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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/algae-trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool
Long live the Supreme Leader, long live the Revolutionary Guards
just get rid of that building in the way and turn it into a canal
just make a bunch of canals everywhere
And they said Trump wouldn't be a green president. Checkmate libs.
libs will not shut the fuck up about this and the kennedy center
The liberal mind cares nothing for human life. Merely for building ornate decadent monuments to itself. The liberal desires nothing more than to be reduced to be an exhibit in a museum of a long-dead civilization.
Their alternative is recognising that the US isn't the great benevolent power that they imagine it is, so this is their only option.
Donโt forget the east wingโฆ
unreal tournament (1999)
Why don't they add salt, seawater is less prone to algae
Who's fighting in that shitshow again?
Honestly kinda pretty
make a thousand monuments bloom
Im surprised they aren't just pumping it full of copper. It's blue, it kills algae, and the president doesnt need to follow EPA regs on pesticides.
Sure, the outflow would lead to oxygen depletion and a fishkill in the potamac, but thats for the woke to cry about
They're just dumping bleach/ hydrogen peroxide in it rn
peroxide is toxic to all life at high concentrations. But all life has enzymes to deal with it, and it decomposes to water and oxygen. Weak shit. Algae laughs at the pathetic attempt at control. Copper-based pesticides on the other hand are no joke to algae (and it eventually ends up in the sediment, persisting in the environment forever).
That'd make it more light turquoise blue color tho right? Trump wanted it "American flag blue"
Atp they should just fill it with some industrial petroleum dye that'll mutate the ducks
I cant find pics, but copper pesticides are a deep blue color (because of the oxidation state of the copper). At least thats how it looks when you mix it before applying. You never use enough to actually color the body of water, and you're right it probably turns more greenish after being applied.
fill it with some industrial petroleum dye thatโll mutate the ducks
Methylene blue lets gooooo! Put me in the situation room ill find a solution to this
"drain the swamp" lol
I support the algae in their war against carbon dioxide and the American empire.
they should make it the world's biggest ball pit
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That's a lovely green.
I like the idea someone had here. drain it, fill it with a clear blue resin. done!
Libs would go insane. DC stuff like a reflecting pool is very important to them.
Aesthetics of solids vs flowing liquids aside, resin just doesn't hold up very well under constant UV light. I don't want to know what it would cost just to tear it up, nevermind replace it when that happens. Unless there's some super resin I dont know about.
Other considerations:
...honestly you'd be far better off filling it with polished concrete or stone. Just commit to the bit at that point. You can even dye it.
At least it would solve the problem of the pool leaking
That reminds me, let's not talk about the water that would collect on top lol
That reminds me, letโs not talk about the water that would collect on top lol
A nice ingredient in the "pool" of climate change and tropical insects reproducing in the has been colder places and populations without antibodies.
Either you fill it to the fill line in which case the water flows off. Or you fill it to the brim.
Maybe? Only if the surface is sloped to the sides and otherwise perfectly flat. And this is a vast surface to have the resin set like that, if such a thing is even possible without some shaping and polishing after it cures.
Only one way to find out!
I've pivoted to recommending mercury
Pouring thousands of gallons of epoxy to simulate water would be incredibly American.
Mar a lagoon.
Things being done "for the public" getting thwarted by lack of regulations on growth: how very Amerikkkan
No one could have predicted this!
Wow Trump gone woke, even making the reflecting pool green. America truly has fallen
Think of the CO2 being sequestered 
