Thanks, Obama.
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Algae are cool.
Chlorophyll? More like Bore-o-phyll!
Shit is as green as my dick after a night of watching my man Randy Savage with the missus, and the obvious aftermath of such things.
It's green because Iran's flag has green and Iran's a winner.
Next week these idiots will be saying "It's supposed to be green" so that dont have to admit they voted for a fool.
Why would they wait until next week?
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Isn't it a bit late for St. Patrick's Day?
Or it's early.
The other bodies of water in this picture are what interest me. Both the Pond and the Tidal Basin look bluer, showing what it would have looked like. Now it's the color of grift.
They're probably also deeper, which both provides a less ideal environment for algae to grow and also looks bluer despite algae that might be growing. The water in the tidal basin is also moving and has water naturally flowing in and out. The reflecting pool does not have that and needs to be shallow so that water movement is minimized to create the reflection it's supposed to give.
Yes the Basin is more "wild," fair enough.
The Pond is also shallow and manmade, with a similar water system, so it's a truer comparison.
I'm not sure if it changed, but the reflecting pool was modified to be fed by the tidal basin during Obama's presidency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool?wprov=sfla1
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looks like a mini-putt, with a giant hole on the end that he'd still miss by a mile.
Algae produce a shitload of oxygen, so it's super eco-friendly
i guess that’s 1 way to get him to do whatever it takes to change it
The algae multiplied. Who could have predicted they would do that? It was an entirely novel strategy.
I don't know what you mean, he stopped testing and the numbers went down.
R E P R O D U C T I O N
How could algae have learned to multiply? We're eliminating the department of education to prevent problems like this from reoccurring in the future.
I’d rather vote for the algae too
At least Algae is useful.
So painting a pool a dark color which will increase the water temperature encouraged algae to grow? You'd have to be some kinda scientist or psychic to know that would happen.
- DJT
What do you expect when you give the contract for installing the water purification system to a company called Greenwater Services?
You're telling me they elected someone not competent and they're shocked he's not competent?
Yet still not as shocked as that pool is gonna be.
My daily dose of pun-ishment.
Can someone confirm if the pool was being fine before the "renovation"?
It was not fine
The pool has had a history of bad filtration and would cost a lot to fix it, which is why it was never really fixed
On one hand it looks like shit but on the other hand who cares? Big picture, this isn't a major issue worth sinking a bunch of money into
But Obama did try to invest some money into fixing it but that was also a failure in that nothing really changed. Obama spent "a lot" of money and got basically no results
So Trump, trying to be better than Obama, has taken it upon himself to fix it. Except, Trump can't seem to do literally anything right and so now it's actually worse than it was
Are those green patches of grass to the north the patches that had "8647"?
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Can’t wait for the Wikipedia page.
I didn't see a dedicated page to this incident yet, but there is a section specifically for this event here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool
Definitely should be a conflict-style page about algae vs Trump war.
Yet another symbol of the state of the U.S. The MAGA folks are pretty good at that. Take this ridiculous military parade, the absurd cage fight in front of the White House, that goddamn ballroom—and the list goes on and on....
It’s truly unbelievable that, with all this stupid nonsense, they don’t realize how ridiculous and dim-witted they are. But hey, what else can you expect from this clown show....
In a way, it’s almost a good thing for the world, because it really makes it crystal clear just how uncivilized these wretched fascists are.
That's what's happens when the swamp promises to drain the swamp. MORE SWAMP MOFOS!
Time to pay the algae reparations buddy.
alge is always greener on the other side
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