{"id":44942,"date":"2021-08-28T09:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=44942"},"modified":"2021-08-28T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T20:58:04","slug":"saturday-smile-and-his-wall-came-tumbling-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/28\/saturday-smile-and-his-wall-came-tumbling-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Smile: And His Wall Came Tumbling Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Trump announced his run for president in 2015, he (in)famously boasted:<\/p>\n

\u201cI will build a\u00a0great wall\u2014and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me\u2014and I\u2019ll build them very inexpensively.\u00a0 I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall.\u00a0 Mark my words.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/time.com\/5499391\/donald-trump-border-wall-mexico-pay\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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RIIIGGGHHHTTT \u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sadly, the courts had allowed Trump to ignore environmental laws during the wall’s construction, and that mistake proved to be its undoing. \u00a0As the old Chiffon margarine ad goes: \u201cIt\u2019s not nice to fool Mother Nature.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump’s US-Mexico border wall was no match for the heavy rains and accompanying flooding that happened this past week in Southern Arizona.\u00a0 They destroyed a large section of TFG’s wall along the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n

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Rain measurements near Douglas, AZ (closest town to the wall) showed 290 cubic-feet of water moving through the area every second \u2013 that’s equivalent to 112,200 gallons of water every minute.\u00a0 And it was calculated the storm surge could have reached a height of 25 feet!<\/p>\n

Flood gates are common across sections of the wall along the Arizona-Mexico border. Agents must manually<\/u> raise the gates to protect the steel barriers from thousands of gallons of floodwater laden with sediment, rocks, and tree limbs that can otherwise pile up to create a dam, with the power of the water overwhelming and toppling parts of the border wall.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/www.tucsonsentinel.com\/local\/report\/082121_border_wall_damaged\/monsoon-floods-damage-border-wall-near-douglas\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Gizmodo blamed the failure on\u00a0rushed construction<\/a>\u00a0and an alleged\u00a0bypassing of environmental regulations<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cWho could have predicted this?\u00a0 Ah yes, just about everyone,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> author Brian Kahn penned in the article.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/trumps-border-wall-torn-apart-by-arizona-monsoon-rains-1847535174<\/a><\/p>\n

[Not sure why, but this video showing the results of the flooding cannot be embedded.\u00a0 You have to click on it to view it.]<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/rvPVYHeVaYc<\/a><\/p>\n

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I want to close on an upbeat note.\u00a0 While things have not gone as well with our exit from Afghanistan as we would have hoped, there were some bright notes.<\/p>\n

America’s men and women in uniform have, once again, covered themselves in glory with displays of care and compassion \u2013 particularly with Afghani children.<\/p>\n

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I could not find attributions for these \u2013 but I want to include them anyway:<\/p>\n

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Of course it wasn’t only with children that they displayed their compassion.\u00a0 And I’m sure you join me in thanking them for their service \u2013 they did us proud!<\/p>\n

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When Trump announced his run for president in 2015, he (in)famously boasted: \u201cI will build a\u00a0great wall\u2014and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me\u2014and I\u2019ll build them very inexpensively.\u00a0 I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall.\u00a0 Mark my words.\u201d https:\/\/time.com\/5499391\/donald-trump-border-wall-mexico-pay\/   […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3776,4467,3715],"class_list":["post-44942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-afghanistan","tag-children","tag-military","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\/44942","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}