The Donald said he was going to do it and now he is.
The Great Wall of the Rio Grande, the Trump Wall will stretch almost 2,000 miles (3,100kms) from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, putting a gleam in the eye of graffiti artists everywhere. Banksy is said to be drooling in anticipation.
The estimated cost of this stunning feat of architecture is anywhere between $10 and $20 billion depending on who you listen to. Construction time is also a bit of a back-of-the-envelope exercise but by the time an exhausted bricklayer slaps the last bit of mortar on it, it is probable Donald Trump will be around 90 years of age.
In centuries to come anthropologists will marvel at it and wonder what far-sighted genius brought it into existence. Maybe even an old shyster like Erich Von Daniken will propose some unlikely theory that the Trump Wall was built by God who arrived by spaceship with the blueprint and a couple of trillion tons of prefabricated concrete.
Full column here.
WTF? 2 National MP’s have spent $200K on charter flights to Canberra since 2013.
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/two-mps-run-up-200000-tab-on-private-flights-to-work-in-canberra-20170127-gu0817.html
with the pre-approval of labor and coalition ministers it should be noted,
but i suppose you think they should catch the tram.
Never let the all the facts get in the way of a good slur Jack
Most of his stuff and the stuff about Trump are along the same lines
That bit doesn’t read as well though Jack.
Don’t they have cars in your time zone? surely they can drive to a domestic airport and catch a domestic flight like everyone else? Again another obsolete con wanting to be the opposite and the opposite view for the sake of it. Get some new material your usual stuff is out of date.
nope, no more a con than the labor minister who pre-approved, think it was gary gray, good man and good labor man, and not in favour of wasting taxpayers money, he is peter walsh’s son in law, for goodness sake.
Gold, Gold, Gold, Norman May’s ashes spread today at a beach in Sydney.
Hoges on trump. “When someone is serious and dramatic you can send them up when they are a clown you cant.” Says it all really. Goodonya Hoges.
Come back Milton. We miss you!
Hear hear!
Yes Milton it is something about the “breeding” of your cons duo above.
What happened to Milton?
Had a tiny tiff with JTI. I’m sure we’ll see him back – hope so. His cheery posts are fun to read
Jean Baptiste
January 29, 2017 at 4:30 am
says: “The office bully, on a world scale. Because he can. ”
Bit of an over-reaction JB, if I may say so.
Churlish comments such as yours JB, are apparently a consequence of the POTUS signing the executive order to sort the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. Your present view is obviously the lingering remnants of your post-inauguration futile threshing about.
As you may be aware JB, such an action by the POTUS in this instance was also known as ‘winnowing’ in ancient times. They say it was was useful to also remove the weevils and other pests.
In quite a different context of course.
Mr Baptiste is fast becoming the “Arthur Calwell” of this blog Carl on the Coast, so stuck in the past the sweet man is. He is unable to embrace new ideas and the change that go with them. Bless him though.
I’ll go along with your 8.02pm comment HB. Me old mate needs as many blessings as he can get at what appears to be a confused and difficult time for him.
There is no doubt that JB has been out-flanked, out-foxed and out-housed; and I’m surprised he doesn’t seem to realise that POTUS Trump is ambidextrous and quite clever at it. As you know HB, Trump has given equal support in cash and kind to the Democrats and the GOP for many a year. But after having witnessed his hard-earned invariably slip down the gurgler, and much to the chagrin of Hillary’s “deplorables”, it’s no wonder Trump was so easily and effortlessly successful in getting the gong, as he did. And as you have rightly noted he’s done a Usain Bolt in his first few days in office, getting the joint back on an even keel.
Just quietly HB, I think me old mate is quite gobsmacked.
Henry, you’re right. I cannot embrace new ideas that are punitive bloody minded and pointless. Just because an idea (and Trump’s are not) is new it doesn’t automatically follow that it is a good one.
Rather similar to clinging to some traditions because people are too stupid to change. Trump is in fact more the latter, appealing to the lowest common denominator through fear, demonising and by exaggerating dangers.
There is nothing new in what Trump is doing. That’s been the MO of every scoundrely “patriot” charlatan and fraud for thousands of years.
http://cheezburger.com/614917/funny-memes-top-10-most-ridiculous-donald-trump-quotes
Hey JB, when you say ”the lowest common denominator” do you mean the deplorables?
You’re partly right Carl, fair enough, sorting the wheat from the chaff and letting the chaff in. Welcoming the weevils and the pests with open arms.
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/06/saudi_arabia_funds_and_exports_islamic_extremism_the_truth_behind_the_toxic_u_s_relationship_with_the_theocratic_nation/
Trump is the archetype narcissistic bullying overgrown brat, kow towing to the uber wealthy pigs while making life hard for the less fortunate for no good reason whatsoever.
I can understand why he would appeal to a frustrated authoritarian.
And meanwhile…. big girl Malcolm tells us that they are still going to take the Manus Island mob. With a straight face.
yes mate, that’s right.
He’s a bloody dill that Turnbull Wraith. Can you imagine POTUS Trump really wanting to take more refugees particularly ours!
I don’t know about that Henry.
I can imagine what we will get in return if the deal goes ahead.
But at the moment he is……..
Here’s how Trump gets it done on the cheap. He hand a 100k wide strip of land over to his very best buddies, the Israelis. For payment for this land they agree to put up the wall. They are expert wall builders, would be happy to get the ferk out of the middle east, and know how to man a gun turret. Meanwhile its just like home, butt rape country that needs trees, angry neighbours, tunnels, guns, hot as hades, they would love it! They can dance around in their dread locks and funny hats and keep the Mexicans on the other side.
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Problem solved.
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Slow down Carl. You’ve indicated three questions but overlooked including the questions.
I trust by the time you read this you will have rectified your error.
Anti Israel rant Carl……
Thanks Razor. I had fleeting thoughts of perhaps an over-dose of kikkapoo joy juice, but now I get it.
POTUS Donald Trump’s First Weekly Address To America, Mr Insider, runs 2 and a half minutes. He has indeed hit the ground running as he says in this chat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9EFtEbQpJc
I get the impression from some comments that many don’t understand the conflicted nature of the US attitude to undocumented Mexicans. For political reasons, they talk the talk, and the Trump wall is the most extreme example of this in recent history. But on the other hand, Mexicans are a vital part of the US economy, both legal and illegal, so with the other side of their face, US authorities quietly let them through. It remains to be seen if this will continue despite the elevated puffery.
A case in point: my better half is Mexican, and like many of her compatriots and contrary to popular belief, has little interest in going to the United States, where to this day she is regularly assumed to be our kids’ nanny. However, to travel to Australia, she was required to get a full US visa just to transit through LAX. (The US is the only country I know of to require this, apart from a few who impose that condition on US citizens in retaliation, notably Brazil.) After a long, complex and expensive application, she was surprised to receive a laminated full entry visa, good for ten years! It didn’t confer work rights but would have been a golden ticket to anyone wanting to work for cash.
Viet Namese need to get a full Australian visa to transit to New Zealand.
Did not know that. Seems pointless.
yes, there are a lot americans who don’t want the immigration laws enforced, sometimes because it would cause them some inconvenience, but as in other parts of the world there seem to be a growing number of folk who think the rules should be enforced and should apply to everyone.
many of this second group are migrants themselves of course.
I was talking about the attitude of the US government rather than its people. But since you mention it, Trump’s election is not evidence of “a growing number of folk” with views on migration or anything else, because as I keep saying, the total percentage Republican vote went backwards this election.
Not where it counted it didn’t!
john, i was talking about the people both inside and outside government, as the same differences occur, and this is not so much of a republican-democrat issue really, there are plenty of both views on both sides of party politics.
my point was that there has been a shift in politics in a number of countries towards enforcing immigration laws, there is in europe and we know that there has been in aus.
”Yvonne says: January 28, 2017 at 6:44 pm
. The man might appear to be one, but he is not a fool. He will like to think it’s all on his terms and, if handled correctly, it can look like that. Powerful ego driven men are like that”
Further to this comment I made earlier, I note that Trump will take the Nauru detainees after a chat with Malcolm. He also came to the party with Theresa on a couple of issues.
Seems a fair bit of what he is saying is bluster, and a sensible discussion will produce results. …………..As long as he thinks he is driving.
He is clearly a fool and an ignorant bombast and when he is acquainted with the reality of what he didn’t have the brains to think through in the first place he has no option but to back down.
No doubt Malcolm familiarised Trump with the advantages to the USA in the deal, probably trading refugees for more US bases in Australia., a commitment to antagonising the Chinese, or remaining committed to purchasing white elephants.
Who knows what the deal is JB. Frankly I’d rather have the US on my side than not.