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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      Right? If evidence did matter, Trump would be in jail and we would have the last Epstein datasets all released.

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    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”.

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    Why does Obama keep shitting trump’s pants? It’s been like 10 years. Isn’t he bored of it yet?

    SAD!

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      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

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    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.

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    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

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      “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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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…