• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Canadian here, please do. It’d be hilarious to see America try and get building materials to rural northern maine.

  • Additional_Prune@lemmy.world
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    Republicans are just trying to show who can be more stupid and utterly unrealistic at this point. Pretty soon a Republican is going to propose blowing up the moon because it’s woke.

  • SirDankbud@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I would love to see this happen, but only if the wall was built exclusively through the labour of the people who proposed it. The Canada-USA border is the largest unguarded land border on the planet for reasons beyond the goodwill between our nations. Features along it like the Great Lakes and the Rocky Mountains make building a wall impossible. Thankfully reality doesn’t matter to Republicans so they could be convinced to try.

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    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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