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Evergreen Emerald
(13,070 posts)FarPoint
(12,447 posts)Yes indeed...he does now have that...
LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)Now they just have to paint the concrete barriers black
Moostache
(9,897 posts)#BunkerBitch indeed.
Yonnie3
(17,491 posts)Sharks too?
hatrack
(59,593 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)get video/images of all of this. These are images of weakness and cowardice unlike most of us have ever seen in our lifetimes. These images are the epitome of a failed presidency, an unelectable president.
Yonnie3
(17,491 posts)It seems Bunker Baby Don is making a bigger bunker.
5X
(3,972 posts)Must be going to blow everything up.
highplainsdem
(49,041 posts)Doug.Goodall
(1,241 posts)The investigation of Trump's collusion with the Russians is going to be the anchor for political retaliation using the Justice Department. The Republicans are claiming illegal surveillance by administration officials including James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper.
Never before has one political party sought to punish members of a previous administration using the power of the Federal Government. Trump will need more than a wall if he goes forward with this plan.
FarPoint
(12,447 posts)He won't leave the Office when Biden wins...
Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)by those lift wing loonies, communists and antifa types.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)A cowardly little fascist who surrounds himself with military force and a bunker and a wall.
This is a shameful moment in American history. I hope its not the end of us.
sop
(10,265 posts)palace and surround themselves with army troops.
Freethinker65
(10,061 posts)handmade34
(22,758 posts)dalton99a
(81,599 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,442 posts)points at poster 11's post
this is the peoples house , doooont you forget it.
Hugin
(33,207 posts)civilization.
This fortification and circling-the-wagons around centers of power was probably the biggest of those indicators.
Nobody even bothered to remove them after the collapse. We were digging the barricades up hundreds or even thousands of years later.
I wonder what future civilization is going to dig these up and chuckle to themselves that it could never happen to them?
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)2naSalit
(86,802 posts)people all around the world started trashing the empire's properties all over the planet? Just fucking burn them all to the ground while he thinks he's safe hiding in the WH behind his wall.
judesedit
(4,443 posts)Times are changing. Eventually they'll get bored and leave when they're not getting any more attention. GO JOE! The original WH can be kept for historical purposes. lol
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)CanonRay
(14,119 posts)He'll be hunkered in his bunker like Adolph.
haele
(12,681 posts)Or even sillier, are they going to put them up on both sides to "help secure the fence"? Because they make great toehold supports or launching platforms to go over a chain link fence, even if someone puts razor wire over the fence.
In effect, those barriers just lowered that fence by about 2 1/2 ft....
Haele
Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)2 to 3 foot wide shelves that jut out from the bottom of each fence panel. The concrete blocks make it difficult / impossible to tip over the panels. There is an earlier DU post that shows these shelves.
haele
(12,681 posts)And shorten the actual height of the fence. Watched a skinny short guy get over a similar fence structure in a little more than a second or twoseconds while I was stuck in traffic before the pandemic. Concrete barrier was on the opposite side, just like the picture.
He took a good 20 ft. running start from the shoulder, jumped up high enough to get a foot on the barrier on the other side, then hauled himself over the rest of the 8 ft or so fence with ease because he pushed off the barrier.
Sure, those things can keep protesters from pulling or pushing the fence down, but anyone who's halfway in shape can get over it quickly enough not to be noticed if there's cover on the other side and a crowd to distract the riot police.
Haele
lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)Retrograde
(10,159 posts)still jet-lagged, I walked to a small rise near the center of town that turned out to be the royal palace, complete with king in residence. There were a few guards posted around, and a lot of open park space open to the public. The only restrictions I saw were some signs asking people not to bring charcoal grills for their picnics.
What a contrast to our own Dear Leader, who can not live outside of a tightly-controlled sphere.
(Yeah, I know Scandanavian monarchs aren't the heads of their governments, but the contrast is still telling)
Happy Hoosier
(7,395 posts)spanone
(135,884 posts)MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)At the peoples house.
ALWAYS.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)If only it were November 4 and Trump was raging over that.
Blue Owl
(50,512 posts)n/t
Cha
(297,711 posts)out of us when reacting to that Bloated fuck.
ecstatic
(32,733 posts)White House and drag his ass out "like a dog," as he would say.
He obviously thinks very little of the Secret Service, and if the American people are as dangerous as he imagines, that little baby fence won't do shit to protect him. I guess we'll find out in November #BunkerBitch!