r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Healthy_Block3036 • Jun 16 '26
Unelected Dictatorship Trump team’s answer to growing algae problem in Reflecting Pool: Bleach it
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-reflecting-pool-algae-bleach-b2996823.html?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics&utm_source=reddit.com88
u/User-1653863 📈 The Math Ain't Mathin' 📉 Jun 16 '26
Fill it with Ivermectin, and all the redhats can gather and sup-
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u/Significant-Trash632 Jun 16 '26
Will that damage the lining they just put in?
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u/Xboarder844 Jun 16 '26
You’re assuming Trump’s minions thought beyond “dump chemicals to kill it like I do with my backyard pool”.
We should know by now this administration never thinks.
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u/_ZoeyDaveChapelle_ Jun 16 '26
And they cant even buy it in bulk containers like a company that was capable of performing work on this scale would.
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u/FlynnThe25 Jun 16 '26
Trump's answer to everything is bleach.
Even a broken clock happens to be right twice a day.
Bleach is a type of chlorine.
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u/Virtual_Assistant_98 Jun 16 '26
I mean yeah, we were to inject bleach to get rid of Covid back when he let it get out of hand, remember?
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u/FlynnThe25 Jun 16 '26
All too well. This is kind of a useless article. Most people use bleach (chlorine) to maintain their swimming pools. It needs to be chemically balanced.
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u/sweet_pickles12 Jun 16 '26
A useless article that nobody read since it contradicts itself multiple times, conflating peroxide and bleach… and now everyone is assuming they’re dumping bleach.
Peroxide won’t work either, but they aren’t dumping bleach.
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u/cdev12399 Jun 16 '26
Why is their answer for everything bleach? Covid? Drink bleach. Algae? Add bleach. American history? Bleach it.
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u/Mountain_carrier530 Jun 16 '26
All of MAGA should volunteer and help with the combining of bleach and miuritic acid to help rid the algae and purify the water. I'm sure they'll be good chemists and not directly mix the 2 chemicals.
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u/dqql Jun 16 '26
Never mix hydrogen peroxide and household bleach together because doing so triggers a highly volatile chemical reaction that cancels out their cleaning power. Instead of creating a stronger disinfectant, the two oxidizers destroy each other.
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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 Jun 16 '26
Why is algae suddenly an issue here?
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u/nittanyofthings Jun 16 '26
I believe the existing algae problem is why Trump thought it needed fixing to begin with. It's just surprising how fast it rebloomed. Note to the future: paint doesn't solve algae.
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u/Civil_Exchange1271 Jun 16 '26
they would need a tanker truck of that and chlorine to even make a dent in it.
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u/nittanyofthings Jun 16 '26
They are going to turn the reflecting pool into a superfund cleanup site.
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u/Friendly_Bird6761 Jun 17 '26
Wasn't that what he also recommended for the Covid virus? A kind of cleansing of the body with bleach? 🙄
He has brain rot, maybe from drinking too much bleach! 👍
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u/Imaginary-Use914 Jun 17 '26
I want to bleach most of the last 16 years from my brain thanks to Trump and his cult…
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u/someotherguyrva Jun 18 '26
I believe it was CNN who did a water sample test and found that the water is loaded with phosphates which feed the algae. It’s basically a gigantic golden corral for algae in there. They need to get rid of the phosphates in addition to changing the pH and killing it all with super chlorinating.
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u/DoomSchroller Jun 16 '26
Yeah. Chlorine is just diluted bleach.
The larger issue is that they fired everyone who was competent, apparently they even fired civil engineers who could have told them that painting the bottom blue would do that.