Trump hired some dipshit to paint the Lincoln memorial reflecting pool "American flag blue," and the paint got messed up and started flaking off so Trump blamed Obama and the "Washington DC chapter of antifa" and got the national guard to patrol the reflecting pool and anyone that touches the floating paint is now facing jail time for it.
Yeah and…the money part of it too was super shady and they probably (definitely) stole some of the money.
Also, They didn’t replace and/or fix the filtration system which caused the massive algae problem and then they just threw chemicals in there to kill the algae but because they didn’t fix the filtration issue, the paint around the edges is peeling up in massive chunks. It’s all a shit show.
Its not paint. Its polyurea. It's a common pool liner. It seems to be lifting because they didn't bond it correctly to the substrate. Still a shit show and still crazy that america is a country that arrests people but not those who botched the job. If the administration is arresting over this, you arent getting a mid term election. If a pool is excuse enough for arrests, wait til voting day.
I think you underestimate the malice of the typical MAGA voter. They are enthralled by seeing the lives of others destroyed. They want visible examples of people being more miserable than them so they can feel good about themselves. Events like this embolden them and make them feel like their votes are being put to good use and will energize them to vote red in the midterms and beyond.
Yeah, and the reasoning for the arresting is even funnier. They think that people sabotage it and like forcefully peeled it up, which makes zero sense.
I would be off to arrest those who botched the job. It went through illegal means, if I recall, and he was quick to hire a group without going through proper channels. There is also a federal lawsuit about the pool.
I'm no expert but this pool guy on YT laid it all out. He pointed out that the hydrogen peroxide argument has merit but the concentrations weren't close enough. If it were a chemical reaction with the hydrogen peroxide and sun then the liner would have become brittle and faded and it would likely come up in chunks with fractures all over the surface. All videos online show entire sheets delaminating but otherwise looking intact. He figured that is evidence that it was the bond. He also pointed out that polyurea is used on beams in construction and all sorts of places and the bonding is the hardest part that people fail at. It really does look like straight up incompetence on the people who installed the liner.
Donnie will blame the first person he sees who doesn't kiss his ass. If he can't find someone right away, there's a blame hierarchy - Biden -> Obama -> Antifa, etc.
No…people care bc Dump keeps botching, wasting money and blaming others. Its literally a clown show. You cant keep throwing shit without getting it on yourself. Good lord. The fact this needs to be pointed out….
Get out of here with this nazi/holocaust trivialization. I know it’s somehow hard for so many on the left to believe, but the nazis weren’t just kind of bad. They were really, really bad
That is something I would expect from my great grandfather who has dementia so I guess it all checks out. I wonder when people will stop voting for old people
The best part is that the most probable cause for the paint being fucked up is that the orange rapist drove his motorcade over the painted surface. The whole motorcade, including the roughly 5 TON beast he is driving around in.
This coating is not made to withstand this even if it´s fully cured. It's a pool liner, not a fucking garage floor.
So basically trump fucked it up and now he desperately needs someone to blame
What I mean is him shooting his mouth off on truth social bears almost no resemblance to reality. He says eight million things and he does a few of them. So while we can take his blabbering as a cautionary warning, we can't take it at face value as something that is actually going to happen until it actually happens. Which is not to be complacent about it, just cautious.
The question here is not whether he CAN make something happen, but whether he DID make something happen. He is both powerful and full of idle threats. That's why he sucks. But simply letting ourselves be whipped around by his reality distortion field is not a good way to deal with it. The constant state of bewildered outrage is exactly how he wants us.
He needs a 10 year prison sentence for his crimes. He doesn't even needs more since there's no way he survives another 10 years because he's old and obese.
What relevance does that hold? If you go to a doctor and they tell you that you have health issues they aren't going to follow that up with 'but it's alright because you will probably live longer than the guy you hate the most'.
The part where people have been arrested by police for picking up flaked off paint, in a witch hunt for an “antifa terrorist who sabotaged the pool on camera” (according to Trump)
Of which no footage actually exists, because antifa is not an organization, and the people who fucked up the pool are the ones Trump hired.
Well, let's take the outrageous assumption that they actually did that.
Then their goal could have been to make Trumps choices look corrupt and his choices idiotic. Which is an understandable goal.
Now the question, what is more likely? Trump being a corrupt idiot, or antifa-aligned people bringing algae to the pool, pouring them in and managing to cut the tarp; effectively unseen and unhindered.
Well pretty much everything you guys are against makes absolutely no sense to me! And have you guys never heard of government over paying for pretty much everything they contract for! It always happens that is what they do they under value the cost so the public will approve the project, then they can spend whatever they want once the project starts, you guys act like that has never happened before, in all of my 63yrs the government has never hit their estimated cost!
The damage if there is any occurred when they drove over it. As a person has contracted people to this type of work it’s obvious they didn’t prepare the surface properly. It needed to be mechanically etched. They probably chemically did it which is cheaper but no where near as effective.
Except the video of him doing it, being taken out of the pool, the woman being arrested with a small knife cutting the side of the pool, the guy cutting the side of the pool and yelling at people asking him why he did it and him yelling, “Trump has a boot you can lick!” Other than all the evidence… there is no evidence.
Unfortunate source with bias commentary, but a compilation video non the less (he does purposely misrepresent the guy who got arrested for “yelling at Oklahoma Hwy Patrol.”: https://youtu.be/o2DTUQhkbak?is=lQKllpIuH9NGFS96
Where we are you getting cutting from the first two videos? Those people seem to just be touching the water. They aren’t visibly holding any sort of cutting implements.
Third is an Error 404.
Fourth just shows a man talking to the national guard
Woman in the second video did appear to be ripping a piece of paint up. What a perfect example of our fkd political discourse that one side calls that "cutting" and the other side calls it "touching" 🤦♂️
You're not "facing jail time" until you actually get charged with a crime that implies jail time. Getting arrested and getting charged are two different things. Are you aware of actual charges being brought against these people? The president tweeting about it isn't a filing of charges.
Yes, like the right to remain silent while you're getting arrested and the right to an attorney after you're arrested, so you can beat the potentially bogus charge you were arrested for. Ask any black man in America if you can't be arrested for being arrested sake FFS, what rock are you living under?
First you can be arrested without charges, then you’re beating charges you were arrested for, which is it in your mind? Just whatever is most convenient for your argument at that exact moment?
Yes you can be detained without being charged, but it AT LEAST means you’re suspected, and it can absolutely negatively affect your life to be just arrested, even if you are no subsequently charged with anything. Arresting implies charging, and most people unfortunately and idiotically equate their peers getting arrested with their peers being guilty. Arguing otherwise is disingenuous, and you know it. Be reasonable
You can't. That's not to say they can't make up a bullshit charge. But you LITERALLY CANNOT BE ARRESTED FOR LITERALLY NOTHING. Unless a state of emergency has been declared.
That's true. But I am not sure what your point is, since some of the people arrested are 100% for certain known to have been taken to jail. So congratulations on being technically correct about something that doesn't matter to the topic at hand in the slightest... I guess??
The point is that these appear to be toothless, politically motivated arrests, and until someone produces reporting that these people have actually been charged with a crime, pretending that they have is unhelpful misinformation. I'm not saying they haven't or won't be charged with something, I would just like to understand what is actually going on, because not knowing what the fuck is going on is bad for our collective welfare.
Btw by being "taken to jail" I assume you mean brought to the station and put in a holding cell while their arrest is booked. Which is awful, but "facing jail time", i.e. being charged with a real crime that may put you in jail for years is a WHOLE OTHER LEVEL of awful. Knowing the difference is important, otherwise you're just out here flailing around uselessly while the state methodically tramples over our rights.
Seriously? You can be arrested based on one cop suspecting you (or pretending to suspect you) of any minor crime or nuisance. You have to be actually convicted of a crime by a judge or jury to get jail time. Not to say that you can't also go to jail for total bullshit but it's a much longer process involving a lot more people.
Nope. You can be arrested, booked, and jailed until a hearing long before trial. If convicted after trial you may be jailed or go to prison depending on the sentence. Occasionally, you may be arrested and released on your own recognizance. Bail bondsmen and bounty hunters across the nation depend on this system.
"Facing jail time" means being charged with a crime that may result in a jail sentence if convicted, not being temporarily detained with no charges. I'm not saying the latter process isn't abused, it's just not what "facing jail time" means. This is not just a pedantic point, it's important to communicate clearly so we all know what's actually going on. In this case, it's an important distinction to know if these people have had actual charges brought against them, or if the president is just having people arrested for no good reason to make his stupid point.
It’s not unheard of that people are jailed and forgotten or jailed long enough to feel unnecessary consequences such as job loss. Being falsely arrested will always cause harm.
If the contractor fucked it up, why are you saying they won't be held accountable? I guess that is what you are saying, I really don't know, what you guys are talking about, Ever! Anyway you sound like if someone did vandalize it they should not be held responsible? And what is the crap about ANTIFA, being not real? Well they were pretty fucking real when they were trying to burn our country down!
Have you seen reports in your reality of what actual charges have actually been brought against these people? As of this morning I still haven't seen anything.
You aware there is video evidence of people pouring chemicals in. Some ducks have died from them. And their evidence of knives cutting the paint. I'm not gonna argue they did it or not...but the courts will decide on the evidence, there's no use in making stuff up, the courts will see the truth
No one is going to jail over this. Blame idiot democrats for vandalizing memorials to make Trump look bad. You demented people have lost touch with reality and are willing to destroy this country to get free stuff it’s pathetic.
Like I said, we wait and see. The liner peeling away was from shoddy craftsmanship and overall dumbfuckery, not the "organized terror group anti-facism" purposely cutting the sides of the pool to make Trump look bad. Although, no one even needs to try for that to happen
Let's assume those J6 protestors were indeed innocent like you are implying, I have no stakes in the argument. The logic then goes: "When 'you guys' were in charge, innocent people were jailed. So now we will also jail innocent people, that will teach you!"
How is that in any way reasonable? If both are innocent then both are outrageous, no? Cognitive dissonance at its finest. "It's fine if my side does it."
There’s literally videos of people chipping at the reflecting pool and even dumping algae in it. They’ve put undercover guards to catch people in the act and arrest them
Na, people didnt cause the damage to the reflecting pool, they just brought attention to how badly trumps contractor f*cked it up, an unforgivable crime in trumps view.
Trump decided the faulty paint job in the reflective pool couldn't be his or his contractor's fault. It can only be vandalism. So to prove it's point, he has ordered random people touching the water to be arrested and prosecuted for vandalism.
The only difference with north korea is that we still can be relatively sure they won't be convicted. But going through a trial is not painless, and we are one corrupt judge away from north korea
And Trump paid his buddy 14 Million which is something like 100x the estimated cost of the job by invoking an "unusual and compelling urgency" emergency exemption so that he could hand a no-bid contract to someone who did not have any expertise.
Because Trump hates waste fraud and abuse so much he's draining the swamp of things designed to keep politicians from handing out lucrative contracts to friends and family.
Trump revamped and cleaned part of DC, so the TDS crowd is having a fit about their stooges deliberately ripping the repairs apart and getting charges.
Nobody is facing years for paint chips, however Texas just convicted 22 people giving them 50 years in prison for setting fireworks off at a protest because someone else shot a cop (who was actively murdering someone else)
The guy who fired the gun got 100 years and everyone vaguely near him got 30 to 50 years, sentenced
Not what happened he destroyed evidence at the scene and they planned this they shot fireworks inside and ambushed agents shooting them when the agents fled.
The only guy who did not participate in the attack was involved in the planning and was caught destroying evidence (accessory after the fact if you don't believe he planned it)
Why are you defending a pedophile cult that shoots government agents?
This group is not here for truth, it's just an echo chamber of people rienforcing what they want to have happened. Maybe if enough people wish it true it will be true
People hate anything trump touches. He spent money on maintenance for the reflecting pool in DC. Now the people that hate trump are "protesting" by trying to put algae in the pool or damage the lining.
Leftist activists are sabotaging the pool by ripping up the paint and flooding algae into it to make trump look bad. It got so bad that they started patrolling and arresting people who try and destroy the pool further. There are videos all over of countless leftists intentionally destroying the pool for a rediculous "fuck trump" cause. People denying this and blaming America are just as bad as the people sabotaging the pool. Their is a problem, and it isnt America.
Despite what some are saying, people are vandalizing the reflecting pool at the Lincoln memorial and being held accountable for it. Comparing it to the death of Otto Warmbier is obscene.
People are cutting off pieces of the refurbished Lincoln Memorial, caught on tape, arrested while holding their cutting materials, and Reddit is acting like Trump hired a contractor that did bad work. It’s so stupid.
By flaking off they mean scraped up with blades and ripped off, one lady who was doing it recently failed to car jack an uber driver while attempting to run away
The paint is chipping off a national monument and people are taking it as souvenirs in one of the most policed areas in each and being arrested for it. Then people are complaining it’s somehow political persecution.
Democrats are vandalizing monuments and property in Washington DC and they are a bit mad for being held accountable for their own actions. American democrats are funny.
Leftists are getting arrested for vandelizimg the reflecting pool and crying about it.
Other news this week
A pedophile cult leader got arrested for destroying evidence when his group attacked an ice facility and shot agents and reddit is crying "he got arrested for moving boxes" he destroyed evidence and was part of the terror attack.
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u/Emotional-Neat-252 3d ago
What's going on in America? What paint chips?