GOP Rep.: Bales Of Marijuana Concealing Nukes Can Cross Border
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 22, 2017, 12:01 PM EDT
A Republican congressman from Arizona defended the construction of a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border by arguing that a nuclear weapon could be smuggled across a porous border in a bale of marijuana.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), whose district is just over 100 miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border, referenced the illicit drug trade in a discussion Wednesday with CNNs Brianna Keilar on President Donald Trumps proposed border wall.
The reality, Brianna, is that we have to measure all of the costs, ancillary and otherwise, and make the best decision that we can. But I can suggest to you that there are national security implications here for a porous border, Franks said. We sometimes used to make the point that if someone wanted to smuggle in a dangerous weapon, even a nuclear weapon, into America, how would they do it? And the suggestion was made, Well, we'll simply hide it in a bale of marijuana.
So the implications of a porous border have national security dimensions that are very significant and that bear a lot of conversation when we talk about costs," he said.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trent-franks-marijuana-border-nuclear-weapon
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)What's next? This is your brain on marijuana videos.
lark
(23,006 posts)The inmates are in charge of the asylum, to our great peril.
Aristus
(66,098 posts)Let's send with it a weapon that will kill the people who buy our marijuana! Because that's, like, the best business model EVER!"
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Mexican ditchweed is good for
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)It will be built probably in the midEast or Korea, and transported by ship. Which is easier - a coastal landing or a coastal landing in Mexico, overland trip, across the border, and transport to a high population center (most of which are already on the coast).
The easiest delivery would be in some sort of personal boat docking in any of a myriad number of cities and detonation right on the boat.
The stupidity is so bad - it burns.
atreides1
(16,047 posts)hueymahl
(2,418 posts)Interesting though, in a very morbid, scary way.
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)...something a dog can sniff out from 100 feet. Might as well plaster a radioactive hazard placard on it too.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)or people smuggling one nuke through MX or to CA by sea. Russia is our nuclear enemy. No one else is close. End of story.
Mendocino
(7,431 posts)this dope is da bomb!
BumRushDaShow
(127,331 posts)quarter pounders -
LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)All the wild fantasy movies I've seen, more likely the pot would be hidden in the bomb!
"Drug cartels" don't really want to kill their customers, do they?
brush
(53,475 posts)LIKE SAY, ALL THE EFFIN PORTS ON THE COASTS.
What do these people eat to think up such stupid sh_t?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)Bombs? No officer, just another couple bales of weed, nothing to see.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)Betty88
(717 posts)rickford66
(5,498 posts)Why not just smuggle the nuke the way you'd smuggle the bale? Where do they find these guys?
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)Mexicans both drug smugglers and terrorists at the same time.
rickford66
(5,498 posts)theaocp
(4,223 posts)smuggle a nuke on its own. It's not like the border is going to say, "Hey! It's JUST a bale of weed. Let it on through!" What the fuck kind of bullshit fear mongering is this amateur up to?
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)When bales of dark money can so easily buy a president for an actual nuclear power?
Maybe you should do some investigating Trent!
Orsino
(37,428 posts)And are you just giving a pass to the Zika in their bellies?
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)to enjoy a thermonuclear fireball?
What about THOSE children, Congressman?!
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)all rolled up in one package.
Zambero
(8,954 posts)Like marijuana. Just think about it. Once detonated, it would be the ultimate Cheech & Chong "Up in Smoke" moment. Sniffer dogs routinely detect packing peanuts, wooden crates, and bubble wrap every time, but everyone knows they are completely oblivious to pot!
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Hey man, let's get the whole town high man,yeah man put the bale on the bond fire man,
logosoco
(3,208 posts)import it!!!!
Crowman2009
(2,478 posts)Not even the dumbest smuggler of all time would carry around marijuana in bales.
Brother Buzz
(36,217 posts)Crowman2009
(2,478 posts)BruceWane
(345 posts)Oh! The terror!
The threat of a thermonuclear marijuana bomb! Not only will you be vaporized, your moral fiber will be shredded by evil drugs!
BOO!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Ok..it will be a brief high, admittedly. but still....
haele
(12,582 posts)Bales? That's going to need a huge backpack to transport it in across a border fence. Something big enough that two people are going to have to haul it, unless you can get the Mexican Mr. Universe contestant to haul it 70 miles across the desert on his back...
How does Mr. Franks think that amount of MJ is smuggled into the U.S.? Hint: A large Wall is not going to stop someone transporting a "bale" of MJ with even a small suitcase nuke hidden in it.
They're going to use a boat, or hide it in an 18-wheeler amongst crates of other imports for a "bale of marijuana". Or they're going to just ship components of a nuke along with a couple normal U.S. traveler's medical devices - or hidden as parts of other imports that they can intercept because they've got the manifest and know where it's going to be at any point in the shipment.
Typical unimaginative conservative.
Haele
meadowlander
(4,358 posts)already built or being built.
dalton99a
(81,091 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(56,906 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(56,906 posts)Don't blame me; I'm a draft resister in the war on drugs.
To be on the safe side, we should grow our own.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)Customs only screens a small amount of packages that come into the US legally, there's just not the manpower.
I'd think coming across from Mexico would be one of the least likely. More likely in a shipping container or something.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)They would hide the nuke in a pile of intel reports on Putin-Trump ties. No Repub would ever look inside those!
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,906 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,371 posts)Too bad he didn't care back when Dubya was in office and republicans controlled both Houses of Congress.
elmac
(4,642 posts)by nuking it, duh!
leftyladyfrommo
(18,816 posts)That way.
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)An atomic bong-hit
billpolonsky
(270 posts)What century is he living in.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)an entire bale of high quality marijuana.
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)Which would actually make more sense. I can't believe we are actually discussing this as if it were real.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)jmowreader
(50,453 posts)The Bowling Green one was a Corvette with a cast crank.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)the stupid manipulating the ultra stupid.
Wha? Is lead leeching into the drinking water down there?
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Just because it is too easy to sneak in nukes and they want to make it more challenging?
Someone please let the pot smoking terrorists know that we aren't all as dumb as the republicans!
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)"How can we make sure that no one notices that nuke we are carrying across the border? I got it, we will hide it in a bale of marijuana, which the border police won't notice!"
Dan
(3,524 posts)why use bales of marijuana, when they can either charter a rich man's plane; or donate a few thousand to a member of the GOP and they will personally allow it to enter.
BumRushDaShow
(127,331 posts)Or how about the thousands of miles along the entire West Coast?
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)I envy those guys these days.
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)Doesn't he know that people are growing their own now? WTF Dude. There are how many states with legal MJ now? How many states with MMJ? Come on, stop being the stupid party. ugh.
onenote
(42,383 posts)So let's build a northern wall, too.
meadowlander
(4,358 posts)I suspect, Trent, that the bad hombres prefer to hide the one illegal thing in something else that isn't illegal. Pro smuggler tip there.
Jeroen
(1,061 posts)Seaports, containers, corruption and a little luck.
diva77
(7,606 posts)tazkcmo
(7,289 posts)in that huge empty space in his head.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)mmmm Uranium Kush
I can't believe some of these congressdudes can dress themselves and go outside without a helmet.
EarlG
(21,894 posts)"this shit is the bomb."
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Anyone with the actual technical and scientific wherewithal to build a nuclear device for the purpose of detonating it with in the borders of the US, would probably simply do it here. If they smuggled in some actual material, that would probably come by ship stashed in a box of engine blocks or something.
CanonRay
(14,038 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Or a Trump Tower taco bowel?
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Panich52
(5,829 posts)jmowreader
(50,453 posts)Wouldn't it be more efficient to put one in a case of Ivanka Trump shoes and send it as containerized freight?
bora13
(860 posts)would this be considered a bale-out of Mexico?
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)they could just come across the border with MJ and nukes. I heard it somewhere, someone told me, it's true.
kiranerys
(54 posts)And imagined "hey, if they can catapault drugs over the border, maybe they could catapault a nuclear bomb!". Nevermind that nuclear weapons weigh hundreds or thousands of pounds.