{"id":20779,"date":"2016-03-21T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=20779"},"modified":"2016-03-21T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:13:05","slug":"dump-is-off-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/dump-is-off-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Dump Is Off the Wall!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As much as I hate to assault you with another article featuring Fecal Dump Trump, it\u2019s hard not to do so.&#160; Over 90% of the articles in my feed aggregator this morning covered Fecal Dump.&#160; So I virtually have to cover him occasionally, I like to do so in a way that ridicules Fecal Dump, and gives you a laugh.&#160; John Oliver blasted him, because Fecal Dump is off the wall!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0321JohnOliver\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0321JohnOliver\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0321JohnOliver.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has made his wall proposal at the U.S.-Mexico border a fixture in his campaign, so much so that one man even wore a spandex wall costume to one of his rallies. \u201cThe only people more excited about barriers are high school health teachers,\u201d said John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight on Sunday. \u201cThe border wall is one of few Trump proposals he has talked about in detail, so instead of dismissing it out of hand, let\u2019s take a serious proposal by a serious presidential candidate seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are 10 reasons Oliver offered that the wall proposal is totally ridiculous (racism is only one of them):<\/p>\n<p>1) The cost keeps fluctuating<\/p>\n<p>Trump initially said the wall would cost $4 billion. \u201cSince then, his estimate has grown,\u201d Oliver reminded us. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from $4-12 billion. Donald Trump\u2019s margin of error is the entire GDP of Moldova,\u201d Oliver said &#8211; and doesn\u2019t even factor in maintenance, labor and design. \u201cThe congressional budget office estimates that wall maintenance costs will exceed initial construction within seven years,\u201d explained Oliver\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/election-2016\/john-olivers-10-reasons-why-donald-trumpss-border-wall-proposal-totally-ridiculous\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here are the other nine:<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vU8dCYocuyI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have a better idea than Oliver&#8217;s waffle irons. Lets build a wall around Fecal Dump Trump!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I hate to assault you with another article featuring Fecal Dump Trump, it\u2019s hard not to do so.&#160; Over 90% of the articles in my feed aggregator this morning covered Fecal Dump.&#160; So I virtually have to cover him occasionally, I like to do so in a way that ridicules Fecal Dump, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/dump-is-off-the-wall\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}