On September 29, 2006, Joe Biden and 79 other senators voted to build a wall along the Mexican border. President George Walker Bush signed it into law a few days later, as the House had already passed it.
Biden and the rest never thought they would actually build a wall but a decade later, we elected Donald Trump president specifically to build the wall. Paul Ryan who also voted for the wall refused to give America one thin dime to build the very wall he voted for.
Only his departure as House speaker and the installation of Nancy Pelosi as speaker freed up money to start building it. Trump bought wall sections and replaced most of the ineffectual fencing at key points along the border.
Biden's installation as president brought a halt to all things Trump.
We promptly lost the war on terrorism, saw inflation skyrocket, suffered a rise in covid deaths, and had our border overrun by terrorists, gangsters, and other people,
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas is collecting donations to wall off Texas. As of Monday, he raised $54,423,681.
Construction began today, but not with the leftover wall sections the feds have.
Biden refuses to sell the steel sections to Texas.
Abbott tweeted, "Texas has officially started building its own border wall.
"Biden allows open border policies and refuses to enforce laws passed by Congress to secure the border and enforce immigration laws.
"Texas is stepping up to do the federal government’s job."
Bill Melugin of FoxLA tweeted, "Texas has officially started building its own border wall. The first wall panels have gone up in Starr County in the RGV. State land, state money. This particular contractor was building Trump’s wall until Biden cancelled them. Now they build for Abbott."
But, Griff Jenkins of Fox tweeted, "As Abbott starts building a Texas Wall where the Trump wall left off, the Feds won’t allow them to use leftover panels."
Biden gifted the Taliban with $90 billion in cash and equipment when he surrendered Afghanistan, but Biden won't sell Texas surplus wall sections to build a wall Biden voted for.
Maybe if Abbott bought a painting from Hunter and gave him a few pounds of cocaine Texas has seized, Biden will support the wall again.
Seize the panels. Surplus Federal property should be able to be taken by the States.
ReplyDeleteAs for funding, I still think Abbott should tack a surcharge/fee on all remittances being sent out of the country from Texas.
Amen to that. I understand that most of that money is untaxed wages, and in many cases is the single largest source of income for the South American countries in which the recipients live.
ReplyDeleteThere is absolutely no reason that a US state should not be able to capture some of those funds for it's own use.
And if some illegal doesn't want to pay the tax, he is free to either move to another state or back home.
Texas is stepping up to do the federal government’s job.
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PS No such verb, any tense, as gifted.
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DeleteThe glacier of stupid calved today at 7:28 P.M.and gifted us another stinker. Kinda like Antarctic Ice, the weight of it all is too much to contain.
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DeletePS No such verb, any tense, as gifted.
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DeleteDamn start, take them. Invite the Federales assigned to guarding the material to a big party and get them good and drunk. Offer the guard the material while their at the party. They'll fall for it like an egg from a tall chicken
ReplyDeleteThey're. .... while they're at the party
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ReplyDeleteAnd although I know 81 million didn't really vote for him, fuck the 65 million or so who actually did!
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ReplyDelete"...fuck the 65 million or so who actually did!"
ReplyDeleteThe cabal is much smaller than 65 million. I would guess many of the 65 million are illegal votes.
Wasn't it Time magazine laid out the group of "leaders"...judges, lawyers, legislators, union leaders, and the like, who, for our own good, stole the election to deprive Trump.
Why didn't Pence and others do more on investigating the illegal voting from 2016? Many states said they would deny information to a formal committee which they would have sold to a vendor...solution, create dummy corporations and buy voting records, and give those to the committee.
I live in South Texas. One technique used is to compare lists of those who refused jury duty due to being non-citizens...How many of them voted? Can't do both. If non-citizen for jury duty, then can't vote, and voting is a felony. If voting and claiming non-citizen for jury duty is a felony.
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ReplyDeleteThe one thing I really like is the co-operation between the Feds and the states. The Feds would rather allow millions of dollars worth of material lay in the desert and deteriorate rather than sell it to Texas. Without a doubt the Democrat Party and the Federal Government are enemies of the people.
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