Most on the left here have no military experience. So the concept of effective defenses is less than mature with them. (Right up there with “yeah man… what if they gave a war and nobody came, man”) One of the things they don’t understand is that the goal is to up the stakes and increase the difficulty to your adversary, forcing them to such things as are being discussed here… like ultralights. Then we counter. And they counter. And with each iteration, fewer and fewer can successfully breach your border. It will never go to zero. It is how the game has been played for 10,000 years and will continue to be played. But the first defense is essential or you might has well just give up.
It won’t. That’s the problem with Trump’s simplistic approach. The problem is a complex one that actually requires thinking through the problem in order to come up with solutions that will actually work.
And there’s no way in hell Trump is up to that challenge.
Does the idiot Fat Donald even have a clue where he would begin to spend that $5 billion on? Or where specifically should be spent? Or on what exactly it should be spent on?
So far all I have him or his Trumplicans saying is “build a wall”.
Not with any details. Not with any specifics. Why should anyone in Congress just throw $5 billion at Fat Donald to spend when the most solid thing we have from him is his BS campaign rhetoric, which is as fluid and changing as the Mississippi has been over eons?
Yeah, that is true as well. There needs to be accountability as to where the money is spent, feasibility studies, and details on exactly what this wall will look like.
And this is just a minimum. $5 billion is a heck of a lot of money to be just tossing out there.
In all of this it seems the Right is-are the ones flat out ignoring such fiscal responsibility with regards this $5 billion of the people’s money.
Mind you I know they will point out all the blind spending done by past Presidents, especially Democratic ones, that would be something worth looking into, but because that was how it was done in the past should not be how it is done today. If they wished to take to the moral political high ground then let them begin here and now!
People say that illegals don’t vote. I do not believe it. If a person does not want to vote, why come to the United States to find an opportunity? They may vote elsewhere, but they want to come here. It makes sense. Our vote is better than voting elsewhere, because the US is great again. However, if you are illegal, you cannot do it. So I said that all illegal immigrants disappeared, because voting in the United States is too important.
When Fat Donald has his acolytes and sycophants shouting at his reelection rallies “build the wall” has he ever discussed how many more Americans along the border will be having that “big beautiful wall” cutting across their property or even leaving them and their homes on the Mexican side of the “big beautiful wall”?
I would be damned surprised if Fat Donald is in the least bit informed about the atrocities already visited by our government on so many Americans whose property sits at the border?
Donald needs another rally tour. The Donald J Trump Christmas Shutdown Extravaganza - featuring the Build That Fence singers and the Lock Her Up dancers.
I would never say “illegals don’t vote”. They have. It has been by accident mostly, through a series of bureaucratic mistakes some illegals have been given that ability. It has happened. It has been of such a tiny proportion that the numbers have been next to nothing as a percentage. I still think that it is unacceptable and our people handling our systems need to always be vigilant.
In a recent iconic photo taken at our southern border, I have no doubt the last thing on the mind of that pictured mother, if it was ever there at all; as she and her children were scrambling away from the U.S. teargas, was the thought “Oh darn, there goes my chance to illegally vote in U.S. elections!”
The most pernicious and ever present registration and vote fraud is perpetrated by U.S. Citizens, many of whom are actually working from the inside of the electoral process, and no, no one party has any lock on the criminality.
No “big beautiful wall” at our southern border would ever stop that from happening. But you know what might weaken our legal defenses fighting such electoral crime? Yeah, you might have guessed it, politicians who are actively employing disparaging rhetoric against our justice systems and the men and women who work in those systems.