Evidence shows Trump admin caused Reflecting Pool damage it blamed on sabotage: ex-insider
An ex-GOP lawmaker has heard enough about phantom left-wing saboteurs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and he is pointing at the only suspects who fit the evidence: the people Trump hired to clean it.
In a series of posts and a new video, former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger dismantled the administration's vandalism narrative by accepting one piece of it. Yes, he conceded, chemicals were used on the pool. The catch is who used them and why. "Just for those who are saying there was chemical sabotage to peel the paint in the reflective pool, you're right," Kinzinger wrote. "It's just, you guys did it to kill the algae."
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No shit. Now where are the Epstein files? What you gonna do about ICE? Doge? What about the fuckup with Iran? Are you still sucking Pissrael's dick? What about the infant you allegedly murdered? SPCX? Cost of living?
Mainstream media gonna keep status quo via distraction
Edit: forgot about venezuela and cuba
Holy shit I forgot about ICE and Doge. These fuckers murdered two peaceful people in the street in January of this year, and the zone is so flooded that it feels like a lifetime ago.
Two peaceful middle class white people. There's a lot more that didn't make the newsworthy cut.
The child rapist does so much shit it's hard to keep track of it anymore. I think I might even have missed some
Adding chemicals to the pool didn't cause the sealer to lift.
Even if some liberal ANTIFA Ninja trans person did slash a 250 foot gash in the sealer, that wouldn't cause it to lift - at least not in a day or two. It would just scrape a line into it. If the sealer is properly adhered to the surface, it will still bond next to the cut. That said, the slash MAY allow water to work it's way under the sealer over time, and may cause it to start lifting, but not in such a short amount of time. It would be months or years later and it would curl next to the cut first. It wouldn't be huge sections like we've seen.
I've sealed several water feature ponds made of cement over the years. I've also done epoxy floors on cement (similar process). The hard part is doing proper prep work to get it to adhere. Prep is usually 3/4 or more of the entire job. Putting the sealer or epoxy down is the easy and fun part.
This is either using the wrong sealer for the job, not prepping it properly, not applying it correctly, or not giving it ample time to cure before refilling.
My guess is they didn't prep it properly and didn't let it fully cure.
"Sent by God", as if God didn't mostly send floods, plagues, diseases, and other hardships. You can tell people who say this shit aren't the least educated in Christianity.
...that's the joke
Every accusation is an admission.
you're a liar!!! 😡
you're a liar!!! 😡
Nu-uh!! I said it first!!! 😤
Why would you tell me that you said it second? You're obviously admitting that I'm the only one smart enough to have said it first. That's why it's so amazing. This initiated disaster is amazing. I never even said the thing that you said first, because I don't even know you. You ask such nasty questions.
Obama said it first. 😤
Well, you do make some excellent points here. And I really hate Obama! Ok, I'm convinced! Thank you 🙏
Why does Obama keep shitting trump’s pants? It’s been like 10 years. Isn’t he bored of it yet?
SAD!
I don't think I'd ever get tired of shitting on Krasnov's grave. I would like to submit this proposal to the irb for a research grant to find out.
Edit: like I got charts and graphs and shit and everything. I was a trained economist and bullshit artist once, give me five minutes for realsies
Sounds like everything necessary to conduct the research.
As if evidence actually matters.
Right? If evidence did matter, Trump would be in jail and we would have the last Epstein datasets all released.
Ironically, it may still be because evidence matters that they refuse to release the Epstein files.
This is a post-evidence society. MAGA is more of a religion than a political movement
AIUI he’s wrong - the chemicals were way too dilute to do anything to the paint OR algae. The paint is peeling due to lack of prepping the pool before painting it
You guys are basically a Rome and your capital is burning while the crazy orange lunatic Donald Nero Trump dances around and blames others for fire he started...
Nonsense, our empire is fine! Do accompany us to the Arena, there's a gladiator match today!
Exactly. This whole thing is stupid as hell.
He hired a company without the required expertise to paint the pool. Then dumped paint-stripping chemicals to kill the algae. And when you dump paint stripping chemicals into a painted pool the result of course looks like crap. There are no 'vandals'. Just a company that used the wrong chemical on a painted pool.
It's patently obvious to anyone with a functioning brain that this was neglect and/or incompetence. There is no way to "cause" an algae bloom in an adequately maintained pool or fountain in the amount of time between when it was "taken care of" by Trump's wealthy friend and contributor and when it turned green with algae. Then again most of MAGA could be considered mentally handicapped IMO. So most of his mouth breathing followers will nod along and think "Yeah, must be them libtards dun sabotaged it".
Clearly all that's needed is a couple of vats of Ivermectin.
Or a reflecting pool full of it so they can lay face down in it.
They're just treating politics like sports. Sure some of them believe it, most of them are just happily delusional that they're seeing their team play.
Hey we could all pee really hard at it
Surprised Raichu at this point, anyway who gives a shit, where are the Epstein files?
Pretty sure that's a Pichu.
It is.
It doesn't matter what the evidence says, the Orange Overlord's lie has already been planted in the empty heads of his cult.
Please maga drink the algae water I’m so ready to be owned on his situation.
It comes as no surprise that nobody in this administration understands how water works.
They should put some magnets it it
That's the end of the magnet!
They at least understand that it is wet (from the standpoint of water).
Nobody knows, Particle Man.
They have a fight. Reflecting pool wins. Bronzer Man, Bronzer Man.
Person man, woman cam. Hit on the head with a frying pan. Lives his life as a garbage can, person man.
Is he racist or just a rapist? Isn't he just totally worthless? Who elected person man? Degraded man, orange man.
Tremendously.
I mean when's the last time any of them bathed?
I repaired pools one summer. Pools tend toward algae. Pools half-saturated with chlorine develop algal blooms. Pools with heat-absorbing paint on the bottom, absent or insufficient water filtering, and location in a literal semitropical swamp are a constant (very careful, with lots of water testing) battle to prevent algal blooms. Then you go dumping peroxide in... It seems unlikely this could have gone any other way.
usa props up genocide from israel and kills thousands in foreign countries both directly and indirectly. yet what is most important to usa people is who dumped peroxide in a national monument.
We’ve not lost sight of those atrocities.
We on Lemmy are capable of thinking about multiple things at a time. Sounds weird, I know.
don't forget about mister Duck who died fulfilling his duty for this country 🫡
I find it hilarious all the citizens of these countries who heap blame on statesia. Your hands are covered in blood too, number 6
I heard the leader of ANTIFA and the hacker known as 4chan teamed up for this one. That's probably why they can't find any evidence.
The chemical is hydrogen peroxide, FYI
We need to call this Trumps Gash Gate
Cue Nick Cage "YOU DON'T SAY?" meme.
Insider tells world the blatantly obvious is, in deed, fact.
Who cares. Everyone said the algae would return, and it did because it's a stagnant pool of water without chemicals.
And fairly clear he rushed it to get it done for his birthday
Everyone needs to stop talking about what he claims, and instead openly ask him why painting the bottom at all would stop the algae. Everything else is basically defence
Is it even “lying” any more if that’s literally all they’re capable of?
It is a delusional narcissist’s false projected reality that can only be immediately dismissed, because if you take time to even consider it the intended effect of injecting doubt has been accomplished. It’s just noise; a memetic hazard fishing for a weak impressionable mind to inhabit. At this level of broad transmissibility and influence, I can only manage to describe it in the terms of a dangerous psychological phenomenon.
In the end, the reflecting pool is a symptom and not a cause. It accurately reflects the state of our country right now. If a dirty pool meant we spent the money and effort on food, housing, and schools, I’d be happy to see it. Instead, we have a fitting monument symbolic of America’s corruption, inept leadership, and Trump’s sad obsession with gaudy real estate projects built in his image by the lowest bidder most capable of fellating his ego.
It is a tidy distraction from the cold-blooded murder abroad and at home, and from bargaining away the country to America’s enemies for the low price of funneling money and power to Trump’s interests.
It defies description.
YES
Thank you. The attempts to normalize unacceptable behavior have been a big part of the problem.
Lying has not stopped being lying. Lying has not stopped being wrong.
Just to be clear, normalizing it is not my intent here. It’s to emphasize that it goes so, so far beyond simple lies - so far that I think it’s deep into pathological disorder, on a national scale. These people are literally incapable of saying anything approaching the truth. They are projecting an alternate reality that I’m not completely sure they can see outside of, to varying personal degrees.
This does not excuse their criminal behavior, it indicates that they are criminally insane. Politicians lie. Police officers lie. Pundits lie. But they at least seem to be aware of it. The stuff coming out of the Trump administration is full on delusional.
There’s lying, and then there’s remorselessly wielding presidential power to manipulate the stock market with an illegal war. The latter is a crime against humanity.
I appreciate your explanation. I had misunderstood. And I do agree with your point.
So are they going to issue an arrest warrant for some waddling old fat guy with a Foghorn Leghorn haircut?
Gee what a shock.
Color me surprised with a marker that is BONE. FUCKING. DRY.
Scheming on a thing, that’s a mirage
...when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's a mirage
No shit
another blocked troll. bye bye.
Byyyeee ✨✨👋