Republican presidential candidate proposes border wall with Canada : worldnews

[-] caffinatedone@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

If one of them gets into power, Canada might just pay for that wall.

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 46 points 1 year ago

Seriously? What is it with these people and their walls?

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 38 points 1 year ago

It creates an "us vs. Them" narrative. Like christians and muslims or arians and jews. Oldest trick in the book to get your people to comply with anything.

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Heavy ties to the construction industry. Like is anyone really surprised Trump, a guy whose entire career is basically building shit and find ways to hustle money out of suppliers and contractors, wanted to build a fuckoff huge wall? He has friends who will scratch his back if he scratches theirs, and it's easy to think other republicans have doners with similar expectations.

Plus it's an low effort attempt to fix something complex with a highly visible solution. "Look we built a wall!"

[-] AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Simple, easy dumb way to transfer money from public federal funds to private contractors you are leeching off of.

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised this loser hasn't bleached his skin white and hair blonde yet. He must really hate his heritage and the fact he was born to immigrants to overcompensate so much.

[-] Bipta@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

How else will they keep the ones they plan to hurt inside the country?

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It worked so well for East Germany, after all.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

You can't have a new border wall until you finish your old one.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I'm good with this. Especially when the US devolves into full-blown christofascism as seems inevitable at this point.

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

I took a boat ride in the Detroit River right up next to Windsor. All the people over there with their happy faces and free healthcare, you can't trust them!

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Did you wave to the Queen on the way past? :-D

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

If I ever run for office, I’m gonna propose building walls around all Republican states. They can feel nice and safe and free in there and the rest of us can just live our lives.

[-] Denvil@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Ah shit, here we go again

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Aw crap. Their beating us to it, eh.

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Focusing on the important things, I see

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[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

As someone living in the U.S., yes please, let the floods take me, I am tired of existing.

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[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.

Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism"

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Because that’s where the cold air comes from?

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Republican lawmakers have been complaining more frequently about the northern border in the context of unauthorized migration, but the numbers remain a tiny portion of the U.S. total.

For simply musing idly about the possibility of a Canada wall, Scott Walker drew merciless ridicule in the 2016 campaign.

Gary Doer wondered how Walker, the governor of a Great Lakes state, Wisconsin, no doubt aware of that body of water, intended to build a wall across the monumental natural boundary.

The New York Times obituary for his failed campaign said his string of gaffes had unnerved supporters, and it specifically cited the Canadian wall comment.

With just a year to the election, Ramaswamy's campaign has already lasted longer than Walker's and is in fourth place in hypothetical national primary polls.

He remains a distant longshot, however, languishing approximately 54 percentage points behind Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, who skipped Wednesday's debate.

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