Almost nobody cared about there being algae in the reflecting pool until that stupid orange fuck made it a big deal by making it political, blasted past presidents, then repeatedly boasted how his makeover was going to be so much better.
This didn't even need to be a thing. He made it a thing. Now we're all laughing and revelling in his ineptitude. And it's all his doing.
Thanks. But I don't know what FNC is. I hope it's not Fox News Channel.
It is. Good to see that SoupySales is skeptical of it.
Whew! I was hoping it wouldn't be Fucking Nutjob Chronicles.
this morning I read that Fox is beginning to lose interest in trump. Guess that remains to be seen.
Almost nobody cared about there being algae in the reflecting pool until that stupid orange fuck made it a big deal by making it political, blasted past presidents, then repeatedly boasted how his makeover was going to be so much better.
This didn't even need to be a thing. He made it a thing. Now we're all laughing and reveling in his ineptitude. And it's all his doing.
Replace the subject and you could be talking about the War. Exactly.
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Jonathan Karl was at the pool on ABC news this evening. He showed a big patch of the new paint floating in the water and there were several people skimming algae. He said the White House gave him a statement that the water in the reflecting pool is crystal clear. Jonathan then said "we've walked all around the pool and the water is not crystal clear." You can't believe any fucking thing trump and his regime say. About anything. Especially the part where the WH spokespeople endlessly bleat that "president trump is working all the time to make things better for the American people like he was elected to do." Good lord, it's bad.
BREAKING: The MAGA bozo responsible for Trump's disastrous Reflecting Pool "renovations" is exposed — and his company is literally named "Greenwater Services."
Meet John Cafaro.
Despite looking like a 1950s cartoon mobster, this is a real, flesh-and-blood human being from Trump's inner circle. He's also a convicted felon who previously pleaded guilty to bribing a member of Congress.
Cafaro received a $1.7 million no-bid contract to install a water-purification system in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Normally, the National Park Service would have a robust open bidding process to find the most reasonably priced, most competent contractor. Instead, the job was entrusted into Cafaro's sweaty mitts without much scrutiny.
The details of that contract are murky, like everything else involving this administration, so it's safe to presume that there was a healthy dose of corruption and graft involved. It's no coincidence that Cafaro just happens to be a big Trump donor and a Mar-a-Lago neighbor. He's given at least $300,000 to PACs tied to the President.
Like everyone else in Trump's circle, Cafaro has proven to be exceptionally incompetent. The Reflecting Pool is now a cesspit of algae and looks greener than ever before. Another company unrelated to Cafaro received the $14.7 million no-bid contract to install blue waterproofing material in the pool. That firm likewise did an incredibly poor job, as chunks of the material are now peeling away and floating to the surface.
This is how things work in third world dictatorships. Cronies and political allies are awarded contracts to reward them for their loyalty to the regime and there's no expectation that they'll ever fulfill the work to proper specifications.
The administration, rather than admit their failure, has taken to posting fake pictures on social media while insisting that the water is crystal clear.
We have eyes. We can see how bad it's gotten.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
SPEVCO, Richard Childress Racing, and Operation Helo
... Technically, however, it is one of nine states not sending an official delegation. Reason: money and politics, to little surprise, and exactly how varies pending the partisan stripe explaining what happened....
Wealthy White supremacists?
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Mount Olive is too far away and their is no online ordering. The closest store is Walmart in Greenville, SC. Maybe Whack9 will symbolically buy a jar or two for me.
Mount Olive is too far away and their is no online ordering. The closest store is Walmart in Greenville, SC. Maybe Whack9 will symbolically buy a jar or two for me.
... A record-setting heat wave has plunged tens of millions of Americans in much of the eastern half of the country into heat advisories and warnings, as the country marks its 250th anniversary with massive parades, firework shows, concerts and barbecues.
President Donald Trump said in a mid-afternoon social media post that the 100-degree heat "isn't as bad as predicted" and the crowds are "INCREDIBLE!"
Fine, asshole, turn off the WH AC.
But the heat, forecast to reach the high 90s and triple digits in the East, with higher feels-like temperatures due to humidity, has already thrown a wrench into Fourth of July and anniversary festivities. The Independence Day parade in the nation's capital was canceled due to heat. Parades, fireworks shows and other events have been axed or delayed in several states on Friday and Saturday....
Every Parade Trump Touches Dies
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I watched a show on history channel about Nikola Tesla earlier today. He died in 43 and the government was interested to see his papers and stuff. The story said he had about 80 steamer trunks of notes and drawings and things. Only 60 of them were accounted for. Hours after his death (in the New Yorker hotel where he'd lived for more than a decade) government agents went in and took all his possessions allegedly because he was an immigrant and had no immediate heirs. Anyway, the guy who was put in charge of going over the Tesla stuff they seized was John Trump (trump's uncle) who declared after only two days of looking at the stuff that none of it posed any significant worth or interest to the government. Later in the show, it showd a sketch of a hybrid airplane / helicopter drawn in 1927 by Tesla. Then the show featured video of the Osprey military aircraft that can fly vertically or horizontally. Looks like the trump name has been associated with cluelessness for decades. But 90 years after Tesla's sketch, the Marines and Air Force use a plane just like the drawing.
... ... But if the logo is AI-generated, as it strongly appears to be, it shouldn't be surprising. The Trump administration has eagerly embraced using AI to churn out propaganda so cheap and base that it could be mistaken for satire. Some are calling this "slopaganda," and most of the time it's used to attack the administration's enemies or mythologize Trump.
Last fall, Trump posted an AI generated video of himself as a fighter pilot strafing peaceful protestors with barrages of liquid diarrhea. This was mostly received with bafflement. But in April, when he depicted himself as both Jesus Christ and the Pope, he sparked genuine outrage among the deeply Christian wing of his supporters. More banally, Trump has also used AI to advertise his numerous vanity projects, such as posting an AI-generated video of his White House ballroom.
In a sense, maybe his new airport logo is kind of a perfect use case for AI. The displaying of the US Great Seal is highly restricted, so it's unlikely that an airport in Florida would be authorized to flaunt it as a logo, even if Trump himself wanted it to. But with AI, you can quickly spit out a cheap bastardization, uncanny in its likeness, but also not quite right.
MAGA = Incompetence, or "not quite right"
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No matter, the 6 jars I just ordered will last me awhile.
MAGA = Incompetence, or "not quite right"