Shit, I didn't realize that angle grinders were so sensitive to black paint.
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Where those Epstein files at??
As someone who lives somewhere that just got up to 120° f hot metal is no joke. We had a ton of people hospitalized a few years back because they went to open gates to their homes and weren't expecting scolding hot metal when it was already like 11pm.
I'm not going to hate this because it's a idea that doesn't work, I'm going to hate it because it's just another method to harm people who want to come to the land of the free. On top of it border states like to charge people for leaving out water so just anything they can possibly do to be vindictive and hateful I guess.
Because if there's anything people have learned about Mexico, it's that they don't have any blankets. Or anything like rope or fabric covers that can easily just be tossed on it.
scolding hot metal
I like the mental imagery
it's not scalding hot, no, the metal is actively chastising you.
"You KNOW better than to touch me when I've been in the sun all day!"
So good Mexico hasn’t learned about gloves yet… or you know… night time. Phew. Close one.
Or ladders, or rope, or digging, or the many other ways they have bypassed and overcome the new sections of wall already.
The whole approach is so backwards. The drug war and neocolonialism have pushed many of USA's problems to Mexico, so many Mexicans wish to move to the US to escape those issues. Best solution: legalize and regulate drugs, treat your addicts, help Mexico to put down the cartels, and work to build a tight friendly partnership with Mexico - a very significant trade and cultural partner with a huge shared border. Win for everyone, immigration plummets. Selected solutions: built an enormous wall, lambast their leaders, threaten invasion. Republicans are still in a 7th-century Chinese solution mindset, 1400 years later. Oh - and pour $30,000,000,000 into your secret police force to find and deport any suspected South American or Mexican-heritage people, primarily without trial, seemingly hurting just as many US citizens as new immigrants - shouldn't forget that brilliant strategy.
If the US could just stop shooting itself in the feet the wounds might heal.
Coneheads movie was ahead of it's time: https://youtu.be/yGNSxME5Z_s&t=14:40
If you own that movie already and connect your account to movies anywhere so YouTube will give it to you for free your link will not take you to the timestamp. It will just take you to the beginning of the actual movie, just letting you know.
If they make the wall black, won't ICE try to deport it?
No, but the cops will burn through their entire budget on ammo shooting at it, and several of them will need time off to recover from shouting "stop resisting" too much
Request for medical leave states: Officer suffered vocal chord damage while responding to shootout. 6 to 8 weeks of paid leave.
Add it to the pile of really obviously stupid ideas that can be thwarted with 3 seconds of thought...
The issue isn't about thwarting the plan. The Wall already doesn't work. Even conservative think tanks will admit to that much.
The issue is coming back to The Wall as a cultural rallying point. Build it 10' taller. Build two walls. Put turrets on the walls. Patrol with drones. Add more barbed wire. Unleash sharks with laser beams on their heads into the Rio Grande. Litter the border with radioactive waste.
Anything to get people to turn their eyes south and say "Aaaah! Invasion! It must be stopped!" The Wall is just the latest panacea for a problem these people invented. They're going to keep coming back and re-imagining it in between cooking up increasingly elaborate hoaxes about armies of brown people marching across it to Steal our Freedom.
It's literally the wall song from Hadestown.
The percentage of the population for whom 3 seconds of thought is too much to ask is disheartening. But also nothing new.
It's not the quantity of thought but the quality that disturbs me.
That clip of her standing in front of it, talking about how tall and deep it is, "almost impossible" to scale or dig under, then triumphantly proclaiming that they're going to paint it black to make it harder to climb. Right after saying it's almost impossible to climb.
Oh, and it's already black.
When I was leaving Mexico after a few months down there in my RV I was diverted from my usual border crossing location (Sonoyta) to a much larger one (Yuma) ~40 min away. I had to wait in a 2 hour line to get to customs, and in that line I was inching forward next to the border wall. In this large city in plain view of everyone, mind you, I watched 4 seperate teams of mexican brothers get over the wall in under 5 min. The magic weapon? Rope 3 of the times, a jank looking ladder the last time. Billions of dollars defeated with a rope. The facepalm would send me into orbit rn.
That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally
What happens when they have oven mits or you know, just gloves, or just wait until night when the metal is cooler and they have cover of night?
Whatever, I guess I shouldn't care about that $500+ million that goes to put on a single coat that peels off six months later because they didn't prime the surface.
Good thing DOGE saved us so much money that we can now easily afford to pay for completely logical projects such as this.
Take a step back from the fascism, human rights violations, kidnappings, and concentration camps and just think about the fact that these people are in charge of the government. Regardless of politics, these people are just objectively stupid and have virtually no understanding of anything outside of knowing how to give speeches and spread propaganda.
I know things are bad and will continue to get worse before they get better, but I do take some solace in the fact that these people are so incredibly stupid that they will never be able to run a productive or efficient government. It's like watching as your boss makes his son a manager and seeing everything go to shit around him.
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Noem spoke during a visit to a portion of the wall in New Mexico, where she also picked up a roller brush to help out with the painting.
congrats on her achievement of finally having done some small amount of manual labor for the first time in her life.
If black makes it hotter, then why are red, orange, and yellow called "hot" colors?
Checkmate, conservatives.
Simply bc Trump thinks it'll make the fences too hot to climb. This was attempted and failed in Trump's first term. The paint peeled after a year.
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Yes but what about the Epstein files?
I see a red wall and I want to paint it black...
Hilarious. Let’s waste more money. Can we try the Joker-method next? Just torch a big pile of cash and call it a day.
Why don’t they get MAGAts with bayonets to stand guard every 3 feet?
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