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If Trump builds a wall, should the next president tear it down?
- Thread starter PersonAndStuff
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No leave it there, it will be a huge waste of money to build it, and an even bigger waste of money to tear it down. The wall is just stupid because it doesn't actually solve any real problem.
The problem with illegal immigration is way too complex to be solved by building an overly expensive stupid series of slats. Biggest waste of money supported by the party of "fiscal responsibility".
The problem with illegal immigration is way too complex to be solved by building an overly expensive stupid series of slats. Biggest waste of money supported by the party of "fiscal responsibility".
it would be great to turn it into a memorial monument with every lie and crime and failure that he committed written on the USA side of it in really big letters, as a sort of reminder not to fall for stupid again. and with a sign every 100 yards that it was built with money from you, the tax payers.
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They won't even be able to get half of it done before Trump is out of office. Building a wall along the souther border is a MASSIVE (and ridiculously stupid) thing to even attempt. I don't think anyone even understands the size and scale of a project like this.
This. Just cancel the project and leave whatever gets built prior. Demolishing is just more money wasted.
There is a 0% chance the wall is built (ie. complete) during Trump's presidency. The actual construction process has to come after the engineering process, the land acquisition process, the design process, the tendering process, the geological surveying process, the excavation process, the material acquisition process, not to mention finding the labour force to complete a project of this scale. Speaking from my own experience (20+ years) in the construction industry, I'd say we're looking at minimum 5-6 years before even the geological surveying process could be complete. So, probably close to 12-15 years before this thing is built, and that's in a vacuum where there is no political or social pushback and/or other bigger expenses that would required funds to be diverted (ie. a war, an actual emergency of some sort, an economic collapse...etc). It would require Republicans, who agree with this wall, to maintain power for at least the next two decades for this wall to actually be built. There is no reality in which this happens.
You're saying it would be a net benefit to dig it up and repurpose the steel? I'd have to see the numbers on that one.
By god yes, spend whatever you have to to tear it down. You don't want another racist xenophobic republican president in the future spending more billions to repair/maintain the wall or replace sections. If we get another president like that, make him start over from scratch.
My name is Donald Trump, Dipshit of Dipshits;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Allow immigrant and minority artists to use it as their canvas. Hold art competitions to send the best artists to college on a full ride.
I don't think the thing will actually be built but if it is something positive should be created out of it.
Yeah, you're right. It's a big project and will take years. Even if Trump does get approval, how much effort will it take the next administration to just cancel it.
Keep it up, but don't maintain it.
Let it be a symbol of an ineffectual vanity project that was just a huge waste of taxpayer money.
Let it be a symbol of an ineffectual vanity project that was just a huge waste of taxpayer money.
If Trump "gets" his wall, it still won't actually exist for years. There will be nothing to tear down. Just cancel it.
Of course they shouldn't. It would be a waste of the money to take it down AND a waste of the money that had already been spent putting it up. There's nothing DIS-advantageous about the wall. At best it won't be as effective as hoped.
Even if he gets his wall at 5 billion, it'll end up being exactly the same as the current fence they have running through many portions of the border.
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And because Trump will award the contract to one of his cronies, they'll proably only get a few miles of fencing in place. They won't tear it down. Trump doesnt give a shit about the wall or that it's no different than what's in place..its that he can say "I BUILT A WALL DAMNIT"
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And because Trump will award the contract to one of his cronies, they'll proably only get a few miles of fencing in place. They won't tear it down. Trump doesnt give a shit about the wall or that it's no different than what's in place..its that he can say "I BUILT A WALL DAMNIT"
I actually think it's comical to imagine a time line where it gets built but Trump tries to rush it in 2-4 years and it's the biggest clusterfuck ever seen. Like not on time, made poorly by shitty contractors or vandalized during the year which delays it more or the cartel blowing c4 onto the wall just fuck with it. (secretly Trump radicals trying to start shit)
Or imagine they start it and it's like 5% done after all the years. You see like one wall put up and then miles in between the next piece etc all spread out like the lamest effort shit.
I hope someone makes a comedic movie out of this shit timeline. I'd watch it.
Or imagine they start it and it's like 5% done after all the years. You see like one wall put up and then miles in between the next piece etc all spread out like the lamest effort shit.
I hope someone makes a comedic movie out of this shit timeline. I'd watch it.
If he, somehow, is able to begin building it it absolutely needs to be torn down. It is a multi-billion dollar monument to xenophobia and racism. Letting it stand in any way is wholly unacceptable if we even want to pretend like the U.S. stands for what we say we do.
I don't think it'll cost that much to have it torn down. I'm sure millions of citizens, like myself, will fucking do it. Grind it into dust.
As long as we tear it down while he's alive, i don't have a problem wasting that money, i want see him have a temper tantrum,and go on a racist tirade...the least racist person in the world as he claims..
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Nope because the cost of maintaining the stupid thing in perpetuity with FAR OUTWEIGH the cost of tearing it down
I've been to Cleveland. I agree.
But even if they build it, it wouldn't be a wall. It would be a fence.
And you can't even paint a mural on it, cause its a fucking fence
It would be wasting more money. Just let Americans with the tools/ingenuity to remove them do it. Then let them scrap the metal.
