DONALD TRUMP SAYS BORDER WALL IS A ‘MEDIEVAL SOLUTION’ BUT CLAIMS IT STILL WORKS

Newsweek ^ | 1/9/19 | TIM MARCIN

[BeauBo]

“We can all play games but a wall is a necessity," he said, via a pool report. "If you don't have the wall, it doesn't matter. A drone isn’t stopping a thousand people running through." Trump said. “We gotta get the politics out of this and go back to common sense. They say it’s a medieval solution. It’s true. It’s medieval because it worked then and it works even better now."

[BeauBo]

Remember the single flimsy fence that spearated Tijuana and San Diego last year, where the prototypes were built?

Check it out today (and a second 30 feet tall layer starts building behind this one, next month)

[JBW1949]

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3718568/posts

[Lurkinanloomin]

Walls do work, all you have to do is look at the leftists mansions to know that.

[Dad was my hero]

well, someone long long ago invented the wheel and we’ve been using it ever since. Sometimes simple things work and last and you can’t improve on them.

[JudyinCanada]

I’d prefer to look at it as having stood the test of time. Some things just cannot be improved on.

[pepsi_junkie]

Other things which are medieval solutions that still work:

Movable type and the printing press
Mechanical clocks
Eyeglasses
Scissors
Windmills
Crop rotation
Universities. Okay, this one doesn't work anymore but it did for a long time until the 1960s.

[hal ogen]

Fire use was developed some time ago...it still “works”. The wheel still “works”. These LIBs are lunatics. I laugh at their eternal Loserdom.

[Williams]

He “claims” it still works.

Next that idiot will “claim” the wheel still works.

[EnglishOnly]

Same can be said for the Wheel.

[Parmy]

Great wall of China. Hadrian’s wall. Vatican’s wall. Obama’s wall. Pelosi’s wall. Paul Ryan’s wall. etc.

[Red Badger]

Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe with an eye to expansion. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC;[2] these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are collectively referred to as the Great Wall.[3] Especially famous is the wall built in 220–206 BC by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. Little of that wall remains. The Great Wall has been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced over various dynasties; the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644).

Apart from defense, other purposes of the Great Wall have included border controls, allowing the imposition of duties on goods transported along the Silk Road, regulation or encouragement of trade and the control of immigration and emigration. Furthermore, the defensive characteristics of the Great Wall were enhanced by the construction of watch towers, troop barracks, garrison stations, signaling capabilities through the means of smoke or fire, and the fact that the path of the Great Wall also served as a transportation corridor.

The frontier walls built by different dynasties have multiple courses. Collectively, they stretch from Dandong in the east to Lop Lake in the west, from present-day Sino-Russian border in the north to Qinghai in the south; along an arc that roughly delineates the edge of Mongolian steppe. A comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the walls built by the Ming dynasty measure 8,850 km (5,500 mi).[4] This is made up of 6,259 km (3,889 mi) sections of actual wall, 359 km (223 mi) of trenches and 2,232 km (1,387 mi) of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers.[4] Another archaeological survey found that the entire wall with all of its branches measures out to be 21,196 km (13,171 mi).[5] Today, the Great Wall is generally recognized as one of the most impressive architectural feats in history.[6]

[Red Badger]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Like a catapult still works as a deportation device.

[bwest]

Wheels are medieval solutions. So are levers. And clothing. And walking. And inclined planes. And pulleys. And...

[dowcaet]

So I guess the Magna Carta which first established the principle that everyone is subject to the LAW, guarantees the rights of individuals, and the right to a fair trial should be ignored too since it’s such a “medieval” idea! These MSM critters are such irritants!

[Telepathic Intruder]

What good does it do to just identify them if Democrats aren’t willing to deport them?

[Vendome]

I drove by the airport and Oakland Port.

They seem to think walls and barriers work, as did the base at Alameda that once was there and my customers all around Oakland have some pretty dang’d high gates/walls lined with Barbed Wire....

[gogeo]

Of course walls work, every time they've been tried.

A border between a first world nation and a third world one requires a physical fence, or no border exists.

We now have no functional, effective border in place...any non citizen can merely walk across the border and ask for asylum. When they do, they're eventually released with an order to appear.

If they make their way to a sanctuary city, they are untouchable. There they will be given welfare, medical and free schooling.

Chuck and Nancy, how is that a border?

That's why we want a wall. It's not subject to the whim of RAT politicians, activists or judges.

[bigbob]

Also: beheading.

[dead]

Maces still work too. And arrows.