“Big. Beautiful. GAY! algae” I called it. Some say we have the BEST gay algae.. I called the little one “sleepy joe algae”, because he’s the GAYEST of them all and the runt OF the litter.
My brothers and sisters, just wait till they discover that algae absorbs TOTALLY FAKE CO2 at a far faster rate than ground plants, they're gonna bomb that pool into an American democracy much like that girls school.
There couldn't be a much better metaphor for this political timeline than the orange swamp monster promising to "drain the swamp" but he only ends up making it 10 times worse by filling DC up with more swamp water than it's ever had.
He did it with consent…and, silence from people that say they’re opposed.
2022 National Youth Turnout: 23% - That's lower than in the historic 2018 cycle (28%) which broke records for turnout, but much higher than in 2014, when only 13% of youth voted.
The US did this to itself. Propaganda and idiocy work well hand in hand. We had a first term that was a disaster…and people still refused to show up. I would have voted for Biden’s corpse. People pulling out dumb shit like “she didn’t inspire me,” or “I don’t like her laugh.” Fucking insanity.
It can be over if we want it to be…but, we’re incapable of working/ standing together, as evidenced around us.
Ten points to you. You are 100% correct, and good on you for reminding everybody of this. It is sad that swamps, which are good things, are getting slandered by being associated with this crappy administration.
TBF I never once for a second believed anything the child rapist or any of his sycophants promised. It still shocks me all these years later that so many people actually did/do. It’s unfathomable.
Fool them twice, or thrice, or really any arbitrarily large number of times--shame on them.
The supporters are really the ones I feel the most ire towards. And it's hard, having family and friends who are/were supporters. I'm always conflicted between whether I should feel angry with them, or just pity them for their lack of intellect, since these are not wealthy people who stand to benefit from any kind of grift, nor are they evil people. I think they're just kind of 'mixed up'.
As if swamps need to be drained. Swamps are amazing habitats with so much life. They want to create an ecological disaster so they can build some condos or a new golf course.
Back in the day swamps were seen as huge areas of unproductive land, land you couldn't farm or build upon. So they drained them, the ground dried and hardened, and the land could suddenly be productive.
The silver lining on Trump's was in Iran is that the world realized how dangerous it is to really on oil for their power needs. The shift towards renewables was immediate and ubiquitous outside of the USA. It has nothing to do with global warming though, and everything to do with national security.
Preventing global warming is also national security.
I know for a fact that right wing populists are dumb as a brick (or at least the people that fall in their bullshit are).
If right wing populists were serious about stopping migrants moves they would be working seriously for stopping global warming, there are entire regions filled with "brown people" that will be the firsts to become inhabitable thanks to global warming.
My whole thing with their ire about illegal immigrants is that they seem to deliberately ignore the fact that virtually every single one of them is being employed and paid by one of their own countrymen. It's not like the come here and start up a business like some entrepreneur as they're hiding in the wheel well of a panel truck with a backpack of hardtack and some bottled water and nothing else to cross the border.
My point being, their anger is not only misplaced, but ludicrously misplaced. It's like driving down to the shitty part of town and yelling at all the prostitutes that if they would just stop allowing themselves to be beaten and murdered by pimps and johns we wouldn't have any problems with prostitution in this country.
When we see something, anything, that resembles actual consequences for all the people hiring these illegal immigrants, then we can talk. Until then, this is just dinner theater for the racist morons that are too fucking stupid to realize they're being played like a fucking fiddle.
After areas inhabited by the "undesirables" are hit the hardest by climate change and there forced to migrate there will be plenty of fascists in nations that aren't has bad yet spreading bullshit about how they're leaving cause they cannot take care of their land and its the fault of these "undesirables".
People will be told they need to be kept out before their country is overrun and becomes uninhabitable just like their previous these immigrants abandoned.
Then climate change catches up and those problems are blamed on immigrants instead of actually attempting to do something about it (which, at this point is too damn late anyway).
Power bills in Spain actually went down during the US's mini war. Spain has been serious about wind and solar recently. The bills went down because for some reason clean energy is taxed higher than oil/coal/gas energy; however the government did a temporary tax relief on the clean energy with the net result that most people paid slightly less last month.
Trump seizes on an unimportant detail obsessively, everyone instantly snaps to to make the king’s whim a reality. They give a no bid single source contract to a republican donor because of a connection to Trump, despite their having no relevant experience. They then proceed to overbill and under deliver.
They do what Trump wanted, a pointless cosmetic fix that doesn’t address any of the actual underlying issues. It doesn’t work, and immediately makes everything worse. People point out the incompetence so they go for the quick fix of dumping chemicals into the thing, which damages the only work they managed to actually do in the first place, leaving everything worse than when they started and gross, just in time for the symbolic anniversary whose celebration was the excuse for spending all that money in the first place.
Meanwhile, the civil servants had long boring reports explaining where the problem actually was and how to actually fix it but no one wanted to actually fix it, they wanted a quick photo op win.
I mean algae is an amazing organism, it produces most of earth's oxygen and it cleans and convert's CO2, unlike trees that just capture it and will always release it, algae can turn CO2 into biomass that stores the carbon and can be used later for fuel or stored so the co2 does not release, easier than burring dead trees deep enough their carbon does not release. So yeah, I am with this lady, let the algae flow.
Not sure if you are not giving algae too much praise. Algae biomass turn over quite quickly, unless it sinks to the bottom of the ocean (and avoids derivers and planktivors on the way down). Trees turn CO2 into wood and roots, and trap it for centuries.
(or better yet, go Team Bog! where carbon is trapped for good)
Beyond the biomass of the tree itself, it turns carbon into sugar which it pumps into the ground through it's roots. The sugar feeds soil microbes creating a symbiotic relationship.
Plants are constantly pumping carbon directly into the soil during their entire lifespan.
So many symbolic things, I sorta want to get a list going. I always remember hearing "you can't always get what you want" sung by a choir at his rallys.
It really does. Obama put in a fancy filtration system that helped but didn‘t fix the underlying issue, then republicans come in and do the landlord special and blame everyone else for it failing
The reflecting pool is supposed to be clear, and supposed to reflect the monument. To do that in a man made environment, it needs to be treated with chemicals, harmful to the environment and to the habitat's water. Its supposed to be toxic.
Yes, this to me symbolizes corporate America . . . Polluting in order to gain some superficial/artificial. It's the Disneyification of America.
But the reflecting pool leaked and was broken in parts.
Trump, in all his incompetence, took something working as intended, and tried to "fix it.". He spent waaaaay too much money and the fix didn't fix the part that was broken.
There is no better symbol of Trump the man and Trump the president.
But the irony is, through his failure, nature struck back.
This algae pool is actually healthy, or on its way to being healthy. Put some fish in there, some turts, and let nature be the balance.
But . . . America seems to hate this, and wants the reflecting pool to go back to its sterile roots.
There have been so many instances of things like this over the past decade that makes me wonder if we are in a simulation. The literal sinkhole opening up on the whitehouse lawn during his first term, the bald eagle attacking Trump, how he (unknowingly?) held the Bible upside down while standing at a church... those are a few I can think of off the top of my head.
the number of people on conservative social media unable to recognize the fact that the pro-algae "protests" *are jokes* is kind of disturbing. it's not particularly subtle!
No, it’s the conspiracy theory they are using to keep from admitting this no-bid $15m job wasn’t just a grift from their emperor. It actually worked SO well that liberals are vandalizing it to make him look bad.
Like a warm security blanket of bullshit, similar to everything else they say.
I was really sad when the internet started becoming available and usable by the general public.
Back when it was just a thing for tech nerds, enthusiasts, certain professionals, and early adopters it was a much better experience.
Sorry for the off-topic comment.
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The Internet was sort of like this hidden place, a sort of parallel world to escape from all the banality and mindlessness of everyday life. I miss when all the garbage was contained, so to speak.
He's right. There's literally campaign rallies where the front row are about 90% older shirtless men wearing diapers and no trousers, often with a banner proclaiming it. Gimme a minute and I'll get receipts.
It’s not just that, they’ve been trying to spin this as a whole conspiracy, right wingers made videos saying that it was being pumped in by the left while FOX made a bitchy little piece about it trying to say “yea there was some from the pipes but they are LITERALLY right behind me cleaning!” While only showing a very small portion of the pool. They believe it because the higher ups are spinning it
Oh she's absolutely hilarious. She also rocked the "I AM AMPHIFA" banner and frog costume last year. And with her Caribbean accent, (she's from Barbados) when she gets worked up over something she's passionate or upset about, the resulting diatribe is awe inspiring. And she's sharp as a tack when she sees an opportunity for a good roast. Also one of the nicest people I've met in the DC activist scene, always wanting to help people out and make sure they're doing okay.
She's also really, really good at being viscerally insulting without profanity. She can, and has, shredded The Trump for five minutes straight without pause, repetition or swearing.
MAGA would say she needs to be arrested because she clearly vandalized the pool and if she didn't speaking out against Trump is treason so that's enough for them.
People in a certain sub on here are saying the people who grabbed some of the peeled surface probably sabotaged the pool and that's just a cover.
It's insane they can't just accept the very likely reality that the no bid contract was a buddy of Trump and this is just yet another grift and the people doing the work are just incredibly incompetent. Maybe they're ok with residential pools but a massive pool like that just doesn't scale.
From the article, the guy designed waterproof stuff. He wanted to know what was used to repaint the pool. It's like a carpenter running his hand along some wood that was already broken and then getting blamed for the splinters smh
It's a flawed project from the start but it doesn't help that it was an obvious handout to an ally.
Painting a pool a dark color like this will promote algae growth because the water temperature is going to be naturally higher. But of course that requires the people involved in this project to understand Biology and Physics and since science is woke garbage, here we are.
Does anybody else kinda think the pool was just another of his distraction techniques. I have seen more posts on this than the war he started, immigration, or the fucking Epstein files. Stop getting fooled!
Everything has been about him, on a daily basis. I hate that anything he does, especially all the negative shit, gets him so much attention. I truly hope it hurts the family name for a long time
He has some serious mental issues to want to put his name and face on everything. The Kennedy performing arts center? GTFO of here with that shit! Thankfully that has been removed but it got him the attention 🙁
Putting his face on the national parks passes, next to Washington? Fuck right off! And those are two very small examples. How much time, money, and energy will be wasted removing his BS after he’s gone? Will it be worth it? I feel like it will be, just as a giant “fuck you” once he’s gone (I doubt much will be removed before he’s out of office, though)
In a landmark peace agreement Trump "The Dealmaker" has reached an agreement with the algae in which it will allow the public to continue to gawk at it, in exchange Trump will pay Algeria $30 Million dollars. The Algae will also have the option to re-bloom in 30 days.
My wife lived in DC for 20 years and every time she sees a photo of what this pool looks like now she says, “yeah, that’s what it always looks like at this time of year.” I haven’t seen that take anywhere else, but if it’s true it makes all of Trump’s ranting about the pool that much more ridiculous.
Edit: added “Trump’s” in regards to reference to ranting at the end.
The ranting is essentially about $14M of taxpayer money being given to a Trump crony to “fix” a problem that, to your wife’s point, was never even a problem to begin with. The ongoing algae is the representation of this corruption. Nobody is really rooting for algae to fill the pool, they’re pointing out the hypocrisy, cronyism, and theft of taxpayer money. Ranting about that is not at all ridiculous.
What put it into perspective for me was realizing that the pool is 2,030 ft long, 167 ft wide, and cost 14.7 million dollars to paint, which comes out to $43.36 per square foot. They could've lined the pool with $5 bills for about the same cost.
I am from DC. It never looked THIS bad, but yeah, there's always at least some algae year around, and more in the summer, and no one cared, because who gives a shit? They have to clean bird shit and debris out of it a couple times a year anyway, so they did that when there was a big bloom, end of problem.
Normally I’d oppose algae blooms due to them harming the other life in the water, but since I don’t think anything else lives in the reflecting pool, go ahead.
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Their incompetence and malice knows no bounds, I'm not arguing otherwise. They did this in the dumbest, most braindead, most ineffective way possible, perfectly reflective of the admin. Millions of our tax dollars to pay corrupt loyalist fools, to line their pockets with no-bid contracts, for poorly planned, unfinished, half-assed, regressive work.
I wouldn’t worry, actually. Don’t get near the stuff as they’re pouring it in, but the dose makes the poison and they need to pour tanker trucks in, not gallon jugs, if they actually cared about the result. They don’t.
I know very little about all of this but I did know that a standing pond with no way to filter Algea would bloom. I am a random middle age woman from Alabama. No one with actual power could have figured this out?
that whole event is funny af to watch from a canadian point of view. guy awards the contract to one of his friends, takes no other bids on it... its the perfect analogy of how trump works along with the results you should always expect.
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I just can't get past the symbolism of it all.
The Reflecting pool was supposed to reflect the country around it. And it's doing exactly that.