Official Trump Shutdown Thread

[DMX7]

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[boutons_deux]

y'all really stupid s

Trump Voters Believe Trump Will Still Build the Wall, and Mexico Will Pay For It

By a three-to-one margin most people who voted for Donald Trump believe he will still build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it,

the level of confidence that Trump voters have that he will keep his biggest campaign promise has been mostly stable over the past two years.

building the wall is tied with “draining the swamp” for first place.

Thirty nine percent of poll respondents said those

are the top two priorities they want Trump to accomplish during his presidency.

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/12/22/trump-voters-believe-trump-will-still-build-the-wall-and-mexico-will-pay-for-it.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_ campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politicus+ USA+%29

Holy , you stupid mofos up America by voting Repug

[Chris]

Another Schumer shutdown from Team #Resist

[boutons_deux]

How Trump’s government shutdown affects the average American

Even a "partial" government shutdown does damage. Trump promised to own the fallout.

Almost 400,000 federal workers are furloughed without pay,

and the shutdown

impacts basic government functions like
tax collection,
transportation, and
even domestic security —
including border security.

The partial shutdown closes a number of important federal agencies:

Departments of Agriculture,
Homeland Security,
Interior,
State,
Housing and Urban Development,
Transportation,
Commerce, and
Justice.

Federal workers — who aren’t concentrated in D.C. but working at agencies and offices across the country — are often hit hard by shutdowns.

Thousands of federal workers make less than $45,000 a year, and going without a paycheck or several could force those households to dip into savings.

about 420,000 federal workers who are considered essential will be forced to work without pay, including

42,000 Coast Guard staffers and
thousands of U.S. Forest Service firefighters,
air traffic controllers, and
railroad safety inspectors,

Most food safety inspectors — those who are responsible for catching the next E. Coli outbreak — will be forced to work without pay.

https://thinkprogress.org/how-trumps-government-shutdown-affects-the-average-american-008df9bd6ec8/

[boutons_deux]

Dems MUST "hold", no matter what the damage, and force Trash and the Repugs to FOLD

Otherwise, Trash and Repugs will see that govt shutdowns "works" for them.

[Thanos]

Another Schumer shutdown from Team #Resist

A deal was in place before Indian Giver Trump backed out.

it’s the Trump ShutdownPERIOD

[boutons_deux]

States help run U.S. National Parks in federal government shutdown

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...2F+Top+News%29

[tlongII]

Build the wall.

[Pavlov]

Build the metal slat fence.

FIFY

[monosylab1k]

Build the wall.

old pussy who doesn’t live anywhere near the border being scared less of illegal fruit pickers.

[Chris]

mono doesn't give a about dead Americans as a result of illegal immigration. mono wants more blood and more chaos. What a specimen.

[Pavlov]

mono doesn't give a about dead Americans as a result of illegal immigration. mono wants more blood and more chaos. What a specimen.

Nah, he just thinks the slat fence is a waste of money.

[monosylab1k]

mono doesn't give a about dead Americans as a result of illegal immigration. mono wants more blood and more chaos. What a specimen.

Don’t @ me got

[tlongII]

old pussy who doesn’t live anywhere near the border being scared less of illegal fruit pickers.

Why do you want to shut down the government?

[monosylab1k]

Why do you want to shut down the government?

Why do you hate America?

[boutons_deux]

Based on Trump’s detailed diagram of his slat wall, here is some advanced mathematics

By our calculations:

• The slats are about 10 inches wide.
• The gaps are nine inches.
• The fence is 341 inches tall — or about 28.4 feet — with 13-inch es on top.

which leaves 1,366.8 miles.

The result?

We need about 4.6 million steel slats to cover that ground.

At a height of 28.4 feet and a presumed thickness of one inch, each slat requires a bit less than 2 cubic feet of steel.

For all of the slats, we’d need about 9 million cubic feet of steel.
As CNBC notes, that

steel is a lot pricier than it was a year ago, thanks to the tariffs Trump imposed on foreign steel.

At the beginning of 2018, this barrier would have cost 25 percent less.

Most drugs that cross that border illegally already come through ports of entry

What’s more, a barrier with nine-inch gaps seems like it might allow for pretty easy transfer of bulky packages, without having to throw them 28 feet in the air to clear the wall.

an nine-inch gap wouldn’t necessarily keep people out

a prisoner in a jail in Tennessee escaped his cell by covering himself with grease and squeezing between bars set 4.5 inches apart.

In China, people who pass through a gap of 5.9 inches at a restaurant eat for free.

Update: A civil engineer wrote in to note that, at current prices of $160 per cubic foot,

the steel alone would cost about $1.5 billion --

excluding steel that would need to be used to extend the slats into the ground.

She also noted that a 1-inch-thick wall wouldn’t be terribly sturdy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.eee1b0f8ec4d

[Chris]

Don’t @ me got

I didn't @ you dumb got

[monosylab1k]

I didn't @ you dumb got

Don’t @ me got

[Chris]

Don’t @ me got

Quit stealing my .

[monosylab1k]

Quit stealing my .

Don’t @ me got

[Pavlov]

Why do you want to shut down the government?

Why did Trump shut down the government?

[tlongII]

Why did Trump shut down the government?

$5B

[DMC]

I did read someone here said that the walls that already exist near high population areas are ok, but new ones wouldn't be effective. Why are the ones in high population centers effective then?

[Pavlov]

$5B

After he turned down $23B?

Art of the deal....

[DMX7]

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