Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

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Darn. I really wanted that fence blown down by Hanna. But this is almost as good:

Smugglers sawed into Trump’s border wall 18 times in one month in San Diego area, records show
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Trump repeatedly touted the bollard fencing as impenetrable in rallies and speeches, until The Post reported that smugglers were climbing the 30-foot structure with improvised ladders and hacking at the bollards with “recip saws” and other commercially available power tools. The president has since backed down on those claims.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/immi...df8926-8007-11ea-8de7-9fdff6d5d83e_story.html
 
Belz... said:
The very fact that it's not an actual wall is hilarious.
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Don't worry it will still keep the rhino out...

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... crap. Okay back to the drawing board.
 
TragicMonkey said:
It's more of a trellis, really. Would look great covered in roses or tomato plants!
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And then we could pay the Mexicans to harvest the tomatoes while they climb up and over the fence! Brilliant! It lets us be ineffective, economically irresponsible, and racist all at once!
 
Horatius said:
And then we could pay the Mexicans to harvest the tomatoes while they climb up and over the fence! Brilliant! It lets us be ineffective, economically irresponsible, and racist all at once!
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But we'd get tomatoes, which is an actual quantifiable good. Something the existing wall plans cannot provide.
 
Invading hordes could trample the harvested tomatoes into sauce, and the proximity to the wall means that it qualifies as a maquiladora, so product could go to either side of the wall for final packaging and sell in the US for cheap.
 
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Homeland Security or Federal Forces are little involved in Seattle, other than we have a large standby team in case of emergency. The media is calling that one wrong also. In Portland, we are protecting Federal property, including the Courthouse, which wouldn’t last a day!
 
timhau said:
What do they mean by "anchoring to the ground"? There's no groundwork done before the above-ground construction?
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Armitage72 said:
When something similar happened in January, the concrete holding the fence in the ground hadn't set yet.
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I worked 47 years in engineering and construction. Throughout my career it was always standard to ensure that foundations were poured, cured and inspected before any superstructure was added. These wall builders seem to be unfamiliar with common construction practices and are building backwards. Makes a person wonder how reliable the balance of the wall construction is.
 
Armitage72 said:
When something similar happened in January, the concrete holding the fence in the ground hadn't set yet.
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Which is why bracing the structure until the concrete reaches proper strength is a good idea.

A site survey (or asking a handful of locals) might have revealed that sometimes wind storms can spring up in long shallow valleys in the middle of such dry, open, and flat geography.
 
timhau said:
What do they mean by "anchoring to the ground"? There's no groundwork done before the above-ground construction?
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Armitage72 said:
When something similar happened in January, the concrete holding the fence in the ground hadn't set yet.
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Steve said:
I worked 47 years in engineering and construction. Throughout my career it was always standard to ensure that foundations were poured, cured and inspected before any superstructure was added. These wall builders seem to be unfamiliar with common construction practices and are building backwards. Makes a person wonder how reliable the balance of the wall construction is.
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I depends on the construction process, I expect. If they're pouring foundations first, perhaps they put up sections with only a couple of bolts and got blown down before they got the rest in. Or if they're digging holes, setting fence down in and pouring concrete around it hadn't set yet. Or it's just a crappy design. Or they were under pressure from Washington to get so many miles in so some idiot could make a speech.

Or they just put it out to the lowest bidder, or to the Kushner Konstruction Kompany.
 
In today's Covid Briefing Press Rally, Trump took credit for totally rebuilding the US Military. In the real world, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is just entering service. It's a program that started under President Bush. The FIRST President Bush.
 
Trebuchet said:
In today's Covid Briefing Press Rally, Trump took credit for totally rebuilding the US Military. In the real world, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is just entering service. It's a program that started under President Bush. The FIRST President Bush.
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I'm struggling here. Do I reply "Next you'll tell me Trump didn't build the Autobahns", or "at least Trump's made the trains run on time"?
 
Trebuchet said:
In today's Covid Briefing Press Rally, Trump took credit for totally rebuilding the US Military. In the real world, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is just entering service. It's a program that started under President Bush. The FIRST President Bush.
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Yeah he was laying it on heavy trying to take credit for fast tracking the vaccine: "fastest ever yadda yadda."

1) it's not ready yet
2) a number of other countries are developing their versions of the vaccine at the same pace
 
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