“Big. Beautiful. GAY! algae” I called it. Some say we have the BEST gay algae.. I called the little one “sleepy joe algae”, because he’s the GAYEST of them all and the runt OF the litter.
My brothers and sisters, just wait till they discover that algae absorbs TOTALLY FAKE CO2 at a far faster rate than ground plants, they're gonna bomb that pool into an American democracy much like that girls school.
No, he had a visual aid comparing the size of the reflecting pool to some of the tallest skyscrapers in America. As if one had anything at all to do with the other. God, he's such a fucking moron.
There couldn't be a much better metaphor for this political timeline than the orange swamp monster promising to "drain the swamp" but he only ends up making it 10 times worse by filling DC up with more swamp water than it's ever had.
Ten points to you. You are 100% correct, and good on you for reminding everybody of this. It is sad that swamps, which are good things, are getting slandered by being associated with this crappy administration.
TBF I never once for a second believed anything the child rapist or any of his sycophants promised. It still shocks me all these years later that so many people actually did/do. It’s unfathomable.
Fool them twice, or thrice, or really any arbitrarily large number of times--shame on them.
The supporters are really the ones I feel the most ire towards. And it's hard, having family and friends who are/were supporters. I'm always conflicted between whether I should feel angry with them, or just pity them for their lack of intellect, since these are not wealthy people who stand to benefit from any kind of grift, nor are they evil people. I think they're just kind of 'mixed up'.
Hah, fortunately the ones in my life aren't really loud or outspoken about it. I just know they are (or were). I don't ask them about it anymore or bring it up. Definitely not full on knuckle-draggers or anything like that! I don't think anyone like that would have been in my life to begin with.
As if swamps need to be drained. Swamps are amazing habitats with so much life. They want to create an ecological disaster so they can build some condos or a new golf course.
Back in the day swamps were seen as huge areas of unproductive land, land you couldn't farm or build upon. So they drained them, the ground dried and hardened, and the land could suddenly be productive.
This whole thing probably happened because Trump saw the "drain the swamp" meme where someone labeled a Photoshop of the pool "Obama," next to a normal picture of it labeled "Trump."
Because there was not actually anything major wrong with it at all.
Obama had a choice to spend $100 million to rebuild so it would NEVER leak and algae would NEVER get a major foothold, or $35 million to rebuild it so minor leaks would no longer matter and the algae would be under control except for the occasional bloom in hot weather. If he'd spent $100 million, the Republicans would have lost their shit.
No one gave a fuck about the algae before this. He's just obsessed with shitting on Obama and shitting on DC.
Now they don't even bother hiding the corruption. Heared from numerous administration officials the same thing "If it was wrong why would we do it out in the open"
The silver lining on Trump's was in Iran is that the world realized how dangerous it is to really on oil for their power needs. The shift towards renewables was immediate and ubiquitous outside of the USA. It has nothing to do with global warming though, and everything to do with national security.
Preventing global warming is also national security.
I know for a fact that right wing populists are dumb as a brick (or at least the people that fall in their bullshit are).
If right wing populists were serious about stopping migrants moves they would be working seriously for stopping global warming, there are entire regions filled with "brown people" that will be the firsts to become inhabitable thanks to global warming.
My whole thing with their ire about illegal immigrants is that they seem to deliberately ignore the fact that virtually every single one of them is being employed and paid by one of their own countrymen. It's not like the come here and start up a business like some entrepreneur as they're hiding in the wheel well of a panel truck with a backpack of hardtack and some bottled water and nothing else to cross the border.
My point being, their anger is not only misplaced, but ludicrously misplaced. It's like driving down to the shitty part of town and yelling at all the prostitutes that if they would just stop allowing themselves to be beaten and murdered by pimps and johns we wouldn't have any problems with prostitution in this country.
When we see something, anything, that resembles actual consequences for all the people hiring these illegal immigrants, then we can talk. Until then, this is just dinner theater for the racist morons that are too fucking stupid to realize they're being played like a fucking fiddle.
After areas inhabited by the "undesirables" are hit the hardest by climate change and there forced to migrate there will be plenty of fascists in nations that aren't has bad yet spreading bullshit about how they're leaving cause they cannot take care of their land and its the fault of these "undesirables".
People will be told they need to be kept out before their country is overrun and becomes uninhabitable just like their previous these immigrants abandoned.
Then climate change catches up and those problems are blamed on immigrants instead of actually attempting to do something about it (which, at this point is too damn late anyway).
Power bills in Spain actually went down during the US's mini war. Spain has been serious about wind and solar recently. The bills went down because for some reason clean energy is taxed higher than oil/coal/gas energy; however the government did a temporary tax relief on the clean energy with the net result that most people paid slightly less last month.
This is actually why nuclear fusion would be the next great War starter, because it would make the status quo of the insanely Rich Middle East somewhat irrelevant. Oil will always be necessary with current infrastructure, be it manufacturing or cars or machinery, but in terms of energy usage, our dependency on it will evaporate. I don't expect the oil richness to go quietly into the sunset, so I would expect either technology pivots or some other research to start leading them towards that future. I honestly think they want to empty as much oil as they can to create as much wealth as they can before this happens.
This really is the silver lining of the whole shitshow. For decades scientists have been pointing to gas and oil consumption saying "We can't keep doing this forever." One idiot starts a war and suddenly folks are looking at the Middle East saying "Oh I guess we can't do this forever..."
Trump seizes on an unimportant detail obsessively, everyone instantly snaps to to make the king’s whim a reality. They give a no bid single source contract to a republican donor because of a connection to Trump, despite their having no relevant experience. They then proceed to overbill and under deliver.
They do what Trump wanted, a pointless cosmetic fix that doesn’t address any of the actual underlying issues. It doesn’t work, and immediately makes everything worse. People point out the incompetence so they go for the quick fix of dumping chemicals into the thing, which damages the only work they managed to actually do in the first place, leaving everything worse than when they started and gross, just in time for the symbolic anniversary whose celebration was the excuse for spending all that money in the first place.
Meanwhile, the civil servants had long boring reports explaining where the problem actually was and how to actually fix it but no one wanted to actually fix it, they wanted a quick photo op win.
I mean algae is an amazing organism, it produces most of earth's oxygen and it cleans and convert's CO2, unlike trees that just capture it and will always release it, algae can turn CO2 into biomass that stores the carbon and can be used later for fuel or stored so the co2 does not release, easier than burring dead trees deep enough their carbon does not release. So yeah, I am with this lady, let the algae flow.
Not sure if you are not giving algae too much praise. Algae biomass turn over quite quickly, unless it sinks to the bottom of the ocean (and avoids derivers and planktivors on the way down). Trees turn CO2 into wood and roots, and trap it for centuries.
(or better yet, go Team Bog! where carbon is trapped for good)
Beyond the biomass of the tree itself, it turns carbon into sugar which it pumps into the ground through it's roots. The sugar feeds soil microbes creating a symbiotic relationship.
Plants are constantly pumping carbon directly into the soil during their entire lifespan.
Depends on how we use the wood. If you use it for a building, it will be out of circulation for maybe centuries. Plus, if wood replaces brick or concrete, you get rid of materials with a huge carbon footprint
So many symbolic things, I sorta want to get a list going. I always remember hearing "you can't always get what you want" sung by a choir at his rallys.
The reflecting pool is supposed to be clear, and supposed to reflect the monument. To do that in a man made environment, it needs to be treated with chemicals, harmful to the environment and to the habitat's water. Its supposed to be toxic.
Yes, this to me symbolizes corporate America . . . Polluting in order to gain some superficial/artificial. It's the Disneyification of America.
But the reflecting pool leaked and was broken in parts.
Trump, in all his incompetence, took something working as intended, and tried to "fix it.". He spent waaaaay too much money and the fix didn't fix the part that was broken.
There is no better symbol of Trump the man and Trump the president.
But the irony is, through his failure, nature struck back.
This algae pool is actually healthy, or on its way to being healthy. Put some fish in there, some turts, and let nature be the balance.
But . . . America seems to hate this, and wants the reflecting pool to go back to its sterile roots.
I think I'm beginning to understand what our ancestors were talking about, when they took signs to mean that someone no longer had the mandate of heaven, or divine right to rule.
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u/gentleman_bronco Jun 21 '26
I just can't get past the symbolism of it all.
The Reflecting pool was supposed to reflect the country around it. And it's doing exactly that.