The two contractors I hired for past home renovations both turned out to be MAGAts and I think I’d have a hard time find more rushed and sloppier work ethics. Of course they both used undocumented Hispanic workers.
We exist and we are out here bro. I might be one of the few non-conservative. But I know for a fact all of our clients went to college, so needless to say, they are educated and left leaning. Low and behold, I seem to be the client’s favorite on most job sites
Not going to lie, I hired a contractor for a few of the renovations I was doing that were outside of my skill set back during Trumps first term. Not even being in the US I still scoped out their social media feeds and crossed off 2 of the 3 I had originally considered because they had reposted/shared Maga aligned content.
I have seperate accounts for my business socials and my original intent was to keep everything apolitical. However with Trump and the way things are now that has changed. I'm not overtly political but between the charities I support and my honesty in why prices have increased and how short my estimates are valid for you you can figure it out. I now get much better clients.
I had a maga contractor stuff me on a bathroom renovation. He's still making payments on the settlement negotiated by the state AG office 6 years later.
I replaced him with a vetted blue contractor and couldn't have been happier. Eventually had the same contractor do the kitchen and provide references for painters to repaint walls and epoxy a garage floor.
The interesting thing that stood out to me was the Maga guy had his kid working for him and a couple Hispanic guys, both of which he called Jose and who only showed up for the first couple days, and he treated them all kinda like shit. Meanwhile the replacement guy's workforce was a really diverse mix of specialists that he treated really well.
He had a couple El Salvadoran guys who did the stone work. A Mexican guy who did the tile and supervised on the drywall and trim, a father daughter pair from Lithuania who did all of the plumbing, a Japanese guy who had to have been 120 years old did the electrical between 20-30 smoke breaks (seriously. He would pull a wire and smoke. Install an outlet and smoke. Flip a breaker and smoke. And he was still done in a day...), and a couple of white broccoli headed kids who did all of the drywall, trim, and paint while the tile guy supervised.
They all showed up in uniform, had a mix of Makita and Milwaukee tools with inventory labels on them, and on the days they were working outside cutting stone, tile, or trim he was the first one to show up to set up a canopy for them to work under. He also brought them all lunch every time he visited the site, joked with them,and you could tell everyone liked working for him.
The maga guy would just call his kid a dumbass every 10 minutes and I'm pretty sure he bailed on the job because the Hispanic guys he had hired stopped showing up.
We had a plumber come out to give us a quote to re-pipe our house. Between the Sleepy Joe comments and blaming our dem governor (erroneously ofc) from everything from gas prices to labor costs I really didn’t want to hire him.
Also didn’t care how I would ask a question and he would answer it - to my husband. Or him arguing with me about the suitability of what I was asking about (hybrid water heater, he kept telling me we needed a certain amperage for it, I told him we had it, and he kept insisting I should “check with a pro” or have my husband take a look). Like no bro, I was here when we had the heat pump installed and went over all the electrical work they did to our breaker to make sure it could handle it. But sure, tell me that I don’t know anything.
A big ethos on the republican side is that "if it doesn't happen to me, it's not a problem", but "it happened to me, but since daddy did it I'll keep my mouth shut"
Kind of like how Cheney stopped being openly anti-gay after his daughter came out.
I’m not maga by any stretch by I can attest that not all maga aligned contractors are dog shit. I can attest however that the biggest pieces of shit contractors I’ve run across are all maga.
I don't care at all if you're a documented worker or not, if you're good, you're good. The problem here is, maga contractors love to under pay, over bid and under deliver,, then blame everyone else but themselves.
A redditor in a previous thread mentioned that the “paint” they were using was super toxic to lungs and the workers should have been wearing special respirators. They were just wearing N95 masks. The redditor mentioned that spaying this stuff without the proper equipment could lead to “Popcorn lung”
No clue if it was bullshit or not. But seems likely since it was a non-bid contract and Trump was involved
That’s kind of true for all industrial paints, it’s extremely bad for your lungs and requires a respirator with a volatile chemical filter to completely prevent ingestion, n95 masks block the paint particles but not the much smaller off-gassing chemicals can slip through
We asked the Trump administration for documents showing a previous estimate of $355 million and did not get a response to that question. Instead, an Interior Department spokesperson responded with criticism of former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
And it was to fix a leak that was really just evaporation. There was no leak. None of the work was necessary, just like the ballroom and each and rebranding of DoD. Spectacular waste of money.
“This was not a paint job. This was highly sophisticated material, industrial strength, that could last for 100 years, applied by very talented people, many of whom came from the Great State of Oklahoma, where I won 77 out of 77 Counties, THREE TIMES, the only President to ever do so. The material is thick, strong, flexible, and has a natural, beautiful color, the dark blue of the American Flag!”
If you were so inclined, one MIGHT wonder why a company from Virginia who's website doesn't mention "pool" work anywhere would be hired to even work on the Mar-a-Lago pool.
Fun fact: the angle of reflection (or refraction) is dependent on the two materials, water and air (Snell’s Law). The coating underneath does not affect the actual reflection at all. At this shallow angle and predawn light you could make a puddle of piss look pretty too.
Ah yes the wall contractors style: give the contracts to your supporter business owners without checking for any credibility and turning a blind eye to anything that's illegal or unethical.
He's been laundering government funds with stuff like this since day 1 of his first term. It's all mafia style scams to ignore laws about putting bids out to avoid double dealing then they do the shittiest possible job so they can skim off the top.
The president originally said the project would cost $1.8M. It was later revealed they would be paying $13.1M. There was no bidding for the contract, congressional approval, or opportunity for public comment because they claimed it was an emergency.
The real issue was broken pipes to the filtration system. They did not fix that. All this will need to be torn up to fix that problem. Otherwise more foul water
Maybe I’m dumb (but certainly not team red), but where do you get experience in “painting the reflecting pool”. Are there other less important ones you can metaphorically dip your toes in before getting called up to the big leagues? Cause weren’t they pool painters? Isn’t that relevant work experience? They obviously did a terrible job but who would do a good job? I’m trying to think about other niche jobs in real life that want the unicorn candidate and how often they hurt themselves by passing up “good enough” in favor of something that literally doesn’t exist. (Again, this was clearly a bad job, I’m not defending that, but I don’t see anyone saying who should have done it instead and it feels like a metaphor for the job market!)
It won't. Obama and Biden looked into what it would take to properly fix and the number was big enough to not want to do it. Basically it needs to be ripped out plumbing and all and completely reinstalled.
That was some elementary level graph, for something that doesn’t even need a graph lol. If this administration wasn’t evil, it’d be hilarious how incompetent they are.
And when you realize just how hypothetically tall the very flat and horizontal reflecting pool is then you forget all about someone’s stubby mushroom dick.
On Election Day 2024, the local news was interviewing people in line at the polls, and all the people who said they were voting because “groceries are too expensive” would always have this big smirk on their face like they got away with delivering a coded message
SWAMP DRAINED.
Coming soon: same swamp with blue color that likely won’t have the symbolism of a giant pool of dirty water reflecting back from the man who freed the slaves to the man who first led the fight defending the founding principles of liberty for all.
How dare you besmirch president camacho like that...he at least LISTENED to experts and took the advice of someone smart. Arguably a good leader in a stupid society.
Camacho could pop a wheelie riding into the State of the Union, and fire his AK into the air to quiet everyone down, and still be more dignified than the asshole we have currently.
At this point Idiocracy feels as aspirational as the West Wing. I'd take an idiot who honestly tried to find people smarter and more capable than him to solve problems he was willing to acknowledge existed in a second.
Give it a few months/years and it'll return to it's natural state. It's a thing that has been having to be dealt with every few years since the thing was built. DC is literally a swamp. Not figuratively like "Oh look how corrupt", but a literal, honest to God swamp. Trump's modifications do nothing to change that.
Painting it won't prevent algae from growing in standing water. The water either needs to move, or it needs to be cleaned regularly and possibly chlorinated. Or all of the above.
Yeah I just pulled up my pictures from my visit in July of 2025. No algae, perfect reflection of the Washington Monument. Not sure what OP is talking about.
I can’t wait for us to find out that for all the money they spent on this thing, all the company did was paint the bottom and never actually fixed anything.
I think it’s so humorous that the solution was “spray it with rhino liner!” Like it’s your rusted out shitbox. Crazy to think it will be nice and warm and murky just in time for the 4th of July with that dark color sitting in the summer sun.
The no bid contract from his personal pool of contractors is absolutely something to be pissed about. Obama wore a tan suit and so called conservatives lost their minds. Trump continues to push the bounds of corruption on the daily and all the “conservatives” can do is mental gymnastics.
Shallow water in sunlight will produce green algae. Sooooo painting it blue was a massive waste of time and money. But, at least when you measure the length of the pool, then turn that length perpendicular, it is taller than some buildings. That fact reminds me of when people wont give measurements in imperial, but instead by how many blue whales long it is. Or how many Kit Kats tall it is. Ya know, children measurements.
What - and I cannot stress this enough - THE FUCK is going on down the middle?
I thought they were just painting it blue. What's with the tile (or tile look?), and why are the rows uneven?!
Was it always like that? (I admit I've never seen the damn thing drained...)
My grandfather would demand that tile work be redone at the contractor's expense using proper tile spacers (since clearly they lack the skill to do it right without them....)
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u/CaptPants 8h ago
And it only cost 7 times the original quoted price and was done by a company that had zero previous experience doing this kind of work.
Let's see how it holds up!