A Saw. A Damn Saw. That’s All It Took. A Damn Saw Like You Have In Your Garage.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly advocated for a steel slat design for his border wall, which he described as “absolutely critical to border security” in his Oval Office address to the nation Tuesday. But Department of Homeland Security testing of a steel slat prototype proved it could be cut through with a saw, according to a report by DHS.
A photo exclusively obtained by NBC News shows the results of the test after military and Border Patrol personnel were instructed to attempt to destroy the barriers with common tools.
Holy crap, y’all. It’s a fake wall.
They tried to cover this up but – thank the good Lord for a free press – you can’t cover up much now days because somebody is gonna wrestle with their conscience and then squeal.
Response from the wall builders? There’s no such think as an impenetrable wall. Their new story is that this wall just gives them time to respond to a breech.
A saw, y’all. They just used a saw.
Thanks to Chloe Bear for the heads up.
The big, beautiful wall. Penetrated. By a saw.
“Fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity. If mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, anything made by man can be overcome.” – George Smith Patton, Jr
1All that is needed is an eleven- or twelve- wire, barbed wire fence, and the people and technical gadgets to monitor it. Pretty much the way it is now, plus the people to ride horses, trucks and golf carts, who know how to fix a cut fence and the tools to do it.
Our president and his people are crooks and liars.
2Hmmmm…fake wall, fake “prez”… Beginning to see a pattern here.
And the $5Bn he’s holding everyone hostage for is only a drop in the bucket — covers about 10% of the border.
What a waste.
Hope there are some protesters there at the border with signs carrying photos of this.
Hope someone will start financing billboards with this image so that even the Faux Noise bubble people will have to look at it.
3On a side note, the Ivanka Saw, Ladder, and Tunnelling Equipment Stores are opening soon in many convenient border locations!
4Donnie forgets fiscal rule #1 of building: you build then be prepared to maintain, repair and replace.
What one doesn’t do, Donnie, is invent problems where there are none. Or worse, in your case create problems. In your concern trolling to the nation political ad, you bemoaned innocent women and children at the border after a long and dangerous journey. It was you and your dunderhead maladministration that dispensed with the program that allowed refugees and asylum seekers to apply in their own countries. And, it is currently the ‘policy’ of your cold-hearted SOB maladministration to slow leak to a standstill the process of accepting applicants at our ports of entry.
If you and Stephen Miller should go into cardiac arrest at the same time with both requiring a heart transplant, neither of you deserve to have the heart of an innocent cockroach split between you.
5J&PKM: There is no such thing as an innocent cockroach, and yes they do.
6Hope Chuck and Nancy mock the hell out of Trump on this and the saw-through slatted wall. Being the butt of jokes makes trump melt down more than anything else, and we need him to melt into the hell from which he came.
Commencement video shows Trump telling students to go over any concrete wall
7https://www.marketwatch.com/story/commencement-video-shows-trump-telling-students-to-go-over-any-concrete-wall-karl-rove-on-shutdown-both-parties-can-win-if-they-compromise-2019-01-10
Looks like to me that wall was made out of tube steel and then filled up with concrete!
8I was a ironworker/welder for over 40 years!
Well, the Mango Mussolini might be passing overhead here in South Texas right about now on his way to McAllen, a little more to the south.
Canadian Bruce Cockburn wrote and sang an interesting song on some of the same topics way back in 1984 :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Rocket_Launcher
9PS: The Valley used to have a really great rock radio station back in the ’80’s when that Cockburn song was popular, KRIX in Brownsville.
10They had this song in heavy rotation, and it was the period when there was also another ‘migrant’ problem (a real one), and Reagan finally went with his “Amnesty” program in ’86. Things got really crazy in the Valley then.
So we’ve seen this movie before.
CNN found and showed a video of Trump giving a speech
“Don’t give up. Don’t allow it to happen,” Trump bellowed. “If there’s a concrete wall in front of you, go through it. Go over it. Go around it. But get to the other side of that wall.”
https://tinyurl.com/yd423mto
11@Fred
I’m scheduled to learn TIG and MIG welding at the local community college later this semester. I figure if I can solder I can be taught to weld. Assuming there are sufficient bananas and coat hangars!
12Check out the local TV news channels for an interesting look at the media and protestor-supporter circus down in McAllen on lower 10th St. outside of the airport. What a clusterf**k, huge crowds of howling people. This is going to be fun.
The local Fox channel went first to a Hispanic MAGAot for their obligatory ‘man-on-the-street’ interview.
Here’s one: ksat.com.
The Valley stations too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Rio_Grande_Valley_TV
**– SOBOTUS just touched down at MFE, per the TV video. Let the circus event begin…
13As obscene as the idea of a Wall is, the reality is . . . it is to laugh!!! A saw! What kind? And where can I get a saw that cuts through this stuff!
14We don’t allow toddlers to play with sharp scissors. Yet, here we are–allowing a mental/emotional toddler access to weapons of mass destruction.
I hope the GOP “minders” in D.C. have their job covered 24/7.
15Fred Farklestone says:
“Looks like to me that wall was made out of tube steel and then filled up with concrete!”
From the NBC story:
“The steel bollard design is internally reinforced with materials that require time and multiple industrial tools to breach.
So what do you think Fred, a metal saw for the outer tube steel, and a concrete cutter for the core?
Multiple = Two?
16maggie @14,
You can pick up a common ‘Sawzall’ saw and a few carbide and metal cutting blades at any Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart, and many other stores. You can get corded or lithium battery powered ones.
Believe me, you get one of those suckers in your hands and you go powermad, you can chop and slice through almost anything. Like a very small chainsaw.
One wicked crazy power tool. I don’t remember them from long ago so I guess they’re a fairly recent invention.
And if the Sawzall runs into trouble, a hand grinder will eat up heavy metal like butter using the edge of the disk. (I used to use both around the workshop for lots of projects, like modifying a boat trailer, not so much anymore)
I had no idea that that steel border fence was just tubing with a concrete filling, solid metal would be a bit tougher to cut through, but either is no match for these type very portable tools.
The T Crime Family is probably lining up Sawzall franchised rental shop deals on the other side of the border right now.
We have total fools in this maladministration, it’s effen pathetic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocating_saw
17Jane & PKM: “If you and Stephen Miller should go into cardiac arrest at the same time with both requiring a heart transplant, neither of you deserve to have the heart of an innocent cockroach split between you.” Damn, that’s cold. I love it!
18re sawzall — the large property I manage has the original plaster walls but instead of typical wood lath behind the plaster is a galvanized steel mesh, cedar studs and iron beams to reinforce the 6-story Edwardian. (the mesh looks much like the honey comb shaped wiring in security glass.). Local lore has it that this building was the first “earth quake” safe building constructed; it is bolted to a gigantic bolder that is a ruthless hill typical of our metropolis.
Back to the sawzall: the galvanized mesh rips the blades off the sawzalls! They have to use miserably slow process of wire cutters to open up the areas behind the plaster since the mesh is smaller than most fisherman’s nets. We could save big bucks using 1932 technology?
19Get a load of this, friends & neighbors. I live in Fort Bend County, not far from Juanita Jean. This appalling post went up on my neighborhood FB page today.
“WITHOUT BREAKING ANY CONFIDENCES, has anyone heard, or have any first hand knowledge, of any pro-wall, conservative, government employees in our community that have been swept up in this stalemate causing them financial hardship? If so, I’d like to hear some brainstorming ideas as to how we can assist them; and mitigate their suffering. IMO, They shouldn’t have to bear the brunt of this alone. What say you???”
I guess if you’re a liberal govt employee, you can just eat s*$&# and die. Sometimes I really hate people. Oh and btw, nearly all the commenters supported this moron. Bet they’re all “good Christians” too.
20I can just imagine if they had picked my basement when grabbing tools. My first choice would be a gas engine driven abrasive cutoff wheel. Portable, and higher powered than a battery driven one. Any remodeling contractor will own one or more, as would a scrap metal dealer.
The low budget option, a couple of cold chisels in various sizes, and a 4 lb steel hammer. If you want to get fancy, add some coal or charcoal and a bellows, to heat up the metal to forging temperatures to make it easier to cut. Around $10 at something like Harbor Fright.
The most entertaining method: (lacks subtlety tho) is DIY thermite. Just takes aluminum powder (from an etch-a-sketch for example) and garden variety rust.
The fastest, a suitable number of turns of “det cord”, stolen from the nearest mine.
The quietest: some hydraulic bottle jacks to push them apart. $50 or less again at Horror Freight.
21Hannibal crossed the Alps in 218 BC with 37 elephants and an army.
The mango *president’s wall is child’s play.
22The “wall” is supposed to stop the flow of drugs across the border. It’s as if Trumpers think drug lords won’t pass drugs through the slats, catapult them over the top, tunnel underneath the wall, etc.
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