Trump: Drones are 'lots of fun,' but only a 'good old fashioned wall' works

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY KYLE BALLUCK - 12/23/18 09:29 AM EST

President Trump in a tweet on Sunday stressed his promised wall as the key to border security, saying "drones and the rest are wonderful and lots of fun."

“The only way to stop drugs, gangs, human trafficking, criminal elements and much else from coming into our Country is with a Wall or Barrier,” he said. “Drones and all of the rest are wonderful and lots of fun, but it is only a good old fashioned Wall that works!”

Link to tweet

The tweet came on the second day of a partial government shutdown, after Congress missed a midnight funding deadline on Friday.

Lawmakers are warning they believe roughly a quarter of the government could remain shuttered well into the week.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/422636-trump-drones-are-lots-of-fun-but-only-a-good-old-fashioned-wall-works

[watoos]

1. I plan to keep posting this quote.

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity." General George Patton.

A wall was a good idea in the 1st century.

[pazzyanne]

3. Love that quote! I may use it myself. Thanks for sharing!

[watoos]

8. He went on to say that,

men have crossed oceans and climbed mountains, it is stupid to think they can't overcome man made obstacles.

[pazzyanne]

30. Isn't that the truth!

[ananda]

10. Correct, I think.

I agree with Gen George Patton that "fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity." People will either overcome them or else they will fall simply because it was such a stupid idea to put a barrier between people in the first place. It doesn't just crack up human society, it also cracks up both individual psyches along with the collective unconscious. Remember the egregore of fascism that has corrupted our psyches and societies and continues to do so .... People are not meant to be separated, confined, or controlled. The Native Americans knew this. As Peat reveals in Blackfoot Physics, their system of justice was always designed to keep people together and to restore harmony and balance both to society and to nature.

[olegramps]

15. I believe that he was referring to the stupid Maginot barrier. The Germans went around it.

Now is the time.

[pazzyanne]

2. The president needs to check with China to see how

the Great Wall of China worked. I believe the Mongols ran right through/ over the wall. The following is a quote about the effectiveness of that wall

"Rumoured to have been built using the dead, the construction took hundreds of years and some people still mistakenly believe it’s visible from the Moon. However, as a defensive measure against invading forces, it has been about as useful to China as a Bible on a battlefield. It can give you comfort, but it just won’t stop the enemy."


tRump does not learn from history, or from his own experts. Fox Entertainment is NOT a historical expert, believe it or not

[paleotn]

9. It had gates. Funny thing about gates....

They pretty much let anyone through who's enterprising enough or has a good stock of swords and arrows.

[Mrs. Overall]

4. "Drones....are wonderful and lots of fun..." Tell that to the civilians and militants killed by

military drones.

Does he not understand the power of military drones for both bombing and surveillance?

Forget the context of the border and the wall, how could he dismiss drones?

Does he not understand their professional use in our military and in law enforcement?

This makes my head spin.

[Ferrets are Cool]

27. This

But of course, killing and maiming brown people WOULD be considered FUN to the bastard.

[AZ8theist]

28. He thinks drones are toys.

If you asked what a "Predator" was, he would say it's that creature in the movies....

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FUCKING MORON.

[Paladin]

5. A 10th century "solution" for 21st century problems? Fuck that. (nt)

[oberliner]

6. He definitely knows how to get a reaction to his tweets

[paleotn]

7. 3 words you ignoramus....

Border crossing card. They're relatively inexpensive. People use them every single day. Some just don't go back. The only people who cross in the boonies are the desperately poor and / or aren't Mexican citizens. Fucking moron. NO WALL FOR YOU!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. Exactly. People who have never lived by the border don't know how that works

People walk and drive back and forth across the border every day. They go to work, shop, go to the doctor, just for the heck of it. Beto O'Rourke's first date with his wife was to walk across the border to go to the world famous Kentucky Club in Juarez. Not to mention the millions of "illegals" who entered the US on student, tourist and temporary worker visas who just stayed when their visas expired.

We also need to address the myth that undocumented workers depress wages. The effect is negligible at most, and it's mostly at the low end of the wage scale. So yeah, if you're a high school drop out who never got their GED, you might have to compete with undocumented workers for the low wage, unpleasant jobs that they do. But is the cure for that problem to get rid of the undocumented workers, or is it to get your high school diploma or GED so you can get a better job?

[B Stieg]

11. The Maginot Presidency*

Effing tRump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line

[Xipe Totec]

16. But without the cannons. nt

[jmowreader]

12. Here's what we do

We tell Trump there’s a great golf course in Berlin he just has to play.

The second he lands, we drive him straight to Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall Museum, and make him view all the ways people escaped over the Berlin Wall.

And if he still doesn’t think a wall is impenetrable, we take him to Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, and leave him there.

[NotASurfer]

13. A century ago, one of Europe's great generals said

"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value."

And after forcing the Kaiser's Germany to sue for peace, that generation of military thinkers proceeded to create the Maginot line, a state-of-the-art implementation of fortresses. Which the next generation of German military bypassed on their way to Paris

Old-fashioned only implies that somebody came up with a countermeasure that rendered it obsolete generations ago

It's got nothing to do with security. It's an attempt to compensate for his - and possibly his supporters', expressed vicariously through his rage and outrage - shortcomings

[mindem]

14. He is desperate

for the wall because it becomes a monument to him.

[durablend]

26. Probably where the money will go

$N billions for the wall and $XX billions for gold plaques along it that say "The Donald J. Trump Keepum Out Wall"

You may laugh but if it were to get built he sure as hell would want his name on it.

[Vinca]

17. I wish one of our liberal, Hollywood elite, movie people would produce a comedy

video of the ways to get over a Trump wall. Mock him with a truck from the Trump Ladder Company. Heavy equipment from Orangutan Construction Company could dig a wall. Hot air balloons, catapults, trampolines . . . it would driving him fucking nuts. Or nuttier. Whatever . . .

[lambchopp59]

18. Hey Trump, there's one phenomenon of your voters that works better than that.

When the whole house explodes from the meth they're mixing in the bathtub, and their partially flame-singed MAGA hat is found about a block away.

[lamp_shade]

19. He wants a big fecking visible monument built in his honor.

Grrrrr

[Downtown Hound]

20. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man." -General George S. Patton Jr.

And sorry Donny, but I'm going to side with General Patton on this over you. Feel free to take it personally.

[Maxheader]

22. "great Steel Barrier or Wall.". Ever heard of a cutting toarch genius?

I can see new businesses springing up in mexico..

[MortSahlFan]

23. solution no one attempts

If the government REALLY hit hard the corporations that hire them, this wouldn't be a problem. They are probably being used as pawns, using fear to scare even the sincere, centrist types.

[keithbvadu2]

24. The Republicans should build the wall out of Hillary's emails since there is obviously no way to get

The Republicans should build the wall out of Hillary's emails since there is obviously no way to get over them

I proudly stole that from another blog.

[yardwork]

25. Maybe the Russians were laughing about the drones that shut Gatwick airport.

It's interesting that Trump would bring up drones.

[George II]

29. When he heard the word "drones" he thought people were talking about donny jr. and eric.

[allgood33]

31. Is he going to build a wall to the heavens to stop the planes delivering dope?

[jmowreader]

32. Or the boats, the tractor-trailers...

At first, a sane person might think, "are Trump supporters really this stupid?"

And then comes the answer: Yes. Yes, they are. They really believe all the drugs that come into this country from Mexico are hauled in on foot by some little guy with a sombrero, a huge rucksack and a burro.

[Demovictory9]

33. Trump is so odd