And Noem said Homeland Security was going to be trying black paint to make the metal hotter.
'K… ish… I mean, I get the physics, but, doesn’t this murican know the concept of nighttime?
Or… gloves? I mean climbers use gloves sometimes I’m pretty sure…
Rock climbers don’t, they need skin contact for good grip. Crack climbers do, but they’re the opposite of what you’d expect, they only protect the back of the hands.
Ice climbers wear gloves because it’s usually too cold for bare hands.
Or gantes even.
So she knows someone who sells black paint. Didn’t take a lot to figure that out.
Right… Because black paint is going to stop them how exactly? “It absorbs the heat, so they will get burns when touching the fence”.
Ever heard of night?
We all know that border crossings happen in broad daylight on the least cloudy days. I mean, come on, people SLEEP at night!
Crossing the border is a 9 to 5 day job, everyone knows that
Or gloves
Yes, but at the same time. A reduction of attempts during the day means you can have a concentration of manpower at night. And with the forcing day jumpers to wear gloves and long sleeves and pants. They are more likely to subcome to heat exhaustion. Because once over the other side they won’t really have time to stop and strip off the extra layers when running from border patrol.
Hell it can probably make thermal cameras more effective to having g a cooler body with the back drop of hot as hell steel.
would be fuckin hilarious if they painted the US side and completely forgot about the Mexican side.
then when they go to paint the Mexican side, Mexico says, “no, that’s our side”
They’re probably painting the US side black to stop americans from leaving.
lmao
like Americans could climb anything other than a cholesterol chart.
In this bizarro back assword timeline we’re living in, it’s not only “hilarious”, but also quite plausible. Paint and labor paid by yours truly, via taxes
Shit, I didn’t realize that angle grinders were so sensitive to black paint.
And how does that stop a ladder?
Or the dozens of tunnels.
Or the people who overstay their visas, which is where most “illegal” migration comes from.
Or the border patrol stations who are staffed by people in the employment of cartels and other organizations who occasionally stage a huge bust.
Or a simple stack of milk crates?
Oughta be illegal to be that stupid
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we have a 34x felon and convicted rapist, very very possible child molester in the Whitehouse.
No shit Sherlock. Still oughta
This is the same border wall they’ve been pulling down with Toyotas?
I think it’s the one they can slip straight through.
Ya and there are many gaps. Or angle grinders can cut the lower part of the poles no problem.
maybe I’m thick… but how does black paint prevent someone from climbing a fence?
Only thing I can think of is the black paint would absorb more solar radiation and make it hotter. But the sun isn’t out at night which is when many people make that crossing, so I’m not sure they’ve really thought it through.
Thoughts are long gone by the time their ideas reach their mouths
The same way a fence prevents someone from flying in on a currently not-yet-expired visa. The whole announcement is an exercise of putting lipstick on a pig.
You see. As it is right now, the mexicans can’t see the fence, and so they stumble around and accidentally find themselves on the american side. If it’s black they’ll much easier identify the american border, and thus avoid crossing into that shithole of a country.
It all makes sense now.
All 65 miles of it?
One of his buddies sells paint. Grifted.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Of course nobody in Mexico has ever heard of a tarp…
So there is a market for white spray paint South of the border? Got my new side hustle!
Im really interested to see what kind of manual labor workers they get to paint the wall…like you know the US Federal government is gonna go with the cheapest bids, which will most likely be immigrants potentially of illegal status.
Can we stop posting this everywhere?
It isn’t like a random Lemmy comment is going to do anything
I smile every time I see it, knowing that there are still people not falling for his BS. :)
I want those files like Jonah Jameson wants pictures of Spider-man
It makes me happy to see the depth of the down votes on your comment.
Why bro, are you on the list, you’re starting to sound an awful lot like Trump right now you weirdo
no
Ok Epstein.
The bigger issue is that blind people can’t read it.
It keeps people remembering that this is a distraction from the Epstein stuff. A useful reminder, I’d say.
The reality is that the Trump administration doesn’t care
You are just spamming. They will not released the files because they would incriminate Trump and some of his backers. It is messed up but the truth is sometimes hard to hear.
It is messed up but the truth is sometimes hard to hear.
Which is precisely why we will never stop demanding the truth.
People will eventually move on
Maybe I’ll be surprised but somehow I don’t see Trump releasing incriminating evidence against himself.
You’ll move on as well. Block them if you don’t like it.
The reality is that we don’t actually need to wait for the epstein files to be released. We know Trump is a child rapist.
That is exactly my point
The files are going to reveal that the mega wealthier did terrible things. (shocker)
I don’t get why people are bent over the Epstein files. There are way more important things to protest like ICE and the attacks on the ICC.
ICE and the ICC target his lieutenants. Epstein targets the fucker himself.
Take down ICE, and he commits his next atrocity with FEMA, or DEA or the Bureau of Land Management.
Take him down, and Corporal Couchfucker can’t hold the GOP together.
The couch fucker has all the real money and power behind him. If you think these MAGATs die with Trump, you are gonna be disappointed. We need to crush them in 2026, and if we can’t I’m gonna flee.
I don’t know, man I take issue with a child fucker leading the United States, your priorities may be different, you’re a little bit weird Iwill say that
No
It made me smile and reminded me that Trump is scum.
I’m not doing this because I think Trump will read a Lemmy comment and decide to turn himself in. I’m doing it because I’m pissed off and I want to associate every possible bit of news about MAGA politics with this. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with distracting people, and we should be allowed to express that we’re not being fooled, even if it’s ultimately just a gesture.
As soon as the people in the Epstein file are arrested and go to court then sure.
