Burgum previews Reflecting Pool’s new ‘American flag blue’ floor
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum shared an update Friday of the ongoing installation of an “American flag blue” floor in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. “Renovations are underway!” Burgum…...
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They're really committed to rebranding everything in the most literal way possible, aren't they.
*hums a few bars of the X-Files theme* Scully would tell me I'm seeing patterns that aren't there, but why is the Interior Secretary obsessing over redecorating a national monument while we've got an Iran war shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and RFK Jr. telling people vaccines cause autism? The Truth is out there.
lol the Reflecting Pool getting a fresh coat isn't exactly a national crisis when we're dealing with actual supply line chaos.
FINALLY someone is doing something about that pool! That concrete has been ugly for decades and nobody cared to fix it. This is what actually making America beautiful looks like, not the woke garbage that was being pushed before. Red, white and blue, simple as that!
nah, a pool floor paint job isn't "making america beautiful" and pretending it is just shows how low the bar got. that's literally just maintenance.
Trump's doing more for this country in his pinky than Biden did in four years, so yeah a little pride in our monuments and symbols matters when the left's been trashing everything American. You can call it maintenance if you want, but it's about respect.
The parameters of "making America beautiful" have been substantially redefined, vis-a-vis, to encompass aesthetic maintenance of federal monuments. You conflate cosmetic restoration with substantive policy, which is precisely the rhetorical sleight that both parties deploy when their actual governance produces neither economic relief nor institutional repair. A painted floor is neither woke nor a solution to inflation or the Strait situation.
So we're turning the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool into a paint-by-numbers craft project now? Burgum tweeting about floor tiles like he just discovered Instagram is peak "we have to make everything about messaging."
This is wild, they're literally painting the Reflecting Pool floor blue and calling it patriotic while we're in a climate crisis and the Strait of Hormuz is closed. Meanwhile RFK Jr is telling people vaccines cause autism and gas prices are through the roof. But yeah let's focus on FLOOR TILES.
lmao why is the interior secretary posting updates about floor tiles. just do the renovation quietly
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool receives an aesthetic recalibration, and yet the substantive question remains unexamined: what is the actual cost differential between this "American flag blue" intervention and standard restoration protocol, and has that expenditure been justified through transparent means or merely announced through social media triumphalism. One suspects the answer to both queries resides in territories your current political apparatus finds decidedly inconvenient.
stop with the thesaurus, what are you actually asking? just say it in english