Trump's wall

by NoahPresident Basket Case was either lying or talking out of his ass when he said "Mexico will pay for the wall." But, he was obviously deliberately lying when he recently said that he has received "thousands of calls" in support of his shutting down the government?

I thought both Pelosi and Schumer made decent responses to Trump's failed, low-energy Oval Office speech, you remember, the one last night where he  unsuccessfully made a half-assed attempt to rally Americans to his vanity wall. Bernie's response-- the video above-- was clearer and better. He also used the word "lie," something Chuck and Nancy were too delicate to do.

Trump says he has requested technology to detect drug and weapons transfers across the border, more border agents, immigration judges, more bed space for immigrants, and $5.7-billion for a barrier.

The video above is a brief talk almost a decade ago (2009) by one of America's most brilliant political theorists, Wendy Brown, a U.C., Berkeley professor, one of whose specialties is canonical political theory, and who, at the time of the video, was finishing top work on her 2010 book, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty. Obama, you'll recall, was still early in his first term when she made the video-- and was writing that book. Trump was still just a bankrupt TV clown scrambling for a few bucks wherever he could get it.

by NoahSure, I'd rather have someone else pay for Trump's monument to xenophobia and racism but I, like millions of others, would rather not have any further wall building at all since it's not needed. After all, Trump and his republikook brethren don't need a wall to show the world how bigoted they are in every aspect of their lives. We already know all too well.

by NoahA wall that truly explains Trump's election just as Trump explains The Wall. Those building blocks in tonight's meme are always lying around but it took one man to assemble them all into a coalition. All he had to do was follow the Republican Party Platform for directions.Each of those blocks occurs naturally in Trump's DNA.

Saluda al Jefe!Republican Will Hurd's recent reelection wasn't exactly overwhelming. In the end, he beat a very weak Democratic opponent 103,285 (49.2%) to 102,359 (48.7%) in an R+1 district where Hillary beat Trump 49.8% to 46.4%. The district has-- by far-- the longest border with Mexico (over 800 miles) of any district in America.

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...we are not building a concrete wall, we are building artistically designed steel slats, so that you can easily see through it.

President Donald Mental Case, in a tweet last week

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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king's horses and all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty together again.

South Florida Republican Carlos Curbelo was defeated last month by a weak Democratic opponent, 119,761 (50.9%) to 115,663 (49.1%). He blames Trump, rather than his own unwillingness to break with Trump over the last two years.