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US not being able to tame a knee-deep pool is peak empire collapse indicator.
🤣 This is actually really funny... The orange shitbag bragged about all his amazing pools, that's when I knew there is zero chance he knows jack shit about pools
The country that developed atomic energy and manned spaceflight.
The country that had the first nuclear reactor connected to the grid was the USSR with Obninsk. The scientist first discovering nuclear fission were the chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch (all german and austrian).
The first manned spaceflight was Vostok 1 with Yuri Gagarin (USSR).
Yeah wrll, maybe it's just Obama's fault and we can all move on
They literally tore out the filters that Obama had installed that would have helped to prevent this.
This story gets more hilarious by the day lol
Perfect microcosm of this administration.
This is my favorite Trump scandal.
It sucks we’re blowing through cash because we have an idiot for president, but I feel okay laughing at it because it doesn’t involve bombing a school in Iran, destroying immigrant families, tanking the economy, child sexual abuse, taking rights away from minorities, or stealing elections…to name a few.
Thank god he also wrecked a pond.
A no bid contract I would add.
If you put down new paint, you need to clean and dry the surface. Any real contractor would know that.
One is cdertain the contractor paid kickbacks to the administration for that contract, and that everyone is paying kickbacks for everything at this point. We have organized crime ruling the country.
Ok, ok, ok, people are giving the obese orange child rapist shit for this BUT let's think of it a bit differently...
Aren't we all now, in a way, 'reflecting' about how shitty the job was? And the obvious corruption of handing out all that cash to mate who is a pool guy? And about how it is 'reflective' of the "Draining of the Swamp" the mushy brained syphilis filled realty TV 'star' would get his horde of idiots to chant?
If we look at it this way then that pool is doing a lottttt of reflecting!!!
Taxpayers are getting hosed by any measure. They can't water down this fuckup.
Drain the water and replace it with Blue Gatorade. I've seen a documentary in which this kills the plants..
No it doesn't, the plants need electrolytes.
Like his military parade
Like his concerts
Like his marriages
Like his administration
Half-arsed shit
Other than stealing tax dollars, grifting his base and destroying institutions, he's absolutely shit at everything else in life.
Pure anti-Christ shit
Dang, guess they'll need another $14 mil paint job done lol
$25 mil.. Because he was initially trying to save tax payer money... And it's seriously an emergency now before the 4th of July... And everyone laughs at his stupidity
Whats the worst thing of the last month.. The reflecting pool or the Iran peace deal?
Probably the reflecting pool, because it exists.
Probably due to all the caustic chemicals they dumped in it to kill the algae.
Not unbelievable that these morons didn't select a chemically resistant coating, but it's more likely this is due to bad surface prep than the hydrogen peroxide - if it was the result of the peroxide we'd be seeing far more damage than the few chunks spotted thus far. Though, time will tell on that front...
The fact that it comes off in sheets is a really good indicator that it never really stuck to yhe surface. Can't wait until it all comes off and he takes credit because it looks better now.
An allegory for this entire administration.
A costly grift that paid someone a lot of money who is not an expert to do a shitty job, try to fix it the wrong way multiple times, while the whole thing falls apart and trump talks about how great a job was done.
Apply that to everything he does except manipulate stocks.
The rational solution here is to drain off the nasty green water, replace it with peroxide, then mount a toilet puck every five feet around the rim.
The water will be nice and blue like the water features at his favorite mini golf course, and it'll smell just like his office.
This is the such an unbelievably dumb story. They've kept this reflecting pool clean for decades, but now some moron keeps skimping somewhere and nobody can figure out how to keep it clean anymore. And we are blowing through more money than previously necessary, all because some giant asshole keeps grifting the American people.
They're already saying it needs protection from democrats who want to damage it
So.. already setting up the scapegoat
So dumb
I hope they kept the receipt, but I think pouring bleach into the pool void the warranty
I bet if you got a film company who use mostly practical effects in to use the reflecting pool in their movie they would hire the right people to come in and deal with the algae and paint job and make it shine again. They would use their own money and trump would look even worse. Heck let me at it an di think i could work out what is needed with enough research and send him a bill.
I mean, i would definitely sub contract, but it would be to experts. Not idiots.
Got to be practical effects, because the green of the pool now is quite good for CGI
If only there were a department to investigate waste, fraud and abuse.....