Of course not. The idea that people can just have ideas in their heads on their own and act on them without being told what to think and say and do is unbelievable to them. If there's an organization opposing fascism, there must be a leader telling all the followers that they have to oppose fascism and what to say and think and do, because /that's how their organizations work/.
I know this is a joke but shit like this will fool most of maga and then it gives them ammo, the ammo is blanks but it reinforces their stupidity which is worse.
This is the kind of shit they are pumping out 24/7 on Fox News. I was forced to hear a bit of it a couple weeks back and they're talking about "Antifa cells" all over the place and how they're attacking government offices, all ICE agents do is protect government employees, there aren't enough ICE agents, cities in flames...
Really wish I was joking. They have their own completely alternate reality going on.
I just don't understand how this keeps working I've seen people I've known in orbit around me that behave this way and everybody just keeps dealing with them they just...... I mean like what the hell this guy has throwing you under the bus the last four times he tried to do business with them and you're still trying to do business with him...
two reasons: half of them are incredibly stupid. the education system in america is the world's joke. the second of them basically think like this: "HE DUN HAETZ WHO I HAETZ! DAT'S WHY HE'S YOR PRESODENT! HYUK! HYUK! HYUK! HYUK! HYUK! "
The trick is it was never supposed to work. This was planned so they could constantly funnel money into their friend's company who they hired to maintain it.
Straight up authoritarian tactics. Everything that is going wrong is the result of saboteurs and the public must root them out! It couldn't ever be the incompetence of the regime.
they changed the name to the Obama-Soros House for Satanic Children Who Want To Change Gender. The Christian bit kept confusing people who thought it was a church.
John Oliver mentioned one of the magat podcasters was proposing this sort of thing and even continued to believe it even after the parks board said it was from not flushing the pipes.
The worst part is your explanation makes wayyyyyy too much sense. I cant wait for trump or vance to say it on tv (i mean i really dont want to see that disgrace). "They're eating the cats they're eating the dogs" all over again. Like fucking really
Dark blue paint + sunlight + slow moving water = algae, hydrogen peroxide breaks down into water and oxygen, algae feeds on oxygen at night, produces oxygen in daylight, the algae is staying
He hired people that make his swimming pools. Gave no thought to how often swimming pools are cleaned and the amount of chlorine needed. Just decided water place is water place. No bid contracts.
My understanding was that they ended up painting it nearly the same colour but they sealed the base this time. The slow leak they sealed up had allowed fresh water in and slowed the rate it became nasty at.
exactly - you can mitigate the issue with better circulation systems and treating the water but that's about it unless you do stuff like put copper in the bottom of the pool to abate algae formation but then you'll have people diving in to steal the copper or something. The worst thing you could do is paint the bottom dark to raise the temps and speed up the formation... oh wait... nm.
Dark colors absorb the heat from the sun instead of reflecting it. So the reflecting pool's ambient temperature post paintjob is warmer than it was pre paintjob, which contributes to a better environment for algae to grow.
We used copper sulfate (known around here as 'bluestone,') to control algae in our small (3 acre) lake. It was a balancing act: kill the algae but not the fish. Of course, no fish in the reflecting pond, so bring on the bluestone!
You can just leave copper rods bound in zinc wire in the water if fish are not an issue. Livestock tanks control algae this way. Bluestone wants you to keep buying their products :P
The simple version is that skilled and trained engineers were in charge of things back then, so when algae /did/ build up (which did happen), they dealt with it quickly and efficiently without fanfare. (https://wjla.com/news/local/reflecting-pool-drained--80606). Now Trump's hired one of his golf course maintenance companies to do the job that used to be done by people who knew how to maintain a large pool like it and oops, turns out those skills are not transferable. :/
They also swapped from using DC potable water to using non-potable river water, but that was almost a decade ago and things were fine after that once they got it cleaned up a bit. This algae problem (before and after the renovations) is entirely the Trump admin firing the trained and skilled people who were doing the job well and bringing in his buddies who have no idea what they're doing instead.
Imadethisaccounttopost
America Loves Liberty is a satirical facebook group, which MAGA fall for regularly.
Voodrew
dankmemegurs
Oh no, it's Algae-Fa!
TheRealArclight
DesdemonaMoor
This is a joke, right? RIGHT?
NickNoltesDrinkingShack
Fuck I hate America.
SirRealOfTheShire
I renewed my ANTIFA membership last week and will be attending their annual parade in November.
Gorgoror
They will never understand how Antifa or Anonymous are working...
Jarjarthejedi
Of course not. The idea that people can just have ideas in their heads on their own and act on them without being told what to think and say and do is unbelievable to them. If there's an organization opposing fascism, there must be a leader telling all the followers that they have to oppose fascism and what to say and think and do, because /that's how their organizations work/.
klobberer42
It would be hilarious if they weren't so dumb!
johnblood616
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1Z283dmRldTlvbmZrMXY4eWRhbTA1dWh1OW56OXBiOTBzcm90MXZvbyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/aVBcwz1jd28A8/200w.webp
EatYourSoylentGreenAndShutUp
Is this satire? Please tell me it's satire...
nccomputermechanics4
I know this is a joke but shit like this will fool most of maga and then it gives them ammo, the ammo is blanks but it reinforces their stupidity which is worse.
Hekatombe
Apothecarius
I guess I missed when those two guys pulled a dump truck up to the reflecting pool and filled it with algae
chatawillybilly
Release the Epstein files. Your constant deflections will always fail. Especially with dumb so called investigations handled in your office, Pirro.
WolfgangVonTittySprinkles
Level21Magikarp
jClickTaker
If they filled the pool with mercury rather than water, wouldn’t that really improve the reflection properties. Open your minds people.
heroesblood
"algae attack" jesus fuck these morons are god damned delusional
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
This is the kind of shit they are pumping out 24/7 on Fox News. I was forced to hear a bit of it a couple weeks back and they're talking about "Antifa cells" all over the place and how they're attacking government offices, all ICE agents do is protect government employees, there aren't enough ICE agents, cities in flames...
Really wish I was joking. They have their own completely alternate reality going on.
Whitebeardthepirate
no, they're desperate to shift blame to anyone but themselves
DragonThunderUndertaking
I just don't understand how this keeps working I've seen people I've known in orbit around me that behave this way and everybody just keeps dealing with them they just...... I mean like what the hell this guy has throwing you under the bus the last four times he tried to do business with them and you're still trying to do business with him...
Whitebeardthepirate
two reasons: half of them are incredibly stupid. the education system in america is the world's joke. the second of them basically think like this: "HE DUN HAETZ WHO I HAETZ! DAT'S WHY HE'S YOR PRESODENT! HYUK! HYUK! HYUK! HYUK! HYUK! "
Ristari
Darvo
BestofUwU
The trick is it was never supposed to work. This was planned so they could constantly funnel money into their friend's company who they hired to maintain it.
ItsJustBluskyandImgrNow
The only people who Love Liberty are Liberals; it's right there in the word!
morninggloryshade777
If they can't blame Obama, Biden, the DEMS, socialism or communism....they'd have NOTHING.
woozle
alright, which one of my antifa brethren did that? You guys need to stop infecting a pool with algae.
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Pilgrymm
I peed in it. But I do that every night.
Onetonmanwithaspoon
IT WAS ME ALL ALONG! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Simusar
This gives off: setting off a nuke underground to "teach" the earth to stop making earthquakes, vibes.
tangent
Straight up authoritarian tactics. Everything that is going wrong is the result of saboteurs and the public must root them out! It couldn't ever be the incompetence of the regime.
BlackTrashTiger
Rayplays
DoctorEleven
So, to anyone not familiar, this is a SATIRE facebook group.
QuantumInc
Thank you.
CP3oh
It's so hard to tell anymore.
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
EverNotRelevant
Look at the watermark in the photo, upper left
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
Hey, day is night and up is down. For all we know that could fake fake news!
mikeatike
glovelyday
Have they found the location of the Antifa world headquarters yet??!,
RenaissanceFaireMan
Pizza place had a basement.
HuruinaInu
They must have, they did manage to contact the DC Chapter Of ANTIFA to get a quote...
ontarioOT
I think their president was on here for awhile.
DukeDarkwood
I miss him.
Euclid11010
Well the headquarters for the local chapter is my house. They don't tell us where the centralized headquarters are though for security reasons
NotSomoneElse68
It's next the Headquarters of the Anarchist Guild.
glovelyday
Near the Illuminati Building?
psmith00
well, ya see, there's the joke. at one time one of the chief Antfa operational headquarters was. .... TA DA .... Washington DC.
but now it's becoming one of the chief Fascists Headquarters.
Poopette
it's at my house
SprinklesMckitten
the grave of every man, woman, and closeted enby that died killing a nazi
xj4low
I wonder where the DC chapter is located. I would like to go sign up. Does Kash know where they are? Seems like something the FBI would know.
JAPONfan
Yeah, its in the basement of Obama-Soros House for Christian Children who want to change gender.
bitemark
And Who Can't Read Good
madjo
they changed the name to the Obama-Soros House for Satanic Children Who Want To Change Gender. The Christian bit kept confusing people who thought it was a church.
Guisso14
Is this a real theory?
MagnumRadhard
Seems Onion-esque
1eventHorizon9
Apparently. The Daily Show made fun of one of the dumbass influencers spreading this shit.
abidikgubidik
It is now
ThadisJones
It's about as real as all those 675 Los Angeles ballots for Spencer Pratt that were found in a dumpster in San Recto, a city that doesn't exist
johnblood616
Some dumbass GOP moron said it on Fox
hyptosis
That part doesn't matter, it's as real as they want to believe it is.
lamoinejeff
No this is Patrick
Toqom
Issue is engagement makes money and so lying is profitable
SubsyServy
John Oliver mentioned one of the magat podcasters was proposing this sort of thing and even continued to believe it even after the parks board said it was from not flushing the pipes.
dtallen243
Wouldn't be surprised
NightOwlRally
I hate that I can't tell either. There's so much stupid shit coming from this sore rectum (wrecked 'em?) of an administration
SirYumYum
Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!
dunnerski
I feel like its a joke post everyones taking seriously
reichstein
Because this is right in line with things that people say in complete seriousness these days.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
I hope so, but with this insane administration it's always hard to say for sure.
darthstormer
I think it's one of those "posted as a joke to tease Maga" that they then read and run with, screeching "SEE!?!?!??!?!?!"
philmoregraves
The worst part is your explanation makes wayyyyyy too much sense. I cant wait for trump or vance to say it on tv (i mean i really dont want to see that disgrace). "They're eating the cats they're eating the dogs" all over again. Like fucking really
Apeofdeath
Dark blue paint + sunlight + slow moving water = algae, hydrogen peroxide breaks down into water and oxygen, algae feeds on oxygen at night, produces oxygen in daylight, the algae is staying
pullingsixty
It was black before all the work. Dark blue will likely be no better than before but it's not worse.
GreyKnightTemplar666
Honestly, the algae should stay, isn't it a better oxygen supplier per lb?
woodworkerf
Yes, and consumes mega CO2. Win/win!
Micro2112
Trump goes green with new algae initiative
malbec
You can’t logic someone out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into
Jewdakris
I can't wait for them to try and dye the water blue
16KTS
They tried that it turned green.
stayingalive4life
CelestialSea
Don't forget they stripped out the Obama-era anti-algae infrastructure in the process of repainting.
Nanntuckett
“One of these chemicals will fix the problem”
zHurk777
The reflecting pool in our city looks like sh!t. must be a reflecting pool thing: lots of sunlight and slow moving water, etc.
Evi1Gav
The water was tested by a news channel. It's full of nitrogen phosphate. Algae is just all up in this with a "yeah, bitch"
pikamew222
Should have spray painted it gold like everything else.
WhattaMattahYou
clearly they need to start with peroxide and then end with bleach
(YO, for reals, don't do this at home. It's not the lung-melting gas you get with bleach and ammonia, it gives a BIG explosion and fire and screaming)
Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
Have they tried horse-dewormer yet?
nation543
It's almost as if the pools didn't need to be fucked with in the first place.
The11thPlague
Previous administrations tried and failed to remove the algae too.
CraftyGiant
It's almost comically easy to fix this issue if you know how anything works... But no one in this administration knows anything about science.
Frencheeseater
They ony know 3 things : lying, cheating and grifting !
fknbastard
He hired people that make his swimming pools. Gave no thought to how often swimming pools are cleaned and the amount of chlorine needed. Just decided water place is water place. No bid contracts.
neo154
You can't science them. It's just a waste of time 😔
Gobjin
Just tell RFK Jr that algae will cure polio and he’ll go slurp it up
PineappleLoopsBroether
Can we try coviding them again?
PepperoniAndFingernailPizza
Man I wish... On a side note, I never knew how good I had it during the stay at home order
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Zero traffic was the best
BeaverOnFire
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1OG1jcnF0eGJqemJuYzYzdjA2MzlraGFhMmZiOHJ1enU1NnU0azk4ciZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/rAZEnOu0KHQK4/200w.webp What if we phrase it in a cult like way? 🤔
ChenChioMinawa
This is why we need prayer in schools!/s
ForlornHopeful
My understanding was that they ended up painting it nearly the same colour but they sealed the base this time. The slow leak they sealed up had allowed fresh water in and slowed the rate it became nasty at.
Apeofdeath
It's a shallow pool painted a dark color, similar to an asphalt parking lot, it gets heated by the sun, results in algae
ForlornHopeful
This guy explained it better than me..
Apeofdeath
Interesting
WhyDontYouMakeMe
Hydrogen peroxide would 100% kill the algae, but we're talking hundreds of gallons of high concentration H2O2 to actually shock a pool of this size
JackieTreehornProductions
It would take 9,000 liters of h2o2 for a pond that size. The problem is it’s a flowing water circulating to and from the river. Algae is staying.
WhyDontYouMakeMe
Oh, it's just tilting at windmills if it's algae from the river. You've got to kill it before it gets to the pool or this can't stop happening
JackieTreehornProductions
exactly - you can mitigate the issue with better circulation systems and treating the water but that's about it unless you do stuff like put copper in the bottom of the pool to abate algae formation but then you'll have people diving in to steal the copper or something. The worst thing you could do is paint the bottom dark to raise the temps and speed up the formation... oh wait... nm.
Apeofdeath
Looks like they are using the hydrogen peroxide mix
richardstinks
I don't understand the role of blue paint in this. The other factors I do get.
Cpu46
Dark colors absorb the heat from the sun instead of reflecting it. So the reflecting pool's ambient temperature post paintjob is warmer than it was pre paintjob, which contributes to a better environment for algae to grow.
CraftyGiant
yes BUT, the pool bottom was already dark granite. My question about the reflecting pool is, why did it have no algae when I visited decades ago...
I suspect but am not sure, that the original design had copper and zinc elements meant to be periodically replaced. They would prevent all algae.
joematango
We used copper sulfate (known around here as 'bluestone,') to control algae in our small (3 acre) lake. It was a balancing act: kill the algae but not the fish. Of course, no fish in the reflecting pond, so bring on the bluestone!
CraftyGiant
You can just leave copper rods bound in zinc wire in the water if fish are not an issue. Livestock tanks control algae this way. Bluestone wants you to keep buying their products :P
Jarjarthejedi
The simple version is that skilled and trained engineers were in charge of things back then, so when algae /did/ build up (which did happen), they dealt with it quickly and efficiently without fanfare. (https://wjla.com/news/local/reflecting-pool-drained--80606). Now Trump's hired one of his golf course maintenance companies to do the job that used to be done by people who knew how to maintain a large pool like it and oops, turns out those skills are not transferable. :/
smellsmiketeenspirit
You didn't explain anything though. You explained whose fault it is but nothing about the physical process. Very Trump like.
Jarjarthejedi
They also swapped from using DC potable water to using non-potable river water, but that was almost a decade ago and things were fine after that once they got it cleaned up a bit. This algae problem (before and after the renovations) is entirely the Trump admin firing the trained and skilled people who were doing the job well and bringing in his buddies who have no idea what they're doing instead.
Jarjarthejedi
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/politics/trump-reflecting-pool-renovation.html