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Watchtowers, drones and a toxic moat: the designs for Trump's border wall
The Guardian ^ | April 10, 2017 | Oliver Wainwright

Posted on 04/12/2017 11:03:52 AM PDT by EveningStar

Monorails, shipping containers and nuclear waste dumps are just some of the ways that US construction companies have interpreted Donald Trump’s call for an “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful wall” to march 2,000 miles across the country’s border with Mexico. Up to 400 bidding contractors were expected to submit their schemes this week to the US Customs and Border Protection agency, in a militarised beauty pageant worthy of one of Trump’s own reality TV shows.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; bordersecurity; buildthewall; crocsandorgators; mexico; sharkswithlasers; trump; wall
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1 posted on 04/12/2017 11:03:53 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Toxic moat filled with demoncrats.


2 posted on 04/12/2017 11:06:35 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: EveningStar

The only effective barrier is one enforced by men with guns. I don’t care if it’s three layers of this and a moat filled with that.


3 posted on 04/12/2017 11:07:51 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: EveningStar
I was thinking along the lines of an electric fence.

A bug-zapper sort of thingy.

4 posted on 04/12/2017 11:08:58 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: EveningStar

Drain the swamp, fill the moat!


5 posted on 04/12/2017 11:09:37 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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To: EveningStar

Gators. I want hungry gators...


6 posted on 04/12/2017 11:09:48 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: EveningStar

7 posted on 04/12/2017 11:11:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: DoughtyOne
Gators. I want hungry gators...

You rang?

8 posted on 04/12/2017 11:11:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EveningStar

Sharks with fricking lasers on their heads....please?


9 posted on 04/12/2017 11:11:47 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: DoughtyOne
"Gators. I want hungry gators..."

And frickin' sharks with lasers ...


10 posted on 04/12/2017 11:12:13 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: DoughtyOne
Gators. I want hungry gators...

...with lasers

11 posted on 04/12/2017 11:12:30 AM PDT by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Beat me by 26 seconds ... because I went to look for a picture ...


12 posted on 04/12/2017 11:13:06 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: DoughtyOne

And Hungry, Hungry Hippos.


13 posted on 04/12/2017 11:13:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: bgill

Toxic moat?

Interesting


14 posted on 04/12/2017 11:13:41 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I want salt water moats with, yes you guessed it, sharks with fri,no ill tempered sea bass.


15 posted on 04/12/2017 11:14:15 AM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: dfwgator

Gator(DFW), I should have pinged you shouldn’t I. LOL


16 posted on 04/12/2017 11:17:02 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: BlueLancer; dfwgator

That might work. Lets ask the expert.

Well Gator(DFW)?


17 posted on 04/12/2017 11:18:36 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: EveningStar

“toxic moat”

So the EPA has submitted a design...


18 posted on 04/12/2017 11:20:17 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dfwgator

Okay, but do you really want to share?

BTW: They’re herbivores, and not the ones from Cleveland.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=hippos+diet&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=


19 posted on 04/12/2017 11:20:28 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: crosdaddy

...and barracuda, and sea urchins, and eels, and...


20 posted on 04/12/2017 11:21:27 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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