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Just like a Confederate uniform.
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Peroxide is a bleaching agent
Frankly, so is the sun.
Remind me, were we supposed to drink that during covid?
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.
He is also a genuine moron who probably actually believes half of the stupid shit he says.
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
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.
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.
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 know that, too. They don’t even care to hide it anymore.
They’d be beating cops and smearing their shit on the walls like the animals they are.
But did he wear a tan suit?
The president at first suggested his renovations would cost $1.5 million, but the bill ballooned to more than $16 million by June.
Trump had said the repairs would last a century, but within days of the project’s initial completion last month, the water was beset by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coating appeared to be peeling off the bottom.
The Trumpy lie followed by definitive proof of it being totally false is becoming increasingly rapid-fire: bait and switch, bait and switch… seems he can’t conceal his trickery long enough before the next news cycle anymore. It’s quite astonishing.
“trickery” implies he’s clever and doing things intentionally.
Yeah, it’s not like he’s some evil genius. Serial abusers aren’t trained manipulators. It’s just kind of built into their character. It’s automatic. And it’s not even like he’s intentionally hiring smarter people to be evil for him. His shit personality just draws those kinds of people to him.
None of this is sophisticated. It’s just that a terrifying percentage of Americans are dogshit stupid, so low effort evil works.
He intentionally hired “greenwater services” a firm whose owners have a history of paying bribes to fill the pool with algae
Huh? The owners of the company pay bribes to… pool owners so that they can fill the pool with algae? Why would they want to do that?
No, owners of company pay bribes to Trump so they get paid a rediculous amount to do a shoddy job and fill the pool with algae, which they can then get paid to remove
They owners of the company have done similar things in other businesses in the past
They probably bribe individuals to hire them on behalf of a company (or country)
There’s literally no interval between bait and switches so short that it won’t work on conservatives/regressives.
He could tell them dogs aren’t real and 30 seconds later tell them they are real but that cats aren’t and they’d be fully onboard.
It’s a cult thing.
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”
At least the Romans had entertaining circuses not whatever the fuck this is
It’s empty now, we can use it as a gladiator pit.
I vote that each executive branch fight it out in there. But also add lions for some spicy entertainment?
Put a guillotine on one end and fill the pool with the blood of the bourgeoisie.
Pelosi vs mcconnell
Don’t think the Romans ever put corpses up to fight in gladiator games.
What do you mean? You have football, hockey, baseball and you just had a world cup. Keep that economy afloat and don’t think about it too much.
Wonder how many school lunches or college degrees that ‘flag blue’ color would have paid for …
So far the project, originally estimated by the administration to cost up to $2M, sits at $16M and growing.
At $5 per school lunch, that’s 3.2M school lunches. With the average US in-state bachelor’s degree at $11.4K, that’s 1403 degrees.
For context, there is an estimated 22M children receiving subsidized school lunches. Given the wealth of the US, that figure is baffling.
but, like, socialism would be soooo expeeennnnsive
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?
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…
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…
Enough is enough, let the parks service fix it and send Donald Trump the bill.
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
A Trump never pays his debts.
Okay, just like a Confederate uniform. Don’t be childish.
Second, let me explain what actually happened here. I believe the project cost around $14 million before the hydrogen peroxide was added to the reflecting pool.
That money went to one of Trump’s associates, who almost certainly pocketed the vast majority of it and spent only a small fraction on the work that actually needed to be done to the reflecting pool. That’s why this is happening.
His associate isn’t issuing a refund, and the government isn’t demanding the money back.
This was effectively a government subsidy to line a friend’s pockets.
Nobody actually cares about the reflecting pool.
Felon rapists can’t govern?
Why did no one warn us?
b….b…but… both sides same…
Accountability isnt an american trait.
Blame and passing the buck, though…
This was a MUCH Better use of Tax Dollars then Feeding STARVING AMERICANS!
-Republicans on Welfare!
