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This is the perfect metaphor for the empire... needless spending under a corrupt evil rule, crumbling beneath them in grand fashion.
The only problem I'm facing is whether or not they're doing it on purpose as double agents for a foreign country, or they're really this incompetent.
Evil genius'? Or just evil stupid fucking pedophiles?
Both? Both.
Tale as old as time, just ask Nero and Caligula.
Huh? Caligula and Nero were emperors during the Julio-Claudian dynasty at the beginning of the Principate, literally the first dynasty of Roman emperors. How would they know anything about the decline of an empire? That came 400 years after their reigns. The year of the four emperors was tumultuous and violent, but it wasn't even remotely "the empire is crumbling and being sold for parts".
Yes. We get to see the latter, while pulling their strings behind the curtain are the former.
When Trump opens his mouth, you can SEE Putin's hand.
It’s quite obvious that Donald just wants revenge this time around. You think he LIKES Steven Miller? With all that charisma of his? Do you think he can stand Little Marco Rubio?
No, he just wants to tear down the United States empire for going “woke” and punishing his slice of the oligarchy by breaking up the Epstein ring.
“Oh Jeffery, I’ll burn down their pathetic country as revenge for what they made me do to you!”
I don’t know if we will ever find out for sure; but my money is on petty, narcissistic revenge for the crime of holding the rich accountable.
The narcissistic wound that caused this revenge tour IMO was him losing the 2020 election. He lost and he knows he lost.
I can't believe this is real.
It’s just too fucking stupid, isn’t it?
I mean either they didn't prep the surface or they used the wrong paint. I know OP said they used latex paint but I am having a hard time believing they could be that inept.
Edit: Apparently there are some specialized latex paints you can use for pools. They have to be formulated to resist constantly being under water though.
This is the same group of decision makers that thought pouring copious amounts of hydrogen peroxide and bleach into said pool was a great idea...
We're dealing with a whole different kind of inept... these fuckers have access to nuclear weapons...
That's silly, they should have used bleach and ammonia.
These guys are pool workers, if it was a normal size pool they probably would have sanded it and it'd work, this is just too big and much different water
The prep is where I assume they messed up. I've never been contracted to paint the reflecting pool, but I've painted concrete and there is a lot of surface prep one has to do with dry concrete, to say nothing of painting a surface that has been sumberged for decades.
I wonder if the attempts at algae treatment didn’t cause an issue. Heard reports of hydrogen peroxide being used and that’s a heck of a nasty chemical on materials
Not that I'm defending that orange fuck, but this has been a problem since they switched from city water to using the basin water.
I don’t even care about the way it was painted. The fact that it was painted at all is dumb. Especially some bright uplifting color. The reflecting pool is supposed to be a mirror, not a party pool. And if the water was dirty, well, there are chemicals and filtration systems designed to handle that.
> "drain the swamp!"
> makes an actual swamp
It's one pool liner, Donald, how much could it cost? Fourteen million dollars?
Here's $300 Billion, go lose an oil war
it doesn't look like Obama's hand... maybe with some degenerate AI we can change that.. then blame him! /s
It doesn't need to go that far — as far as the MAGAts are concerned, if the Chief Cheeto says it's so then it must be so.
The money spent attaching that 1x.8 ft square of paint to the bottom of a pool for a weekend would be life changing for 9/10 Americans.
I'm sure any national monuments/ballrooms this guy manages to build will stand the test of time just as well.
What gets me is none of these dumbasses thought water would change the color....
Like, they painted the bottom the exact color they wanted it to look. There's a reason no pool is painted dark blue and all that shit is very light blue and often with white streaks/splotches as well.
Like, it's obvious the paint wasn't even meant for underwater usage, because no one is dumb enough to make on that dark to begin with.
As a pool owner, I believe this.
It has nothing to do with how pools work...
It's about how visible wavelengths work...
Edit:
To actually explain it, red wavelengths are shit at going thru water
Send light to the bottom of a pool and it reflects back as just blue off white.
Send it to the bottom of even a shallow pool that's dark blue, and you get back black. Which warms the water and helps algae. With the green algae, you get even blacker water.
we have two MAGAs in our neighborhood. only one is stupid enough to advertise it constantly. one was stupid enough to put it on his truck around the last election and his house and truck got egged.
when the dude whose house got egged put in a pool, the workers took four months for a simple inground pool and rented a jackhammer every day. I worked general construction contracting a couple summers between college. the pool he got put in is a one week job and did not need a jackhammer except to ruin his peace and run up the bill. if they hit stone it's sandstone: they could have just pushed through it with the backhoe they rented to dig the hole with: i know because i collect rare rocks and i have some local sandstone, it's what's under the entire damn town: had to have some of the local rock in my collection: it came from the local superfund site, just on the edge where it wasn't contaminated: i got it from the site supervisor. anyways the contractors absolutely fucked my neighbor over. he both is and was an absolute idiot. he is a scientist and knows his science and nothing else.
i mean i'm an idiot. i know how do my music and nothing else. i get it.
Damn it, Biden!
What flavor is it?
Spite.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could actually sell this online to cultists. People in DC could be making a killing.
What’s funny is it would probably be worth something as a piece of history.
So I had to do the math:
Several sources put the water surface area of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool at about 7.78 acres. So that’s about 338,800 square feet.
$14 million / 338800 = $41.32 per sq ft.
This looks roughly 8 in x 8 in which would be about .45 sq ft.
So this is about $18.36 worth of paint.
Anyone have an order link?
How much is fourteen million dollars dollars in USD?
175,000 barrels
Dollar^2^
with today's exchange rates, fourteen million statesian dollars is 1,861,702.12 barrels of maple syrup
Make ita bit coin and I bet capt bone spurs would buy
Honestly, I'd frame it and hang it on my wall as a reminder of the utter incompetence of this administration. We're in a weird time right now and it's good to have a few reminders later on.
