I'm going to go all Rocket Raccoon here:
This is true -
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8qxz6qypyo
But this is ALSO true:
"The multi-million-dollar crisis at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has evolved from a severe administrative failure that happened to be a scale model of climate change in their front yard, into a perfect demonstration of agenticity, the hardwired human tendency to infuse patterns with intention and believe that a hidden, malicious actor is pulling the strings behind every structural breakdown.
When the administration chose to paint the basin an unscientific, heat-absorbing dark blue and then systematically eroded the paint's polymer bonds by dumping in aggressive oxidizing chemicals, the laws of thermodynamics and chemistry responded predictably. The pool blossomed into a giant, boiling algae farm, and the paint peeled off in massive, ruined sheets.
But rather than listening to the engineers, architects, and scientists who warned them that this would happen, the administration has retreated into absolute conspiratorial delusion. Confronted by their own incompetence, they have chosen to see enemies instead of equations.
In a frantic effort to deflect accountability, official messaging has abandoned reality entirely. The administration is now publicly claiming that the pool's vibrant green state is not the result of sunlight and warm water rich in nutrients from a tidal basin that may have been polluted some time ago that was not filtered nor treated adequately, but the work of political enemies and saboteurs.
They have floated the absurd narrative that a clandestine network of late-night "agents" is sneaking onto the National Mall to dump "gallons of algae eggs and seeds" into the water. To anyone with a elementary understanding of biology, this is pure comedy: algae reproduces via microscopic spores that are naturally omnipresent in the air and transferred by waterfowl, not by cartoonish villains carrying buckets of fictional "eggs" under the cover of darkness.
The height of this systemic paranoia has manifested in the weaponization of security forces around the basin. The administration has now begun actively detaining citizens simply for touching the floating paint chips and layers of algae.
What should be viewed as public property or, at worst, floating debris from a botched construction project is now treated as a crime scene. By arresting people who interact with the flaking paint, the administration is attempting to enforce a physical blackout of the evidence. If the public can touch, photograph, and analyze the peeling sheets, the illusion of "vandalism" falls apart, exposing the structural failure of the chemical application underneath.
Turning fact-checking and peer-reviewing into a crime.
This is the peak tragedy of agenticity in leadership. It creates a psychological shield that makes self-correction impossible. If a pipe leaks, it is a saboteur; if the economy shifts, it is a secret conspiracy; if the paint peels off a pool because you dissolved it with peroxide, it must be the work of political vandals.
By inventing a shadow war involving night-traveling seed-droppers, the people in power can comfortably ignore the chorus of experts they silenced before the first coat of paint was even applied. They have turned a basic maintenance problem into a ideological crusade, proving that when you refuse to look at science, your only remaining option is to look for ghosts.
-AMV" (source - https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1453242396834772 )
