, said that after the water is drained and debris is cleaned from Independence Day fireworks, the plan for the pool is straightforward: “Repair the vandalism that was done. Fill it back up again.” He was speaking with conservative podcaster Katie Miller.
They believe their own lies, don't they? It would be easier if it were just straightforward dishonesty, but it has turned into a cult of shared delusion, and it's in charge of the USA.
I read once that Trump isn’t just a liar; he’s a bullshitter. The nuance was that lying requires some consistency, some standard of a coherent story; lying requires knowing and caring about the truth and choosing a different story. Bullshitting doesn’t; bullshitting is just saying whatever you want whenever you want, regardless.
It helped me better understand their actions. And also somehow makes it worse that they believe the bullshit, since it doesn’t hold up to any kind of scrutiny or logical thought at all.
He is also a genuine moron who probably actually believes half of the stupid shit he says.
His intelligence here doesn’t matter. That’s the important point about bullshitting. He’s a willful bullshitter, and always has been.
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At least the Romans had entertaining circuses not whatever the fuck this is
It's empty now, we can use it as a gladiator pit.
I vote that each executive branch fight it out in there. But also add lions for some spicy entertainment?
Put a guillotine on one end and fill the pool with the blood of the bourgeoisie.
Pelosi vs mcconnell
Don't think the Romans ever put corpses up to fight in gladiator games.
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Oh wow, that guy who looks like he ties damsels to railroads for fun didn't end up doing a good job on the pool?
That seems rather unfair to Snidley Whiplash
The president at first suggested his renovations would cost $1.5 million, but the bill ballooned to more than $16 million by June.
Trump had said the repairs would last a century, but within days of the project’s initial completion last month, the water was beset by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coating appeared to be peeling off the bottom.
The Trumpy lie followed by definitive proof of it being totally false is becoming increasingly rapid-fire: bait and switch, bait and switch... seems he can't conceal his trickery long enough before the next news cycle anymore. It's quite astonishing.
There's literally no interval between bait and switches so short that it won't work on conservatives/regressives.
He could tell them dogs aren't real and 30 seconds later tell them they are real but that cats aren't and they'd be fully onboard.
It's a cult thing.
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"trickery" implies he's clever and doing things intentionally.
Yeah, it's not like he's some evil genius. Serial abusers aren't trained manipulators. It's just kind of built into their character. It's automatic. And it's not even like he's intentionally hiring smarter people to be evil for him. His shit personality just draws those kinds of people to him.
None of this is sophisticated. It's just that a terrifying percentage of Americans are dogshit stupid, so low effort evil works.
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Not only did the vandals slash it, but they’ve also painted it grey while it was filled!
"They also pooed in my pants and took away my diet coke"
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What a way to remember Lincoln…
If this level of carelessness happened around a confederate monument republicans would lose their shit.
If 0.0001% of this carelessness was done under a Dem focks nooz would be running it nonstop and the reds would be filing articles of impeachment over it
But did he wear a tan suit?
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Felon rapists can't govern?
Why did no one warn us?
Accountability isnt an american trait.
Blame and passing the buck, though...
b….b…but… both sides same..
Now it looks like that weird drawing he made for Epstein
ANTIFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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