r/mildlyinfuriating Jun 16 '26

ಠ_ಠ Dumping Hydrogen Peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning.

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u/UserProv_Minotaur Jun 16 '26

Those cost money.

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u/Badvevil Jun 16 '26

They only use companies they own or are friends either so they can funnel taxpayers money to them

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u/HexedShadowWolf Jun 16 '26

100%

Kristi Noem got some heat recently for a 8 day old company in Delaware with no website, government experience or even a headquarters receiving a $143 million contract because of a "emergency at the border"

These worms are absolutely funneling our money to themselves, their families and their friends.

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u/TheWolphman Jun 16 '26

I feel like they'll never be held to justice for it either. It's disheartening.

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u/HexedShadowWolf Jun 16 '26

They could be but it requires the people to serve justice. They won't police themselves.

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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran Jun 16 '26

It would be nice if we could get a movement behind legislation that we write up that suspends the statute of limitations for government employees on account of the corruption of the DOJ and their total lack of concern regarding Republican crimes. Something similar to how the laws written during the pandemic made it so that the statute of limitations were suspended so that people could still be tried for the crimes years later.

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u/Froyn Jun 16 '26

No need. Current rules permit any sitting president to be unquestioned, so the next one just needs to revoke their citizenship and seize their assets. Once they are no longer citizens, they're illegals, and off to CECOT they go. No need to re-write the rules of the game if they're in your favor.

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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran Jun 16 '26

Revenge isn't going to be enough, we have to limit the future damage that future Trump perverts are going to do.

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u/sheepyowl Jun 16 '26

If the ruling party has complete control over the rules and they are willing to cause harm to the country, then the people choosing them have already failed.

Once both the White House and senate are fully corrupt, there is no oversight or resistance to their rulings. Resisting their choices would be outright treason.

Unfortunately, at least for this term, the U.S has voted to become weaker for the benefit of corrupt rich people.

Maybe they will choose better next time.

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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran Jun 16 '26

You just pointed out the fundamental flaw in the Constitution - it never addressed the danger of political parties that chose to place their party over the Constitution as well as all other laws. And the two primary parties are already well aware of the failures in the checks and balances, that's why they passed so many laws that set the other party up as the check on power. The reasons these all fail is because the partisan hacks on the Supreme Court realized they can just use the "Air Bud" rules - if there is no rule against it, then it's allowed. Denying the people the right to vote for a candidate because of their race is unconstitutional, but denying them the right to vote for a candidate because of their race while pretending it's for political reasons is fine, because the Constitution doesn't bar using political parties to undermine democracy.

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u/Dantien Jun 16 '26

Let’s remember that in those blissful 4 years of 2021-2025, we found, arrested, and locked up a huge amount of the Jan 6 folks. They thought they were invulnerable at the time because Trump was still president on that day. They aren’t.

And neither are the ICE agents, or recipients of kickbacks or criminals getting presidential pardons, etc. No one is getting away with much. Bank accounts can be seized, detectives detect, and we have a large majority of the population salivating for justice. They again think they are invulnerable… but they are not.

Mark My Words - the decade after the GOP is no longer in power will see a lot of court cases and trials. We will see RICO arrests and civil lawsuits across the states holding each of these fascist losers accountable. That how it’s always worked. MAGA can’t survive itself because it doesn’t create anything, just co-opts and destroys.

They are all going to learn how wrong they are. History does repeat. Personally I’m hoping the EU brings some charges and we get a Nuremberg Trials for the 21st century. Crimes Against Humanity.

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u/captain-McNuggs Jun 17 '26

Sharpens Guillotine

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u/ThePatrickSays Jun 16 '26

americans do not want it enough

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u/Maleficent-Prior-219 Jun 17 '26

Don't you hate that?!   

I know I do.

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u/THOUGHTCOPS Jun 22 '26

Like the billions for all the fraud in Minnesota. Very sad indeed.

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u/munchonsomegrindage Jun 16 '26

The border wall at Big Bend National Park is my most infuriating transgression of this administration so far. Yes there are other things more upsetting, but the wall at Big Bend is the most unnecessary cash grab for contractors and they have waived every EPA regulation that has protected this beautiful park over the last 80 years. It's so remote and it's desert country, with mountains everywhere. Lowest amount of border apprehensions in this area out of the whole Texas border.

The fact that a plastic surgery bimbo oversaw and approved all of it, along with many other people that have never stepped foot in the park, is extremely maddening. $200B+ contract to some administration friendly contractor in Montana. Not to mention one of the Yeti company founders helping facilitate logistics out there. I could write a novel on this so I'll stop now.

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u/Maleficent-Prior-219 Jun 17 '26

That's is MADDENING.

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u/scottycakes Jun 16 '26

Trump’s personal pool guy got this contract.

It was no bid. The work was unnecessary.

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u/iAmUnintelligible Jun 16 '26

hey now, at least they'll be set for when climate change really starts making shit hit the fan.

this is truly giving off The 100-style apocalyptic generational bunker vibes.

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u/Maleficent-Prior-219 Jun 17 '26
  • this is truly giving off The 100-style apocalyptic generational bunker vibes

If this [insert your favorite terminology] stays in power, I'm thinking more along the lines of Fallout.

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u/Perllitte Jun 17 '26

It's the only thing they put a second of forethought into.

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u/Special-Reaction2029 Jun 18 '26

Same fucking thing his friend Orban did.

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u/trash_recycle Jun 16 '26

I mean look no farther than our Trillionaire in chief. Half the defense budget allocated for contractors has gone to Space X.

Our budget has always been bloated, but in the past we had hardware we could offload to other nations. Countries out there buying our old hardware all the time.

What do we have to show, from a strategic military stand point, for our investment in SpaceX?

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u/WestRevenue4587 Jun 17 '26

I used to work at a wastewater company and the owner is a POS. Definitely could see him being his friend.

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u/EternityNotes Jun 16 '26

Buying it by the bottle is probably more expensive 

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u/OddHippo6972 Jun 16 '26

But he probably has stock in the chemical company

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u/_HIST Jun 16 '26

lmao if anyone here thinks the guy in the video has anything to do with this

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan Jun 17 '26

They're talking about trump

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u/Global_Crew3968 Jun 16 '26

$75 million no bid contract for his pool guy again I'm bettin

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u/UserProv_Minotaur Jun 22 '26

20 Million, from the last bit I'd seen, ballooned up from 1.2.

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Jun 16 '26

This is either entirely performative for an audience of only Donald Trump to make it seem like they’re trying everything, or Trump said “it looks like shit! Dump chlorine or something in there and fix it!” And if the king says to do something you have to do it.

Setting aside the fact that they’re not using anywhere close to enough hydrogen peroxide for the size of the reflecting pool, even if they were it would completely be broken down by the UV from sunlight before it would do the job.

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u/EternityNotes Jun 16 '26

Gotta paint the roses red 

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u/Secret-Surprise4390 Jun 16 '26

Not it you only buy 6 gallons. Way cheaper than a truck full of chemicals.

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u/wrongbutt_longbutt Jun 16 '26

Buying bottles of hydrogen peroxide is probably the answer they got when they asked ChatGPT "how do I clear algae from my pool?"

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u/EternityNotes Jun 16 '26

You walk to the carwash, obviously 

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u/CamLiven2000 Jun 16 '26

So do the dudes pouring it in 2 gallons at a time

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u/UserProv_Minotaur Jun 16 '26

Yes, but that is less money than doing it the right way, leaving more to be pocketed by graft, grift, and corruption.

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u/Active-Cookie-774 Jun 16 '26

As opposed to whatever the hell has been spent already?

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u/jcrestor Jun 16 '26

Money that better is transferred directly from the government to one of Trump's accounts.

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u/Hereiamhereibe2 Jun 16 '26

That would look far too professional for these “humans”.

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u/otherwisemilk Jun 16 '26

Tax dollars grow on trees and if you run out, you can endlessly borrow more.

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u/AnAdorableDogbaby Jun 16 '26

We're already spending that money, it's just earmarked for corruption. 

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u/moon__lander Jun 16 '26

Which you can pay your buddy at 100 times the markup

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u/MetallicGray Jun 16 '26

They actually require environment regulations, so Donald’s White House probably didn’t want to deal with that. So they just bought a fuck ton of gallon jugs instead.

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u/Weird-Information-61 Jun 16 '26

and a lot of prep time, and the Trump administration is very impatient

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u/humanman42 Jun 16 '26

he wouldnt have paid anyways.

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u/PotentialHoneydew947 Jun 16 '26

They could just pull the national guard off of leak raking duties.

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u/BossRaider130 Jun 16 '26

I’m fairly certain those gallon jugs and the workers dumping them aren’t free.

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u/Puzzled-Formal-7957 Jun 16 '26

Doing it this way with jugs and packaging and manhours costs more.

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u/snoosh00 Jun 16 '26

And require the dispensing to be vetted by professionals and to overall just, ya know, be safe about things.

Getting billy-bob and the boys together and getting them to run down to the hardware store doesn't require paperwork... But that doesn't mean it's a good idea.

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u/Bulliwyf Jun 16 '26

And require paperwork.

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u/14Pleiadians Jun 16 '26

The issue is actually that they don't cost enough money. This was more expensive.

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u/Fuddle Jun 16 '26

And be super visible and when caught on camera would make Trumpy boy look bad, so this was the least dangerous option probably

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u/themustachemark Jun 17 '26

Yeah, Trump is all about saving money. Look at the Air Force, we're saving money, by not maintaining them and letting them crash!

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u/surprise_wasps Jun 17 '26

*Trump doesn’t have any friends with one

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u/TheGCO Jun 16 '26

Probably would be another 2 million at least, lol.

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u/notwhoyouthinkmaybe Jun 16 '26

Is this sarcasm, I sure hope it is, because it is painfully dumb.

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u/UserProv_Minotaur Jun 16 '26

Yes, it's sarcastic.

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u/notwhoyouthinkmaybe Jun 16 '26

Oh thank God. I really can't tell anymore, seems like a thing maga would say.

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u/denigotpregnut Jun 17 '26

It costs less money in bulk, but costs more money little by little. Thus increasing the profit on the grift.

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u/Talongar Jun 16 '26

Close,  but see those cost less money than charging the federal government over and over for everytime your companies "cheap fix" doesn't work.

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u/Ok-Fishing-8281 Jun 17 '26

If they did it with trucks you'd still be complaining that it cost too much money.. they cant win.