GOP candidates VS entropy

[Dannyalcatraz]

Many of the GOP candidates want a fence between the USA & Mexico.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/us/walls-along-borders-nothing-new/

Now, Scott Walker has floated the idea of walling us off from Canada as well.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/30/politics/scott-walker-northern-border-immigration-2016/

Not that walls of that kind of scale actually work as intended for any appreciable length of time. Very expensive things, walls, both to build and to maintain.

Robert Frost may have hinted at this in the past.

MENDING WALL
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

Meanwhile, in the EU, countries seem to be doing OK without expensive fences or walls...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/travel/cnnphotos-borderline/

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Meh, Pat Buchanan was talking about isolating the U.S. from foreigners years ago. The GOP hasn't changed from his day. This shouldn't be surprising. Seriously, all you have to do is put up a few stories of brown people crossing over the Canadian border, and the GOP will be demanding a wall that cuts across that border as well.

 

[Kramodlog]

What about the seas and the illegals who use it to come to the US? What about ISIS members who will dig under the US to blow it up? What about aliens from space?

Obviously, the US needs a super cube to protect it from all sides.

SuperCube for president!

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

What about the seas and the illegals who use it to come to the US? What about ISIS members who will dig under the US to blow it up? What about aliens from space?

Obviously, the US needs a super cube to protect it from all sides.

SuperCube for president!

It'll be a super cube made up of anti-immigrant walls. Trump will get the rest of the world to pay for it.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Many of the GOP candidates want a fence between the USA & Mexico.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/us/walls-along-borders-nothing-new/

Now, Scott Walker has floated the idea of walling us off from Canada as well.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/30/politics/scott-walker-northern-border-immigration-2016/

Not that walls of that kind of scale actually work as intended for any appreciable length of time. Very expensive things, walls, both to build and to maintain.

Robert Frost may have hinted at this in the past.



Meanwhile, in the EU, countries seem to be doing OK without expensive fences or walls...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/travel/cnnphotos-borderline/

But of course there are now EU states that want to erect border fences, or are actively erecting border fences - across the European borders to non-EU states so that all the refugees that flee war zones like in Syria don't get into the EU.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

True. But I doubt their efforts are going to be any more successful than any previous attempts at using walls to sove border issues.

 

[Kramodlog]

It'll be a super cube made up of anti-immigrant walls. Trump will get the rest of the world to pay for it.

And anyone who crosses the cube will be automatically tracked by Fedex.

 

[Mallus]

Let's go all-in and build a giant dome! Domes are cool!

(and Scott Walker's stupidity never ceases to amaze me)

 

[Kramodlog]

America, wake up! Do not fall for the false idol that are domes. Sure, they looks less threatening with their lack of pointy edges, you can't lose an eye on a dome, and sure they remind you of your mother's breasts, but do you want immigrants to see their mother breast when they see America? No, that would mean they see America as something they can suckle on? You want them to feel fear to feel fear and only sharp corners can give you that! Yeah, come to America and risk losing an eye!

Domes do not, I repeat, do not protect us from what is below us. Mole people can still invade America with a dome over it. And some member of the CIA told me that ISIS has approached the Mole people, folks. Be warn.

Good old American made Super Cubes are the way to go. Not those Chinese made domes.

 

[billd91]

I wish it amazed me. But I live in Wisconsin. It just dismays me now. And he's such a weasel. Someone will introduce something his administration has had a hand in drafting, like attacking the Wisconsin Idea embedded in the state university system's charter, provoke immediate backlash, and then try to say "Now how did that happen? Oh, it must have been a drafting error." Then a little investigation into the open records shows it was clearly deliberate, so they then try to remove the open records laws only to suffer another immediate backlash and respond with "Now how did that happen?" again. Worst governor of Wisconsin in my lifetime. Far worse even than Tommy Thompson whose cronyism was legendary. At least when the GOP had power then, they weren't attacking minority voting rights.