Nick Yarbrough

Writer, former foreign policy nerd, powerlifter, hideous internet goblin. DC native, crying over the Caps since I was a small boy, Nats since I was a small man

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

I Knew You Were Robble When You Walked In

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

There's also the fact that if someone can manually remove the liner with nothing but a box cutter, it was poorly installed regardless.

This is like if the Washington Monument fell over and they said "well someone went up on foot and pushed it."

[AntifaPuddin’Pop @Andie00471]

I’ve lived in DC my whole life. A mouse farting on The Mall would be caught on camera. But Fat Caligula wants you to believe a vandal carved a swath of pool liner the length of a football field w a box cutter in one of the most public spaces in the city and there’s no video?!? 😂

[AntifaPuddin’Pop @Andie00471]

I’ve lived in DC my whole life. A mouse farting on The Mall would be caught on camera. But Fat Caligula wants you to believe a vandal carved a swath of pool liner the length of a football field w a box cutter in one of the most public spaces in the city and there’s no video?!? 😂

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Congress is scrambling right now to pass online identity checks to use the internet—just like we’re seeing in places like the UK—before anyone realizes what they’re doing.

They’re using “protecting kids” as their excuse, but it’s really about spying on and controlling Americans!

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

So an Antifa scuba diver with a box cutter snuck into the Reflecting Pond to cut a 300 foot section out while evading all cameras and law enforcement in order to sabotage Trump.

Do I have that right?

[James Henry @Jameshenry1970]

As a DC9 union painter with 30+ years in coatings, I’m looking at the failure not a conspiracy theory.
When a coating is lifting off in large sheets like this, that points to an adhesion failure: improper surface preparation, contamination left behind, the wrong coating system, poor recoat timing, or water introduced before the system fully cured.

A quality two-part epoxy system can perform well but the product is only as good as the prep and application. The substrate has to be properly profiled/cleaned, the specified primer or first coat applied correctly, recoat windows followed, and the full system allowed to cure before being put back into service.

That is not “vandals.” That is a coating failure that deserves a real independent inspection and an explanation of exactly what system was specified and how it was applied.

#Coatings #Epoxy #SurfacePreparation #PaintFailure #UnionPainter #QualityControl #Accountability #ReflectingPool
#Properpreperation #Elonmusk
#DonaldTrump #Donaldtrumpjr
@krassenstein @EdKrassen @eddsmitty @LucasSa56947288 @adammocklerr @harryjsisson @acnewsitics @Acyn @Bakari_Sellers

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

As someone who hates congress but lives in DC my most shitlord opinion is that $174,000 a year is not enough for someone who isn't already wealthy to maintain a home in both DC and their home district and congress should be paid more to allow more normal people to run and serve

[𝖐𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊𝖑 🔱 @sia_hungary]

Pride flags in Budapest. This would have never happened under the previous government.

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

Everyone on the right got pissed off when I noticed the state of the art circulation and filtration system Obama had added to the Reflecting Pool 16 years ago was removed by Trump. Now we find out that Trump *did* remove it. This isn't hard to deduce. Anything Obama did will be removed and destroyed. We paid good money for that system only to be charged $14 million to have the pool painted and the filtration system removed. This was a money laundering scheme. Nothing more.

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

@cytownie82372 @Lesliesusan2023 @washingtonpost @Letha_Hughes If a cyclist can casually get off a bike, walk to the pool, and pull off a section of the liner with his bare hand, the job was already fucked when he got there.

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

@iamswoboda @jeremyct As someone who is currently VERY financially comfortable, but has friends who aren't: how are they supposed to better themselves when they're already working 50 and 60 hours a week to make rent (with two roommates) and put food on the table?

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

No.

The Auschwitz Memorial account is a space of remembrance. We commemorate the victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz.

We are not obliged to give access to its space of remembrance to people who either deny the Holocaust or treat denial as a joke, a pose, or a tool of online provocation.

Your activity on this platform gives us no reason to believe that unblocking your account would contribute to a respectful or factual discussion.

The block remains.

[Jack @GayLaVie]

IF YOU’RE IN LINE TO EAT THE PAINT CHIPS FLAKING OFF THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL REFLECTING POOL, STAY IN LINE

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

Jesus Christ

[Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix]

A large TV display for some event at the Lincoln Memorial has blown over and landed on a woman. Police and fire department evaluating.

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

@TheSauceIsHot_ @Acyn CNN did not say that anyone put phosphates into the water.

CNN said that the water contained phosphates. The water in the Reflecting Pool comes from the Potomac, which picks up 200 miles worth of agricultural runoff from West Virginia and Rural MD before getting to DC.

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

https://t.co/zj6wXziBO4

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Following the humiliating attack yesterday on Moscow, Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylaš, commander of the Russian Air Force has died after falling out of a window.

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

@the_matt @Acyn @KyleKulinski It's "President steps on rake after being told not to," which has a much lower barrier to entry than "let's discuss the nuances and deep constitutional implications of a President who's actively losing his mind" (which tbh is also a conversation that they should be having NOW)

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

@the_matt @Acyn @KyleKulinski Sure, but this is a far simpler issue to talk about. Trump beat the drum about how great it would be: it turned out to be demonstrably awful, after a bunch of people said "this is going to be awful, actually. "

That's a very simple, low effort Point A -> Point B story.

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

@Skylady1963 @PenguinSix The whole reason that they moved to supplying it from the Tidal Basin in '12 was that it leaks like a sieve due to substrate cracking from normal settling. A fussy, relatively thick coat of paint was doomed from the get-go.

[Nick Yarbrough @NLYarbrough]

@Skylady1963 @PenguinSix The Reflecting Pool has always been in a pain in the ass to maintain. It's had issues with the ground around it shifting, causing cracks, etc. since forever.

It also takes a ton of chemicals to keep clean.

This is why everyone who knows anything was going "don't paint it."