The Damn Wall
We here at the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. do not believe that building a wall down the middle of the Rio Grande River is a good idea and that should be the end of it, but Donald Trump keeps insisting that he’s gonna build a wall.
Cost estimates run between $12 and $25 billion. Mexico is not going to pay for it, so there you have it. We’re gonna spend all that money on a river wall instead of fixing our infrastructure, giving everybody healthcare, or making America great again.
Trump has told congress that he wants us to pay for the wall now and then Mexico will pay us back.
I am terrified of asking what “in some form” means.
Well, one thing we know for sure, Trump ain’t Popeye but he’s becoming a friend of Popeye’s –
Wimpy. That character’s name is Wimpy.
I’m not kidding – that’s his name.
Thanks to Vonda for the heads up.
You know Mexico will pay for it because Drump said “Believe Me”
1And you know he never lie’s.
Let’s name the wall:
21. Trump the conman’s most stupendous boondoggle wall.
2. Republicans’ wasted wall of plunder.
I have lived in Texas all my life. Born in Dallas. More than likely will die here.
I cannot begin a post about this wall or the Border without lapsing into the kind of mindless spitting profanity Miz JJ’s momma will not tolerate.
Here’s the not profane part,
I have a cousin married to an illegal Nicaraguan, for 50 years. I have a son married to an illegal Mexican. I have a nephew born in Viet Nam who came to this country in the 1980s. My wife’s grandmother was an illegal Canadian who walked from a rez in Canada to a rez in the US where she met an illegal German. Who probably came about the same time Dolt45’s German ancestors came to the US.
The sanctimony of these people is mind-boggling. If you have 2 functional brain cells and even a minimal understanding of human biology, the very public genealogy of the elite ranching families in south Texas should surprise you NOT IN THE LEAST.
And I will close with a reference to Candelaria and San Antonio del Bravo. One is on the Mexican side and one is one the Texas side. And without each other each cannot exist. If you really want to know how tough a Mexican family can be, go there and see.
See no profanity.
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Short & to the point: Grifters’ Wall
4There is supposed to be some sort of competition for the best designed wall. Got an idea. If you are really gonna do something this dumb, make it out of glass. The really tough kind that resists ammunition. Let each side at least see each other, particularly if this stupid thing is going to separate families like the Berlin Wall did.
Even better idea. Don’t let Trump cut from the budget all the funds that go south of the border to violence-prevention programs. These programs run about $100 million US taxpayer dollars per annum. Now look at what a wall would cost. That $100 million is chump change.
Honduras has an unbelievably horrendous reputation as the murder capital of the world. Under the previous administration, U.S. dollars helped to set up places where kids could get decent, honest mentoring, job training and even jobs. Our dollars also pay for identifying kids most at risk to join gangs and then provide a year of family counseling. Follow up showed that the kids in family counseling were 77% less likely to commit crimes, use alcohol or drugs than their non-counseled friends. American bucks also pay for murder investigations and help witnesses to testify wearing – get this – a black burqa so their identity is unknown. Where these last particular steps have been taken, killings were down 62% and more than half of the homicides ended in guilty verdicts. Compared to the recent past, this is flat out amazing. Its still a dangerous place. 18,000 Honduran kids showed up at our border in 2014 trying to get someplace safe. Two years later the number was about half of that.
Best of all Trump has to be kept from treating these kids like a biblical plague. That’s all. Simple, ain’t it.
5As soon as the Canadians tick off Trump, we’ll really have an expensive project on our hands. Maybe he can require school kids to work on it during the summer months as a cost cutting measure.
How about a wall on the west coast high enough to keep out North Korean missiles?
So many states, so few walls. Yet.
6Best thing that could be said about the wall is that it’s cheaper than that last GOP throwing of our money down a black hole called the Iraq War and kills and maims a lot fewer people.
I think it was Vincente Fox, former president of Mexico, who told Trump, “We’re not paying for your [bad word] wall.” Neither are we.
Best solution (cartoon): http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-foolish-wall-20170411-story.html
7Rhea, I support the wall in the cartoon too. It is the best solution, a tremendous solution, a beautiful solution, a strong solution. Orange Whore is the only pres who would love that wall.
In the bizarre interview he continues to insist that he will have a wall, but I thought he sounded a little more flexible. I believe that means he’s going to begin talking about it less and a time will come when Orange Whore will either deny entirely that he ever wanted a wall or will say that it was a “possibility” that was always iffy. Sad.
8Ah yes, the Invisible Wall to match the Emperor’s New Clothes.
9Oh and all of his invisible accomplishments so far fit this picture as well. It’s alternative truth all right.
Hatrian’s Wall. It may come sooner, eventually or even sooner at a later date.
10The Wall of Separation Between Sense and Money.
I’ve copyrighted this name, so don’t get any clever ideas. By the way, I’m renting out ad space on our side of the wall. Contact me for pricing and availability.
11Building a wall in the middle of the Rio Grande would be expensive and hard to maintain. And will it go all the way to the bottom? If not, won’t people be able to swim under it?
Of course the wall could be built on the U.S. side of the river. Which would effectively cede the river to Mexico.
I’d ask if they had thought this through but I already know the answer.
12Since traitor trump is soooo rich, he and his billionaire buddies can pay for his insane wall. All by themselves. That’s right, folks. He and his equally greedy buddies should pay for everything. Oh wait! Not such a great idea when the taxpayers aren’t footing the bill is it!
13The timeline to plan and construct this idiocy will extend past this administration and never happen. I say make a deal: Democrats will vote to fund the wall if trump votes to fund Planned Parenthood and the EPA fully and forever, and replace Neil Goresuch with Merrick Garland.
14Trump and his wall remind me of when Will Rogers was invited to speak to the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution).
Rogers began his remarks with, “I understand many of your ancestors came over on the Mayflower. My ancestors were already here to greet them. That’s when we would let anybody in.”
15this has been tried before, in Europe. that wall was used to keep people in. it didn’t work, though many were killed in the process. that wall was torn down, brick by brick, in 1989, as that country reunited. what makes anyone think a wall we build will fair any better?
16I neglected to mention the Great Wall of China, and Hadrian’s Wall, both built to keep the savages out. they didn’t work either.
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