It worked for Hitler. “Peace in our time. Bigly peace. We are going to have so much peace that you’ll get tired of how peaceful it is.”
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Tijuana bet?
Given 9 days, I’m sure I could come up with something to try and convince someone to give me tens of billions of dollars.
But they can only build the Southern side of the wall; are they partnering with someone to build the Northern side; you know, the part in 'Murica?
This news is kinda fake, it appears.
The Texas Tribune is a non-profit, non-partisan site that is all government all the time. They produce documentaries and do a lot of in depth coverage. And your average Texas Republican considers them slightly to the left of Trotsky or Lenin.
How many of our allies in this world do these bozos think are going to still be our allies if we attempt to invade Mexico and deprive their farmers access to the Rio Grande? Because if moving the border from the middle of the river onto Mexican territory isn’t invasion, I don’t know what else to call it.
I genuinely wonder what the actual cost for both construction and maintenance would be to create a proper border wall that would be effective. I often see cost quotes for things that won’t be effective at all, and I see mocking the effectiveness, but there’s no huge technical challenge in building a wall that will keep people from crossing the border; any decent architect and designer that has any sort of understanding of the area and natural stresses the wall would encounter could easily design something that would be effective and last.
If I was genuinely trying to design something like that myself, I’d design a wall about 20 feet tall, eight feet thick, put a roadway on top of it. Along the entire length of the wall, I’d have seismic monitors that can detect digging, while the top would be designed in such a way as to fend off ladders and grappling hooks. I think the technology is there to also have sensors along the upper crest so that if anyone so much as props a ladder against the wall, they could go off. I’d then put guard towers every 10 miles…perhaps even only every 20 miles. Each guard tower would have two battery-powered rechargeable surveillance drones it can launch if anything is detected, and one fast-moving vehicle designed to operate on the roadway atop the wall.
Obviously, this would be expensive…but it would actually be effective, also. And I’d say it’s better to spend more on something that would actually have a major effect than on something that will be bypassed easily and easily damaged and destroyed over time.
Better still not to build the stupid thing at all, of course, but if I had a construction company…I’d be making a proposal for a wall, and sell it to Trump by adding, “you want it to be better than the Great Wall of China, RIGHT?”
Several sections of the wall were built in the past few years.
Would those developers get priority in bidding?
They need a somewhat cohesive design that matches what is already built.
Why?
If you are bound and determined to do something this wasteful and idiotic, you may as well go whole hog, rip out the old wall, and replace it with the brand new design. (Also, those may be some of the least expensive portions of the project given the legal and navigation problems with the terrain in the non-walled border)
The entire idea is insane to begin with (for may reasons), but look at some maps -
It’s a pretty straight shot from El Paso Tx to Tijuana. But then look at Texas -
Not even considering on which side of the border the ‘wall’ goes, following the Rio Grande along the TX and Mexico border would increase it’s length by a 1000 miles or so (rough ass guestimate). Of course Trump, his minions and his supporters have not considered this. Start making land grabs from Texans that could be thousands or 10’s of thousands of acres for this wall for each land owner, and Mexico will be the least of this administrations worrys.
The ‘wall’ aint gonna happen of course. Coal mining will not come back. But Trump supporters are not going to re-tool their skills to live in todays world because he says everything is going to be OK.
The secret is to first construct a 10’ berm. Build the wall on top at 6’ below grade and the tunnel diggers can go straight across without having to dig down!
So genuine quote, but he was actually implying “It’s not going to be a contiguous wall”.