...A bunch of somewhat richer incompetent idiots.
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What a waste of water when all that water could have been wasted by an AI data center.
Joe Brandon shit in my pants, drain my pants!
This whole project is hooking the reflecting pool up to be used for cooling the ballroom data center.
It's going to end up in the same river it was originally removed from. They haven't used city water to fill it for a while now.
This water is now full of chemicals, toxic algae and disintegrating epoxy though? They wouldn't just put this into a public river, wait until the EPA hears about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No chemicals, the peroxide they dumped in as already broken down into water and oxygen. Up until recently there was lots of raw sewage being dumped into the Potomac. Didn't the epa already get dismantled?
Can we please get hundreds of people down there to continuously shout "HUUUURRRRRR DUUUURRRRRRRR" until the project is finished?
Get hauled away for "domestic tewowism" because it hurt admin feelings. Lol
Holy shit I thought this was a joke
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-motorcade-reflecting-pool/
Snopes seems to think its true and that some of the paint was wet. Its so dumb.
I don't have the link but there's an entire video of it.
Ohio-based Green Water Solutions, also known as Greenwater Services, was given a $1.7 million contract to install a water-purification system in the Reflecting Pool
Well no wonder the water ended up green!
Are the writers even fucking trying anymore? Lazy writing.
A reminder that more people have been arrested over this than over the Epstein Files.
Maybe those arrested should have just been millionaires and they wouldn't have had that issue.
they gotta keep his fuckheaded motorcade from driving through it again too
Fill drain, fill drain, fill drain! You have no idea the physical toll that three renovations have on a pool!
Snip snap snip!
I understood this office reference and appreciated it greatly!!!
I honestly struggle to understand how a pool that has been clean for decades suddenly can't be kept clean.
To be fair to the regime (there's something I never thought I'd type) the reflecting pool had been kept clean in the past by paying people (National Park Service workers) to wade out into it and clean it on the regular. Then the DOGE crew laid off a ton of Park Service personnel. Then our dear leader began howling about the green water.
This timeline may imply some details that I've got wrong, but it's hard to be sympathetic to the regime, given the general picture of its priorities it paints, which I believe is generally correct.
Yet another quietly ignored DOGE fuck-up
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And exactly what will this same company that fucked it up the first time do differently this time?
This time we'll spend taxpayer dollars on 24/7 armed guards. Guarantees everyone has something to reflect on when they're, ya know, reflecting.
I hope the next guy in office forces the trump crime family to reimburse the government coffers for every taxpayer dollar he's spent on corrupt dealings
There will probably be even more digits on the invoice, I suspect. So that part will be different.
Charge even more money, of course.
The grift is strong with this one. Drain and refill the swamp, robbing the treasury to do it.
Vandals! Stealing the algae and water! Arrest them! 100 years in prison!
1,000 years dungeon!
Don't worry the algae will return because they've learnt nothing.
"troubled revamp" is such a nice way of putting it
Imperial media playing its role.
If I were on that crew, I'd be afraid I would be next on the list to be thrown under the bus. It wouldn't take much for one of them to be arrested as an Antifa terrorist saboteur when it inevitably goes to shit again.
Trump came to Drain the Swamp and end wars. He's going to keep on doing it!
And no president has done those things so many times. He should get the nobel peace prize for how many times he's ended the war in Iran.
and, he had to create a literal swamp in washington so he could get to work on draining it.
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