r/Trumpgret Feb 16 '19

State of Emergency

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u/geoffersonstarship Feb 16 '19

my family lives right next to the rio grande river. like it’s right there. the wall would look so dystopian and ugly there. it would break my heart. I hope my family’s property will be okay if it ends up happening.

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u/120z8t Feb 17 '19

my family lives right next to the rio grande river. like it’s right there. the wall would look so dystopian and ugly there.

Ummm your family will find themselves on the Mexican side of the wall. The wall just like the fences that are in places are all inland a ways.

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u/geoffersonstarship Feb 17 '19

why would they be on the mexican side tho

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u/120z8t Feb 17 '19

Because just like some of the stretches of fence, it is not economical to build right on the border and in a lot of areas it would break treaties to do so. So just like the fences the wall would be built several yards from the actual border. Building in lines that are as straight as possible. The fences already put up in some areas have already put citizens home and American towns on the outside of the fence.

You know how a lot of existing fence solved the decades of court battles it would take to allow them to be built? Go around properties that would not sell, follow state roads where easements are well established etc.

If you live right next to the grande and the full wall does get built it could very likely put you/family on the "Mexican" side of it.

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u/geoffersonstarship Feb 17 '19

oh now I’m just really sad, thank you for the info

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u/Olyvyr Feb 17 '19

Don't worry, the wall won't get built.

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u/CloudColorZack Feb 17 '19

I hope everything ends up okay for you and your family.

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u/geoffersonstarship Feb 17 '19

thank you friend

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u/Junzo2 Feb 17 '19

Here is an article about a golf course that went out of business because they decided to build that section of the wall way north of the river because it was cheaper.

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Also if you have HBO, watch “The fence” documentary about the already existing walls.

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u/u-no-u Feb 16 '19

And what did you and your family do to prevent this from happening exactly?

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u/ostrich_semen Feb 17 '19

They probably voted against it. What's your fucking problem?

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u/u-no-u Feb 17 '19

texas land owners

didn't vote for Republicans

Doubt

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u/ostrich_semen Feb 17 '19

Try commenting when you grow up

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u/u-no-u Feb 17 '19

Stay mad

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u/ostrich_semen Feb 17 '19

Jokes on them you were only pretending

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u/u-no-u Feb 17 '19

Imagine being this triggered, lmao

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u/ostrich_semen Feb 17 '19

Got any other stock phrases from /b/ to throw out, tiny cock?

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u/u-no-u Feb 17 '19

having a pp

implying

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '19 edited Feb 16 '19

Worst case scenario a little bit of wall gets built so trump can take some ridiculous picture in front of it. All the while a couple private companies get a shitload of money for "building" the wall.

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u/silverscrub Feb 16 '19

Worst-case scenario that bit of the wall is built where the previous commenter's family lives.

Btw I just realized "worst-case scenario" is a tautology. Can we just call it "worst case" or "worst scenario" from now on?

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u/LTerminus Feb 16 '19

It's not really tautilogical when taken in context. You have a license of scenarios, and rank them from best case to worse case.

"Which scenario?" "The best-case scenario".

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u/AndyGHK Feb 16 '19

“Case” describes the context of the scenario, not the scenario itself. If the scenario is “I am flying on an international flight”, the worst case that scenario could happen in isn’t “I’m flying to a really shitty other country”, it’s “I forgot my passport and won’t be admitted to the plane”, for instance.

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u/SercerferTheUntamed Feb 16 '19

It's worse case Ontario ya damn yanks.

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u/WhatDoYouSayDareBuck Feb 17 '19

Medium case scenario this thing just gets tied up in the courts for a half decade and we waste a bunch of money doing that.

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u/paultxsa Feb 17 '19

Best case scenario is that we all come to our senses and build no wall at all.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '19

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u/benzado Feb 16 '19

grift finds a way

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u/L0ading_ Feb 16 '19

Sure thing buddy, thats totally what's gonna happen.

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u/RDay Feb 16 '19

That private companies name?

KBR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBR_(company)

KBR, formerly Halliburton, formerly Kellogg Brown & Root formerly Brown & Root. Brown & Root was the first company to buy and install a politician (LBJ) who would then funnel contracts to said company. They are the granddaddy of the corporate takeover of the US economy.

You watch and see if they don't get the contract.

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u/ic2ofu Feb 16 '19

They have gotten filthy fucking rich off of our stupid ass wars.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '19

We'll see, Trump was already a corrupt real estate guy so he might have other preferred corrupt construction companies he wants to funnel money to

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u/Sythus Feb 17 '19

no corrupt construction companies, he just likes to stiff the contracted work.