by cmoneyspinner » 21 Dec 2024, 21:10
Fergal wrote:What happened to the wall that Trump was going to build along the Mexican border?
There was a wall that was partially built.
(It looks a mess! A real eye sore. Even if it were finished, I don't know how many people it would have prevented from entering the US. To me, it looks like it would be easy to slip through. Besides, people have always bribed The Gatekeeper. LOL. Not kidding. I used to work for US Customs and I remember a few of our Customs inspectors getting fired because they took bribes to let people in illegally. Sadly, I also remember some of them getting killed in the line of duty.)
One of Trump's cronies went to prison because he siphoned off some of the money to buy a yacht and other “creature comforts”. (There could be more but he's the one WHO GOT CAUGHT!)
There's some sort of law that allows the government to get rid of “unused surplus” STUFF. Since the construction was not completed but there was leftover materials for the building of the wall, the government had an auction. From what I heard it was 5 cents on the dollar. Some folks were upset, but hey! … IT'S THE LAW.
But this is the most ridiculous part. Trump said Mexico was going to pay for The Wall. That didn't happen ... "technically". According to Trump:
Mexico did not directly pay for the border wall. Former President Donald Trump initially claimed that Mexico would pay for the wall, but later clarified that Mexico would pay "indirectly" through the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal. But there is no specific provision in the USMCA that required Mexico to fund the wall. The idea was that economic benefits from the trade deal would indirectly cover the costs, but this claim is widely disputed.(Yeah. Uh huh. And if you believe that, you believe the Pope is Muslim and the 9/11 attacks were planned from the Vatican! And the Vatican Library has the secret documents!

)
That's all I know about what happened.Anyway! I'm looking forward to 2025 when Puppet POTUS Trump will be out front spewing garbage out his mouth, while Shadow POTUS Musk operates from behind the scenes CAUSING ALL KINDS OF CHAOS AND MAYHEM!
Eh! We the People Will Survive!
[quote="Fergal"]What happened to the wall that Trump was going to build along the Mexican border?[/quote]
There was a wall that was partially built.
(It looks a mess! A real eye sore. Even if it were finished, I don't know how many people it would have prevented from entering the US. To me, it looks like it would be easy to slip through. Besides, people have always bribed The Gatekeeper. LOL. Not kidding. I used to work for US Customs and I remember a few of our Customs inspectors getting fired because they took bribes to let people in illegally. Sadly, I also remember some of them getting killed in the line of duty.)
One of Trump's cronies went to prison because he siphoned off some of the money to buy a yacht and other “creature comforts”. (There could be more but he's the one WHO GOT CAUGHT!)
There's some sort of law that allows the government to get rid of “unused surplus” STUFF. Since the construction was not completed but there was leftover materials for the building of the wall, the government had an auction. From what I heard it was 5 cents on the dollar. Some folks were upset, but hey! … IT'S THE LAW.
But this is the most ridiculous part. Trump said Mexico was going to pay for The Wall. That didn't happen ... "technically". According to Trump: [i]Mexico did not directly pay for the border wall. Former President Donald Trump initially claimed that Mexico would pay for the wall, but later clarified that Mexico would pay "indirectly" through the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal. But there is no specific provision in the USMCA that required Mexico to fund the wall. The idea was that economic benefits from the trade deal would indirectly cover the costs, but this claim is widely disputed.[/i]
(Yeah. Uh huh. And if you believe that, you believe the Pope is Muslim and the 9/11 attacks were planned from the Vatican! And the Vatican Library has the secret documents! :crazy: )
[i]That's all I know about what happened.[/i]
Anyway! I'm looking forward to 2025 when Puppet POTUS Trump will be out front spewing garbage out his mouth, while Shadow POTUS Musk operates from behind the scenes CAUSING ALL KINDS OF CHAOS AND MAYHEM!
Eh! We the People Will Survive!