He made a promise he can’t keep without basically taking the Rio Grande, as a water source, away from all of the ranchers and farmers along 1200 miles of Texas, and giving that water to Mexico for free.
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He made a promise he can’t keep without basically taking the Rio Grande, as a water source, away from all of the ranchers and farmers along 1200 miles of Texas, and giving that water to Mexico for free.
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He made a campaign promise without doing the research (consulting Army Corps of Engineers, topography, Hells Bells... even a simple map of the Rio Grande.) He wrote a check that even the best civil engineers can’t cash for him w/o HURTING AMERICAN RANCHERS in a huge Red State.
The Texas-Mexico border is LITERALLY the “deepest channel in the middle of the Rio Grande” for 1,200 of the 1,900+ border. Mexico would never allow us to build alongside the river on THEIR side. Therefore, we have to build alongside US SIDE.
The wall doesn’t have to be on the border. It can be set back 100s or 1000s of feet. We would control both sides.
We could set the wall several thousand miles from the border. Make it just long enough to surround the white house and save billions $
While doing nothing for two years when he actually had majorities in both Houses.
He delivered a lot for his major donors and the Russian oligarchs.
Is there some widespread cognitive dysfunction that renders people unable to imagine the many ways anybody could easily get past “The Wall?”pic.twitter.com/s0anfyAA6i
Don’t forget the miles of tunnels already dug beneath the existing segments of walls—most who have entry and exit points far removed from the border wall itself.
This is why @MittRomney it's impossible to agree w/ Trump. Regardless of whether or not you think we need a wall, Trump's motives & methods are & always will be suspect. If you really care about border security & immigration reform you would free yourself from Trump's demagoguery
So...it’s a ridiculous campaign promise to want to secure the border? It’s ridiculous to actually want to do something Congress voted overwhelmingly for in 2006? The depths of your suckage have no limits Evan.
Address his question. I'd love to hear it. How do you build along the US side of the Rio Grande without stealing private property from US citizens? Or depriving them of their irrigation needs?
Also, “securing the border” and “building a wall” are not necessarily the same things. The current proposal does include $ for border security.
Your scenario is mild in comparison to what he may really want. I personally see him as capable of being worse than every one of the most dire projections but he is above all one man acting alone. On a plane to Mar a Lago after removal from office? Overnight things stabilize
The national emergency trial balloon floated today worries me. Is he really so far gone as to imagine he can pull off a banana republic maneuver like that?
He'll get away with it.
I hear you but I still can't bring myself to accept that.
I hope you're right, but no one seems to be stopping him on anything else.
A national emergency would need to be voted on by Congress so there is that. I somehow don't see Pelosi going along for the ride.
I hope you're right on that. So if he orders the military to build the wall without Congressional approval, the Secretary of Defense and military should refuse to follow that illegal order. I really miss Mattis.
He's done. You're seeing moderate GOP senators like Lamar Alexander and Cory Gardner openly distancing themselves now. We're in the end game and it's just a matter of how it plays out.
Their distancing, like McMullin's, is lukewarm. Until GOP members literally start saying "crimes must be impeached" and "this is not republicanism" and "yay America, boo Russia" it will never be the end game. they are praying for a heart attack to save them from exertion.
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