Can we stop posting this everywhere?
It isn’t like a random Lemmy comment is going to do anything
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.
No
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 smile every time I see it, knowing that there are still people not falling for his BS. :)
It makes me happy to see the depth of the down votes on your comment.
So good Mexico hasn’t learned about gloves yet… or you know… night time. Phew. Close one.
Where those Epstein files at??
So she knows someone who sells black paint. Didn’t take a lot to figure that out.
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.
That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally
What happens when they have oven mits or you know, just gloves, or just wait until night when the metal is cooler and they have cover of night?
Whatever, I guess I shouldn’t care about that $500+ million that goes to put on a single coat that peels off six months later because they didn’t prime the surface.
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…
maybe I’m thick… but how does black paint prevent someone from climbing a fence?
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.
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.
If black makes it hotter, then why are red, orange, and yellow called “hot” colors?
Checkmate, conservatives.
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.
As someone who lives somewhere that just got up to 120° f hot metal is no joke. We had a ton of people hospitalized a few years back because they went to open gates to their homes and weren’t expecting scolding hot metal when it was already like 11pm.
I’m not going to hate this because it’s a idea that doesn’t work, I’m going to hate it because it’s just another method to harm people who want to come to the land of the free. On top of it border states like to charge people for leaving out water so just anything they can possibly do to be vindictive and hateful I guess.
scolding hot metal
I like the mental imagery — it’s not scalding hot, no, the metal is actively chastising you.
“You KNOW better than to touch me when I’ve been in the sun all day!”
Because if there’s anything people have learned about Mexico, it’s that they don’t have any blankets. Or anything like rope or fabric covers that can easily just be tossed on it.
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
Coneheads movie was ahead of it’s time: https://youtu.be/yGNSxME5Z_s&t=14:40
Good thing DOGE saved us so much money that we can now easily afford to pay for completely logical projects such as this.
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.
