Just like a Confederate uniform.
Now it looks like that weird drawing he made for Epstein
Hes such a loser
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…
How is that not Danny Devito?
Someone else in this thread says he looks like the type of guy who ties damsels to train tracks.
Now I think more about it he’s a good fit for a Looney Tunes villain.
I’m just here wondering how he has TWO parts in his hair?!
Haha, it sure does look like that. But I think the one is just a lens flare, it goes above the hair. But looking that close definitely gave me toupee vibes
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…
ANTIFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Poor guy can’t catch a break. We’re here for you, Donald. Together, we’ll make it through this difficult time. Deus Vult, you fat idiot.
This was a MUCH Better use of Tax Dollars then Feeding STARVING AMERICANS!
-Republicans on Welfare!
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?
That seems rather unfair to Snidley Whiplash
Making a literal stain on history while doing all the metaphorical ones.
At least it seems to peel off easily!
Enough is enough, let the parks service fix it and send Donald Trump the bill.
A Trump never pays his debts.
Nah, don’t let competence take over, lives aren’t lost. Is funnier to watch them repeatedly try, cock it up, receive scorn.
lives aren’t lost.
yet
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
They’d be beating cops and smearing their shit on the walls like the animals they are.
They know that, too. They don’t even care to hide it anymore.
In new news, President Trump is officially suing the Sun for emitting too much sunlight and damaging “the beautiful and expensive, so expensive, blue pool liner”. This reporter had contacted the Sun but has not received confirmation of any response. "
Peroxide is a bleaching agent
A particularly strong oxidizer at that. Which is why the paint came up in chips
I really doubt it. Maybe in the direct area that is was poured into. But they’d literally have to have dumped swimming pools worth of it into it for it to do anything.
The pool takes 6 Million gallons of water to fill. They were pouring in peroxide by hand. By hand. They were essentially pouring gallons of water into water. When hydrogen peroxide is exposed to any heat (like from the fucking sun in the summer) it degrades significantly faster. The hydrogen peroxide just turns into water while releasing oxygen gas.
It could have reacted with the paint directly where it was being poured in before getting diluted. But I think the paint job was just garbage in the first place. It probably wasn’t sealed correctly. Given how entire sheets of it were just floating around.
Edit: Wikipedia and it’s sources agree with me.
According to a variety of experts interviewed by a variety of sources, the application of hydrogen peroxide to reduce algae in the Reflecting Pool was likely too diluted to account for the magnitude of the damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool
Not to mention that hydrogen peroxide readily reacts with organic matter (which is how it kills stuff) and the pool was full of algae to react with.
My guess is that either a layer of grey crud grew over the liner, or the dye/liner was never water safe to begin with.
Reading into the Wikipedia sources it seems the type of sealant used was liked not cured sufficiently before it was exposed to the elements. (Makes sense, the average pool isn’t getting cooked in direct sunlight like the reflecting pool was).
It’s like a home chef trying to cook in an industrial kitchen for 1000s of people. Trump’s pool guy just repeated the process used for personal pools on a project way beyond the scale they were qualified for. Shit didn’t work how they expected it to in a completely different climate and and scale.
It short. “Trump’s friend” was completely unqualified. Shocker.
Fair enough. Just been working with chlorine/corrosion lately so it’s on my mind.
Frankly, so is the sun.
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.
I’ve been using this joke for a decade now.
Bush Jr gave us great lies. Lies that were raised in small batches on family farms, then harvested with great care. They were aged to perfection in handcrafted oaken barrels under the supervision of Old World craftsmen and only decanted at their peak.
They were lies that made you feel ennobled by their precision
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, he is a bullshitter. I think that distinction comes from Harry Frankfurt:
That sounds exactly like where that came from, though I didn’t know the source. Thanks for sharing!! I’ll try to credit it in the future when it comes up.
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.
There’s an actual, somewhat definitive essay on this distinction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
That’s almost certainly where the idea came from, though when I learned it wasn’t cited. Thank you for letting me know!
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.
Just a friendly reminder, in case you made yourself forget about the terrible truth of our world. The truly horrifying thing? Your own tribe is doing it too.
Not only did the vandals slash it, but they’ve also painted it grey while it was filled!
That new underwater paint really has came a long way!
“They also pooed in my pants and took away my diet coke”
