Just absolutely pathetic of this joke of an administration.

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    Arrest a bunch of random people with great fanfare in order to preserve the optics of his claim. Then quietly release them with no media attention because there’s obviously no evidence because it’s all clearly covering up for incompetence.

    Here’s where that’s troubling…

    It’s a very small step between releasing them and making them disappear so that they don’t talk to the media afterwards

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      With how his cult is, making them disappear is probably just too much trouble. His audience is gullible enough they likely don’t even need to make arrests, though.

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    One dead baby duck was caught floating in the pool over the weekend, though the cause of death was unclear.

    Did they charge it with vandalism too?

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    250 foot long gash? This claim sounds pretty sus. Wanna bet they’re arresting people who are ripping off the peeling rhino liner for souvenirs?

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      They’re arresting people who just stopped and touched a piece to inspect it.

      He has also designed boats, paddles and other waterproof products, and said he was curious about what materials had been used to paint the pool. The 67-year-old said he only touched the material briefly before he was told by one of the park service workers helping to clean the algae from the pool to stop.

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        Yeah, that sounds about right.

        When I saw people ripping off the floating liner, I immediately thought “they’re going to try to blame the bad work on these people”

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      While he gears up for even more war crimes as a big distraction (and the next wave of stock market manipulation). This is a small one blown sk far out of proportion.

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    I say this as someone who longs for the day when Trump is a thing of the past like when someone brings up Covid these days. Also I have nearly 30 years in the water treatment business and algae is a nemesis during the summer months. To have such a problem with algae so soon after refilling it is odd. I don’t buy the idea that it was living in pipes that weren’t cleaned. If true high phosphate levels are suspicious. The water evaporation claim is BS too.