txags92 said:

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Muy said:

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I've been working in Montreal the last 2 days and for some reason (not shocking) Marriott doesn't seem to have the Fox News channel. So, I decided to try CNN.

That last 30 seconds. As soon as I turned it on the panel were getting off on the algae in the pool, calling it a perfect symbol for Trump's presidency.

You can't take any of those clowns seriously.

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I read that as "I've been working in Montrose the last 2 days" and I was thinking "Damn, I knew times were hard, but that is a bit extreme!"

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Yeah times ain't THAT bad.

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TSUAggie said:

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Rapier108 said:

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Simply pathetic that this is the kind of thing that leftists latch onto in order to claim it as some kind of victory.

They would cheer for the deaths of 10 million Americans if they thought it would let them dunk on the right and blame Trump.

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And if the roles were reversed, we definitely wouldn't be claiming some Dem libtard president was so incompetent that he couldn't manage a pool project that cost tax payers millions of dollars, right?

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last time we had a dem libtard president, we had a wide open border with about 20 million third world mass migrants waltzing in here unfettered in less than four years, we left billions of dollars in assets, dead soldiers and dead dogs in an afghan exit that legitimized some former cave dwelling barons into a full fledged country of their own, spent a trillion dollars on infrastructure that wasn't spent on infrastructure - connected no one to high speed internet and built zero EV chargers, moratoriums and bans on drilling, begging putin to make a minor incursion, another trillion in spending on "climate" and calling it "inflation reduction act" --- all of which contributed 40 year record inflation akin to another dem libtard in Jimmy Carter.

There was more than algae to celebrate.

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EOT level post right there.

techno-ag said:

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BigRobSA said:

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-The constant, overabundant cheerleading of anything Trump does by some on here is just as bad as the incessant whining about anything Trump does by others.

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Is it though? I'd rather cheerlead for the guy actually doing something, who puts America first, than gripe about every little thing like the libs.

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Yes, it very much is.

I'm old enough to remember when we lambasted the silly "at least he/she is doing something" mentality.

Is Trump better than Biden/Harris? Yes

Does he **** up? Yes.

This may, or may not, be one of those times. But cheerleading something just because he's "doing something" is just as idiotic as the left that would ***** if he cured AIDS during Pride month.

iceman08 said:

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So what it comes down to is, the reflecting pool has had issues for a while, and no president really has "fixed" it. So, one could assume that the whole thing needs to be rethought.... The big problem is with its own infrastructure.

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This. It's a shallow pond on top of a swamp, so the ground subsides and shifts all the time. The lining is going to crack. It also gets hot in the summer, and due to it being so shallow, sunlight can easily penetrate to the bottom and grow algae. It's an algae factory. You can build an algae sump in a saltwater aquarium doing an almost exact same design as the Reflecting Pool.

BigRobSA said:

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techno-ag said:

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BigRobSA said:

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techno-ag said:

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BigRobSA said:

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-The constant, overabundant cheerleading of anything Trump does by some on here is just as bad as the incessant whining about anything Trump does by others.

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Is it though? I'd rather cheerlead for the guy actually doing something, who puts America first, than gripe about every little thing like the libs.

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Yes, it very much is.

I'm old enough to remember when we lambasted the silly "at least he/she is doing something" mentality.

Is Trump better than Biden/Harris? Yes

Does he **** up? Yes.

This may, or may not, be one of those times. But cheerleading something just because he's "doing something" is just as idiotic as the left that would ***** if he cured AIDS during Pride month.

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I'd agree with you, except what he's doing is trying to make America great again. And in a lot of ways, he's succeeding. So I will continue cheering.

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Cheer the good

Boo the bad

This has nothing to do with "making America great again".

We've always been great, anyway. Even with President HousePlant.

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Can't star this enough.

This reflecting pool thing reminds me of August and early September of 2001 when the biggest news in the world was that a completely normal number of people were getting bit by sharks in Florida. The "problem" was apparently solved by ramming jets into skyscrapers and it never came up again

Turns out some leftists decided to carve 86 47 into the lining.

Or maybe, it was a rightest trying to pose as a leftist to give them a bad name and stoke the fire!

*keeps tin foil hat on*

Im confused by this, the original 'piece torn' stuff was on the 18th and now see the arrest on the 19th?

I suspect it's two seperate acts of vandalism? And the first wasnt apprehended? Or is it failing and a second person decided to come mess it up more.

One thing is for certain, libs really just want eveyrhing to be ****ty and cant stand someone trying/succeeding to fix stuff

Like touching the face of the Sun. So bright, real, and hot.

Rapier108 said:

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Turns out some leftists decided to carve 86 47 into the lining.

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It was spray painted while the pool was drained. Because spray painting wet concrete works so well.

ETA: and, they're draining it again.

Rapier108 said:

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Turns out some leftists decided to carve 86 47 into the lining.

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Oh, so they're deliberately letting the algae grow back to cover it up.

This whole thing just gets funnier by the minute.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/company-trump-donor-cafaro-reflecting-pool-no-bid-contract/

TLDR: the contract went to a dude who apparently is trumps neighbor in mara largo, is a sizable maga donor, has bribery and campaign finance convictions and had received a grand total of 1 federal contract before this.

Wife and son was in DC on Thursday and the pool looked great. They said the Mall looked good as well as the monuments.

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This whole thing just gets funnier by the minute.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/company-trump-donor-cafaro-reflecting-pool-no-bid-contract/

TLDR: the contract went to a dude who apparently is trumps neighbor in mara largo, is a sizable maga donor, has bribery and campaign finance convictions and had received a grand total of 1 federal contract before this.

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Did the contractor do a good job? In the real world outcomes matter far more than how the job was procured.

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Wife and son was in DC on Thursday and the pool looked great. They said the Mall looked good as well as the monuments.

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Unpossible. The Trump haters on here assure us it's all messed up by his corrupt cronies. If only the virtuous Democrat contractors could have worked on it, the pool would be as pristine as Gavin's high speed railroad tracks in Kalifornia.

akm91 said:

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Wife and son was in DC on Thursday and the pool looked great. They said the Mall looked good as well as the monuments.

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Of course she went to the mall.

T&P for your wallet!

🚨 One man was arrested today for cutting the sealant in the Lincoln Reflecting Pool.

Another was just arrested for grabbing the hose from National Park Service workers clearing the algae.

Will @CBS @ABC @NBCNews @MSNBC @WSJ @politico report this?
Or no, because it doesn’t fit…

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) June 19, 2026

EFR said:

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This whole thing just gets funnier by the minute.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/company-trump-donor-cafaro-reflecting-pool-no-bid-contract/

TLDR: the contract went to a dude who apparently is trumps neighbor in mara largo, is a sizable maga donor, has bribery and campaign finance convictions and had received a grand total of 1 federal contract before this.

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torrid said:

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EFR said:

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This whole thing just gets funnier by the minute.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/company-trump-donor-cafaro-reflecting-pool-no-bid-contract/

TLDR: the contract went to a dude who apparently is trumps neighbor in mara largo, is a sizable maga donor, has bribery and campaign finance convictions and had received a grand total of 1 federal contract before this.

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Use this picture to let your daughters know why they need to go to college!

Now theyre arresting olympic cyclists for touching the broken liner. I think we found ANTIFA guys

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/20/cyclist-arrested-reflecting-pool-denies-trump-vandalism-claims/?

On Friday, Hearn said he was detained for almost five hours at a Park Police facility on Hains Point before being released shortly after 9 p.m. He was reunited with his bike and rode home.

Probably because someone realized that stealing trash from the federal government, though technically a crime, was going to be a loser of a case in federal court.

I heard Trump handled this one personally.

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Now theyre arresting olympic cyclists for touching the broken liner. I think we found ANTIFA guys

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/20/cyclist-arrested-reflecting-pool-denies-trump-vandalism-claims/?

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Well, if he is a former Olympic cyclist he should be able to do whatever he wants with no consequences.

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MAROON said:

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No we haven't. Your numbers are incorrect.

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You didn't read any of the links I posted did you?

But go ahead and tell me what you think the correct numbers are

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Biden's Inflation Reduction Act allocated $210 million dollars to "climate resiliency" projects like $3 million for "Birds Not Mosquitoes" in Hawaii and millions for projects in Denali for "cultural resources and subsistence lifeways protection", but we are to believe this fixing of a 100 year problem is Trump wasting money.

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None of that is related to the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool. If you actually paid attention, all I have advocated for is a normal bid process.

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A normal bid process?!? With the government, normal means inefficient, ineffective and more expensive.

I am in the public accounting field. We had a not-for-profit group that specialized in government projects. The RFP for and audit/consulting work required that the proposing firm have a subcontractor firm that was minority owned. If you won the work, it created terribly inefficient processes to protect one firm's proprietary info from the other firm and layers of unnecessary reviews of the subcontractor work. And it was ineffective from a quality standpoint because non of the minority owned firms were worth a ***** And it cost a lot more than if it was just one firm.

Our board decided it was not worth the bull**** and sold the NFP group.

Happening RIGHT NOW - DC police have started making FELONY ARRESTS after green-haired liberals entered into the reflecting pool and began dumping loads of LIVE ALGAE into it.

They're also intentionally PEELING PAINT from the pool as Antifa anarchists cause chaos on dirt bikes in… pic.twitter.com/SnGs6PWjTj

— Blue Lives Matter (@bluelivesmtr) June 20, 2026

Equinox said:

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AggieCVQ said:

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Now theyre arresting olympic cyclists for touching the broken liner. I think we found ANTIFA guys

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/20/cyclist-arrested-reflecting-pool-denies-trump-vandalism-claims/?

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Well, if he is a former Olympic cyclist he should be able to do whatever he wants with no consequences.

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He's not.

He's a canoeist but of course liberal compost rags do poor reporting.

He is a canoe olympian who miraculously stopped on a 52 mile bike ride to reach into the pool.

Big news last night on CNN! I learned that for 1.6 billion years, algae was completely undefeated in warm stagnant pools...until Obama personally cured it with "science."

You really do learn something new every day. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/gDL74KYLVI

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) June 20, 2026

outofstateaggie said:

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🚨 One man was arrested today for cutting the sealant in the Lincoln Reflecting Pool.

Another was just arrested for grabbing the hose from National Park Service workers clearing the algae.

Will @CBS @ABC @NBCNews @MSNBC @WSJ @politico report this?
Or no, because it doesn’t fit…

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) June 19, 2026

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See Trump does make errors, he should of made the pool liberal proof.

F'n scumbags. If Antifa, treat as terrorists and send to Guantanamo.

Just electrify the pool for a week

Why just for a week?