Trump May Have Damaged Reflecting Pool by Having Motorcade Drive Over It

Trump May Have Damaged Reflecting Pool by Having Motorcade Drive Over It

President Donald Trump’s decision to have his motorcade drive across the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during a high-profile inspection last month is facing renewed scrutiny, as questions mount over whether the move may have contributed to damage now plaguing the newly renovated landmark.

Which did Trump do a better job of fixing, the Reflecting Pool or the Strait of Hormuz? - Andy Borowitz

I googled is the ground soggy under the reflecting pool in D.C.?

Driving on that pool with heavy vehicles would cause cracks, sinking, etc...So, yeah, trump is the vandal.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• US strikes Iran to respond to attack on ship that Trump says violated ceasefire
• Trump blames Iran for a drone strike on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz
• Trump chides Iran for ship attack after Tehran insists on control of the strait
• Hormuz traffic flows despite ship attack
• Tom Homan Says ICE Operations Will Continue Despite NYC Opposition
• LA is still reeling from ICE raids, one year on
• Trump administration asks supreme court to back immigration detention policy
• ICE plans to deport Colorado priest despite poor health and threats to safety in Uganda

Trump says his 34-year-old aide, Natalie Harp, loves him as much as Melania does. Why does he keep an aide who hates him that much - Andy Borowitz

JD Vance Really Wants To Be President So He's Acting Like Trump

Vice President Vance quipped on Thursday that the Watergate scandal that led to former President Richard Nixon's resignation would have been a "12-hour news story" in the current media landscape.

"The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy," Vance said during a conversation with the Richard Nixon Foundation at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif.

JD Vance is right that Watergate would only be a 12-hour story today. That’s because Watergate looks like fucking child’s play compared to the crimes committed by Trump and his administration. - Jamie Bonkiewicz

This is alarming. Vandals have infiltrated Trump's State Fair and used an unknown substance to turn thousands of people waiting in line invisible.  - AwesomeNews

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Hits Democrats As ‘Godless Communists’ Ahead Of Midterms
• Senate GOP scrambling for a strategy to please Trump on SAVE
• Maryland House Republicans call on Justice Department to review "Glock ban" law before it goes into effect
• Trump Friend-Turned-Foe John Bolton Pleads Guilty in Classified Info Case
• Rick Scott pushes to cancel Florida Ye shows
• Republicans eye move to stop RFK Jr. from taking over special education: ‘Not the right place to go’
• Republicans sue Colorado in surging attack on overseas voters

Rep. Thomas Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

Experts Told Trump No On His Refurbishing of the Reflecting Pool
President Donald Trump’s Reflecting Pool project was shot down by an experienced company before he awarded the job to his own former pool guys, according to an exclusive new CNN report.

Trump: "They're cheating. The kid won. Or he was certainly in the top two. I don't know him, I never met him. Spencer Pratt. He went away quietly. We didn't go away quietly. He shouldn't go away quietly, he should protest, because it was in my very strong opinion a rigged election."

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Rock The Voter News

• Texas State Board of Education votes to require millions of students to study Bible stories
• Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’
• California billionaire tax headed for ballot despite top Democrats’ opposition

Every time JD Vance opens his mouth my first thought is always " How the f*ck did he get into Yale?" - Renee

Kicking The Can Down The Road?
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) issued two subpoenas to billionaire investor Leon Black during Black’s voluntary transcribed interview before the panel Friday...“Answers about the terms and substance of these NDAs are critical to our investigation. For this reason, today I issued subpoenas to Mr. Black for NDAs and to appear for a deposition in the near future. We owe it to the American people to provide transparency and ensure accountability for survivors,” Comer said in a statement.

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Business/Tech News

• Oil prices drop as more ships move through the Strait of Hormuz
• AI trade hits a wall amid report that OpenAI will delay IPO until 2027
• FedEx and peers start passing along $1B in tariff refunds to customers
• Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on any country that imposes tax on US tech firms

Does anybody else find it odd that SCOTUS ended Roe vs. Wade with the argument that an unborn child is a life worth protecting, yet that same court also decided that pesticide and herbicide corporations have an unlimited right to kill children, adults and the elderly? - Health Ranger

This Is Mind Boggling. Why Doesn't EVERY Intelligence Agency Have The Best and Most Secure Phones?

The Secret Service left itself vulnerable to hacking due to issues with both official and personal devices, a government watchdog found in a report ordered after the assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, Pa. 

The report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Homeland Security found that agents routinely relied on their personal phones for official business due to clunky communication software on official phones.

If Democrats are serious about winning the midterms they need to hire a seasoned spokesperson to hold daily press conferences. They need to challenge the lies and misinformation that the White House spits out every single day. - John Brennan

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Odd News

• NASA is paying $30 million for a 1st-of-its-kind rescue mission to the aging Swift telescope
• Some of the last surviving Neanderthals were remarkably diverse ‪—‬ suggesting inbreeding didn't doom them
• Small Plane Falls From Sky, Bounces Off Tallest Skyscraper in Beijing
• Heavy metal: French town hosts medieval combat cage fights
• Florida Woman Tells Police Drugs Found in Her Purse Were Healing Crystals

Time To Deflate Photo

1921 Darmont-Morgan Three-Wheel Runabout. It reminds me of a backward Tuk Tuk with big wheels.

Peace.

Reflecting Pool now under surveillance as Trump blames vandals for green algae

Reflecting Pool now under surveillance as Trump blames vandals for green algae

The U.S. security apparatus is keeping watch at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, whose blue color has been fouled by green algae after...

New Poll Shows Trump Vastly Less Popular Than Algae - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• American Soldiers Claim Pete Hegseth Downplayed Severity of Iran War Wounds
• Trump asks Congress for billions for Iran war, after tension with Republicans
• Trump Takes Midnight Victory Lap After Senate GOP Rebels Fall in Line on Iran Vote — After Furious Capitol Hill Clash
• UN pauses Hormuz evacuation plan after ship reports suspected attack
• Rubio’s spin on the Iran MOU sounds different from Trump and Vance
• Mark Carney says he and Donald Trump talked NATO and Iran war but not trade, as deadline looms
• 'We Will Not Withdraw': Netanyahu Vows Israel Will Keep Forces In Southern Lebanon
• Ukraine's Zelenskiy says he approved 40-day campaign to 'influence' Russia to end the war

It should have been all over when he said, “find 11,780 votes.” - John Collins

The Whitey Tighties On The Supreme Court Have Spoken...
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Trump administration can cut off temporary legal protections for thousands of Haitians and Syrians, deciding that federal judges have no authority to weigh in on many of the challengers’ claims.

The Pentagon is once again requiring the flu vaccination for all recruits after Pete Hegseth made the shot optional for the military. The about face comes amid a growing, weeks-long, flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base. - OldManLefty

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP Senator Tells Fox News Trump ‘Came in Smoking Hot’ at ‘Cluster F*ck’ Meeting
• Tucker Carlson Excoriates Trump: ‘Shut Up, B*tch! I Don’t Take You Seriously’
• Glock ban: MD Republicans call on DOJ to review
• RFK Jr. urged Iowa candidate to make deal to help GOP win House seat, per audio recording
• Fallon Mocks Trump’s Great American State Fair: ‘Drunk Tank with Kash Patel’
• Pima County Republicans challenges Arizona rules on electioneering at polling sites
• Half of Republicans and 11% of Democrats define patriotism as supporting their country unconditionally

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) on abortion: "This is the trick that the Democrats always like to lay out, and it's so clever: 'What about the life of the mother?'"

AOC on NY Primaries: I feel like it’s déjà vu all over again. There was so much fear back when I was elected, and none of it bore out to be true.

Imagine how dope the America 250th would have been if Kamala had won. Massive concerts, foreign dignitaries, millions of visitors to DC, a year long celebration culminating in a huge party on the 4th. Instead, we get meth head Kid Rock, a Gatorade colored reflecting pool, and a traveling carnival. - aStatesman 

The Supreme Court Decided Corporations Reign Supreme Over Citizens...A.K.A. Legalized Murder
The Supreme Court sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer.

So the Supreme Court protects Monsanto and Trump protects glyphosate. 

But no one is standing up for cancer patients. 

Awful, just awful. - Marjorie Tylor Greene

 

I posted this eleven years ago

They can find billions for bombs.

They can find immunity for corporations.

They can find loopholes to deport families.

But healthcare? Housing? Wages?

Suddenly America is “broke.”

You are being robbed. - Anonymous

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Rock The Voter News

• Hakeem Jeffries Pushes Back on CNBC Host Pressing Him to ‘Reject’ Progressives
• Mamdani-backed Valdez on Fetterman criticism: ‘It’s a big-tent party’
• CNN’s Enten Says Dem Socialists ‘Not Popular At All’ Nationally, Gift to the GOP

Republicans control the three branches of government and still can't find a single proof of widespread voter fraud. - Alex Cole

These People WANT Anti-Vaxxers Dead, Too. That's Their Base.

Trump adviser Peter Navarro unloaded on Dr. Anthony Fauci in a scorching tirade on Fox Business on Thursday, claiming that the Biden administration’s pandemic era Chief Medical Advisor “created” the Covid-19 virus and “killed people.”

Navarro appeared on Mornings with Maria to speak with anchor Maria Bartiromo who he credited for being the “only person in the media” willing to ask “tough questions” about the pandemic’s origins and Fauci himself.

The Bible Belt is also:

The divorce belt

The teen pregnancy belt

The obesity belt

The murder belt

The poverty belt

The high-school dropout belt

The uneducated belt

The MAGA belt

The prison belt

The disease belt

None of these are a coincidence. They are not simply correlation.

This is cause and effect. - Rebekah Jones

SERIOUS QUESTION: You don’t find it weird that not a single billionaire wants to end world poverty ?? Doesn’t it strike you as bizarre that no one with that kind of wealth wants to be the hero who actually solves the world’s biggest problems when they literally could ?? Isn’t that suspicious ??- sidewalk

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Business/Tech News

• Costa Rica Dollar Exchange Rate May Have Hit Bottom
• Trump Claims He’s ‘Doing a Big Investigation’ Into Oil Companies Over Gas Prices
• Sean Duffy Says Career-Focused Young People Are Following ‘Dumbest Advice’
• Bret Baier Confronts Bessent About Trump’s ‘Upside-Down’ Approval Rating
• Airfares are staying high even as the jet fuel crisis fades

Nobody wants to admit it, but Google was enough. - Lissa

I Hope These 2 out of 3 Americans Vote For Politicians Who Help Them Instead of Hurt Them

Two in three Americans are facing financial hardship due to increased gas prices, according to a new poll gauging the Iran war’s impact on the U.S. economy.

In the Gallup poll, 67 percent of respondents said “recent price increases in gasoline” have resulted in “financial hardship” for themselves or their household. Thirty-three percent said recent gas price increases “have not caused hardship” for themselves or their household.

A truly intelligent species would not contaminate its own drinking water, erode topsoil, collapse wildlife populations, and create chronic disease through its own food system. - Mr. Nobody

Be you.

The world will adjust.

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Odd News

• Venezuela earthquakes live updates: At least 164 dead and nearly 1,000 injured after powerful twin tremors
• NASA’s Mars rover just found more evidence the planet may have sustained life
• Humans and great apes share similar giggles
• Passengers restrain pilot during apparent medical emergency on 'terrifying' flight
• Dropped sunglasses lead to man getting trapped in campground toilet
• Florida charges woman in alleged scheme to take teacher certification exams for others

Time To Deflate Photo

It’s Gaudí’s birthday and I still can’t stop thinking about the scenes from the Sagrada Família two weeks ago. 


Peace.