Discussion for article #247045
Good thing walls can’t be tunneled under, and good thing a 12’ wall (like the existing one shown) can’t be scaled with a ladder…
A “real wall” would cost a few hundred billion. And it would not stop border traffic either.
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I’ve said this over and over but anyone who has seen the landscape our border with Mexico runs through would know it isn’t possible. Nobody is building a wall through the Big Bend. The border runs through the mot rugged landscape in the country and it is simply not possible.
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Maybe a go-fund-me would work. That way, the people who want it can pay for it.
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Trump the POS can pay for his own wall.Mexico will never pay.Mexico should never pay.TRump wants so take your own money and build your own fucking wall.
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I did a lot of hiking when I was stationed in El Paso, and you are correct. It is probably the most rugged terrain I’ve been in, particularly the foothills for the mountains. Hidden craigs, sudden drop offs, ravines - almost impossible to hike through. Every 10 feet there’s a 6 foot wall to jump down, or climb up. Prickly bushes everywhere, of course.
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Getting the Mexican government to pay for it outright is almost certainly wishful thinking.
The word you are looking for is “delusional.”
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I understand Germany used to have a really awesome wall…YOOOOOGE’! For some silly reason or other they decided to take it down.
But … if they saved the parts, maybe they can sell them cheap to Mexico so they could just give them to Trump to build his wall. Ebay…dang! That’s where they are…OH! Mexico!!!
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In history all walls fail eventually. The Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall, the Berlin Wall, all the walls around medieval European cities, ultimately the reason they were built goes away or is supplanted by the need to grow beyond the wall. In the long run, walls never work and often become a problem
As usual the Republicans never think beyond the first step. Once the wall is built, how much are we annually going to spend to maintain the wall? How many of the (Republican evil) federal employees, with benefits, are going to be needed to patrol and maintain the wall? I doubt Mexico is going to pay for it.
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Here’s how you solve the problem with land owners not wanting to give up their land for a wall:
It’s Texas. Most of the landowners are probably Republicans. You send in the military, in uniform, to tell the landowners that they’re simply seizing their land.
Rather than put up a fight, the landowners will likely offer to shake their hands and thank them for their service, because the U.S. military is above reproach and can never, ever do any wrong in the eyes of Republicans.
There. Done.
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I don’t think there is any need to get into the technical details of why the wall can’t be built like Trump promises. I’m sure Trump doesn’t even plan on carrying it out if elected President. It simply resonates with enough people that Trump and leverage it into a primary victory.
If Trump does become President (heaven forbid), there will be pushback, and Trump will drop the plan and blame it on Democrats. It will be a two-fer: he will have the reputation as the bold wall guy, and it will prove just Democrats are just thwarting all of his good ideas.
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Silly Rabbit, angry white people don’t want reasons, they want a wall, and they want to stick it to the Mexicans, Muslims, and that nigger in the WH cuz this is their country dammit
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This article really should be comedy gold. But alas it seems committed to the notion that Trump is sane.
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Because it worked so well in Nevada? (sending in the government to enforce some random law)
When Bush went to war with Iraq, he didn’t concern himself with costs. The war was off the books. Drumpf can spend any amount of money and leave it for the next President sort out the finances.
Furthermore, in Drumpf’s America, everything is great (again). So Americans will have a can-do spirit the enables them to overcome all obstacles. hard to access areas? Build a road across America! Terrain too difficult to work with? Back-fill it with concrete! Land-owners and indigenous won’t let you build on their land? No problem! They can be on the other side of the wall!!
Don’t be Settlers®; be Americans! Or Drumpfkoffs!
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Republicans think the government and the military are two different things. One can’t ever do anything right and is entitled to contempt and the other can do no wrong and should be worshiped.
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Trump accomplished what he wanted five minutes after he mentioned the wall. In Spanish, the word is “gancho”
The literal translation in English is “hook”.
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Trump GOT 'em with the Wall (the hook)
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The MSM asked the butterknife-no-follow-up “questions” (reeling them in)
and the rest was as easy as saying “cantaloupe”
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Sure, you in the reality-based community say it can’t be built, but The Donald Drumpf and his brown-shirts do not live in that realm.
Two other things that could possibly happen:
Mexico forbids any of it’s citizens to go to the US to labor as farm workers, putting a huge dent in the US economy, since there are very few “patriots” who follow the Trumpster who will ever agree to do this back-breaking work, especially for the wages and conditions that the migrant workers put up with. Yeah, let’s see how many farmers and ranchers start screaming about building a fucking wall then.
And more importantly, if the US under an unthinkable Trump Idiocracy decides to keep insulting the sovereign nation (yes, it is not a suburb of El Paso) of Mexico, what’s to stop them from ditching diplomatic relations with the US and signing treaties with, say, Russia and China? Kinda makes the Cuban crises of the '60s look like a white sale at Filene’s Basement, doesn’t it?
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“Delusional”. Perfect word choice. How in the fuck does anyone think they are going to force Mexico to pay for the fucking wall?
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