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Fox News covers President Trump's visit to Paris and his latest plan for the border wall.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. needs "anywhere from 700 to 900 miles" of see-through wall along the Mexican border.
Trump told reporters during his flight to Paris that the U.S. won't need a wall all along the roughly 2,000 mile border because of "natural barriers," including mountains and rivers. The winding Rio Grande defines the border in most of Texas while the Colorado River marks the boundary along 24 miles in Arizona. Trump describes the rivers as "violent and vicious" though in parts of Texas the river is little more than a trickle of water.
There's already about 650 miles of fences and barriers at the border that Trump says need to be replaced or fixed.
He also says the fence needs to be see-through, in part to help avoid injuries from sacks of drugs being tossed over the barrier.
The White House had originally said Trump's comments were off the record, but reversed course Thursday.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 19 2017, @05:24PM (12 children)
Why bury them? Shackle them, and hang them from the wall, for everyone to see. Inspirational images here, take your pick, or design a better gibbet: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gibbet&t=ffnt&iax=1&ia=images [duckduckgo.com]
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday July 19 2017, @06:52PM (1 child)
If the image of violence and hate that the US broadcasts to the world daily is still received as "Meh, better than my civil/drug/gang war, let's spend all my savings to attempt crossing that deadly desert", I somehow doubt that a few mangled bodies used as wall decoration is gonna stem the flow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @03:06AM
People flooding into your country stopped a while ago. No need to display a few mangled bodies, everyone already knows what a shithole it's become.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 19 2017, @07:00PM (9 children)
Please tell me you don't actually mean this. Even for you, doing the equivalent of crucifying someone in a birdcage and letting them die of thirst, hunger, bird attack, infection, blood clot, etc is fucked up.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Wednesday July 19 2017, @07:30PM (4 children)
How do you mod something "facepalm" or "are you shitting me?"
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday July 19 2017, @09:07PM (3 children)
Sadly in this day and age one can't help but wonder if such comments are indeed the jests we hope they are.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Wednesday July 19 2017, @09:26PM (1 child)
It is dangerous waters when neither side of the divide can tell if the other is joking or not when it comes to an issues they see as red lines. The right jokes about guns/racism as in the post above, and the left jokes about abortion. These are not things that the other side can accept are jokes, and so assumes they are serious. The only thing that can happen is escalation. Both sides will be offended that they see their jokes being taken seriously, and rather than will stop will double down.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @11:15PM
as a moderate, I can tell you that it gives off the vibe of "it's a joke", and that he got the intended effect he desired from posting it.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 20 2017, @02:18AM
Given the guy's post history and his transparent daddy issues, I really would not be surprised if he was, at best, "haha only serious" about that. And it wouldn't be the first time I've heard people like that suggest this sort of thing.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 19 2017, @11:16PM (2 children)
Thirst? In this modern age, we can pipe some water into the gibbets. Or, some zero calorie diet soda or something.
You're just overly sensitive is all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:48AM (1 child)
Lol! I'm going to need to remember that line when I'm being interviewed for a documentary 20 years from now about how the USA became a fascism. The interviewer may ask me if I could sum up what was happening during the late twenty-teens in one sentence. I'll tell them, “The comment said, ‘You're just overly sensitive is all,’ and that was in defense of his proposition of barbaric and medieval punishments.”
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 20 2017, @02:24PM
The fascists have queer sounding names like "antifa". You would do well to start shooting them now. 20 years from now, you should have finished them off, and you can give that interviewer a much better answer than "I was overly sensitive!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:42AM
I just don't understand why you willl not winnning for america you have been promoting fascism since Eisenhower so if you don't like what that actual;ly looks like your a fucking traitor because your a Dulles traitor