Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸

Chi/Cat/Bunny Mom. Proud Empathy Vessel.

[Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸 @sharshnibbles]

"I've been wading through all this unbelievable
Junk and wondering if I should have given
The world to the monkeys" - Elvis Costello

[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

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸 @sharshnibbles]

@MAGACult2 Well, yeah. Where have you been? You have to read all of her books immediately. Seriously.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “It was supposed to open Friday, it is not open because Trump says he does not want it open. When this bridge does open some day, if Trump ever lets it open, you should know that there is a competing bridge a little way down the river, a privately-owned very old very congested toll bridge that will likely LOSE some of its traffic…because of competition. It will lose some of its traffic to this pretty, brand new bridge that has just been built. The family that operates the competing old bridge, earlier this year, made a $1 million donation to Donald Trump’s super pac. In short order, a member of that family then got an in person meeting with Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The White House and the pac say that was just a coincidence…but after the million dollar donation, he gets this meeting, and then the SAME day of the meeting, Howard Lutnick calls President Donald Trump and then Trump suddenly discovers new supposedly trade-related reasons why he’s now suddenly against this bridge, even though previously he has been for it.” 🤦‍♀️

[Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸 @sharshnibbles]

@mjfree Bile

[Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸 @sharshnibbles]

@Grits_Barbie @krassenstein Thanks for the novel, but you were the one who compared it to a swimming pool.

[Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸 @sharshnibbles]

@GUnderP68 @krassenstein That was to rebuild it - this was a $14M paint job handed over with no bids.

[Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸 @sharshnibbles]

@shawnarche79785 @krassenstein So it’s not “because it’s hot” anymore?

[Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸 @sharshnibbles]

@Grits_Barbie @krassenstein Yeah, so pools are supposed to have filtration systems to keep the water clear, even when it’s hot. It’s been over 100 degrees in AZ all week and you don’t see people pouring gallons of Hydrogen Peroxide into their pools.

[Justin🦩Boldaji @justinboldaji]

I know comparing modern society to Idiocracy is really played out but man

[Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸 @sharshnibbles]

@Tiffkearney @JoJoFromJerz You’re mad that she’s in a picture with a sober guy?

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump’s dream.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

He covered it better than any news source we’ve got and it was also entertaining. The real story about the Albanian Island adventure these two idiots were up to.

[Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸 @sharshnibbles]

@goldstar002 And he’s never going to be held accountable for anything. As much as I’ll be popping champagne, that’s the part that’s going to hurt.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Lucy Buttons 🌊🇺🇸 @sharshnibbles]

@Thetraeredneck I need to get tix to the Lobero show! Note to self…