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Poiuyt

(18,126 posts)
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 12:13 AM Feb 2019

What's your gut feeling? Will the wall be built?

Will Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats find a way to block any executive action or, in the end, will it be built?


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frazzled

(18,402 posts)
9. I'm beginning to think it's not just about the politics
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 01:09 AM
Feb 2019

And I’m probably going off on some kind of paranoid, conspiratorial binge here. But I was pondering why he is so hell bent not just on the wall, but on this specific number of billions of dollars attached to it.

And then I’m thinking: what has this man been doing all these years? Well, building things, for one. With other people’s money, and stiffing contractors all the time, and going bankrupt, and getting mixed up with Russian mob figures because the banks won’t lend him money anymore.

And he’s probably up to his neck in it. And these contractors and mobsters probably want their money back. And $5.7 billion in federal contracts will probably get them off his back and prevent them from putting a horse head in his bed or worse, like kidnapping someone near and dear.

Well, there, I said it. And it may be kinda nuts. But nuts is how this guy rolls. It may just be his last possible way of getting a jumbo loan to take the heat off.

Maru Kitteh

(28,341 posts)
12. FWIW, I don't think your theory is that far out there
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 02:52 PM
Feb 2019

I would definitely count it among the possible.

Aristus

(66,393 posts)
3. There are so many variables, very few of which will break Trump's way,
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 12:16 AM
Feb 2019

that I can't imagine it happening.

The wall literally borders on the Achilles-heel of all republicans: property rights.

If Trump tries to exercise eminent domain on those properties along the US-Mexico border, he will lose staggering numbers of property-rights Republicans.

klook

(12,157 posts)
4. Where's the option for "LOL"?
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 12:17 AM
Feb 2019

The wall will get built about the same time Trump wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ms. Toad

(34,076 posts)
5. You do realize that the question you asked is not a yes/no question, right?
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 12:19 AM
Feb 2019
Will Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats find a way to block any executive action or, in the end, will it be built?


The two halves of your questions require opposite answers. to make any sense (i.e. yes to the first half and no to the second - or vice versa)
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