Impossible standards have been set. Not all can pull it off. I mildly regret some of my actions here lately.
I don’t.
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I am all for sensible border controls and even physical barriers where it makes sense but this idea that a wall on its own will stop drugs or criminal activity is idiotic.
Just looking at the drugs issue, the American people have an insatiable desire to take drugs, as long as that demanD remains then drugs will continue to be illegally imported ( hint legalize it and remove the criminal element)
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But…but…but you can fry an egg on it! It is special steel that is specially made to absorb sunlight and get really hot when it does! Especially in the desert!
Also it is a fence, so folks can see through it. That way dope catapults can be more precisely aimed and the CBP will be able to see the dope catapults and be able to catch the dope bombs!
It is a great fence, it is so secure 20 mountain climbers couldn’t climb it. But 20 Chinese acrobats could stand on each others shoulders and get over it that way.
It is a fantastic fence! You can’t cut it with a cutting torch. Well actually you can. But the bollards are concrete filled, so even if you cut the steel away your couldn’t cut the concrete with the torch. But, a sledge hammer would make quick work of the concrete after the outer layer of steel was cut away. But then the rebar would prevent you from crawling through. Back to the cutting torch, bars are cut, soon as it all cools you can crawl through.
Of course all one would really need is a good climbing rope with knots and a grappling hook on the end, swing it up, secure the hook, and over the fence one goes. Wear some gloves and shoes and clothes to protect from the hot steel and bingo, home free!
Our Corpulent Commander in Chief is such a dolt.
But he knows his base is composed of even greater dolts than he is so he doesn’t care.
Sane and rational Americans weep.
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Nobody has ever claimed that a wall on it’s own solves anything. It is a physical barrier, deterrent, and part of an overall strategy to control the border.
Without it though we cannot have any effective border control at all since we cant’ stop illegals from setting foot on US soil without it.
Border crossings are down over 90% where the new taller and less easily penetrated walls have been put up over the last decade.
And don’t forget that Mexico is paying for the wall.
I don’t care who pays for it as long as it gets built and never have.
And?
Our Corpulent Commander in Chief lied about the “wall” he was bragging about in San Diego when he visited there a few days ago on his War on California tour.
The “wall” or actually the bollard style fencing he visited there, and signed, is a design that has been going up all along the border for years now, replacing existing fence and vehicle barriers, and is not based on any of the prototypes Obese Donald had commissioned to be built in the dessert east of San Diego at a wasted cost of $11 Million, if I remember right.
The man just can’t tell the truth.
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Did he really sign a sign a piece of fence he had nothing to do with?
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He signed a section of the bollard style fencing, of a design that was being erected during both the Bush administration and the Obama administration, and the section he was at was already in planning before he was elected, and it was replacement fencing for existing fencing that was being constructed, not any part of his alleged “new” wall,
Yes he did sign it, with a sharpie, of course!
As he finished, the president was informed of a tradition at the border that anyone who works on the wall signs it. Trump, who autographs everything from photographs of himself to news articles about himself, leaped at the chance.
“Sign it?” he said. “I’ll sign it. Let’s go.”
President Trump signs his name on a bollard of the southern border wall on Sept. 18. (Evan Vucci/AP)
So he was under the impression that he had worked on it? 
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Yeah.
Got to love that.
More stolen stolen credit for others efforts by this piece of trash president.
The man knows no shame and has no sense of propriety!
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That’s more from the bureaucratic changes Trump has made rather than the wall. People are just going around the wall. The bureaucratic changes won’t last a minute once Trump leaves/gets tossed.
While the President touts at how he has rebuilt the military and diverts funds from Pentagon projects in a way to make a run around Congress for funding… there are now several military construction projects that are being put back on the back burner.
military officials describe dilapidated World War II-era warehouses with “leaking asbestos panel roof systems,” a drone pilot training facility with sinkholes and a bat infestation, explosives being stored in buildings that didn’t meet safety standards and a mold-infested middle school. In numerous instances, Defense Department officials wrote that the infrastructure problems were hurting the military’s readiness and impeding the department’s national security mission.
Some examples.
The Air National Guard has been seeking to replace the aircraft parking ramp at a New Orleans facility, which abuts a public roadway. This means munitions-loaded aircraft — which are kept on alert so they can be scrambled quickly in the event of a terrorist attack — expose the public to the “unacceptable risk” of being affected by an explosive accident, the Air Force wrote in 2018. An Air Force analysis calculated that members of the public are inside the jets’ “explosive arc” for about 3,800 hours per year as they pass by the base
The Air Force has been seeking a new control center at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, designed to replace a pair of “dilapidated WWII-era warehouses” used for air traffic control and mission control operations even though they have been labeled “structurally deficient” and don’t meet regulations. The Air Force noted in its budget request that air traffic control equipment is at risk of being destroyed by “roof leaks from failing asbestos panel roof systems.”
Vehicle maintenance buildings at Fort Huachuca in Arizona date to the 1930s and 1940s and do not meet the Army’s standards for vehicle testing and maintenance, forcing service members to work in “unsafe” facilities that “jeopardize personnel health, security and safety,” the Army wrote in 2017.
There are more… so Yay?
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Yabbut, it’s a “good, strong rust color,” so there’s that…
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There is that.
There is this as well.
While Trump has insisted that the barriers be painted, the cost of painting them will reduce the length of the fence the government will be able to build. According to the internal analysis, painting or coating 175 miles of barriers “will add between $70 million and $133 million in cost,” trimming the amount of fencing the Army Corps will be able to install by four to seven miles.
President Trump wants a border wall, painted black, by Election Day | The Texas Tribune
I see a rust fence and I want to paint it black!
In June, teams of U.S. soldiers painted a one-mile section of fence in Calexico, California, at a cost of $1 million. The coating, known as “matte black” or “flat black,” absorbs heat, making the fence hot to the touch, more slippery and therefore tougher to climb, according to border agents.
Oh. FYI The fence in Calexico that the U.S. Soldiers attacked with brushes and matte black paint (and that our Corpulent Commander in Chief falsely claimed as part of his “big beautiful wall”) was simply more replacement barrier fencing that was already in the design and planning stages during the President Obama administration.
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And it therefore proves their utility and value in securing the border and that your post had no basis in fact.
