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[–] Ensign_Crab 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd forgotten about him. Everyone should.

[–] Hikermick 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did too. Found it interesting he came up with the wall idea first

[–] SulaymanF 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

So did a million others. But it is a bad idea beaten by anyone with a ladder.

[–] nbafantest 13 points 1 year ago

One of the core stories in the Bible is the walls of Jericho coming down

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Or a plane ticket.

The vast majority of illegal immigration from Mexico into the United States is done by people simply overstaying their visas. So building a wall would have literally no effect because they're not actually wandering across the border in any significant number.

Obviously some people do come across that way, but not the majority.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And with just about any statistic about illegal immigration.

[–] FuglyDuck 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is why you shoot the ones with the ladder first. C'mon, haven't you ever watched LOTR?!

(For the record I hate the thought of this. but this guys...entire thing was shooting them from atop the wall.)

[–] SulaymanF 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I watched far too many Trump speeches, and he never suggested shooting them off the wall, instead he said the wall would be so insanely high that once they got over it there would be no way to get down. Of course he forgot about rope.

[–] FuglyDuck 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

trump didn't have to. It was implied. All of his little ass-lickers knew that was the next step. Plumber and the others advocating for walls know that there's no point in having a wall if nobody is defending it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think building a wall is a new/original idea, in any way

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its actually a well researched topic, the Chinese originally got the idea for their wall from Joe the Plumber.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Joe the plumber stole it from my boy Hadrian

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Literally who? Maybe if he was some antivaxx crackpot who ended up dying of a vaccine preventable disease. At least that'd be some leopards ate my face content.