Trump

[F-ZeroOne]

Meanwhile, at the Library on the Edge of Forever:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKCN1NX1P2

(and to be totally fair, this article does at least show the the Border Enforcement Agents can also be human from time to time... ).

[Harlequin]

Has he changed his mind about being tough on even the faintest possibility of (Muslim) terrorist threats, his excuse for putting children in cages?

I can’t tell you when the government [including the Department of Homeland Security] is going to reopen. I can tell you it’s not going to reopen until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they’d like to call it.… If you don’t have that [the wall], then we’re just not opening.

Aside from holding the Government to ransom for over three billion dollars, he might also think that keeping the Justice Department unfunded could be personally useful.

[Baggypants]

Downgrading to a fence? Weak.

[PFVA]

George Bush (son) kept talking about a fence on the boarder but it was an advanced technology fence.

[RiK]

George Bush (son) kept talking about a fence on the boarder but it was an advanced technology fence.

Was it a Star Wars space defence fence, with lazer beams?

[KlaxonCow]

George Bush (son) kept talking about a fence on the boarder but it was an advanced technology fence.

Well, that'll be even more expensive than a wall.

And no more effective. Most illegal immigrants come into America legitimately - by plane, train or bus - and then simply overstay once they get there. Or, as with the Channel Tunnel, they stowaway in the back of trucks and such (sometimes with and sometimes without the truck driver's knowledge).

Indeed, the more "technologically advanced" you make the fence, the more profitable it is for the people smugglers to stuff a load of Mexicans in the back of a truck whose documentation says that it's delivering bananas. Or they'll find a good spot along the border to dig a tunnel under the wall / fence and charge folks for its use.

Look, we already know that the drug smugglers have found their routes into America, as the drugs are made in South America and yet are found on North American streets. If they can smuggle in tons of cocaine, then they can also smuggle in a bunch of people too.

Here's a simple one for you. As the land border is too well defended, then just go by sea instead. Jump in a boat and sail up the coast, landing in-land where there is no "technologically advanced fence" bordering the beaches. Easy money.

At least when Emperor Qin insisted on building a border wall around his Empire - the Great Wall of China - he had the excuse of being off-his-tits on mercury poisoning from the "medicine" they were giving him. A symptom of which is, indeed, intense paranoid delusions.

I await Trump's "terracotta army" to defend him in the Afterlife.

I'm just imagining this "terracotta aircraft carrier" - fully staffed with terracotta soldiers and terracotta jet fighters, of course - as that's exactly the kind of truly insane "tourist attraction" I'd love to go see one day.

[PFVA]

I think the Great Wall didn't work either to prevent invasions. They didn't have the money for thee necessary upkeep nor enough military to keep an eye on it.

There's another way the migrants cross the boarders. The smuggling gangs pay some of the guard crossing patrols to let them go. Just a few years ago they had an internal program to try to deal with corruption at the boarder including trying to convince the personnel to keep an eye on each other for that. I doubt if it worked.

[zip accident]

I think the Great Wall didn't work either to prevent invasions. They didn't have the money for thee necessary upkeep nor enough military to keep an eye on it.

I heard the reason for it was to catch raiders on the way back out, which made raiding trickier, and thus cut down the frequency of the raids. Whether it was cost effective I have no idea, maybe it was good enough
for morale that it paid for itself that way?

[F-ZeroOne]

KlaxonCow, you may well get your wish - several of the last commissioned US aircraft carriers have been named after former Presidents.

[PFVA]

This promises:
Trump X Congress

The White House said the president "isn't going to back off" as he met congressional leaders for negotiations on the partial government shutdown.
...
"In fact he (Donald Trump) said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time. Months or even years."

Note: Regarding the paychecks if it's like state budgets the banks advance the amount of the usual paycheck for those with direct deposit on them (which is practically everybody), and just get the money when the budgets are signed. The banks have no interest in suddenly having thousands of accounts at 0 or overdrafted.
Things may get more difficult is for the contractors who work for the government, and those can usually scream very loudly

[PFVA]

Now it's a steel wall:

“The barrier, or the wall, can be of steel instead of concrete, if that helps people. It may be better,” he said.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-s ... P00EE?il=0

[F-ZeroOne]

Lucky someone hasn't been putting tariffs on imported steel then, that should cut down on costs...

[merman]

Trump's running the Government like his businesses... Several of them shut down too.


Oh, and one White House insider claims he didn't even know what a shutdown meant.

[F-ZeroOne]

The Butterfly Effect:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... sion-texas

[merman]

Trump: Southern US border is a crisis

Theresa Maybe: Thirty migrants crossing the English Channel is a crisis


REALITY: Migration isn't a crime or a crisis