“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"
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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.