02-13-2019, 04:25 PM
(02-13-2019, 06:27 AM)Duchess Wrote:(02-12-2019, 08:38 PM)Maggot Wrote: Trump will not build a "wall" in that I can be sure but he might build a "barrier" which would be fine
That's ^^^^^^^^ called a walk back, folks.
Bullshit!
It would be dingenuous at the very least to call it a walk back.
Try following this. Early in his campaigning Trump identified illegal immigration across the unprotected southern border as a huge issue.
In order to reduce the numbers coming in he wanted to do a number of things to disincentivise illegal immigrants coming in. But he also recognised that without a physical impediment to just walking across an unprotected barrier, none of that matters....at all.
So he had to sell it to the people who would support it (this was not a message for folks like you, Duchess). He spoke in visuals of a wall.
Some people respond well to statistics, some to metaphors, some to theories, and some to visuals.
But no one has been ignorant of the fact that approximately 18 fucking months ago he had announced that given the ability of agents not to see through the wall and THEIR concerns that they could get blindsided by people throwing things over the wall at them and that drugs could be thrown over both by people the agents could not see coming, a concrete wall was not going to work and that a wall or barriers with gaps between to allow agents to see would be better.
Trump supporters accepted that reasoning and he moved on acknowledging for good reason that this would be what would get built.
There is no back tracking or walking back.
At this stage for ANY democrat to pretend that they are only opposing Trump's concrete wall in the funding or pretending they think that is where the money going is retarded.
What he is building and requesting money for is clear. The reasons for it are clear and have not changed. He has been actively saying this and has clarified this a billion times in the last 18 months and anyone pretending he is walking anything back after having been clear for this time is being dishonesty. That is completely on them and not Trump