This is the greatest.
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The one nice thing about this damn thing is that it is physical. While other EO’s efficacy can be argued with varying data sources and statistical trickery. This wall’s failure will be painfully visibly obvious to anyone. I look forward to this (never completed) monstrosity crumbling over the coming years. A memorial to the worst president in US history if not the worst leader in world history.
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Here, I fixed it for you:
I’m sure Jesus would have an easier time getting across the border than Jesús would.
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Yeah I can’t wait to see the contractors sourcing labor for this.
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Yeah it will likely be akin to tourists visiting the Berlin wall. Just a testament to cruelty and the depth of human incompetence.
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Meat Customs
Customs agent: Going to have to confiscate this spam.
Traveler: This is baloney!
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You think a radical Middle-Eastern preacher with a history of anti-establishment messages and a socialist agenda would get in that easily?
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Especially if he looked like Middle-East Jesus rather than Nordic Jesus.
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It has been oft repeated; but somehow it never seems to make a dent.
Either people seem to assume that a full garrison is also included in one of the ridiculous lowball price tags; or are just so taken by the concept that they don’t seem to care.
I’m honestly baffled as to how this persists. If you believe that guards and some sort of get-tough are included; why bother with the wall at all? If someone is actively trying to stop you; a messy jumble of concertina wire(perhaps with some anti-vehicle reinforcements) will slow you down almost as much as a big fancy wall, give you rather less to hide behind; and be vastly faster and cheaper to put in place.
If you don’t believe that guards are included; how good to you expect to feel about your big, beautiful, wall once every bored teenager and snarky coyote is snapping pictures of their scaling ladders/piles of rubbish/ropes/etc. to be posted for the amusement of their buddies?
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On the plus side: 1000 miles of wall begging for graffiti.
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They could perhaps avoid the difficulties of reinforcing the US-Mexico border along the Southern edge of Texas, by giving back Texas, thus moving the US-Mexico border to the Northern edge of Texas…
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45 will HAVE to fund NASA now so he can get the greatest photographs of the wall from space.
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The wall is stupid. The wall is a horrible idea. It is a waste of money.
I am a construction cost estimator for one of the biggest companies in the world. The assessment in inaccurate. For starters no one sticks raw rebar in the ground to support a structure. And pipeline systems are very different from grade beams. 1,000 miles of wall isnt as much as you think. 1,000 miles of wall would be enough to fence 24,000 single family homes. Companies such as DR Horton build 30,000 homes a year.
The wall is stupid and a waste. But its not hard to build. Do you think engineers ran into problems in designing the Gotthard Base Tunnel?
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That strategy is utterly defeated by an executive order banning any ladder longer than 19 feet.
In Mexico.
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BTW I’m a random person but I completely agree.
We absolutely could build a 20 foot wall all along the border solid except to allow rivers to flow through. It would cost more than the Republicans assume. It would take a lot longer. There would be many problems to solve. It would have high maintenance costs.
It would be nothing like as hard as sending a man to the moon.
Nothing like as expensive as a war.
It falls in the middle of those two as to stupidity.
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I like Trump’s wall as an absurdist art project. It’s way better than Bill Clinton’s 1990s ugly, brutalist wall or Bush’s 2006 “Tortilla Wall”. I imagine the Trump wall as being built of mob concrete (mostly Jersey sand) and studded with gigantic golden heavily serifed Ts, and with other adornments just as tasteful as the crystal chandeliers in a low-budget French-themed bordello. Maybe a paen to the Mother of Exiles on a bronzelike plaque here and there.
The Clinton and Bush walls just killed people and fattened the pockets of the usual wealthy puppeteers. The Trump wall will kill people and fatten the fat cats ironically.
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Well, I do like it, but it’s a lot classier than I was expecting, you know? Can Christo make it both crappier and more visibly expensive at the same time?
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Hmmm perhaps stolen shower curtains from Trump Hotels? Would that suffice?
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