Talk:Great Wall of America

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Economic and other impacts

• The day after the wall is completed the first appropriately-changed version of the Spanish Prisoner letter/email is sent.
• Massive tailbacks at whatever crossing points are created.
• Expansion of smuggling (including [1])

What else is likely to occur? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 16:49, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

John Oliver did a hilarious piece on Trump's wall on Last Week Tonight. ScepticWombat (talk) 17:03, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Summary for those whose library computers block YouTube?

For a bizarre example of smuggling see [2]. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 17:26, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

The ultradigested version of John Oliver's coverage is that Trump, despite inching his estimates upwards, is still hugely low balling the costs of the wall's construction, that we then have to add a similarly humongous maintenance bill, that Mexico sure as hell isn't going to fund the wall, that it will involve a ton of iffy issues concerning land rights and acreage ending up on the wrong side of the wall, that it's not going to work anyway, and that it would be cheaper to buy every US citizen (no, not just every adult but every single legal resident in the US) a waffle iron.

Btw! I don't really see the bizarre element in the story. It's simply an example of smuggling (or possibly legally exporting) of alcohol etc. from a tax/duty haven to an adjacent territory. I've seen similar stuff happen in places like Livigno in Italy which for similar arcane historical reasons remains a duty-free area. ScepticWombat (talk) 17:48, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Anyone care to do the economic analysis whereby the costs of a pedestrian underpass are paid for by smuggling. (This thread is getting rather off topic/off RW)

The people in favour of the wall - the builders and the lawyers. When SteamPunkRationalwiki is created Moresenet will have a page. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 18:01, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Hmm

Relevant? Reverend Black Percy (talk) 18:20, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Trump proposes budget cutting the Coast Guard

I wonder how the Trumpets frame this move as being the least bit consistent with (their vision of) border security? Reverend Black Percy (talk) 02:43, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Better idea than the wall

Actually enforcing the immigration laws? You know, have the government workers do the job they were supposed to do in the first place? It would be far cheaper!--Rationalzombie94 (talk) 15:06, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

The writing on the wall

'Welcome women with skills leaving Trumpton Towers.'

And every evening, when the US guards are not looking, the Mexicans gradually move the concrete wall very slightly northwards. 86.146.100.6 (talk) 22:04, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

How to stop the wall (number X)

Bring in the NIMBYs and 'Elf and Safety lot, set up 'land banks' (of the 'buy a square metre now and get paid megabucks by megacompany buying everybody out (rather than the single ownership field next door)' type) and the Freemen on the land'. Anna Livia (talk) 14:43, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Comment

“”The strength of a wall is neither greater or less than the courage of the men who defend it.

—Genghis Khan

This is a misquote. Genghis Khan was referring to CITY Walls not the Great Wall of China. 1. During Genghis Khan's time, the Great Wall was in the hands of the Jin people, and it was located well within its borders, bisecting their country. 2. the mongols never scaled the great wall.

^{— Unsigned, by: 65.216.151.125 / talk 18:07, 1 February 2018 (UTC)}

This edit was more of a talk page comment so I have added it here. CowHouse (talk) 08:31, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Nursery Rhymes

Should there be a mention of Humpty Dumpty (and in particular this? Anna Livia (talk) 18:21, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Or a parody of this? Anna Livia (talk) 18:08, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

'That's the way to do it'

Says Mr Punch [3]. Anna Livia (talk) 16:20, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

The likely consequence of the wall

Ignoring the fact that it is probably too late in the electoral cycle to get any legislation in place before the November 2020 election, and the problems in getting the personpower (including building construction experts) and resources - and in stabilising the line.

There will be any number of scams and activities to stop the wall (land banks scattered around the entire area so a straight wall cannot be easily constructed).

Equivalents of this are likely to occur.

There are things known as boats, planes and tunnel-diggers so the wall will have to be extended up, down and along the coast.

And why not a virtual wall 'with all sorts of literal bells and whistles, Menger sponge breeze block mazes etc' - and then anyone who actually makes it through gets a lottery ticket which may entitle them to enter a Donald Trump Apprentice-type show. Anna Livia (talk) 00:01, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

This has been known for years, if not longer. Which is why it's frustrating that we're still having this discussion. RoninMacbeth (talk) 00:16, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Would a 'virtual wall' (which causes minimal disruption to 'the natural world') be feasible? Anna Livia (talk) 10:45, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Idea: assign the Space Force to patrol the border using Bell Rocket Belts. Have a film crew document their adventures (mostly getting the rocket belts to work right) for a weekly reality show. I would pay my taxable fair share of $5B to see that. Millennium Scallion (talk) 19:35, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Compare and contrast

Castles in the air and TrumpWall?

Can something along the lines of [4] and [5] be included in the discussion? Anna Livia (talk) 15:48, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

When the Mexcians

Decide to pay for the wall, 'the President of the US' (whoever that may be) should really start worrying. Anna Livia (talk) 18:05, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

I sometimes wondered why Mexico didn’t say “Sure we'll pay for your stupid wall! As long as it’s built along the pre-1848 border…” Mr Larrington (talk) 00:06, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

The Great Wall - not

The news selector came up with this. Anna Livia (talk) 00:02, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

lmao. "I never understood wind" said Trump in 2019, seems he wasn't lying for once. EK (talk) 12:00, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Another addition

Some mention of this? Anna Livia (talk) 19:34, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Oculus Founder also involved in border wall

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, is in on the border wall security game. https://www.wired.com/story/palmer-luckey-anduril-border-wall/