oh great, he’s completely fucked the Reflecting Pool

remember when we used to be proud of our national monuments?

oh. my. god. every day it’s some new fucking nightmare.

nobody asked for this.

nobody asked for the historic Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to be drained and painted over in some garish and completely inappropriate shade of blue.

just like nobody asked for the magnificent Rose Garden to be dug up and replaced by the lifeless Epstein Parking Lot, or for the stately East Wing to be bulldozed to make way for some vulgar Epstein Dance Hall.

nobody asked for any of this fuckery, but that’s just too goddamned bad for you and me. we’re getting it anyway, whether we like it or not — because President Pussygrabber is not that big on consent.

so now that this unwanted and unneeded ‘renovation’ of the Reflecting Pool is being inflicted on us, is it too much to ask that it not end up looking like a syphilitic blue turd?

spoiler alert: it is too much to ask. is anyone surprised that this so-called upgrade of the Pool has turned into an ungodly shithole mess?

Interior Department staff members have raised concerns about the quality and speed of the repair work that a contractor is performing on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, according to government documents seen by The New York Times.

The staff members said that bubbles and small holes had appeared in one of the layers meant to waterproof the iconic pool. And uneven application of the tinted waterproofing left the pool mottled in varying shades of blue, the documents indicate.

tell me, does ‘bubbles,’ ‘small holes’ and ‘uneven tinting’ sound bad to you?

fact check: yes, it’s very bad. it completely fucking sucks. look at this rinky-dink amateurish shit.

what in the actual fuck?

this is so typical of Donny. promise the moon, and deliver a big, stinky pile of horse dung. which is all fine and good when what he’s fucking up is one of his vermin-infested golf motels. who cares? it only affects Donny and his rich asshole cronies.

but this Reflecting Pool belongs to We the People. it’s not Donny’s personal plaything to clownfuck as he sees fit — yet once again he’s been given a free pass to create an eyesore right in the middle of the nation’s capital.

the Reflecting Pool wasn’t broke, but Donny sure fixed the shit out of it, and now we have no choice but to live with it like that. what an embarrassment. thanks for nothing, Donny. in fact, thanks for less than nothing.

remember when we used to be proud of our national monuments, and didn’t have to cringe when looking at them? it’s just one more thing that our next Democratic president is going to have to un-fuck.

Donny basically rounded up Larry, Moe and Curly, gave them random cans of blue paint, and told them to go nuts.

here’s a fun thing Donny said back in April.

The president said he would be using a contractor he knows from his years in real estate.

“Over the years as a developer, I’ve probably built more than 100 swimming pools,” the president said, adding, “I have some really good pool builders.”

and sure enough, Donny gifted a no-bid $6.9 million contract to his cronies at Atlantic Industrial Coatings, LLC, claiming that they were his personal golf motel pool painters.

but now that it’s all gone shittacularly sideways, Donny’s changed his story. he now says that he never met this big, strong CEO who came up to Donny with tears in his eyes and said ‘sir! sir! let me paint your pool! sir!’

However, Mr. Trump did an about-face early Tuesday, distancing himself from the company. “I didn’t give out the contract, ‘Interior’ did, to a contractor I did not know, and have never used before,” Mr. Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform.

what a child. what a big, cranky piss-baby. he can’t ever take responsibility for any of his fuck-ups. how many times is America going to let itself get snookered by this cheap, gaudy con artist? it’s the same grift, over and over. claim you’re hiring the best people, and when it all goes blooey, you don’t know where these people came from. it’s someone else’s fault.

Juliet Jeske at Decoding Fox News has done us all a solid. she’s put together a two-minute-long supercut of all the times Donny’s changed his story about the Reflecting Pool.

Donny keeps telling us how he’s some master builder. masturbator is more like it. he can’t hack it any more. maybe decades ago, he could put up some ugly golden tower and not have it all come crashing down, but not any more. now, his steep cognitive decline gets in the way. everything he touches turns to shit.

what’s the Epstein Dance Hall going to look like when it’s done? he hasn’t hired Larry, Moe and Curly to put up that abomination, has he?

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we don’t see a lot of Holy Mike Johnson these days, now that he’s pretty much disbanded Congress and given everyone a permanant vacation — but a miracle happened yesterday, and the limpest dick ever to weild the Speaker’s gavel actually showed up for work.

of course, the first thing reporters wanted to know was, what did Holy Mike think about that thing we all heard Donny say?

reporter: “yesterday the president said ‘I don't think about Americans’ financial situation.’ is that the right message?”

Holy Mike: “I don't know the context in which he made that comment.”

this fucking guy. he’s always got some handy excuse for weaseling out of giving a straight answer. he didn’t hear about it. he wasn’t there. he doesn’t know the context.

fine. let me explain it to you, Mr. Speaker of the House — if that really is your name.

the context is that Donny is a rotting old fuckbag who doesn’t give a shit about anybdy but himself, and accidentally spoke the truth for once. I’m glad I could help you out with that, Mike.

Holy Mike should be more like Vice President Couchfuck McGee, an autonomaton so devoid of shame that he has no problem staring you right in the face and telling you that Donny didn’t say that thing we all heard him say.

peporter: “do you agree with the president’s position that Americans’ financial situations should not be a consideration?”

Vance: “well, I don’t— think the president said that. I think that's a misrepresentation of what the president said.”

fact check: fuck off straight into the sea, JD Vance — if that really is your name. (spoiler alert: it’s not.)

“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” is exactly what Donny said.

but that’s MAGA doublethink for you. the cultists will swear up and down that they reason they support Dear Leader is because ‘he always says what he means’ — and then, when Dear Leader spews something so abhorrent it can’t be ignored, they’re all ‘Donny didn’t mean what he said.’

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Donny’s in Beijing right now, doing whatever the fuck he imagines he’s doing.

because I’m a Responsible Journalist and Everything™, I opted to get a good night’s sleep, rather than stay up late and watch the coverage.

but I did see this in my Bluesky feed when I woke up this morning.

what in the actual fuck?

why in the hallowed name of Frontotemporal Dementia Jesus is Donny standing there like his feet have been nailed to the floor? he’s trying to pull that asinine alpha-dominance handshake on Xi, isn’t he? nice try, dumbfuck, but it ain’t working. you’re too old and decrepit.

can’t this deteriorating jackass do anything like a normal human being?

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and now for your Daily Claudia.

here she is on our patio, soaking up some afternoon rays.

and here she is on our patio, enjoying some evening fire pit.

have a great Thursday, everyone.

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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.