Hey, I smell a scam. What happened to all those billions that Mexico gave us to build that wall?!
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But it was so important?
Billions of rapists and hyper-violent drugged out gang members are flooding over the border every second.
Does Texas not care about protecting their people? The country?
Or.. was it all absolute fucking bullshit designed to funnel a few million dollars to one of Abbotts cohorts?
Next time I need scrap metal for a project, I know where to go.
TACO
I mean, no shit. The goal was never the actual wall. The goal was what the wall represented. To be able to arrest, oppress, and "remove" any brown person they wanted.
We're already at the Home Depot parking lot arrest and we're not even 6 months in. If liberals keeps talking about the wall as if it's a hypocrisy that will sway Trump supporters they'll lose that battle.
It was never about a wall. It was about bringing fascism to America. And that wall is taller than anything Texas could ever build.
Please stop thinking you'll fight fascism with liberal "gotchas" of hypocrisy. That's far behind us. If you're not on the streets with a sign then at least just keep your focus in the right place.
Focus on the HARM that is being done. Not some fake promise of a wall that no one ever cared about beyond the aesthetics and it's symbolism.
Tell your parents about the nice guy are home depot that helped you move your couch. That got taken by ICE for just trying to make a living. These personal stories resonate with that generation.
But no one cares about a dumb ass wall. MAGA never did. And if you think they did you missed the the point and the appeal of Trump entirely.
4 years for $3 Billion but 30 years for only $20 Billion. Sure, guys.
So what happened to the $77 billion left to build the wall? Oh, they griffed it. Just like everything the Donvict makes, it goes to shit and he runs off with the money. Suddenly there's no more immigrant crisis on the Texas border. Clearly it wasn't the fucking wall that stopped it. Also, all that imminent domain claimed on farmers and habitat owners also just had their land completely stolen not for "imminent domain" purposes.
His next term is in 2026. That's right, he's going for a 20 year tenure. There is not a limit on how many times you can be a Texas governor.
He's too popular. Precisely because he brought $77B into the state to line his friends' pockets.
Who is going to run against Abbott that isn't just a more Fash version of him? Any Democrat that runs will campaign on "Actually I always supported the wall and I'm upset he didn't build it fast enough". Any Republican in the primaries will complain that Abbott is too nice to Jews.
And then every newspaper and TV channel in the state will endorse him, because that's what their sponsors told them to do. The state will split 46/54, with a weird 40,000 vote undercount in Harris County and six counties in the Panhandle voting GOP to a man. And he'll be in for another four years while the Green Party gets blamed for another liberal defeat.
Any Democrat that runs will campaign on "Actually I always supported the wall and I'm upset he didn't build it fast enough".
Maybe they should try not being an idiot.
Sorry, I hired a political consultant at $12,000/hr and he told me voters will only support idiots.
Besides, we need to do something as a party to distance ourselves from Muslims, Women, PoC, and the LGBTQ community. They're holding us back and scaring off all the white male social media millionaires!
I see your argument, but having an opposing candidate that can read the room may significantly increase chances of victory. Of course, victory is a very fleeting concept for democrats.
having an opposing candidate that can read the room may significantly increase chances of victory
Only in a large-turnout neck-and-neck general election, where the game actually is about who can deliver the right mix of popular red meat and inoffensive centrism.
In the more local races where the game is 90% getting name recognition, you don't need to read the room of voters. You need to court the donor pool that will endlessly and enthusiastically promote you. Go look at the NYC Mayoral race. One reason Cuomo has been the favorite to win since Day 1 - despite being a well-established sleazeball, DINO, and sex pest - is the 24/7/365 friendly media coverage.
Zohran's recent surge in support has come thanks to tons and tons of grassroots activists screaming his name at the top of their lungs. And the debates proved he's masterful at reading the crowd, focusing on the popular issues, deflecting criticism, and engaging a wide audience. But it's still an uphill climb against a guy whose family name has echoed through NY politics for nearly a century. Cuomo can shit the bed every day for a month and still never dip below 40% favorability, purely thanks to political inertia.
Just buying celebrity friendships is enough to keep Cuomo above water, even if he does have to spend $1000 for every $10 Mamdani can bring to bare.
That was so 2016. We are all about full on fascism now.
How many college educations could have been fully funded for $3 billion? How many elementary schools built? How many other worthwhile problems could have been solved, rather than building a bunch of worthless crumbling garbage out in the desert?
Yeah, but that would be, like, helping people man.
Bootstraps motherfuckers!
Unfortunate. The metal materials of that wall was an excellent donation program to local businesses.
/s...? 🤔
Good news for Mexico. I heard they were going to get quite a bill for that wall.
Thats one way to get ices 3000/d arrest quota
LOL.
No need for it now. America is so shit nobody wants to go there.
Be Mexico building the wall soon to keep Texans out.
Mexico building the wall soon
So Trump is keeping promises?
Utter failure, that is the legacy of the Republican party
So now the Oklahomans are free to invade?
I'd say that this is the good ending but not even the Texans deserve to be subject to Oklahomans.
So stupid. They will just tunnel under a wall. Also walls do not block planes, which is where 90% of illegals come in. They buy a plane ticket, get here, and then just stay.
I mean, ladders exist too. What a bunch of idiots. Americans are drooling stupid.
You need a parade with “job well done” posters
Make sure the parade weaves back and forth through some of the gaps in the Texas/Mexico border wall.
"Mission Accomplished"
"Promises made, promises kept" is an actual thing they like to say to each other, LOL.
I'm sure the dim bulbs will tell each other this kind of thing even as donvict tHe pEaCe pReSiDeNt leads us into a war with Iran just because Israel tells him to...
The Tribune reported last year that the state’s wall program would take around 30 years and more than $20 billion to complete.
Typical Cheeto. Just claim something is super easy to do and won't cost a dime. When reality sinks in (usually years later after spending billions) that it's going to be over 100 times more expensive than he thought and will take decades longer than he thought, just quietly stop working on it...
Next up: the golden dome 🤮
The Golden (Teapot) Dome
It shouldn't need funding, Mexico was supposed to pay for it.
Maybe they meant like Mexico NY? Or New Mexico? Maybe he said Texaco?
The cognitive disonnence is staggering.
Womp womp ....
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