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A particularly strong oxidizer at that. Which is why the paint came up in chips
Frankly, so is the sun.
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Trump has said, without citing evidence, that vandals made a “350-foot gash” in the liner and caused other problems. No large slash marks were immediately visible Wednesday from the Washington Monument view. It was not possible to do a more up-close inspection of the entire pool due to a dark fence surrounding the perimeter.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, whose agency oversees the National Park Service, said that after the water is drained and debris is cleaned from Independence Day fireworks, the plan for the pool is straightforward: “Repair the vandalism that was done. Fill it back up again.” He was speaking with conservative podcaster Katie Miller.
They believe their own lies, don't they? It would be easier if it were just straightforward dishonesty, but it has turned into a cult of shared delusion, and it's in charge of the USA.
I read once that Trump isn’t just a liar; he’s a bullshitter. The nuance was that lying requires some consistency, some standard of a coherent story; lying requires knowing and caring about the truth and choosing a different story. Bullshitting doesn’t; bullshitting is just saying whatever you want whenever you want, regardless.
It helped me better understand their actions. And also somehow makes it worse that they believe the bullshit, since it doesn’t hold up to any kind of scrutiny or logical thought at all.
He is also a genuine moron who probably actually believes half of the stupid shit he says.
His intelligence here doesn’t matter. That’s the important point about bullshitting. He’s a willful bullshitter, and always has been.
Yes, that’s the definition of bullshit. Things said without caring if they are true.
I think many people don’t know this. I didn’t, until trump became president.
AI bullshits all the time. Because it doesn’t have the capacity to care.
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Okay, just like a Confederate uniform. Don't be childish.
Second, let me explain what actually happened here. I believe the project cost around $14 million before the hydrogen peroxide was added to the reflecting pool.
That money went to one of Trump's associates, who almost certainly pocketed the vast majority of it and spent only a small fraction on the work that actually needed to be done to the reflecting pool. That's why this is happening.
His associate isn't issuing a refund, and the government isn't demanding the money back.
This was effectively a government subsidy to line a friend's pockets.
Nobody actually cares about the reflecting pool.
Wonder how many school lunches or college degrees that 'flag blue' color would have paid for ...
So far the project, originally estimated by the administration to cost up to $2M, sits at $16M and growing.
At $5 per school lunch, that's 3.2M school lunches. With the average US in-state bachelor's degree at $11.4K, that's 1403 degrees.
For context, there is an estimated 22M children receiving subsidized school lunches. Given the wealth of the US, that figure is baffling.
but, like, socialism would be soooo expeeennnnsive
Republican trailer trash.
What a way to remember Lincoln…
If this level of carelessness happened around a confederate monument republicans would lose their shit.
If 0.0001% of this carelessness was done under a Dem focks nooz would be running it nonstop and the reds would be filing articles of impeachment over it
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At least the Romans had entertaining circuses not whatever the fuck this is
What do you mean? You have football, hockey, baseball and you just had a world cup. Keep that economy afloat and don't think about it too much.
It's empty now, we can use it as a gladiator pit.
I vote that each executive branch fight it out in there. But also add lions for some spicy entertainment?
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Not only did the vandals slash it, but they’ve also painted it grey while it was filled!
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The president at first suggested his renovations would cost $1.5 million, but the bill ballooned to more than $16 million by June.
Trump had said the repairs would last a century, but within days of the project’s initial completion last month, the water was beset by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coating appeared to be peeling off the bottom.
The Trumpy lie followed by definitive proof of it being totally false is becoming increasingly rapid-fire: bait and switch, bait and switch... seems he can't conceal his trickery long enough before the next news cycle anymore. It's quite astonishing.
There's literally no interval between bait and switches so short that it won't work on conservatives/regressives.
He could tell them dogs aren't real and 30 seconds later tell them they are real but that cats aren't and they'd be fully onboard.
It's a cult thing.
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"trickery" implies he's clever and doing things intentionally.
Yeah, it's not like he's some evil genius. Serial abusers aren't trained manipulators. It's just kind of built into their character. It's automatic. And it's not even like he's intentionally hiring smarter people to be evil for him. His shit personality just draws those kinds of people to him.
None of this is sophisticated. It's just that a terrifying percentage of Americans are dogshit stupid, so low effort evil works.
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If a “gray, drained pool, devoid of even a glimmer of reflection” isn’t an apt analogy for MAGAmurica, I don’t know what is…
Oh wow, that guy who looks like he ties damsels to railroads for fun didn't end up doing a good job on the pool?
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I wonder whose nephew/cousin/kid owns the contracted companies who "fixed" the initial "repairs"
This shit is so blatant old school new york slumlord grift
No joke. This is the boss of the contractors. I get Batman villain vibes…
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This was a MUCH Better use of Tax Dollars then Feeding STARVING AMERICANS!
-Republicans on Welfare!
Enough is enough, let the parks service fix it and send Donald Trump the bill.
Nah, don’t let competence take over, lives aren’t lost. Is funnier to watch them repeatedly try, cock it up, receive scorn.
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Add it to the list of things drumpf has touched that turned to dog shit. It’d be easier to list the things he HASN’T turned to dog shit
Just change the flag every time the pool changes color
I wish people could come together and say collectively to 'news outlets': "no, stop reporting on this, it is not news" and they would cease pushing the asinine minutiae of idiocy which distracts us and dilutes our conversations about what should be done and return their spotlight onto the important events happening.
No. This news is something people can understand. They can see the failure and understand it.
Now try to explain to a normie what false slates are.
I don't know, how does "Convicted rapist and alleged child molesting US president contends that the color of a publicly-funded overpriced underwater paint job is closer to blue than gray" sound?
Does it still sound like news or should we be looking into the actual Epstein files?
We can't look into it bro it's basically soup lol
You will never see the files you want to, sorry.
So let's just look at paint instead.
Are you fucking kidding me? Seriously?
Heh I get it. Because it's a story about paint.
I like the cut of your jib.
You seem to be under the impression that everyone is getting the same news. They are not. This gripping drama isn't even on the radar of the so-called normies. And they wouldn't care either way except to align with how the story is spun to fit their preferred narrative.
For others, they already know. This is just another of a long series of "news" tidbits thrown out for the more disgruntled masses for them to sit, smugly, in the comfort of their armchairs, and with vindication, feeling temporarily superior while verbally masturbating with each other and becoming aquatic decorative experts.
It's fine, and par for the course, really. The people most affected by the current status quo are generally incapable of making any meaningful contribution to their own collective well-being. I keep forgetting that and shouldn't have even bothered to mention it.
Importantly, it's a dark grey.
One of the reasons they said that algae was blooming is that the blue bottom resulted in the pool heating up. A white bottom reflects the light. A blue bottom absorbs more, so it heats up more. A dark grey bottom will heat up even more than a light blue, so unless they fix the colour, they'll have algae problems as soon as there's water in it.
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Painting it blue was always a childish idea.
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