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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Slaps Panama papers down on the table Karoline, do you really want to have a conversation about fraud?

Laken Riley's murder? You only care about it because you used her death to excuse literal concentration camps in the US. On average, 14 more women have died every day in the US since then, the vast majority of them are murdered by US citizens, and you will never know their names. Let's talk about them, and what we can do to protect women in the US.

I'll agree that Trump's mental decline was not nearly as bad as Biden's, but Biden had more to lose than trump ever had in the first place.

[–] tylersloeper@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 hours ago

It should be common knowledge, at this point, that every single news source in the USA is owned by like 3 Billionaires. Its not a new network anymore, its a propaganda agency.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Also: Bidens mental health decline

Something something about a burned down 80 year old black pit calling a kettle black and such

[–] Pyro@pawb.social 3 points 3 hours ago

That and he is not in charge anymore so at most should be a B story of "here is what's happening to someone who used to be a thing"

Oh no, an old guy in retirement is getting closer to the farm. Hope he enjoys what he has left, wait! That was Biden! Time to riot and focus on him!

[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Is KKKaroline back? Oh I missed that twisted fat bitch!!!

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 16 points 13 hours ago

I mean, even with the pool, we're laughing at it, but what we're actually talking about is the corrupt bullshit that lead to here. People were already grumpy about the way it was being renovated and who was renovating it before it turned green. It's just kinda funny that even after pulling that bullshit, the outcome was terrible. But the government corruption is the actually story.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 77 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Why would anyone need to talk about Biden's mental health? He's not President and he wasn't running for President.

[–] starik@lemmy.today 4 points 2 hours ago

They’re saying there was insufficient coverage of Biden’s mental decline while he was president. Which is ridiculous, because it got a ton of attention - definitely more than the reflecting pool.

On a different topic, does Brilyn Hollyhand have any organic audience?

[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] fisch@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

My suggestion would be to rename it to Trump-Epstein pool.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 9 points 18 hours ago

Rename everything to the "Trump-Epstein thing"

[–] joyjoy@piefed.social 3 points 15 hours ago

The green water got me haha

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 43 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

the national park service used arra funds and actually rebuilt the whole thing during the obama administration. and when they had an algae problem, shortly after it being filled back up... they fixed that for a measly $100 thousand to drain and clean it all, and then increased the ozone used in the filtering system to control the algae.

it should cost less than $150 thousand to completely drain and clean it today. note there's no "millions" here.. not even a single "million". just one hundred and fifty thousand. anything more than that is taxpayer money being stuffed in to someone's pocket.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe more than 150k since inflation... But yeah somewhere in that order.

Also, what you described takes actual engineering and planning. Conservatives don't do that.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

$150 thousand is already a little higher than what the inflation calculator site gave me for an adjusted, current value of that original amount.

as far as the shit they added, they can just scoop that up and put it in someone's big macs. nobody would know the difference anyway.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

so is that 150 large all labor or is a lot of that supplies? like can you just squeegee it off and put it in a dumpster? or i guess, could you when it had appropriate lining?

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 24 points 19 hours ago
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago


i am deranged

[–] dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

The pool is just memetastic and simple to explain. Classic clickbait fodder. It also has direct links to an area of Trump's supposed expertise.

The other more important things like the Epstein files, oligarchs, genocide, graft, corruption, fascism, inflation, affordability, and idiotic wars of aggression are still getting coverage and will still get coverage after this. They're just not as easily condensed up a meme.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'll say it again, this is a classic distraction to flood the zone.

By focusing on the mostly harmless gaff of the reflecting pool, were not talking about Trump being a pedophile, or the surrender to Iran, or the fucker economy and insider trading.

Making posts like these is exactly want Trump wants you to do.

[–] Erusset@slrpnk.net 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly if trump had managed to fix the pool correctly and for an appropriate amount of money that should be even bigger news than this current distraction.

Imagine how nuts we would all go if he actually become competent all of a sudden.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

Right, but it's easier to just break things than to build

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Was too lazy to make the water for this distraction iceberg green:

iceberg meme template, words top to bottom: Reflecting pool is green, going to war to pay Iran, East wing Hole in the Ground, Unreleased Epstein Files, Cuba Blockade and Caribbean Boat Strikes, Crypto Scam Self-dealings, Threats to Canada Greenland etc, Destroyed Healthcare and Public Services

[–] themoken@startrek.website 20 points 20 hours ago

Green pool Trump is blathering about vs. a manufactured immigrant crisis, the mental decline of someone that is no longer in office, or a murder that happened two years ago...

Hmm, weird.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Biden's mental health? okay,

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago

Yeah they just drop that casually in there in a list of things that we are being heartless for not thinking about. Because the right has been so on top of compassion for Biden’s health.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Can anyone help fill in the other lyrics?

Look at my pool. My pool is amazing.

Ohh that's nasty.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

It's an old meme... But it checks out

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

It’s hilarious that those are the things they chose to contrast the algae story.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago

To be fair although wrong about things to focus on the pool is getting way too much attention at the cost of the Iran war, police killing babies, immigrants in concentration camps, possession of zine getting life in prison and other things that deserve way more focus.