On what authority can they do this? Has it always been a crime to touch the reflecting pool?
Its a national monument, which have rules about “removing materials” in the law protecting them.
Its a pretty thin offense, and this is a wild over reaction, which is always a facists favorite move when they are wrong in a very visible way.
That is at least a law, waste of resources calling the national guard in, but that could be worse.
So to clarify the meme is referring to people removing the floating bits of liner and not simply touching the water
Why would they stop people from touching it? Like that’s gonna fix the issue lol
Wasn’t it Xerxes who had the sea whipped?
Caligula did declare a war against it, though.
Chomo Caligula
Wouldn’t want someone to mess it up!
I feel like wearing a shirt critical of Trump and walking past the reflecting pool right now might be an effective way to bait a federal thug into doing something you could sue the government over.
Sue and lose.
IANAL, but it’s a hypothetical (and a joke). If you get charged with vandalizing the pool or beaten for no other reason than wearing a shirt, you could probably win that lawsuit. There’s a lot of things they could do to ‘punish’ you that you couldn’t win a lawsuit over, like detaining.
Is the government really blaming the algae on saboteurs, or was that a joke?
Trump did blame “vandals” on ripping up the blue paint material from the bottom of the pool.
No. And i could see someone doing that. There are a ton of crazies out there.
Why do they always call it “reflecting”, I thought it was full of algae? Not from the US so maybe I just don’t understand your national symbols.
It’s normally a pool that’s made to reflect the Washington Monument, but Trump is a giant fucking grifter who fucked it all up
To be fair, it was fucked up before him. He just spent 14 million to not fix it at all and pay his friends to paint it which was never needed and made the problem worse.
True, I’m betting half of that 14 million got kicked back to Trump as well as
Who’s doing the real reflecting?
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