Stupid is as stupid does.
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.
Or gantes even.
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
Yes, but at the same time. A reduction of attempts during the day means you can have a concentration of manpower at night. And with the forcing day jumpers to wear gloves and long sleeves and pants. They are more likely to subcome to heat exhaustion. Because once over the other side they won’t really have time to stop and strip off the extra layers when running from border patrol.
Hell it can probably make thermal cameras more effective to having g a cooler body with the back drop of hot as hell steel.
Can we stop posting this everywhere?
It isn’t like a random Lemmy comment is going to do anything
It makes me happy to see the depth of the down votes on your comment.
It keeps people remembering that this is a distraction from the Epstein stuff. A useful reminder, I’d say.
The reality is that the Trump administration doesn’t care
You are just spamming. They will not released the files because they would incriminate Trump and some of his backers. It is messed up but the truth is sometimes hard to hear.
It is messed up but the truth is sometimes hard to hear.
Which is precisely why we will never stop demanding the truth.
People will eventually move on
Maybe I’ll be surprised but somehow I don’t see Trump releasing incriminating evidence against himself.
You’ll move on as well. Block them if you don’t like it.
The reality is that we don’t actually need to wait for the epstein files to be released. We know Trump is a child rapist.
That is exactly my point
The files are going to reveal that the mega wealthier did terrible things. (shocker)
I don’t get why people are bent over the Epstein files. There are way more important things to protest like ICE and the attacks on the ICC.
ICE and the ICC target his lieutenants. Epstein targets the fucker himself.
Take down ICE, and he commits his next atrocity with FEMA, or DEA or the Bureau of Land Management.
Take him down, and Corporal Couchfucker can’t hold the GOP together.
The couch fucker has all the real money and power behind him. If you think these MAGATs die with Trump, you are gonna be disappointed. We need to crush them in 2026, and if we can’t I’m gonna flee.
I don’t know, man I take issue with a child fucker leading the United States, your priorities may be different, you’re a little bit weird Iwill say that
No
no
Ok Epstein.
I smile every time I see it, knowing that there are still people not falling for his BS. :)
It made me smile and reminded me that Trump is scum.
The bigger issue is that blind people can’t read it.
I’m not doing this because I think Trump will read a Lemmy comment and decide to turn himself in. I’m doing it because I’m pissed off and I want to associate every possible bit of news about MAGA politics with this. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with distracting people, and we should be allowed to express that we’re not being fooled, even if it’s ultimately just a gesture.
I want those files like Jonah Jameson wants pictures of Spider-man
Why bro, are you on the list, you’re starting to sound an awful lot like Trump right now you weirdo
As soon as the people in the Epstein file are arrested and go to court then sure.
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.
No shit Sherlock. Still oughta
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
Request for medical leave states: Officer suffered vocal chord damage while responding to shootout. 6 to 8 weeks of paid leave.
Where those Epstein files at??
So good Mexico hasn’t learned about gloves yet… or you know… night time. Phew. Close one.
Or ladders, or rope, or digging, or the many other ways they have bypassed and overcome the new sections of wall already.
The whole approach is so backwards. The drug war and neocolonialism have pushed many of USA’s problems to Mexico, so many Mexicans wish to move to the US to escape those issues. Best solution: legalize and regulate drugs, treat your addicts, help Mexico to put down the cartels, and work to build a tight friendly partnership with Mexico - a very significant trade and cultural partner with a huge shared border. Win for everyone, immigration plummets. Selected solutions: built an enormous wall, lambast their leaders, threaten invasion. Republicans are still in a 7th-century Chinese solution mindset, 1400 years later. Oh - and pour $30,000,000,000 into your secret police force to find and deport any suspected South American or Mexican-heritage people, primarily without trial, seemingly hurting just as many US citizens as new immigrants - shouldn’t forget that brilliant strategy.
If the US could just stop shooting itself in the feet the wounds might heal.
It was always performative to convince idiots that something is done, and as patronage for the companiies being paid insane amounts of money to build the wall.
Bingo, it’s a Mafia boondoggle. You pay Company [exorbitant amount of money] to build an ever larger, ever more complex project so you can funnel cash to them without it looking like a gift. All Company has to do is have 4 or 5 guys be up on scaffolding “building the wall” a couple days a week to make it look like progress is being made.
Would be a lot better if we (mexicans) learned about making a better country for everyone instead of relying on the money our people send from out of the country… But that’s not what the goverment wants so whatever.
I would say give your countrymen (and especially women) some credit. Mexico has been marching steadily forward over the past decade or so. I met a lot of very competent people working very hard to better the country as a whole in my time studying there.
The roadblocks are many and the dangers can run high at times but that’s not stopping people. As it shouldn’t. Mexico is coming into her power. Just wait.
Even your remark, even if you feel a little beat down, is a testament to the times. Solid foundations aren’t built in a night. They’re hard fought and won with consistency. And what is Mexico if not resilient?
And we’ve made huge steps going backwards these last 6 years (almost 7) and the incoming 6 will be the nail in the coffin so keep your speech for someone who hasn’t seen their own people shit their own bed… Willingly.
Right now there are more people leaving the US than entering, so I think it’s more to prevent people from escaping. You know, like North Korea.
Qué es un glove? Un globo? 🤔
Shit, I didn’t realize that angle grinders were so sensitive to black paint.
