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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sun Dec 30, 2018, 07:01 AM Dec 2018

Beto's viral video explains the overlooked reason why Trump's border wall makes no sense

Obviously, you can’t put the wall adjacent to a huge river that increasingly floods. So you have to put it a significant distance from the river.

But that means the border would, as O’Rourke points out:

“Block access to the Rio Grande River, the 4th longest river in North America”
“Seize land from Americans through eminent domain”
“Exile hundreds of thousands of acres of the U.S. to a no mans land between the river and the wall”
“Seal off critical wildlife corridors” and
“Destroy YOUR public lands.”


[link:https://thinkprogress.org/beto-viral-video-overlooked-debunk-trump-border-wall-government-shutdown-1b24b49edac6/|

But...But....Stutter BUILD THAT WALL...
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Beto's viral video explains the overlooked reason why Trump's border wall makes no sense (Original Post) Soph0571 Dec 2018 OP
Beto's video is magnificent. murielm99 Dec 2018 #1
Still waiting for republicans to make Mexico pay Achilleaze Dec 2018 #2
Twitter video blogslut Dec 2018 #3
Beto is smart no question. Demsrule86 Dec 2018 #4
Go Beto Gothmog Dec 2018 #5

murielm99

(30,717 posts)
1. Beto's video is magnificent.
Sun Dec 30, 2018, 07:23 AM
Dec 2018

Trump, who knows practically nothing, surely has little knowledge of the geography of the area where the wall is supposed to be built. Someone needs to drive him around the area and point out things to him. Or, they can sit next to him and explain things while he drives his godforsaken golf cart all over the Southwest.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. Still waiting for republicans to make Mexico pay
Sun Dec 30, 2018, 07:33 AM
Dec 2018

So the republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief can butt-plug his temper tantrum, and let America get back to work.

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