"No. It's antifa"
-- conservative idiots
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Science's word: "Corruption"
So a poorly-planned and sloppily-executed intervention leaves us with an unsightly, expensive mess that's worse than it was before. This administration really likes to stick to a theme.
What are you talking about? It was massive success. Trump took a 1.7 million dollar project, and ballooned it into a $14 million boondoggle that made him about $10 million, and his contractor buddy about $3 million, so he'll definitely be on board for the next scheme. It achieved ALL its objectives.
Like his casino bankruptcies. Those weren't incompetence, it was a business model. Buy a casino, rape it for every penny of profit, get as much public money for grants and renovations as possible, cheat all the contractors, and eventually file for bankruptcy, and stiff all the creditors.
Then do it again, and again, until the legal system won't allow it anymore. Then figure out the next grift.
Turns out the next grift was become the legal system
That’s giving them too much credit, they certainly didn’t plan
The thing that professionals said would take years to complete took a couple of months instead...
Who could of saw this coming?
I mean I'm sure it's just embezzlement.
14 million to the pool guy who half asses it did a couple million takes a couple million himself and kicks the rest back to Trump.
"Drain the swamp" just got even funnier
Too bad science no longer plays a part in political decision-making.
What I was thinking too. I've thought before that we should only be electing scientists to office, but that's about as opposite to American reality as can be imagined.
Even that's not a garuntee because there are dipshits who happen to be scientists, like James Tour. Honestly the best people would be folks who have a broad understanding of a lot of subjects but with a general focus on the humanities, if only because a strong understanding of history will probably keep people from being to prideful. Nothing breaks ones ego quite like even the mildest grasp of just how long humanity has been around and how little of that even contained civilization let alone us.
Sure it's not a guarantee, but it does imo seem that scientists on the whole would make far more informed decisions than most. Not to disagree with what you wrote because yes a long view of history would probably be even better.
My point was that scientists aren't infallible and frankly in my experience with various STEM folks they tend to run into what I would call specialization focus mixed with a bit of Nobel syndrome. Though there's generally less of that in fields with a lot of discipline crossover, for example someone who studies man made stratigraphy for say urban development is probably going to have to have some amount of historical knowledge if only to know who they may need to call if they find something of note.
Yeah, I get that.
Did it ever?
George Washington insisted on the troops having smallpox vaccination during the Revolutionary War.
And now they're all dead. See where that got them?
Science you say? She's a witch! Burn her!
Well how do you know she is a witch?
she looks like one!!!
Well they did this to me...
Next up, they are going to try to shoot the algae.
Ultimately, trump will surrender to the algae and part of the deal will be that the fountain in front of the white house now gets infested with algae as well.
Call in ICE to tackle and disappear the illegal algae.
I heard the algae illegally migrated from the plumb, so the USA is probably going to abduct it's children as retribution
Where does green fall in on the skin color-terrorism sheet?
Near green
Like SOO close to green.
Nuke the algae
Radiation sterilization would probably be effective
Maybe if they gave the reflecting pool 300 Billion dollars then this would all just go away. /s
That science name? Puddin’headedness
Don't you insult pudding like that! It can be a great source of protein and amino acids essential for brain function!
If this doesn't perfectly symbolize the incompetence of American politics now, I don̈́t know what else can. 🤡🤡🤡
The American empire is falling apart, because of political incompetence, just like this pool did.
The pool may get fixed, USA as a whole is another story.
Has Trump thought of getting the National Guard to pick up the algae?