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usregimechange

(18,373 posts) Sat Sep 23, 2017, 11:44 AM Sep 2017

The danger of an opaque border wall

"One of the things with the wall is you need transparency. You have to be able to see through it."

"As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don't see them. They hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It's over." ~President Trump speaking to supporters in Alabama Sept 22nd, 2017

Media report:

President Trump told a crowd of supporters in Alabama on Friday night that his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border would be "see through."

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352016-trump-southern-border-wall-is-going-to-be-see-through

Video at 1min, 30sec:

You never care if your wall is opaque until you go and get hit by a flying 60 pound bag of cocaine? If there was any doubt that something is seriously wrong with our President, there shouldn't be any longer.

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The danger of an opaque border wall (Original Post) usregimechange Sep 2017 OP

How about a transparent White House - to see if he's working instead of watching TV dalton99a Sep 2017 #1

You just won the internet, dalton99a! calimary Sep 2017 #3

Wouldn't this be rather easy to fact check? yallerdawg Sep 2017 #2

Yeah that's what you think until it happens! usregimechange Sep 2017 #4

Well, I don't believe aliens are running around doing anal probes... yallerdawg Sep 2017 #5

Only in Florida does cocaine drop from the sky janterry Sep 2017 #6

From the same article - also Florida janterry Sep 2017 #9

Florida would need something special! yallerdawg Sep 2017 #10

:) janterry Sep 2017 #11

I got hit by a 60 pound bag of cocaine marylandblue Sep 2017 #7

Picture of Trump's wall... Wounded Bear Sep 2017 #8

OMG, he's going to build an invisible wall. dawg Sep 2017 #12

What a fucking idiot. Thor_MN Sep 2017 #13

Laying the groundwork marybourg Sep 2017 #14

Lycra :) Donkees Sep 2017 #15

/holds candle! Sunlei Sep 2017 #18

glass breaks and starts fires too. cheap mesh. blowing sands etch the shit out of it. waste of $$$$$ Sunlei Sep 2017 #16

Trump is stupid PJMcK Sep 2017 #17

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

1. How about a transparent White House - to see if he's working instead of watching TV

Reply to usregimechange (Original post)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 11:48 AM

Sep 2017

calimary

(81,312 posts)

3. You just won the internet, dalton99a!

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 11:52 AM

Sep 2017

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

2. Wouldn't this be rather easy to fact check?

Reply to usregimechange (Original post)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 11:51 AM

Sep 2017

Has anyone ever been hit by a '60 pound bag of stuff' thrown (or catapulted!) over 'the wall'?

Good news for border residents: No one is throwing 60-pound bags of drugs over a 50-foot wall

usregimechange

(18,373 posts)

4. Yeah that's what you think until it happens!

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #2)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 11:55 AM

Sep 2017

It's all fun and games when suddenly you get hit by a flying bag of cocaine and have a TBI.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

5. Well, I don't believe aliens are running around doing anal probes...

Reply to usregimechange (Reply #4)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:00 PM

Sep 2017

but now you got me worried.

janterry

(4,429 posts)

6. Only in Florida does cocaine drop from the sky

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #2)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:02 PM

Sep 2017

"So I look up," Ivy recalled later, "and this plane is coming, and it's low. It's VERY low. Then I see a package come sailing down."

And of course the package turns out to be a 75-pound bale of cocaine. Falling out of the sky. During a CRIME WATCH MEETING.
(circa 1994)
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/392575/ONLY-IN-FLORIDA-DOES-COCAINE-DROP-FROM-SKY.html

janterry

(4,429 posts)

9. From the same article - also Florida

Reply to janterry (Reply #6)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:07 PM

Sep 2017

In 1981, a man was sleeping on a sofa in a trailer in South Broward County, and he got up early in the morning to go to the bathroom. While he was in there, a 100-pound bale of marijuana came crashing through the roof into the room he had just left.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

10. Florida would need something special!

Reply to janterry (Reply #6)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:08 PM

Sep 2017

janterry

(4,429 posts)

11. :)

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #10)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:10 PM

Sep 2017

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

7. I got hit by a 60 pound bag of cocaine

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #2)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:05 PM

Sep 2017

I had a headache for a week, but the high more than made up for it.

Wounded Bear

(58,666 posts)

8. Picture of Trump's wall...

Reply to usregimechange (Original post)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:07 PM

Sep 2017

dawg

(10,624 posts)

12. OMG, he's going to build an invisible wall.

Reply to usregimechange (Original post)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:10 PM

Sep 2017

Mexico will pay for it, and his followers will totally believe in it.

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)

13. What a fucking idiot.

Reply to usregimechange (Original post)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:15 PM

Sep 2017

marybourg

(12,633 posts)

14. Laying the groundwork

Reply to usregimechange (Original post)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:19 PM

Sep 2017

for a Home Depot chainlink fence.

Donkees

(31,417 posts)

15. Lycra :)

Reply to usregimechange (Original post)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:24 PM

Sep 2017

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

18. /holds candle!

Reply to Donkees (Reply #15)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:34 PM

Sep 2017

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

16. glass breaks and starts fires too. cheap mesh. blowing sands etch the shit out of it. waste of $$$$$

Reply to usregimechange (Original post)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:26 PM

Sep 2017

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)

17. Trump is stupid

Reply to usregimechange (Original post)

Sat Sep 23, 2017, 12:28 PM

Sep 2017

And if his followers believe he'll build a transparent wall, they are even more stupid than Trump.

There aren't really that many compounds that are transparent. Basically, there are various glasses and plastics that could make the wall see-through. But neither of those can be made strong enough for a 2,000-mile by 30- to 50-foot wall.

The whole Trumpian fantasy is ludicrous:

- The wall would be ridiculously expensive
- Mexico will not pay for it
- The technical and geographical issues are profoundly complex and, in some cases, may be insurmountable
- A wall will not prevent illegal immigration
- A wall will not prevent illegal drugs from being brought into the country

Trump's latest idea is no more believable than any other issue related to this hypothetical structure. What's next? Will the wall reverse global climate change? Will its awesomeness cause North Korea to give up its missiles and nukes? Will the wall bring peace to the Middle East?

Trump is an idiot.

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