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rampartd

(5,457 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 07:37 AM 9 hrs ago

the reflecting pool is , of course, trump's bane .....

Nemesis, the goddess of retribution, observed Narcissus' callous disregard for those who loved him. To exact justice, she led him to a pool where he saw his own reflection. Unaware that it was merely an image, Narcissus fell deeply in love with it. Upon realizing the truth, he was consumed by despair, understanding that his love would never be reciprocated. This realization led him to take his own life, and legend has it that from the place of his death sprang the narcissus flower, a symbol of his self-obsession

Source: https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Narcissus/narcissus.html

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the reflecting pool is , of course, trump's bane ..... (Original Post) rampartd 9 hrs ago OP
Perfect malaise 9 hrs ago #1
He needed a distraction from the distraction and it worked Ponietz 9 hrs ago #2
He made money destroying the pool gab13by13 9 hrs ago #3
They'll believe it and never ask WHY a liner so easily destroyed Maru Kitteh 8 hrs ago #6
His devout followers... GiqueCee 8 hrs ago #7
what liner ? this is liquid applied to concrete. dave99 7 hrs ago #9
That is my understanding as well. LisaL 7 hrs ago #11
I wonder how many razor blades they used in their box-cutters to make a cut that long state of stupid 6 hrs ago #14
Nemesis EuterpeThelo 9 hrs ago #4
More Americans are turning to religion in hope that Hell exists to punish the fat bastard Ponietz 7 hrs ago #10
We should take to the streets in a "NO KINGS" style KS Toronado 8 hrs ago #5
the albanians are great, aren't they rampartd 8 hrs ago #8
Great metaphor, but Trump will leave a smelly pile of shit behind rather than a sweet-smelling narcissus. Martin68 7 hrs ago #12
That's good. IrishAfricanAmerican 7 hrs ago #13
Saying it again mountain grammy 6 hrs ago #15

Ponietz

(4,588 posts)
2. He needed a distraction from the distraction and it worked
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 07:47 AM
9 hrs ago

Anything but Epstein. Anything but the terms of unconditional surrender to Iran.

gab13by13

(33,055 posts)
3. He made money destroying the pool
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 07:55 AM
9 hrs ago

and he will make money trying to fix it. That's all he cares about. His devout followers will believe that someone cut the liner with a utility knife.

Maru Kitteh

(32,094 posts)
6. They'll believe it and never ask WHY a liner so easily destroyed
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 08:39 AM
8 hrs ago

would be installed and charged so much for in the first place.

GiqueCee

(5,041 posts)
7. His devout followers...
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 08:44 AM
8 hrs ago

... are so dirt stupid that they'd believe the Moon is made of green cheese, and the Earth is flat, if he said so.
They are so invested in their belief that Trump is the Second Coming, or some such witless idiocy, that they reject irrefutable evidence of his staggering in competence to the point where they are forced to embrace policies that so obviously adversely affect them that they tie themselves in knots trying to rationalize what even their dim brains know to be false. I'd almost feel sorry for them if they weren't just as fundamentally evil as he is. Otherwise they wouldn't BE Republicans in the first place.

dave99

(510 posts)
9. what liner ? this is liquid applied to concrete.
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 09:28 AM
7 hrs ago

not a large piece of vinyl applied to surface.

what bullshit

LisaL

(47,981 posts)
11. That is my understanding as well.
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 09:31 AM
7 hrs ago

As far as I can tell, they painted it with some paint. The surface was probably not completely dry. So now it's peeling. Pouring hydrogen peroxide into the pool didn't help the paint to stay on either.

state of stupid

(243 posts)
14. I wonder how many razor blades they used in their box-cutters to make a cut that long
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 10:25 AM
6 hrs ago

on a sprayed-on liner on top of CONCRETE!

EuterpeThelo

(458 posts)
4. Nemesis
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 08:15 AM
9 hrs ago

is the goddess with whom I've been pleading ever since this evil madman slimed his way into power to PLEASE do something!

Besides just hubris, the traits for which Nemesis punishes the wicked are so oddly specific...

NEMESIS was the goddess of indignation against, and retribution for, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune. She was a personification of the resentment aroused in men by those who commited crimes with apparent impunity, or who had inordinate good fortune.

(Attribution: https://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Nemesis.html)

Ponietz

(4,588 posts)
10. More Americans are turning to religion in hope that Hell exists to punish the fat bastard
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 09:29 AM
7 hrs ago

Paraphrased from an Onion lede.

KS Toronado

(24,158 posts)
5. We should take to the streets in a "NO KINGS" style
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 08:18 AM
8 hrs ago

with our banners & pitchforks "UN-PAINT THE POOL, VANDALS WILL RUIN IT AGAIN"

rampartd

(5,457 posts)
8. the albanians are great, aren't they
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 08:57 AM
8 hrs ago

poorest princess
barefoot in paradise
beset by peasants with banners and garden tools.

Martin68

(28,281 posts)
12. Great metaphor, but Trump will leave a smelly pile of shit behind rather than a sweet-smelling narcissus.
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 09:50 AM
7 hrs ago
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