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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer Guy's Wall - Ripped Apart By Monsoon Floods
Trump's brand new $15 billion #BorderWall is being ripped apart by monsoon floods.This is what happens when
@DHSgov
waives all environmental laws & ignores basic science to put up a political prop.
Photo taken near the San Bernardino Natl. Wildlife Refuge by
@madreanwildlife
Link to tweet
?s=20
AllaN01Bear
(18,775 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Response to AllaN01Bear (Reply #1)
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Kittycatkat
(1,356 posts)Jim__
(14,095 posts)Deuxcents
(16,447 posts)Becomes a disaster.
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)Drum
(9,214 posts)William Seger
(10,793 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)OMGWTF
(3,991 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)fat guy, foolish guy, frumpy goof, freaky gargoyle, female groper, flying gull, fast gerbil, flaccid groaner... so many silly things.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Also, never use "trumped" as an indication of victory as in "full house trumps a pair", but do use it in the context of, "trumped up excuses".
It's no game, but this has become all about perception.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)(Adding this post to my "DU Journal" so that I can refer to it again later on.)
czarjak
(11,335 posts)ananda
(28,903 posts)Love it!
keithbvadu2
(37,042 posts)Shoddy workmanship for premium price.
Wonder how much in kickbacks Dotard and JaVanka received?
rurallib
(62,482 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)Paladin
(28,285 posts)Traildogbob
(8,893 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 21, 2021, 10:50 AM - Edit history (1)
Its Gods plan or climate change. An entire town was destroyed, miles of damage from the river and lives lost, people still missing here in WNC. The communities hardest hit are plastered with Trump crap. On 2004 the same thing happened here, once in a 100 year flooding. I do feel horrible for the victims. My question to those that had lives destroyed again, was it Gods plan or climate change? Evidently God or the climate, hate when fleeing refugees are treated as we do. Or maybe just hate trump and his cult. 95 percent of those in the flooded community here, are hard core religious. Hard to call it Christian.
harumph
(1,921 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)Constructed to be opened. Hmmmmm
cab67
(3,012 posts)Their locations were secret. They were put there so Warsaw Pact tanks could bust through should things get hot.
I doubt that was the reason here, though.
Kali
(55,032 posts)but that happens kinda fast, especially in summer and I imagine not really safe for the guy with the keys.
NameAlreadyTaken
(985 posts)Also, they need to put Trump's name on the fallen pieces.
jmbar2
(4,920 posts)Just keep the bottom gates open for the critters.
KS Toronado
(17,457 posts)Look closely at the far left, panels are on hinges, probably for flood water debris.
Just someone attempting to make fun of TFG, which he deserves.
thesquanderer
(12,000 posts)People fall for anything, especially if it falls within your preferred world view.
IMO, any meme, tweet, etc. you see without a legit source should be presumed fake until shown to be otherwise. Not that that's going to stop people from posting the stuff, of course.
KS Toronado
(17,457 posts)Memes can make us laugh or get mad, need to always consider the source.
RandomNumbers
(17,635 posts)(article from January 2020)
The open, unmanned gates in remote areas already have allowed for the easy entry of smugglers and migrants into the United States.
At locations along the U.S. southern border where such gates already are in operation, Border Patrol agents must manually raise them every year before the arrival of the summer thunderstorms that convert riverbeds into raging torrents that carry massive amounts of water and debris, including sediment, rocks, tree limbs and vegetation. Trump's wall, which features 30-foot metal bollards spaced four inches apart, effectively acts as a sewer grate that traps the debris; when clogged, the barriers cannot withstand the power of the runoff.
RandomNumbers
(17,635 posts)Multiple videos taken along the US-Mexico border shows an open gate in Arizonas the border wall.
In it, there is neither a migrant nor border patrol agent in sight. Almost every mile of the border wall there are open gates, said Laiken Jordahl with the Center for Biological Diversity.
The gates are left open during the summer to prevent flooding.
kcr
(15,326 posts)What kind of hinges work where panels just hang loose and crooked like that?
Nice try.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)Oh so perfectly ironic.
Years ago when I worked at a facility treating injured victims of falls from these stupid fences/walls I certainly became all the more dug in that this symbolic facade has no business being there.
Exactly which portion of "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free" don't some comprehend?
Greed maims, kills, starves and causes only suffering and more problems. To me, that's all the whole anti-immigrant shit pie represents.
c-rational
(2,600 posts)bagimin
(1,335 posts)eyesore.
AZ8theist
(5,531 posts)Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,235 posts)yardwork
(61,785 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,693 posts)It's like my tax dollars going to build a temple to DJT on the eroded shores of North Carolina and watching it slide into the ocean. The only bigger waste of my money is war without just cause.
FakeNoose
(32,897 posts)Johonny
(20,953 posts)Sogo
(5,017 posts)appleannie1
(5,077 posts)Over time, Mother Nature will win that war one panel at a time.
onetexan
(13,080 posts)malaise
(269,286 posts)not securing the border - please get real.
Warpy
(111,452 posts)It's like everything he's ever done in his life, looks OK for a while but didn't consider much behind the scenes or keep it up after the sale, does it on other people's money, and leaves them holding the bag.
It blows down, floods out, and is vulnerable to battery powered Sawzalls.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)samnsara
(17,660 posts)Snackshack
(2,541 posts)100s of usually dry wash beds along the boarder that during Monsoon become flash floods filled with debri that will knock that wall right down.
RockRaven
(15,080 posts)great hand holds, and the surface is flat enough to be good for bracing your feet on...
Sympthsical
(9,188 posts)You wouldn't exactly have to be skilled to scale that. Handholds all the way up. How was that the design?
admonish
(57 posts)At least some animals can cross now
Demovictory9
(32,493 posts)Blue Owl
(50,575 posts)So fast that it never was really beautiful to begin with
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)housecat
(3,121 posts)IronLionZion
(45,637 posts)that no one wants to come to anymore.
Cha
(298,035 posts)Retrograde
(10,182 posts)Cut corners, use shoddy materials - doesn't matter as long as $$$ end up in your pocket. I wonder who and how much kicked back to him
RtheK
(1 post)I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and Ill build them very inexpensively, I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall, Trump said in his June 16, 2015 speech at Trump Tower. Mark my words.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,135 posts)lame54
(35,345 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,442 posts)Looks like the soil wasn't tamped down by the wall so the water collected there.
Brilliant!!!!
On edit: I hadn't read posts #44 & 45 when I posted but it seems we more or less agree.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,500 posts)KY..........
Dukkha
(7,341 posts)poorly constructed and mismanaged by incompetence and corruption
Piratedog
(256 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)joetheman
(1,450 posts)Bristlecone
(10,146 posts)Skittles
(153,298 posts)disgusting
cstanleytech
(26,355 posts)oasis
(49,482 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,345 posts)It was a device used by those horny to use HIM to get the asshoe to stop talking about himself and his immediate environment every single time he opened his mouth.
Who really cared what came of the "construction?"
UTUSN
(70,786 posts)to add injury to insult. All those contractors grifting BILLIONS and then doing shoddy work on top of it. At least in the southernmost Texas-Mexican border the butterflies REFUGE won in court.
burrowowl
(17,656 posts)Too bad there was lots of damage done while building it.