I really doubt it. Maybe in the direct area that is was poured into. But they'd literally have to have dumped swimming pools worth of it into it for it to do anything.

The pool takes 6 Million gallons of water to fill. They were pouring in peroxide by hand. By hand. They were essentially pouring gallons of water into water. When hydrogen peroxide is exposed to any heat (like from the fucking sun in the summer) it degrades significantly faster. The hydrogen peroxide just turns into water while releasing oxygen gas.

It could have reacted with the paint directly where it was being poured in before getting diluted. But I think the paint job was just garbage in the first place. It probably wasn't sealed correctly. Given how entire sheets of it were just floating around.

Edit: Wikipedia and it's sources agree with me.

According to a variety of experts interviewed by a variety of sources, the application of hydrogen peroxide to reduce algae in the Reflecting Pool was likely too diluted to account for the magnitude of the damage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool

They know that, too. They don’t even care to hide it anymore.

They'd be beating cops and smearing their shit on the walls like the animals they are.

But did he wear a tan suit?

He is also a genuine moron who probably actually believes half of the stupid shit he says.

Yes, that’s the definition of bullshit. Things said without caring if they are true.

I think many people don’t know this. I didn’t, until trump became president.

AI bullshits all the time. Because it doesn’t have the capacity to care.

There's an actual, somewhat definitive essay on this distinction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

I've been using this joke for a decade now.

Bush Jr gave us great lies. Lies that were raised in small batches on family farms, then harvested with great care. They were aged to perfection in handcrafted oaken barrels under the supervision of Old World craftsmen and only decanted at their peak.

They were lies that made you feel ennobled by their precision

Yes, he is a bullshitter. I think that distinction comes from Harry Frankfurt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

Put a guillotine on one end and fill the pool with the blood of the bourgeoisie.

Pelosi vs mcconnell

Fill it with sand, add a center barricade down the length. Now you have a great jousting arena and hippodrome for track/field sports.

A large part of the cult mentality is consistently reinforcing that your group is in on some big secret that the rest of the world is clueless to. It quickly becomes a self-sustaining feedback loop where the cult will go along with wild things just to keep up the idea that they’re in the know.

This is further reinforced with messaging that the outside world is hostile, and safety can only be found within the cult. This is actually a large part of why Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses do their door-knocking. They have already been primed to expect hostility from the people answering the door, and that hostility only reinforces the idea that the outside world is dangerous and ignorant. And we see this with modern MAGAts now, because they have been primed to expect hostility whenever they try to bring up anything that outs them as MAGA.

Yeah, it's not like he's some evil genius. Serial abusers aren't trained manipulators. It's just kind of built into their character. It's automatic. And it's not even like he's intentionally hiring smarter people to be evil for him. His shit personality just draws those kinds of people to him.

None of this is sophisticated. It's just that a terrifying percentage of Americans are dogshit stupid, so low effort evil works.

He intentionally hired "greenwater services" a firm whose owners have a history of paying bribes to fill the pool with algae

but, like, socialism would be soooo expeeennnnsive

How is that not Danny Devito?

lives aren't lost.

yet

AFAIK the reflecting pool has none of the things you need with a home pool, like a permanently on filter system, heavy chlorination, etc.

I admit that I know nothing about the huge reflecting pool. But, I know enough to know that I don't know. I know that the people who take care of it probably know what they're doing, and probably have decades of institutional knowledge that I should respect.

Unlike the metaphorical ones.

I don't know, how does "Convicted rapist and alleged child molesting US president contends that the color of a publicly-funded overpriced underwater paint job is closer to blue than gray" sound?

Does it still sound like news or should we be looking into the actual Epstein files?

You seem to be under the impression that everyone is getting the same news. They are not. This gripping drama isn't even on the radar of the so-called normies. And they wouldn't care either way except to align with how the story is spun to fit their preferred narrative.

For others, they already know. This is just another of a long series of "news" tidbits thrown out for the more disgruntled masses for them to sit, smugly, in the comfort of their armchairs, and with vindication, feeling temporarily superior while verbally masturbating with each other and becoming aquatic decorative experts.

It's fine, and par for the course, really. The people most affected by the current status quo are generally incapable of making any meaningful contribution to their own collective well-being. I keep forgetting that and shouldn't have even bothered to mention it.