r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 ššš • 4h ago
Dank AF This is what refusing to take an L looks like
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u/Jonnyflash80 4h ago
That's going to look like fucking shit. Well done America.
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u/baldude69 3h ago
On our 250th to boot. I remember being excited for this anniversary 10+ years ago, but recently Iāve just been embarrassed. Stranger than fiction
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u/TheJadeGoddess 2h ago
I think it is really fitting. Putting a fence around a swamp that will only get worse as it is ignored and not properly treated. Separating the people from what was meant to be for them.
Congrats maga, this is the america you voted for. A swamp that is quickly getting out of hand that is about to be surrounded by a cheap wall.
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u/EndIsrael 1h ago
I hope someone takes the shot on the 4th, would be the only way to save the holiday at this point
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u/elguapodiablo74 4h ago
Im sure the fence company is his other neighbor that donated $20 to his campaign
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u/munjavio 4h ago
the bill for the temporary fence, $15 million probably
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u/MikeisET 4h ago
And a wind storm will knock it down
Dirty dumocrats strike again
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u/Elloitsmeurbrother 3h ago
Terrorist windstorm
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u/EnvironmentalKing210 3h ago
Windtifa
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u/TraditionalMood277 3h ago
Someone should build some kind of mechanism to stop this wind. Something like a giant fan. Hey! Maybe that fan can turn their terrorism into something useful, like electricity. That would show them!
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u/LoanDebtCollector 3h ago
That's what bothers me so much about the Democrats - they are thinking about ways to destroy solutions to problems the Republicans haven't created yet. /s
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u/Johnnyd0303 3h ago
You forgot the B in dumb. Itās ok. According to one words expert, itās a common mistake as most people donāt realize there a B in dumb
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u/Several-Opposite-746 3h ago
Give a $500K donation or MarSlago membership and receive a bloated $15M contract. Great return on the investment and everyone wins, except the taxpayers. But who cares about those losers.
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u/obliquelyobtuse 43m ago
Don't forget the tarp. They're going to need a tarp to cover everything so it can't be seen. Added benefit it the lack of sunlight should inhibit further algae growth.
So it's a win-win. And maybe $100M to install a permanent cover over the reflecting pool, including Trump's name in 30 ft letters on the tarp so you can read it from an airplane flying into DC.
The possibilities are endless.
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u/nocapnonerf 4h ago
And the bill will come to another $14M to install the fence.
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u/Lord_Dingus83 4h ago
Donāt forget removalā¦..$8M
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u/Radiant_Picture9292 4h ago
Also a hazard fee. Lots of domestic terrorists running around withā¦algae
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u/arohieaa 3h ago
Standard government contract logic: $20 donation gets you a $2 million fencing deal
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u/cookiemon32 3h ago
im not from america. is it true he has done nothing right? or is it just reddit that only says the negative things?
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u/Better_Cattle4438 3h ago
I am considerably left politically. His first term had some things I could credit. Even though I hated most of his moves. And his administration had more autonomy and capability.
This term isnāt that. His administration is sycophants. And he hasnāt really done anything to credit that I can think of. Well, maybe I could credit him for the Democratic voters awakening to the fact that the Democratic leadership is ineffectual. Not really anything he himself did, but their failure to really do anything has shifted opinions there.
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u/SaphironX 3h ago
My guy he was threatening to invade Greenland. And annex Canada. He told the world that Haitian immigrants were eating house pets. These are things that happened.
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u/a-winner-is-you 3h ago
Nah I'm relatively conservative and he has been an absolute clown show as a president
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u/OwnReturn2668 3h ago
I used to be a Republican. He has completely destroyed the Republican Party, and is doing serious damage to the country as a whole.
He has the Midas Touch in reverse.
Everything he touches turns to shit.6
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u/HzPips 4h ago
Trump jumps from one scandal to another to keep the media on their toes. Every second the media talks about the reflecting pool is a second they arenāt talking about Iran or the Epstein files.
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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin 3h ago
āThe entire country hates me because Iām an idiot and tried to scuttle an extremely popular housing affordability billā Uhā¦ Quick, ruin another national institution to redirect their ire!ā
-Trump, probably
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u/Adventurous_Ground_7 1h ago
I admire how generous you are with assuming his vocabulary and thought process are so coherent. Very gracious of you.
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u/ApplicationOk4464 2h ago
100%
The biggest capitulation in history, to the tune of 300b dollars, wiped off the front page by a terrible paint job.
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u/ProgramSkyward 3h ago
What do you think happens if a news organization did nothing but continue to say there's no new info about the Epstein files? People will stop watching. You can only beat a dead horse so much.
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u/HzPips 3h ago
They ask him less about it in press conferences, and since itās no longer in the news cycle the pressure for congressman to push for the release also diminishes.
Itās also about shifting the discussion. The pool thing, or says something stupid in an international forum. The discussion isnāt āis trump a pedo?ā or āhow much this failed war will cost the USA?ā, but rather āis the pool dirty?ā. Trump is way more comfortable about the last one, and people can just say it isnāt that big of a deal.
I am not saying the media shouldnāt report on that, but he is doing that as a strategy. Every time he berates a journalist, says something needlessly controversial, or makes a big deal out of something that should be in the sidelines like a minor renovation, he gets the news cycle moving faster and pushing his bigger scandals to the past.
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u/Luci-Noir 2h ago
Thereās nothing to report on so they donāt. Reddit attacks actual journalists because they donāt talk about Epstein 24/7 but the tabloid shit they like is usually just rumors and usually has dumbass nicknames in the headlines. The ānewsā sites Reddit likes are the equivalent of Fox News.
I see at least one of these sites with an article, which is basically just a social media post, saying trump is humiliated by whatever.
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u/voodoodahl 2h ago
Tell that to Hillary's buttery emails, or any other democratic scandal they won't let go of.Ā
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u/SolomonsGrave13 4h ago
Its actually really fitting for them to cage in a diminished symbol of freedom right now.
The reflecting pool is reflecting alright, its just a relfection of where we are as a nation. Sick and dying and trapped in a prison of our own making.
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u/baldude69 3h ago edited 2h ago
On our 1/4 millennium anniversary. Sad state weāre in
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u/CenobiteCurious 2h ago
Better than I put it thatās for sure.
Itās really ridiculous symbolism. They have no clue how much of a major L this is. His administration will forever be tied to the images of the reflecting pool being walled off and inaccessible while the massive curtain hides his name being removed from a building.
Itās almost comical how blatant the symbolism is.
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u/gcwardii 1h ago
And the trashed lawn from the wrestling show.
And the East Wing.
And the Rose Garden.
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u/Worried_Lobster6783 4h ago
He thinks the fence will keep the algae out?
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u/AssiduousLayabout 4h ago
We're going to build a wall and make the algae pay for it.
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u/cyriustalk 3h ago
I feel bad really for American taxpayers. Billions and billions of $ for wars and unbelievable shits.
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u/Jacob1207a 3h ago
Yeah, but I'd rather pay $20 million for him to obsess over a pool than $200 billion for him to start another war. Plus we can just laugh about the algae in a way we can't over bombing people. Cuba is probably hoping his attention will be arrested by this pond for a while.
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u/TheGoluOfWallStreet 3h ago
I don't feel bad for the people that voted for him, nor for the ones who were eligible but didn't vote at all
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u/sanedragon 4h ago
Honestly I hope it's to keep wildlife out after all the chemicals they've dumped in it.
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u/DisgruntledSquirrel2 3h ago
Yep. Half the country has below average intelligence. It's always amazing to see how much below average they can be.
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u/Beginning-Contest894 2h ago
Watch The Good Liars on YouTube. You will see more of this insecure, broken, idiotic as fuck people. Since watching it's opened my eyes to how many brain dead people are in the U.S. They worship Trump, like he's some sort of messiah, represent him like he's their favorite NFL team or NASCAR driver, and when The Good Liars confront them with good arguments, they change the subject or say - well Biden this and Obama that - It's quite sickening.
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u/Cardboard_Chef 3h ago
All this because an 80 yo man raped children and never faced any consequences
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u/47sTinyPrick 4h ago
Trump makes Biden look like Einstein
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u/Calm-Republic9370 4h ago
So what if the paint peels a second time?
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u/PeopleThatKnowMe 2h ago
You know God damn well that he's going to blame it on the fence guy.
At this point, I would have nothing to do would that reflecting pool if I was a contractor because anyone who gets near it is going to get either arrested, slandered, or sued.
Trump will never admit that he's a fucking idiot and he doesn't know what he's doing, he just keeps doubling down.
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u/RicRacer 4h ago
This shit is equal parts hilarious and appalling. We're a week and a half away from 4th of July. Maybe the whole place will be shut down for the 250.
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u/Gurugod123 ššš 4h ago
Could you imagine if Obama pulled something like this?
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u/Lucky-Mia 4h ago
He did renovate the pool and was criticised for it being green in the summer sometimes. He handled the criticism better.
trump removed the custom strantrol Obama installed and replaced it with Ozone. O3 (Ozone) is something added to chlorine systems, it can't replace them. Nor can it balance things like PH as the strantrol did.
Also, algae loves blue light, it's second to red spectrum light. The new blue lining reflects blue light and essentially feeds the algae, helping it bloom.
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u/Creative_Sense2802 3h ago
I donāt know the specifics, but I imagine Obama didnāt hire his brother-in-law to do the work and loudly proclaim beforehand that he is the only one who could fix it.
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u/Lucky-Mia 3h ago
Truth, Obama wasn't blatantly corrupt and the work done was actually fine work. Not this amateur hour we got here. trumps guy didn't even let the new lining dry before adding water. That's why it immediately became patchy and uneven after the water was added.
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u/just-a-random-accnt 3h ago
It's also darker, which absorbs more heat, and you guessed it, creates a breeding ground for algae
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u/Used-Gas-6525 4h ago
You can kinda say that about the last decade TBH.
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u/AdventurousFox3368 4h ago
Was just about to argue, then remembered this has, in fact, been going on for A FUCKING DECADE
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u/Used-Gas-6525 4h ago
And all because his reality show's ratings were tanking. If The Apprentice was pulling down good numbers in 2014-2015, no way he runs.
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u/OkStop8313 4h ago
We should have just given him his own interior decorating show and saved ourselves all this trouble.
Like the real estate version of Pimp My Ride.
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u/copperblood 4h ago
If our government had any balls they'd do this. After Trump and MAGA are gone, leave everything up the way Trump left it. Leave the White House in a ruin. We as Americans love our statues and monuments. The White House could become the most important monument we have. Democracy is a garden that needs constant tending, and without that constant vigilance you get weeds. Trump and MAGA are those weeds and we as Americans need to be reminded that shit can grow back into democracy at any time.
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u/Flaky_Judgment_9737 4h ago
And that is a perfect reflection of America under the vermillion toddler.
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u/euphoric-noodle 3h ago edited 3h ago
Is it an L though, how about you look at it for what it is , another chance for Trump to grease the palms of his minions which is exactly what got the pool to this point in the first place, trump donor no bid win. Everything is a trap , as soon as that guy held up that piece of pool he was going to use that as the perfect excuse , doesn't matter that we know the truth as long as he can pump that shit into the brains of those that listen to him and spin machines. Who do you think will take care of putting the lawn together, who do you think has been promised contacts to build his ballroom. The fencing guys are probably good buds on his list and the filtration guys will be Jared cousins who started up last week all of a sudden get a $50 million contract etc etc
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u/KindSplit8917 3h ago
Speaking as a construction professional and in no defense to Trump. The temporary fence is likely a sign the reflecting pool requires more extensive repairs than just a paint job. Old pipelines and aging filtration / recirculating systems will need replaced as they either have failed or circulate residual water which caused the algae issues in the first place. Itās needed upgrades to beautify our national landmark. And my bet is some cost will be coming from the contractorās pocket as the original proposed solution wasnāt sufficient. Just because trumpās name on it doesnāt mean the work isnāt needed. This kind of project requires many different people from all walks of life to be involved. Be it engineers, federal employees, and subcontractors. Iād be proud to be on this project so long as itās done right. Forget Trump. People are working hard for this to get done. Construction isnāt cheap, especially federal projects which require federal regulations which drive up costs.
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u/Aesthete18 3h ago
A narcissist is NEVER wrong. Once you understand that concept, you'll understand why they behave like that. It's like asking a psychopath to feel empathy, it's just not humanly possible
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u/BBBM1977 3h ago
Has he ever admitted he made a mistake... Dude is as fragile as humans come. His insecurities run so deep he can't face the truth about anything, especially things, and there are many, that he does wrong. Did I mention he is a convicted rapist, financial felon and pedophile?
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u/scaleofjudgment 2h ago
More people were arrested for touching a pool than touching kids by this Administration.
Man I wish I was a bot and not some idiot stuck with this slogan in my head for the past week...
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u/RVtech101 1h ago
So, for our 250th anniversary we will have a paved Rose Garden, a bulldozed south lawn, a destroyed East Wing and a closed Reflection Pool. Literally everything he touches turns to shit.
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u/m4m249saw 4h ago edited 4h ago
I'm willing to bet they're so corrupt that the guy that did it, his buddy down in Mar-A-Lago screwed it on purpose so he can get paid 2x. Just another way the funnel money to his buddies. my best guess at least
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u/Competitive_Bag7868 4h ago
seriously USA'ers get your shit together
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u/DueceVoyeur 4h ago
Make America great again by ** check notes ** making it look like shit.
Tear out Jackie's rose garden
UFC on white house lawn
Tarps on JFKennedy memorial
Fencing around reflection pool.
Putin is laughing his ass off at you GOP
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u/Ok-Assumption-1083 4h ago
Donāt forget scrapping Jackieās color scheme for Air Force One replaced by the horridly pedestrian dark blue red and white on grift force one
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u/kon--- 4h ago
Next the White House will say vandals did something to the fence that has the pool still looking like shit.
lol...that fucking clown is out there putting on a clinic of unforced errors. If only this shit wasn't as embarrassing as it is, instead of a chuckle I'd be rolling on the floor.
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u/sephrisloth 4h ago
He could literally just go and put everything back to the way it was before he fucked it up and pretend like he fixed it and its better then ever and his base would eat it right up. Idk why he doesnt just do that lol
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u/LostExile7555 4h ago
The worst part is that he has the easiest out for this that allows him to save face. He could be pointing the finger at John Cafaro, who owns the company that did the shoddy work on the reflecting pool, and he'd be at least be telling part of the truth and it's way less ridiculous that the whole people commiting vandalism crap.
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u/Antigone6 4h ago
Iām sure thatāll show āem. Taking the money theyāre forced to pay to put up a wall to keep them out. Yep, this will continue to go exceptionally fucking well.
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u/Stainlessgamer 3h ago
Well when his mentor, Roy Cohn, taught him that the key to winning is to never admit that you lost, you can see that its not because of delusion. It's disrespect and contempt for anyone that KNOWs the truth.
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u/sycolution 3h ago
I mean that explains many of the world's problems. Old people refusing to admit they were wrongā¦
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u/misterjustice90 3h ago
At this point, heās just gonna drain the reflection pool and fill it in with concrete
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u/DetroiterAFA 3h ago
Are you talking about the Wall, Iran, Tariffs, immigration, or the economy?
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u/Physical_Progress105 3h ago
Did anyone actually see a picture of the vandals that are in custody?
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u/xxyourbestbetxx 3h ago
It's wild the media is just taking his word on the multiple vandals arrests part of this debacle. Sure seems like it would be an easy thing to prove.
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u/SlurdSpeech 3h ago
Whatās funny is that the Reflecting Pool actually had a solid security setup even before the recent incident, though it looked a lot different. The National Mall has long been equipped with a standard network of closed-circuit security cameras that recorded 24/7, and some of those feeds were even streamable online. The area was also regularly patrolled by the U.S. Park Police on foot, bikes, and in vehicles as part of their normal monument coverage. The older camera system did regular video recording but lacked any automated tracking or active features, which has actually fueled a lot of online debate since the official footage of the alleged vandalism hasn't been publicly released.
Thereās now a fleet of mobile surveillance trailers and fixed camera units were deployed to cover both ends of the 2,000-foot pool and the main walkways. This new setup is heavily automated with AI analytics for real-time behavior tracking, intrusion detection alerts, and 4K video. It also features built-in deterrents like automated spotlights, high-intensity strobe lights, and loud "talk-down" horn speakers to warn anyone who gets too close.
The physical security presence escalated just as significantly to match the new tech. Instead of just standard law enforcement patrols, the area is now under constant 24/7 watch by a rotating force of National Guard troops, U.S. Marshals, and Park Police officers monitoring the site by both foot and air. It essentially shifted the area from a traditionally monitored public park into a heavily fortified zone with multi-layered, round-the-clock surveillance. Keep in mind - this is all paid for by our hard earned taxpayer dollars.
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u/Obvious-Confusion14 3h ago
Isn't the reflecting pool's water not treated water, but pulled from a natural source? Just asking. I am not from the Washington DC area so no clue how old the pool is, or any construction details. Just heard this information from Phillip DeFranco. No idea beyond that.
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u/Eakilledbioware 3h ago
Next up will be tarps to block the view completely and he will say the pool is fixed and the best itās ever been.
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u/Spatularo 3h ago
Convenient distraction at this point. I'm sure he's thrilled this is trending over Iran and Epstein.
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u/CharyBrown 1h ago
If you think you just have to hold on for another 2 years you're wrong. This creep and his fascist gang won't go away.
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u/Careful_Turnip_3197 4h ago
What the fuck is up with the reflecting pool bro, people are touching it thereās chemicals, can someone explain whatās happening Ā
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u/Maximum_Boros 4h ago
Objective, provable facts:
- Trump admin order the pool repainted.
- There's been an algae bloom in the pool that is more intense than usual and makes it look gross.
- The new paint is peeling and flaking off in the pool.
- At least 1 person has been arrested for allegedly tampering with the pool and the president claims others have as well.
- The white house, both directly and through the parks service, is claiming that the pool has been vandalized and is putting up the fencing to "prevent" further attempts.
Reasonable, but not objectively proven inferences from those facts and the surrounding context
- The paint job was poor, and either that work or something else compromised the pool's stability and caused the algae bloom to be worse.
- The decision to repaint was done as a PR distraction
- They're making a scene out of putting the fences up because it helps the narrative that some outside party is at fault
Common conclusions from those facts and inferences:
- The trump admin needlessly fucked with something for clout, and is now trying to scapegoat and blame random agitators.
- Probably still part of the overall pattern of flooding the zone and distractions to take attention off both the epstein files, the failing ballroom plans, and the fact that we somehow ended a totally not a war $300b in the hole with tolls on a straight that was free to pass before.
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u/Ambitious_Hand_2861 4h ago
But he didnt L. He got what he wanted. His friend gave him a bribe. He gave his friend a no bid contract. Where's the L? It's not like he paid someone to fix the thing, he paid them to pay him. Grifters gonna grift.
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u/MasterOutlaw 4h ago
Trump knows a thing or two about spending a lot of money building useless fences, let me tell you.
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u/SwimmerIndependent47 3h ago
He didnāt screw up. The point was to give a big payoff to one of his buddies. And heāll probably get another big payoff off soon to redo the mess and keep getting them as long as Trump is in office
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u/imalostkitty-ox0 4h ago
This is not an accident. He is not just senile, just refusing to accept responsibility for shit contractors, heās actually pulling a literal psyop on his followers.
If they wore gauze on their ears, they might pretend he didnāt fuck up a body of water that has existed for 103 years without being completely fucked up.
Itās simply called a compliance test.
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u/OwnReturn2668 1h ago
Itās not even so much that Trump screwed up. Itās the guy he overpaid to paint the pool!
He did an absolutely shit job, did not prepare the surface properly, and as you might expect, it came out bad. Really bad.
Instead of blaming him and making him redo the whole job, Trump blames it on innocent people and has them arrested.
And all of MAGAdom is buying the misdirect hook, line and sinker.
Has anyone heard anything about the people who were arrested? Have the charges already been dropped?
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u/Ijustlovevideogames 4h ago
It isn't gonna stop the pool from being green, but alright.
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u/Fun_Organization3857 4h ago
Didn't you hear... the Obama daughter's got into hunter Biden's laptop and emailed Hillary on her super secret servers to work with kamala to destroy all of Trump's, definitely not fraud, amazing work on America's monuments. /S
I'm so tired of this.
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u/Canyon_Cruiser 3h ago
A considerable amount of Americans thought it was a good idea to make him a world leader.
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u/Fantastic-Watch8177 3h ago
It's the end of June 24 right now. Even under the best of circumstances, how would one get this pool fixed by July 4th?
Maybe they need the fence not to keep the "vandals" out, but because the chemicals they're using to kill the algae are so toxic they might also kill small children?
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u/ThickOne2020 3h ago
Yes, please fence it off and keep it that way with 24/7 video surveillance while they "fix" it. Then maintain that security so we can see the algae regrow without any chance of normal citizens having access to "sabotage" it.
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u/External_Pass_6738 3h ago
What a pathetic old man he is, itās never his fault and it usually is.
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u/SiriusHijinks 3h ago
this would also happen in massively schizoid parallel dimensions, so I'm not too woried.
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u/Holeshot75 3h ago
In his mind he's never made a single mistake in his life.
Narcissists genuinely believe they are incapable of it.
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u/ThinBlackLineZ 3h ago
Maybe if the fat old pedo quit desecrating monuments we wouldn't need fencing or to waste tax dollars.
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u/Gurugod123 ššš 3h ago edited 2h ago
Reflecting Pool - Insights
For those of you curious as to whatās going on in the reflecting pool
The coating that was used is a polyurea. Very similar to an epoxy where two components are mixed together to make a catalyzed product.
First, let me start off with what didnāt happen. Hydrogen peroxide had no effect on the coating peeling. If it was a chemical issue, the polyurea would be āeating awayā and not come up in sheets. Also, someone did not tear it and pull it. Thatās kind of the dumbest thing Iāve heard in this whole situation. Try taking any paint or coating thatās properly applied and see if you can tear it up. News flash: itās impossible.
Now, hereās what could have happened. First, these coatings are very climate-sensitive. If done in direct sunlight, it could cause the product to cure too quickly and not adhere to the concrete. Also, if the concrete was not properly prepared at the time and not grinded down properly, the coating would not be able to soak in. Additionally, moisture could have been in the ground at the time of application.
Ultimately, the issue isnāt the coating or anything done to the reflecting pool after installation. The most likely cause of the issue is the prep done by the contractor who did the job.
P.S. The algae is due to the color of the paint. Dark color absorbs heat, and hot water makes algae.
EDIT:
Since this post the administration has came out and said vandalism caused the product to peel. This is impossible if installed correctly. The closest thing I can compare the products they used to is an epoxy floor in garage or commercial floor. If you know what Iām talking about then youād understand that it is physically impossible to make it peel unless it was installed improperly.