Quote (thesnipa @ Jan 15 2021 11:19am)
as he should, it was always a short sighted idea that had terrible cost/benefit analysis.
even if the wall was 100 feet tall, 50 feet deep, and has drones to shoot down people or demolish tunnels it wouldnt do much but force people to go the canada route or jump into shipping containers and enter one of thousands of ports.
the wall stops some real % of entry, its just that (for random numbers) it stops like 10% incurs far too great a cost.
its like my dads house, he had his basement flood and spent a few grand to seal the walls from the outside. it slowed the leaks, but he still has standing water in a hard rain. eventually he just took everything out of the basement and said fuck it. water finds the path of least resistance. only solution would be to build a pond in his yard to catch the water. thats what we should do with mexico.
Believe me, unless that wall is imbued with magical powers that automatically prevents people from bypassing it, all it's going to do is cause an inconvenience. Further, the biggest threat to border security isn't hundreds of miles of open border. It's Border Patrol Agents taking bribes and pure fucking stupidity, like the "zero tolerance" child separation policy. It's clear to me that America is run by retards. Bombing people in the middle-east does not stop them from hating you. It increases hate. When I make this argument to hillbillies I just ask them what they would do if we were invaded. "I'd fight". Well, there ya go. Who could have possibly predicted another country wouldn't respond well to us invading. Who the fuck would have thought. So there's your issue #1. White people in suits created thousands of brown terrorists. Thanks Bush. The zero tolerance policy is essentially the same fucking thing but directed against someone we share a physical fucking border with.
Border Patrol Agent corruption is a serious issue that has been an issue for twenty fucking years. The very idea of "building a wall" instead of using that money to increase oversight and training of BP was evidence enough to me that the top law enforcement officials in charge weren't smart enough to consult experts to tell them that. My guess is they know that already though. My guess is Trump wanted to build the wall as a grift. His family was in a place to profit massively from a project like that should they get their people in. I believe there were a few articles sometime last year showcasing the connection Trumps family personally has to quite a few contractors on the wall. Shocking to no one those same contractors were severely over budget and had completed nowhere close to what was promised.