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[kamineko]

That's like 14 NEA's or something

or 140, lmao

 

[Angry Grimace]

Paid for with tax cuts to the rich!

(Lol)

 

[Fantastapotamus]

As good a time as any to rewatch this

 

[bachikarn]

My guess is the project would overrun too. Republicans are typically quick to point that out but I'm going guess they will stay quiet about it for this project.

 

[jmdajr]

Bullshit it will take longer.

 

[Irishonion]

I'd actually be impressed if they could build a wall that big in 4 years.

 

[shadowkat]

Yeah, I HIGHLY doubt that it would cost "only" 21.6 billion or take 3.5 years.

Nevermind the cost to maintain it.

 

[HStallion]

There are so many other things we could be spending money on that would produce immediate benefits. Upgrade, expand and fix our aging power grid! Clean up the fucking drinking water in Flint!

 

[nubbe]

I imagine the yearly maintenance cost would be in the hundreds of millions too

Ladders and ropes just got 10feet longer

 

[Electric Eye]

It wouldn't even be complete in 8 years and would be so over budget consisering all the waste and mismanagement large projects incurr not to mention the countless lawsuits from environmentalists and property owners. It's a bridge to nowhere, a total scam to funnel public funds to someone's family/friend construction company.

 

[RPGamer92]

But I thought Mexico was going to pay for it?

 

[Astral Dog]

Omg,this thing is actually gonna be made isn't it? 😣

 

[Escape Goat]

This is a great idea.

 

[Wheatly]

Remember folks, the NASA Curiosity Rover costed about $2.1 Billion and employees many scientists, engineers, physicists, and more. And the science we collected from it... That's pretty important.

Oh and that New Horizons probe that got us our very first clear pictures of Pluto... $0.7 Billion.

So you're saying we should defund NASA even more? - Trump

 

[Marky Mark]

Not even that. Just straddle the wall and pick the ladder up and hoist it over to the other side.

Problem is only one person can use the ladder then, so this tactic limits it to one illegal at a time. One person with a ladder will look like a maintenance person but a whole family will be immediately obvious what they're up to. I think this is the intention.

 

[plagiarize]

Omg,this thing is actually gonna be made isn't it? 😣

I'm sure it'll get started.

I am not so sure it'll get finished.

 

[Lautaro]

I wonder if the future equivalent of Matt Damon will make a movie where he fights monsters in the "mysterious" ruins of the Great Wall of America.

"No one knew why this wall was built... UNTIL NOW!" (cue CGI monsters with sombreros)

 

[metalslimer]

I'm sure it'll get started.

I am not so sure it'll get finished.

By get started Trump might get a shovel in the ground. Lawsuits will take the rest of his presidency

 

[Mr. F]

Finally, only a few more years and then the jobs will be safe forever!! /logic

Incredible value versus putting that money into healthcare subsidies right? /s.

It's crazy how aggressively people fight their own self interests

 

[kingocfs]

I find it very hard to believe it will only take 3.5 years.

 

[NervousXtian]

I don't for a moment it'd even only cost 21.6 billion.

The estimate to replace a bridge on I5 from Portland to Vancouver was anywhere from 2.8 to 10 billion alone.

I know a wall is less complicated.. but not all of the border is easy to access.. and for sure their will be lawsuits from land owners and the typical cost overruns and delays that would come with something of this scope. Even if they do basically the same fencing they did years ago.. at a cost of almost 2.5 billion.

..but I don't even care about the money.. it's that it's still pointless to even do.

 

[Peltz]

Or a boat or a tunnel.

Or any aircraft

 

[Kinyou]

Does that figure include Tunnel Technology™?

Don't forget about the ropes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3LbynP8GOo

 

[Warbear]

Or a boat or a tunnel.

Or someone riding in that chitty chitty bang bang flying vehicle.

 

[demosthenes]

Jesus christ, what a colossal waste of money and resources.

 

[How About No]

 

[Caja 117]

Jhon Oliver border wall report made a similar estimate, around 25 billion. Along with saying with that you could buy a wafle maker for everyone living in this country and this was going to be as efficient as the wall.

 

[jellies_two]

So you're saying we should defund NASA even more? - Trump

He actually is meddling with it

He wants to redirect NASA budget to economic exploitation of space and "fast cheap" trips. I kid you not. Stop learning science start digging, and open mar-a-mars stat

 

[pottymouth]

What a waste of time and money. Maybe they can take the crazy amount of old tires that are collecting in the numerous tire dumps and make a tire wall.

 

[The Last Wizard]

How about using some of that money to fix Flint's water system?

And help black people? ahah ahah nah, we can be racist and destructive somewhere else.

 

[Jotaka]

brand new $ 2.00

 

[ICO_SotC]

Is there an estimate yet for the cost of the eventual, inevitable dismantling of whatever actually gets built?

 

[Ithil]

So basically that's estimate of it if absolutely nothing whatsoever caused a problem, a delay, or an increase in cost.

In order words it would take far longer than that with a much higher price tag, all for something that can be beaten by a ladder.

 

[smurfx]

congrats to the companies who land the contracts. they are gonna screw the american people out of so much money.

 

[shira]

Bet it costs more than that.

"would be a series of fences and walls"

Depends if it's more fence or more wall

 

[DavidDesu]

Let him build his stupid pointless wall. It will be too costly for the next sane administration to pull down and they won't need to as the wall (fence) will likely be easy to penetrate. Let it be a reminder of America's Trump folly forevermore. The United States and it's more brazenly idiotic citizens need to be brought down a peg or two for generations to come and faced with their stupidity.

 

[Ithil]

congrats to the companies who land the contracts. they are gonna screw the american people out of so much money.

Joke's on them, Trump will stiff them.

 

[Not]

Hoooooly shit haha America bye

I mean, racists deserve to be miserable. Just sucks they have to take everyone down with them

 

[shattyboombatty]

Or a plane ticket.

or a trampoline

 

[lastplayed]

Is there an estimate yet for the cost of the eventual, inevitable dismantling of whatever actually gets built?

Just let it decay and it'll become a historical tourist spot, like the Great Wall or Hadrian's Wall.

 

[Dai101]

Wonder how many lives this bullshit will cost. Not that they care for them anyway.

 

[onadesertedisland]

I imagine the wall will get started, undergo all sorts of unforeseen difficulties, and be killed after blowing a few hundred billion squandered by crony contractors. Paid for by cutting welfare, healthcare, education, etc.

 

[Flux]

Joke's on them, Trump will stiff them.

He's not going to stiff his own company.

 

[Stinkles]

Omg,this thing is actually gonna be made isn't it? 😣

Nope

 

[DOWN]

What was the original estimated completion time?

 

[valkillmore]

Nope

I'm with you.

 

[Not]

It's crazy how aggressively people fight their own self interests

Without education, humans are naturally superficial. So their race and grouping is more important to them than comfort.

 

[torontoml]

So I know environment isn't even close to the top of this administration's priorities but has the ecological effect of putting up this wall been addressed?

FYI I'm Canadian, probably pay more attention to your politics than my own but not everything.

 

[Gorger]

 

[Barzul]

If this wall gets built in 3.5 years under this administration, then I'm a wizard and I attend Hogwarts.