Stupid is as stupid does.
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Im really interested to see what kind of manual labor workers they get to paint the wall....like you know the US Federal government is gonna go with the cheapest bids, which will most likely be immigrants potentially of illegal status.
would be fuckin hilarious if they painted the US side and completely forgot about the Mexican side.
then when they go to paint the Mexican side, Mexico says, "no, that's our side"
They're probably painting the US side black to stop americans from leaving.
lmao
like Americans could climb anything other than a cholesterol chart.
In this bizarro back assword timeline we're living in, it's not only "hilarious", but also quite plausible. Paint and labor paid by yours truly, via taxes
This is the same border wall they've been pulling down with Toyotas?
I think it's the one they can slip straight through.
Ya and there are many gaps. Or angle grinders can cut the lower part of the poles no problem.
So she knows someone who sells black paint. Didn't take a lot to figure that out.
maybe I'm thick... but how does black paint prevent someone from climbing a fence?
You see. As it is right now, the mexicans can't see the fence, and so they stumble around and accidentally find themselves on the american side. If it's black they'll much easier identify the american border, and thus avoid crossing into that shithole of a country.
It all makes sense now.
Only thing I can think of is the black paint would absorb more solar radiation and make it hotter. But the sun isn't out at night which is when many people make that crossing, so I'm not sure they've really thought it through.
Thoughts are long gone by the time their ideas reach their mouths
The same way a fence prevents someone from flying in on a currently not-yet-expired visa. The whole announcement is an exercise of putting lipstick on a pig.
And Noem said Homeland Security was going to be trying black paint to make the metal hotter.
'K... ish... I mean, I get the physics, but, doesn't this murican know the concept of nighttime?
Or… gloves? I mean climbers use gloves sometimes I’m pretty sure…
Rock climbers don't, they need skin contact for good grip. Crack climbers do, but they're the opposite of what you'd expect, they only protect the back of the hands.
Ice climbers wear gloves because it's usually too cold for bare hands.
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And how does that stop a ladder?
Or the dozens of tunnels.
Or the people who overstay their visas, which is where most "illegal" migration comes from.
Or the border patrol stations who are staffed by people in the employment of cartels and other organizations who occasionally stage a huge bust.
Or a simple stack of milk crates?
Right... Because black paint is going to stop them how exactly? "It absorbs the heat, so they will get burns when touching the fence".
Ever heard of night?
We all know that border crossings happen in broad daylight on the least cloudy days. I mean, come on, people SLEEP at night!
Crossing the border is a 9 to 5 day job, everyone knows that
Or gloves
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Oughta be illegal to be that stupid
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we have a 34x felon and convicted rapist, very very possible child molester in the Whitehouse.
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Where those Epstein files at??
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
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All 65 miles of it?
One of his buddies sells paint. Grifted.
Shit, I didn't realize that angle grinders were so sensitive to black paint.
So good Mexico hasn’t learned about gloves yet… or you know… night time. Phew. Close one.
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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.
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So there is a market for white spray paint South of the border? Got my new side hustle!
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.
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