A note to my friends who still back Trump:
I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.
Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.
And the green water?
A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.
Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.
That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.
The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.
Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.
Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.
Prove them wrong.
Messi 5 goals in 2 games but he would only be on 1 if the referee sent him off last game for his horror challenge. Are we about to witness another rigged World Cup?
🇺🇿🇨🇴 This is what football is all about. An Uzbek kid is left in tears after Colombia scores, but the Colombian fans around him immediately step in to comfort him and chant "Uzbekistan!"
Pure class. 👏
O mundo todo escandalizado. Mas aqui querem te forçar a torcer pra maior rival da Seleção Brasileira porque tem que “desfrutar” um único jogador.
É o povo mais vira-lata do universo. Não tem nada igual.
Net kırmızı kart. 2 maç da cezalı olacaktı. Son Dünya Kupası’nı bok gibi kapatıp bununla hatırlanacaktı.
Kariyeri boyunca hem FIFA hem UEFA tarafından bu kadar kollanan, ödüllerde falan bu kadar öne çıkarılan başka bir futbolcu daha yok.
How long will he keep getting away with this stuff man? This isn't even hating on him but the fact this wasn't even given a yellow card is insane?
https://t.co/3xzQamywUX
🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING — World Cup “Disaster”
Mohammad Mohebi and Mehri Taremi Say:
“Not to Make Excuses but This Is Not a Fair Competition.”
Iranian Players argued they should arrive 2 days before matches instead of traveling, training, and playing while exhausted by 5 hours in Immigration Controls and Transit.
Con perros detectores de drogas y explosivos y un fuerte control de seguridad.
Así han recibido a Uruguay en Estados Unidos antes de su debut contra Arabia Saudí.
Tremendo.