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Post by jdredd on Sept 7, 2017 1:17:49 GMT -5
You'll probably hear a lot less about immigration on this board now that b is gone. Immigration was his obsession (and apparently a lot of other people's too, even or maybe especially in Europe), not mine. Let 'em in, keep 'em out, I don't give a crap. But I am going to continue following Trump's obscenely ridiculous Wall boondoggle, especially as San Diego seems to be ground zero for it at the moment.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 13, 2018 11:44:21 GMT -5
So El Dorko is in town today blessing his goofy wall prototypes. I guess there will be some protests and counterprotests in "free speech zones". Yawn. Unless people are willing to put themselves on the line, it will just be hot air that will be forgotten tomorrow.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 20, 2020 3:01:08 GMT -5
Well, as usual, I guessed wrong. Trump's moronic wall is getting built. Whatever. And once built, it will be around for a while. Or maybe not. There is always dynamite.
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Post by Turk on Feb 20, 2020 15:49:37 GMT -5
I can drive from Spain into France and there’s not even a sign leaving Spain or welcome to France. France has a major immigration problem; France needs more than a wall. Spain is a different story. Rarely do I see a homeless person. If a homeless person is not a Spanish citizen, they get deported immediately. If the US would deport, there might not be a need for a wall. The US left loves illegals, if there is a wall to be torn down it is the wall of the democrats that block laws.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 21, 2020 22:56:59 GMT -5
There are two things that amuse me about the wall: One is that along the Rio Grande, they can't put the wall in the river so it has to go on the shore on our side, sometimes at some distance, and the acreage up to it will basically be ceded to Mexico! And also, if by some miracle Bernie gets into the WH, the whole wall could be moot just by the stroke of his pen!
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Post by jdredd on May 12, 2020 17:36:15 GMT -5
Trump is still spending big bucks stolen from the Pentagon to build his moronic wall. Is Covid-19 making it less or more relevant? I'm sure the anti- immigration zealots will claim it's needed more now than ever, but it still looks useless to me.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 21, 2020 20:54:08 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/opinion/steve-bannon-trump-arrested.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"There was a measure of poetic justice in Thursday’s news that Steve Bannon, the populist political guru who charted President Trump’s rise to power, was arrested on a yacht on Long Island Sound and charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of Mr. Trump’s supporters. The pitch was like a twisted version of the 19th-century campaign to build a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty with small donations from individual Americans: This time, the American people would fund a wall along the southern border of the United States. “It’s the American people coming together to chip in and give five bucks,” said Brian Kolfage, an Air Force veteran who, with Mr. Bannon’s help, created a nonprofit called We Build the Wall, ostensibly to raise money for the project. They collected more than $25 million. They even built a short stretch of border wall near El Paso. But on Thursday, federal agents arrested Mr. Kolfage, Mr. Bannon and two of their associates, and charged the men with spending a nk of the money on themselves." I couldn't have written a more satisfying fate for Boomer sleazeball Steve Bannon.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 19, 2020 14:22:43 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/supreme-court-trump-wall-asylum.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=HomepageWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review two major Trump administration immigration initiatives: a program that has forced at least 60,000 asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their requests are heard and the diversion of $2.5 billion in Pentagon money to build a barrier on the southwestern border. "In the border-wall case, a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled against the administration in June, saying Congress had not authorized the spending. But the Supreme Court, in a pair of interim orders decided by 5-to-4 votes, had allowed construction to continue until it either denies the administration’s petition seeking review or agrees to hear the administration’s appeal and rules on it." It would make my day if the moronic wall was defunded. Why aren't the loudmouths who support a "well funded military" screaming at Trump? Now we know their true colors.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 4, 2020 3:45:29 GMT -5
So if Biden is elected, I wonder what will happen to Trump's moronic wall? I don't trust Biden to do the right thing.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 18, 2020 3:02:00 GMT -5
It is certain that Biden will not tear down the 400 miles of Trump's Great Wall. Instead we will be stuck with millions of dollars in maintenance costs per year. But at least I don't think the money will be stolen from our military like Trump did.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 7, 2020 16:38:03 GMT -5
It's interesting to me that south Texas Hispanics moved toward Trump even though they are close to his moronic wall-building. Is it the we-got-in-so-close-the-door attitude? I don't know.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 11, 2021 15:15:33 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-border-wall-emergency-order-terminate/2021/02/11/id/1009627/"President Joe Biden has terminated the emergency order used by former President Donald Trump to justify construction of the wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. "I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency at our southern border was unwarranted," Biden said in a letter sent Thursday to the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Vice President Kamala Harris in her role as president of the Senate "I have also announced that it shall be the policy of my Administration that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall, and that I am directing a careful review of all resources appropriated or redirected to that end." Are the funds diverted from Pentagon projects going to be restored?
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Post by jdredd on Feb 15, 2021 13:59:21 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opinion/border-wall-trump.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Fresh leadership in the White House and Congress offers hope. We urge the Biden administration to signal a new direction to communities on both sides of the border. The administration can fast-track actions to deal with the poverty, marginalization and environmental degradation that worsened during the Trump era.Here are 10 actions the new administration can take over the next few months to “right the boat” that has run aground along the parched banks of the Rio Grande: Terminate wall construction contracts and end the seizure of private and traditional cultural properties. Remove segments of the wall where it has interfered with the flow of water, animal migrations, pilgrimage trails and trade between nations. Cease groundwater extraction and turn off unnecessary artificial lighting in wildlife refuges and other sensitive areas." I'd be shocked if Slow Joe removed even a foot of the wall.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 16, 2021 12:55:35 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/border-wall-trump-biden.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. — The sweeping view of undefiled wilderness on the border with Mexico long rewarded hikers who completed the Arizona Trail, an 800-mile route winding through deserts, canyons and forests. Then something else came into focus a few weeks ago at the forbidding site in the Huaca Mountains: a lonely segment of border wall, connected to nothing at all, in an area where migrants rarely even try to cross into the United States. “There it was, this unfinished piece of completely pointless wall, right in this magical place,” said Julia Sheehan, 31, a nurse and former Air Force mechanic who trekked to the site with three other military veterans who are hiking the Arizona Trail. “It’s one of the most senseless things I’ve ever seen.” The quarter-mile fragment of wall is part of an array of new barrier segments along the border, some of them bizarre in appearance and of no apparent utility, that contractors rushed to build in the waning days of the Trump administration — well after President Biden made it clear that he would halt border wall construction." The environmental crime that was this wall will remain for many years as a monument to Trump's insanity.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 6, 2021 11:14:49 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/opinion/biden-border-wall.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Yet those 13 people — along with others who have recently lost their lives in dangerous crossings — might not have met their grisly fate if the Biden administration’s concept of compassion wasn’t also an inducement to recklessness. And they would not have been killed if a wall had been standing in their way. That’s a conclusion I’ve come to reluctantly, and not because I’ve abandoned my disgust with Donald Trump. Walls are ugly things: symbols of defensive, suspicious, often closed-minded civilizations. Walls are, invariably, permeable: Whatever else a border wall will do, it will not seal off America from unwanted visitors or undocumented workers — roughly half of whom arrive legally and overstay their visas.Walls also cannot address the root cause of our immigration crisis, which stems from a combination of social collapse south of the border and the pull of American life north of it. But a well-built wall should still be a central part of an overall immigration fix. It’s an imperfect but functional deterrent against the most reckless forms of border crossing. It’s a barrier against sudden future surges of mass migration." Here the Man From Fox jumps on the wall bandwagon (a little late maybe?). But "defensive, suspicious, and close-minded civilizations" pretty much describes the USA. But of course the environment takes second fiddle to the special interests behind the wall. I'm so glad not just Trump but also Stephen Miller is out of the WH.
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