# Contractors Dynamite Mountains, Bulldoze Desert In Race To Build Trump's Border Wall

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 12, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contractors-dynamite-mountains-bulldoze-desert-in-race-to-build-trumps-border-wall/927874 "2020-12-12T04:01:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contractors-dynamite-mountains-bulldoze-desert-in-race-to-build-trumps-border-wall/927874/1 "2020-12-12T04:01:50Z")

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> **[Contractors Dynamite Mountains, Bulldoze Desert In Race To Build Trump's...](https://www.npr.org/2020/12/11/945194147/contractors-dynamite-mountains-bulldoze-desert-in-race-to-build-trumps-border-wa)**
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> They're destroying wilderness prized by biologists to construct as many miles of border wall as possible — even though the incoming Biden administration is expected to cancel the barrier.

I think politics is where this goes –

This is destruction for the sake of destruction. Some of the damage will be irreparable.

(I suppose some of it is destruction for the sake of a paycheck. That doesn’t reduce the damage, though.)

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contractors-dynamite-mountains-bulldoze-desert-in-race-to-build-trumps-border-wall/927874/2 "2020-12-12T04:06:47Z")

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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> This is destruction for the sake of destruction. Some of the damage will be irreparable.

Nope. This is destruction for the sake of pandering to his base. And he, along with his base, don’t give a hoot about the damage.

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**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contractors-dynamite-mountains-bulldoze-desert-in-race-to-build-trumps-border-wall/927874/3 "2020-12-12T04:19:22Z")

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Technically, some of that dirt and ecosystem was once Mexican.

Technically, that means some of it was drugs … rapists … I forget the rest.

/s

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contractors-dynamite-mountains-bulldoze-desert-in-race-to-build-trumps-border-wall/927874/4 "2020-12-12T07:37:40Z")

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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> (I suppose some of it is destruction for the sake of a paycheck. . . . )

It’s this. As much as they can, as fast as they can, while they still can.

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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contractors-dynamite-mountains-bulldoze-desert-in-race-to-build-trumps-border-wall/927874/5 "2020-12-12T12:19:53Z")

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Had he acted with this much urgency 4 years ago, he might today have actually come through with a campaign promise.  
He knows he’s on the way out, and knows the clock is ticking. A man might use this time to welcome and work with the incoming team. Trump, well, he’s no man.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contractors-dynamite-mountains-bulldoze-desert-in-race-to-build-trumps-border-wall/927874/6 "2020-12-12T17:14:09Z")

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Part of the construction involves cutting roads into inaccessible areas, so I expect the roads to be used by coyotes for bringing in migrants, which would be sort of ironic, wouldn’t it?