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President Donald Trump drained the pool Monday, insisting vandals had left a 300-yard gash in its lining. But reporters and on-the-ground onlookers told CNN they saw no gash.
Holy shit, trump... lying?!?! NO WAY! He would NEVER lie! he's such an upstanding old gentleman!!
spoiler
/s just in case
The only morons who will give a shit about this damn reflecting pool are the MAGA dumbfucks. Use it as a urinal until the regime changes.
Gotta be the dumbest president the US has ever had.
One of the dumbest people the US has ever had
One of the dumbest people ever had
Who cares about the pool, it's a distraction of the most obvious kind.
What I'm wondering now is whether the USA can recover from this utter disconnection of the executive from truth and reality.
There is now a undeniable precedent of just lying continuously while in office, to essentially no consequence.
This sets a new floor for what you can do while in power. How this doesn't break US American politics durably, I don't know.
Edit: well this is on topic: https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold
Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Our democracy has been hacked and dismantled, if we want it back it must be rebuilt
We broke.
No denying that brother.
More effort has gone to an investigation into Trump being embarrassed than Trump raping children. Never forget who sits in the white house or who continues to make that possible. They use the law for self interest, not to build us a better world.
The best proof that the gash doesn't exist is that they haven't plastered pictures of it everywhere, and seem to have actually put black fabric over the fencing to block everyone's view of the empty pool.
Remember when we used to elect people who were fit for the office of president?
Idk, while yes trump is delusional, I can think of a lot more unfit politicians for high office than fit ones.
A while ago I saw the old video before it got filled...
Literally while they were still painting/sealing it, trump full on drove his full motorcade into the reflecting pool so he could see the color and speak at reporters.
I immediately figured that's why it got fucked up.
"The Beast" that the president rides in is a fucking tank and insanely heavily, driving normal SUVs would have been dumb, but there's no way that thing didn't fuck it up.
I've heard it contested whether 'The Beast' was used, so I went and Found a video myself.
I personally don't see 'The Beast' out there.
That said, I do think any of those massive Cadillacs could have caused the damage.
https://youtu.be/cVa-a2ZFEGE?t=69
That may not be "The Beast" but it's just as heavily armored and started from a larger frame, so I think it's a safe bet to equate the two even if that's not officially "The Beast".
Like, I don't think it's been one vehicle thru all these administrations.
I always took "The Beast" to refer to a heavily armored vehicle the president routinely travels in. Like how "Marine 1" is just whatever helicopter the president is using, or how trump got off Air Force 1 and got one a different air force 1 a few weeks ago.
While a lot less official "The Beast" isn't a single vehicle either.
Personally, I'm just kind of surprised that there was a motorcade in the damn thing to begin with. Nobody even puts boats in that, let alone cars.
Oh come on! Stop it! This will put The Onion and all other satirical sources out of business.
Info Wars is the new source to follow
Is it finally from the Onion now? I keep hearing it is, then to hear it isn't.
Yeah they've been putting out videos on the infowars YouTube page.
In case you hadn't heard, Alex Jones popped like a balloon in his car. Seems like other news outlets are afraid to report on it...
I saw some video thumbnail - can't find it now - talking about how Donvict's 900 foot gash was the drainage system?
No photos in the entire article. Brilliant.
There are some tweets at the bottom so you can click and be presented with an X login wall which I am certainly not going to be able to get past, not having an account to that nazi owned site. I just love twitter journalism these days.
What a comedy of errors. You couldn't make this shit up.
Are the Epstein Files in the pool? No? Then I don't care about the pool.
So has the DoJ has put out a warrant for Trump and his staff for "terrorism"?
So he wasn't wrong, it's just that he himself was the vandal.
And the crack the Pedo-in-Chief said was there? That is the drainage channel.
Dumb as fucking dirt...
FAKE NEWS! But I have a great idea here, maybe it is the best one folks, just fill the whole pool up with beautiful, highly reflective mercury. Or, as they call it, quicksilver. You know what quicksilver is? They used to have it in thermometers before they made them woke... And and I also hear that the algae don't like being in it very much! Just like looser liberals with box cutters. But if they want to reform, and I told JD about this already, we can do patriot baptisms in there as well! It's going to be great! The only thing that would be greater is if we filled it up with liquid gold, but we can't afford that now. Not after what OBAMA did. So the silver will have to do.
There isn't much about this administration that could be less newsworthy than the shitty renovations to the fucking pool. Why the fuck is anyone interested in this
Because it shows very plainly the absolute incompetence of this government, not only for this project, but as a whole. I mean renovating the pool shouldn't really be that difficult, should it? Just get a reputable company to do the job, and that's it. But the government can't even do that.
In the media, to avoid talking about the more serious shit.
On places like lemmy, because humor is a coping mechanism and it's way easier to make jokes about this than the more serious shit.
It was truly North Korea level propaganda when they sent some Faux State Regime Media lackey down there to stand in front of a puke green swamp and claim it was "American flag blue".
The next thing is they'll hold up 4 fingers and demand we see 5.
Lights*
Sorry, not sorry