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That's how much of our money in tax dollars that Donald Trump dumped into "beautifying" the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and it turns out that they didn't even consult any type of engineer or environmental scientist about the work they planned on doing.

Cause this is what it looks like today:

Sixteen million dollars went to a company who's only claim to fame before this was that they had worked on pools at Trump's resorts, and now not only is the reflecting pool once again filled with algae, but because of the color of paint that they chose for the bottom it's WORSE than it was before due to the heat retention causing a higher bloom.

They are trying to use store bought gallon bottles of hydrogen peroxide to kill the algae. The problem? It would take about 8000 bottles to even come close to putting a dent into an algae bloom of this size in a pool this large.

Here's another picture taken today:

And here is their 2 video, 101 subscriber count YouTube channel:

Notice anything about them? Like the fact that they're based in Florida?

What are the odds that this company has done work for Trump at one of his resorts in the past? Just like how the first company that he got to fuck up the pool to begin with had previously worked on the pools at his Florida locations?

Go to a granny's antique shop or flea market and find things US families used 50 years ago.

Go here:

Anyway, while my situation's a little different but adjacent...here are a couple of things that might be worth remembering when seeing ignorance like this (modify where applies, ie. it being more historical vs some of these points applying to families/situations where it's more recent)

Rose didn’t go on the boat because if she went with her mother and Cal, that was it. Her life was over. She may have lived but her life would’ve been over.

She would’ve been married to, raped, abused, and impregnated by Cal. Then when he put a gun in his mouth because of the market crash her mother would’ve tried to get her to marry the next rich man who could take care of her and her inevitable children. And the cycle would continue.

If she got on that lifeboat she was never going to get off that lifeboat.

She was convinced that she was either going to die with Jack, or live with Jack. She never thought there was a reality where only he died and she survived. She imagined they would either die in the water together or they would get rescued together. She was ready to die with him because in 6 days he made her happier than an entire lifetime before. And she couldn’t go back.

A naive belief maybe, but it was her reality. When Jack is dying he spends the last part of his wakefulness encouraging her to live like he has lived. To move freely and unencumbered, to see the world, to be happy and not let her family control her.

Jack was always going to die in that water. He was low body fat, even if he was on that door alone, he was going to freeze to death. Rose realizes upon her rescue that not only did he die for her but now she has to live for him.

She has to honor him by not returning to her mother and Cal. She honors him by changing her name to his. By living the life he wanted for her instead of what her upbringing demanded. Her entire life was in honor of Jack Dawson. He gave her everything. She had to give something in return.

She says she hasn’t spoken of Jack to anyone when she tells the tale. She spent her life quietly living for him. She did not settle for her husband. She did not have less love for her children because they weren’t Jack’s. But everything she had existed because of him. Every joy and triumph. Was because of him.

Stop.

I live in the era of antibiotics, antiseptics, celecoxib, clotrimazole, fast braces, laser eye surgery, ondansetron, paracetamol, tramadol, and relatively safe spinal surgery.

I'm in the right era.

Gift Article (New York Times):

The price of this decision will be paid by ordinary people, in the form of more PFAS-related diseases.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/health/telling-the-public-to-drink-poison-trump-epa-targets-drinking-water-limits-for-forever-chemicals