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CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#182751: Apr 13th 2017 at 6:20:15 AM

Just for Fun
Engineers Just Submitted an Incredible Proposal to Turn the US Border Wall Into a Hyperloop

The Trump administration is reviewing design bids for its proposed wall along the US-Mexico border. But not all plans are interpreting the word 'wall' literally.

A group of Mexican and American engineers and urban planners called MADE Collective want to build a US$1 trillion hyperloop transportation network instead.

The plan would turn the border into a shared nation, called Otra Nation, with an independent local government and nonvoting representatives in the US and Mexican legislatures.

The group submitted its design to the US Customs and Border Protection's official call for proposals in March.

It also launched a petition to replace the current border fencing with its hyperloop design.

"The existence of the border wall has become more a signifier of status than a barrier that each population sustains in its own form of isolation towards the opposite side," the designers wrote in their proposal.

The network would also feature several solar farms, which would power the hyperloop.

The designers say an equal number of Americans and Mexicans would build the system.

MADE Collective is not the only one to submit a fantastical design for the border wall.

Other proposals include a wall covered in solar panels, a binational park, and an 'Inflatoborder' made of plastic bubbles.

The plan would cost approximately US$15 billion - less than the US$21 billion that the Department of Homeland Security estimated a border wall would cost.

The designers also predict that their system would create US$1 trillion in trade.

"The 19th century brought us boundaries, the 20th century we built walls, the next will bridge nations by creating communities based on shared principles of economic resiliency, energy independence, and a trust-based society," the designers wrote.

"The 19th century brought us boundaries, the 20th century we built walls, the next will bridge nations by creating communities based on shared principles of economic resiliency, energy independence, and a trust-based society," the designers wrote.

(Emphasis added)

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#182752: Apr 13th 2017 at 6:23:34 AM

[up]Here's the petition

https://www.change.org/p/help-select-otra-nation-to-replace-the-us-mexico-border?utm_source=embedded_petition_view

Resistance School is worth checking out. It's an online seminar/workshop put together by Harvard student, to teach people strategies that work, to be effective advocates and win not just elections, but minds, in 2018 and beyond.

https://www.resistanceschool.com/#resistschool

[down] Why is there no like button

edited 13th Apr '17 6:27:03 AM by megaeliz

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#182754: Apr 13th 2017 at 6:26:41 AM

[up][up][up]Decent idea, but it'd never happen.

i'm tired, my friend
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#182755: Apr 13th 2017 at 7:32:39 AM

The hyperloop is an interesting idea, and it's certainly better then just a boring, racist wall. I don't know if I like the idea of a "Shared Nation" (IE, a District that doesn't have power in either the US or Mexico), though.

If Trump really has to build his stupid, racist wall, then I hope he goes with this, but I still have problems with it...

[down] I'd say he's more the Martin Luther of Health Care, not the Martin Luther King...

edited 13th Apr '17 7:39:16 AM by DingoWalley1

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#182757: Apr 13th 2017 at 7:40:40 AM

[up] Uh...I don't get it. Is he equating healthcare with systemic racism?

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#182758: Apr 13th 2017 at 7:50:18 AM

[up][up]

What.

WHAT?!

I can't even...this administration and its cronies. They are a dumpster fire that other dumpster fires find embarrassing.

edited 13th Apr '17 7:50:27 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
justhelping Since: Dec, 2016
#182759: Apr 13th 2017 at 7:53:21 AM

You've got to be fucking kidding me with these goddamned cocksucking idiots. Again, NC republicans? The week isn't even over and you've tried, again, to outlaw gay marriage and compared Lincoln to Hitler. How much do you want people to hate you? Fuck's sake, man.

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#182760: Apr 13th 2017 at 7:56:39 AM

@justhelping: In fairness, the excrement stain with the Hitler comparison was one of the sponsors of that bill.

edited 13th Apr '17 7:57:49 AM by ViperMagnum357

justhelping Since: Dec, 2016
#182761: Apr 13th 2017 at 7:59:45 AM

[up]Googled it. "Cabarrus County Republican Rep. Larry Pittman." I swear to God I will personally go to his house and kick his ass if he doesn't stop doing this shit.

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#182762: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:04:00 AM

"Think of President Trump as the Martin Luther King of healthcare," Lord said during an appearance on CNN.

"When I was a kid, President Kennedy did not want to introduce the civil rights bill because he said it wasn't popular, he didn't have the votes for it, et cetera," he added. "Dr. King kept putting people in the streets in harm's way to put the pressure on so that the bill would be introduced. That's what finally worked."

Welp, there it goes. Yep, I just felt the last of my sympathy for CNN leave my brain for good.
And this on top of Trump giving that speech from Gettysburg last year. If we've reason to celebrate in 2020, I move that the very first bill to be signed by the new president be a thorough, industrial-strength washing of every symbol of this nation.

edited 13th Apr '17 8:04:44 AM by CenturyEye

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#182763: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:05:07 AM

[up] The first thing I want the new POTUS to do is to burn those damn gold curtains if they're still in the Oval Office.

Disgusted, but not surprised
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#182764: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:08:08 AM

[up][up] Yeah, unless he plans to do this to force Republicans to create Universal Healthcare, then he is absolutely nothing like MLK. And let's face it, he doesn't plan to do that. He's literally being a crap stain.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#182765: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:14:17 AM

Crazy part is, I never hated any of the Bush administration. Disliked immensely, yes, but I could't bring myself to hate them. Not even Cheney who I just thought was your standard more than average corrupt politician. Evil, yes, but certainly not a cartoon villain.

These guys? Every single one in the administration, I despise with an absolute passion. Sessions, Bannon, Preibus, Pence, Flynn, Manfort, De Vos, Kushner, Ivanka, Melania (who gets NO sympathy from me), and the granddaddy of fuck ups himself, Trump.

The first thing a Democrat needs to do is pretty much undo the legacy of Trump and codify all our previously established norms into federal law.

New Survey coming this weekend!
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#182766: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:14:27 AM

FDR once told his supporters that Abraham Lincoln should retroactively be considered a modern Democrat. If the Republicans don't want the greatest leader this nation ever had, I say we are more than justified in listening to Roosevelt. The DNC should put giant portraits of Lincoln around the next convention to show we are Lincoln's rightful heirs. Its clear the Republicans have abandon Father Abraham to worship the snake Jefferson Davis.

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#182767: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:18:36 AM

"You've got to be fucking kidding me with these goddamned cocksucking idiots. Again, NC republicans? The week isn't even over and you've tried, again, to outlaw gay marriage and compared Lincoln to Hitler. How much do you want people to hate you? Fuck's sake, man."

I don't think actual cocksucking enthusiasts would be happy to be associated with these people.

Also, please refrain from homophobic insults.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#182768: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:22:49 AM

Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-Ok) says the idea that his constituence pays for him to be in Congress is "Bullcrap".

The GOP is literally exploding, there is no other way I can describe this kind of out and out idiocy and hatred...

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#182769: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:24:37 AM

They've been an opposition party for so long, they forgotten how to govern.

New Survey coming this weekend!
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#182770: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:25:08 AM

[up][up] Yeah, that guy's an idiot. Even if they don't pay his salary...they do decide whether or not he keeps it. When you personally tick off your constituents, you're going to have a hell of a time trying to keep your position.

Also, did his parents forget a space there? Markwayne, really?

edited 13th Apr '17 8:25:59 AM by Zendervai

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#182771: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:25:35 AM

[up][up][up] I'd go with "imploding" myself. They are collapsing rather than exploding outwards.

edited 13th Apr '17 8:25:50 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#182772: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:25:49 AM

[up][up]Agreed. Somebody is getting his arse voted out of that seat... tongue

edited 13th Apr '17 8:26:43 AM by Euodiachloris

justhelping Since: Dec, 2016
#182773: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:26:25 AM

[up][up]Wait, homophobic? The NC GOP sucks dick. Is that not an accurate and factual statement?

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#182774: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:29:38 AM

[up]Yes, either homophobic or sexist. Why would sucking dick (or pussy, for that matter) be a bad thing (assuming of course, it's done by a responsible adult consenting to suck the dick of another consenting adult)?

edited 13th Apr '17 8:29:52 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#182775: Apr 13th 2017 at 8:29:39 AM

Well, tis hard to top those last entries for today's WTF, but...Doug Collins: Georgia Dems ‘complicit’ as D.C. groups run 6th District race

WASHINGTON — Top Georgia Democrats have been “complicit” in the special election to replace Tom Price in the 6th District, letting their national party take over operations in the closely-watched, multi-million-dollar race. That’s the take of U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, the three-term lawmaker who recently joined the House GOP leadership team.

“The liberal machine in D.C. is running this operation,” Collins said in an interview Wednesday evening. “This is not a Georgia operation at all … I think the Georgia Democrats are complicit in this. I think Stacey Abrams, John Lewis and Hank Johnson, they’re all complicit in this because they have agreed to it.”

Collins cited the influx of staffers from the Washington-based Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, that have streamed into the suburban congressional district in recent weeks, as well as the record-setting fundraising reported by Democrat Jon Ossoff, much of which came from out of state.

He also said the party was being “authoritarian” by lining up its resources behind Ossoff, the race’s front-runner, rather than letting the process play out with the four other Democrats in the race.

“They don’t care if they have long-term members of their party work hard and have been elected before, they just threw them to the side” and backed Ossoff, Collins said.

...for Collins’ comment that D.C. Democrats are running the show in the Peach State, Georgia Democrats’ spokesman Michael Smith was dismissive in an email Wednesday.

“If the ‘liberal machine’ Doug is referencing is our coalition of grassroots activists who are fed-up with the GOP’s Failure-in-Chief who happens to temporarily squat in the White House, then this guy needs internet access,” he said. “The Democratic Party of Georgia has been building a (get-out-the-vote) machine for months. And while the GA GOP drowns in debt and skitters to cover up their discrimination lawsuits, the DPG is thriving.”

The GOP has sharpened its attacks on Ossoff with less than a week until the election. It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that the Democrat will easily carry the field, but Republicans are hoping to stave off an embarrassing defeat in the typically deep red 6th by forcing him into a runoff with a GOP candidate.


Good lord, I'm scandalized! The Dems want to support a democrat running for a national office. And myriad donors are working to chip away at the GOP majority sitting on top of a prolonged constitutional crisis? Scoundrels, the lot of them!

(I have a feeling there's a drinking game that can be made out of these headlines).

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives

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