I mean, you could have tried that BEFORE you spent a zillion dollars.
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Bleach...you mean the stuff that should be injected in people's veins to get rid of covid, that stuff?
Man, bleach is just wondrous stuff. Is there nothing it cannot do!!!
I've been injecting it ever since he recommended it, and I never got Covid.
At this point I'm slightly surprised he didn't fill the pool with Ivermectin
prttt
'This stuff cured my cousin of AIDS!'
squeezes the rest of the tube of Ivermectin into the pool
14.2 and counting. Bleach and pump flushes arent gonna pay for themselves yknow...
They should put some ivermectin in there for good measure.
It was a grift. Who didn't see that?
The dumb fucker pocketed most of the cash and had a couple unqualified goons pick up some shit from Home Depot.
Of course, it's the classic real estate developer kick back scheme. He gives the contract to his special Pool Guy, who totally understands that he does the job with half the budget, and kicks back the rest to Trump. Then they split the overruns, too.
This kind of deal is Trump's bread & butter, he's been doing it his entire life, with absolutely no consequences at all. That's why he is so obsessed with his building projects. They stopped his Kennedy Center renovation, but you still have the Ballroom, and the Arc de Trump, which I love to say because it is so RETARDED (sorry about that, but sometimes an extreme word is 100% appropriate).
Sure it wasnt four seasons?
Trump can't count that high.
I appreciate the fact they didn’t measure how much they need, they just went to the pool store and bought a bunch of residential sized containers.
well, they fired anyone that would have given a damn, or would know the chemistry and calculations. so what they gonna do? it's not like this administration knows how to choose or hire knowledgeable, experienced, competent, and qualified persons. why didn't they just hire another 'pool boy' to 'fix' it at a cost of $50 million for the 'rush' job? (less, of course, whatever gets kicked back under the potty chair).
I could have done the job for a measly $9m. The problem is getting the rarer american anniversary chlorine, but I'll eat the cost. Like I said, I'll do it for the low low price of $20m.
Art of the Deal
...and then charged the Federal government another $100k.
.. and placed a stunningly accurate bet on Polymarket about the size of the contract
What's another couple of thousands on retail products when you've already wasted 14.2 million.
Bleach is a cure-all. Algae, COVID, Worm brain, hand stain, sleepy meeting syndrome, etc. It’s really Windex 2.0
/s
It's kinda like magnets... Nobody knows how it works.
I'm curious if massive amount of bleach will fade the flag paint job of the wading pool?
I remember about 10-15 years ago a buddy of mine was selling this pool shock stuff that was all natural, some sort of microscopic critter that liked eating algae. They tested it in a completely green pool and it turned the water clear overnight.
Guess they are too dumb to know about stuff like that.
That's what Obama used, so we can't use that.
Sounds interesting, can you point us anywhere? I an curious
I could have sworn there were articles circulating this morning that they were pouring hydrogen peroxide in there? Now bleach?
...that sounds like a bad idea, but I'm no pool expert.
Do ammonia next!
They're talking about the same thing. The term "Bleach" is ambiguous and mostly describes a result rather than a specific chemical. It could be talking about sodium hypochlorite, hydrogen peroxide, or sodium percarbonate (or any number of other chemicals that make things white)
This article specifies the use of both 12% hydrogen peroxide and calcium hypochlorite powder. Hope they turned off the ozone generator too.
The term “Bleach” is ambiguous and mostly describes a result rather than a specific chemical.
Sure, when used a verb...
When someone "bleached their hair" they used hydrogen peroxide, because that would achieve a bleaching effect
However the headline uses it as noun "dumps bleach in pool". And I'm pretty sure that's not correct.
The article says hydrogen peroxide, but headlines are often written by someone else and I think that's where the confusion came from.
Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product that is used industrially or domestically to remove color from (i.e. to whiten) fabric or fiber (in a process called bleaching) or to disinfect after cleaning. It often refers specifically to a dilute solution of sodium hypochlorite, also called "liquid bleach".
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It would be hilarious, ironically, if they ended up making chlorine gas because they just poured in whatever they thought would fix it.
Then the pool fills with dead birds and they blame democrats.
I mean, when chlorine hypochlorite oxidizes organic material, you will make some chorine gas. However, unless they used an absolute shit ton it wouldn't matter much outside.
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Maybe they'll do ammonia next and gas themselves
You told people to mix bleach and ammonia, Peggy?!
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Ridiculous. The Reflecting Pool is about 10x the volume of an Olympic swimming pool. Quick math tells me they need >1000 gallons to have any sort of effect.
They put in... maybe 8 gallons?
They put in... maybe 8 gallons?
A day.
They had several cases of peroxide, definitely more than 8 gallons, but it was only like 12% so pretty weak stuff anyway. Nowhere near what they would have needed to clear it all up. Plus it would have been super temporary and would have ended up oxygenating the water and feeding the algae.
12% hydrogen peroxide is far from weak. And it’s often used to shock pools and cleaning up organic matter.
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This administration really embodies the "good enough for government work" ethos.
Not really. I guess they may have lowered the bar for that phrase, though.
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I wonder if they even thought of cleaning the pumps...
Pumps?
Im surprised they didn't use Ivermectin. Im sure Kennedy drinks that stuff regularly
Wouldn’t a small fleet of pool sand filters have a better outcome here?
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its somewhat appropriate that theres a cum-like stench over all of washington dc now. Wonder if thats going to have to be permanent.
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