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babylonsister

(171,066 posts)
Thu May 16, 2019, 07:12 PM May 2019

Trump Wants Border Wall to Have Black Spikes

https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/16/trump-wants-border-wall-to-have-black-spikes/

Trump Wants Border Wall to Have Black Spikes
May 16, 2019 at 6:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard


“The barrier that President Trump wants to build along the Mexico border will be a steel bollard fence, not a concrete wall as he long promised, and the president is fine with that. He has a few other things he would like to change, though,” the Washington Post reports.

“The bollards or ‘slats,’ as he prefers to call them, should be painted ‘flat black,’ a dark hue that would absorb heat in the summer, making the metal too hot for climbers to scale.”

“And the tips of the bollards should be pointed, not round, the president insists, describing in graphic terms the potential injuries that border-crossers might receive.”
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Trump Wants Border Wall to Have Black Spikes (Original Post) babylonsister May 2019 OP
We have a sick-as-fuck president. nt woodsprite May 2019 #1
You're being kind. Baitball Blogger May 2019 #19
Name the movie or TV series Trump got that visual from? Freethinker65 May 2019 #2
Next he'll add a mine field and death strip dalton99a May 2019 #3
. Baitball Blogger May 2019 #20
That was real. Some of it has been preserved in today's Berlin. Stinky The Clown May 2019 #22
He's a sadistic SOB hlthe2b May 2019 #4
Pence added "big veiny long hard thick black spikes too" NightWatcher May 2019 #5
Mother doesn't like when Pencie thinks about spikes. Totally Tunsie May 2019 #8
East Germany Called Dirty Socialist May 2019 #6
tRump...the greatest micro-manager of all time! Totally Tunsie May 2019 #7
Why not a moat with crocodiles and piranhas? C_U_L8R May 2019 #9
The spikes will be too hot if they are painted black? world wide wally May 2019 #10
. Flaleftist May 2019 #12
They could also use a devious device .... gloves rickford66 May 2019 #14
What a sadistic bastard. smirkymonkey May 2019 #11
Mad King Donald JohnnyLib2 May 2019 #13
Why not just electrify the thing? Touch it and die! The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #15
Communists did similar. moondust May 2019 #16
nowadays, you could even have autonomous armed drones anarch May 2019 #17
Oh yeah. moondust May 2019 #18
Why don't they just go all out and make them fully electric? Initech May 2019 #21
"Can you remind me what I pay your people for?" hatrack May 2019 #23

Stinky The Clown

(67,799 posts)
22. That was real. Some of it has been preserved in today's Berlin.
Thu May 16, 2019, 09:22 PM
May 2019

I walked the wall on Bernauer Strasse not a year ago.

It is frightening.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
7. tRump...the greatest micro-manager of all time!
Thu May 16, 2019, 07:24 PM
May 2019

I'm so glad that this phlub has nothing more to do or think about than minutia such as this, the 4th of July celebration, the Easter Egg Roll, the fast food nightmare served to sports champions, and the like.

It's a damn good thing he's "donating" his presidential salary (after taking the charitable deduction for same) because he sure as hell hasn't earned a dime of it.

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
9. Why not a moat with crocodiles and piranhas?
Thu May 16, 2019, 07:29 PM
May 2019

Or how about a flaming wall of burning oil. That’ll make the both easily bedazzled Maga-idiots and the guzzling gas barons happy.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
11. What a sadistic bastard.
Thu May 16, 2019, 08:03 PM
May 2019

He probably lies awake at night dreaming of ways to torture immigrants and brown people. Miserable motherfucker!

moondust

(19,984 posts)
16. Communists did similar.
Thu May 16, 2019, 08:24 PM
May 2019

In one section of the Berlin Wall in the French sector the commies poured wet concrete along the top of the wall, then into the wet concrete they embedded the broken up glass shards from bottles and jars they had smashed to pieces. The concrete hardened with the sharp glass edges and points sticking up all over the place to rip a person's hands up if they tried to jump up and go over the wall. Sadistic.

Part of the plan may be to cut down on the number of agents required to monitor the border/wall. Donny likes getting rid of people.

Somebody should ask Donny why not set up some automatic firing devices like the commies did in the No-Man's Land next to some sections of the Berlin Wall. In addition to the guard towers, there were square concrete boxes maybe 5' x 5' on the ground with machine guns inside. I think they were on trip wires but maybe they had infrared or something to trigger the machine guns when somebody ran through the No-Man's Land trying to escape. Sadistic. But they would let Donny fire more border patrol.

anarch

(6,535 posts)
17. nowadays, you could even have autonomous armed drones
Thu May 16, 2019, 08:43 PM
May 2019

to supplement the mine fields, machine gun towers, and fixed automated kinetic weapons.

What a total asshole.

moondust

(19,984 posts)
18. Oh yeah.
Thu May 16, 2019, 08:57 PM
May 2019

Donny could probably fire most of the border patrol!

(Pay no attention to the dead bodies. They're brown.)



ETA: I think Donny may be getting some wall advice from Bibi.

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