ICYMI - Dept. of Homeland Security pronouncement in broken Engrish (12/12)

[Pluvious]

Just. Wowzers...

I can imagine the executive order was like: "Post exactly this message!!"

They go... ok, kemo sabe Preznutz, you gots it.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/12/12/walls-work

In case it gets fixed...

Release Date: December 12, 2018
WE ARE BUILDING THE FIRST NEW BORDER WALL IN A DECADE.

DHS is committed to building wall and building wall quickly. We are not replacing short, outdated and ineffective wall with similar wall. Instead, under this President we are building a wall that is 30-feet high.

FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built wall that high.

Please, just wake me when it's all over.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Pelosi was correct.

It is a manhood issue.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. ALL YOUR WALL ARE BELONG TO US!!1

You give 5 bill now.

[UpInArms]

6. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

👍🏼

[spanone]

3. 'FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built wall that high'

this has got to be the onion....please tell me so?

[UpInArms]

7. I checked at the link ...

It is definitely a dot gov site

[Glorfindel]

4. ICYMI: "In Case You Missed It"

“ICYMI” in English. ICYMI. written abbreviation for in case you missed it: used on social media when posting something that is not new. I love learning new stuff!

[shenmue]

5. They're building a wall under the President?

[Hekate]

8. Two threads analyzing the -ahem- Slavic syntax. Oddly, very Slavic...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211547210

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211549101

[Pluvious]

9. Wow, this just keeps getting stranger and stranger !! nt.

[MineralMan]

10. A non-English-speaker wrote that.

Could be Russian. Could be Chinese. The missing articles (the) are the clue. Both of those languages don't use articles, so when they're missing like this, it's a clue. Maybe they're outsourcing their press releases? Weird stuff.

[Pluvious]

11. I'm convinced too...

When I first saw it (TYT video) , they and I were of the mind it came from the Groper itself.

But...

Check out the two links in post above...

Who the hell is running our departments ?!!

I'm in danger of getting Crazy Fatigue !!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. As I said in one, that's how Trump speaks too

One thing that I do have to say is: Tremendous amounts of wall have already been built, and a lot of -- a lot of wall. When you include the renovation of existing fences and walls, we’ve renovated a tremendous amount and we’ve done a lot of work. In San Diego, we’re building new walls right now. And we’ve -- right next to San Diego, we’ve completed a major section of wall and it’s really worked well.
...
So we’ve done a lot of work on the wall; a lot of wall is built. A lot of people don’t know that. A lot of wall is renovated. We have walls that were in very bad condition that are now in A1 tip-top shape. And, frankly, some wall has been reinforced by our military. Our military has done a fantastic job. So the wall will get built, but we may not -- we may not have an agreement today. We probably won’t. But we have an agreement on other things that are really good.
...
THE PRESIDENT: -- if we got $5 billion, we could do a tremendous chunk of wall.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/transcript-of-the-heated-exchange-between-trump-pelosi-and-schumer-2018-12-11

He does use 'the' or 'a' for it sometimes, but it's generally like a commodity - "we can produce a lot of wall/oil/cheese".

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. You laugh wall, we get smocking anger. Covfefe? nt