C0Rl0LANUS

If you've never seen the back side of Mt Rushmore:

#60 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Eat your soup and go back to bed

"Unless we also receive $300,000,000,000, we'll bloom like you've never seen before!"

- DC Reflecting Pool Algae

Vance, 41, came on the show appearing to wear eyeliner

He's part of the "guyliner" community.

Does he stand in front of mirrors and growls "ARRR" in a Johnny Depp/Jack Sparrow way?

More like high APR debt on a 144 month car loan.

#9 | Posted by sitzkrieg

And a small peter ... lol

#6 | Posted by donnerboy

When I see a dude driving a Cybertruck I think, "dude must have a small peter and a wasteful wallet."

#2 | Posted by snoofy

The eyeliner gives him the evil look of a movie villain.

#5 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar

Ya. He's been promising self-driving is "months away" for years.

#40 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Trump said he hired his pool guys because they do such a good job at his country clubs.

No one from the pool company said, "we'd better get thousands of gallons of peroxide/chlorine in here or we'll have algae" ???

SITZ

Good idea (PVC/pantyhose). I'm all for you taking over management of the Reflecting Pool :-)

Cuts to the National Park Service 2026 budget haven't helped keep up with maintenance at facilities they manage and maintain.

Trump proposed cutting 72% from next year's NPS construction budget, which includes upgrades to old water systems.

PS - DC is a concrete jungle. 90's aren't unusual in the summer though sometimes it cools down.

Adjust for it being hotter in DC summers now than it was 40 yeara ago.

#31 | Posted by sitzkrieg

I was there most recently summer of 2024 when it was in the 90's. No algae.

#28 | Posted by sitzkrieg

The NPS must have been doing something to prevent algae the dozens of times I've been in DC since the early 80's, including summer.

I've never seen it green with algae. Well, I hope they can fix the problems ...

To Funny Flagger LEFTHNDTHRDS:

I was vaccinated, caught COVID - my wife caught it in the hospital when none of the nurses in the surgical recovery area were wearing masks during a COVID surge and I caught it from her - and didn't die or end up in an ICU. Same genes.

You are not smart enough to understand the distinction, obviously.

SITZ

I've been to DC many, many times. I can't recall ever seeing algae in the reflecting pool. Perhaps this is why:

One of the issues appears to be the water source. The Reflecting Pool usually draws water from the nearby Tidal Basin, which is often filled with algae. During periods with high amounts of algae, the water supply switches to municipal drinking water. The US Interior Department didn't immediately respond to questions from WIRED about which water source is currently feeding the pool.

www.wired.com/story/reflecting-pool-full-of-algae-climate-change/

"You talk about regime change," Trump said at the G7 meeting yesterday. "I never cared about regime change. It [was] never a part."

Tell that to the Iranians who were desperately incautious enough to actually lay their bone spurs aside, take heart from your incitement and rebel against the regime.

Well, actually, you probably can't- so many of them are dead, lying in mass graves, testimony to the idea that anything and everything you bump into turns to sh#te.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Wasn't regime change one of the first of many excuses Trump bandied about for the war?

I was in DC last year and saw no algae in the reflecting pool.

Since I'm not a chemist, would someone kindly explain why it's appeared all of the sudden?

Per Musk, self-driving is always "only months away."

Been that way for years ...

Without LIDAR and RADAR, I'll never ride in a TESLA using self-driving mode. Cameras simply aren't enough.

#3 | Posted by Nixon

My youngest sister, a Trump-loving evangelical, refused to get vaxxed or wear a mask because she bought into the nonsense pedaled on right wing sites, died of COVID in an ICU. I begged her to reconsider getting vaxxed or at the least wear a mask, but she was adamant COVID would "quickly go away" as Trump professed early on.

(Trump would have died of COVID if not for the first-rate medical care provided by taxpayers he received after contracting COVID)

I've always thought death certificates for people who died needlessly of COVID should include "Stupidity" as a cause of death.

Caligula's Fight Night

So, the main point of the 60 day ceasefire agreement is to keep talking.

Oh, wow (snicker).

Anthony Scaramucci: "I found this birthday message for you outside Trump Tower: 'You sold me your soul. You got what you wanted. The tower. The power. The money. The name in gold. But you left a trail behind you, and it leads to the ninth circle. Goethe said any soul, while still living, can be saved. Will yours? Happy Birthday -- Mephistopheles.'"

Perfect!

Trump has lived beyond his expiration date.

At his age and with his poor health, he's hoping for a viewing in the Capitol Rotunda and a state funeral.

Hopefully, he'll do the right thing and get buried next to Ivana ... like a pet hamster.

Things are now worse for the world than before Trump broke the Middle East with his war.

Strange that no one has seen this laughable 60 day "ceasefire."

And Iran has no intention of making a nuclear deal with Trump, the guy who tore up the deal that was working because Obama signed it.

- During those meetings, Trump and his team discussed intel gathered by several U.S. intelligence agencies that showed that the way Iranian officials were discussing the deal among themselves was inconsistent with what they were telling the mediators and the U.S., two sources said.

- Ratcliffe and Rubio said that based on that intel, they doubted the Iranians would agree to take the nuclear steps the U.S. was seeking, according to two sources.

- "The intelligence reflects that the Iranian intentions are not in line with their commitments under the deal," a source said.