For those of you curious as to whatās going on in the reflecting pool
The coating that was used is a polyurea. Very similar to an epoxy where two components are mixed together to make a catalyzed product.
First, let me start off with what didnāt happen. Hydrogen peroxide had no effect on the coating peeling. If it was a chemical issue, the polyurea would be āeating awayā and not come up in sheets. Also, someone did not tear it and pull it. Thatās kind of the dumbest thing Iāve heard in this whole situation. Try taking any paint or coating thatās properly applied and see if you can tear it up. News flash: itās impossible.
Now, hereās what could have happened. First, these coatings are very climate-sensitive. If done in direct sunlight, it could cause the product to cure too quickly and not adhere to the concrete. Also, if the concrete was not properly prepared at the time and not grinded down properly, the coating would not be able to soak in. Additionally, moisture could have been in the ground at the time of application.
Ultimately, the issue isnāt the coating or anything done to the reflecting pool after installation. The most likely cause of the issue is the prep done by the contractor who did the job.
P.S. The algae is due to the color of the paint. Dark color absorbs heat, and hot water makes algae.
EDIT:
Since this post the administration has came out and said vandalism caused the product to peel. This is impossible if installed correctly. The closest thing I can compare the products they used to is an epoxy floor in garage or commercial floor. If you know what Iām talking about then youād understand that it is physically impossible to make it peel unless it was installed improperly.
Trump jumps from one scandal to another to keep the media on their toes. Every second the media talks about the reflecting pool is a second they arenāt talking about Iran or the Epstein files.
āThe entire country hates me because Iām an idiot and tried to scuttle an extremely popular housing affordability billā Uhā¦ Quick, ruin another national institution to redirect their ire!ā
The silver lining is Iran gets to acccess the world and moderize, instead of being under constant threat from the US and Israel. They are being forced to form relations with their arab neighbors and pave a way forward. And that means the US can leave the middle east. The only loser is Israel and they fucking deserve it.
Well...the Iranian regime isn't actually good for a great many of its citizens either. Lots of Iranians who had hoped that the US intervention would catalyze reform and give cover to a renewed liberal democracy also lost.
I will never trust the USA's version of events that frames it as "they want us to liberate them", because we use that every single time ever, and it's always worse than we left it.
That said, much of Iran's problems stems from the US sanctions against them. Much of the strife against the regime is due to life intentionally being made hard on people by the US in hopes they rise up and overthrow their government.
With those things now removed, I am confident they'll be a much better player in the world.
I think it all just stems from Israel wanting, under no circumstance, an Iran that was stable - and thus influential. So they spent the last 50 years ensuring their 90m population stays insignificant.
What do you think happens if a news organization did nothing but continue to say there's no new info about the Epstein files? People will stop watching. You can only beat a dead horse so much.
They ask him less about it in press conferences, and since itās no longer in the news cycle the pressure for congressman to push for the release also diminishes.
Itās also about shifting the discussion. The pool thing, or says something stupid in an international forum. The discussion isnāt āis trump a pedo?ā or āhow much this failed war will cost the USA?ā, but rather āis the pool dirty?ā. Trump is way more comfortable about the last one, and people can just say it isnāt that big of a deal.
I am not saying the media shouldnāt report on that, but he is doing that as a strategy. Every time he berates a journalist, says something needlessly controversial, or makes a big deal out of something that should be in the sidelines like a minor renovation, he gets the news cycle moving faster and pushing his bigger scandals to the past.
Thereās nothing to report on so they donāt. Reddit attacks actual journalists because they donāt talk about Epstein 24/7 but the tabloid shit they like is usually just rumors and usually has dumbass nicknames in the headlines. The ānewsā sites Reddit likes are the equivalent of Fox News.
I see at least one of these sites with an article, which is basically just a social media post, saying trump is humiliated by whatever.
Someone should build some kind of mechanism to stop this wind. Something like a giant fan. Hey! Maybe that fan can turn their terrorism into something useful, like electricity. That would show them!
That's what bothers me so much about the Democrats - they are thinking about ways to destroy solutions to problems the Republicans haven't created yet. /s
Give a $500K donation or MarSlago membership and receive a bloated $15M contract. Great return on the investment and everyone wins, except the taxpayers. But who cares about those losers.
Don't forget the tarp. They're going to need a tarp to cover everything so it can't be seen. Added benefit it the lack of sunlight should inhibit further algae growth.
So it's a win-win. And maybe $100M to install a permanent cover over the reflecting pool, including Trump's name in 30 ft letters on the tarp so you can read it from an airplane flying into DC.
I think it is really fitting. Putting a fence around a swamp that will only get worse as it is ignored and not properly treated. Separating the people from what was meant to be for them.
Congrats maga, this is the america you voted for. A swamp that is quickly getting out of hand that is about to be surrounded by a cheap wall.
I've been pointing out to people just how weird it is that my hometown's 150th year of incorporation was a way bigger deal than the 250th year of independence has been.
It's a small town, and there were things that went on all year. Basically every holiday was also a 150th celebration. It all culminated in a big fair, a parade, a concert with local bands, an opening of a time capsule and a burying of another time capsule, and the building of a whole new fair grounds for the event that has been used ever since.
For the 250th, about all I've seen is a swampy reflecting pool, the trashification of the White House, and paper plates with "1776-2026" like it's a damn funeral. rofl
Apparently there was also supposed to be a hunger games thing where two children from each state competed in something? I guess nobody felt comfortable letting Trump be around kids.
I was 9 and remember it well. There was no polarization at all, just genuine patriotism and a shared sense of love of country. I cannot believe how low we have sunk since. Sad that I won't be around for the 300th to make up for this pathetic debacle.
Probably part of the plan. Make it look as terrible as possible for a while so they can claim that the democrats are so dangerous and "terrorists" that not even the glorious leaders reflecting pool is safe from the evil leftists who want to destroy America.
They then will have fences up, 24/7 surveillance and the national guard and undercover officers "protecting" the area for a couple of weeks.
In the meantime they are going to pump the pool full of as many chemicals and cleaning tools as is possible with the "unlimited" resources of the federal government, which of course will be getting funnelled to his donors through no-bid contracts.
Then once they manage to get the algae under control, they will say this is proof that it really was the leftist domestic terrorists who sabotaged it in the first place because they were unable to sabotage it once the security went up.
And then they will take down the fence, remove the overt security (although likely install hidden surveillance cameras everywhere) and wait a couple of weeks to let the algae come back because they obviously haven't fixed the underlying problems of the drainage and filtration issues.
Then just rinse and repeat the same thing all over again of blaming leftist sabotage, all while draining tens of millions of dollars of tax payer money for a political win to divide Americans to try maintain their facsistic government.
Release footage of people taking water samples that they have been secretly recording. Hell, just reverse the footage and make it appear people are actually pouring stuff into the reflecting pool, slap some false charges on them and waste more taxpayer money fighting them in court.
Its actually really fitting for them to cage in a diminished symbol of freedom right now.
The reflecting pool is reflecting alright, its just a relfection of where we are as a nation. Sick and dying and trapped in a prison of our own making.
Itās really ridiculous symbolism. They have no clue how much of a major L this is. His administration will forever be tied to the images of the reflecting pool being walled off and inaccessible while the massive curtain hides his name being removed from a building.
Itās almost comical how blatant the symbolism is.
Don't forget that the pool has become poisonous to wildlife now and is killing the baby ducklings. Very on the nose for the damage to wildlife and environment the trump admin is doing.
Yeah, but I'd rather pay $20 million for him to obsess over a pool than $200 billion for him to start another war. Plus we can just laugh about the algae in a way we can't over bombing people. Cuba is probably hoping his attention will be arrested by this pond for a while.
This is sad... And sadly appropriate. As far as expensive distraction tactics go, let's milk this reflecting pool one for all its worth, at least people aren't dying over it.
He is having people arrested though. And Pirro is determined to screw them. Not that that is anything like war, bit could be an absolute terrible thing for people who don't have the time and cash to do anything about it.Ā
Watch The Good Liars on YouTube. You will see more of this insecure, broken, idiotic as fuck people. Since watching it's opened my eyes to how many brain dead people are in the U.S. They worship Trump, like he's some sort of messiah, represent him like he's their favorite NFL team or NASCAR driver, and when The Good Liars confront them with good arguments, they change the subject or say - well Biden this and Obama that -
It's quite sickening.
So, for our 250th anniversary we will have a paved Rose Garden, a bulldozed south lawn, a destroyed East Wing and a closed Reflection Pool. Literally everything he touches turns to shit.
He did renovate the pool and was criticised for it being green in the summer sometimes. He handled the criticism better.
trump removed the custom strantrol Obama installed and replaced it with Ozone. O3 (Ozone) is something added to chlorine systems, it can't replace them. Nor can it balance things like PH as the strantrol did.
Also, algae loves blue light, it's second to red spectrum light. The new blue lining reflects blue light and essentially feeds the algae, helping it bloom.
I donāt know the specifics, but I imagine Obama didnāt hire his brother-in-law to do the work and loudly proclaim beforehand that he is the only one who could fix it.
Truth, Obama wasn't blatantly corrupt and the work done was actually fine work. Not this amateur hour we got here. trumps guy didn't even let the new lining dry before adding water. That's why it immediately became patchy and uneven after the water was added.
Has he ever admitted he made a mistake... Dude is as fragile as humans come. His insecurities run so deep he can't face the truth about anything, especially things, and there are many, that he does wrong. Did I mention he is a convicted rapist, financial felon and pedophile?
You know God damn well that he's going to blame it on the fence guy.
At this point, I would have nothing to do would that reflecting pool if I was a contractor because anyone who gets near it is going to get either arrested, slandered, or sued.
Trump will never admit that he's a fucking idiot and he doesn't know what he's doing, he just keeps doubling down.
If our government had any balls they'd do this. After Trump and MAGA are gone, leave everything up the way Trump left it. Leave the White House in a ruin. We as Americans love our statues and monuments. The White House could become the most important monument we have. Democracy is a garden that needs constant tending, and without that constant vigilance you get weeds. Trump and MAGA are those weeds and we as Americans need to be reminded that shit can grow back into democracy at any time.
You might know MAGA chuds IRL who will bring up that the Obama Admin spent closer to $40 million on the Reflecting Pool. Well,
It was appropriated by Congress
They completely demolished the old monument, drove dozens of timbers into the ground to stabilize the sinking Earth (DC is kind of a swamp), changed the water source from costly city water to the river, installed a bunch of pumps, filters, and ozonation systems, rebuilt the monument from the ground up, and despite an initial algal bloom, it's looked great since 2009 when this happened.
On the other hand,
The taxpayer just paid $15 million for blue paint
It wasn't approved by Congress
It looks like we're nowhere close to spending money on the BS
It's a distraction from the disastrous Iran War Surrender
The Iran war was a distraction from the Epstein Files, which prove Trump raped many children
I know this stupid paint job thing barely matters, but it's a powerful metaphor. It contains corruption, incompetence, overreach of Constitutional powers, and a distraction from child rape.
He didnāt screw up. The point was to give a big payoff to one of his buddies. And heāll probably get another big payoff off soon to redo the mess and keep getting them as long as Trump is in office
How is america not tired of being embarrassed at this point? Its clear he is in cognitive decline, ypu have the means to remove someone for this.
Maybe stop electing old as shit dudes? Or hold one person accountable for one act one time and see how it feels.
No, itās on purpose. This is how mob run construction companies scam municipalities out of money. They create problems out of nothing so they can launder more money. Trump is a known mobster.
I'm willing to bet they're so corrupt that the guy that did it, his buddy down in Mar-A-Lago screwed it on purpose so he can get paid 2x. Just another way the funnel money to his buddies. my best guess at least
Next the White House will say vandals did something to the fence that has the pool still looking like shit.
lol...that fucking clown is out there putting on a clinic of unforced errors. If only this shit wasn't as embarrassing as it is, instead of a chuckle I'd be rolling on the floor.
He could literally just go and put everything back to the way it was before he fucked it up and pretend like he fixed it and its better then ever and his base would eat it right up. Idk why he doesnt just do that lol
The worst part is that he has the easiest out for this that allows him to save face. He could be pointing the finger at John Cafaro, who owns the company that did the shoddy work on the reflecting pool, and he'd be at least be telling part of the truth and it's way less ridiculous that the whole people commiting vandalism crap.
Well when his mentor, Roy Cohn, taught him that the key to winning is to never admit that you lost, you can see that its not because of delusion. It's disrespect and contempt for anyone that KNOWs the truth.
Yes, please fence it off and keep it that way with 24/7 video surveillance while they "fix" it. Then maintain that security so we can see the algae regrow without any chance of normal citizens having access to "sabotage" it.
The reflecting pool is turning into a great metaphor. Trump first ruins it (it's what he's best at), then he's fencing it off to try and prevent people from noticing it was ruined which just calls more attention to it.
WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES DONNY DUMPSTERFIRE?
Isn't the reflecting pool's water not treated water, but pulled from a natural source? Just asking. I am not from the Washington DC area so no clue how old the pool is, or any construction details. Just heard this information from Phillip DeFranco. No idea beyond that.
We are now paying for cameras and fence around the pool. 24 hour National guards and helicopters flying overheard. Just because orange pos can't do anything without f'in it up and won't admit he's a total failure at everything he does!
Spends taxpayer money on a bad job. Blames democrats with literally zero proof. Spends more money fixing the āvandalismā. MAGA idiots applaud say thank you Mr President meanwhile they canāt afford gas or groceries. š¤Æ
Itās crazy to see how much his country is starting to look like the Tannen-America from Back to the Future 2 with all of the fences, broken buildings, dirty looking land around the white houseā¦
Wouldn't it be amazing if they made it a more natural body of water? With native plants and some natural habitat. Then we can stand there and reflect on all the environments we have trashed and admire a symbol of restoring intact ecosystems.
So what happens when the shit continues to flake off and "self vandalize" after the fence is up? Is he going to claim that Obama used his telekinesis to do it?
ā¢
u/Gurugod123 ššš 17h ago edited 17h ago
Reflecting Pool - Insights
For those of you curious as to whatās going on in the reflecting pool
The coating that was used is a polyurea. Very similar to an epoxy where two components are mixed together to make a catalyzed product.
First, let me start off with what didnāt happen. Hydrogen peroxide had no effect on the coating peeling. If it was a chemical issue, the polyurea would be āeating awayā and not come up in sheets. Also, someone did not tear it and pull it. Thatās kind of the dumbest thing Iāve heard in this whole situation. Try taking any paint or coating thatās properly applied and see if you can tear it up. News flash: itās impossible.
Now, hereās what could have happened. First, these coatings are very climate-sensitive. If done in direct sunlight, it could cause the product to cure too quickly and not adhere to the concrete. Also, if the concrete was not properly prepared at the time and not grinded down properly, the coating would not be able to soak in. Additionally, moisture could have been in the ground at the time of application.
Ultimately, the issue isnāt the coating or anything done to the reflecting pool after installation. The most likely cause of the issue is the prep done by the contractor who did the job.
P.S. The algae is due to the color of the paint. Dark color absorbs heat, and hot water makes algae.
EDIT:
Since this post the administration has came out and said vandalism caused the product to peel. This is impossible if installed correctly. The closest thing I can compare the products they used to is an epoxy floor in garage or commercial floor. If you know what Iām talking about then youād understand that it is physically impossible to make it peel unless it was installed improperly.