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In reply to SFCityBear • 7:42p, 6/20/26
No one reflects on San Francisco history like you, SFCB.

I know I have recommended this book to you before. You could have written it:


My best description: Gonzo journalism, a history book and a travel guide collide in an intersection. It is an A.
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In reply to bearister • 7:56p, 6/20/26
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Nothing to see here.

Just a non-bid non-competitive contract was given to Trump donor and Mar-a-lago neighbor John Cafaro.
Greenwater Services, Brookfield, Ohio.





I'm thinking Mr. Cafaro is one of those rare contractors that Trump won't stiff, regardless of the quality of the workmanship. He looks like one of those guys that if you don't pay his invoice that they find your body shrink wrapped, weighted and at the bottom of an aqueduct. They find your hands and feet shrink wrapped, weighted and at the bottom of an aqueduct…..in a different state.

Donald Trump was a successful developer of property. And he did much of this in New York City. In New York, you don't do business, big projects, without being friends with the Mafia. They control, at least, the labor unions of the construction trades.

As for no-bid contracts, my father, an architect, often tried to recommend to his clients that they use contractors whom he knew would do a really good job on their project, even if their price was higher. That was nearly always a smart strategy, rather than go out for bids. I've also been in the construction business most of my life. My experience is that when you go out to bid, and select the low bidder, you have to watch the project like a hawk, to make sure the low bidder is not cutting corners, maybe leaving something out, or substituting cheaper materials, sometimes with disastrous results. Government agencies usually insist on going out to bid, and usually get poorly constructed projects as a result. There is a standard joke in our profession, when something was not quite done right: "Oh well, that's close enough for government work."
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8:15p, 6/20/26
…..and speaking of the Mafia and San Francisco history, when I was at Cal, the first guy ever put in the Witness Protection Program was whacked and dumped in an intersection in the Sunset District (26th Avenue and Moraga Streets):

How 'Animal' Hitman Met His Death In SF's Sunset District - CBS San Francisco https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/how-animal-hitman-met-his-death-in-sfs-sunset-district/


Francis Ford Coppola patterned Godfather character Willie Cicci top panel) after Joe "the Animal" Barboza (bottom panel, in disguise at a Subcommittee Hearing)

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In reply to SFCityBear • 8:16p, 6/20/26
SFCityBear said:
bearister said:
Dwight Way said:


Nothing to see here.

Just a non-bid non-competitive contract was given to Trump donor and Mar-a-lago neighbor John Cafaro.
Greenwater Services, Brookfield, Ohio.





I'm thinking Mr. Cafaro is one of those rare contractors that Trump won't stiff, regardless of the quality of the workmanship. He looks like one of those guys that if you don't pay his invoice that they find your body shrink wrapped, weighted and at the bottom of an aqueduct. They find your hands and feet shrink wrapped, weighted and at the bottom of an aqueduct…..in a different state.

Donald Trump was a successful developer of property. And he did much of this in New York City. In New York, you don't do business, big projects, without being friends with the Mafia. They control, at least, the labor unions of the construction trades.

As for no-bid contracts, my father, an architect, often tried to recommend to his clients that they use contractors whom he knew would do a really good job on their project, even if their price was higher. That was nearly always a smart strategy, rather than go out for bids. I've also been in the construction business most of my life. My experience is that when you go out to bid, and select the low bidder, you have to watch the project like a hawk, to make sure the low bidder is not cutting corners, maybe leaving something out, or substituting cheaper materials, sometimes with disastrous results. Government agencies usually insist on going out to bid, and usually get poorly constructed projects as a result. There is a standard joke in our profession, when something was not quite done right: "Oh well, that's close enough for government work."


Imagine believing a guy was friends with the NYC mafia and then voting for that guy to be President. There is a reason 80% of NYC knew Trump didn't have the character to be President 10 years ago.
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In reply to SFCityBear • 8:22p, 6/20/26
Contractors who low bid can also make up their initial low cost by issuing change orders up the wazoo after the project is awarded. They can get away with this by being crafty when developing their proposal.

They would qualify what they were providing using language that wouldn't seem like they were making exclusions while being specific about quantities of materials, the type of material, or the scope of work.

The government rep reviewing bid proposals may not be as familiar with the specifics of the project and could award it to the lowest bidder as long as the minimum requirements were met.
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In reply to Big C • 10:12a, 6/21/26
I swam in Fleishaker Pool, likely in the summer of 1971. I was the only person there, bitterly cold, dark. Rumors were that sharks could swim in from the ocean via the pipes that connected it to the Pacific Ocean.
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In reply to movielover • 10:26a, 6/21/26
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I swam in Fleishaker Pool, likely in the summer of 1971. I was the only person there, bitterly cold, dark. Rumors were that sharks could swim in from the ocean via the pipes that connected it to the Pacific Ocean.


Land sharks. If they didn't get you there, they followed you home.



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In reply to SFCityBear • 10:26a, 6/21/26
The unions and the Mafia made New York a tough place to do business. Donald Trump completed some landmark projects. Trump Tower reportedly had great public areas, but residential units used average or below-average finishings (cabinets, counters), which tenants eventually upgraded. The Mafia reportedly got 2% of any cement job in NYC. There were famous criminal cases at the time.

I was at the JK Javitz Center for a conference. The rules were you could only carry one box onto the floor, no private dollies. All union. One worker was pushing a large, light load past our booth on rollers, and a foreman directed a second worker to help, then two more. Four workers to push what two could do safely, with zero strain. Manhattan was empty on Sunday, parking fees were outrageous.

A big Bay Area GC was famous for bidding jobs at break even or a loss, and making their profits on 'change orders'.
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In reply to movielover • 10:50a, 6/21/26
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The unions and the Mafia made New York a tough place to do business. Donald Trump completed some landmark projects. Trump Tower reportedly had great public areas, but residential units used average or below-average finishings (cabinets, counters), which tenants eventually upgraded. The Mafia reportedly got 2% of any cement job in NYC. There were famous criminal cases at the time.

I was at the JK Javitz Center for a conference. The rules were you could only carry one box onto the floor, no private dollies. All union. One worker was pushing a large, light load past our booth on rollers, and a foreman directed a second worker to help, then two more. Four workers to push what two could do safely, with zero strain. Manhattan was empty on Sunday, parking fees were outrageous.

A big Bay Area GC was famous for bidding jobs at break even or a loss, and making their profits on 'change orders'.
my company foreclosed on his TrumpSoho and Chicago deals. Trash buildings as even Movie is aware. He never had much equity in these things just licensing and even then his name on buildings in NYC became bad for baseball.
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In reply to movielover • 7:36a, 6/22/26


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed by The Associated Press.

DEA agents repeatedly monitored shipments of fentanyl pills but did not seize them as federal prosecutors sought to bring bigger criminal cases against traffickers of a synthetic opioid that the White House last year designated a " weapon of mass destruction."

Agents and experts, however, said the tactic amounted to a gamble with public safety that potentially imperiled communities in and around Albuquerque and may have violated U.S. Justice Department rules intended to safeguard the public.

"We poisoned our community to make cases," DEA Special Agent David Howell told AP in a series of interviews in New Mexico. "Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, 'We don't really know what happened to the drugs.' But we 100% got people killed."

Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records show

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7:40a, 6/22/26
Terribly sad.
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In reply to Dwight Way • 8:08a, 6/22/26
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In reply to Dwight Way • 9:32a, 6/22/26
Siskiyou County has become a hub of an over $6 Billion illegal drug trade and distribution network, which can include illegal "trimmigrants" used for processing marijuana. This includes Hmong (from Minnesota), Chinese, and Mexican gangs. The local sheriff is overwhelmed.

Google: "Tensions in Siskiyou County peaked after a large influx of Hmong and Southeast Asian Americans settling in rural areas. Local law enforcement, led by Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue, argued they were overwhelmed by a massive boom in illegal cannabis cultivation."

Drug Cartels Trafficking Migrants to CA for "Modern Day Slavery" on Black Market Marijuana Farms

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9:41a, 6/22/26
Now back to the pool……I heard he's draining it now.
Unfortunate the epoxy they rolled on is best used on garage floors, not pools and chips off.
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In reply to cal83dls79 • 9:47a, 6/22/26
MLK said if you engage in civil disobedience, you must be prepared to pay the cost.

NBC News: At least five people arrested in alleged tampering of Reflecting Pool, official says

"Please remember that there is a 10-year prison sentence for the destruction, or even the attempted destruction, of such things Which will be fully enforced!" Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/least-five-people-arrested-allegedly-tampering-reflecting-pool-officia-rcna351154
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In reply to cal83dls79 • 11:58a, 6/22/26
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Now back to the pool……I heard he's draining it now.
Unfortunate the epoxy they rolled on is best used on garage floors, not pools and chips off.

MAGA motto for the midterms: Drain the pool!
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In reply to Big C • 12:36p, 6/22/26
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cal83dls79 said:
Now back to the pool……I heard he's draining it now.
Unfortunate the epoxy they rolled on is best used on garage floors, not pools and chips off.

MAGA motto for the midterms: Drain the pool!


I wonder if an Inspector General will be investigating this $14 million dollar FRAUD on taxpayers.

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In reply to Big C • 1:15p, 6/22/26
Drain the Pool!

Drain the Pool!

Drain the Pool!

Trump claimed that there is a 250' gash in the pool.

In a Truth Social post today he said that the gash was 300' long and that "chemicals have been illegally placed in the water"



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In reply to Dwight Way • 1:18p, 6/22/26
gosh, so BIG.
not dead yet # funk trunk and i.c.e. too.
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In reply to movielover • 1:45p, 6/22/26
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MLK said if you engage in civil disobedience, you must be prepared to pay the cost.

NBC News: At least five people arrested in alleged tampering of Reflecting Pool, official says

"Please remember that there is a 10-year prison sentence for the destruction, or even the attempted destruction, of such things Which will be fully enforced!" Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/least-five-people-arrested-allegedly-tampering-reflecting-pool-officia-rcna351154
allegedly. The attempts here to prove he didn't screw up are fantastic . His obsession with this is making great fodder. He's the one making a big deal about it after claiming victory which makes his failure more special
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In reply to cal83dls79 • 3:12p, 6/22/26
Will Democrats urge other Democrats to stop the vandalism?
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3:19p, 6/22/26
Will Republicans urge other Republicans to tell Trump to stop grifting with no-bid contracts to donors?
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In reply to Dwight Way • 4:57p, 6/22/26
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Will Republicans urge other Republicans to tell Trump to stop grifting with no-bid contracts to donors?

does anyone really care, or expect the b'tard to listen to reason?
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In reply to PAC-10-BEAR • 5:44p, 6/22/26
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Will Democrats urge other Democrats to stop the vandalism?
did the pool contractor buy his paint at Ace in DC? Probably should have gone to the one on Grand or Fruitvale
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The Scope:
President Trump claimed that vandals used a knife to inflict a massive 300 to 350-foot "gash" or "slit" in the pool's floor lining, and subsequently poured corrosive chemicals into the water.

The Implausibility:
To date, local authorities, the National Park Service, and on-the-scene reporters have not independently verified the existence of a continuous 300-foot slash in the pool's liner. The idea that vandals systematically cut a slit of this size which would require extended, coordinated effort in a heavily guarded, highly visible federal monument area is widely treated as highly unlikely by experts.

What Actually Happened: Independent experts and media outlets point to the rapid rush of the $14.7 million renovation project (which skipped standard competitive bidding) and severe algae blooms as the primary culprits.

The strong chemicals used to combat the algae, paired with the rushed sealant job, caused the "American flag blue" liner to bubble and peel away in large chunks on its own.

The Arrests: Law enforcement officials (such as the U.S. Marshals Service) did make a handful of arrests for the destruction of government property. However, this largely stemmed from individuals attempting to reach into the water to touch or peel off the already floating pieces of blue paint, rather than cutting the original liner with blades.
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7:21p, 6/22/26
not dead yet # funk trunk and i.c.e. too.
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In reply to smh • 7:27p, 6/22/26
not dead yet # funk trunk and i.c.e. too.
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In reply to Dwight Way • 8:58p, 6/22/26
Dwight Way said:
Will Republicans urge other Republicans to tell Trump to stop grifting with no-bid contracts to donors?

There was a bid, a single bid, but it has nothing to do with Democrat Antifa vandalizing property.
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In reply to BearlySane88 • 11:04p, 6/22/26
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I can understand why you'd want to change the subject.
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In reply to Eastern Oregon Bear • 11:06p, 6/22/26
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BearlySane88 said:

I can understand why you'd want to change the subject.


No, it's hilarious watching you guys freak out about this.
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In reply to smh • 1:55a, 6/23/26
smh said:

Didn't have you down as a Family Circle guy but now that I think about it I can see it. Stay cool!
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2:07a, 6/23/26
Hey y'all silly people. Why y'all obsession' over the pool you guys!!!!?? Golly gee!

I don't know, because I wake up today to crap like this spewing from our president?

DJT Truth Social:

"In describing the Vandalism that took place at the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., ABC FAKE NEWS, one of the worst in the business, even paying me $16,000,000 for past bad and inaccurate reporting, failed to report that their close "friends," Dumocrats Obama and Biden, spent over 100 Million Dollars on the Reflecting Pool, and it never worked. In fact, it was rarely open due to leaks and "stench." They wanted to spend 300 to 400 Million Dollars, but just let it ROT. I spent approximately 16 Million Dollars, and it came out great, except for the Vandalism, which we are now fixing. It was also a much bigger job than originally envisioned, including the outer areas and sidewalks. We are preparing lawsuits against ABC for false reporting. I like their money, which will be given to the U.S. Treasury! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT"


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In reply to BearlySane88 • 2:54a, 6/23/26
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Does Nate Silver think Trump reads his tweets?
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