Algae, peeling blue material, conspiracy theories: Reflecting Pool takes national spotlight
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How about those Epstein files?
Hooooowwww about those Epstein files?
It's wild how he's turned his immediate surroundings in Washington into this living metaphor for his chaos and senility. Half the whitehouse is torn down, there's a circus attraction on the front lawn, the rose garden is a slab of concrete and the reflecting pool has become a swamp. Nauseatingly stupid, yet astonishingly predictable; predictions that when they were first made were called hysterical and deranged...
The dumb part is not that this orange idiot wanted to do all this.
The dumb part is that there is a large team, a huge organization, an entire community of people and professionals that enabled him to do all this and make it all possible. Everyone keeps pointing fingers at the deranged mango clown show, but people seldom think about the production crew that keep him in power and enable everything he wants to do, no matter how stupid it is.
Accelerationists want the chaos he brings. This was all part of their plan. They didn't know exactly what he would do, but they're on board with the crazy shit he's come up with.
The alternative was a woman, apparently, and many sat it out as a result.
Jesus, not a woman.
/s
Real estate is the one thing he's supposed to be good at, and he's even fucking that up.
Everything has fake gold trim now tho
Trash president voted in by suckers
They’re like the meth family that used to live two houses down for me.
Algae, and now the paint is peeling. Could not be more emblematic. Didn't solve the problem, and inarguably made it worse.
Yep, just like Iran, DOGE, Covid, the economy, healthcare, fraud, immigration, the Press Corps, the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, the entirety of the White House, etc.
Trump might literally have the Mierdas Touch.
Haha, I'm stealing that one!
Can we get back to the trumpstein files please.
Who fucking care about 15 million pool.
War, genocide, allied war crimes, cabal of billionaire pedophiles.
Piss in the pool.
The pool is news because it is a very understandable and approachable subject. Most people believe they could handle a pool, and if it turns out trump can't even manage a pool (with all the power of the government at his disposal), then some of the MAGAs finally start thinking that trump may not be Presidential material.
You think at this point that these people can think rationally?
Yeah, these people are fighting an epic battle of good and evil and logic is aligned with the evil forces.
Talking to some of them, there seems to be a belief that even if everything looks like it's going horribly wrong, then that must be a sign too that the plan is coming together differently than they thought...
It's really fatalistic and tied up in the prosperity gospel/American mythos/calvanism. This can be a real shorthand for "everything is how it's supposed to be because God controls the minutia of our lives so how about a thank you." It's how they whip the rank and file voters.
The irony is that
No, the MAGAs are saying that it was antifa who dumped algae and chemicals in the pool to make Trump look bad
And of course it has to be some diabolical covert operation orchestrated by "Antifa". It's unthinkable that the 80 year old going to the doctor every 6 weeks made a poor decision about some vanity project.
Absolutely hold him accountable for such things, but let's not forget the chain of yes-men that enabled it to become an actual disaster. There is room on the wall for more than one person.
There is only one rule in the Republican party, Trump is infallible.
My wife's aunt is a MAGA hat surgeon. She informally recommends Ivermectin to people to treat any number of illnesses. She doesn't prescribe but tells them where to get it online.
All because the leader cannot be wrong. Ivermectin must be a wonder drug even if it was useless for covid.
I'm amazed this hasn't been updated to reflect all the new 'uses'... And it refers to ivermectin as a wonder drug too!
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3043740/
Unfortunately that vanity project seems to be running the country into the ground.
Well at least it isn’t Harris.
Lmaooo they are saying antifa did this??
Sad thing is it’s not a poor decision - he gave a lot of taxpayer money to a friend and almost certainly got a nice little kickback himself. It’s a bad decision if you assume he gives a fuck about the pool. But not if you think he only gives a fuck about enriching himself
This is straight up poetry. This cult not being able to manage a pool is peak.
A doddering, ranting idiot surrounded by sycophants who will kiss his ring as long as the money and privileges keep coming. Meanwhile we have a spineless congress and a disconnected supreme court.
Drain the swamp!
Reseal and paint the swamp!
Refill the swamp!
I think calling it the swamp will have far greater impact than most people realize
The best part is he literally turned it into a swamp
Since when is ineptitude and incompetence a Conspiracy Theory?
Trump is blaming Obama.
As an internet onlooker, I thought that was a joke. I should know better by now.
The guy that was supposed to drain the swamp is building a new one.
It perfectly sums up Trump and this administration. They do not know how to build. Only destroy.
Destroy and profit from it
Slapping a shitty coat of paint over a complex and long-standing problem and claiming it's fixed is an apt metaphor for the last 250 years...
Why stop at 250?
Now this actually is a distraction from the pedophilia and warcrimes. Rather than warcrimes being a distraction from the pedophilia, or vice versam
We should call it the Epstein pool to make sure pool paint doesnt get more news time than raped and murdered kids.
Fuck you, billionaire sewer CNN
Yeah, that article goes out of its way to call out and condemn entirely justified criticism.
I somehow feel like there was another person between that didn't do anything... 🤔
Just follow the money from the gov to the contractors to Trump's family...
This is a priority of the American people for sure…🤦🏻
distraction distraction distraction.
What's the fucker hiding?
Well, for starters, the rest of the Epstein Files.
Oddly allegorical.
Who could have guessed this would be the false flag he would lean into.
Make America Green Again
Might want to indent each word one more time if you meant it to be read vertically.
On topic, considering how many people are sick and/or dying under both Trump admins, a lot of Americans are actually being made green.