So many things I'd like to say about the ongoing dumpster-fire-trainwreck in Washington ... but Seth Meyers really puts it a lot more eloquently than I ever could about what exactly how dumb and how much of a waste of money Trump's wall is:
Okay, here's the problem: Mr. Trump, have you learned nothing from Pacific Rim?
1) You're building the wall in the wrong place. Kaiju attack from the sea.
2) Walls don't stop Kaiju, they just make them angry.
Seriously, you're going to need a bigger wall. A MUCH bigger wall.
THE NARROW WORLD from Brent Bonacorso on Vimeo.
If link is bad, this is the short film The Narrow World by Brent Bonacorso, a couple of current links:
The Narrow World on Vimeo
The Narrow World on YouTube
Or, instead of wasting 8 billion ... no 12 billion ... no, 20 billion dollars building a wall that will be ineffective and that MEXICO IS NOT GOING TO PAY FOR, maybe you could show a little leadership and use that money to do something useful.
Maybe you could invest that money and help our neighbors to the south build vibrant economies with good wages, stable governments that respect human rights and provide a proper safety net, so that the people of Latin America feel that their homelands are nations of opportunity as well.
People don't want to leave the homelands and their friends and families. They do so out of desperation. They look at our ideals, the words we say, the inscriptions on the Statue of Liberty, and they have hope.
They think those words actually MEAN SOMETHING.
If we worked with our neighbors to the south, we could build a trading bloc that is the envy of the world ... not free trade, but fair trade. Working together for mutual benefit. Creating vibrant economies where America can export its goods for a decent profit, providing jobs to our people ... and helping the peoples of other lands create the lives they have always dreamed about.
You COULD do that, Mr. President. You could be a leader. You could set a grand example.
You could make the world a better place instead of wrapping yourself in patriotism and the flag and preaching fear and anger.
Of course, that would require hard work. It would require hard negotiations and working together, driving a good bargain where both parties benefit.
Maybe you know somebody who knows how to do something like that? Instead of, you know, making up imaginary terrorist attacks and calling anyone who dares to point out your failings an enemy of the American people.
