(May 20, 2016 at 12:28 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(May 19, 2016 at 3:49 pm)abaris Wrote: Wyrd, I know this is probably too much to ask, but did you actually consider how Trump would make Mexicans pay for a wall? All he would get is an erected middle finger unless he contemplates waging war on Mexico. In which case even you would call him a nutter. At least I hope so. Nobody can be as stupid, can they?
I've done the math on it based on his own campaign website. Using his own planning, and plugging in current numbers, the very nost he can fund is about 5% of the total expense, and that comes at a significant cost in our relations with our #3 trading partner.
Not wise statecraft, at all.
That's a good summation and description. It's a simplistic, reactionary plan from an ignorant, unsophisticated fool who is appealing to the even greater ignorance and lack of critical thinking of his gullible followers.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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