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[QUOTE=GDreams;2669836]The fragments of border wall built during the Trump administration were physically breached more than 3,000 times between 2019 and 2021.

Customs and Border Protection spent $2. 6 million to repair 3,272 such breaches in that time period.

The Trump administration in 2017 held a design contest to choose the final ideation for former President Trump's signature construction project, and ultimately built a series of prototypes in a location near San Diego.

Administration officials ultimately chose a design with 18 30-foot-tall steel bollards cemented into the ground, joined at the top by a steel beam.

Upon completion of the first segments, videos quickly surfaced of smuggling groups using common power tools to cut the bollards near the bottom of the wall, easily swinging them out of the way to cross the border.

Pretty much sums up Trumpian incompetence.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Canada;2670014]You said it. Incompetence was the correct term for Biden not finishing the wall. Billions of dollars of wall, lights, security sensors are rotting away because an incompetent president stopped construction. Not only did Biden waste billions of dollars but with his open border stance has put the lives in America in danger every day. Never in the history of the world has a leader of any country failed to secure his countries borders. Biden is killing Americans every day with the drugs and crime pouring across our southern border. Anyone who supports these crimes can also take responsibility for killing Americans.[/QUOTE]When TrumpShit collects the $1 billion check from Mexico to pay for the construction that was done during the four years of recent construction.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2670032]You are the moron, Xpartan, always have been and always will be. Your telling someone who was previously infected with Covid to get vaccinated was the stupidest thing I have ever read on here. You think watching MSNBC means you are qualified to be giving out medical advice.

Now we have this anecdotal bullshit about prices. Studies show average family is going to spend $5000 more per year on energy costs, but you do not notice anything.

Maybe if you could do math or pull your head out of your ass for once, you would see what the rest of our is seeing and feeling.

You and your fellow Dems are the liars saying the economy is great, and everything is fine. I am glad you folks so like Carter because we are clearly headed that way.[/QUOTE]Of all the crackpots on this board, you're the most entertaining, I'll give you that. Yet all your bullshit is still as boring as a tourist fuck, and even your lunacy isn't funny anymore.

See, I don't tell people to get vaccinated after the infection. Doctors do. Just to clarify, doctors are people who don't need MSNBC to dispense medical advise.

Whatever your studies show (and we all know what dark, tight holes you get your 'studies" from), I was talking about my current experiences, not something that might or might not happen in the future.

And thanks but no thanks, I have no interest in what deranged crackpots like you are seeing or feeling. I don't do hallucinogens.

[QUOTE]GDP growth, unemployment rates, average wages have all been moving in the right direction, with unemployment at about 4%, a multi-year low even with places like New York City lagging behind; GDP growth is expected to be above 5.5% for 2021, the best since 1984; wage growth for the bottom of the economic pyramid has been notable for the first time in a generation. In fact, wage growth for the bottom of the economic pyramid has actually been faster than the one thing that dampens the picture: inflation.[/QUOTE][URL]https://time.com/6130525/economy-doing-well-why-does-it-feel-like-a-disaster/[/URL].

Inflation is right-wingers' best and dearest friend, a great talking (scratch that, SCREAMING) point as if the once-in-100-years pandemic has never happened and Biden is somehow responsible for everything that's happened in America since February 2020. Yeah, well, good luck with that.

By the way, you've never said how much you like or dislike Mr. Putin. I mean for someone whose heart goes out to poor folks suffering from high energy costs, this seems to be one topic you're carefully trying to avoid.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2670020]Plus, the smugglers patch-up their cuts almost invisibly with putty. Almost impossible to see unless you're doing a search up close and personal.

Anybody who has spent any time at all in Mexico knows that Mexicans, in general, are very resourceful. Additionally, virtually every Mexican knows how to use a grinder. They cut rebar with grinders. They cut tubing with them. They cut tile with them. Anybody with half a brain (which, by definition leaves out wingers) knows that these grinders are cordless, too. But it.

Isn't just grinders. Give a Mexican a couple of long 2 x4's, some 1 x3's, a few nails and voil (wingers usually spell it "wallah") [B]a ladder[/B]. All for about 5 bucks. It is magic I tell you. Magic! Who woulda thunk it?[/QUOTE]Yeah, it's a tragedy.

Trump supporter discovers ladders for first time.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y0nQIHn3pE[/URL]

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2669975]Very true.

Tooms also told me that no Democrats say they want to defund the police.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQl3Z5fnxPc[/URL][/QUOTE]No, I don't think that is what I said. I probably said no Democtatic Party leadership promoted or tried to legislate "Defund The Police." One or even 2 Dems saying it or suggesting the idea would not mean anything.

Yet, practically every Dem got chased down by MSM and pestered to answer for the idea as though Biden, Pelosi, Schumer or an entire house of congressional Dems had voted to Defund The Police.

Oh look! It turns out one Party in a house of Congress did vote unanimously to Defund The Police!

That would be the Republican Party in the USA House of Representatives voting unanimously to Defund The Police. Yes, including its Leadership:

[B]"'Republicans are defunding the police'[/B]: Fox News anchor stumps congressman.

Fox News.

The Guardian" [URL]https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/28/chris-wallace-republicans-defunding-the-police-fox-news-congressman-jim-banks[/URL].

[QUOTE]The Fox News anchor Chris Wallace made headlines of his own on Sunday, by pointing out to a senior Republican that he and the rest of his party recently voted against $350bn in funding for law enforcement.[/QUOTE]Yet, almost no one in MSM chased down any House Republicans and pestered them to answer for it.

The same way almost no MSM have chased down and pestered members of the Republican Party to explain how and why their actual leadership decided attacking and killing cops, vandalism, theft, desecration and deadly violent Anti America insurrection are really mere "Legitimate Political Discourse" against which no funding of police should happen anyway given that the Republican Party is now considering those crimes to be our Constitutionally protected right to free expression.

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2670138]Yeah, it's a tragedy.

Trump supporter discovers ladders for first time.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y0nQIHn3pE[/URL][/QUOTE]That was really funny.

I like the last line:

Ladders are fake news.

HaHahaHaHa.

But, then, I suppose Putin didn't have any option for invading Ukraine but to blunder into his spectacularly stupid mistake at the worst possible time for him; while Dem President Biden was in office.

Putin really was counting on the weakening of Ukraine's military position against his invasion to happen as the result of Trump / The Republican Party surgically removing "necessary" military support for Ukraine in their 2016 election platform, Trump secretly refusing to impose invasion-related sanctions against Russia until the Dems in Congress busted him for it and forced him to impose them anyway, Trump secretly denying Ukraine the military funding Congress earmarked for that pro democracy effort until, again, he was busted by the Dems in Congress for it, Trump's deservedly Impeachable transgression of blackmailing Ukraine's president into "finding" something he knew didn't exist, dirt on his political opponent with that shameful "perfect phone call" idiocy, as a means to further deny Ukraine that military support, dismantle any and all democratic nation alliances opposed to the invasion, etc, etc, etc in order to improve his (Putin's) military and economic leverage against that of Ukraine's so it would be a swift and clean takeover for him to destroy that budding democracy and enslave it as another win for authoritarian dictatorships.

But that was not to be. The Republican Party's front man in that Party-wide effort, Donald Trump, was just too clumsy and incompetent a salesman and negotiator to get her done before Biden roundly defeated him in a landslide election victory and immediately swing into action to effectively reunite those democratic alliances stronger and better than ever.

As Putin saw that happening with every passing hour of Biden's historically positive first year and months of his presidency, Putin simply could not delay his, Trump's and the Republican Party's dream of destroying democracy wherever it exists any longer.

Bad timing.

Even if or when Putin's vastly larger military might prevails on official battlefield terms, there will never ever be a Russian "win" out of this.

[B]Russian economy to shrink 35% due to Ukraine invasion sanctions, JPMorgan says[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[B]"Ukraine: Analysts think Western sanctions may destroy Russia's economy[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/03/03/ukraine-analysts-think-western-sanctions-may-destroy-russias-economy.html[/URL]

[B]U.S. imposes new sanctions on pro-Putin Russian oligarchs and their families[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/ukraine-war-us-sanctions-russian-oligarchs-linked-to-putin.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE] The Biden administration announced a new round of sanctions targeting Russian oligarchs and their family members who are supporting President Vladimir Putin as he wages war in Ukraine.

Asked at the White House about the expanded sanctions, press secretary Jen Psaki said that the U.S. was confident that these measures were an effective approach.

President Joe Biden said later Thursday afternoon that the sanctions already imposed on Putin and those around him have had a profound impact.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2670073]When TrumpShit collects the $1 billion check from Mexico to pay for the construction that was done during the four years of recent construction.[/QUOTE]The wall works as proven by the border patrol. But half a wall doesn't work well. Biden screwed America royally with stopping the building of the wall and reversing Trump border policies. Asylum seekers should be required to wait outside the country. Criminal and drugs should be stopped. Biden wants open borders. Bottom line.

[QUOTE=GDreams;2670053]Trumps wall is a failure. Its stops almost no one. It could stretch the length of the border and would still be a failure. Analogous to a car going over a speed hump. Basically as useless as the guy who championed it. BTW has Mexico paid up yet?

The thing that makes me laugh the most is all the businesses complaining about labour shortages. Maybe there is sense in having immigration (I am not advocating illegal immigration). Perhaps there would not be a shortage of truck drivers and waiters.[/QUOTE]Half a wall doesn't work. Criminals and drug runners entering illegally are not looking for work. USA does not have a shortage of unskilled labor.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2670002]Why do [B]you[/B] avoid the truth by not commenting on the post I schooled you on re: oil and gas leases? The one where you wanted data from BLM and I provided it to you? Can't you face reality?

Or do you just like yelling "fake news", "fake news", fake news" over and over again?[/QUOTE]It is foolish to argue with a fool so it is better not to argue with a fool with fake news. Keep avoiding the truth.

[QUOTE=GDreams;2670053]Trumps wall is a failure. Its stops almost no one. It could stretch the length of the border and would still be a failure. Analogous to a car going over a speed hump. Basically as useless as the guy who championed it. BTW has Mexico paid up yet?

The thing that makes me laugh the most is all the businesses complaining about labour shortages. Maybe there is sense in having immigration (I am not advocating illegal immigration). Perhaps there would not be a shortage of truck drivers and waiters.[/QUOTE]Did CNN tell you this? Try asking Hoelsnd Security or Border Patrol agents. There view is much different than yours and fake news.

Zelensky statements today pretty much told the story of Ukraine disaster. Russia-Ukraine: Zelenskyy says it's a 'pity' US support came 'after' Russian war.

Biden threatening sanctions when Russia put thousands of soldiers on the Ukraine border did absolutely nothing to deter Putin. USA putting sanctions after invasion and after Europe imposed sanctions showed Putin how weak Biden was. Putin with help from Biden will take Ukraine and kill thousands of innocent people. Even some Americans. Biden still refuses to sanction oil from Russia and USA continues to pour $80 million dollars a day into Putin's war. USA is funding the invasion of Ukraine. Democrats and republicans together are lobbying Biden to sanction Russian oil and hurt Russia but he refuses. Russia is getting rich off of fools like Biden. Every person that voted for Biden can take credit for innocent people dying. The socialists here must be so proud.

Russia's Secret Weapon.

[URL]https://www.the-sun.com/news/1633823/putin-alleged-mistress-alina-kabaeva-mystery/[/URL]

[QUOTE=Canada;2670186]It is foolish to argue with a fool so it is better not to argue with a fool with fake news. Keep avoiding the truth.[/QUOTE]You said you would accept BLM data. Here it is. Straight from the BLM web site.

Table #1 total number of leases in 2020:37,496.

Table #5 total number of producing leases 23,878.

I will leave it to you to do the 3rd grade math. If you can. But you can't.

You said you'd accept BLM data.

You lose. But sure, call it all "fake news". Like usual.

[QUOTE=Canada;2670191]Zelensky statements today pretty much told the story of Ukraine disaster. Russia-Ukraine: Zelenskyy says it's a 'pity' US support came 'after' Russian war.

Biden threatening sanctions when Russia put thousands of soldiers on the Ukraine border did absolutely nothing to deter Putin. USA putting sanctions after invasion and after Europe imposed sanctions showed Putin how weak Biden was. Putin with help from Biden will take Ukraine and kill thousands of innocent people. Even some Americans. Biden still refuses to sanction oil from Russia and USA continues to pour $80 million dollars a day into Putin's war. USA is funding the invasion of Ukraine. Democrats and republicans together are lobbying Biden to sanction Russian oil and hurt Russia but he refuses. Russia is getting rich off of fools like Biden. Every person that voted for Biden can take credit for innocent people dying. The socialists here must be so proud.[/QUOTE]Here is yet another trumper who thinks that disciplining your kids beforehand is good policy. See, Canada, that's what sanctions prior to invasion are. "Hey, George, I think you're going to get into trouble if you go out tonight so I'm going to ground you. " Like it or not, Russia has a right to do whatever it wants on their own territory. Period. Otherwise, we would have a situation of "I think trumpers are going to cause trouble on January 6th. Let's lock'them all up on January 5th."

You trumpers are so used to the Mango Mussolini's tactic of "ready, fire, aim" that you simply can't see past that. Sure, let's put the kibash on Russian oil [B]before[/B] we have commitments from US oil producers to make up the difference. See, Donnie the Dumbass would do that, then he'd backpedal of it all went South. And blame somebody else for his mistake.

But Biden actually knows what he's doing. You certainly don't and neither did the Orange Fruitcake.

I'm surprised that you didn't blame Biden for not sending in troops or not imposing a no-fly zone.

[QUOTE=Canada;2670191]Zelensky statements today pretty much told the story of Ukraine disaster. Russia-Ukraine: Zelenskyy says it's a 'pity' US support came 'after' Russian war.

Biden threatening sanctions when Russia put thousands of soldiers on the Ukraine border did absolutely nothing to deter Putin. USA putting sanctions after invasion and after Europe imposed sanctions showed Putin how weak Biden was. Putin with help from Biden will take Ukraine and kill thousands of innocent people. Even some Americans. Biden still refuses to sanction oil from Russia and USA continues to pour $80 million dollars a day into Putin's war. USA is funding the invasion of Ukraine. Democrats and republicans together are lobbying Biden to sanction Russian oil and hurt Russia but he refuses. Russia is getting rich off of fools like Biden. Every person that voted for Biden can take credit for innocent people dying. The socialists here must be so proud.[/QUOTE]Canada shows his true colours. So blind is his hatred of Biden that he can't write one truthful paragraph. It is Putins War. The Russians have invaded Ukraine or are you trying to suggest it is the US. Personally I would have no problem with the US stationing a few squadrons of fighters and ground support aircraft and a carrier group in Black sea. Then again Putin is such an imbecile that he is shelling a nuclear power plant, do you trust him not to go full nuclear war? Do you want nuclear war Canada? I can just see you typing out " Biden's Nucl." just as you are incinerated in a blast.

You are correct, there are bipartisan negotiations to sanction Russian oil. How about waiting for a veto before claiming Biden is opposing it. Truly if today Biden announced he was sanctioning Russian oil you would criticize him for driving petrol prices up.