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Yeah the administration reflects the country, unlike the pool now
They’ll vote him in again a third time if they’re given the chance
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.
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?
No they paid $17 million to a contractor to do a $500 job. It's not incompetence, it's corruption.
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.
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The fact that this is essentially a swamp has to be one of the craziest things yet. in terms of life imitating art. I mean, it's exactly what you'd expect out of a book. Absolutely beautiful IRL symbolism and irony
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Just the quality you’d expect.
Ha! I fucking called this not even a week ago! And two people down voted it, btw.
Everyone called it
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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.
Background: Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool and Reflecting Pool Contract Has ‘Inflated’ Profit Margin, Government Analysis Finds
So if you think $14 million is too much money for what is basically a paint job, you would be correct. Trump gave his buddy a no-bid contract at way too high a price. And it turns out they were incompetent too. Additionally, I would be surprised if Trump did not get a personal kickback from they $14 million in taxpayer dollars paid to the incompetent firm.
I think the original contract was for under $2 million. But (at least partially) because there was no bidding process, we ended up with Trump's pool guy who then went on to increase that contract amount by 700% to $14 million.
Presumably, change orders needed to be issued to increase the contact amount. Meaning multiple people, including engineers presumably, reviewed and approved these changes. Most places would also have an environmental review, but somehow I sincerely doubt that happened.
Every single person involved in this process needs to be, at the very least, suspended pending an investigation.
For any real contract for capital projects, a 700% increase in contract amount through change orders would never be approved, and the entity paying the contractor for the work would do everything they could to kill the contract and ensure that they don't need to spend 700x the amount they agreed to. Because it would fuck their budget completely, among other things.
As I understand it, the paint caused the pool to heat up causing the algae to bloom causing the pH to go up causing the paint to peel. So hypothetically not the painters job if he expected the counter measures that should have been in place to work, but realistically that should have been addressed and confirmed well before the pool was even emptied.
Yup. Dark blue is a fine color for a small pool people are going to swim in, but in a huge pool like this, it absorbed tons of sunlight, heated up the water and just made the algae grow faster.
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Everything this cunt touches dies. If you want to destroy something, just convince donald the rapist trump to get involved.
So that whole reflecting pond is pretty much ruined now?
Hopefully it makes a few people who see it reflect.
If those people were capable of reflecting this wouldn't have happened in the first place unfortunately.
No, it’s slightly dirtier than 5 years ago. It’s just a placid surface to reflect light. The fuss about it is really dumb.
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how long until they fill it in with concrete and paint that blue?
(then wonder why tf it ain't "reflecting"?)
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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.
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.
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The reflecting pool is turned green to represent Red White and Green of Iran on the occasion of Iran's victory.
100% they will blame liberals for this. Even if they have to invent new idiotic conspiracy theories
Just going to point out the obvious here and say that this is exactly the type of thing that always happens in autocratic countries.
Dear leader gives a bucket of money to a mate for "a contract". Mate spends 10% of the money on the job and pockets the rest. When the job goes wrong they just deny and blame.
It would be hilarious.
But Taxpayers spent $14MILLION on this? That would make it a WASTE if this were True and we KNOW Republicans HATE Waste which is why they're trying to ELIMINATE Unemployment Benefits!
BAAAAAHAHAHAHA it'd be funny if it weren't so horribly sad.
Jeez. This dumb fuck really does fuck everything he touches, doesn’t he
He paid a lot of taxpayer money to a friend, and I’m sure he got a hefty kick-back too. Why would he care beyond that?
I'd trust ACME more than I trust Trump's people.
Concrete still too wet and poorly prepared for the paint, in short, incorrectly applied
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