Discussion: Leahy: Wall At U.S.-Canada Border 'One Of The Craziest' Ideas This Cycle

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Iā€™m pretty sure a lot of peaceful folks in Canada would sleep better at night knowing the crazies were locked out on the other sideā€¦

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ā€¦and donā€™t they remember who said, ā€œTear down this wall!ā€?

Thatā€™s what puzzles me about these wall yearning freaks.

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Walker and the GOP are trying to make out that their anti-Mexican nativist xenophobic shit isnā€™t about race. Of course this batshit crazy idea isnā€™t going to fool anyone, but letā€™s not pretend that this sad-sack move by the moronic Walker is not about having something to point to as a countercharge to the valid criticism that this nativist crap is not anything other than fear of brown folks coming across the border.

ā€˜See, we want to stop those white hoards from the North tooā€™

Sad. Truly sad.

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ā€œElection season always brings out crazy ideas, but this is one of the craziest,ā€ Leahy said in a Monday statement.

You ainā€™t seen nothinā€™ yet.

(H/T to that dangerous immigrant Randy Bachman!)

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ā€œTear down this wallā€ a famous Reagan quoteā€¦but the current crop must think him a ā€¦liberal for saying something that reasonable.
The current crop hate any immigrant forgetting we are all immigrants of one sort or another. My own family got to N. America before there was a United States to be part of. But that is mostly irrelevant. Repubs have an ingrown fear. Fear of what is new, fear of the unknown, fear of the ā€œotherā€. The GOP politicians know this and capitalize on it not realizing that in the long run it will destroy their party. Fear and hatred are not sustainable in the long term because they do untold damage. We canā€™t shut the world out even if we wanted to. Americans are from everywhere. Republicans hate that idea They want the US population to be lily white, English speaking, and subservient. The antithesis of free.

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Yeah, but all the sheriffs of Phoenix, Tucson and the surrounding desert would have to do is start pulling over motor homes and fifth wheel campers, looking for illegal Canadian immigrants. Then Iā€™d believe for a second that it isnā€™t all about racism.

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Wisconsin does have a border with Canada. Itā€™s in the middle of Lake Superior (one of the big ā€“ very bigā€“reasons a wall canā€™t be done), but itā€™s a border. Gov. Walker has forgotten it too, though Iā€™m sure there are ships crossing the border every day.

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Say, wasnā€™t that dipstick who filmed the fake fetal tissue sales pitch also the guy who sailed a fishing boat from Windsor to Detroit, just to prove how easy the terrorists are sailing in?

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I see this as a testimonial to the extent that Donald Trump controls the discourse in the GOP campaign. Add to this Chris Christieā€™s inane comment about tracking foreign visitors like Fex-Ex packages and you can almost feel the desperation. All this does is validate Trumpā€™s insane rhetoric. It only strengthens the man.

Truly pathetic

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It would be cheaper to float a buoy rope than build The Rumpā€™s wall.

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ā€œScott Walker: A wall between the U.S. and Canada is a ā€˜legitimate issueā€™ that should be considered.ā€

Apparently, Roger Waters is consulting on the 2016 GOP platform.

(G-d, I feel really old.)

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Robin Williams to a Canadian fan:

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Canadians would welcome the wall and keep the tea partiers and gun nuts out.

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"Nothing unites like fear and hate."

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Ahhā€¦that makes a lot of sense. Josh Duggar is merely auditioning for the ā€œYoung Lustā€ song! JEB is going to do ā€œComfortably Numbā€, and Carly is ā€œMotherā€?

How would it work crossing the lakes?

no ice backs!!

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ā€œSo farā€ being the operative phase. There is still 15 months until the election. Be prepared for more silliness!

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But, Senator! Wisconsin is a border state! Course, the border is Lake Superior and I dunno how Scottie is planning to build his wall there, but those are just detailsā€¦

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