The Wall

[Sol Rosenberg]

Some folks need to revisit the Sermon on the Mount. 

 

[3to1]

reichwinger hypocrisy and stupidity are like gravity. they're constants.

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

Between the Foxy News/Limbaugh Shutdown and the talk of interfering with the Fed, what are the markets going to do when they open up?

 

[SloopJonB]

What other team? Are we not all citizens of The United States?

(well at least all those here legally!)

The STUPID team.

Their uniform is a red hat.

 

[d'ranger]

Always a bit of melancholy this time of year....this thread title just triggered me  ...never know when it pops into consciousness 

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Nice post - interestingly enough this wall was built with donations to a non profit (this would be pre gofundme for you youngins).  It was not without controversy, not from wanting a memorial but the design.  I have never been there but have seen the traveling one which is still most moving, certainly when finding someone known. 

 

[Bus Driver]

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War? What war? You mean the ongoing conflict in Paraguay? The Columbian Socialist Revolution? I get that parts of Central America are a bit dicey, but full on war?

Yes.  The word "war" was used.  That you take issue with that is no surprise.  I am sure you'd be cool living in those "dicey" places.

 

[Bus Driver]

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Nice post - interestingly enough this wall was built with donations to a non profit (this would be pre gofundme for you youngins).  It was not without controversy, not from wanting a memorial but the design.  I have never been there but have seen the traveling one which is still most moving, certainly when finding someone known. 

When I first heard about the design, I thought it was a stupid idea for a memorial. A black wall with names? The opposite of imaginative was my reaction.

Judging by the reactions of most who have been there, I was badly wrong. This may explain my complete lack of an art career.

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Many of those wars were instigated and/or perpetuated by ewe and your interventionist elk you might add. 

Fixerated. Must blame vegetarians.

 

[SloopJonB]

What a stupid thing to say. No one side has any advantage in the IQ department.

You keep thinking that.

https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+supporter+images&client=firefox-b-ab&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR2suBmrffAhVD-lQKHXgsBWsQsAR6BAgEEAE&biw=1920&bih=919

 

[SloopJonB]

Nice post - interestingly enough this wall was built with donations to a non profit (this would be pre gofundme for you youngins).  It was not without controversy, not from wanting a memorial but the design.  I have never been there but have seen the traveling one which is still most moving, certainly when finding someone known. 

That is the best and most powerful war memorial in existence.

 

[Bus Driver]

Many of those wars were instigated and/or perpetuated by you and your interventionist ilk you might add. 

Lots of things have been done by my country with which I object. Same as you, I’d suspect. 

 

[Dog]

Yes.  The word "war" was used.  That you take issue with that is no surprise.  I am sure you'd be cool living in those "dicey" places.

Dude....They're in Mexico.

 

[Bus Driver]

Dude....They're in Mexico.

Dude, they're not from Mexico.  Do try and keep up.

 

[Olsonist]

Dude, they're not from Mexico.  Do try and keep up.

You can’t teach an old dog new facts.

 

[SloopJonB]

Facts are just lefty BS anyway - why would he want to learn them?

 

[AJ Oliver]

Back to the topic of "wall"  

Trump never provided any evidence that the wall would be effective or efficient - it was all "out the wazoo" as is his wont. 

And he still has provided no evidence for the steel slat version - he's only CLAIMED that is would be "totally effective". 

That was and is just fine with the Trump base . . 

Progressives, on the other hand, have conducted exhaustive studies of the economic & health impacts of M4A. 

That is a key difference between modern left and right - the latter relies on half-baked ideology, and abhors facts of any kind (evolution, climate, wall, etc.) 

But wait - how about a privacy hedge paid for by GoFundMe? 

https://outabouter.com/2018/12/21/canadian-gofundme-raises-6b-in-two-hours-to-pay-for-privacy-hedge-along-entire-us-border-2/?fbclid=IwAR1hFPCsSRNhaqglxnpSgD_Jr9QzL_9zFPoMGnPWZu7NTzY0TJU0xnVvHRw

 

[Kirwan]

The wall reminds me of the parable about the camel's nose.  (which may or may not be an old Arabic tale).  It goes like this:

The camel was cold, and begged the man to let him just put his nose in the tent.  The man relented, but soon, the whole camel was in his bed and refused to leave. 

$5 billion for the wall is just the nose. 

 

[Ishmael]

The wall reminds me of the parable about the camel's nose.  (which may or may not be an old Arabic tale).  It goes like this:

The camel was cold, and begged the man to let him just put his nose in the tent.  The man relented, but soon, the whole camel was in his bed and refused to leave. 

$5 billion for the wall is just the nose. 

"Just the tip..."

 

[d'ranger]

Beating a dead horse but there are walls/fences in some areas deemed necessary which is included in your link - 600 miles or so.  With Trump it's all or nothing as it's his big campaign promise. Of course that promise was Mexico would pay for it.

We are already allocating over 1 billion bucks/year for the southern border.  go the gofundme!