General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumshlthe2b
(102,509 posts)a wind turbine
✌🏼
torius
(1,652 posts)for Moses/Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments.
Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)Take that Pat Robertson!
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)It's because people hate each other for no reason.
Karadeniz
(22,606 posts)leftieNanner
(15,199 posts)And She is PISSED!
So you hire totally unqualified "contractors", give them millions of OUR dollars, ask them to build a wall with no specs.
What could possibly go wrong.
TheBlackAdder
(28,252 posts).
Without the openings, they all probably would have blown over, completely.
.
malaise
(269,278 posts)What a metaphor
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)is the picture of his entire presidency. It's the perfect example of Trump's lifelong incompetence.
meadowlander
(4,413 posts)on a structure defeated by wind.
Does Trump care? Probably not. It's already served it's actual purchase - funneling trunkloads of public money into the hands of private contractors and donors. If it gets blown over, so much the better. He can throw more money at them to put it back up again.
In that sense, he's very competent - at the thing he's actually doing as opposed to the thing he says he's doing.
Volaris
(10,278 posts)Is figure out to the thin cent, how much his presidency has cost the treasury. Then IMMEDIATELY jack up the tax rate on the top 1 percent so that every single one of those thin cents is recovered in the next fiscal year.
The republican donor class enabled this worthless grifter to loot the treasury; I say we punish THEM for this bad decision to such an extent that they never even consider doing something like this again.
This can be in addition to indicting this entire cabinet for federal crimes...because yeah, I fucking well WANT my pound of flesh this time.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)given back, at their expense. They seem to be hell bent on draining the treasury at this point, all to cover for tRump's mistakes and neglect. The $1,200 checks are chicken feed compared to how much this grifting family and administration has cost the people of this country. The gop has proved once again they STINK at leading this country. Now we need the democratic politicians to repair the unmitigated disaster they are leaving behind. Total failures the entire group. We all knew tRump was useless even before Putin put him into the WH, surely the gop knew? What an ungodly mess they will leave behind.
Volaris
(10,278 posts)This needs to be the response EVERY TIME they decide to complain about so much as the lunch menu for the next 10 years.
procon
(15,805 posts)Makes you wonder if there was any engineering studies to test the architectural soundness of this debacle.
Having built a couple of solid fences in my day, they need a support footing beneath the actual wall the anchor the structure to the bedrock for strength. As tall as that monstrosity is, the footing would have been very deeply embedded.
Was the wall even permitted? Maybe they skipped local building codes for the construction so they cut the costs of installing any footing below grade. That appears quite likely since the wall couldn't even withstand desert winds.
sheshe2
(84,057 posts)Go Hanna!
peacebuzzard
(5,184 posts)A portion of this wall was supposed to run through a protected butterfly habitat. I hope this wall gets nixed and defunded. Butterflies were not the only wild species impacted by this sad story of the wall.
God is good.
JPbelgium
(89 posts)Blue Owl
(50,567 posts)GeorgiaPeanut
(360 posts)I can feel it in my bones.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Crowman2009
(2,507 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)just become a believer.
Auggie
(31,230 posts)robleb
(162 posts)chowder66
(9,104 posts)I will be watching this daily for mental health reasons.
catchnrelease
(1,946 posts)[link:
Crowman2009
(2,507 posts)Named after Danny Trejo's famous character.
nolabear
(42,002 posts)You know, accusations of it being faked, etc. The person who tweeted it has a long series of dreadful things going on in Mexico because of the hurricane. This is one among many.
This one Ill take. 😃
NBachers
(17,186 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Defacing Federal Property...but I don't think tear gas and rubber bullets are going to faze Her in the slightest.
JohnnyLib2
(11,212 posts)Now--who will he blame?
FuzzyRabbit
(1,970 posts)"Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho;
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho,
and the walls came tumbling down."
Buns_of_Fire
(17,213 posts)Yasha got a bottle of of Geritol, and he knocked a hole in the wall
That's all
No wall
yardwork
(61,772 posts)efhmc
(14,736 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,249 posts)You would have thought it could handle a Cat 1 wind. They aren't uncommon along the Gulf Coast.
trof
(54,256 posts)iluvtennis
(19,905 posts)MineralMan
(146,350 posts)robleb
(162 posts)It's OK, no big loss, Mexico paid for it anyway, right?
Rebl2
(13,587 posts)say that was poorly constructed. They probably dont have building codes there or inspections either.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,507 posts)WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)sarge43
(28,946 posts)Thanks, nolabear.
TomSlick
(11,134 posts)You made my weekend!
Dem2theMax
(9,660 posts)And I'm howling with laughter!
fierywoman
(7,705 posts)free scrap metal.. Pickup @ southern border."
ismnotwasm
(42,023 posts)Speechless
But yeah, thats funny
mdbl
(4,976 posts)Almost.
Hekate
(91,005 posts)LeftInTX
(25,762 posts)This looks more like West Texas.
Someone commented that it looked like El Paso or New Mexico
Someone also commented it was California. Part of their wall blew away in a storm.
nolabear
(42,002 posts)So far I dont see a legit challenge, and as I posted upthread the account that originally posted it is full of hurricane damage posts. So maybe...
Kali
(55,031 posts)LeftInTX
(25,762 posts)But this scene where the fence is being blown away looks like sagebrush..LOL They don't have sagebrush in the rio grande valley.
They have some in Laredo...
Kali
(55,031 posts)wind blowing his stupid wall down
llashram
(6,265 posts)mother nature told trump f*** you and your wall
dchill
(38,609 posts)sure why not
(39 posts)Wet-yer-pants funny!
ancianita
(36,216 posts)Jetheels
(991 posts)Could be good for anti trump ads, showing how crappy he is of a builder, etc.
appleannie1
(5,077 posts)WheelWalker
(8,956 posts)sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
Julius Caesar
LAS14
(13,791 posts)Niagara
(7,747 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)If these events took place under Obama's watch.
Note the lack of evangelical interest.
Hey....didn't Jared Kushner own a building with a 666 address?
*crickets*
3catwoman3
(24,109 posts)...all weekend.
yuiyoshida
(41,871 posts)oldsoftie
(12,665 posts)Or maybe its photoshopped & twitter removed it
intheflow
(28,519 posts)The thread has 111 recs on the Greatest Page and I have no idea why!
nolabear
(42,002 posts)oldsoftie
(12,665 posts)Traildogbob
(8,884 posts)Gonna fall off the broken wall? And all the Kings men cant put him together again. That fat ass is not gonna cushion his fucking fall. I cant wait to see who all gets crushed under his fat ass slamming into the ground from his fall. Hoping Toad man Barr, Meadows, Kelly Anne, Kayleigh and all his boot lickers get trapped up Under that pig. They all need to end up just like him. This is only a taste of the storm coming.
House of Roberts
(5,197 posts)Join Twitter to get the full story with all the live commentary.
Is this just for people who are signed in to Twitter?
nolabear
(42,002 posts)LeftInTX
(25,762 posts)All they had to do was have him brag and then show the entire clip. No music needed or anything.
House of Roberts
(5,197 posts)but it didn't answer my question, which was 'do you have to be signed in to Twitter to see the tweet?'
nolabear
(42,002 posts)House of Roberts
(5,197 posts)Wasn't shot during the hurricane, which passed through South Texas in the dark, and shows workers in hard hats in the foreground.
I think the tweet was deleted, but because I don't have Twitter or Falsebook, I never know when I can't see something because of restrictions or deletion, unless the site specifies.
pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)KPN
(15,677 posts)LeftInTX
(25,762 posts)It happened in June 2020 in Demings, New Mexico. Apparently, a freak storm occurred while constructing the fence. That is why the hard hat guys are there. The fence had not been secured yet.
Here's how it looks in Brownsville. See how it's swampy? The clip is desert. Not all of Texas is a desert!
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/hurricane-hanna-border-wall