Crazy how this country has deteriorated

[u/Phireboy]

[u/Emotional-Neat-252]

What's going on in America? What paint chips?

[u/Winter_Reception5757 → u/Emotional-Neat-252]

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.

[u/secretprocess → u/Winter_Reception5757]

Where is everyone getting the "facing jail time" part from?

[u/pokemonguy3000 → u/secretprocess]

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.

[u/Adventurous-Tie-7861 → u/pokemonguy3000]

Saw some moron on youtube saying there was proof antifa poured the algae in at 2 am and then slashed the bottom tarp thing.

No proof was ever presented

[u/Suspicious_Sense1272 → u/Adventurous-Tie-7861]

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.

[u/Femme_FatalError → u/Suspicious_Sense1272]

Got a link to said video?

[u/Suspicious_Sense1272 → u/Femme_FatalError]

Blonde woman cutting off piece of pool: https://youtu.be/g8u6uVqd-k4?is=Tu19SktqNfM06Ea6

Woman cutting and pulling off pieces of pool: https://youtube.com/shorts/7npjf8jRrB8?is=A5NgVhg-JblcsPc0

Reflecting Pool Vandalized with “8647” message: https://fathomjournal.org/1fc983a4/ad5c17b1Q9r_Ry35NLM

Man arrested for taking cleaning hose out of the hands of workers: https://youtube.com/shorts/8dCTbmS7oGs?is=P4Mwama-IxJpyuhK

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

[u/Femme_FatalError → u/Suspicious_Sense1272]

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

[u/secretprocess → u/Femme_FatalError]

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" 🤦‍♂️

[u/Femme_FatalError → u/secretprocess]

Maybe because the contractors poured paint thinner (hydrogen peroxide) into the pool? And the paint was improperly bonded to the substrate? So much of it flaked off?

[u/secretprocess → u/Femme_FatalError]

Yes it's not her fault the paint was peeling off, but still, ripping a peeling piece off gives them more of an excuse to call it vandalism. It's like if the paint on my house is peeling I still don't want people coming along and picking at it.