Posted on 12/22/2018 11:50:57 AM PST by Kaslin
Let’s turn aside from the Shutdown Theater for the moment, along with the associated fight over funding for the border wall. We can still imagine a scenario where the funding is arranged at some point and large sections of the wall, fence or steel spike trap are put in place. As you may have heard, one avenue of potential funding arrived in the form of a GoFundMe crowdsourcing effort which has, at the time of this writing, raised nearly fifteen million dollars to put toward border wall construction.
It remains unclear how this crowdsourcing effort is going to work or even how the government is going to accept the money. But, again, let’s ignore all of those logistical details for the moment and say that it all goes smoothly since this is just a thought experiment anyway. What will the liberals who are so vehemently opposed to such a border barrier do in response? Well, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. They’ll set up their own fund to build giant escalators to help illegal aliens make it over the wall. I only wish I was kidding. (Washington Times)
GoFundMe, the crowdfunding website, has also turned into a major battleground with the president’s supporters asking average Americans to pony up — and some enterprising opponents seeking ways to foil whatever wall emerges.
Luke O’Neil started a page Thursday to, in his words, “build a giant escalator over the wall.”
“The wall is never going to be built but just in case it is we will build a series of giant escalators that are spaced out a half mile along the wall on either side and if that doesn’t happen we’ll just give the money to people who care about the well being of human beings no matter where they’re from,” Mr. O’Neil said in explaining his campaign.
You can look at Mr. O’Neil’s crowdsourcing page here, complete with a photoshopped image of the border wall with a large escalator going over the top. He has thus far raised almost $5,000 of his $200M goal.
O’Neil eventually concedes that the escalator idea is a “metaphor” for any scheme which would assist people in crossing the border, but even with that caveat, this is a dazzling piece of liberal intellectual firepower. Let’s just say for a moment that you could somehow manage to erect a thirty-foot tall escalator on each side of the border wall/fence, arrange a sufficient supply of energy to operate it and fire it up. A number of immediate questions present themselves.
First, tackling this strictly from a logistical standpoint, escalators tend to only operate in one direction. If you only care about people coming into the country I suppose this design is okay, but what about the coyotes who need to come down and pick up their charges and return home later? Really, you’ll need a pair of escalators on each side every half mile so you’ve just doubled the cost.
Second, and not to put too fine of a point on this but… don’t you think CPB might eventually notice a series of thirty-foot-tall escalators spaced out every half mile along the border? Unless you have some sort of stealth camouflage technology in your pocket that nobody else has figured out yet, your installation might not remain in operation very long.
And finally, were you aware that doing anything to facilitate the entry of illegal aliens into the country is a felony? The people using your escalators may only wind up being detained for a couple of days and shipped back to their home countries, but you could easily wind up doing a decade in a federal penitentiary. But hey… don’t let me slow your roll. You keep right on thinking, Luke. That’s what you’re best at.
That last step is a doozy!...
I would like to see the full militarization of the southern border . Anyone attempting to sneak in gets shot .
Boy these commies, SO desperate to have more Democrat voters in America, will do ANYTHING to make sure illegals come here to keep the Dem power majority..Trump should say “Hey I will give all these people amnesty as long as they vote Republican” watch how these same leftists will say “Hey ya know what, we need that wall after all”
[“The wall is never going to be built but just in case it is we will build a series of giant escalators that are spaced out a half mile along the wall on either side and if that doesn’t happen we’ll just give the money to people who care about the well being of human beings no matter where they’re from,” Mr. O’Neil said in explaining his campaign.]
He knows there are Democrats stupid enough to send him money. He’ll be pocketing the cash.
The left wants no borders and millions of non-Americans streaming in and helping themselves to all that we have created.
My solution to the escalator is a catapult system at the exit.
Oxymoron
Build a moving walkway to every Liberal’s front door.
“Luke O’Neil started a page Thursday to, in his words, “build a giant escalator over the wall.”
As a practical matter, I think that the border wall is set back from the preexisting border fence, so the erection of an “escalator” is a non-starter since it would involve US territory.
Beyond that, Luke is an idiot!
“My solution to the escalator is a catapult system at the exit.”
How about a Trebuchet, with a fast reset trigger? I mean they work for pumpkins!
Build the Wall 10 ft high. Let Rednecks pay $10 a shot to keep the top clear.
These open border hypocrites need to keep their doors unlocked and windows wide open.
Think “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. “PULL!”
We’ll just pull the plug or push the emergency stop thing LOL
I would like to see militarization of the southern border, the northern border, and the coasts.
Opposite the esclators will be miniguns spewing 200 rounds per minute of #3 buckshot
The carnage will be indescribble
They are trying to buy ladders now!
“Oh no! They’re falling from the top of the escalator like lemmings going into the sea! Somebody help them!”
“Frank! Turn up the speed!”
Put a giant slide at the bottom of the escalator and propel them back to Mexico.
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