LOL. Worth reading in whole.
Just months after going up, they said, photos reveal a series of gashes and gullies at various points along the structure where rainwater runoff has scoured the sandy loam beneath the foundation.
“When the river rises, it will likely attack those areas where the foundation is exposed, further weakening support of the fence and potentially causing portions … to fall into the Rio Grande,” said Alex Mayer, a civil engineer professor at the University of Texas at El Paso who has done research in the Rio Grande basin.
Fisher’s New Mexico and South Texas private fence projects have gone up with financial and political help from We Build the Wall, an influential conservative nonprofit that counts former Trump political strategist Steve Bannon as a board member. The group says it has raised $25 million toward the private wall effort and claims to have agreements with landowners on 250 miles of riverfront property in Texas.
Fisher’s success and the $1.3 billion contract in Arizona he won in May — the largest border wall contract ever awarded — came despite repeated questions about his qualifications and work. Army Corps of Engineers officials have said the firm won because it submitted the lowest bid.
At least for now, Fisher has packed his equipment and moved out west again, where he is erecting a 30-foot fence along the southern Arizona border for the federal government.
“They built the wall and left,” Peña said. “They got their donations, their government contract and they left us.”
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Prediction:
Wall falls into river, creates a bridge to mexico.
Someone pointed out that Liz Cheney is starting to speak out against Trump on the Russia bounty stuff…
Do you all think that we’re getting to the point where Trump’s election chances are looking so terrible that Republicans are going to start finding ways to distance themselves, and suddenly start insisting that they have principles that they just cannot violate?
I think a pretty small minority of them actually admire or appreciate Trump. Their sin is cowardice, not idiocy (well, no more than typical for politicians). They’ve wanted to scream and protest and insult the president, but for judges or the wrath of the base or the good of the party… When Trump starts to look undeniably weak, are they going to finally vomit out all their bile?
Source?
Don’t normalize them. They are all complicit. There are no “good conservative Republicans.” They are literally all monsters at this point.
Fuck them. They get nothing.
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No. Liz Cheney may call Trump out from time to time, but she’s not going to tell people to vote for Biden.
If DJT’s approval gets to below 35%, which could happen, although it doesn’t seem likely, I think you’ll see a lot of Trump party congressmen distancing themselves, although probably not outright attacking him. Because they are craven cowards.
I don’t believe this either. I think some of them are occasionally embarrassed by his crass candor about policy goals, but the policy goals are their policy goals, and they are not angry about them.
This x1000. Let’s stop trying to find unicorns. They’re not real.
I think you’ve got about half of it. Saw a report from Politico that McConnell may give Republican senate candidates clearance to try to do some separation from Trump, even if that’s as mild as just not appearing alongside him at rallies, etc.
But as far as going all the way over to deliberately repudiate Trump? Not happening. Too much of their base is too far gone into Trumpism to do that. Trumpism has become the wolf that Republican candidates hold by the ears. The only thing scarier than holding on to it is letting it go.
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At some point, if the Trump ship is sinking hard, those rats are absolutely going to leave that ship.
I do not believe for one minute that any of those craven sacks of shit hold any real allegiance to him, any more than they did to any of their so called principles. They are just trying to cling to power.
Once Trump is no longer a mechanism for that, they’ll abandon him.
And frankly, if they were smarter, they would have already recognized that is the case, and would have already abandoned him. The problem they’re faced with is that the GOP has suffered a schism into two parts, neither of which is electable on its own. There are the corporatists, and there are the crazy racist xenophobes. And they leverage each other to gain power. But now, even together they aren’t strong enough to hold power, because the crazies are grossly incompetent in every way. No other group is willing to join that coalition, because the crazies are abhorrent. And thus the GOP dies.
Woah woah. I didn’t say they aren’t complicit. I certainly didn’t say they’re good. I just think they’re wrong and reprehensible in some different ways than Trump himself (and a few similar ways too). In fact, where Trump has done things they wholeheartedly support, I think that’s usually been in areas where Trump’s more establishment-style advisors have sway and Trump probably couldn’t care less. Your Mnuchins and Pompeos. Everywhere where Bannon (once) or Miller or Jared/Ivanka hold sway–or where Trump just goes with his gut, like chatting with world leaders–I bet they often get queasy.
I’m just comparing Trumpism to establishment Republicanism. I think they both suck, but they’re also different. It’s conceivable that Trump and his rabid base has or will transform the party entirely to Trumpism, but there’s a lot of elected members that I don’t think would prefer to be on that train. Which is not to say they’re not responsible for the train getting hijacked!
This is another way to say what I mean. There are definitely a few Republican candidates who are giving the wolf big soft hugs and scritching it behind the ears. But I think most of them (especially the older ones) are holding the ears, sweating, and nervously adjusting their ties.
To be clear, I don’t think any of them will come out and say “Trump is an awful president and an awful human being.” But like Liz Cheney, where a year ago they would have clammed up and pretended they hadn’t read the brief yet when something was revealed that offended their sensibilities, with Trump on the ropes, it seems like they’ll start getting more vocal on certain issues in opposition to Trump.
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They had their chance with the impeachment vote. They could have jettisoned Trump clean, and moved forward with Pence. Maybe they’d even nominate someone else for 2020.
Too late.
I spit out my drink here. These guys are bad. They aren’t establishment guys with standard establishment views. They’re authoritarian nuts.
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Yep. They’ll jump off the ship at this point, but it’s too late.
I will revel in their futile abandonment of him though.
Trump was just as obviously terrible when that picture was taken as he is today.
So do you see his convicting Trump as just him trying to place himself in a position to salvage what remains of the party after Trump is gone? Although that would certainly be a miscalculated move.
I don’t love Romney, but he was 10,000 times more courageous than the average Trump party congressman. Those assholes wouldn’t even leak any criticism of DJT, let alone publicly vote against him.
I’m not sure how much value there is in being recognized as “The most honorable Nazi,” but sure, if it feels better to give him that faint head nod, knock yourselves out :P
