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[nenjin]

It's also just completely misplaced reasoning.

#1. A lot of drug smugglers use catapults, planes and/or tunnels to get drugs across. Throwing shit over a 20 foot high wall that weighs 60 (or 50 or 40 or 30) pounds is both difficult and highly unlikely.

#2. The odds of being hit by a parcel thrown over the wall along the entire Mexican border are astronomically low, or assumes Trump will have a border guard stationed every....let's be generous, 20 feet along the whole length of the wall. (Which, of course he will, because he deals in impossible nonsense.)

I can't wait until he makes his case for why it should be lined in gold and have his name of it as well.

[Neonivek]

I should state that 60 pounds of Cocaine is basically a flour sack of Cocaine.

Also... I know this is old news but it is so WTF worthy I have to say it here...

According to Trump... Trump Towers is a completely sealed environment.

Maybe... Trump is smarter then he looks. I mean, he has already mastered the technology to colonize Mars.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I can't wait to have to argue with someone if having a bag thrown over the border and landing on your head is a serious issue that the United States government has to address.

Also, I think this sort of confirms that against all odds Donald Trump really is as drug abstinent as he claims to be. 60 pounds of cocaine, assuming that it's powdered cocaine, has already been cut, and has a street price of about $100 a gram...is $72,000 of cocaine. Yeah, just go ahead at toss that over a wall to land on some unsuspecting innocent oathkeeper on the prowl for illegals.

[smjjames]

Hey German Bay12ers (and those that know the language), does German have a word for 'colluding with politicians or two politicians colluding with each other' and a word for 'colluding with an adverserial state in an illegal fashion to work with said states espionage apparatus to get dirt on their opponents'? Or at least what word amalgamation would you create for those definitions.

The reason I'm asking is because this Senator says 'Everybody colludes in this town' ('this town' being Washington D.C.),which is making it sound like English needs a new word to separate his definition of collude with the variant of colluding that Trump looks a hell of a lot like he was doing.

[Helgoland]

You've got small pounds there, MSH.

We have Klüngel* for more-or-less normal everyday small-scale corruption. It's occasionally used in a positive sense, as it enables folks to bypass bureaucratic procedures, but ever since the Cologne city archive crashed into a subway tunnel because some 70% of the necessary metal didn't end up being built into the walls, but instead were sold off, that's diminished a lot.


For the collusion thing we don't really have a word except for Hochverrat, which is just high treason.


*In principle Cologne-specific, but you can use it anywhere.

[Descan]

While it uses an odd analogy, Trump does make sense here. I mean, there's a lot more to transparency but it's just a simple analogy to try to explain why transparency is good.

Well, kinda. Really transparency is about accountability, but I suppose that if you see what your government is doing you can know how to respond to it rather than being uncertain shortly before being hit with unexpected fines and being arrested or something.

you give him too much credit when apparently he's talking about literally making the Mexican Wall transparent

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You've got small pounds there, MSH.

I DON'T MEASURE THINGS STOP PERSECUTING ME

Yeah, I felt like something was off about the cost of that 60 lb bag of cocaine. So, you'd be throwing $2,718,000 over the wall. Why, you could pay for the wall in no time like that, even with the wergild of all the dead oathkeepers!

[Dunamisdeos]

While it uses an odd analogy, Trump does make sense here. I mean, there's a lot more to transparency but it's just a simple analogy to try to explain why transparency is good.

Well, kinda. Really transparency is about accountability, but I suppose that if you see what your government is doing you can know how to respond to it rather than being uncertain shortly before being hit with unexpected fines and being arrested or something.

you give him too much credit when apparently he's talking about literally making the Mexican Wall transparent

I mean, maybe he is talking about figurative transparency? Like some kind of surveillance or peepholes or something.

Either that or he's going to make it out of glass, the best glass. American glass.

[Neonivek]

And mind you a 60 pound bag of Cocaine is the most reasonable example.

60 pound Tent of Marihuana or Inner Tube of LSD

[Starver]

Dude if you had 60 pounds of LSD..

£60.0s.0d would be at least £851.74 today...

[Wolfhunter107]

OHH NO! Mexicans are trying to destroy our power grid by coating our solar panels in cocaine!!!

Okay, can I sig this?

[Neonivek]

Go ahead. As long as you don't sig something meant to hurt my feelings I have no problem with it (and if you think it MIGHT hurt my feelings... Drop my a PM and explain yourself... don't even have to wait for my answer)

[redwallzyl]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/14/537282309/vote-fraud-commission-releases-public-comments-email-addresses-and-all
*slow clap*

[sluissa]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/14/537282309/vote-fraud-commission-releases-public-comments-email-addresses-and-all
*slow clap*

It's a "public comment". While I hate to be on the side defending them. The whole voter fraud thing is set on an idiotic premise and made worse by the fact they probably will find some low level, inconsequential voter fraud going on to justify it. But this is an absolutely stupid thing to get upset about. The left wing needs to stop crying wolf every time they hear a howl, see a paw print, or step in some week old scat.

Public comment. Your comment and basic identity will be public as part of the submission. If you're not comfortable with that then back off.

[Neonivek]

Public comment. Your comment and basic identity will be public as part of the submission. If you're not comfortable with that then back off.

Sure, now did they blatantly advertise the fact that these comments would outright reveal this information?

As well by revealing this information are they, in fact, trying to force public discussion in a way that aids them? (Since even in a public forum people don't have to speak their names and phone numbers in order to talk)

It is poor form either way and frankly the commission deserves its scrutiny. It would deserve scrutiny even if they blatantly advertised it.