Sound the Trump ets, Tell Joshua to bring his horn.

Okay, so I had to do this post sooner or later. This has been bugging me like a pesky fly that won't leave off. Donald "I'm a raving loon" Trump's wall is a waste of money, time and effort. We all know this, don't we ? Don't we ? You do realize that walls are a 4th century solution that are easily breached, overcome, tunneled under, knocked down or simply gone around. Yes, I know, various nations have tried walls : Rome with Hadrian's Wall, China with the Great Wall, France with the Maginot Line, and now Trump with Trump's Folly.


Look : Walls look good when you're out pounding the stump, ringing the welkin and so forth, running for office. They're a real thing you can point at, you can take people to see them and show them how great you are. They look impressive when shot from a low angle with you in the foreground and the wall behind you, looming over everything. But let's face it: Walls, as a defense, are simply not all that effective. Any military man worth the price of a uniform button knows full well that walls are just not worth the price of building them. Some people put the price of Trump's folly, at $25,000 a foot. Yes, you read right. twenty-five thousand dollars a foot.  For wall. Wall that Trump supposedly bought some 20 miles of. at 5280 ft to the mile, that's 105,600 ft, or $2,640,000,000‬ for the total project of twenty miles.
Imagine the check :

The real crime here isn't the money spent, which is a lot, even as the US Government goes, but the fact that somebody, probably with some kind of connections to Trump, has just stuffed a big hunk of that 2.6 billion in their pocket. No doubt they made sufficient "Campaign Contributions" to The Dear Leader's Re-Election PAC to get themselves handed this "Emergency contract."
Shit.