Former Guy's Wall - Ripped Apart By Monsoon Floods

[kpete]

Trump's brand new $15 billion #BorderWall is being ripped apart by monsoon floods.

This is what happens when
@DHSgov
waives all environmental laws & ignores basic science to put up a political prop.

Photo taken near the San Bernardino Natl. Wildlife Refuge by
@madreanwildlife

Link to tweet

?s=20

[AllaN01Bear]

1. was hoping that the water would have done more damage than that.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Water is patient. nt

[Kittycatkat]

73. Trump's big beautiful wall is not a wall at all. Mission accomplished.

[Jim__]

2. Well I'm sure that's Biden's fault.

[Deuxcents]

3. Everything TFG touches

Becomes a disaster.

[11 Bravo]

59. He has the Feces Touch.

[Drum]

4. Now it's just a gate

[William Seger]

14. It was never more than a speed bump

[NurseJackie]

28. Trump's Wall was just a political prop... it's as ridiculous as calling him "TFG". 🙄

[OMGWTF]

37. TFG to me means "That Fkin' Guy."

[NurseJackie]

41. Cute. Or...

fat guy, foolish guy, frumpy goof, freaky gargoyle, female groper, flying gull, fast gerbil, flaccid groaner... so many silly things.

[NullTuples]

61. Right? Call him by name so it is forever associated with failure

Also, never use "trumped" as an indication of victory as in "full house trumps a pair", but do use it in the context of, "trumped up excuses".

It's no game, but this has become all about perception.

[NurseJackie]

63. Thank you!

Call him by name so it is forever associated with failure

Thank you. That's perfect. Brilliant!



(Adding this post to my "DU Journal" so that I can refer to it again later on.)

[czarjak]

5. Mexico says the check is in the mail.

[ananda]

7. Poetic justice in action!

Love it!

[keithbvadu2]

8. Shoddy workmanship for premium price.

Shoddy workmanship for premium price.

Wonder how much in kickbacks Dotard and JaVanka received?

[rurallib]

9. looks like a lot of profit in the materials also

[secondwind]

29. Now you're talkin' !!!!

[Paladin]

35. If that isn't the trump family motto, it ought to be. (nt)

[Traildogbob]

10. One of two reasons

Last edited Sat Aug 21, 2021, 10:50 AM - Edit history (1)

It’s Gods plan or climate change. An entire town was destroyed, miles of damage from the river and lives lost, people still missing here in WNC. The communities hardest hit are plastered with Trump crap. On 2004 the same thing happened here, once in a 100 year flooding. I do feel horrible for the victims. My question to those that had lives destroyed again, was it Gods plan or climate change? Evidently God or the climate, hate when fleeing refugees are treated as we do. Or maybe just hate trump and his cult. 95 percent of those in the flooded community here, are hard core religious. Hard to call it Christian.

[harumph]

11. Those are doors on barrel hinges.

[KentuckyWoman]

12. I noticed that too.

Constructed to be opened. Hmmmmm

[cab67]

40. The Berlin Wall had soft points.

Their locations were secret. They were put there so Warsaw Pact tanks could bust through should things get hot.

I doubt that was the reason here, though.

[Kali]

56. probably meant to be opened for floods

but that happens kinda fast, especially in summer and I imagine not really safe for the guy with the keys.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

13. Two words:

Also, they need to put Trump's name on the fallen pieces.

[jmbar2]

15. Trump Memorial Monument

Just keep the bottom gates open for the critters.

[KS Toronado]

16. No it's not

Look closely at the far left, panels are on hinges, probably for flood water debris.
Just someone attempting to make fun of TFG, which he deserves.

[thesquanderer]

24. With no reference to a legit news source, I just assumed it was likely fake.

People fall for anything, especially if it falls within your preferred world view.

IMO, any meme, tweet, etc. you see without a legit source should be presumed fake until shown to be otherwise. Not that that's going to stop people from posting the stuff, of course.

[KS Toronado]

27. True

Memes can make us laugh or get mad, need to always consider the source.

[RandomNumbers]

44. Yes but the ones in picture are not opened normally. Also, there's this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trumps-border-wall-vulnerable-to-flash-floods-needs-large-storm-gates-left-open-for-months/2020/01/30/be709346-3710-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html

(article from January 2020)

NACO, Ariz. — President Trump's border wall probably will require the installation of hundreds of storm gates to prevent flash floods from undermining or knocking it over, gates that must be left open for months every summer during "monsoon season" in the desert, according to U.S. border officials, agents and engineers familiar with the plans.

The open, unmanned gates in remote areas already have allowed for the easy entry of smugglers and migrants into the United States.

At locations along the U.S. southern border where such gates already are in operation, Border Patrol agents must manually raise them every year before the arrival of the summer thunderstorms that convert riverbeds into raging torrents that carry massive amounts of water and debris, including sediment, rocks, tree limbs and vegetation. Trump's wall, which features 30-foot metal bollards spaced four inches apart, effectively acts as a sewer grate that traps the debris; when clogged, the barriers cannot withstand the power of the runoff.

[RandomNumbers]

45. Also this, recent

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/4-things-to-know-about-the-arizona-mexico-border-wall/75-8a4a993f-2549-4e65-9a56-75ca86a74582

Open Gates on the border
Multiple videos taken along the US-Mexico border shows an open gate in Arizona’s the border wall.

In it, there is neither a migrant nor border patrol agent in sight. Almost every mile of the border wall there are open gates,” said Laiken Jordahl with the Center for Biological Diversity.

The gates are left open during the summer to prevent flooding.

[kcr]

58. Maybe look a little closer

What kind of hinges work where panels just hang loose and crooked like that?

Nice try.

[lambchopp59]

17. LMFAO

Oh so perfectly ironic.
Years ago when I worked at a facility treating injured victims of falls from these stupid fences/walls I certainly became all the more dug in that this symbolic facade has no business being there.
Exactly which portion of "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free" don't some comprehend?
Greed maims, kills, starves and causes only suffering and more problems. To me, that's all the whole anti-immigrant shit pie represents.

[c-rational]

18. "Waives all environmental laws and puts up a political prop" - how true.

[bagimin]

19. It's a BIG,Beautiful

eyesore.

[AZ8theist]

20. Repuke Nazis are quickly turning America in to a shithole country....

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

21. How long has that wall in China held up?

[yardwork]

22. Good. Maybe wildlife can get through.

[JohnnyRingo]

23. This enrages me to no end.

It's like my tax dollars going to build a temple to DJT on the eroded shores of North Carolina and watching it slide into the ocean. The only bigger waste of my money is war without just cause.

[FakeNoose]

25. Now it's perfect for Americans sneaking into Mexico unimpeded

[Johonny]

26. I'm sure the rain is Joe Biden's fault somehow

[Sogo]

30. $15 billion just doesn't go as far as it used it....

[appleannie1]

32. Guess you could say "If God wanted a wall there, he would have put one there".

Over time, Mother Nature will win that war one panel at a time.

[onetexan]

33. Mr. President Biden, Tear down this wall!

[malaise]

34. This was about making money

not securing the border - please get real.

[LakeArenal]

36. ✔️

[Warpy]

38. He wasted so much money on that thing

It's like everything he's ever done in his life, looks OK for a while but didn't consider much behind the scenes or keep it up after the sale, does it on other people's money, and leaves them holding the bag.

It blows down, floods out, and is vulnerable to battery powered Sawzalls.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

74. Perhaps 1B went to "wall" and the other 14B well...quen sabes?

[samnsara]

39. heehee

[Snackshack]

42. There are

100’s of usually dry wash beds along the boarder that during Monsoon become flash floods filled with debri that will knock that wall right down.

[RockRaven]

43. That wall looks especially easy to climb (before being broken). Those vertical slits look like

great hand holds, and the surface is flat enough to be good for bracing your feet on...

[Sympthsical]

47. That's my first thought

You wouldn't exactly have to be skilled to scale that. Handholds all the way up. How was that the design?

[admonish]

46. And through a national park

At least some animals can cross now

[Demovictory9]

48. The beautiful wall? 🙂

[Blue Owl]

53. Its beauty has faded... very rapidly...

So fast that it never was really beautiful to begin with…

[sunonmars]

49. You can talk that wall into coming down,whole thing was a construction corruption theft swindle

[housecat]

50. I'd be interested to know who really got that $15 billion

[IronLionZion]

51. The GOP plan was to make America a crumbling diseased shithole

that no one wants to come to anymore.

[Cha]

52. Mother Nature Got trump's cheap props.

[Retrograde]

54. Typical Trump Quality Construction

Cut corners, use shoddy materials - doesn't matter as long as $$$ end up in your pocket. I wonder who and how much kicked back to him

[RtheK]

55. Words duly marked

“I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively, I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall,” Trump said in his June 16, 2015 speech at Trump Tower. “Mark my words.”

[Eliot Rosewater]

69. 74 million MILLION Americans still believe that can happen

[lame54]

57. Welcome mats are a lot cheaper

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

60. It's so dry there ground is often like concrete. A lot of flash floods.

Looks like the soil wasn't tamped down by the wall so the water collected there.

Brilliant!!!!

On edit: I hadn't read posts #44 & 45 when I posted but it seems we more or less agree.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

62. Mexican scrap metal dealers are grateful for these photos.

KY..........

[Dukkha]

64. Just like his casinos

poorly constructed and mismanaged by incompetence and corruption

[Piratedog]

65. I guess God doesn't like the wall.

[Javaman]

66. Get steve bannon on this stat. He can grift more money. nt

[joetheman]

67. Bad contracting again. They made millions off of Trump. nt

[Bristlecone]

68. A signature trump project.

[Skittles]

70. what a fucking eyesore

disgusting

[cstanleytech]

71. Yes, but atleast Twitter finally banned him.........oh you meant the wall and not Trump. My mistake.

[oasis]

72. Cheap assed shit!

[Maru Kitteh]

75. DERP. Newsflash. He didn't ever give a shit about any wall.

It was a device used by those horny to use HIM to get the asshoe to stop talking about himself and his immediate environment every single time he opened his mouth.


Who really cared what came of the "construction?"

[UTUSN]

76. And notice where the Drumpf-eteers like to build - in *REFUGES* wrecking environment

to add injury to insult. All those contractors grifting BILLIONS and then doing shoddy work on top of it. At least in the southernmost Texas-Mexican border the butterflies REFUGE won in court.

[burrowowl]

77. Yay Nature! She's going to tear down that wall!

Too bad there was lots of damage done while building it.