Alternatively, the Orange Idiot thinks that he can offset the cost overruns by skimping on chlorine.
Wouldn’t that stink?
Nah, you got it all wrong MAGAts; everything hates trump, even nature. The pedophile should be fuckin dead if he wasn’t kept artificially alive by stupid ass doctors.
GODDAMN WOKE PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Satan was green with envy at god, and turned against him. Algae is green. The left prays to satan in multi-cultural public pools. Coincidence??
Plants are woke now
The things the vegans eat? Of course
Free oxygen? 100% communist.
They just say stuff. They don’t care if it’s true.
I think the train of thought is: i would shit in tge pool, so they clearly shat in tge pool
They don’t even stop and think about how utterly fucking ridiculous these accusations are. I bet you dollars to donuts that near the DC monuments there are cameras everywhere. Where’s the footage of these evil Dems dumping buckets of algae in the pool? Any (reliable) eyewitness reports? Any scientists taking samples and maybe seeing if the algae was recently disturbed/transplanted?
I mean, I get it, their feelings mean more to them than facts and evidence, but c’mon, man. This is a 4th grade level critical thinking exercise.
Clearly their pool guy is a dirty dem. He purposely let the Ph level rise and alkalinity get low so the the chlorine was useless…
Way too scientific for them, it confuses them.
They only need “the Dems did it, they are evil”
You know more about water chemistry than most of my coworkers at my power plant. I get so tired of telling them to watch the tower pH and make sure the acid is running in auto so the hypo will actually fucking do something. It’s a miracle that our condenser performance isn’t trashed by fouling. I’ve caught tower pH at fucking 9 before when it’s supposed to be 7.0-7.5, and I’m trying to push for 6.8-7.2.
Better than when cooling water is supplied with an expensive reverse osmosis unit which then proceeds to corrode the entire carbon steel cooling water system due to pH of 5.5 since everyone is convinced water so pure can’t do any damage.
let the Ph level rise and alkalinity get low
Did you mean to word it this way? Rising pH means increasing alkalinity. If the alkalinity is getting lower, then the pH is dropping.
I meant Total Alkalinity as a buffer, either way the water is out of balance causing any chlorine (if any) to be ineffective and letting Alagae grow.
No, “alkalinity” is confusingly another term for water hardness or buffer capacity in English (for historical reasons I guess?).
One guy commented that DOGE had saved us billions but the media wouldn’t cover it.
Didn’t they fire a bunch of nuclear waste inspectors and then couldn’t rehire them because they’d already turned in all their work phones? Sorted that mess alone out probably put them over budget
Buckets of algae wouldn’t get it. People would be dumping multiple 50# bags of fertilizer in there. Still every bit as absurd.
There is a much easier way to make algae grow in a shallow slow flowing body of water, just paint the bottom a dark color, that way the water stays warm, most algae love warm water. So all you need to do is get a company to come drain it and paint it a dark color, and Bob’s your uncle. It has the added effect of the water staying at the ideal temp for algae growth for a longer percentage of the year, just got to find someone stupid enough to sign off on the plan.
They are just that dumb. Half of all Americans are complete and utter morons. Like we have our fair share of idiots in Europe, but most of our idiots seem to be a lot smarter those MAGA people.
As someone born, raised and living in the US, I have to disagree with this statement. It’s clearly more then half
Well we did export a lot of our idiots there, so…
Republicans: there is literally no way to tell if something is true other than someone telling me it is
Other than an authoritative man telling them.
These people were raised wrong.
Or some random guy on YouTube. Being on a screen means you know what you’re talking about right?
As long as they project absolute confidence.
Sorry, they cut the security budget. No tapes, only word of mouth.
What’s so stupid about this is why would a president ever have any input on something so trivial? Seriously, should he oversee the toilet paper purchasing in the capitol too?
Please, let him be distracted by stupid shit like that. Instead of declaring wars, kidnapping presidents and committing numerous war crimes and other crimes against humanity.
Ha fair point
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There’s probably a world where Trump was a tiny bit smarter and got an education in interior design to start a new brass movement. Probably the same world where hitler went into architecture after WW1 and is renowned for being a father of brutalism.
One of his extended family members has a house in the UK and it’s really close to where I live and I sometimes have to go down there and look at it because it’s quite spectacularly tacky. They’re never going to be able to sell it on because Pablo Escobar would think the gold leaf was overdone.
Why do all these fuckers like gold leaf so much? It doesn’t look all that good and it doesn’t clean all that well.
Because it says “I’m rich” which to them means “I’m better than you”?
Does it though? Gold leaf is like 50 bucks a pack at home depot.
Because with the exception of like one person the entire family is messed up. Most rich people buy large houses and Lamborghinis, but for some reason the trumps have the artistic taste of an 18th century monarch.
…as interpreted by a Vegas mafia run casino
I feel like the mob could probably bring a level of competence and level-headedness to the situation that the Trump family have never demonstrated.
I saw a comment on reddit a few years ago that said something like, “Trump’s idea of being rich is what an 8 year old would think being rich means.”
Who else would be impressed by a gold toilet?
Because being a president is like REALLY hard you guys! His name has been attached to renos that other people have managed, so surely he can do that to show that he’s good at stuff???
What else is a low IQ felon rapist pedophile going to do? Actually govern a nation?
Given that it’s probably the most CCTV covered pond in the world maybe Palantir can find the dastardly scooby doo villains using tax payer’s money and a rain forest of llm tokens.
I can’t help but think they could have just chlorinated the fucking water no? Turned it into a filtered pool. They did what? a multi-million dollar paintjob?
Is the reflection not full of chlorine to prevent this? It’s a super wide, super shallow stagnant body of water.
It has apparently always been a problem and without a complete overhaul of the plumbing to be redone to accomodate these fixes it wont change. I think Obama had a bid out to have it done but did not do it when it was like 20 million to do it. I also think it’s hilarious that he just spent 10 million to do absolutely nothing. At least his pool company is now rich. From my understanding even that paint job will only last like 5 years tops.
I expect that there was a little kickback money in it for himself, so not for nothing
I also think it’s hilarious that he just spent 10 million to do absolutely nothing
That’s not true!
He spent 16 million doing nothing except rob it of its ability to reflect.
Online federal contracting records show that $1.7 million was awarded to Green Water Solutions for the ozone nanobubbling system, while $14.2 million was awarded to Atlantic Industrial Coatings to line the pool in the color “American Flag Blue.”
It’s an ozone system, just like the one before it.
An Interior Department spokesperson said that the current algae is “residual” from supply lines that sat dormant for eight weeks during construction. The residue is part of the normal startup process, the spokesperson said.
(Same source as above quote)
I don’t know why they wouldn’t drain the lines but okay.
I don’t know the details of the new system. If it’s only for treating the new water being fed into the pool like the old one, it’s not going to prevent all blooms just minimize the amount of algae or food brought in with the new water.
You can’t constantly be bubbling ozone through open pools of water because it off gasses. When it’s used as a disinfectant in drinking water the offgas need to be captured and treated.
I don’t know why they wouldn’t drain the lines
Less money left over for kickbacks is my guess.
Or maybe that whole swamp thing wasn’t a metaphor.
Only one logical conclusion: ban photosynthesis. We should probably repeal the second law of thermodynamics while we’re at it.
I’ve always said that one law of thermodynamics is enough. Anything more is just wasteful.
Whatever floats their boat, right?
I hope someone dumps invasive floating plants in next. Perhaps even some duckweed.
Duckweed? The thing Huey, Dewey and Louie smoke to get high?
The whole thing would be covered in duck weed in a month, fortunately that would cause all the algae in the water to die form lack of sunlight so problem solved I suppose.
“Are those pool vandalizing Democrats in the room with us?”
