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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have a fun idea how to make Trump's wall a laughing stock before the election
I was just watching a clip from Colbert where he jokes about Trump saying you can't climb the wall because of some anti climbing something or other but then Colbert jokes that Mexico has 30 foot ladders. https://www.facebook.com/colbertlateshow/videos/388438271845708/
The DNC or whoever could do a competition with teams seeing which teams can get over the walls / fences the fastest. They could have a variety of things at their disposal like ladders, ropes, shovels etc. It could be done with a lot of humor and they could flash price tags of how much was spent on the wall / fence from time to time. The final could have the two fastest teams up against one another.
I don't think the teams should have great athletes but regular folks.
Thoughts?
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)making the wall climbing a TV reality show.
keithbvadu2
(36,816 posts)Wall related prototypes
brewens
(13,588 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)where you can order wall fried eggs.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Scaling the wall into the big, bad US of A could be FUN!!!
Maybe have some rainbow colored tinsel streamers attached.
Your successful breach of the toughest wall in history could be beautiful AND go viral. We could get Ellen to re-tweet it so it could become the most re-tweeted viral tweet in history.
The possibilities are awesome.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)But what about the landing?
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Using one pole:
Using dog:
Using 32 ft. ladder:
Using a sense of humor:
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)tclambert
(11,086 posts)That one guy got up 30 feet in 12.56 seconds!
I think there might be money to be made renting bucket lifts near the border.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)And dont forget the entrepreneurial vendor guy who sells ladders and other climbing paraphernalia as well as customized t-shirts set up booth at the base of the wall.
Quixote1818
(28,942 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)You asked for input didnt you?
I wasnt being sarcastic. Sorry if I offended you.
Quixote1818
(28,942 posts)You got me thinking about this show and the crazy commentators. I see the wall show as something like Holey Moley:
lunatica
(53,410 posts)The carnival theme with barkers and clowns tumbling out of impossibly small cars.
Except it's awful close to that right now. And I do men awful!
You know its actually a great idea you have.
mopinko
(70,112 posts)put it on a trailer, and drag it around to conventions and state fairs.
could be a great fundraiser.
Maggiemayhem
(809 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)caraher
(6,278 posts)or a car or ship, the most common ways the people he wants to deport enter the country?
tclambert
(11,086 posts)This one goes up about 50 feet, twenty more than you need. You can buy a used one for about $30K.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)nah just a rope dangling from the one. Boom reaches over and climb down the rope on the other side.
tclambert
(11,086 posts)Karadeniz
(22,521 posts)A laughingstock. They rely on fear and humor sabotages fear.
Quixote1818
(28,942 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Captain Zero
(6,806 posts)Grandpa's and Grandma's on the teams too.
ellie
(6,929 posts)to the tagging that will inevitably appear on the wall.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)I can't find a way this looks good on the news.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,348 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)From both nations. A 1000-mile, mean, insulting 30-foot spite fence would of course be an attractive nuisance for young people who live there, and also for migrants whose response to the challenge would be to spite it right back and for groups of protesters.
The only reason we are not already talking about people falling and being dreadfully injured, of course, is that they're currently walking around the tiny bits erected.
After all, this 30-foot fence is designed to make people fall, preferably by 10', but even that will result in injuries. If this thing is erected, national quarrels will be over what we owe to dreadfully injured, mostly young people from other nations, but also our own, who need months in hospital, physical therapy, sometimes permanent disability support, and where? We and Mexico will need agreements so that whoever is most available can provide immediate trauma response, regardless of which side a badly hurt person falls on.