Sewage-filled Potomac river risks ruining America's birthday

rawgabbit 18 points 7 comments March 08, 2026
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susiecambria

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dccoolgai

Fitting - as this is likely emblematic of the way America is failing more broadly: we can't fix real problems with pipes, roads and other infrastructure because we created a generation (s) of people who were taught to look down on that kind of work. And we're at the end of our ability to fund adequate fixes to those things with national debt.

mindslight

Are we sure the smell isn't just the pile of Krasnov's used diapers that have been piling up next to the destroyed wing of the White House? I hear they haven't been putting them in the regular trash pickup on "national security grounds", and the regime insists it's fine because his shit doesn't stink.

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