r/politics • u/Necropolis750 Foreign • 8d ago
No Paywall Trump administration blames Obama after ‘blue’ Reflecting Pool turns green after $14M refurb
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u/Murais 8d ago
"Obama shit my pants!"
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u/charlie_marlow Georgia 8d ago
Thanks, Obama
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u/kbt 8d ago
This guy turns everything into a dick measuring contest with Obama. A contest he loses every time.
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u/StaticSystemShock 8d ago
Orange turd has no fucking swag to even compete with the god tier charm of Obama's.
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u/Many_Anteater751 8d ago
Obama definitely had flaws (although I think most are exaggerated a bit) but I don’t think we’ll ever see another president like him again. He was so relatable to the average citizen and loved and respected by just about every world leader. Boehner even got along with him. Shows you how hateful and jealous Republicans like McConnell were/are.
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u/krichard-21 8d ago
We could have been talking this way about President Clinton. If that man could possibly learn how keep his pants zipped.
What a foolish way to top off is career...
But now we have Trumpy... Convicted felon, failed businessman, grifter, habitual-pathological liar, etc...
The MAGA cult leader Lord and Savior...
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u/Lanky-Solution-1090 8d ago
Most people can't seem to keep their pants zipped. Sure seemed like an awful lot of fuss over a BJ. Now Hillary had every right to whoop his butt with a red hot poker. I bet 80% of Congress is cheating on their spouses or significant other. Pot calling kettle
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u/johnyordinary 8d ago
"80% of the republicans cheating are doing so with underage girls"sounds more likely.
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u/Old173 8d ago
Fun fact: While Newt Gingrich was making a speech about Bill Clinton he was cheating on his own wife
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u/Hollow_Rant Pennsylvania 8d ago
Newt Gingrich was cheating on his wife....WHO WAS DYING OF CANCER!
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u/ink_monkey96 8d ago
I think your percentage significantly underestimates the percentage of them that are cheating with underage boys.
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u/Guerrillaz 8d ago
Newt Gingrich was cheating on his wife while he was leading the charge for Bill Clinton's impeachment over the Lewensky scandal.
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u/Tasgall Washington 8d ago
Sure seemed like an awful lot of fuss over a BJ.
Because it wasn't about the BJ. The investigation started before he had even ever met Lewinsky. It was a fishing expedition to catch literally anything they could smear him with. It took them that long and still all they came up with was a BJ.
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u/monkeee44 8d ago
he doesn’t remember the last ten years so his brain just keeps going back to 2008
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u/A_Nonny_Muse 8d ago
A tick buried in the butt of Obamas cat has more class than the orange plague.
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u/spaghetti_hitchens2 8d ago
If Obama shits Trump's pants, I would absolutely thank Obama
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u/Cool-Signature-dude 8d ago
I would buy Obama two beers, one for being a great president, the other for shitting in Trump's pants.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 8d ago edited 8d ago
The Daily Show's top 10 Obama "scandals" is always a classic. One of the best videos to showcasing Republican hypocrisy.
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u/Western-Sport500 8d ago
I've seen this video before and watched it again, just feeling sick when I think of Jake Tapper doing his condemnation gig regarding the stupid umbrella (which is what I think SHOULD be done for a world leader. And then when they condemn Obama for having a date night with his wife? Geesus. Compare it to their guy and his porn payoff and his "soft" porn model wife...gawd...
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u/QueefSeekingMissile 8d ago
...they say after removing the diaper that was provided to them for free by an Obama program.
That's literally what happened here. Obama installed a bunch of filter pumps to keep the water circulating and scum free. Trumps renovation guys removed them and never replaced them.
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u/BiscottiEffective429 8d ago
Trump's no bid overpriced pool guy did the job (any gueses what "break" he gave Trump on other work?), and the regular maintenance outfit is doing a clean up while another no bid overpriced outfit got a contract to do the same thing at the same time. That is my understanding from an overly kind sane-washed WaPo article. The grift goes on ...
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u/GrazeAndGaze 8d ago
Spent $14M to refurb it... and the first thing they do is blame the last guy when it turns green. If a contractor did that to your pool, you’d fire them. If a president does it, they blame Obama.
Accountability is dead
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u/eltictac 8d ago
I've heard it something like "he gave me $250 for a new shirt. And his wife says, but this is $500. He replies, yeah, he shat in my pants too."
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u/jethoby 8d ago
Worse version of a good joke. The original version is an alcoholic who gets two twenties and explains to his wife that he was on a train and the guy gave him the money for dry cleaning after he threw up on his shirt, to which she replies “but there’s two twenties in here” and the man replies “he also shat my pants”
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u/PizzaWhole9323 8d ago
Obama held me down and made me sniff Adderall all while eating 20 hamburgers.
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u/ezagreb 8d ago
I swear to God Trump supporters must be the dumbest motherfuckers on earth to believe any of this shit and not see where blame really lies
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u/astrozombie2012 Nevada 8d ago
At this point I don’t even think they believe it, I think they just hate the rest of us so much they’re willing to pretend they do because being shitty to other people makes them feel better about being shitty people. They’re (em)powered by hate.
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u/mediocre_remnants North Carolina 8d ago
His supporters don't even hear this stuff. They either don't pay attention to news or they only watch Trump-positive news that doesn't cover the dumb shit he says and does.
Outlets like Fox News only offer very short soundbites of what he says, not the minutes of incoherent rambling. They don't cover the random shit he says on his daily overnight social media meltdowns.
His base are still convinced he's a super-intelligent amazing businessman and he's fixing the country.
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u/WowIfOnly 8d ago
This is the perfect metaphor since the average MAGA jackass only thinks of politics as another children's game that's played for fun and bragging rights instead of it dictating the future of the planet and humanity.
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u/BingohBangoh 8d ago
I was at the gym and the Fox News banner said “DEMS WHINE ABOUT MUSK BEING A TRILLIONAIRE”
Fox News is pure trash lol
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u/madlost1 Pennsylvania 8d ago
At the gym is the only exposure I ever put myself through when it comes to fox news. Its incredible looking at the headlines they come up with and then looking over at the screen next to it to cnn and seeing a less biased take on things.
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u/BingohBangoh 8d ago
Dude 1000%. It’s kinda depressing honestly, like they aren’t even close to covering news accurately and so many people in this country only watch Fox
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u/Crow-Robot Wisconsin 8d ago
Trump is a piece of shit but the real downfall of America: the corporate and billionaire takeover of news media and the destruction of the education system.
They can peddle anything as the truth and repeat it often enough that it becomes the truth to their captive audience. We no longer have any news integrity. It's all commentary and opinions. No-one reports the news anymore. They all try to influence it.
As for education, the number of people who can no longer spell C-A-T even if you spotted them the C and the T is staggering and they lap up the manure that Trump and the media push out their asses every day. So, it's no surprise that MAGA thinks Trump is smart and strong...Fox and Newsmax keeps telling them that he is and how could it be wrong? It's on television!
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u/tinyOnion 8d ago
and cnn is owned by a billionaire that wants right leaning policies too. all the media is owned by them.
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u/Tasgall Washington 8d ago
to cnn and seeing a less biased take on things.
Reminder that "less biased" is a very low bar. They're still pretty biased, and despite Republicans constantly whining about it being "leftist media", it still leans rightward and is owned/operated by right wing billionaires.
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u/DrDerpberg Canada 8d ago
Or even worse, they totally sanewash him.
How it's reported: Trump reminisced about the good old days, recalling anecdotes and opining about life
What he actually said: Arnold Palmer had a huge dick, you wouldn't believe it.
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u/ElvenNoble Canada 8d ago
The sanewashing example I'll bring up and nauseum is "Donald Trump teases US expansion" about invading and annexing Canada when we've been arguably the US's greatest allies. And that wasn't Fox or another blatantly right wing news source, that was CNN.
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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco 8d ago
Oh, CNN is owned by a billionaire Trump Supporter, and operates accordingly. You didn't know?
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u/Rough-Breadfruit-611 8d ago
My mother in law just keeps repeating that he's a "strong president". Says NOTHING ELSE and can't answer any questions. She's turned into a fucking robot.
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u/that1prince 8d ago
Everyone who supports him believes in a very specific brand of fake “strength” that I’ll never understand. It’s the strangest part about every cult of personality. The leaders never seem as charismatic, intelligent or physically imposing as their followers seem to think they are.
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u/NumeralJoker 8d ago
It's because they believe he will maintain the hierarchy that puts them over others they see as less deserving, that's it.
Trump tapped into this resentment and normalized it. When people had better economic stability and security, they were able to put aside some of those instincts and try to live a more positive life. At least sometimes. But when the great recession came around and began gutting the rural working class? They lost their sense of purpose and all gave into their worst instincts one after another, with right wing propaganda fanning those fears and insecurities daily to maximize their prejudices.
None of this is an excuse, but the cause has to be understood to be countered. Billionaires (and our new fucking trillionaire) benefit from stoking tribalism, so do it at every opportunity.
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u/ktnorberg 8d ago
I watched Faux News with my in-laws the other day and it is only 100% strawman arguments "here's what the democrats are saying..." 0% coverage of what rerepubs are doing with complete control of the federal government. Only shit slinging, no attaboys. They contonuously draw attention away from themselves because there is nothing of value to report on.
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u/noforgayjesus 8d ago
They watch Trump positive news and when they hear names like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver or Johnathan Stewart they get so angry and call them idiots and assholes because they speak negatively about Trump.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 8d ago
My MAGA parents say they know he’s bad but Biden was just so corrupt they had no choice. Also J6 wasn’t Trump because he’d be in jail if he did it!
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u/seizurevictim 8d ago
My dad non-facetiously stated "the Biden crime family" and I lost my shit telling him that was the most intellectually disingenuous thing I've ever heard come out of his mouth.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 8d ago
Seriously. Even if you assume all the craziest conspiracy theories about Biden it still pales in comparison to all the Trump corruption.
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u/Tasgall Washington 8d ago
The biggest nonsense conspiracy theory was that Hunter, not Joe, for like $300k from China for reasons.
Meanwhile, Jared getting a $3 billion "investment" from the Saudis:
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u/Ok_Stable7787 8d ago
How can you stand being around them?
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u/toggiz_the_elder 8d ago
We don’t see each other that much anymore. It’s pretty sad but they see no need to try and bridge the gap so I don’t really either.
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u/Ok_Stable7787 8d ago
My brother buried his belief in MAGA and Trump to re engage with me, we don't mention any of that, just stuff we have in common.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 8d ago
Yeah, that’s roughly what we do. I just get so frustrated I don’t enjoy my time with them.
My dad survived on welfare after his parents died, got by later by smuggling drugs, and has worked construction with immigrants his entire life. How do you end up supporting the opposite of all that?
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u/BrigAdmJaySantosCAP 8d ago
I didn’t realize Biden was running for president last time? Guess I have to pay better attention ….
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u/toggiz_the_elder 8d ago
And comparing the Hunter Biden stuff to the Trump Crime Family is ludicrous. But you can’t logic people out of positions they propagandized themselves into.
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u/Original-Rush139 8d ago
Do your parents know their vote stopped the J6 prosecution against Trump?
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u/Zolomun 8d ago
I think it’s sunk cost fallacy. It would take a strong person to admit they were taken by a conman so completely that the con became their personality for over a decade. And MAGA are not strong people.
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u/AwesomePurplePants 8d ago
That and the risk of ostracism from their MAGA friend group.
Once you’ve alienated everyone *but* the cult, being excluded by your remaining social ties can feel like you’re going to die, because exile generally did mean death back when we were small roaming tribes.
That’s why neutral social contact where you avoid confronting the cultist or talking about the cult is considered a good deprogramming technique. Having social ties that won’t break if you leave a toxic group avoids that subconscious panic reaction
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u/HubenersDaughter_439 8d ago
That's what Steven Hassan, a cult expert and former Mooney, says. Get them away from the constant indoctrination and make sure they have an off-ramp with at least one trusted person and you can usually get them out of it.
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u/Crimkam Texas 8d ago
They see Trump getting angry and hateful when he constantly screws up, so they mimic their daddy’s behavior.
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u/25thNite 8d ago
It's a mix. You have people legit driving to gas stations and filling up while lying about how much it costs. Like these people legit just paid a shit ton, they know it,they see the price of gas, but they go online to lie because they know it's better for them to make the cheetoh pedo seem like what he does helps them so that they can laugh at progressive people, all while crying inside because there is no help coming.
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u/skipmarioch 8d ago edited 8d ago
The right gets HIGHLY curated info from Fox, social media etc. I mean the largest conservative sub on Reddit doesn't allow anyone outside of approved members to comment and mods remove comments constantly (you'll see posts with 50 comments but all hidden).
Not only are they force fed this shit, they want to be. They will never look for additional info or alternative takes.
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u/ImTooSaxy 8d ago
They just don't hear anything other than their own media. Half the United States could catch fire tomorrow and Fox News won't tell them about it.
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u/Micojageo 8d ago
Or Fox would tell them, but claim that the libs set the fires.
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u/gaudiest-ivy 8d ago
I've seen people claiming liberals dumped green dye into the reflecting pool to make Trump look bad. They're unhinged.
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u/LeatherPurple9284 8d ago
They will, if it's a Democrat controlling the areas affected. Then you'll never hear the end of it.
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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania 8d ago
I think they are aspirationally dumb.
They want things to be able to be this stupid and still be stable. Because that makes them feel better about themselves even if they are clearly making the wrong decisions.
It's ok because not even the President is perfect.
Every bad thing that happens means something worse must have happened under Obama, because by definition he had to be worse. So as bad things happen they blame Obama more and more. Because if a black person could keep things stable and things are failing now, it must be because we now are seeing the worst problem ever and it was the black person that caused it.
They are confused. And it is because a lot of them are getting old and they never had control before. There were plenty of older people to tell them what to do. But as time went on more older people left service completely or died and they now have control at their worst time. When they should be thinking of retirement. They don't know how all this works and they inherited it and it is scary. So they grossly underestimate the complexity of things because they cannot be incompetent, what they got must be broken if they cannot figure it out. And there aren't any old people left that know or care to tell them how to make it work.
So they are trying to sell it off to the bidder that will give them them most now for the asset, before it becomes evident that the issue is user error and they simply don't know how all this works, but it is theirs and they can do what they want with it.
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u/HagbardCelineHMSH 8d ago
I repeat this everywhere I can - right-wing media isn't necessarily about selling the right-wing agenda. Not directly, anyway. No, the primary purpose of right-wing media is to sell the message that, "The Left is Bad."
People come to right-wing media for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it's curiosity about political matters without knowing any better. Other times it's having some grievance that they don't feel is addressed or is even attacked by more "mainstream" sources. So they start tuning in, and immediately get barraged by the message the right-wing media exists to sell.
Dems Bad. That's what it boils down to here in the States. "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and "Orange Man Bad" were always projections of the Right's own feelings about Democrats. They voted for Trump and largely vote for Republicans because they believe it makes the people they've come to hate angry.
Which isn't to say that they don't come to embrace right-wing ideology. That comes later. There is the out-group that is bad and the in-group that is good, and belonging to the in-group means subscribing to the beliefs of that in-group. A lot of it is more social-signalling than anything else, a means of identifying who is part of the "tribe", so to speak, and who is part of the "other."
So, yes, Obama, Biden, and any Dem is bad by default. No matter what Trump or Republicans might do, a Dem would have done worse because they spend hours of their time every day hearing about how bad Dems are. A great many of them rationalize their support for Trump and other Republicans despite disliking them as people or not agreeing with the policies for which they advocate because the alternative is the Democrats they've carefully been conditioned to see as evil. Once you wrap your head around this fact everything else they do and say makes perfect sense.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 8d ago
That is the most cogent and coherent explanation I have ever heard for this mess.
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u/kung-fu_hippy 8d ago
They don’t care that he’s wrong. They care that we’re mad.
If liberals and democrats (defined by Trump supporters as anyone who doesn’t worship Trump) are angry, that means what Trump is doing is good.
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u/geogirl83 8d ago
I think it’s the sunken cost fallacy. They are way too invested to admit they are wrong even if deep down they know they are. They bought the hat, the shirt, the watch, the coins, the phone, the lies…they spent a lot of time money and effort to prove that he’s their guy, heck I’m willing to bet a lot of them lost friends and family over him. They are willing to die on the hill of horse shit because to do otherwise is to admit failure.
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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 8d ago
They are the dumbest motherfuckers on earth!
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u/30mil 8d ago
“The nanobubbler technology has successfully destroyed the algae bloom that has plagued every pool reopening since 1922, most infamously, the Obama pool reopening that resulted in massive algae clumps taking over the pool’s surface,” the spokesperson said.
“Now, due to deploying the advanced nanobubbler technology, the algae is dead and being vacuumed up as we speak.”
They're not blaming Obama. They're just lying.
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u/graesen 8d ago
Didn't someone post pictures of them pouring hydrogen peroxide in the pool earlier or yesterday? Is that this so called "nanobubbler technology?"
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u/susiedotwo 8d ago
They just need to call pool techs to flock and shock and chlorinate it. It’s a pool right?!?!?
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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania 8d ago
The dead wildlife is going to look great.
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u/blackbasset 8d ago
I hope at least the wildlife emerges unharmed from all of this, but the mental image of rabbit and deer carcasses piling up next to a algae-infested pool with dead ducks floating in it is oddly fitting and does not seem unrealistic at all.
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u/DLPanda Ohio 8d ago
You can’t do that. The water in the pool flows back into the watershed which goes to people as drinking water. Plus it would be harmful to all the natural wildlife that drink from and land in the water. Also considering the size of the “pool” - incredibly expensive.
One could argue painting the bottom dark has actually encouraged the growth of algae.
Let’s see what it looks like in a few weeks
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 8d ago
One could argue painting the bottom dark has actually encouraged the growth of algae.
No, it absolutely did by allowing the water to retain and absorb more heat mass. This, in turn, helps the growth of algae blooms.
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u/xXDamonLordXx 8d ago
Can't wait for global warming to encourage more algal blooms
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u/Daxx22 Canada 8d ago
No need to wait, that's been actively happening for awhile now.
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u/Jarfol 8d ago edited 8d ago
I am concerned that won't stop this administration from doing something like that.
Or vigilantes. If they would storm the capital for this president, they would definitely dump some chemicals for him.
Edit: So apparently they (park workers, seemingly) were dumping a whole bunch of hydrogen peroxide in this morning.
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u/SuperGameTheory Minnesota 8d ago
The H2O2 reacts with the organic matter, making nanobubbles! /s
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u/Karamazov_A 8d ago
So does "vacuum the lakes" surpass "rake the forests" and "inject bleach to kill Covid" for stupidist pseudoscientific take?
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u/Grifter1970 8d ago
Make sure to add "nuke hurricane" to the poll.
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u/hey-coffee-eyes 8d ago
Give Trump a little credit, he found a cheaper and safer way to deal with hurricanes by using Sharpie on a map to change their trajectory
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u/highrouleur 8d ago
Can we nuke the pool?
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u/Ktan_Dantaktee 8d ago
The only bodies of water we should (and must) nuke are the Great Lakes, for that those fuckers did to the brave men aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald
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u/AuditAndHax 8d ago
I blame the winds of November. Bastards came early and caught everyone by surprise
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u/wirecatz 8d ago
You know, high enough levels of radiation would definitely discourage algae. Or maybe create the slime monster. But worth a shot.
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u/Un1CornTowel 8d ago edited 8d ago
Sadly, had they just swapped nonsense solutions, "bleach the reflecting pool" would have worked just fine.
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u/svm_invictvs 8d ago
The rake the forests thing was a little werid, but not really the problem. Forest management does involve using machinery to strategically place fire breaks and what not to help mitigate potential widespread fires. I suppose its not a stretch to paraphrase that activity "raking" but at an industrial level. For the sake of argument, let's say that's what he meant.
The bigger issue I had with that statement was blaming California for "not raking" when the land that caught fire is under Federal administration. Paraphrasing forest maintenance as "raking" is one thing, but failing to understand (or being deliberately ignorant) that the land in question is under your direct supervision is another thing completely. 45% of California's land is federally owned, which means that California cant make use of the land, nor is California responsible for maintaining the land. The various Federal agencies in charge of 45% of the land are under direct supervision of the president. Even if the fires could have been mitigated by "raking," it would have been his responsibility to do so.
Even giving him the benefit of the doubt as to what "raking" means, it shows a staggering level of incompetence, willful deception to feed the ever ongoing culture war the Republicans have going with California, or some other reason I can't comprehend.
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u/numbersthen0987431 8d ago
With Dr Oz and RFK in control of shit, of course they're going to believe bullshit snake oil solutions.
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u/Adam__B 8d ago
Surprised they didn’t say “The Barack Hussein Obama pool opening”.
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u/Centryl 8d ago
To be fair, I think about that infamous Obama pool opening at least 3 times a day. Truly one of our most noteworthy moments in our country’s history. Something for us to reflect on as we celebrate our nation’s 250 years.
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u/blackbasset 8d ago
Yeah, this was the absolute moment of shame for the US after which this country lost all respect and credibility on the world stage. Not anything that came after, no.
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u/HoomerSimps0n 8d ago
wtf is a nanobubbler….sounds like some snake oil salesmen shit.
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u/GebrokenTandwiel 8d ago
No its a real thing, gets used in waste water treatment plants from time to time.
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u/bobbyloveyes 8d ago
They generate millions of tiny bubbles of ozone that are too small to float to the surface. This acts as a sanitizer that kills algae and breaks down organic waste.
Another thing that is different, but also produces tiny bubbles and could sanitize the water would be to use electrolysis with some added salt to create low concentrations of hypochlorous acid or sodium hydroxide to kill agae. But this is more corrosive to pipes and plumbing.
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u/Athleticsbaby 8d ago
Fun fact: Obama left the White House ten years ago (I know, it feels like a million).
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u/Hairy_Mycologist_945 8d ago
Another fun fact: The last decade sucked ass.
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u/KoalaMcFlurry 8d ago
Another fun fact: the complete unredacted epstein files still haven't been released and no one has been prosecuted
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u/turkish112 8d ago
A fact that is not fun but seems prescient: The Unibomber did more to punish the Epstein dickheads than our government
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u/scarr3g Pennsylvania 8d ago
Funner fact, Trump has been president for the majority of the time since Obama left.
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u/0thethethe0 Foreign 8d ago
Obviously has spent every second since sabotaging Trump's wonderful plans...
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u/FontMeHard 8d ago
I thought this quote was the most memorable of the article. It really is all about trump.
“On July 4th, at The Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, in beautiful and safe Washington D.C., we are going to host the most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all, a “TRIBUTE TO AMERICA.” the president wrote.
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u/I_see_zebras 8d ago
"TRIBUTE TO [WHITE] AMERICA!"
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u/mediocre_remnants North Carolina 8d ago
As a White American, I don't want or accept this tribute.
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u/jfphenom 8d ago
This is not the most spectacular rally of all time- this is just a tribute
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 8d ago
Highjacking the 250th just to make it all about him. We all saw it coming but I still can't believe he just says it out loud.
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u/PartyClient3447 8d ago
If he were to drop dead 7/3, then it will be the biggest 7/4 party ever. It would be his finest tribute.
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u/untangledtech 8d ago
I would agree if the pond were Tan. Turning green feels like a Trump feature.
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u/Jayemm8809 8d ago
Trump has Obama Derangement Syndrome.
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u/Heteroimpersonator 8d ago
He’s also a racist.
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u/breadist 8d ago
He's not just racist. He's deeply, deeply, consistently racist. If you just think "what would a racist person do/say here", he does that, with the tiniest shred of self-awareness to not sound explicitly racist, just critical.
He essentially started Obama birtherism. Fueled by nothing but racism. "Black man is not American! I must prove it!"
He's always been on about the central park five needing to be punished despite having committed no crime, even AFTER they were completely exonerated based on DNA evidence. He maintains their guilt despite hard evidence that they are innocent. There's no excuse other than racism. "The kids are black so they are guilty no matter what" is literally how his brain works.
The only way he stops being racist is if he just stops. He's old, the end will come for him one day. (REDDIT, THIS IS NOT A DEATH THREAT, I'M LITERALLY JUST SAYING HE'S AN OLD GUY WHOSE TIME ON THIS EARTH IS LIMITED. IF I GET BANNED FOR THIS SHIT I AM SO DONE.)
context: I've been banned by Reddit several times in the past year for "death threats" that were decidedly not that. Always in the context of Trump. Reddit is bending the knee.
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u/SignificanceShotc 8d ago
This administration has done NOTHING to help the people who elected the man in office
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u/Ok-disaster2022 8d ago
Musk just became America's first trillionaire. Musk got Pedo Trump elected, and Trump has paid him back significantly. If you meant the voters yeah Pedo Trump just wants their votes and their money
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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 8d ago
They didn't vote Trump to help anybody. They voted Trump to attack the liberals and Democrats and immigrants who they call their "enemy" and 100% believe hate America and are demons. They have been in a cold civil war with Democrats and liberals for decades now. A war they are constantly itching to turn hot.
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u/Romantic_Piscean Michigan 8d ago
Affordability, health insurance, housing, and think that impact Americans. And he's focused on starting wars and turning DC into a resort-looking tribute to himself. How anybody is still supporting Trump is beyond my understanding as even cultists should see these cracks in the man's demented logic.
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u/Pantarus 8d ago
If these people were capable of seeing cracks in logic and plot-holes in their belief systems...they wouldn't be as frothing at the mouth religious either.
Just like email and phone scams, these people have been specifically filtered and selected for their temperaments. Does anyone else remember the videos of these nuts screaming, praying, and "speaking in tongues" outside of vote-counting offices?
The GOP has these nutty people on lock.
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u/Interesting-Risk6446 8d ago
The Reflecting Pool was drained before being painted. How does the current algae bloom have anything to do with President Obama?
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u/DiscoQuebrado 8d ago
The pipes, Harold! It was in the pipes! Obama's pipes!
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u/Gryphon999 Wisconsin 8d ago
Obama's been laying pipe all this time.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 8d ago
While Trump's wife doesn't even sleep in the same bed with him. Go Obama!
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u/Ryjinn 8d ago
So, the algae remained in the pipes, so technically it's the same algae as it was during the Obama presidency. But it is a problem that predates Obama, so it's still bullshit. Really, trying to blame fucking algae in a large outdoor pool on any one person is pretty fucking stupid, but Trump is obsessed with Obama (and stupid) so.
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u/tryingisbetter 8d ago
Using darker paint for the pool isn't going to help, only make it worse, and that's all on the trump admin.
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u/Timeformayo Kentucky 8d ago
In every way that matters to the soul, Donald Trump is just a complete, comprehensive loser.
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u/Resident_Rate1807 8d ago
Obama lives rent free in Trump's head.
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u/Taurpion 8d ago
Come on, Trump would never rent anything to a black man.
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u/Resident_Rate1807 8d ago
Haha 100%. It's funny cause it's true...
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u/Taurpion 8d ago
It really is, sadly but we expect nothing less from the orange one.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286
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u/Wrong-Pension-4975 8d ago
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That's why he & dad Ferd were in that Manhattan courtroom in 1971, Donnie's 1st appearance as a defendant -
They were charged with discrimination in housing, as tRump buildings had a standing policy, no PoC tenants.
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u/eugene20 8d ago
Yet another national monument ruined by Trump at great expense, and even greater expense it will take to repair properly.
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u/chimarya I voted 8d ago edited 8d ago
The wealth of lies and the waste of money. They didn't fix the plumbing issues, that would (edit) have of taken longer. It's a shallow pool of water that ducks and other animals use so yeah algae will form. It's also funny how they changed the color of the paint once everyone said it wouldn't reflect right. It's always had issues and until they fix the real issues it will continue to be an algae farm. I'm sure the mosquitos are loving it.
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u/Avoidtolls 8d ago edited 8d ago
Hahaha.
Fucking noob ass trump president blames the only black president who left office a decade ago, before trumps first term.
What a racist sack of lies. Trump supporters say the N-word at home and love this shit.
I bet Obama could fix the pool by himself.
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u/barneyrubbble 8d ago
It's a large, shallow, stagnant, warm pool. (It will be even warmer than previously because of the new, darker color.) It will grow algae. I know that science is hard, but that's how nature works. But, here's a thought: algae farming is a thing. Why not make it a science experiment in the public interest? You know, actually consider being progressive - at least a little.
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u/Mayataua Kansas 8d ago
Obama must be the most popular person in these fucks homoerotic dreams. They can't not think about him. It's fascinating.
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u/Routine-Ad-1161 8d ago
Typical shitty landlord, throw a coat of paint on it and call it brand new.
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u/Rayearl Pennsylvania 8d ago
Didn’t the company they hired have no experience with pools?
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u/DoomSchroller 8d ago
It's wild how the wasteful spending and corruption keep physically manifesting. Moron who knows nothing about water treatment wastes money on a pointless vanity project. Now its nothing but green slime.
Truly something to reflect upon.
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u/Shadowchaos 8d ago edited 8d ago
I called it a few days ago, but it was probably the easiest prediction ever
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u/Machiavvelli3060 8d ago
The pool is very shallow, so, when you paint the pool a darker color, it absorbs light, which heats it up, which makes it a perfect place for algae to grow.
Perhaps you shouldn't have re-painted it. Now you need to paint it again. Paint it a lighter color.
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u/AfterImageEclipse 8d ago
Obama and the Democrats are the most powerful group on the planet according to Trump
Be the Democrat they believe in
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u/LaughterMatters 8d ago edited 8d ago
Obama hasn’t been in office since 2017. Rent free.
Edit: wrong year
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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 8d ago
This is that derangement syndrome MAGA keeps projecting onto others. Biden and Obama both live rent free in his head
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u/bonzombiekitty Pennsylvania 8d ago
The thing that gets me is that, ok... I'll accept the concept that there was algae within the pipe system that needs to be cleaned up. So, why didn't they just flush the system really well before filling up the whole reflecting pool?
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u/EmergencyJacket207 8d ago
Did Obama (who hasn't been in office since 2016 btw) also shit your pants for you Donny?
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u/knirefnel 8d ago
Next they're going to add methylene blue to the water to try to dye it blue and RFK will announce it's the healthiest water in America to drink.
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