There are no words on how stupid and corrupt this administration is.
A great success: the dirty, smelly, green pond with chunks floating on the surface from some cowboy MAGA contractor whose work lasted one week will be a perfect symbol of the USA on its 250th birthday.
Truly, we are a decadent empire.
No complaints have been reported, however, from the local ducks, who have been conducting business as usual.
Wait… they’ve been dumping bleach and hydrogen peroxide and who knows what in the pool, did they actually fuck it up from sheer incompetence?
Yes, permanently.
Just drain it and then clean the paint off and sand it down to smooth out the stone again.
Then you can fill the pool with water that has been treated properly.
It’s not hard, it just takes competent people being in charge of it. Not someone’s “pool guy”
I see your problem right there
You said “competent people”, and this is not only the US government, this is the US Trump government.
Competency has gone long, long ago
I’m reading Maintenance of Everything: Part One by Stewart Brand (of Whole Earth Catalog and the WELL fame) and it makes a great companion piece to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Anyway, reading this book at the same time as watching this colossal fuckup by know-nothing blowhards like Donvict is quite interesting. For instance, I just read the part about the reconstruction of the Statue of Liberty and what was involved, and the discussion on the war on rust.
I’m sure a thoughtful writeup on the problems here and the attempts on fixing it would be a great thing for other parts in the series. I might even reach out to him to suggest it…
I mean, my pool guy knows a decent amount about the science, and how pumps work. If you have an issue, he can probably tell you how to fix it, or get it fixed
did they actually fuck it up from sheer incompetence?
Fucking things up with sheer incompetence has been a hallmark of this entire administration. At this point, I’d be astonished if it was just a run-of-the-mill accident.
I just realized my first reaction to this was “SURELY it can’t be this shady contractor that fucked up, it had to have been the US government” and the fact there’s a decent chance that this is correct is somehow still amazing to me.
Dude, American Patriot Desert Eagle USA Coatings Inc, LLC is sooOooo legit.
According to the article
No complaints have been reported, however, from the local ducks, who have been conducting business as usual.
Apparently, they don’t mind the hydrogen peroxide. But maybe that’s just the article trying to be funny.
Just the quality you’d expect.
To be clear, that’s more my reflecting pool than it is Trump’s. I pay more taxes than he does and that’s 14mil taxpayer money.
Ha! I fucking called this not even a week ago! And two people down voted it, btw.
Everyone called it
People are pretty shitty with downvotes tbh. They use them as a more passive middle finger. Just a quick “feel bad, because you are bad” signal. I wish I didn’t care about them but my human nature gets the best of me. If switching instances was easier I’d probably go to one that has them disabled.
Probably used some crappy house paint instead of properly prepping and sealing cement and then applying a 2-part epoxy meant for continuous contact with water.
The contractor pocketed the difference.
Now we have more plastic type waste, wasted money, wasted news cycle about the dumb job. Have no fear, though, they’ll waste no time at all auditing the job.
Everything trump touches dies.
I think they’ve also been dumping loads of bleach in it to kill the algae.
I imagine most paints won’t appreciate being soaked in hot bleach for a few days.
Let alone whatever crap they used here.
(edit because clarity is important, this is only what I have heard, I don’t have a source other than some short form content I watched about it that claimed it.)
It was hydrogen peroxide, and from what I remember it was 13% (most of the stuff you use at home is 2%, 13% will burn your skin) so the theory I heard is that it might have been eating away at the paint, or getting between the paint and the actual structural layer and causing it to peel off
It was peroxide. You can see the boxes in the video, they’re labeled and say 12%. Apparently bleach was used too, but I haven’t seen the videos of that.
It was hydrogen peroxide. Which is what I said. Although it is 12% not 13%.
Probably used some crappy house paint
This was comedy yesterday: https://youtu.be/Wz_JVFW83iY?t=554
It’s not nearly the first time an absurb, stupid take on something gets played to extremes for laughs only for that the be the actual path taken despite all the warnings/math/science/reality that have to be ignored. It won’t be the last, either.
Another triumph for King Mierdas
Fuckero de Los Niños
The reflecting pool is turned green to represent Red White and Green of Iran on the occasion of Iran’s victory.
I’d trust ACME more than I trust Trump’s people.
Thanks Obama!
I guess he didn’t want to pay extra for the waterproof paint lol
Trump-quality workmanship.
He drained the swamp… right?
Where do you think they got the water to fill the reflecting pond?
Corruption in play sight, terrifying symbolism for all to see. Washington is more transparent that people think.
It’s not that transparent because of the algae.
It does look like a nice color in the pic
The very best color
Iranian green?
