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ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Ah yes, the same ICE where agents have been getting punished for actually doing their jobs.

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Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Inverted Offensive Battle: Acupuncture Attacks Convert To 3D Penetration Tactics Taking Advantage of Deep Battle Opportunities

-Troika- posted:

Ah yes, the same ICE where agents have been getting punished for actually doing their jobs.

Sounds like you've got an example or two!

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013
They should paint a tunnel on the side of the wall, to trick coyotes.

7c Nickel
Apr 27, 2008

I didn't think he was a very good villain.

eatenmyeyes
Mar 29, 2001

Grimey Drawer

7c Nickel posted:


I didn't think he was a very good villain.

Was this why they conspired to shut down Hostess?

EDIT: Apparently, this isn't part of a Fruit Pie ad.

eatenmyeyes has issued a correction as of 03:14 on Mar 7, 2016

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
The wall won't be designed to keep Mexicans out.

It'll be designed to keep Americans in

When Trump starts gladiatorial lottery contests.

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


The Wall is made of solid ice gold, although the top is compacted with gravel more gold near the inhabited castles Trump steak factories. The Wall stretches for 300 3000 miles from the Gorge to the Bay of Seals Gulf of Mexico and is approximately 700 feet tall. At its top it is wide enough for a dozen horsemen luxurious 757s to ride abreast, and is thicker at the base. According to myth, spells are woven into the Wall to prevent it collapsing from mundane causes and to keep certain entities, such as the Others Mexicans, from passing.

Cephalocidal
Dec 23, 2005

Mile-wide strip of radioactive sludge. Any survivors can get shipped back once they get poached by a border judge with a Geiger counter.

Sucrose
Dec 9, 2009
I always recommend building a two-layer wall, with bombard towers placed between the layers. Remember to leave enough room along the outside of the inner wall for builders to be able to access the bombard towers, as they're sure to take occasional damage from archers, catapaults, etc. Also, keep a force of knights just inside the gates to run out and deal with any trebuchets.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


mannerup posted:



trump supporters are going to be heartbroken if the wall ends up being a metaphor instead of a literal wall

david bowie lives

moller
Jan 10, 2007

Swan stole my music and framed me!

Microwaves Mom posted:

THere should be holes in the wall too where guards can stick their guns out and shoot people.

Portholes? What is this, the Navy?

A Stupid Baby
Dec 31, 2002

lip up fatty
The wall should just be a giant disinformation campaign to convince people that there is, in fact, a wall. Cheaper and probably more effective than the real thing

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Ork of Fiction posted:

They should paint a tunnel on the side of the wall, to trick coyotes.

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

A Stupid Baby posted:

The wall should just be a giant disinformation campaign to convince people that there is, in fact, a wall. Cheaper and probably more effective than the real thing

haha yes; fake postcards you can send your family of your visit please

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

-Troika- posted:

Ah yes, the same ICE where agents have been getting punished for actually doing their jobs.

ICE is the agency that people apply to when they want to just hassle people all goddamn day so that doesn't sound like a big problem to me

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 6 days!


Literal wall of corpses or bust.

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Someone with Photoshop skills please make this say TRUMP!

And then buy it as my AV, TIA (my money goes to Bernie)

Warmachine
Jan 30, 2012



Vitamin P posted:



Literal wall of corpses or bust.

To build a 15ft high wall along the entire border five corpses deep would require 144.4 million corpses. Round it up to 145 million to make sure there's enough, because this is really shoddy napkin math. This is using some kind of other support to hold the bodies in a roughly rectangular shape, and not taking into account the fact that they'll decay over time.

Google tells me that the population of Mexico is 122 million.

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Theres a whole lot more Central and South America left after Mexico.

gobbagool
Feb 5, 2016

by R. Guyovich
Doctor Rope

Not a Step posted:

Theres a whole lot more Central and South America left after Mexico.

He might have to dip into our strategic Mexican reserve

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

gobbagool posted:

He might have to dip into our strategic Mexican reserve

:golfclap:

Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN

Beautiful.

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009

Not a Step posted:

The Wall should have an American Gladiator style obstacle course built into it, where any immigrant who can successfully challenge Patriot Guardians like Laser or Nitro gets awarded a free green card. I will also accept American Ninja or Most Extreme Elimination Challenge style obstacles.

Agreed.

I'm partial to the original Japanese Ninja Warrior course. That should given them instant citizenship.

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009

Ork of Fiction posted:

They should paint a tunnel on the side of the wall, to trick coyotes.

Cartouche
Jan 4, 2011

The Wall was decent, but Dark Side of the Moon was a bit better. Comfortably numb however was the best song from either one.

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant
The Wall has some good cuts, but my personal favorite is still Wish You Were Here.

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant
Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Not a Step posted:

Someone with Photoshop skills please make this say TRUMP!

And then buy it as my AV, TIA (my money goes to Bernie)





:smith:

unwantedplatypus
Sep 6, 2012
Trumps wall should be about 60 feet. That way it'll reach 30 before the project goes bankrupt

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

unwantedplatypus posted:

Trumps wall should be about 60 feet. That way it'll reach 30 before the project goes bankrupt

No it will be a 60 foot wall covering half the border.

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb
I think the most important part of the wall will be the kill zone in front of it where the machine gun nests have clear shots at anyone trying to rush the wall. Also I hope I can get a cushy job as one of the minefield maintenance techs.

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Jumpingmanjim posted:

No it will be a 60 foot wall covering half the border.

In ten foot sections with ten foot gaps between each


If I had :tenbux: to burn on stupid internet bullshit, I'd give it to Sanders

Pilsner
Nov 23, 2002

White, polished bricks, and every guard tower should look like the top of the Chrysler Building. Booyah.

zimboe
Aug 3, 2012

FIRST EBOLA GOON AVOID ALL POSTS SPEWING EBLOA SHIT POSTS EVERWHERE
I'm literally retarded
You don't need a physical wall. You just need to create a border zone that cannot be passed and survive.
I envision a continuous linear stream of cruising drones armed with projectile weapons or perhaps fiber lasers. One goes by every thirty seconds-spaced a few hundred meters apart.

Cross the line into the Death Zone, and BLAM/BZAAAP! Instant death.

No concrete required -just tens of thousands of cheap little drones.
And we get a nice ribbon of bleached skeletons to intimidate other trespassers.

That's the cheapest way to do it. Swarm Logic, it's called.

Ugly? Yes. Horrible? Yes. Efficient? YES

FEAR WORKS
...
I'm sure it is being thought about and designed as we speak.

I predict.

e:
Cordwainer Smith wrote of the Menschenjaegers or Man-Hunters.

egon_beeblebrox
Mar 1, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Ei78ata1g

Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN

zimboe posted:

You don't need a physical wall. You just need to create a border zone that cannot be passed and survive.
I envision a continuous linear stream of cruising drones armed with projectile weapons or perhaps fiber lasers. One goes by every thirty seconds-spaced a few hundred meters apart.

Cross the line into the Death Zone, and BLAM/BZAAAP! Instant death.

No concrete required -just tens of thousands of cheap little drones.
And we get a nice ribbon of bleached skeletons to intimidate other trespassers.

That's the cheapest way to do it. Swarm Logic, it's called.

Ugly? Yes. Horrible? Yes. Efficient? YES

FEAR WORKS
...
I'm sure it is being thought about and designed as we speak.

I predict.

e:
Cordwainer Smith wrote of the Menschenjaegers or Man-Hunters.

I also think that America should be more like the Running Man.

1488
Feb 24, 2013


but with all of trumps books inscribed on it

Nckdictator
Sep 8, 2006
Just..someone
The Honorable Jan Brewer
Governor of Arizona
1700 West Washington
Phoenix, Arizona 85007


Re: Effective Border Wall Idea June 20, 2010

Honorable Governor,

The problem of a porous border that allows anyone to cross into the United States without any real resistance is obvious. I have seen the efforts to build a “fence.” What a waste of government money and time. A fence, ANY fence is only an obstacle for the one or two feet needed to get from one side to the other, by either going over, under, around or through the thin barrier. Regardless of what is built, it offers resistance ONLY at the point an illegal border crosser encounters the fence. Once across, their journey is again relatively effortless.

I watched a video where a man was talking about RETREATING 50 or 100 miles into America to escape the violence of the drug lords! If we are considering giving up a 100-mile wide strip of America, we can certainly dedicate a two or three mile strip of our border real estate to this idea!

I sent a letter to Sheriff Joe Arpaio some time ago, as well as a copy of this letter to Sheriff Arvin West of Texas, the New Mexico Sheriffs' and Police Association and the Sheriffs Association of Texas, illustrating my idea to use discarded tires to build a huge WALL along the border. This country has literally billions of discarded tires piled up around America, and we discard another 240 MILLION tires annually. These tire piles are always seen as a “problem.” I see them as not only a solution, but the BEST SOLUTION to the border problem!

I know that there are some problems inherent in the existence of a tire pile, but they are certainly no greater than the problems we are currently facing with countless deaths, kidnappings, drug smuggling, and everything else that is a REALITY given the pathetic excuse for a “fence” we now have and will never complete.

Imagine a wall of discarded tires along the border, two or three miles in width and 100 feet above ground level. Consider carefully the enclosed photos as you read further.



Before you summarily reject this concept, consider for a moment the FOLLOWING points.

* NO ONE can RUN across a tire pile. It is physically impossible! The tires will tip and roll, catch feet and collapse under the weight of any passersby. Anyone crossing something like this can easily be spotted and captured, using modified 4WD vehicles that use track systems similar to tanks or snow cats rather than conventional tires to drive over the pile as needed.

* The construction of a tire pile requires NO engineering, NO structural framework, and NO special equipment. Simply piling tires onto tires will eventually build a magnificent wall that is not one or two feet thick, but one or two MILES thick. Where the wall needs to be taller, simply add more tires.

* Tunneling can be eliminated if a trench is dug first, say … 50 feet deep. Fill the two-mile wide trench with tires, and then keep piling them up until the wall is sufficient to discourage even the most determined illegal border crosser.

* A wall of tires does not need to be maintained, painted, or repaired. There is no need for welders, painters, stone masons or carpenters. Even PRISONERS can loosely pile tires effectively! Vandalism to the wall by the illegals would not matter.

* Graffiti could be completely ignored, and would be little more than colorful spots along the wall of tires which would have NO flat surface for tagging.

* A wall that is impervious to damage and decay. If gunfire erupts, should the border patrol agents miss their target, the only thing they will hit … is a pile of TIRES.

* The pest “problem.” Tire piles retain rain water. They are normally seen as undesirable because they create breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Normally this would be a problem, but I see a two-mile wide tire wall infested with mosquitoes as a good deterrent to crossing over it, don’t you? Mosquito abatement can commence on the American side of the wall or by crop dusting the length of the wall if needed.

* Nature’s border guards. The wall could be populated with mice, rats and venomous snakes. The mice and rats would feed the snakes, and the illegals that still ignore our sovereignty and attempt unsuccessfully to cross over the wall will feed the snakes.

* FREE building materials! I am certain that if you call the governors of the other 49 states and tell them that you want all of their discarded tires, you will discover that they will be more than happy to gather up every tire pile within their state lines and transport them at their cost to our southern border, where you can arrange to distribute them as needed. They should not be stacked or neatly arranged. They should be randomly piled, as if dropped from the sky. This will make them far more difficult to cross on foot.



What about TIRE FIRES? Certainly, those wishing to cross our border illegally will try to wreak havoc by setting the tires on fire. That’s okay. A system can be devised using existing technology, so that these fires can be extinguished effectively wherever they are started. The foaming machines used at airports for fire resistance can be modified to belch out millions of cubic yards of an inert fire retardant where needed. Remember the volcano experiments from grammar school? Vinegar and baking soda create a very large quantity of liquid foam, very quickly. Machines capable of smothering large tire fires using a similar mixture of an environmentally friendly foam would work well.

We also have all of the water from the Colorado River that reaches the border! Now, I know there is some silly ‘treaty’ that demands a certain amount of water be allowed to flow beyond our southern border in Mexico for their farming and ranching needs, and I am all for allowing that to continue on one condition. If the Mexicans are going to set the tire wall on fire, well gosh … I guess ALL of that water will have to be diverted to the fire through a piping system built along the American side to fight the fire. We would send a very clear message to the Mexican citizens. If you want OUR water, stop igniting OUR tires! When their crops begin to die, and they are all suffering from dehydration due to the water source from the Colorado River being diverted to reservoirs along the American border for fire fighting purposes, they will begin to understand the value of allowing the tire wall to exist undisturbed. If they complain about the water being shut off, tell them to stop invading our country!

You may be laughing. I am not. The problem of the illegal Mexicans crossing onto American soil is monumental. It is destroying our schools, our neighborhoods, our hospitals and our workforce. All of the “feel good” talk and toothless measures coming from the federal government are worthless. It is abundantly clear that the federal government has NO interest in controlling our border.

Unless you can come up with a better plan, a way to build a wall that can be built by people with NO construction skills, using FREE materials that require NO maintenance, that offers a formidable barrier that would challenge even the toughest U.S. Marine, I suggest you start piling tires along the border A.S.A.P. and finally put a stop to the problem of illegal aliens in America.

Sincerely,
(ME!)

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Feb 12, 2014

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