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rampartd

(5,446 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 07:37 AM 1 hr 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 1 hr ago OP
Perfect malaise 1 hr ago #1
He needed a distraction from the distraction and it worked Ponietz 1 hr ago #2
He made money destroying the pool gab13by13 1 hr ago #3
They'll believe it and never ask WHY a liner so easily destroyed Maru Kitteh 34 min ago #6
His devout followers... GiqueCee 29 min ago #7
Nemesis EuterpeThelo 58 min ago #4
We should take to the streets in a "NO KINGS" style KS Toronado 54 min ago #5
the albanians are great, aren't they rampartd 15 min ago #8

Ponietz

(4,586 posts)
2. He needed a distraction from the distraction and it worked
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 07:47 AM
1 hr ago

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

gab13by13

(33,054 posts)
3. He made money destroying the pool
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 07:55 AM
1 hr 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
34 min ago

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

GiqueCee

(5,035 posts)
7. His devout followers...
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 08:44 AM
29 min 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.

EuterpeThelo

(458 posts)
4. Nemesis
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 08:15 AM
58 min 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)

KS Toronado

(24,155 posts)
5. We should take to the streets in a "NO KINGS" style
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 08:18 AM
54 min ago

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

rampartd

(5,446 posts)
8. the albanians are great, aren't they
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 08:57 AM
15 min ago

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

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