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Blaming Obama for his failed 16+ million dollar attempt at entering the algae-based bio fuel industry.

How sad.

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[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

On the occasion of Iran's victory US has decided to make the pool green as per Iran's flag red white and green.

[–] Probably_Jayson@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Thanks Obama /s

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago

Obama shit Trump's pants too!

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is fucking trump in a nutshell. Cares about appearances and looks while everyone in the country can’t afford rent and food.

[–] mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

My mom is like this but on a family scale.

[–] gankouskhan@piefed.zip 13 points 12 hours ago

That man finally created his swamp to drain.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not a chemist or even a pool guy... but isn't algae automatic with any long-standing pool of water that isn't chlorinated? What did they expect? Why are they even angry?

[–] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 10 hours ago

I'm no expert, but I think they were supposed to coat the base of the pool with something and apparently it was a shit job and that's why the algae

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Classic narcissistic bullshit. When you cause a problem, blame literally anyone else.

[–] columbus@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But PBD said Trump is the biggest alpha male in the world /s

[–] dawcas@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 14 hours ago

Of course he's alpha, he's not remotely prepared for the public.

[–] some_guy 25 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Look, I know a lot of people will find this absurd cause Trump blames people for his failings all the time. But did anyone consider that Obama could have been there with a fleet of dump trucks pouring algae into the water in the middle of the night? He could be the next Banksy because he's so good at covert missions! Wait, let's make him our next super-spy (American James Bond). Also, he stole some jewels[0].

  1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1312843/
[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Nah, Obama would have used green jello

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[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't he going to drain the swamp, not build one?

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Thanks Obama!

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

According to data found online about controlling alge in pools with H2O2, they'd need 1800 gallons of H2O2 to treat the reflecting pool.

Here's one:

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 16 hours ago

Thank god they got some army guys there to watch out for him.

[–] DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think the big news here is that the pool leaks 16 million gallons of water every year

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 8 points 14 hours ago

At least they switched to using tidal water instead of potable drinking water. Funnily enough, that project happened during the Obama administration and probably is a factor of why they've had problems with algae, so like, technically Trump isn't wrong. What he's leaving out though is that painting the pool blue almost assuredly made the algae problem worse.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 62 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

Obama hasn't been president for a decade. This is so stupid I feel like my brain cells are committing suicide.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

but the magats will eat it up. #BlameObama

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Someone should make a new version of Bame Canada (from South Park), "Blame Obama".

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

Despite having the exact same number of syllables as ‘blame Canada’ it just doesn’t roll off the tongue the same.

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[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Pah, in Chicago they do this on purpose and are proud of it!

Photo of Chicago's river dyed green for St. Patrick's Day

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Someone convince Trump to strip down and splash around in it to show how great it is.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

That's more of an RFK Jr kind of thing.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

You want shit in the pool? That's how you get shit in the pool.

[–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

You want RFK Junior in the pool? Because that’s how you get RFK Junior in the pool.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Break out the Presidential plunger

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Gross, he probably actually has a golden plunger.

[–] remon@ani.social 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TheDuke@europe.pub 46 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Incredible, just few hours ago I read a sarcastic piece how Trump will blame this mess on Obama. And now he did it for real.

Nothing new, but this orange piece of shit is the bigest joke the human race has ever brought up. And americans voted him into office..... TWICE. 10 facepalms a second are not enough for this epic failure....

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 17 points 20 hours ago

I eat the Onion every damn time now because it's literally the same headlines as the actual news.

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[–] adhdsergio@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

You can't paint water, dummy

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