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on Sunday March 17 2019, @07:12AM
from the at-least-the-House-and-Senate-agreed-on-something dept.
from the at-least-the-House-and-Senate-agreed-on-something dept.
breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/15/donald-trump-vetoes-attempt-to-block-national-emergency
President Donald Trump vetoed a bill designed to block his emergency declaration at the Southern Border on Friday, in a ceremony at the White House.
“Today, I am vetoing this resolution,” Trump said. “Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it. And I’m very proud to veto it.”
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(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 17 2019, @06:43PM (3 children)
It's a 30' wall.
If you try to erect a simple 30' ladder, you will fail. Suppose your arms can reach up 7 feet. You can balance and rotate a ladder twice that length, so 14 feet. If it is longer, it strikes the ground before you can rotate it to be vertical. You can get maybe another foot of distance by holding the ladder off-center if you have very strong hands.
Clearly, you'll need a sliding ladder. Those are expensive. Well, the plain ones would be too, because a plain 30' ladder is not generally available on the market. With a sliding ladder, you need some overlap of the sections, so you still won't get 30 feet. You'd need a 3-section ladder. Those are really rare and expensive, and they are heavy as fuck. Lugging the ladder across the desert, to a place with limited border patrol, will be very difficult.
Then we confiscate the ladder. That was expensive.
I'd rather we push the ladder backwards with the illegals on it, but insane leftists don't see this for the violent invasion that it is. Anyway...
It just isn't practical for them to come in large numbers with ladders. Sure, it will happen. Some may even manage to build scaffolding or bore a deep tunnel. Other modern walls, in Israel and in southeastern Europe, have stopped more than 99% of the traffic coming through. It's a lot easier to shoot (OK, "apprehend", sigh) the remaining 1%.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 18 2019, @12:53PM
Dear Mr. Engineer,
More than one of us will carry the ladders, and more than one of us will raise the ladders. And then more than one of us will use the ladders.
And in case you think that we will build the ladders right in front of the wall within clear view of the US Border Patrol, you are mistaken. We will buy ladders near by because capitalism works on both sides of the border whether people as smart as you believe it or not.
Signed,
Desperate and Seeking Refuge
(Score: 3, Informative) by Nobuddy on Monday March 18 2019, @02:59PM (1 child)
https://www.wernerco.com/us/view/Products/Climbing-Equipment/Extension-Ladders/D6200-2/D6240-2 [wernerco.com]
(hint: look at manufacture location)
Thats gotta fucking hurt. That much ignorance being being both exposed and blown away by a simple link. Ouch. Will you need some therapy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 21 2019, @08:15AM
That is the biggest ladder, extending from 20 feet to 35 feet. It goes for $500 to $800.
So, how do you erect it? Dangerously, you could use a step ladder. The point is that your hands will need to be about 10 feet above the ground if it isn't extended. A better plan would be to use a crane... but then you have a crane and don't need a ladder.
It's also too damn heavy to lug across the desert. Once we find it, we confiscate it. Overall, this is not a viable plan for millions of people crossing the border.