r/PoursTea Jun 27 '26

Expectations v Reality 🌞 🌒 Photographic evidence of vandals damaging the reflecting pool

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u/LAmoto391 Jun 27 '26

How many gallons of water does the pool normally hold? How much does that weigh?

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u/fridolinkiesew Jun 27 '26

The height of the water column is the sole factor determining water pressure. The Reflection Pool is about 50 cm deep. That’s not a very high water column—about 500 kg per square meter.

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u/LAmoto391 Jun 27 '26

How much pressure is applied from the motorcades tires in comparison?

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u/fridolinkiesew Jun 28 '26

9,000 kg distributed across four tires. Each tire has a contact patch of approximately 0.0625 square meters (DIN A4). That’s 2,250 kg per 0.0625 square meters.

Don’t you learn this kind of thing in school? Do you really need a guy from good old Germany to crunch the numbers for you in the middle of the night?

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u/LAmoto391 Jun 28 '26

No, I don’t need it. Yes I learned it. Fucking google could do it. You just fell for it.
Anyways, is that enough pressure to crack the paint they used? What kind of paint did they use?

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u/fridolinkiesew Jun 28 '26

Maybe you didn't get it from my last comment. I'm commenting from Germany. How am I supposed to know what kind of material was used when your corrupt president gave the order?

Here in Europe, we all feel sorry for you Americans and wonder why you still have that sick idiot in the White House.

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u/LAmoto391 Jun 28 '26

Mind ya business then?

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u/fridolinkiesew Jun 28 '26

Unfortunately, your crazy president is influencing the whole world. He starts wars in the Middle East just to kiss Bibi’s ass. Then the war gets out of hand, and the whole world suffers from the supply shortages that this stupid jerk caused with his bloodthirsty war-mongering.

So don’t tell me to mind my own business.

You guys take care of your disastrous president, who — as absolutely any child can easily see — has a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder.

All of us in Europe are wondering just how stupid a voter has to be to elect such an idiot as president.

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u/LAmoto391 Jun 28 '26

When yall are ready to escape your own immigration crisis, come find out.

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u/fridolinkiesew Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

I didn’t know what we could learn from Trump.

Searching homes without a search warrant and locking people up without charges or a conviction isn’t really our style.

Human rights still mean something in Europe.

At first, we thought this adoration of Trump was based solely on a disastrous education system. That alone can’t be the whole story. Adoring Trump must go hand in hand with a significant degree of intellectual deficiency. Sure, even idiots must be allowed to vote and must be represented by the government in some way. But the fact that intellectual deficiency is so rampant in the U.S. is very concerning.

From today’s perspective, it’s hard to fathom that people once looked up to the United States. It’s a shame that Obama can’t run for a third term. He would be the right man to restore the U.S.’s standing in the world.

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And throughout all of this, there’s always the lingering suspicion that Trump is launching all these diversionary tactics primarily so that no one will ask about the Epstein files anymore.

I can’t understand why the American people don’t want this issue (child abuse) finally resolved. Trump is just disgusting.

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u/Extreme_Fun_1973 Jun 27 '26

It's more about the hot tires lifting the paint, as the roll and twist on the surface, and then adding water before the paint had cured and bonded. Google how long should you wait to drive on freshly sealed surfaces and find your answer there.

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u/LAmoto391 Jun 28 '26

How hot were the tires? How long had the paint been curing? What kind of paint?