Trump Wants to Spend $500 Million Painting The Wall Black - Politics Discussion

[–] slimone (7996) 5 years ago

I hope he uses his own money!!!!!

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Don't worry - Mexico is paying for everything.

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[–] chilidoggg (14270) 5 years ago

Just pissing money away...

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-removes-liberian-security-forces-commander

Currently, HSI has more than 180 active investigations into suspected human rights violators and is pursuing more than 1,640 leads and removal cases involving suspected human rights violators from 95 different countries.

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

Huh?

He came by plane like most human rights violators. The wall has nothing to do with them.

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[–] chilidoggg (14270) 5 years ago

He's supposed to be "America First" and he's supposed to be deporting Mexicans taking American jobs.

Instead he's employing illegal aliens, letting employers out of jail who employed illegal aliens, building "bits" of wall, painting "bits" of wall, and paying 180 ICE people to chase down someone who did something bad in Thirdworldistan.

We're not gonna see that in a Super Bowl commercial.

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

He's about "Trump First". He conned his base.

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[–] TimMC (9143) 5 years ago

Is paint free in your city? In your delirious post you imply that it is. I imagine that it costs money in your city just like every where else but for some reason your panties are all in a bunch.

I love people with TDS.

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

"Is paint free in your city?"
Your debating skills are horrible. Try harder.

Explain why saving $500 million to $3 billion tax dollars and leaving the wall alone like the military commanders and border officials want is not a good idea?

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[–] [email protected] (72) 5 years ago

Does it matter what color the wall is? A wall is a wall.....

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[–] robocat893 (15919) 5 years ago

A painted wall works just as good as a bare wall so spending any money to paint the wall is wasteful. Now do get it?

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I wonder what Mick Jagger thinks of this.

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[–] chilidoggg (14270) 5 years ago

LOL

Trump's not gonna paint the "door" to his winery vineyard.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

🤘

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[–] ODB82 (2055) 5 years ago

Sounds spooky. I support this. I’d rather have my tax dollars go towards a black wall than welfare or something.

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

More stupid talk from Trump. The metal fence surrounding a playground in my neighborhood was painted black when I was a young child. No, it didn't scare me. No, it never became hot. I used to climb it all the time. Trump who filed for bankruptcy four times is trying to bankrupt the country.

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[–] ODB82 (2055) 5 years ago

Yeah, well, I like my walls like I like my men.
Tall, black and hard as fuck.

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

Do you like them broke, also? $4 trillion dollar debt and growing. This pandemic will look like child's play if our currency collapses and the middle-class lose all their life's savings in a hyperinflationary spiral.

If Trump wants to spend $500 million, let it go to medical staff and other frontline workers who face PPE shortages.

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[–] sut6432 (2908) 5 years ago

Why don’t you provide links for any of your comments?

I personally don’t know why anyone engages you in conversation at this point. It’s pointless. You don’t respond to any questions, you don’t cite any of your sources, you’re the most biased person in the history of the world, and you’re obviously just out to get a rise out of people, and kudos to you...they continue to fall for it.

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

Simpleton Sandy's sock puppet?

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[–] TabbyS (1277) 5 years ago

That's awesome. See, if the Trump administration had offered for artists to freely paint the wall, then I would have supported it.

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

Perhaps they could paint really mean-looking faces on the wall to frighten the migrants away.

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[–] TabbyS (1277) 5 years ago

Why doesn't the department of agriculture just purchase land in their countries and use it to produce crops? If it's government owned then workers would stay in their own countries at our minimum wage.

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

Not all migrants work on farms. There are many who are fleeing violence. I've read about people leaving their own privately-owned stores behind. The solution is better crime-fighting and less corruption. It would help if Americans did less drugs which would destroy the profitable drug trade in these countries.

American companies don't pay foreign workers our minimum wage. The government wont, either.

American farmers need illegal farm workers. Trump referred to them as essential workers to our food supply chain and they are now being protected from ICE. I started another thread about it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-essential-workers.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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[–] TabbyS (1277) 5 years ago

Good article. I wonder how the fed gov could offer more incentives to get these employers to pay for work visas.

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[–] kukuxu (5409) 5 years ago

FAKE NEWS

Trump doesn't want the wall painted black. He just launched the suggestion in a brainstorming. The idea didn't go beyond that.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-suggests-painting-existing-border-wall-with-mexico-black

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

Your Faux News article is old: "Published February 7, 2019"

My article: "May 6, 2020 at 6:54 p.m. EDT"

"President Trump is once more pushing to have his border wall painted black, a design change that is projected to add at least $500 million in costs, according to government contracting estimates obtained by The Washington Post.

The president’s determination to have the steel bollards coated in black has fluctuated during the past several years, and military commanders and border officials believed as recently as last fall that they had finally talked him out of it. They consider the black paint unnecessary, costly and a significant long-term maintenance burden, and they left it out of the original U.S. Customs and Border Protection design specifications."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-border-wall-black-paint/2020/05/06/dbda8ae4-8eff-11ea-8df0-ee33c3f5b0d6_story.html

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[–] kukuxu (5409) 5 years ago

MORE FAKE NEWS

The new article has no credible source. It supports the story with the usual "some secret source told us that...", here some secret White House source, there some secret anonymous military: the usual drill. Zero evidence. It looks like the WaPo made up the story. Nothing new.

The only known credible data keeps being the same than before: Lewandowski said that Trump suggested the idea in what seems some kind of brainstorm session. There has been zero new evidence, just more fake news.

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

Even your idiot-in-chief has complained about the constant leaks from the WH to the news media. The leaks have been consistently true, therefore there's no reason not to believe his latest dumb idea.

No worries! This one doesn't come close to being as stupid as his suggestion to inject disinfectant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDPzbLFeP4

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[–] kukuxu (5409) 5 years ago

The leaks have been consistently true, therefore there's no reason not to believe his latest dumb idea.

Nope.

Most of the leaks keep being alleged leaks that nobody knows whether they're true or the media just made it up. Probably most of them are made up.

What's more: media is rarely able to announce any White House decision before it's officially announced. So much for those "sources". With so many "leaks" and "sources", you guess they should be able to come early. You don't see it, though. That's food for thoughts.

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[–] Keelai (34858) 5 years ago

Unlike you, I read books and real newspapers. The leaks have repeatedly been confirmed by different sources including Trump's erratic behavior and policy.

It sounds like you don't agree with Trump wasting $500 million on black paint, either. Send a complaint letter to him.

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[–] kukuxu (5409) 5 years ago

Well, then I guess you won't mind to provide a few examples with the link to the alleged confirmation

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