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    4 hours ago

    Also: Bidens mental health decline

    Something something about a burned down 80 year old black pit calling a kettle black and such

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    I mean, even with the pool, we’re laughing at it, but what we’re actually talking about is the corrupt bullshit that lead to here. People were already grumpy about the way it was being renovated and who was renovating it before it turned green. It’s just kinda funny that even after pulling that bullshit, the outcome was terrible. But the government corruption is the actually story.

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    13 hours ago

    Why would anyone need to talk about Biden’s mental health? He’s not President and he wasn’t running for President.

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      12 hours ago

      I mean its worth talking about his cabinet hiding his cognitive decline by hiding him from public appearances as his presidency went on but it should not be a priority it is something to talk about though.

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          It would be ideal if future administrations didn’t do any kind of health coverups, though of course prior admin discussions wouldn’t take precedence over e.g. a big fat war.

          (Not sure if Biden’s health was actually covered up - point should hold either way)

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            so like this is the worst part, i can see logically why they might. “gotta project strength. old and ailing projects weakness. regardless of whether the chronic ailment (getting old) is physical or mental, the statesian public assumes any physical decline is immediately preceded by a major mental decline and putain has a literal army division devoted to memes” or something like that.

            i dislike it, but statesians are in general pretty ableist (i have charts and graphs if you disagree) so they’re not going to vote for someone they acknowledge has a physical deficiency. Hell, from wikipedia on FDR:

            Roosevelt remained paralyzed from the waist down and relied on a wheelchair and leg braces for mobility, which he took efforts to conceal in public.

            he wouldn’t have concealed it if the public were accepting of those with disabilities. And this was before the damned polio vaccine (that was 1950. he died 5 years before and really needed it in 1920 as he got sick in 1921) so like, you’d think people would be more accepting? or maybe just more people died.

            and well, when i lived in utah, attitudes seemed very set in the 1930s

            also those charts and graphs are for if you agree too.

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        What the fuck do you expect them to do? I’d fully expect them to hide it as best they can no matter who that president is. They’re definitely hiding it with Trump, it’s just that he’s always been so fucking dumb and weird that it’s not such a strong contrast. Biden is miles better even at the absolute worst times of his age getting to him. Do I want them to hide it? No. But you gotta be dumb as fuck if you ever expect anything else.

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    The pool is just memetastic and simple to explain. Classic clickbait fodder. It also has direct links to an area of Trump’s supposed expertise.

    The other more important things like the Epstein files, oligarchs, genocide, graft, corruption, fascism, inflation, affordability, and idiotic wars of aggression are still getting coverage and will still get coverage after this. They’re just not as easily condensed up a meme.

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    the national park service used arra funds and actually rebuilt the whole thing during the obama administration. and when they had an algae problem, shortly after it being filled back up… they fixed that for a measly $100 thousand to drain and clean it all, and then increased the ozone used in the filtering system to control the algae.

    it should cost less than $150 thousand to completely drain and clean it today. note there’s no “millions” here… not even a single “million”. just one hundred and fifty thousand. anything more than that is taxpayer money being stuffed in to someone’s pocket.

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      so is that 150 large all labor or is a lot of that supplies? like can you just squeegee it off and put it in a dumpster? or i guess, could you when it had appropriate lining?

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    I’ll say it again, this is a classic distraction to flood the zone.

    By focusing on the mostly harmless gaff of the reflecting pool, were not talking about Trump being a pedophile, or the surrender to Iran, or the fucker economy and insider trading.

    Making posts like these is exactly want Trump wants you to do.

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      Honestly if trump had managed to fix the pool correctly and for an appropriate amount of money that should be even bigger news than this current distraction.

      Imagine how nuts we would all go if he actually become competent all of a sudden.

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    Green pool Trump is blathering about vs. a manufactured immigrant crisis, the mental decline of someone that is no longer in office, or a murder that happened two years ago…

    Hmm, weird.

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      Yeah they just drop that casually in there in a list of things that we are being heartless for not thinking about. Because the right has been so on top of compassion for Biden’s health.

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      I mean its worth talking about his cabinet hiding his cognitive decline by hiding him from public appearances as his presidency went on but it should not be a priority it is something to talk about though.