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Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:36 PM Mar 2017

POLL: THE WALL

My personal view is that this F***king wall is NEVER going to happen.
Congress will never pay for it.

"Border wall funding likely to be put on hold"

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, announced at a leadership press conference that Trump's supplemental funding request will wait until later in the year.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/326160-border-wall-funding-likely-to-be-put-on-hold
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Some of it will be built
9 (60%)
None of it will be built
5 (33%)
All of it will be built
1 (7%)
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POLL: THE WALL (Original Post) Equinox Moon Mar 2017 OP
Oh, I think some local taxes will be raised Warpy Mar 2017 #1
If trumpster is being impeached, would Pence do it? Equinox Moon Mar 2017 #3
Oh, hell no, he'd be too busy closing down Planned Parenthood nationwide, Warpy Mar 2017 #5
...merging radical Christianity with politics... Equinox Moon Mar 2017 #7
And would be even more tenacious than Trump Amishman Mar 2017 #21
There's no way they're not going to claim an easy "win" here unblock Mar 2017 #2
You might be right. Equinox Moon Mar 2017 #4
That's the way I see it... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #6
If I remember right, even a couple miles is millions of $$$ Equinox Moon Mar 2017 #9
I believe they'll just beautify the already built parts to look more dystopian and imposing Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #8
Oh, interesting. Equinox Moon Mar 2017 #10
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS samnsara Mar 2017 #17
In urban areas a high wall already exists. grantcart Mar 2017 #11
no bid contract for Trump construction company? you betcha! putitinD Mar 2017 #12
We are starting to see Trump is just hot air... yuiyoshida Mar 2017 #13
Congress is not going to pay for the entire wall, but I suppose he may try to find some loose change qdouble Mar 2017 #14
They'll probably use up the remaining authorization in the Bush Fence Bill. briv1016 Mar 2017 #15
trumpers rabid minions should DEMAND HE pay for it all... samnsara Mar 2017 #16
Some of it will be built, as Herr Trumpenfurther needs his publicity stunt. Throckmorton Mar 2017 #18
What contractor would put in a bid? ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #19
Agreed the wall was bull shit race baiting nonsense all along TNLib Mar 2017 #20
I'm personally hoping for a mile of it so it can stand as a monument of stupid Johonny Mar 2017 #22
A block long Equinox Moon Mar 2017 #23

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
1. Oh, I think some local taxes will be raised
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:39 PM
Mar 2017

and sections will be built near some of the more xenophobic towns near the border.

However, Texas doesn't want it to screw up Big Bend country or the big park there and NM doesn't want the fucking thing, at all, so it'll be mostly AZ and San Diego that will "benefit."

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
5. Oh, hell no, he'd be too busy closing down Planned Parenthood nationwide,
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:45 PM
Mar 2017

putting RCC dogma into law and getting all forms of contraception banned.

Amishman

(5,822 posts)
21. And would be even more tenacious than Trump
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 03:34 PM
Mar 2017

I've said it before but Pence scares me more than Trump

Trump is a baffoon and self limiting with his laziness and self inflicted drama.

Pence is a true believer is his religious right zealotry. He would spend every waking moment ramming through his agenda via EO and agency directions.

If Trump goes down, we absolutely need Pence to go down with him.

unblock

(54,176 posts)
2. There's no way they're not going to claim an easy "win" here
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:41 PM
Mar 2017

Appropriate enough money to make headlines but not nearly enough to accomplish anything real, get a photo op signing it, get another photo op "breaking ground" then let the project stagnate and say it will take years to complete.

Stupid policy, cheap theatrics. The m$m will eat it up.

Wounded Bear

(60,731 posts)
6. That's the way I see it...
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:46 PM
Mar 2017

maybe even throw up a couple of miles of wall somewhere, let Trump wield his golden shovel, then bury it.

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
9. If I remember right, even a couple miles is millions of $$$
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:56 PM
Mar 2017

He could have the wife and kid move into the WH and stop vacationing every weekend. That would save millions $$$.

 

Jonny Appleseed

(960 posts)
8. I believe they'll just beautify the already built parts to look more dystopian and imposing
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:55 PM
Mar 2017

Very low chance they ever finish the highways to transport materials before dems kick republicans out of power and impeach Trump.

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
10. Oh, interesting.
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:57 PM
Mar 2017

They have to build roads for the trucks in order to build it. Oh, this is never going to happen!

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
11. In urban areas a high wall already exists.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:10 AM
Mar 2017

There are already miles and miles of physical barriers, some are walls some are fences.

Near El Centro the border is so close to the 8 that there are two fences to slow them down.

yuiyoshida

(42,785 posts)
13. We are starting to see Trump is just hot air...
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 03:28 AM
Mar 2017

The Republican Party has its own agenda and will use Trump as their own Useful idiot, a rubber stamp for their programs. I bet many of the Republicans on Capital Hill secretly chuckled at the idea of some giant wall at the Mexican border. Their goal is to make money, and you don't make money keeping people from working for less than a few bucks a day picking fruit.

qdouble

(891 posts)
14. Congress is not going to pay for the entire wall, but I suppose he may try to find some loose change
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 03:35 AM
Mar 2017

to start on it.

Throckmorton

(3,579 posts)
18. Some of it will be built, as Herr Trumpenfurther needs his publicity stunt.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 02:47 PM
Mar 2017

What will be constructed will come with tremendous cost overruns and negligible worth.

Johonny

(22,127 posts)
22. I'm personally hoping for a mile of it so it can stand as a monument of stupid
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 03:46 PM
Mar 2017

so America never elects a man as dumb as Trump again.

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