Swammerdami
Squadron Leader
"Build the Wall" !! The very name of the thread is amusing!
... And sad. as heard by clicking here.
By the way, is Mexico still paying for it?
At one point the thread segued into the claim that increasing the price of steel was a way to encourage its use. You can't make this stuff up, folks!
Then there's this:
A Texas Newspaper has an article titled "Trump’s Border Wall is a Vortex of Stupidity that Trump and the GOP Can’t Escape."
I started this post by linking to a song on YouTube. This song is much more appropriate in understanding Trump's Wall.
... And sad. as heard by clicking here.
By the way, is Mexico still paying for it?
At one point the thread segued into the claim that increasing the price of steel was a way to encourage its use. You can't make this stuff up, folks!
Then there's this:
Uh ... you can't have it both ways. Either 52 Senators is a majority or it ain't. Especially when the 52 belong to a Party that has scorched the filibuster rule whenever it wants to. More especially when the Oval Office was occupied by a "President" who got his rocks off diverting money "liberals" had allocated elsewhere to his border grifting activities.Like it or not, its the liberals who prevented Trump from putting up his wall. And the wall might not have fixed the problem of labor flooding the country anyway. But because of the liberals we will never know.
Wikipedia said:Several political scientists described the legislative accomplishments of this Congress as modest, considering that both Congress and the presidency were under unified Republican Party control. According to a contemporary study, "House and Senate GOP majorities struggled to legislate: GOP fissures and the president frequently undermined the Republican agenda."
A Texas Newspaper has an article titled "Trump’s Border Wall is a Vortex of Stupidity that Trump and the GOP Can’t Escape."
I'm not going to hunt for a cite, but one of the hacks who developed political speeches for Trump back in 2015 reports that Trump thought the Wall idea to be "stupid" when it was first floated. He changed his tune when he heard the applause it generated.Texas Observer said:“This is the stupidest day in American history,” wrote Matt Christman during the Donald’s inauguration, “a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.” PolitiFact says: Mostly true. But it feels especially true these days, in the swampy mire of one of the dumbest policy debates in the history of American politics. I’m speaking, of course, of the matter of The Wall.
The Wall started as an applause line at President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies. It was an effective rhetorical tool not because it made any degree of practical sense, but because it was a symbol of Trump’s showy commitment to a hard line on immigration. The wall was emphatically not like the vehicle barriers and fences that already dot the U.S.-Mexico border, which Trump surely did not know existed at the time. The Wall would be built coast to coast, it would be beautiful — maybe as high as 40 feet — and it would be fully paid for by Mexico, making it a double humiliation for the “enemy.” It was clear from the beginning that it was a simple expression of racial resentment.
Then he won, and essentially forgot about it for two years. Of course, he talked a lot about The Wall, but he clearly didn’t care enough to do much about it. With one of the largest GOP congressional majorities in recent history, he failed to secure funding for the kind of wall he had promised in the campaign, because even Republican lawmakers understood that The Wall was a boondoggle. At the end of that two years, with an incoming Democratic majority in the House, Trump has partially shut down the government.
Trump is doing this because he wants to have a fight; the substance of the thing doesn’t matter. But in the process of having that fight, The Wall has gone from a stupid idea to a vortex of stupidity that’s sucking in everything it touches. In the intersections of these various stupidities, and our ability to watch them bounce off each other in real time, The Wall actually helps clarify some truths about Trump’s first term.
Why is the idea of a coast-to-coast wall stupid? No one who has visited Big Bend needs this explained, and support for The Wall is lowest in border communities, where people actually understand what day-to-day life is like there.
I started this post by linking to a song on YouTube. This song is much more appropriate in understanding Trump's Wall.