No you don’t! Look at Russia!
America’s new colors are red, white and Prussian blue.
What am I looking at here?
It’s the Majdanek Gas Chamber. The blue spots are results from Zyklon B which reacts with Iron.
The new white house ballroom. Trump got a deal with trump jrs construction company to build it.
I’m surprised it’s not golden?
I can’t wait till a real adult gets in there and unfucks everything this pedophile fucked.
If he hasn’t already fucked it into submission.
dont think its reversible, right now they are getting thier golden parachutes ready to ditch the usa, for EU/UK/NZ/AUS when this all over. plus the DNC is totally complicit with trump on this, i dont think NEWSOME being so milquetoast would be do anything useful.
Undoing this damage will require the US to take a long hard look at itself and I don’t think there is the impetus to do that.
Why would, for example Europe, want to get back in bed with the US as long as the GOP who caused all of the problems still exist? We could have 8 years of stability and then some other insane republican gets in and it’s back to square one again. The better option is to just label the US’s politically unstable, and not have anything to do with them anymore.
If you want the rest of the world to trust you again you’re going to have to put these idiots on trial, give them serious prison sentences, and then change the stupid constitution so that convicted criminals are ineligible for office and the president isn’t God emperor, they have some limits on power. Also having the president elect court justices is obviously stupid as well, fix that.
Of course none of this will happen.
You can’t un fuck a child. Once child rape is done it’s done and I can’t believe I just said this about a sitting president in the United States
Pre-Trump US is over. You can’t undo the damage he’s caused and go back to how it has been.
If there are fair elections and the Dems take the House and Senate investigations will begin and his crony’s will close ranks because they are just as culpable. Dems have no interest in a presidential candidate who is just going to ignore the crimes of the past administration like Obama or a wish to return to norms like Biden.
The left will want these people prosecuted and jailed when we return to power. The right will do whatever it takes to stay in power to prevent this from happening. The oligarchs will do anything to preserve their grasp on both parties so they don’t become targets.
No matter how it plays out the US will be a turbulent place for at least a decade after the 2028 election.
too late, its not even the midterms yet, texas, lousiania, tennesee, florida and other gop states already gerrymandering harder now, and cancelling elections.
Meanwhile the right owns the supreme court and a lot of lower court judges, so good luck with that prosecution. It will drag out for years and result in nothing.
The lasting side effect is going to be the rest of the world continuing to think of the US as a joke and all the trade relations they are building now. When the US settles back down they will never again weild the power they once had.
they also own ALL THE MSMs to sway conservatives on thier side 100%,
Vote blue no matter who. If we can win enough of a majority in the senate and the house over the next two elections we may be able to expand and pack the Supreme Court.
When primaries start the following needs to be the litmus test for all candidates.
1 Do you support prosecution of criminals within the Trump/Republican regime.
- Do you support packing the Supreme Court.
Edit: Apparently what I’m asking for above is too radical for this sub and I can’t reply to comments. Please see my edit below for my response to only voting for leftists.
You’re not going to get a leftist Dem elected in red states like Iowa or Texas.
By adopting the stance that you won’t vote for a non leftist in the Dem party you will guarantee Republicans and facists control of the senate and house and you will remain a ineffective minority while the right clocks up more Supreme Court seats and makes it impossible to vote for any left wing or Dem. Candidate
to be fair us has never been leftists, or had a significant “left” voting or politician, its the most right wing western country out there. we have schumer, hakeem,newsom who are center right, and most of the people in the houses are around the same leaning.
*Vote in the primaries so you have a chance at a leftist dem, then vote blue no matter who.
It’s over a year into Trump’s term and it’s still crickets from the leftists so I’m voting democrat in the midterms so we can at least slow down the damage he’s doing.
Pretty sure leftists have been more outspoken than liberals. On the day the court stripped away black representation in congress Chuck Schumer was praising Trump for some stupid horse shit. There’s a debate between who’s worse between do nothing democrats and fascists who accelerate the pain and force people awake. They’re both relatively valid views, but the primaries are the most important election in both arguments.
Meh, the US was founded by a bunch of slave owning wealthy protofascist genocidal fucks. You can’t really recover from country designed by the wealthy for the wealthy.
specifically racist, white ,mysogynistic people. remember nazi party really started in the USA, germany just took pointers from our segregation laws.
Yea. This country was doomed from the start. This is just the inevitable end to our fucked up society. The world is better off without this Imperialist shithole helping to rot the world.
the propagandas worked so well, people dont support any progressive developments in the USA. Its just a slow death/decline for the usa going on for like 50+years. the gop is the bleeding wound, and the DNC is the temporary bandaids.
Try the last 100 years. The people should have revolted instead of accepting the New Deal concession package. They managed to pacify us to keep the capitalist economy running and then spent the next century dismantling the foundations of resistance.
How’s that? Every current democracy, including the decently functioning ones, started as an oligarchic system of some kind.
I was just commenting that pre-Trumplethinskin is an imaginary state as the US was fascist before we had a name for it. You can’t harken back to a supposed better time when it never existed except inside the head of a misinformed person.
Even if we accept that, doesn’t the existence of somewhat functional democracies that also started as oligarchies refute the statement that “you can’t really recover”?
I believe they are saying that since the previous state was not functional, returning to it would not count as recovery and one needs to fix underlying problems that existed for most/all of the USA’s history.
In git terms: Reverting the branch to the pre-2016 state will not be enough because the issue was caused by old technical debt and one will have to refactor that as well.
No, I reject your musing. Numerous studies have shown the will of the people is a false premise. We live in a fascist world that uses democracy as a window dressing for oligarchy.
Which study, for example?
You gotta be careful or you’ll cut yourself on all that edge
This may not be reversible, some things he does especially involving painting granite, like the OEOB proposal, are not really fixable. So this thing is now coated forever unless it’s torn up and replaced, and the coating will break down within years I’m sure.
The damage he’s done in a year is likely not going to be fixed in our lifetimes with the rate that we make progress in this country.
“The rate at which we make progress”
See: Backwards :/
At the very least, this isn’t an old/historic pool, the old one was ripped up entirely in 2010 and remade with new concrete.
So if he ruins it, it’ll cost a bit to fix but it’s not ruining a historical artifact.
2010 you say, so this is yet another thing that was done during Obama that trump has to mess with.
Just grind the surface like any other concrete job.
They better prosecute the lot of them this time
HEY! Prosecuting Pedophiles is TOO Political!
-Democrats!
sweet summer child… nobody is coming to save you
Not just for me, my friend… this affects the entire world. This piece of shit is a danger to the entire world, geopolitically and environmentally.
yes but I’m not holding out in hope democracy, which was alnowed to be destroyed in Murica, comes to save us magically
Unless, by some miracle, a Mamdani presents themselves and gets elected through ruthless force Obama-style, nothing is changing. The centrists will gladly let his monuments and statues and gold leaf stand as long as they continue to personally benefit from it all.
I thought he was foreign born which would make him ineligible to be president.
Yeah, that’s why it says “a Mamdani” and not Mamdani.
The work was done by Atlantic Industrial Coatings from New Canton Virginia. Their website: https://vaspray.com/aic/
According to their website they have experience with liners, but there’s no mention of using paint. My guess is that they placed an expensive liner in a pool on one of Trump’s properties, but Trump doesn’t want to pay that bill, so to compensate them, AIC got to do this cheap ass botch job for an inflated price for the us government.
With paint instead of a liner, they will have had to waterproof all the joints between the slabs as best as they could. That waterproofing will have become damaged when Trump’s motorcade drove over it.
I don’t think they have any experience I’m not even sure they have workers, no experience with that company, but the general scam is to get a dude with a contractor license to be the face and “subcontract” down to a bunch of people desperate enough to ignore the fact basically every labor law is being violated along with some other ones. I can guarantee anything removed during the construction of any of this is not going to be disposed of properly, it’s just going to go where it’s some one else’s problem.
I do believe that it used to be a real company with a few real employees, they show a few old projects on their website and those seem well executed. Their old specialization seems to be small scale renovations on culverts and small industrial basins with lots of nooks and crannies. They did the kind of jobs that their bigger competitors would rather not do. Which is probably also how they ended up renovating Trump’s pool: the actual pool companies didn’t want the headache of working for Trump org.
But then this massive paint job is like you described it. Too big for the company, done with loads of temp guys, with materials that they have no experience with … anything goes.
OMG that’s the Lincoln memorial people. Is nothing sacred?
On the grass, right about the spot where there’s an empty square on the left hand side, is where my wife and I had our first kiss. I bet I’m going to hate what this becomes whenever I get the chance to go back and visit.
Don’t worry about his buddy. He’s gonna screw his buddy out of the contract. There will be a lawsuit after it’s all done.
I’m too European to understand, I get that it’s a Trumpism but what has he done this time
This is the Lincoln Reflecting Pool in Washington DC, a treasured landmark seen in many iconic images and films. The mad king had it drained so that the bottom could be painted blue, adding an over-saturated “ocean” color.
Why though?
he has pedophelia constantly nagging at his periphery, he needs constant media distractions.
So we are not talking how to dethrone a pedophile loser put in power by racist trash manipulated by oligarchs.
To distract from his child rape in the Epstein files and enrich his fellow oligarchs at the public’s expense.
Is it working?
gestures in an exasperated manner at our surroundings
Emphasis on ‘mad king’
It does get refurbished every so often. That’s his excuse for making it tacky, the way he prefers things.
he likes anything gold, even if the gold is just a foil on a crappy surface.
This is true, but think of things on a large (soon to be bankrupt) casino scale. That’s where we get this pool from.
Why indeed
Wait? What? I haven’t seen this in the news. It’s very stupid.
I thought it was a parking lot, and was very confused.
He’s not quite king yet.
He already is king in everything but title…
- Stands above the law.
- Makes his own laws.
- Nullifies laws that don’t suit him.
- Takes “gifts” for favors (political and personal).
- Pardons whomever he pleases.
- Has his friends and family ingrained in government.
- Holds a court of sycophants.
- Plans to stay in power indefinitely.
- Meddles with election results.
- Tells the people his appointment is an act of God.
- Will choose/appoint his successor upon his death.
- Denies words of the leader of the Catholic church, as if he stands above them.
- Renames landmarks and architecture after himself.
- Refuses to be (de-?)elected out of office.
- Has his own armed forces outside of a standing army.
Even the British King only scores 10/15 on that list. Maybe Trump wants to be an Ayatollah instead of a King.
- Stands above the law. ❌
- Makes his own laws. ❌
- Nullifies laws that don’t suit him. ❌
- Takes “gifts” for favors (political and personal). ❔
- Pardons whomever he pleases. ❌
- Has his friends and family ingrained in government. ❔
- Holds a court of sycophants. ❔
- Plans to stay in power indefinitely. ✔️
- Meddles with election results. ❌
- Tells the people his appointment is an act of God.❔
- Will choose/appoint his successor upon his death. ❌
- Denies words of the leader of the Catholic church, as if he stands above them. ❌
- Renames landmarks and architecture after himself. ❌
- Refuses to be (de-?)elected out of office. ✔️
- Has his own armed forces outside of a standing army. ❌
Out of that list I’d say 2 apply (but they’re really the same thing), 4 are maybes, and 9 don’t apply to King Charles. He has very little real power. Influence, maybe, but the royals have a policy of never speaking on political topics.
You haven’t got a king in the US. You’ve got a dictator.
- Takes gifts,
- surrounds himself with sycophants,
- no plans for abdication,
- the coronation is literally him being anointed with holy oils becoming god’s chosen one,
- Denies the Pope’s authority, stands above him as defender of the faith
- Approves (re-)naming of landmarks in his name as a matter of routine.
- Refuses to bow to republicanism
- Is not allowed a standing army, but does have a Navy, a commando force, and an Air Force.
As long as he stays in that office, he’s immune to prosecution or litigation of any kind. That’s kingly enough.
how so
Just so you know, that’s not concrete they are painting, it’s slabs of granite.
Fucking fools.
I think this one is concrete, so at least it’s potentially fixable or replaceable. The “dingy gray” granite building Trump has directed be painted white is, so far, protected by more bureaucracy. If he pushes that through, the damage will be irreversible.
It’s probably not even waterproof paint
That costs extra
That’s the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Which apparently benefits from having a dark bottom to aid in the mirror effect, you know, to reflect. The blue bottom is going to reduce the quality of the reflection.
These are just never ending insults to injury.
No you don’t get it, pools have blue vinyl. All the best pools have blue vinyl, anyway. I know pool experts - the best experts, and they say it’s gotta be blue.
I feel pretty surprised how much is still standing in Washington.
Holy shit that looks bad… They’ll probably claim it’s all uneven on purpose to look more like the ocean or something.
Can’t wait to see the advanced AI cleaning robots. Roombas on a float set to mop mode.
The US really does deserve Trump. I genuinely HOPE he will add his face to Mount Rushmore.
Please don’t advocate further disfiguring a holy site
It would literally be less disfigured if you blew it up. Adding Trump couldn’t disfigure it any more, he’s just as good of a president as the other four fuckers on there already.
Ah, fuck off troll.
No country on this planet deserves Trump, or anything like him. He’s not even fit to run a McDonalds.
The first time, maybe. The second time, you knew exactly what you were getting and bought it anyway.
plus there were more obvious signs to not vote for him, or doing nothing which is essentially voting for him.
The US really does deserve Trump.
I understand your sentiment, but it’s a worldwide impact.
