Trump Makes Another Call to Build 'A Great Steel Barrier or Wall' as Shutdown Negotiations Continue
Source: Mediaite
by Josh Feldman | Dec 22nd, 2018, 3:23 pm
President Donald Trump met with Republicans for a lunch this afternoon discussing border security, and following that lunch he tweeted once again his demand for a wall on the border.
Or at least a great Steel Barrier:
Link to tweet
In the past few days, Trump has talked several times about beautiful steel slats at the border, even sharing a crude illustration last night of what hes envisioning.
Link to tweet
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this afternoon to the President that if he wants to end the shutdown, he needs to abandon the wall.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-makes-another-call-to-build-a-great-steel-barrier-or-wall-as-shutdown-negotiations-continue/
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)Now get that through your fat fucking head, Diaper Donnie!!!
SergeStorms
(19,202 posts)pay the contractors who put it up anyway.
shraby
(21,946 posts)cstanleytech
(26,295 posts)out.
Heck maybe he can get together with some of his associates there like Manafort and they can talk about old times.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)Have a distinct green stripe? Some subliminal suggestion of environmental friendliness? Where are the solar cells hes been touting?
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)agingdem
(7,850 posts)that truck..la migra...immigration
docgee
(870 posts)But then I thought it was like the color of Pepe the frog.
But then the Google told me it is what an actual border patrol car looks like.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...with Sit on it, imbecile.
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)Destroy76
(2 posts)He says that wind turbines are ugly but continues to say all his wall ideas are beautiful.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)minutes so if he said turbines were ugly to one crowd you can be certain there was a crowd he told they were just fine.
He is the single worst human alive who hasnt with his own hands killed people.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)Not a cent!
Maybe we can set up claymore mines and trip wires all around the country?? This fence looks lethal. Fuck him! The are going to go around or tunnel under the campaign promise.
Wrz
(35 posts)Borders are just imaginary lines drawn up by arrogant people. The Roman Empire had borders - where are they now? We all bleed red. What happened to the U.S. that allowed everyone who arrived to Ellis Island to become part of our country? We need to return to that -- anyone who wants to can come and stay here, period. Instead of $5Bn being used to build a wall, have it spent to hire workers to tear down the existing fencing and install permanent water and shelter stations on the border - to protect migrants from sunlight and provide first aid kits, etc.
If our elected officials had even an ounce of compassion, anyone who wants to be here would be allowed to and would be naturalized with no bureaucratic hurdles. Give them a year or two of SNAP, WIC, TANF, Medicaid, and Section 8 as applicable until they land on their feet. This is what a compassionate country would do. Incentivize employers to have supervisors that are fluent in both English and Spanish. Establish both English and Spanish, possibly others as official languages of the U.S. much like French and English are in Canada. Appropriate funding to provide free public translator social workers that are available in every county to assist new immigrants.
Abolish all attempts to restrict the flow of human beings from crossing some imaginary line. End the insanity.
Contraband is going to get in either way, whether it's brought in illegally or walked in through legal migrant means. That's a separate issue, but I'm in favor of legalizing all forms of recreational drugs and taxing them, with common sense regulations as to labelling etc. Price them cheaply so that violent organizations cannot compete because their products will be inferior and more expensive.
If some huge wall is built, then tunnels will be built under it to facilitate smuggling and 'coyote' migrant services. It's all for nought.
You sound just like one of those many Democrat Party members who vote for open borders!
Welcome to DU, bro!!
NotASurfer
(2,151 posts)It's not about border security
Sounds more like he wants a monument to himself so grandiose that people will still be awed in a thousand years as they gaze upon the ruins
The same thing Nazi architect Speer proposed after they achieved victory for the monuments to themselves and Der Fuehrer. In that example, the goal involved use of both epic scale, and durable materials. The resort to metal spikes, which rust and will be targets for recycling, by the Gropenfuehrer smells of desperation
It's about ego. About some recognition, however dim, of mortality. About leaving something behind that will endure beyond history's ability to record, in painful detail, the shame and inadequacy of both his not-even-attempted administration, and of him personally
As his time nears its end, all that remains is the increasingly desperate drive to leave something, anything, no matter how transient, that leaves a physical reminder (the sole proof in his own mind, that denies records and written history) of his existence
It's not about border security
japple
(9,833 posts)n/t
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)A drug tunnel between Arizona and Mexico was found under a vacant Kentucky Fried Chicken in a border city.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/us/drug-tunnel-arizona-mexico-trnd/
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)That's 2/3 the height of Air Force One's tail.
BTW, don't forget the GoFundMe for ladders: https://www.gofundme.com/ladders-to-get-over-trump039s-wall
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)He met with Republicans. No Dems.
sakabatou
(42,157 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)...but it seems to me that anyone with a cutting torch and a rebar bender (both of which are available off-the-shelf at Herramientas de Carga de Puerto de Tijuana) could make a hole in that thing wide enough to walk about thirty people through before La Migra could notice what was happening.